The photos, Hanson points out, typically appear in collections of more conventional pictures, and there are only one or two in an album’s worth.
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armed forces going back to George Washington’s army, and the Newport sex scandal of 1919 occurred two full decades before this era.) I think it’s fair to say that most of these pictures were made without the least thought of their sexiness, but that the camera’s eye - as in so many things - reveals something true not only about the subject but about the photographer as well. (There are well-documented stories of gay soldiers in the U.S. But of course a significant number of these guys found themselves at least partway up the Kinsey scale, and had experienced in some way sex with other men, whether just a fleeting encounter or something more permanent. To them, sex was for men and women, end of story, and God knows there are no women in these pictures.
It would literally never occur to a lot of these guys that their photos give off sexual heat. Most kids - especially poor kids, but everyone - had far less of a sense of physical privacy than we do. Tenement kids slept three and four to a bed.
A soldier from a Kansas farm had spent his youth skinny-dipping in the local pond with his friends plenty of outhouses, and even some school bathroom stalls, had more than one seat city high-school kids showered in an open room with nozzles along the wall, sans curtains or dividers, daily after gym class. “Just grab-ass,” they’d say.Įven outside the service, men of that era probably saw each other naked more than we realize. As Bowers points out, practical jokes that many of us would now consider invasive - slipping a hand down someone’s pants to tweak his penis, say - were within the realm of just-boys-being-boys high jinks. If you served on the field of combat, you saw other men naked a lot more than you might today, even if you go to the gym after work. There’s no privacy in a foxhole showers were rare and often communal, and toilets were open-hole latrines. Moreover, we forget - and are reminded by an essay in the book by a World War II Marine named Scotty Bowers - about the physical closeness that these fighting men lived with. As for the candid nudity, there are too many of these pictures out there in the world for them to have been made on the sneak, and a World War II soldier who carried a camera (and quite a few did there’s a lot of downtime in a war zone, in between the scenes of mayhem) wouldn’t have been able to hide it easily. Some (like the pyramid pose below) were certainly set up for the picture. Well, chances are they weren’t creep shots. The network, which has a large gay audience, has been under fire recently after Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars of HGTV’s hit show “Fixer Upper” made headlines last year for their association with a Texas church whose pastor had advocated converting LGBT people into being straight. In 2014 HGTV was forced to cancel “Flip It Forward,” a show starring twins David and Jason Benham, after the brothers told a right-wing site that “homosexuality and its agenda that is attacking the nation.Bathing at a spring on Guadalcanal, 1943. While the Gaily Grind went with: “HGTV’s Newest Hosts Are An Adorable Married Gay Couple.”Īlso Read: Benham Brothers Speak Out on HGTV Show Being Canned: We're Committed to Biblical Principles “ This gay couple is hoping to take HGTV by storm,” proclaimed Queerty in its headline. The news hit the gay blogosphere like thunder on a hot Tennessee summer day. The account at the time was called the ‘Property Lovers,’ and we had a pretty big following on that so it kind of just developed from that.”
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The couple told a local TV station that they had “a production company contact us because of a social media account that Thomas and I started. In the meantime, PJ and Thomas have been building up buzz on their Instagram account with a flurry of half-naked pictures along with the hashtag: #HGTVDowntotheStuds. It’s unclear whether the show will get picked up. The network used the June 24th episode as a test run. Together the couple - along with their neighbor and Thomas’ sister - find and then flip houses in their hometown of Chattanooga.Īlso Read: Ellen, 'DWTS' Bromance, 2 Sexiest Men Alive: How HGTV Proves 'Niche' Isn't a Dirty Word Thomas is the designer and PJ is a realtor. The network recently aired a pilot for “Down to the Studs,” starring husbands PJ and Thomas, who refer to themselves as the “Property Lovers.” HGTV ratings will likely hit the roof as the home improvement network breaks ground on its latest offering - a gay version of its hit show “Property Brothers,” featuring an explosion of six pack abs courtesy of its hosts, a married same-sex couple from Tennessee.