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Joannervej @joannervej.bsky.social · 8h

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Joannervej @joannervej.bsky.social · 8h

The images include the spaces the young men inhabited and their interconnections to London's vibrantly queer dance and theater scene. Such insights help establish more firmly interwar Oxford as an important hub of queer modernism,

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Joannervej @joannervej.bsky.social · 8h

Situated within the context of Arapoff's life in the city between 1933 and 1939, his extraordinary photographs of nude and seminude young men offer glimpses into the queer lives and loves at Oxford in a period when such experiences were rarely articulated in written form.

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Joannervej @joannervej.bsky.social · 8h

A group of images by the Russian émigré photographer Cyril Arapoff provides further insights into the male homoerotics of 1930s Oxford.

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Joannervej @joannervej.bsky.social · 8h

For many of the university's queer male undergraduates, the Oxford University Dramatic Society provided a safe haven and a platform for queer expression both in Oxford and beyond.

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Joannervej @joannervej.bsky.social · 8h

At the same time, the assimilation of medicalized concepts of perversion and homosexuality increasingly made Oxford's aesthetes and same-sex love affairs objects of critical scrutiny, effeminophobia, and homophobia.

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Joannervej @joannervej.bsky.social · 8h

Steadily through the decade, Oxford's unique brand of queer aestheticism and same-sex love affairs became embroiled with wider debates about the hegemony of socialism and communism and the supposed degeneracy of standards at Oxford.

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Joannervej @joannervej.bsky.social · 10h

Stan Stanczyk

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Joannervej @joannervej.bsky.social · 11h

An accidental menswear classic, and a brilliant insight into life during the inter war years.

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Joannervej @joannervej.bsky.social · 11h

Architect Glover was one of the only people to document homosexuality during the early 20th century, and after his death in 1983 thousands of photographs were found in his home, many of his lover Ralph, plus his other obsessions which were uniforms and rough trade.

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Joannervej @joannervej.bsky.social · 11h

A Class Apart - The Private Pictures of Montague Glover.
Beautiful document of Gay life between the wars, before liberation, identity politics, and legalisation.