Ben Godfre, care of C Proctor, GDX Photo, Rolling Blackouts, et al

 

With Will Wikle above

See more of Ben here: BG

El Cid

.. is all that the picture was tagged with when I found it.  I suspect it is an artistic study for painting or sculpture, and was most likely a glass plate negative (wet collodoin process) due to its scanned size.  It is probably early 20th century provenance, due to the presence of the ring of incandescent globes at the top of the column.  El Cid means 'The Lord' in Arabic, and this young fellow certainly captures all the power and beauty of the male form on 'horseback'.

A quote (gifted by a friend) in the first year of the blog

“It is not an accident that many homosexuals should show a special preference for sailors, for the sailor on shore is symbolically the innocent god from the sea who is not bound by the law of the land and can therefore do anything without guilt.”

W H Auden, 1950

Ramón 21

Aries

Hospital visit by Tung

 

Fraternity Flesh by Nico

Hmm.. Nico seems to have styled our hero after Vito Cesari, with one important difference: