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Daddy Jeffrey Celebrates Pride Month

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Wave your hands in the air because you’re a Bear, strut your Daddy junk because you just don’t care! That’s right, Daddy Lovers – Pride season is upon us! Now I am sure there are a lot of you, like myself, who have gone a few times, but not always. The last time Daddy Jeffrey [...]

June 13, 2011 by Jeffrey Huntwell 0 comments Gay Culture See More →

Are Daddy/Son relationships all about age? The lives of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud

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Only ten years separated Verlaine and Rimbaud, two giants of the French poetry scene, and yet I believe that you can call their relationship a Daddy/Son one. It is also clear that Rimbaud, the younger man, brought out the older man, giving him the excuse to fully express his decadent nature. Just before Rimbaud wrote [...]

July 12, 2010 by Simon O. 0 comments Gay Culture See More →

Daddy and Bear Drag Queens

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Daddies and bears can both come from cultures devoted to the macho. Of course, daddies come from a spectrum of personalities and types, but are still, on the whole, expected to be strong and masculine – either physically, mentally or in their character. Equally, bear culture in its origins had an image of working-class masculinity, [...]

June 14, 2010 by Simon O. 1 comment Gay Culture See More →

Gay Daddies and Sons in Film

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It is a mark of the acknowledgment of the history of Daddy/Son relationships that so many films have been made with this theme. Many focus on the older man being in his forties, with some as young as thirty or even their early twenties, as in ‘For a Lost Soldier’ (1992), which represents an illegal [...]

May 14, 2010 by Simon O. 1 comment Gay Culture See More →

Gay Daddies Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) and Oscar Wilde (1854-1905) were two greats of literature and both a kind of gay Daddy. Whitman’s seminal work ‘Leaves of Grass’ expressed for the first time in American poetry a discernment of homosexuality, described in what he called the ‘body electric’, a strong sexual charge. This raunchy collection brought him notoriety. [...]

April 1, 2010 by Simon O. 0 comments Gay Culture See More →