Danny-Darko

Ralph Hall (British Vintage Model) - Lover of Monty Glover, photographer. Ralph was a lad from London’s East End, and judging from his letters to Monty a lovely lad. Here he is in a punt in the 1930-40′s. Lovely bulge - Monty knew how to pick out his best assets.

Ralph Hall, life partner of Monty Glover

Household Cavalry (The Blues and Royals) photographed by gay photographer Monty Glover in the 1930′s. Then, as in years gone by, these young guardsmen would supplement their salary by providing “services” for rich gentlemen clients, as described by Joe Ackerley in “My Father and Myself”.

A Soldier friend of Monty Glover

Monty Glover in 1918 showing some of his homoerotic photographs to boyfriend of the time soldier Ernie.

Monty Glover - An Officer and a Gentleman during World War One. He came from a prosperous middle class family from Leamington Spa. A gay man, he produced an excellent photographic record of the homosexual world in Britain in the first decades of the 20th century. The love of his life was the handsome Ralph Hall.

Another one of the lads, and pal of photographer Monty Glover, c. 1920/30′s

Cute American guy c. 1920 - Luscious Lips!

Handsome holiday-maker in Weymouth, Dorset c. 1930

Victorian Gay couple, both in men’s clothes, but one in a skirt. I wonder if this was because he was a cross-dresser or because as gay men in less enlightened times they thought it was expected of them when being the passive partner.

Wally Schillicutt - 1950′s Physique Model

Four Cadets at US Military Academy, West Point c. 1880

West Point Cadets - very intimate c. 1890′s

Spread those legs, Billy Joe Carr

Busy night at the sauna / bathhouse, early 20th century

Two sailor lovers share the privacy and intimacy of the photo booth in the 1940s

c. Mid 20th Century - Young beauty

Seaman H. Baker of the United States Naval Reserve was convicted of sodomy, and sentenced to six years in prison in June 1908. Such a handsome man! So much suffering! So many had their lives ruined just because of whom they loved and slept with! 💔😭

Chauffeur and mechanic lovers of the 1920/30s

World War Two Lovers

Real rent boys in the Berlin of 1930.

French customs officers

Soldier ‘Medicals’ during WW2

1. Stephen Spender and his boyfriend Franz Büchner in 1929. London-born poet, essayist and novelist Stephen Spender (1909-1995) delayed publication of his excellent first novel, The Temple, for fifty-nine years – until 1988, when he was seventy-nine years old. The male protagonist has same-sex encounters in pre-War Germany. In Spender’s real life experience, which included living in Germany, he had a series of affairs with men, after which he married twice and took about renouncing his gay past. 2. Stephen Spender, with Winston Auden and Christopher isherwood, on holiday, Fire Island 1947.

An unusual photograph from a late 19th century American Military Academy. Some of the young men appear stiff and formal, some are relaxed and intimate with each other.