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kornblume814 · 22 days
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titanic-officers · 2 months
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Rowe: "I need advice."
Hichens: "Kill them."
Rowe: "You shouldn't be promoting murder."
Hichens: "We all have our flaws."
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love-for-carnation · 1 month
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The Green Carnation by Robert Hichens
On the first night of his play ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ (1892), Oscar Wilde asked one of his actresses and the audience members to wear a green carnation. This started the trend for wearing green carnations amongst Wilde and his dandy disciples. Fan of Wilde? The Green Carnation will intrigue you and get you livid; published anonymously by satirist Robert Hichens in 1894, the novel was based on Wilde’s homesexual relationship and was used as evidence in the trial that would see him banged up. (Words by Jessica Peace)
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jusagi91 · 2 years
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Relax, take it easy - Robert Hichens (Titanic)
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afoxnamedmulder · 7 months
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Saw (2004) // Flames by Robert Smythe Hichens (1897)
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veryvictorian · 10 months
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Gay Victorian Book List
Hey there! I'm making this collaborative list of novels set in Victorian Age that have some sort of gay, m/m representation. Edwardian Age is fine as well. Please, do leave your recommendations in the comments below, I'd be happy to add them!
I'll mark with an asterisk (*) the books I have read myself.
Written in 19th century
The Sins of the Cities of the Plain, by Jack Saul (1881)*
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (1890)*
The Green Carnation, by Robert Smythe Hichens (1894)
A Marriage Below Zero, by Alan Dale (1889)
Fridolins heimliche Ehe (Fridolin's Mystical Marriage), by Adolf Wilbrandt (1875)
Written in 20th century
Maurice, by E.M. Forster (1914)*
Imre: A Memorandum, by Edward Prime-Stevenson (1906)
Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, by Frederick Rolfe (1904)
The Prussian Officer, by D. H. Lawrence (1914)
The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys, by Forrest Reid (1905)
The Immoralist, by André Gide (1902)
Tonio Kröger, by Thomas Mann (1903)
Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann (1912)
Contemporary
The New Life, by Tom Crewe (2023)
The Invention of Love, by Tom Stoppard (1997)*
An Unseen Attraction, by K.J. Charles (2017). Trilogy.
The Prince of Mirrors, by Alan Robert Clark (2018)
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homomenhommes · 5 months
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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY
based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more …
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1870 – On this date Lord Alfred Douglas was born near London (d.1945). Forever known as Bosie, the lover of Oscar Wilde was regarded at the time as a mincing queen intent on self-destruction. In the end it was Wilde who was destroyed.
In 1891, Douglas met Oscar Wilde; they soon began an affair, though, according to Douglas, they never engaged in sodomy. Though Douglas consented to be the lover of the older Wilde, he shared Wilde's interest in younger partners. Of the two, Douglas was known for preferring schoolboys, while Wilde liked older teenagers and young men.
When his father, Lord Queensberry, suspected that their liaison may have been more than a friendship, he began a public persecution of Wilde. In addition to invading the playwright's home, Queensberry planned to throw rotten vegetables at Wilde during the premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest. In 1894, the Robert Hichens novel The Green Carnation was published. Said to be based on the relationship of Wilde and Douglas, it would be one of the texts used against Wilde during his trials in 1895.
When Lord Drumlanrig (Douglas' eldest brother and the heir to the marquessate of Queensberry) died in a suspicious hunting accident, rumors circulated that Drumlanrig had been having an affair with the Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery. As a result, Lord Queensberry began a crusade to save his youngest son.
That his life was ruined by the celebrated trials of his lover, Oscar Wilde is hardly debatable. Still, Bosie was as thoroughly unpleasant as a grown man as he was when he was young. A snob, an anti-Semite (Douglas translated The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in 1919, one of the first English language translations of that anti-Semitic work), and a bit of a liar too, Douglas, who never had to worry about money as do us lesser mortals, published tolerable poetry. Douglas's 1892 poem "Two Loves", which was used against Wilde at the latter's trial, ends with the famous line that refers to homosexuality as "the love that dare not speak its name."
He went on to crank out reminiscences that vilified almost everyone from the Wilde circle, eventually married, and declared to the world that he had long ago thrown off his childhood vices. He described Wilde as "the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last three hundred and fifty years". Douglas added that he intensely regretted having met Wilde, and having helped him with the translation of Salome which he described as "a most pernicious and abominable piece of work".
