"The Imitation Of Life..."

Every single time...!

"Same Gender Loving People - No. 5057"

"Love In The Festive Season..."

Positive images of people like me... The truth of the matter is that we all need to see people like ourselves. So everyday, I'll post a photo, drawing or some other artwork that depicts Same Gender Loving People as what we are... Only Human.

"The Truth About Love..."

Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.

- Sinclair Lewis

"Just For Fun..."

Geez, all this time I thought this meant something else...

Cleanliness is next to Godliness

"The Poet's Corner..."

 You haunt my days because you live in my nights.

Hortensia Anderson

from “Recurrence,” The Plenitude of Emptiness

"We Were Always There..."

"Two Men Dancing"

1984

Robert Mapplethorpe

"The Artist's Corner..."

Geirrod Van Dyke

A Thought To Ponder..."

You see, love is strong. Stronger than hate even. Love is the only thing that can kill hate, nothing else. You see, hate destroys and that's why love is stronger. It builds.

- Peter Abrahams

"The Imitation Of Life..."

"Same Gender Loving People - No. 5056"

"Love's Happy Selfie..."

Positive images of people like me... The truth of the matter is that we all need to see people like ourselves. So everyday, I'll post a photo, drawing or some other artwork that depicts Same Gender Loving People as what we are... Only Human.

"The Poet's Corner..."

Oh, ill betide that villain love, not love,

That all its object and affection finds

In the mere contact of encircling arms!

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

"Just For Fun..."

Poor Lois had no idea...

"The Truth About Love..."

Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"We Were Always There..."

Circa 1990

"The Artist's Corner..."

"Sanctuary"

Acrylic on canvas

Steve Walker

What I Like About This: Here is one of the rare works by Walker set in a season other than summer. It depicts two gay men (perhaps a couple) on a bench outside a church.  Perhaps this was a indictment of the exclusion of gay and lesbian people from the "blessings" of the church. In anycase, I appreciate Walker's attention to detail and the emotive qualities of his stylized realism has always impressed me. 

A Thought To Ponder..."

Life is too short to not spend it with the people you love, I murmured. Did you just read an Instagram caption? my boyfriend asked. I huffed. I said that it was a midnight musing--not an Instagram caption. But it's true. To me, at least. From reading children's books to books about death and illness and meaning and regret, I gather that this abstraction--love!--that poets wax on about and singers warble on about and writers scribble on about is what matters most. It isn't money or material items or career or achievements or resumé markers or positions or charm. It's the simple, deceptively simple! equation of existence: to love and to be loved.

- LU

"The Imitation Of Life..."

"Same Gender Loving People - No. 5055"

"Love Makes Its Own Warmth..."

Positive images of people like me... The truth of the matter is that we all need to see people like ourselves. So everyday, I'll post a photo, drawing or some other artwork that depicts Same Gender Loving People as what we are... Only Human.

"The Poet's Corner..."

Divinely blessed is rose or man

That answers to love's whispered plan,

And gladly owns its paradise

To be love's perfect sacrifice.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Just For Fun..."

Two dogs and a black cat had died and went to the animal afterlife. The Great Deity Of All Animals looked down at the trio from its throne, and said to one of the dogs, a German shepherd, “What do you believe?”

The dog said, “I believe in loyalty to my master and protecting him and his family.”

The Great Deity said, “That is a worthy belief. Take your place beside my throne.”

Then the Great Deity said to the other dog, a collie, “What do you believe?”

The dog said, “I believe in loyalty to my master and helping him in his work - oh, and finding Timmy when he falls into a well.”

The Great Deity said, “That is a worthy belief. Take your place on the other side of my throne.”

Then the Great Deity said to the cat, “What do you believe?”

The cat said, “I believe,” then she paused to lick her paw and groom her ears, “I believe that you are sitting in my chair.

"The Truth About Love..."

If love is the first of the passions, it is because it gratifies them all.

- Honoré de Balzac

"We Were Always There..."

What I Like About This: Two sailors in intimate embrace, one swooning in the other's arms, lips pursed for a kiss... Is this horseplay or truth on display, we'll never know, but we do know that "we were always there."

"The Artist's Corner..."

Wim Beullens

Click on works to enlarge

What I Like About This: These works of tastefully homoerotic art are by the contemporary Belgian artist Wim Beullens.  A master of drawing in graphite, charcoal and coloured pencil, Beullens captures nuanced details and creates works of idealized masculinity.

"The Imitation Of Life..."