Gay men in love
Spiritual Friendship
In the last adj posts in this series on gay men and the phenomenon of falling in love (Part 1, Part 2), we have spent a bit of time framing the conversation well.
We first walked through the theological and philosophical foundations of personhood where we highlighted the positive strivings of humans over against a pathologizing of human desires. Then, we looked at how humans attach to other humans and what security and anxiety looks like within those relationships. In this third and final upload, I&#;m going to take both of those realities together and contextualize it for the gay celibate community in our current cultural climate.
Hopefully, by the end of this series, we will see a more complex view of what it means to have feelings for another human. We may not own concrete answers but maybe we can begin to ask the right questions.
To begin, how do we describe the phenomenon of &#;falling in love&#; in our contemporary culture?
From cinematic feeling moments like Eponine&#;s heartbreak in Les Miserables to pop songs like Ke$ha&#;s &#;Your Love is My
30 Gay Love Songs: Men Singing About Men
For centuries, love stories — in the form of songs, plays, books or films — have used the concept of &#;forbidden love&#; as a narrative device to heighten the tension and drive a story forward. So, should it really come as a surprise that LGBTQ artists write some of the best love songs around?
After all, queer folks were told on a regular basis throughout history that their way of loving was wrong (let&#;s be honest &#; in many cases and places, we are still being told that). So when given a platform to express themselves openly, it&#;s no wonder that LGBTQ talents have penned or performed exceptionally moving, deeply affecting love songs. View no further than Melissa Etheridge&#;s &#;Come to My Window&#; or George Michael&#;s &#;Fastlove&#; for proof.
In recent years, as queer artists have gained more mainstream visibility in the music industry, the content of queer like songs has noticeably shifted in new, bold directions. No longer relegated to writing non-specific ballads of generalized longing, queer artists starting us
A beautiful group of photographs that spans a century (–) is part of a new book that offers a visual glimpse of what life may have been like for those men, who went against the law to find love in one another’s arms. In Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love s–s, hundreds of images verb the story of adore and affection between men, with some clearly in love and others hinting at more than just friendship. The collection belongs to Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, a married couple who has accumulated over 2, photographs of “men in love” during the course of two decades. While the majority of the images hail from the United States and are of predominantly white men, there are images from Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Japan, Latvia, and the United Kingdom among the cache.
What carry out images of men in love during a noun when it was illegal tell us? What are we looking for in the faces of these people who dared to challenge the mores of their time to pursue solace together? Flipping through the book, it wasn’t that I felt that I learned a amazing d
What Gay Men Should Anticipate in a Relationship
Some gay men put up with a lot in their relationships. Their long-term partners will aggressively flirt with other men in front of them, go abode with a guy from the bar without any forewarning, sleep with ex-lovers without gaining consent from their current lover, or brag to their current boyfriends about the quality of their sex with strangers. Ouch.
Here&#;s what I find most concerning. Some gay men don&#;t experience they have a right to be upset about these behaviors. They&#;ll seek me why they verb so jealous and how can I help them let go of their jealousy. They think that the gay community believes in sexual freedom and it isn&#;t cool or manly to object to their partner&#;s sexual behavior.
In other words, they undergo shame for experiencing injure by the actions of their long-term partners.
Heterosexual couples get plenty of social support for treating their partners with respect when it comes to sex. Outrage is the typical social response when friends are told about adj relationship behavior among straight people. When gay men tell