Men Showing Affection To Each Other - Chapter 4

Passion

Love and happiness

Let's go ...

have some fun.

The bearded man in OP's photo died - in a car accident or something. The couple (?) were from South Africa.

Most of the time I really don't care that I'm 47 and single. And then I click on these threads.

R5

Yes, here's the story from 2010:

And the survivor, Mark Dean Brown is on Facebook and has found love a second time. That's him on the right, with his boyfriend, Andy.

......

What's cookin'?

Hammock.

Big tease.

You're gonna say you miss me

You're gonna say you'll kiss me

You're gonna say you love me

And I'm gonna love you too

.......

.....

Cuddling

R15..that's a great pic..

This thread has such a better OP picture than the other one.

Even celebrities do it.

Good mornin'!

Kissing.

Come here.

Brush 'em.

Gently.

Shaving gone wild.

Bath time.

Sleep time.

No words needed.

Kiss me now

R28 From what we've seen recently, not gonna end well.

these are all beautiful. But need a bit more diversity.

.....

Too bad you never learned how to post a link, r31.

I condole you.

Bump for affection.

Nice...

What happened to the other thread? I can't find it anymore..

Here it is.

Dudes at a football game...

The first one was shot at a public rally. They may not have known each other. Some of the others are drunken dares are drunken hets.

I'd value these "inspirational" pictures more if these couple were in an enduring relationship.

You think too much, R39.

R39 When one of the guys (Bjorn Czepan) in the first photo (OP) was tragically killed in a car crash just weeks after that photo was taken, South African news reports referred to the two men as "partners." And the other guy (Mark Dean Brown) was also in the car and critically injured. So they knew each other.

This thread is a continuation of: "Men Showing Affection To Each Other - Chapter Four: The BEST thread ever on DataLounge!" The previous thread is linked below;

Bump, NOT Trump!

"I think that we're going to get along just fine..."

Barely in the hotel room.

Close to you...

Merry Christmas/Seasons Greetings

Love on the beach

Baby

Bears in love

Scott Cullens 22 mins

Happy Anniversary to my love Jeremy! Our celebration is private but posting this picture in this political environment is so important. The world needs to see all kinds of love. If this photo bothers anyone, please message me for details on HOW TO KISS MY ASS! We don’t need anyone’s approval to be in love. Thank you to everyone who celebrates all kinds of love with us today!!!

weird this thread is from 2015 yet only has 52 posts

Loving these pics! Makes my heart skip a beat.

Sigh...

What's that from, R50?

R53, I think that's because there were two "part 4" threads posted at the same time... the other one finally filled up so this one is now getting some love.

Sensual...

Jenni Rivera's gay son with his boyfriend.

Aww

Aw...

Young love

The coffee date

Jonathan and Jaymes

Just married.

Sharing of cake

Not being pedantic OP but your post image is not really 'affection'. It's romantic, passionate, sexual kissing.

You don't think they're being affectionate, R67?

Military affection

So sweet

Sweet

Muscle love

Eric Rafdord, Olympic figure skater and his fiance.

Tenderness

A couple of DLers.

Kyle Dean Massey and Taylor Frey

Vintage affection

My boyfriend ❤️

post hike w my dude

Snowy affection

Summertime affection

Rainy affection

Baby love

5 years today ❤️

😍

Man do I envy younger gay guys. They have it so much easier and so much better than when I was a teen and 20-something.

I celebrate love felt and shown by those who are lucky enough to feel free in current times to announce their commitment, whether by marriage or not, with each other. Some of us came from a time in which public display would likely result in criminal prosecution and in which love was marginalized but sex vaunted as the expression of a gay man. I do wish that my early days were different, but at this time of my life it is enough to value the gains made which allow gays now to feel free to openly express their love.

R87 I wish I could w/w your comment more than once.

Aw... that was SO nice, R87

Simple and loving moments

Aw...

Kevin McHale and Austin McKenzie

GI Joe and his boyfriend

Kiss

Buddies

Close

I think many people were jealous

I can't even imagine this in my High School days, so long ago...

