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The unforgettable AL PARKER, one of the biggest gay icons ever!
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Well, I wanted to post AL PARKER on a vintage thread, sorry, he is not made for a historical pic (but maybe he will become one in a few decades), so I do post a real historical pic now:
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Well, I wanted to post AL PARKER on a vintage thread, sorry, he is not made for a historical pic (but maybe he will become one in a few decades), so I do post a real historical pic now:
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have to disagree- Al Parker was behind one of the biggest movements of the 20th century- the porn industry/gay porn and the VCR/VHS. These things combined to save 1000s of lives during the AIDS crisis, while sadly, not saving his. The early gay porn stars of the 70s and 80s were our ONLY celebrities on a national level. He's certainly more important to gay history than the # of nameless guys posted here who's pics just happen to have been taken in the 1920s or something.
 
have to disagree- Al Parker was behind one of the biggest movements of the 20th century- the porn industry/gay porn and the VCR/VHS. These things combined to save 1000s of lives during the AIDS crisis, while sadly, not saving his. The early gay porn stars of the 70s and 80s were our ONLY celebrities on a national level. He's certainly more important to gay history than the # of nameless guys posted here who's pics just happen to have been taken in the 1920s or something.

Well, even better, when you see his historical background as you described. Great! Thanks and see you- Ted
 
Babe Ruth and father at Ruth's Cafe, 1915. Today it's a strip club called "The Goddess," nestled in the shadow of the Baltimore Orioles' home ballpark Camden Yards, but in 1915 the quaint little building at the corner of Eutaw and West Lombard Streets bore the name "Ruth's Cafe." It was an establishment financed by a rookie southpaw pitcher for the Red Sox and run by his doppelganger dad, who would perish from injuries sustained on the sidewalk just outside as he attempted to break up a drunken brawl between two of his brothers-in-law in August 1918.
This photograph of the interior of the Ruth Cafe, taken in December 1915, shows the Babe enjoying the offseason in the town of his birth between a pair of World Championship seasons in Boston. The ceiling is festooned with greenery and ornaments in anticipation of the approaching holidays, and father and son regard the camera with dispassionate expressions as two other staffers, a patron and a seated hound populate the background.
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Unknown Cincinnati Reds Player, 1908. Photographed by Carl Horner, the name written on the verso of this fine portrait is "Hofman," but there is no player by that name in team records for the 1908 season in which the club wore this distinctive uniform style.

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A sailor in drag, wearing a milkmaid costume, in a photographic postcard by H.J. Bond, 1906. The sailor is apparently Able Seaman Arthur Roach, a crew member of the HMS Prince of Wales. He poses as a milkmaid behind a wooden fence and in front of a painted background. He is wearing a rather odd hybrid fancy-dress outfit, part showgirl/courtesan (ruffles and jewellery), part little girl at the seaside (very short skirt, bucket and spade).

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