I’ll wait my turn. It’s coming…

The Mom looks wonderful! reminds of my Mom now passed away but always in my thoughts 😊

very few of these pics looked or resembled gay men. and i'm gay... so I can tell when I see an intimate pic of two bonding past friendship

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Men and women were much more physically affectionate in those days. My mom and I walked hand in hand together once I got out of the self conscious teen years. Women still aren't afraid to hang all over their friends in selfies.

I was a nun for about 5 years in early 80's it was fun

Quite a few comments here about men being freer with each other in times gone by. They still are in places. The further south you go in Italy the more you see it still. Guys embracing, holding hands while walking, kissing. Perfectly normal and natural. By the time you get to North Africa, those Muslim boys are even freer with their affection. Saw a beautiful vignette in San Gimignano one evening. A father and son (young teen) walked into the piazza hand in hand. The father gave the boy some money and he went into the video arcade. The father sat on a bench; had a cigarette.When the kid came out they walked off hand in hand. My late partner, a very proper, uptight New Englander, was flummoxed. Still wouldn't walk around the towns holding hands with me. I was crushed. But on a solo trip to Tunisia, things were very different.

A lot of these guys in uniform did not know if they would ever come back from the war a lot of them didn't

My Popason was a DEATH RATTLER! Great Guy Miss that old man

I was talking to my father about this (after watching several other videos of pics of gay men taken 80 or more years ago up to the 50’s). He is 88 years old, and I asked him if men were actually that affectionate towards each other in a strictly platonic way back then, and he told me most definitely. My father was in the Royal Canadian Navy for 30 years. He retired, after reaching the rank of admiral, but he has literally hundreds of photos of him and his shipmates, usually when they were drunk, with their arms all around each other, many of them far more provocative than the guys in these pictures. So the question is, how do you tell which photos are just men that were very good friends/family, men that were very drunk, as opposed to men that were actually a gay couple? I am gay myself, and I always thought that in the old days people didn’t show affection, especially straight men, but my father put those theories to rest after I looked through his photo albums from his time in the Navy. There’s a few pictures of my father and his buddies, shortly after they came out of a bar, with their arms wrapped around each other to the point where you’d swear to God they were boyfriends! Now, my father regrets showing me those photos, because I am tormenting him constantly about it, saying “like father, like son!” My mother doesn’t like it when I do that, she’s 90. I’m now 54 and they’re both still alive, and now I finally have some really good ammo against dad! He was always a very loving father, but beyond that, he was your typical man’s man, a tough guy, who beat the crap out of a lot of people, the kind of man you didn’t wanna mess with. But when he was young, joining the Navy, when he was only 17, lying about his age to get in, those pictures make him look like a flaming queen! So that’s what I call him now, my mom gives me a really dirty look, and my father tells me to shut the hell up as I laugh my ass off! These are the same two people he told me when I was 16 years old, after I came out, that it was just a phase! I’ve been with my husband for 34 years now, I don’t think it’s a phase anymore! Lol! straight men can be so stupid sometimes! Lol!

The two at 1:53 look so clearly gay to me. And I don't mean that as an insult.

I had a friend in high school that was a muse for fifty years. We joined the Air National Guard during the Viet Nam War draft, thinking we would leave together. We did not. His mother had a going away party for him the night before he left. I stayed to the end. His mother told me he said he could hold it all together until I was gone. Then he sat down in a dining room table chair and cried. I didn't know until then that I had as big an impact on him as he had on me. No one ever replaced him.

He was a very quiet musician 🤫

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God bless my friends from childhood. They were nice. Grant each one only happiness.

"Affectionate" and "Handsome", subjective terms. Thanks for the upload.

What part of the equation did I miss? There is no sound.

The Masters & Johnson sex study said that most men are not 100% straight because there are varying degrees of same sex attraction….that information combined with the fact that WW2 men were away from females for long periods of time makes their bonding important even if it was not sexual. There was a documentary about gays during WW2 and a former soldier said that he got drunk with two buddies and they put their hands down each other’s pants and basically had sex….he said they were later killed in action and was glad that they found some pleasure before dying.

