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[theweaselking]

"Dear Friends: American photographs of men together, 1840-1918"

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[torrain.livejournal.com]

Back in the day when it was understood that true friendship could only blossom between those of the same sex, and that it could exceed in purity anything as tawdry as marriage, which is, after all, tainted by that inconvenient and nasty business of sexual congres...

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

And those who insist on seeing homo-eroticism in Frodo and Sam's friendship are, of course, doing too much crack.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

(I blame pipeweed withdrawal, myself, and associated sniping, but the basic idea is the same.)