Oh my God. In a way this is sad, but I actually appreciate it as a datapoint. In Sleeping Beauty (set in the mid-60s), Caleb finds a cache of Civil War photographs like this, and his initial reaction is indeed "Have I found photos from a secret gay Civil War subculture?"
I don't know about gender roles in 19th century Sweden. I know that the Germans were apparently the MOST snuggly, to the occasional dismay of English writers forced to endure barrages of enthusiastic friendship hugs and kisses. (Some relationship here to the fact that Germany was the place where the idea of homosexuality first arose? Hmmm....)
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Date: 2022-05-20 08:42 pm (UTC)I don't know about gender roles in 19th century Sweden. I know that the Germans were apparently the MOST snuggly, to the occasional dismay of English writers forced to endure barrages of enthusiastic friendship hugs and kisses. (Some relationship here to the fact that Germany was the place where the idea of homosexuality first arose? Hmmm....)