Thursday, June 30, 2022

"Same Gender Loving People - No. 4507"


"Our Life And Love Has Only Just Begun..."

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.



"We Were Always There..."




"This Made Me Smile..."





"Selfie Love..."


Selfie Love" - those beautiful, grainy, out-of-focus self-pics that capture the truth of true love..."



"The Truth About Love..."


Love:
noun. The force that allows us to overcome our seemingly irreconcilable differences and empowers us to experience the peace of one-ness.

- Burt Gershater



"The Truth About Hate..."


As the country reels from the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, make no mistake that we're in the sights of those who want to roll back the progress of civil rights in America...

It was on this day in 1986, that iBowers v. Hardwick, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5–4) that states could criminalize gay sex between consenting adults; the decision was overturned by Lawrence v. Texas in 2003.

Clarence Thomas mentions Lawrence by name in his hateful concurring opinion on Roe, so be ready to fight, because ready or not, a fight is coming our way.


"Fear Eats the Soul"



"The Imitation Of Life..."










"The Artist's Corner..."


Douglas Simonson



"Sometime Yesterday Afternoon..."


Okay...



Wednesday, June 29, 2022

"The Views To Love..."












"A Little Sane Advice..."




"Same Gender Loving People - No. 4506"


"Love Makes You Young Again..."

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.



"We Were Always There..."




"This Made Me Smile..."




"Selfie Love..."


Selfie Love" - those beautiful, grainy, out-of-focus self-pics that capture the truth of true love..."



"The Truth About Love..."


Love is always having to say you're sorry.

BRENDAN O'CONNOR



"The Imitation Of Life..."


It's hard to believe that it's only been about a decade since the tragedy of having to love someone in silence came to an end...  How sad that there are some who want to turn back the hands of time to this.



"The Artist's Corner..."


"Hamlet, North Carolina"
Oil on linen
Jérôme Lagarrigue



Tuesday, June 28, 2022

"The Views To Love..."










"The Poet's Corner..."


Love is the kiss
in the quiet nest
while the leaves are trembling,
mirrored in the water.

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA



"Same Gender Loving People - No. 4505"


"Love In The Everyday Moments..."

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.



"We Were Always There..."


Click image to enlarge

Just four friends or two couples...?



"This Made Me Smile..."





"Selfie Love..."


Selfie Love" - those beautiful, grainy, out-of-focus self-pics that capture the truth of true love..."



"The Truth About Love..."


I would rather have eyes that cannot see, ears that cannot hear, lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.

- Robert Tizon



"The Imitation Of Life..."


 Keri Russell & Skeet Ulrich in "The Magic of Ordinary Days"

As a gay man, I learned from my earliest days to understand that I'll always live in a heteronormative world.  And so I often wonder why people say they can't understand same-sex love and find it unbelievable that we love in the same way as everyone else. Unlike the youth of today, until I was well into adulthood, the only stories I read and the only movies I saw that told of what love was did so by telling the stories of people who didn't look like me, but who shared many of the same feelings I felt, and I understood them nevertheless.  I realized early on that in the same way that you don't have to be black to understand much of the black experience if you try, you don't have to be heterosexual to understand love between two people, you just have to try.  I think this is why Brokeback Mountain was so shockingly well received and highly acclaimed... although there was no happy ending for Ennis and Jack, almost everyone, gay or not could understand that the film was about love and the human experience.  


Yesterday, I ran across this gem of a made-for-tv film from 2005 with the most unlikely of storylines, that surprisingly, I absolutely fell in love with.  It's one of those films that at the end leaves you wanting more.  I was so entranced by it that I couldn't imagine not being able to see it again, so I immediately ordered a DVD copy of it.  It's a multifaceted love story that reaches deep into you to tug at heartstrings you didn't know you had. And, even though there's not a single gay or black character in the film, I could identify with all of the characters in one way or another since their stories were just human stories of the most beautiful kind. 


This film easily and instantly found its way onto my top ten list of favorite films, and perhaps you'll like it too. Right now it's streaming for free on Plex and here is a "making of" video from YouTube that shares some of the actors' thoughts on the film.




"The Artist's Corner..."


Antoine Calbet