Boy Scout Troop (1950s)

Jules-Élie Delaunay, The Flute Lesson (1858)

This could almost be the faun Marsyas teaching Olympus.

Funeral by ~Gerry-And-Me

tito77

'Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.' 

[Charles Caleb Colton]

John Light as Oberon and Matthew Tennyson as Puck in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Dominic Dromgoole at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. (Photo by robbie jack/Corbis via Getty Images)

Andrew Moncrieff, 'The Imprudent Boy'

Sascha Schneider Nascent Power

The Candle Ritual

 [H/T: ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon]

Bernard Faucon, ‘Parco I’ (1987)

Lehnert, Tunisian

(via Greek Love - Pederasty Through the Ages - The initiation of André Gide)

ganymede by JeffreyD

(via Fitness and Fresh Air (2023/237))

Cernunnos Fire Ceremony, Greenwich, NY

(via Gay Cults: Violent Life)

The Warren Cup. Roman, c.10 AD.

I do find it amusing that this is described as "the gay Holy Grail", when on the other side it literally depicts a man sodomising a child.

Balthazar Getty and Chris Furrh in The Lord of the Flies (1990)

Jean-Ossaye Mombur (1850-96) : Le Baiser filial 

Carl Larsson, Amor Mercurius

Gordon Parks, Untitled (Alabama,1956)

The Lord of the Flies

 

Some nice macabre illustrations for William Golding's classic fantasy about boys and brutality and the darkness of men's hearts

 

Portaui lacrimis madidus te, nostra catella,

Quod feci lustris laetior ante tribus.

Ergo mihi, Patrice, iam non dabis oscula mille

Nec poteris collo grata cubare meo.

Tristis marmorea posui te sede merentem

Et iunxi semper manib(us) ipse meis

Morib(us) argutis hominem simulare paratam,

Perdidimus quales hei mihi delicias.

Tu, dulcis Patrice, nostras attingere mensas

Consueras, gremio poscere blanda cibos,

Lambere tu calicem lingua rapiente solebas,

Quem tibi saepe meae sustinuere manus,

Accipere et lassum cauda gaudente frequenter.

 

19th Century French School. Naked Boys in a River Landscape, playing around a Classical Urn

Jules Jean Antoine Lecomte du Nouy, 'Eros, Cupid' (1870)

Hans Thoma, 'Apollo and Marsyas' (1888)

Marwane Pallas

Horace Castelli, Lord Castlereagh sees the “radiant boy”, a spirit attached to the Lytton family

Glass cameo cup fragment (Roman1st half of 1st century AD,on view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 166)

Translucent purple with opaque white overlay.

Plain vertical rim with rounded lip; convex-curving side, turned in towards round bottom.

Decoration in relief on exterior: a symplegma scene of a kneeling naked man with head turned downwards behind a woman, also naked but with an anklet on her right leg; the man's left hand rests on her back and his right arm reaches back for support to a pile of cushions on the end of the low bed or couch, which is covered with linen; he is clean shaven and has short wavy hair; suspended above the lovers is a garland tied at the top with a bow; immediately below the bed is a broad, horizontal ground line, with a second parallel line below around base.

In two conjoining fragments; pinprick bubbles in body; on body, pitting, dulling and deep weathering, with some iridescence; on decoration, some pitting and creamy brown weathering. Horizontal grinding marks on interior.

Roman decorative arts include subjects that are of an explicit sexual nature. Scenes of lovemaking appear on everyday objects such as pottery and terracotta lamps, but they are also featured on luxury items such as silver and, as here, on cameo glass drinking cups.

(via Glass cameo cup fragment | Roman | Early Imperial, Julio-Claudian | The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Célestin Boutin and the dancers of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal in Death in Venice

(via Frederick Rolfe: Baron Corvo 1860-1913 - Dans les diagonales du temps)

Apollo and Hyacinthus