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1844 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress born (d.1923); She has been referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas. She developed a reputation as a serious dramatic actress, earning the nickname "The Divine Sarah".
Sarah's close friends included several artists, most notably Gustave Doré and Georges Clairin, and actors Mounet-Sully and Lou Tellegen, as well as the famous French author Victor Hugo. Alphonse Mucha based several of his iconic Art Nouveau works on her.
Her friendship with Louise Abbéma (1853-1927), a French impressionist painter, some nine years her junior, was so close and passionate that the two women were rumored to be lovers. In 1990, a painting by Abbéma, depicting the two on a boat ride on the lake in the bois de Boulogne, was donated to the Comédie-Française. The accompanying letter stated that the painting was "Peint par Louise Abbéma, le jour anniversaire de leur liaison amoureuse" (loosely translated: "Painted by Louise Abbéma on the anniversary of their love affair.")
She later married Greek-born actor Aristides Damala (known in France as Jacques Damala) in London in 1882, but the marriage, which legally endured until Damala's death in 1889 at age 34, quickly collapsed, largely due to Damala's dependence on morphine and his being a homosexual. During the latter years of this marriage, Bernhardt was said to have been involved in an affair with the Prince of Wales, who later became Edward VII.
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1935 – Delmas Howe is an American Painter and muralist whose figurative work depicts mythological and archetypal - often homoerotic - themes in a neoclassical, realist style. In paintings of the American West, such as Atlas (1982), he endows cowboys with the heroism and dignity of ancient classical gods, while managing to capture the aura of "whiskey, tobacco, leather, and sweat" that he obviously finds exciting.
Born in El Paso, Texas, Howe grew up in Hot Springs (renamed Truth or Consequences in 1950), New Mexico. Believing that formal education was a waste of time, Howe's father encouraged him to become a cowboy and occupied his time with jobs involving "fixing the fence, [and] stuff with animals." Although Howe hated these tasks, he was excited sexually by his father's cowboy friends, and he still cherishes childhood memories of sitting on their laps.
After graduation from high school he progressed through undergraduate work at Wichita State University, then four years in the US Air Force, a move to the East Coast, graduate work at Yale University and several years of classes in NYC at the Art Students' League and the School of the Visual Arts while working as a professional musician.
Howe chose New York as his destination partly because he felt that it would provide an environment in which he could begin to act upon his sexual and romantic attraction to other men. His exploration of his own sexuality corresponded with the emergence of the gay community in New York from underground clubs and with the flourishing of what Howe has described as an "incredible, sexual party."
After a return to the West and a successful design studio in Amarillo, Texas he returned to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
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The Three Graces
His work is in the collections of a number of museums including the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History where his important transitional painting "The Three Graces" from 1978 is on permanent view.
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In response to Jesse Helms' emasculation of the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition in 1989-90, produced his Painting for Jesse Helms (above).
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1986 – U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop advised that sex education that includes information on both Gay and straight relationships would help prevent the spread of AIDS. His advice was ignored by the Reagan/Bush administration he served.
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1999 – Boeing announced it would begin offering domestic partner benefits to its Gay and Lesbian employees. The company explained that unmarried opposite sex couples would not be included because marriage is an option for them, which brought criticism from union leaders.
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2009 – The Church of Sweden votes to allow same-sex marriages.
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novaxmuses · 16 days
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As of right now I am adding more muses to my Titanic Roster. Those Muses are as follows:
Fifth Officer Harold Lowe
Gloria Ismay-Murdoch: Exclusive OC with a single ship. If any Will Murdochs wanna bite be my guest. Second Officer Charles Lightoller
Quartermaster Robert Hichens
Lookout Frederick Fleet
I will be making graphics for them soon. Please bear with me as I work Thursday-Sunday.
