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In gayborhoods across the land, many of you will celebrate Pride this weekend. But although rainbow flags and drag shows in the park seem as common as Mariah Carey remixes these days, that hasn't always been the case: not so long ago queerness was something that was communicated through coded forms of dress and special language instead of through, you know, Mariah Carey remixes. So, as we celebrate another year of waiting for more states to follow the lead of Massachusetts and California, here are a few galleries of pics from the olden days—which in retrospect (and especially for fans of posing straps and loincloths), don't look like they were so bad in some ways after all.

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• Gay Erotica: "Ben Hurry" and "Kangaroo Court" (YouTube; see lots more @ spyjeb's YouTube archive)

• Bruce of LA (images for sale @ BigKugels.com)
• Athletic Model Guild (athleticmodelguild.com)
• manOman's Archives (@ Flickr—thanks Rod; see also this great collection of vintage couples)

• JuicyGoo: Retro Porn Galleries (juicygoo.com)
• Sexy Homo Hotel (photo gallery & paysite pitches @ sexyhomohotel.com)
• Vintage Gay Wrestling (retroporn.org)