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As an LGBT individual, what does compiling all of these photographs for the larger community mean to you? There is something very reaffirming about seeing these vintage photos of gay couples, seeing that we’ve always been around. I still buy original photos, but they are getting so expensive that I’m just about priced out of the market. I started looking on Google Images and discovered that these sorts of photos were all over the Internet. I rediscovered them in a box a few years ago that’s what got me interested again. I collected them for years and years, but during one of my many moves they were stored away and forgotten. But wouldn’t you rather think of them as lovers, who lived a classic fairytale romance whilst wearing super cool vintage fashions? I would.The Huffington Post: How did you come across all of these photographs? Jeffrey Gent: I started noticing vintage photos of male couples at the 26th St. Sure, lots of these dudes are probably just buds who had no idea that their bro-pics would someday end up on a Homosexual website. The moral of the story here is to look for love where you find it. Even though in reality it would have meant the townfolk would have chased you with pitchforks while yelling insults at you through their toothless mouths (Coincidentally, that pretty much sums of my high school experience). Either way I like to fantasize about living one of these antique love affairs. Maybe it’s that clothing was at one time more dignified and well-tailored than it is today. Maybe it’s that they are a reminder that Gays actually existed before the 80s, when I was born (But in all honesty, did anything really “exist” before I was born? Did anything really exist before you were born? Probably not). I don’t know what it is about these images that is reassuring. I could totally see someone wearing these fashions today, with the same haircut. It’s funny how these styles have totally been recycled. This couple looks like they had a cold, complicated relationship.
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Gay and black at the turn-of-the-century. I bet they sent this out with their Christmas card.
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“They went to war for our country, but the true battle was for each other’s hearts.” That will be the tagline for the movie version I plan on making of this photo. This is your classic Daddy with the Pool Boy combo. Maybe it’s the cute hat and the fitted pants, I have no idea. But gays have loved it since the beginning of time. There is something inherently Gay about the sailor costume. Yes, the do look alike which is slightly creepy, but still a cute photo.
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Someday I will manipulate my boyfriend into doing this. I don’t know what is happening here but I think I like it. Doing a total WeHo Party Photo Booth pose. Sure, there’s no proof that any of these guys are actually couples, but what is the point of looking back on history if you can’t mold it to fit your modern-day agenda? Thus, for the purpose of this post I will be assuming all these guys are Gay, and that they had great relationships and loved each other until they died, happy as clams. Not only is their style totally unique and exciting, the fact that they were forced to love each other in secret makes these photographs all the more titillating. However, there is one type of couple it’s impossible to hate. With Valentines Day upon us, many of us have couple-hatred on the mind.