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Fire up Photoshop—I found the worst couple on Instagram
06.09.2014
11:03 am
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Usually, I’m pretty forgiving of social media gaucherie. I’m off Facebook, which certainly helps, but when it comes to Twitter or Instagram, I figure it’s your account, post whatever you want—no one’s forcing me to look at it. People take such personal offense to someone taking a million pictures of their cats/children/food/selves, but they’re going through their own lives—what right have we to demand entertainment or intellectual stimulation from them? We could so easily unfollow if we don’t like what they post.

But I have recently found my breaking point.

You may remember a post I wrote a little while ago on Kara Walker’s giant sculpture of a sugary sphinx. The piece is a gargantuan sphinx coated in sugar, invoking racist “Mammy” imagery of a black woman, and Walker (who yes, is black) is well-known for her use of uncomfortable racial and sexual iconography.

I get that we live in incredibly vulgar times, but Jesus Christ on a Goddamn Pony, you don’t have the presence of mind not to suck face in front of obviously slavery-themed art?

Their Instagram, called “kissmeeverywhere,” is nothing but 642 pictures of them kissing—a monument to performative affections. The description of their profile reads, “Why should we stop kissing? if it’s the best way to remember why we are together.” I’ll give them this, I think that’s probably an accurate statement, since both these people probably require constant reminding that other people exist, including their significant other.
 

 
So let’s get some Photoshops going! I picture the lamprey-lovebirds at the base of of the “The Sculpture of Love and Anguish.” Or maybe locking lips in front of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial? There’s a lovely arch along The Trail of Tears, and I hear there are some truly scenic ex-gulags in the former USSR. Let’s get creative!
 

 

Posted by Amber Frost
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06.09.2014
11:03 am
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Boyfriend twin: ‘Because what’s sexier than dating yourself?’
04.08.2014
10:25 am
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Couples that look alike can be a little weird. Couples that dress alike can be kind of creepy. Couples that look and dress exactly alike kind of terrify/fascinate me. I think it’s a combination of my general aversion to matchy-matchy cutesy couples stuff, compounded with my science-fiction instilled fear of dopplegangers. Or maybe it’s because I’m a straight lady and it’s just never crossed my mind that I could resemble a boyfriend very closely?

The tagline of the Tumblr is, “because what’s sexier than dating yourself?” but I don’t think, as a friend of mine suggested, that this is an expression of narcissism. If anything, it appears to be a loving gesture of selfless devotion. But damn some of these couples are just uncanny. The attention to detail is astounding, right down to accessories, and what appears to be coordinated eyebrow grooming. At the same time… there is an element of sweetness to this kind of commitment that I can’t ignore. Can something be adorable and terrifying at the same time? Like the Rabbit of Caerbannog? My verdict is ultimately “awww, that’s sweet,” but then again, I’m hopelessly sentimental, even under the most unorthodox of conditions. Mazel Tov, you crazy kids!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Via boyfriendtwin

Posted by Amber Frost
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04.08.2014
10:25 am
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140 years of black gay male couples in photos
01.13.2012
10:19 pm
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After Monday’s post about Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of NYC, here are pictures that delve even further into the often under-acknowledged history of gay men within the black community. Historian Trent Kelley has been collecting these photos - which span the last 140 years and mostly (but not exclusively) feature gay men - and has put them online for people to see on his Climbing Kilimanjaro Flickr account. Via Colorlines.com, Kelley says:

Afro American gay men are ignored into nonexistence in parts of black culture and are basically second class citizens in gay culture. The black church which has historically played a fundamental role in protesting against civil injustices toward its parishioners has been want to deny its gay members their right to live a life free and open without prejudice. Despite public projections of a “rainbow” community living together in harmonious co-habitation, openly active and passive prejudices exist in the larger gay community against gay Afro Americans.

 
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These make for some beautiful and touching pictures. See more here.

Thanks to Chloe Cousins.

Posted by Niall O'Conghaile
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01.13.2012
10:19 pm
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