Tenderness

Lovely moments

A kiss with style

I go through these threads every now and then. Most of the time I smile. But today it makes me feel sad. Will I ever have such a love and someone who will love me as much...

Husbands

Lazy day with my baby 💕

😍

Romance

Me either, R102.

Affectionate

SWIRL!

Wonderful images.

Aw....

I need tissue.

More tissue, please...

One touch

Before the kiss

Another kiss

Good ole boys

Bear kiss

LOVE THIS!

Sweet

Hot!

So nice

These threads make me sad but in sort of a good way.

Aw...

Aw... I need tissue!

What's interesting is that a lot of the photographers are women!

R(15) What movie is that from

R125, we're not answering your question until you figure out how to properly reference a previous reply.

Good morning.

Gaming

Keep thiese delusions alive ...just like my neighbor does. Just saw him hugging and kissing his "husband", younger, unemployed, nursing student and a major Grindir whore.

My first boyfriend (in high school) couldn't keep our hands off of each other. We were caught a couple of times (my fault) because I forgot where we were and I'd would be talking with someone and have my hand on my boyfriend's leg.

The very concept of having a boyfriend in high school is alien to me.

I had my first boyfriend in high school, starting at the end of 10th grade and lasting through 11th grade. Nobody knew at first, but eventually a couple of our close girl friends figured it out.

I wish my partner was more affectionate. It just doesn't come natural to some people.

Tango.

[quote]I wish my partner was more affectionate. It just doesn't come natural to some people.

I know....

L-inked

It's all well and good but I want to see the dick up the ass pics.

Splendor in the grass

You'd better hold onto that man with the rug chest. Francine will be coming for him.

TISSUE!

Dinner

..........

R147, link directly to the picture, not the tumbler page...

I love this thread.

The hills are alive with the sound of music....

Barcelona Vibes 📸

More tango ...

Francisco y Lucrecio

Chocolate kisses

Together

Bear love

Tenderness

That look of love...

Glee actor Kevin McHale with his boyfriend.

His boyfriend is HAWT.

Those of you who can't tell affection from porn should really think about what that says about you.

Lol r163, I thought for a second I was in a porn thread.

Romance

Congratulations!

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

Affection on the beach

Respite

Maurice and Clive

Maurice and Scudder

More Maurice and Scudder

Lovely ❤

Kiss Kiss

Loving

Lots of great affection in this thread, but it's concerning that a few of you cannot tell the difference between 'affection' and 'lust'.

Te amo

Aw....

These are sexily? sweet. Thanks, all xx

Forbidden

From the 1950's. You really can see the happiness in their eyes.

Aw...

Cute!

Perks Of Being A Gay Couple

Kevin McHale (Glee actor) with his boyfriend Austin.

An entire thread of something I will never have.

Sigh.

Swing!

A walk on the beach.

Happiness

Bachata Sensual.

Muscle love

The kiss

Appreciating art

Love

Kiss

Sexy

^^^ Sorry for the duplicate post. It was supposed to be this one.

Sexy pose.

One more before off to classes.

R215, so nice

You're safe.

Pictures like the one at R218 make women spontaneously ovulate.

Awwwww….

I really DO adore these threads! It's a nice respite from all of the other stuff on DL. It makes me sad at times but sad in a good way sort of. While I may not have this now I can still hope for it and be happy for those who do have it.

Another one

Best men

From actor Peter Porte's wedding to Jacob Villere in New Orleans on Sunday (Oct. 7, 2018). Melissa Peterman officiating.

A walk in the park.

Good morning.... Just another day.

(smile)

For anyone who prefers skinny matcha iced tea served in a cute glass to a cold can from the cooler...skate-date!

Marc-Olivier is the biological father of Mila, François that of Lily, but the full adoption made in the United States and recognized in France makes them equal in rights. Seven years of fighting will have been necessary since their first steps until the registration of the four names on the family record book. "Today I am married, father and fulfilled: it is this victory over the impossible that I wanted to tell," says the journalist

Beach kiss

I just want something I can never have...

