"We Were Always There..."

What I Like About This: Here is a glimpse of a moment of unabashed joy captured by photographer Jean Depara sometime during the decade between 1955-1965.  The scene is of two young black men  dancing together in an intimate "pas de deux" pose. The scene is bereft of any women suggesting that this may have been a gathering place for same gender loving men in then colonial Belgium's  Léopoldville (now: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo).  Being a likely photo of then contemporary SGL African men, this image is both rare and important to our history and our knowledge that "we were always there."