Dont know if all these men were gay but the pictures are awesome.

great pic of Captain Beefheart 62-15... 62-13 is part of the Magic Band (Ry Cooder, bassist Jerry Handley)...62-14 (I think) is Magic band drummer John "Drumbo" French, also believe 62-4 are the Grass Roots

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The Mt Tamalpais Incident - June 1967 By: Graham On: 27 August 2012 In: 1967.06 Mount Tamalpais Although Beefheart is probably renowned for being perversely anti-commercial or non-commercial (which ever way you want to look at). That wasn’t always the case. The early band when it started back in 1964/65 wanted to make it big just like all the other young guys in countless bands getting together across the States and the rest of the world. A hit record, money, girls … yes, they wanted it all too. With the release of Diddy Wah Diddy in April 1966 they could have broken through into the big time nationally if the east coast hadn’t been sewn u to add to the stress of the situation Don was having one of his regular anxiety attacks and was asking people to reassure him that he wasn’t having a heart attack. Then, when the band were ready to play, his choice for the first song was one that hadn’t been rehearsed back in Los Angeles much to the annoyance of Ry Cooder who hadn’t been in the band long enough to know this particular piece. Somehow they got through this and then launched into Electricity. A stellar song and certainly a showstopper in many ways … however, this time not in the way the band had perhaps hoped. Hardly had the song started when Don turned away from the microphone, adjusted his tie and walked off the back of the high stage. He landed, fortunately for him, onto Bob Krasnow, damaging neither of them. The rest of the mystified and horrified band were left to carry on as best they could, They finished the song as an instrumental (not that unusual as I saw it performed pretty much this way in 1973) and they left the stage in disarray. When they finally found out the reason for what had happened they were not particularly sympathetic. It seems that Don was flying high on LSD and as he started to sing Electricity he hallucinated a girl in the audience turning into a fish and saw bubbles coming out of her mouth. This, he said, freaked him out enough to want to get off the stage.

I miss it too, my grandparents owned a home about 1/2 a mile from the Parrot Jungle on West Suburban Drive. I have fond memories of the neighborhood and the Parrot Jungle from my earliest years 40 years ago. :)

All these guys in this video are straight. Their affection for each other is very naturally, and has nothing to do with sexual attraction.

Good to see and honor. My father was in VMF216 and there’s a short video on KZbin called VMF216 of him after he landed at Torikino in ‘43. Great men.

Yes this was so cute, I have a friend that's 64 now and he would be their age. Thanks for sharing. He's a antique dealer.

Outstanding presentation. I worked on A-4s as a reserve mech in VMA-124 - another squadron with a proud history of operating the F4U in the Pacific. Semper Fi, Devil Dogs!

No wonder so many had trouble fitting back into life as the rules suggest it should be. The only rule is do no harm! The rest is up to the individual. Humans are mercurial multi faceted beings living in a rapidly changing world. The old song says Love the one your with! Why not?

wow treasure island used to be so beautiful

dont know how to send you a pic of WWI. i am sure it has never been published. let me know if you want it.

Can’t help but feel sad for the 15 people that gave this a thumbs down.

0:44 my personal impression: how beautiful the Americans were in the 60s.😊

Many of the comments here indicate to me how the gay liberation movement has distorted natural affections between men. Close friendship becomes suspect and frequently misread. War, often with its deep uncertainties, bonds men in a way that modern culture misunderstands. It’s best not to transfer one’s own needs into the photographs of others. . Obvious misinterpretation can occur.

Is this the show where Don had an acid flash- back while performing and saw a girl's face turn into a fish with air bubbles coming out of her mouth?...walked off stage mid performance, fell off the stage landing on top of a music business executive type .

My uncle was Lt. Robert Scott. Flew in WWII and Korean War. Do you have any correspondence or photos concerning him?

Love handsome

All the pics are of white men, I think one black or hispanic. If being a white gay male was bad I can't even fatho being out of the closet and being a minority. They probably recieved hate from straight white adults and gay white adults. 😞

This mystical, arcane, esoteric music describes the mystery, conundrum, inscrutability and puzzling perplexity of the homosexual nature in a way that reveals its inner and deepest enigme in a way that no man of science, psychologist, endocrinologist, philosopher, since times immemorial, has been able to explain it, including the homosexuals themselves.

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Wow.. the two boys at 1.52...stunning..

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Beautiful pictures,love Is true!!!My prayer fór Sweet boys.Thak you.Best love.

A man is hot, two men are super-hot🤷🏼‍♀️

¡¡¡¡¡ hermosas!!!!

This is a proper perspective. Affection

Nicht to see, I hope they all had or have a lang beautifull life. I love photo from earlier times, it's very intristing, I was born in 1956. Also long time ago.

COOL! I Love Some Of These Photos.

Sad.........Lot Love.......

Did you notice how many Marines are in this video? When your soldierly life depends on a brother soldier, is a loving bond unreasonable? Do you know the background music? I think it fit the nostalgia perfectly.