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The Photography of Montague Glover
Born in May of 1898 in Leamington Spa, a spa town known for its medicinal waters, Montague Charles Glover was a British freelance architect and personal photographer. He is leading known for his photographs depicting homosexual life in London during the first and mid-twentieth century when homosexuality was illegal. The majority of his oeuvre, shot during a period of increasing persecutions against homosexuals, documented members of the military forces and the working class, whose social class divisions are depicted through their dress.
The youngest of five siblings and the only male child, Montague Glover entered the British Army in 1916 for service in the first World War. He was a member of the Artist Rifles Regiment, a regiment of the Territorial Force which saw active service during the war. Glover was promoted to Second Lieutenant in 1917 and was awarded the Military Cross for Bravery in 1918.
Glover is notable for his photographs depicting the partnership with his long-time boyfriend, Ralph Edward Hall, who was born in December of 1913 in Bermondsey, a district in the South End of London. Hall was one of nine child
Newly Published Portraits Document a Century of Gay Men in Love
“Loving” features around 300 photos that present an intimate look at men’s love between the 1850s and 1950s
When Texas couple Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell stumbled onto a 1920s-era photograph in a Dallas antiques shop some 20 years ago, they were startled to see a relationship that looked much like theirs: two men, embracing and clearly in love.
As Dee Swann writes for the Washington Post, the image spoke to the couple about the history of love between men.
“The unseal expression of the adore that they shared also revealed a moment of determination,” Nini and Treadwell tell the Post. “Taking such a photo, during a time when they would have been less understood than they would be today, was not without risk. We were intrigued that a photo like this could contain survived into the [21st] century. Who were they?”
In the decades that followed this initial discovery, the pair came across more than 2,800 photos of men in love—at first accidentally and later on purpose. The result of their trips to flea markets, shops, estate sales and family archives across Europe, Canada and the United States is a t
“I tried to help as a chronicler, as a watcher of charming people - to feed back an image of a positive, likable lifestyle― to offer pleasure as well as pride.”
American photographer Crawford Barton (June 2, 1943 - June 10, 1993) chronicled the rise of gay customs in San Francisco from the late 1960s through the devastation brought on by HIV and AIDS in the 1980s.
Barton's partner of 22 years, Larry Lara died of AIDS related illnesses shortly before Crawford Barton connected the overwhelming chorus of creative men dead from AIDS on June 10, 1993. It is estimated that more than 650,000 have died in the United States from this plague.
There are used copies of a guide of Barton's work ready on Amazon. The GLBT Historical Society in California holds all of Barton's papers and studio labor. Here are a rare of
“The only queer people are those who don’t adore anybody”
– Rita Mae Brown
Photo strip: Circa 1900,
Gay treasure is love. Gay sex is love. In Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s–1950 we see men loving men in various ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, glass negatives, tintypes, cabinet cards, photo postcards, photo strips, photomatics and snapshots. Pictures of love should raise a smile. But when love is outlawed, these images show us how far we’ve reach and in many places still have to journey. Life is hard. To live a secret experience when love between consenting adults is banned and censured by people sure they know better chance making the difficult unbearable.
“Our collection began when we came across an antique photo that we consideration was one of a kind. The subjects in that vintage photo were two young men, embracing and gazing at one another – clearly in love. We looked at that photo, and it reflected us back to ourselves. We were intrigued that a photo enjoy that could have survived into the 21st century. Who were they? And how did their snapshot end up at an antique shop in Dallas, Texas?
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