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I don't know if this little dog was her pet or if they were two strangers who just felt drawn to each upon first sight. Helsinki, Finland (Suomi ): this photograph may not be reproduced. (26 August, 2019)
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Reclaim Pride Coalition 7th Annual QUEER LIBERATION MARCH en route to Central Park along 8th Avenue at West 23rd Street in NYC on Sunday afternoon, 29 June 2025 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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Afro Mexican Men, 1910
During the slavery era within the Americas, Mexico and Peru combined were the largest importer of African slaves. The slave importing United States from the same era was the second.
As with their African Diaspora kinfolk in the U.S., other parts of North, Central and South America and in the Caribbean, they are able to claim a diverse "ethnic" heritage, coming in every beautiful and handsome shade of skin and etc.
We're related--you and I
You from the West Indies,
I from Kentucky.
Kinsmen--you and I,
You from Africa,
I from the U.S.A.
Brothers--you and I.
Brothers by Langston Hughes
This poem is pretty obvious as it embraces and celebrates a "one people" among African folk and people of African descent wherever they happen to be in the world.
Sometimes everything just doesn't make sense any more, and I often feel like I'm drowning in my own thoughts. Insecurity has begun to take it's toll and I apologise for the way it affects the people I love. I'm truly sorry.
Your frequent self-underestimating serves as humility and keeps us on the same level, which is difficult to maintain because my confidence and assertion of personality ride circular-spiral escalators, even if you press all of the elevator buttons at once it can be difficult to keep the signals strong.
Even so, we both manage to end up grounded in time to catch the same subway car. Trains offer us the opportunity to remain quite still and also rocket forward. I think perhaps that’s why they captivate us so much.
And perhaps why we captivate each other.
You can’t steer a train, but you do choose your destination and how you spend the time on board.
And anyway, train tracks are contour; so there can be no such thing here as a power struggle.
Nation : International
Pavilion Name : Photography and Industrial Design Pavilion
Subject : Visual Works
Island : Cité Du Havre
Description : Photograph on display inside the photographic exhibition. Note: 'Affection' may not be the official photo title.
Photographer's Notes : Affection
General Description:
The Photography and Industrial Design Pavilion featured an easily demountable, prefabricated design systems. The photographic exhibition was themed "The Camera as Witness" and showcased 500 photographs from photographers all over world. The industrial Design exhibition showcased projects by industrial studios from 18 major schools around the world.
Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophrys) on The Falkland Islands are an endangered species.
Reclaim Pride Coalition 7th Annual QUEER LIBERATION MARCH en route to Central Park along 8th Avenue at West 23rd Street in NYC on Sunday afternoon, 29 June 2025 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Elvert Barnes WITHOUT APOLOGIES / LGBTQ Public Displays of Affection Archives at elvertxbarnes.com/withoutapologies
Visit QUEER MARCH website at queermarch.org/
Elvert Barnes PROTESTS 2025 at elvertxbarnes.com/protests
Elvert Barnes 55th NYC GAY PRIDE 2025 WEEKEND at
elvertxbarnes.com/nyc-gay-pride
Elvert Barnes GAY PRIDE docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/gaypride
Elvert Barnes June 2025 at exbphoto.com/2025
Elvert Barnes former RECLAIM PRIDE COALITION NYC docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/RPCNYC.html
Shown are two men, one white and the other Afro American. The photograph dates from the late 19th to perhaps the early 20th century. It is a tintype. The tintype was most likely produced somewhere outside the southern states.
Such images like it are not as rare as most folk want to believe. But, they are difficult to locate, especially those as intimate as this one were all the nonverbal cues hinting at something other and more than a simple “friendship” are evident.
In part, the photo is here as an acknowledgment that some relationships between a man of African descent and a white man can be organic. That is, both enter into a kind of romantic communion with one another from a place of mutual respect and friendship. The two men in the photo seem to exhibit such a characteristic.
On the negative, the image has become common stock. Outside adult gay cinema, larger gay and mainstream culture has often exhibited an hostility to seeing genuine affection between two men being both of African descent. The preference has been to show images like the one portrayed above, a perceived normal image outside some counterfeit chocolate bubble as many may be inclined to view the other photographs in this collection. It is a perverted politically correct color blind racism that has come to define the gay Afro American male (in mainstream culture, the male of African descent he is the heterosexual “best friend”to the heterosexual white guy).
More, gay history has more than largerly focused those men of African descent who have found solace outside the larger Afro American community. The comfort in sorrow from a stereotypically portrayed hostile community has meant the embracing arms of white men. There has been little desire to research and discuss those men of African descent men who have found content within their own community, and even more with one another.
Those homophobic circles within general Afro America have use the image as pseudo logic explaining why otherwise "straight and good" men in the community "go gay." After all, these people believe, same-sex attraction was introduce to Africa by foreigners. Dumbass hate at its best!!!
The inclusion of the photo is a token one. Serious though was given before adding it. And, it will be the only photo of its kind in this collection. To add more like it would be rewriting the narrative and purpose of this collection into the above mentioned falsehood about Afro men. Already, its inclusion either succeeded at what was intended or fail miserably at was intended.
The red rose is known as the rose of love & affection......
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“my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw”
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