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doproudhomo:

the VINTAGE homo

I like looking back on the past.  And only till recently have I really delved into my adoration for the “vintage gay”.

Back in a time when the closet was the ONLY choice I look at these photos and feel gladness for the folks pictured, for they had friends/family/someone they loved and trusted enough to be themselves with.  To be gay… 

…as frankly someone had to take these pictures and whether they were fellow queers or not ( which is immaterial really)  they were apart of someone’s queer life, and not minding one bit, in a time when MOST had issue with homosexuality (and for some that still holds true today). 

Like these vintage gays, I feel so fortunate and lucky, frankly, to have a really sweet support network in my personal life BUT also at work too, which I think is so important in enabling me to live more proud.  And at least today we have more of a choice…

to stay in or leap out.