{"id":4735,"date":"2009-10-18T15:02:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T15:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=4735"},"modified":"2010-07-17T13:13:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T13:13:26","slug":"affectionate-men-a-photographic-history-of-a-century-of-male-couples-part-i-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2009\/10\/18\/affectionate-men-a-photographic-history-of-a-century-of-male-couples-part-i-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Affectionate Men &#8211; A Photographic History of a Century of Male Couples &#8211; Part I &amp; II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 392px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/musicmisfit.com\/affectionatemen\/affectionate.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/affectionate_men.png?resize=382%2C383\" alt=\"Courtesy of Music Misfit dot com - Frederick Delius\" width=\"382\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Music Misfit dot com - Frederick Delius<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">The photos appear in the following two books:<\/p>\n<p><em>Affectionate Men: A Photographic History of a Century of Male Couples, 1850-1950<\/em> by Russell Bush and Ron Lieberman<br \/>\n<em>Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 <\/em>~ David Deitcher<br \/>\nThe slideshow just shows a small portion.  I encourage you to purchase them. &#8211; Frederick Delius<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Affectionate Men Part I &amp; II<br \/>\nA Photographic History of a Century of Male Couples<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>I found these photos to be both beautiful and profound. The times between 1860 and 1930 men were more free to hold hands, hug, even kiss, without the fear of being riduculed, beaten or labeled.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>Regardless if the men pictured here were lovers or friends, the photographs let us all realize that today we live in a society where our emotional freedom and tolerance of others should have moved forward. Instead we seem to be moving backward every day.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>In spite of our great and positive leaps in science, medicine and fantastic inventions, as humankind we seem to have taken a rather significant negative leap into a world that is filled with hate and intolerance, one that has lost the innocence, simplicity and joy one feels in experiencing these photographs of a special and more unique time and place. &#8211; <\/em>Frederick Delius<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photos appear in the following two books: Affectionate Men: A Photographic History of a Century of Male Couples, 1850-1950 by Russell Bush and Ron Lieberman Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 ~ David Deitcher The slideshow just shows a small portion. I encourage you to purchase them. &#8211; Frederick Delius Affectionate Men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[626,1052],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-pride","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-1en","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}