The Lost Boys (1987)

River Phoenix | Michael Stipe

the best part about having a job is being able to go through doors other people aren’t allowed to use the worst part is everything else

‘Even after forty years of dehydration in a musty specimen cabinet, mosses have been fully revived after a dunk in a Petri dish. Mosses have a covenant with change; their destiny is linked to the vagaries of rain. They shrink and shrivel while carefully laying the groundwork of their own renewal. They give me faith.’

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Cultural History of Mosses

guys aren't comically getting their red heart covered boxers exposed after they get their pants pulled down anymore. Due to wokeness

Tokyo Love: Spring Fever 1994 by Nobuyoshi Araki and Nan Goldin

Deborah and Noa kissing, Umeki in Shinjuku Nichome, The family at Azzlo, Kana w/ slave, Akemi and Tamotsu kissing, Kana and her boyfriend Akihiro, Honda Brothers w/ falling cherry blossoms, Satomi Ozawa and Kaie, Daisuke and Yuji at home, Yurie in Shinjuku (ph. Nan Goldin)

Japanese actress and male impersonator, Kawaji Ryuko. Ryuko was the star of Shochiku Kagekidan Women's Theater (Shochiku Revue) in the 1940s and 50s

"Untitled" by Phyllis Christopher, 1988

source: Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image, edited by Susie Bright & Jill Posener

Beth Ditto photographed by Steven Klein for LOVE

“We/Us is an intergenerational photography and oral history project that celebrates the undocumented presence of Butches and Studs from working-class backgrounds within the British landscape.” - by Roman Manfredi, 2023