Vintage gay male

As you can see, I’m mixing things up a bit with this week’s Vintage Gay post. I obey an art blog (you can see it in my blogroll) called ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon and the artwork of this Japanese artist caught my attention. In the images above and below I see gay men from the 1980s. Their clothing, preppy haircuts, and cleancut look scream 1980s to me.

Ben Kimura (木村べん) b. 1947 – d. 2003 was a Japanese gay erotic artist who along with George Takeuchi and Sadao Hasegawa, is noted as a central figure in the second wave of contemporary gay artists that emerged in Japan in the 1970s.

You can learn more about this artist and see some more of his function here.

Previous Vintage Homosexual Photos

This article was originally published onVICE Italy.

Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell are Texan art collectors, who got “unofficially” married in 1992. In 2006, the couple was finally officially able to tie the knot in Massachusetts, “the only place in the US where it was possible to get married”. To do so, they not only had to get on a plane, but legally “set up residence in Boston, with an deal with, utilities, phone service, and a bank account,” as then-Governor Mitt Romney had revived a forgotten law from 1913 preventing Massachusetts from becoming, in his words, “the Las Vegas of gay marriage”.

At some indicate between these two weddings, among a pile of vintage pictures at an antique store in Texas, Hugh and Neal found an image that blew their minds: in front of a small 1920s-style dwelling “were two juvenile men, embracing and gazing at one another, clearly in love”. The photo dated back to when same-sex relationships were illegal not only in the States, but in most countries across the world.

The two collectors thought the photo must be one-of-a-kind, but soon after they set up another in an online auction. This one showed two soldiers in the 1940s, posing cheek-to-cheek, with