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having to come to terms with the fact that love is not an everlasting performance in which you attempt to retain the attention of your significant other but rather a release of control and putting faith into them and trusting them to choose to stay with you no matter what you have to offer
to love and be loved is to rest
But love, I’ll concede this: whatever state you are, I’ll be that state’s bird, the loud, obvious blur of song people point to when they wonder where it is you’ve gone.
Ada Limón, from “State Bird,” Bright Dead Things
A Perfect Rainbow on our Wedding Day
submitted by Sabrina Lee
Mariana combing girlfriend June’s hair, 1988
Pictures of gay men from the 1940s and 50s
Golden Time, photography by Evelyn Dragan
love is in repetition
love is in doing the same things with people over and over again and never getting bored because you love the person you're doing them with so much. love is in telling someone I love you 9 times a day and it being just as sweet every single time. love is in making dinner together every day and watching the same movie over and over again because someone you love loves it so much. I'm so normal about this
love is in hearing my little brother tell me about the same cool one liner he came up with at school over and over again because he looks so happy when he says it. love is in making a face at a baby and then making it 15 times more because it makes then smile. love is in watering your plants every day. love is in taking photos in the same pose with someone every year to show how much you've grown together. love is in repetition goddamnit
An Iraqi family have a pre-dawn breakfast at the start of Ramadan (Photograph: Ali Abbas/EPA)
If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”
Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.
“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”
The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.
He acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.
From top to bottom:
Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke €(herring with potatoes and cottage cheese). Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.
Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.
Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.
The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.
Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).
Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).
Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).
Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).
Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.
Source: Family; A Portrait Of Gay And Lesbian America - by Nancy Andrews
Gay Dads Kissing, 1983
The photographer is J. Ross Baughman who shot this as part of a special for LIFE magazine, but this was ultimately excluded from the published article. The two men in the photograph, Robert and Michael, are still alive and together today! More about this historic photo shoot here in Smithsonian Magazine (and an uncropped version of the photo).
A heart-shaped meadow, created by a farmer as a tribute to his late wife, can be seen from the air near Wickwar, South Gloucestershire. The point of the heart points towards Wotton Hill, where his wife was born.
Jude Johnston in Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs. 1991.
A heart-shaped meadow, created by a farmer as a tribute to his late wife, can be seen from the air near Wickwar, South Gloucestershire. The point of the heart points towards Wotton Hill, where his wife was born.
Andrew Valko (b.1957)
Jack And Jill Worked At The Drive-in, 1999
Acrylic On Panel
john cassavetes on gena rowlands, 1978