Love & Repect

They were a gay, interracial couple in an age of relentless bigotry. The two Harolds didn’t flinch.

By Justin Wm. Moyer October 16

Estate agent Verna Clayborne takes a seat in the dining room of an expansive 16th Street Heights home and sighs.

The two Harolds have tired her out.

It’s Clayborne’s job to get rid of the stuff of the deceased. The couple who lived in the house for more than half a century — Harold Herman, a white man who died in 2016 at 87, and Harold Mays, a black man who died almost exactly a year later at 81 — had a lot of it.

These aren’t your typical finds in the home of retirees. Clayborne is sitting amid a pile of antiques and memorabilia — paintings, LPs, books, coins, stamps, personal correspondence — worth, she estimates, $500,000. These objects, curated lovingly by two collectors in love for over five decades, offer glimpses of what it was like to be black and gay in America when it was dangerous to be either.

“They knew how to live and lived well,” she said of the Harolds.

The Harolds met in New England before moving in together in post-integration, pre-riot Washington in 1965. One was a black Army veteran from St. Louis, the other a white college professor from Pennsylvania. Though family and acquaintances say they were a private couple, they could not help being pioneers.

They later ran Two Harolds Antiques in Alexandria for more than a decade and owned a collection of thousands of signed first editions so extensive that they kept an in-house card catalogue. The books are varied — works by gay raconteur Quentin Crisp amid Janet Evanovich thrillers.

Much of what’s left in the Harolds' home doesn’t explicitly bear their mark. There’s large black-and-white prints of the last century’s black royalty: Harry Belafonte, Jesse Jackson, Lou Rawls, Cicely Tyson. Another photo includes two faces lesser known outside the Beltway in the 1960s and 1970s, but inescapable within it: Marion Barry and his first wife, Blantie Evans, on a beach.

But every collection reveals the collector, and in other ephemera the Harolds left behind, they come into sharper focus. One snapshot shows Mays shaking Belafonte’s hand at a Politics and Prose. Another shows their modest wedding, held in 2013 at what looks like a courthouse following the legalization of same-sex marriage — after they had already been a couple for almost 50 years.

Mays was also a diligent correspondent, pounding out letters to authors he admired on a manual typewriter left behind on the home’s second floor. He would read a book by, say, acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni, then strike up a correspondence with her. There are notes from Fanny Ellison, the widow of “Invisible Man” author Ralph Ellison, and famed black poets Rita Dove and Gwendolyn Brooks.

More substantial letters the Harolds received speak directly to the struggles of black artists in America.

In a 1990 letter, novelist Raymond Andrews — whose work offered a vision of “a world in which blacks and whites sometimes hate and mistreat one another but ultimately arrive at an understanding,” according to a 1983 review in The Washington Post — effused about his career.

In another letter dated two years later, Andrews’s brother Benny wrote to say Andrews was dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 57.

“I’m writing to say that my brother, Raymond, committed suicide,” the letter read. “It is always good to hear that people liked Ray’s works.”

Another exchange was with Audrey Lee, a little-known black author who wrote two novels, “The Clarion People” and “The Workers,” in the 1960s. The books have since gone out of print: Mays apparently wrote Lee to ask what she was up to two decades after their publication.

In a 1995 letter, Lee responded, opening up about her medical problems and troubles with “race discrimination, evictions, hunger and an alarmingly dishonest judiciary.”

“I have spent years brooding about my experiences,” she wrote. “I am awakening to the waste of years that I spent in a crawl space contemplating my wounds."

Half a set of correspondence, of course, tells only half a story, and Clayborne said she’s yet to uncover diaries or other writing from either Harold. But their lives are detailed in the work of E. Patrick Johnson, chair of the African American studies department at Northwestern University, who interviewed Mays for his 2011 book “Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South.”

Johnson, who wrote a play that included the Harolds' story and is producing a documentary about them, said they were “renegade figures” when they moved into their home in 1965 and lived openly as a couple.

How a black power salute at the 1968 Olympics changed two men’s lives

As the national anthem played at the 1968 Olympics, sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists to the sky amid a chorus of boos. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)

“Even in D.C. in the ’60s, they were dealing with discrimination on two fronts,” he said. “They were truly remarkable.”