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leyendolibros · 2 years
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GREGORY PECK’S READING LIST
A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF THE NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES THAT MANY OF GREGORY PECK’S MOVIES WERE BASED ON (with the movie title after)*
The Keys of the Kingdom by A. J. Cronin (The Keys of the Kingdom) The House of Dr. Edwardes by Francis Beeding (Spellbound) The Valley of Decision by Marcia Davenport (The Valley of Decision) Duel in the Sun by Niven Busch (Duel in the Sun) The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling) Gentleman's Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson (Gentleman’s Agreement) The Paradine Case by Robert Hichens (The Paradine Case) The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway (The Macomber Affair) Twelve O’Clock High by Beirne Lay Jr. and Sy Bartlett (Twelve O’Clock High) The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Great Sinner) The Happy Return, A Ship of the Line, Flying Colours by C.S. Forester (Captain Horatio Hornblower) Only the Valiant by Charles Marquis Warren (Only the Valiant) The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway (The Snows of Kilimanjaro) The World in His Arms by Rex Beach (The World in His Arms) The Purple Plain by H.E. Bates (The Purple Plain) The Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain (The Million Pound Note) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (Moby Dick) The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit by Sloan Wilson (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) Ambush in Blanco Canyon by Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (The Big Country) The Bravados by Frank O'Rourke (The Bravados) On the Beachby Nevil Shute (On the Beach) Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action by S.L.A. Marshall (Pork Chop Hill) Beloved Infidel by Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank (Beloved Infidel) The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean (The Guns of Navarone) To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird) The Executioners by John D. MacDonald (Cape Fear) Captain Newman, M.D. by Leo Rosten (Captain Newman, M.D.) Fallen Angel by Howard Fast (Mirage) The Stalking Moon by T.V. Olsen(The Stalking Moon) Mackenna's Gold by Will Henry (Mackenna's Gold) Marooned by Martin Caidin (Marooned) The Chairman by Jay Richard Kenned (The Chairman) An Exile by Madison Jones(I Walk The Line) The Lone Cowboy by Will James (Shoot Out) The Omen (A Franchise) by David Seltzer (and many others) (The Omen) Boarding Party by James Leasor (The Sea Wolves) The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican by J. P. Gallagher (The Scarlet and the Black) The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes (The Old Gringo) The Boys from Brazil by Ira Levin (The Boys from Brazil)
*I do not recommend nor condone most of the books on this list, simply because I've not read them and I'm unsure of the content. The only one I’ve read is To Kill a Mockingbird (which I do recommend). Please do not take this as my personal taste, or even that of Gregory Peck’s; these were merely the books his films were adapted from. 
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"To my mind, the world of today awoke April 15th, 1912." - John "Jack" Borland Thayer III, First Class survivor
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"It was thus egregious incompetence, rather than malevolent snobbery." - Gareth Russell, Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of The Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Age
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"Everyone could have been rescued if it were not for human failing." - William Hazelgrove, 160 Minutes: The Race To Save The Titanic
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The Garden of Allah by Robert Hichens, 1922.
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kornblume814 · 2 years
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titanic-officers · 2 months
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Bride, to Phillips: "I love laying my head on your chest when you're sleeping, so I can hear you breathe."
Hichens, to Rowe: "I recorded you snoring, so you can hear how fucking loud you are and why I can't fucking sleep!"
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pridewrite · 2 years
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Prompt: Green Carnations (#pw23)
The green carnation became a queer symbol in 1892 when Oscar Wilde instructed a handful of his friends to wear them on their lapels to the opening night of his comedy Lady Windermere's Fan. From then on, wearing a green carnation on your lapel was a secret, subtle hint that you were a man who loved other men.
Incidentally, there is also a novel titled "The Green Carnation" based on Wilde and Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas. It is by Robert Hichens.
Prompt: Building (#pw alt23)
To a happier year! (EM Forster). To building something new on the foundations of the past- or maybe to depicting a historical/current building that has an LGBTQ+ reputation.
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jusagi91 · 2 years
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Facial reconstruction of Robert Hichens -By: @jusagi91​
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theyareweird · 4 months
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Titanic: Margaret Brown —Aesthetic
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Margaret Tobin Brown's Character & Personality
Margaret, also known as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" was an American socialite, activist and philanthropist. She became famous as one of the Titanic survivors. Margaret was never known as "Molly" in her lifetime, she was actually called "Maggie". Much like her film counterpart, she was born working class and came into money through her husband's mining success. Despite this, several women in first class despised Molly because she earned her wealth instead of inheriting it. Meaning, she wasn't of an upper-class breeding from birth. Thus, many tried to avoid her company. However, Molly didn't let this bother her. Instead, she made a point of sticking to them like glue to annoy them with her difference in decorum. Molly was also more empathetic to the supposed "lower class" passengers onboard. When the Titanic sank, she escaped in Lifeboat No. Six. There, Molly clashes with Quartermaster Robert Hichens in the lifeboat. Because she believed there was plenty of room in the boat, they should pick up survivors in the water. But Hichens believed they would swamp the boat and Molly was left watch the scene in horror. In reality, the opposite exchange occurred, where she threatened to throw him overboard. Molly even won for control over the boat and they did go back for survivors, but none were found.
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