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; after a long, loud noise, a sudden silence may seem deafening.
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian era to the 14th C.
1980 #JohnBoswell
*img s xiv Hyenas embracing, in Fürstenfelder Physiologus
The smooth rude muscle, calm and slow and tender,
The alabaster shaft, the pale pink shrine,
The crimson glory of the lustrous gland
Lurking in dewy darkness half-concealed,
Like a rose-bud peeping from clasped silken sheath.
—#JohnAddingtonSymonds, c 1870 Phallus Impudicus
Sodomy slips into the cracks, precisely when it no longer carries a distinct sociocultural charge, and yet it is at this point that it begins to assume its most tangible form.
―#GregorySHutcheson, 1999 Desperately Seeking Sodom / #QueerIberia #ÁlvaroDeLuna
#IsaacJulien
brillant.
en les paraules, les veus i les imatges.
la manera de construir i apropar-nos la historia, la genealogia,
#EssexHemphill #JamesBaldwin #RichmondBarthé #LangstonHughes. . . i queden tres sessions al @macba
*img 2017 #ThierryBal Isaac
https://t.co/ju5fEQ9mwP
La nature s’éveille et de rayons s’enivre. . .
Nature awakes and bathes in shining rays. . .
—#ArthurRimbaud, 1869 LEdO
*img c 1954 #FrancisBacon Man at a Washbasin
Malcolm constitutes the quintessential unfinished text. He is a text that we, as Black People, can finish, that we can write the ending for, that we can give closure to—or reopen—depending on our own psychic & social needs.
—#MarlonRiggs, 1992
*img 2000 #GlennLigon, #MalcolmX #1
Wingless upon your pinions forth I fly;
Heavenward your spirit stirreth me to strain;
—#Michelangelo, Sonnet
dedicated to #TommasoDeiCavalieri
trans. in 1904 by #JohnAddingtonSymonds
*img unknown, after lost copy 1500s #Michelangelo Il ratto di Ganimede
https://t.co/D627CKMUxv
, i així, la «identitat» no és ni una realitat ni un programa, ni un passat ni un futur ni un present, sinó un espai d'impugnacions i de conflictes polítics i culturals.
—#DidierEribon, 1999 (2004) Insult,
*img 1991 #JohnOReilly Spanish Court
I'm beginning to believe that one of the last frontiers left for radical gesture is the imagination. At least in my ungoverned imagination I can. . .
1989 #DavidWojnarowicz Postcards from America: X-Rays from Hell, in CttK
*img 1987 David's Fire, detail
https://t.co/voqYN73JxW