In a 2005 interview for “Sweet Tea,” Mays told Johnson he met Herman, a professor at the University of Maryland, in Providence, R.I., in 1965. The couple initially settled in Herman’s D.C. apartment but moved to 16th Street Heights because other residents didn’t want a black man in the building.

Their new home across from Carter Barron Amphitheatre in Rock Creek Park was in a “mostly white” neighborhood, Mays said, that would become “totally black” after the riots. Mays recalled police officers following him when he got off a bus near his home, asking for identification. When he produced ID, they still didn’t believe he lived in the neighborhood and followed him home to watch him let himself in.

Meanwhile, Mays said, he was criticized by black men for choosing a white partner.

“I remember someone telling me, ‘Oh I didn’t know you dealt in snow,’ ” he told Johnson.

Still, he said: “I don’t feel as torn up inside as I was when I was young.”

“Sometimes I stop and think about all the turmoil of … being black and gay in America,” he said. “And it has not been as traumatic as it sounds. And I’m not sugarcoating this either. It happened and you move on. I also have to tell you that now I feel much more confident in who I am.”

Agnes Jackson, Mays’s 79-year-old sister, said the Harolds’ relationship was accepted by both of their families. She recalled the couple showing her around Washington during a visit when she was treated like “royalty.”

“They lived there so long,” she said. “I guess they were accepted into the neighborhood.”

Ernest Hopkins, director of legislative affairs for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and a neighbor of the Harolds, said gay men like them are rarer in the District these days. HIV devastated their generation. Now, gentrification and old age are taking a toll on those who remain.

“There were any number of older black gay men in town available to get to know,” he said. “They would tell you stories, give you a sense of their lives in the ’40s and ’50s and ’60s. Those men are largely no longer with us. … They were an example of a couple that really was available.”

Now that the Harolds are gone, crate-diggers and estate-sale enthusiasts are left to sort out who they were. Jim Hill, an 84-year-old former Howard University professor Clayborne brought in to help appraise the couple’s extensive art collection, rested after combing through yet another box.

The estate game is getting harder, Hill said. Millennials — “millenniums,” he calls them — don’t have much interest in dusty old stuff.

“They’re interested in the here and now,” he said.

But while Hill didn’t know the Harolds, he can speak to the impulse that apparently ruled their lives and their home.

“While we’re collecting, we’re hoping someone on the other end will be interested,” he said. “I’m sure they were hoping it would provide a story.”

Wedding day.

This thread is pure BL. BL, I say.

Military husbands

Pillow fight. Andrew versus Marco

Bump for Love

For those unfamiliar with the beginning of the series

Cuddling

Adam & Bernardo

DADDYHUNT: THE SERIAL - SEASON 3, Part 2

I love this!

DADDYHUNT: THE SERIAL - SEASON 3, Part 3

........

The BEST pillow

How HOT is this???

I've never experienced affection and I know I never will, but looking at this thread I can dream. I wish someone looked at me the same way these men look at each other.

Ray Butler always seemed kind of affectionate

Watching the game.

I wonder how many of THESE images tumblr is going to purge.

Lots of stinky linky in our future :(.

Cody Fern and his boyfriend

Never say never r273

Dance class!

Stepsof2Foreigners

Similarly ... on the ferry from Buenos Aires to Colonia.

I’d suck my husband’s cock in public before I kissed him or held his hand.

TBF, I’d also probably suck your cock too. I just love cocks.

Aw... you can feel the love

Boyfriends

so many adorable pics on this thread

Fun together

Sweet

Mine! Mine! Mine!!!!

Sunday kiss

OMG r318 Thanks for posting -so hot but also adorable!

Hot black couple.

Garrett Clayton and his boyfriend Blake.

This is cute

Kyle Dean Massey and Taylor Frey

Conquered

...!

...!

Prom?

(smile)

Family night

The cuddle

...!

Hanes.

These are two hot lovers

Happiness

Splendor in the grass

Embrace

El Tango de Roxanne

...!

