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TIL: it wasn’t uncommon for male friends in the 19th century to hold hands
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Even today there are cultures where men hold hands. I worked with a guy from Nepal, and he was amazed at our reticence to hold another man’s hand
A society where people feel ashamed to be connected to each other is no society
Well sure. How would they have been able to do all those séances they were doing back then otherwise?
“and they were good friends”
Still happens in countries like Pakistan where being gay and even PDA’s are pretty big no-no’s but guys hold hands outside with their mates.
I enjoy how often these sorts of pictures are misconstrued as evidence of secret sexualities rather than evidence of completely different perspectives of male affection and sexuality in general before the 20th century Christian homosexual panics.
See also: Alexander was definitely gay, in the way we today would define it.
I taught English in South Korea for a year after college, and it blew my little white mind when I’d see guy friends holding hands.
Ha, gay!
There were also a lot more guys named Gaylord. Coincidence?
That’s rad. I’m not opposed to holding hands with my friends.