‘In 1945, these two soldiers had hiked up into the Austrian Alps and a friend took their picture as they embraced in the snow. One soldier kept these snapshots hidden in a shoebox until the early 1990s when he handed them to a relative, along with the ring that he was wearing in the Alps photo, with the request: “Please keep these safe for me.” According to the relative, the soldier, nearing the end of his life, wanted to preserve the one thing that meant more to him than anything else. He passed away two years later.’
I’m not crying, you’re crying…
I have several gay friends … some of who grew up in the 60s and 70s. I find it so strange to talk to some of them and ask them what it was like to be gay in the 60s knowing that it was illegal in Canada! We like to think that this history is some ancient record that no longer matters … the people that lived this reality are still alive today and can tell you about it.
And we can’t forget it because knowing and understanding it means that we won’t revert back to this insanity.
BTW … almost forgot … that is a great image and yes I do fee like crying … beautiful
Remember when it was a huge controversy that Ellen came out on her show in 1997?
And that was the last time a lesbian needed to appear on national tv and glad we are to be past THAT awkwardness.
Not!
I want a whole buncha lesbians exhibiting a wide range of human emotions on all media outlets on the regular. If I am interviewing and I sus you are a lesbian, I immediately want to work for you.
It’s a thing for me based on life experience. Fight me.
It is still awful for even good old fashioned homosexuals in most parts of the world. God forbid you are trans in any way. As a gay man with lots of good supportive straight friends, I still encounter a huge amount of erasure in a ‘blue’ state. And this is supposed to be where conditions are best, for now.