Winners!

The kiss

The truth behind this photo

A Pulitzer prize photo, and certainly worthy of that award...

This photo shows two power linemen, Randall Champion and J. D. Thompson, at the top of a utility pole.

They had been performing routine maintenance when Champion brushed one of the high voltage lines at the very top. Over 4000 volts entered Champion’s body and instantly stopped his heart (an electric chair uses about 2000 volts). His safety harness prevented a fall, and Thompson, who had been ascending below him, quickly reached him and performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. He was unable to perform CPR given the circumstances, but continued breathing into Champion’s lungs until he felt a slight pulse, then unbuckled his harness and descended with him on his shoulder.

Thompson and another worker administered CPR on the ground, and Champion was moderately revived by the time paramedics arrived, eventually making a full recovery.

You should really click on this picture to see the guy on the right's cock showing affection under his shorts for the guy leaning on him.

R379, that's porn, not affection.

[quote] [R379], that's porn, not affection.

I don't know about you but I know I would be affected if someone did that to me.

Thanking him for his service.

The guys aren't that hot but I just love how the one guy is being so aggressive and the other one is acting all shy.

Wake up, sleepy head!

My bear

There you go, that's the one...

That's nice r402, seems real...

Me and my guy - this was a few years ago and we're now 30-40lbs lighter. But we've been together over a quarter century.

Post a recent pic, too

Tumble ..

(smile)

They're all.... They're all just so beautiful...

nice to see mins loving mins

Tik Tok with love....

I know it's a composite but I've always liked that photo at r461

I remember reading somewhere, maybe here, about the two of them in their later years, sitting in a quiet booth at their favorite restaurant, holding hands…

I think that they were a couple.

Love that video, i wonder if there are any photos of them together in their later years

The Cullens

New Yorkers Lou Halsey, 88, and John Spofford Morgan, 94, met in 1947 in a gay bar called The New Verdi on West 72nd, and after 64 years together they married in November. John was an economist. Lou was a barber. Both men are Navy vets.

Louis died in 2014@ 90

John died in 2015 @ 97

Scott & Mike: On March 16 of this year, we are together eighteen years. We got married in two countries. In 2005, when same-sex marriage became legal in Canada, I asked Scott if he would marry me. We flew up to Vancouver and got married there. When it became legal in New York, we did it again, this time with forty-five people in the East Village. We met in a bar in Fort Lauderdale, each of us out with a separate group of friends. We were both intrigued by the other and started a conversation.

We had both gone to FIT in New York several years apart, as Scott is eight years younger. We had also grown up in the same area in Queens. My sister graduated high school with his brother. We were both divorced. Both of us had experienced traditional family lives and had raised children who were all grown-up at the time of our meeting. We agreed to meet for dinner two nights later. At the end of a long evening, I asked Scott what he was doing the next night. His response was, "Seeing you." We have never been apart since that time.

How cute!

Yup! He's mine.

Will you comfort me

Let me comfort you

Cute

Nice quick boner shot at r479

Passion

Lovers

The perks of having a hairdresser as your husband....naked haircuts! 😈😈

Wolves

Así siempre...

The kiss

Beach walk

Morning coffee

Rave

Possibly one of the more important threads on DL. You never see these gay instahoes appear like this even with their supposed BF and Husbands

Sexy

The Hazards

Founders of @rogerandchris, a furniture and design co. All made in 🇺🇸. Photos of our work, life in Omaha, and our dog Buck. www(dot)rogerandchris(dot)com(slash)ig

Super cute thread

loverly mins

Sam and Grizz from The Society on Netflix.

Cute

#taekook

GOLD!

So sweet!

Tooji, the Norwegian Eurovision singer, is finally going public with his boyfriend.

I made a new thread.

I did too using R594's much nicer pic. Yours is hideous, R597.

NEW THREAD here >>

This thread lasted THREE YEARS.

We can't live with R597's pic for three years! It would be a travesty.

Post here instead >>

R597's pic looks like too brothers - FUGLY brothers. NO WAY, José.

New thread here