GLBTQ Nude Pride Month #4

Today's post is the final installment of this month's Wednesday GLBTQ Nude Pride series here on Guys Without Boxers: Bare With Pride. This is the last Wednesday in October, 2017.

The theme for this post is Diversity. Each photograph features interaction between subjects representing many races and ethnicities. Almost all of them depict Black men and White men. I simply haven't been able to locate many that feature other races. 

In all of the images contained here, the men seem to be comfortable with one another nude. This was totally different from the "real" world at the time as it was fraught with animosity and discrimination between the races, if not outright belligerence.  

Yes, it's true that the majority of these pictures were posed and show professional models, who were paid to appear indifferent to their skin color or other identifying characteristics. All but the last photo below look as though they were dated from the late 1950's to middle 1960's, based on the length and style of their hair. 

The above photograph is the exception to this norm. Judging from the shaved head of the guy to the left and the length of hair of the guy on the right, this image possibly dates from the late 1960's to early 1970's, after the Stonewall Inn Riots of 1969. This photo represents extreme radicalism not only because it shows two men kissing, but indeed two men of different races kissing. 

Peace! Get naked. Enjoy!

Bare With Pride

October Is GLBTQ Bare History Month #3

The theme for this week's October is GLBTQ Bare History Month post is same gender loving couples, all clothes-free, of course! We'll see that being in love and committed to our same gender is not a recent idea that just happened overnight.

Love between two men has been around for probably as long as mankind. It has survived laws, imprisonment, ostracism and execution. It will continue to survive and thrive!

These photographs, based upon the hair-styles, all look to be dated during the 1940's, 1950's and early 1960's. 

As we are all born nude, our comfort with being bare comes as no surprise to anyone. Nor is our love of being naked in nature.

For all of us who are proud of ourselves being nude, gay men, this is simply a part of who we are!

Peace! Get naked. Enjoy!

Bare With Pride

October Is GLBTQ Nude History Month #2

Today is the second Wednesday of October, 2017. October being GLBTQ Nude History Month here at Guys Without Boxers: Bare With Pride. This month we are celebrating our same gender loving bare pride in being the men that we are all meant to be.  

 

Today's post focuses on groups of men, the theme, all enjoying each other and all enjoying being totally clothes-free, without any guilt or shame! 

All of them being men who offer no apology for who they are, who they love and, most importantly, for being completely naked in front of their friends as well as the camera!

Judging from the hair-styles in all the photos above, these images date from the late 1950's to the mid-1960's. If these men all have no qualms about being themselves, why should we? 

Peace! Get naked. Enjoy!

Bare With Pride

GLBTQ Nude History Month #1

The theme for this first October Is GLBTQ Nude History Month post is Skinny-Dipping. The guy in the above photograph is from the early 1970's, judging from his hair-style and the fact that the image is in color. 

The aquatic couple above is from the late 1960's to early 1970's, again based on their hair style. 

The two bare men in the above picture are from the early to mid-1950's, based on their hair and the suit of the person on the left.

It is interesting that during these decades, there's no evidence of manscaping (shaving or removal of their pubic or body hair). 

Peace! Get naked. Enjoy!

Bare With Pride

October Is GLBTQ History Month

October, 2017, Is GLBTQ History Month!

This annual observance in the USA is dedicated to re-discovering and re-learning our GLBTQ past and present in order for us all to enjoy our GLBTQ future! 

Here on Guys Without Boxers: Bare With Pride we celebrate this month as GLBTQ Nude History Month and celebrate not only our same gender loving heritage but our bare heritage as well.

Accordingly, all Wednesday posts during this month will feature images of our bare past as same gender loving men! 

To learn more about GLBTQ History Month, visit their website below:

GLBTQ History Month

Happy GLBTQ Nude History Month!

Peace! Get naked. Enjoy!

Bare With Pride

GLBT History Month Friday: A Salute

Locker Room Camaraderie and Nudity!

This is the final Friday of October, 2016: GLBT Nude History Month. For many of our naturist/nudist brothers in the past, the locker-room was only one of the few occasions where they could be happy and bare in the company of others. For some, it was the only time where they could fraternize clothes-free in a masculine environment. 

Same gender loving relationships had to be concealed from family and neighbors because in almost every state such relationships were illegal and the punishments were severe. Establishments usually refused service to any male couple, regardless of how "normal" the couple appeared or acted. There were only limited social opportunities available in the larger urban areas and virtually none whatsoever in rural communities.

The world looked very distorted and out of place for many of our GLBT community "back-in-the-day." Friendships and truths were shared with only a trusted few and even then a man could never be completely sure that his secret would remain respected. 

Equally secretive was any type of intimacy, sexually or socially, between the men of different races. In the American South, this was actually against the law and throughout other regions of the USA it was just not tolerated by the mainstream society. 

However, our forbears in the GLBT community weren't without resourcefulness and often found ways to circumvent both the law and the established taboos of society. Some were caught doing so and punished, but somehow gay life managed to surreptitiously survive and in some cases, survive. 

To all of our same gender loving naturist/nudist predecessors, we honor you and salute you for your bravery, fortitude and determination. Your efforts paved the road that we all travel down today!

Happy GLBT Nude History Month, 2016!

Peace! Get naked. Enjoy!

Bare With Pride