Saturday 23 May 2009

COWBOY DANCE 'STAG'

THE PHOTO WAS A PART OF AN EXHIBITION OF FOUND PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY OF MEN TOGETHER WITH MEN. THEY WERE IN LOVE. THEY WERE SITTING IN LAPS. THEY WERE HOLDING HANDS AND GAZING OUT SEDUCTIVELY. THEY WERE SHARING SOMETHING SILENT. BUT PERHAPS IT WASN'T LOVE. AND IT WAS JUST A STAGE. AND HIS HAND ON HIS KNEE AND KNEELING NEXT TO HIS CROSSED LEGS IS JUST ANOTHER STAG DANCE PHOTOGRAPH. OF THE BOYS.