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The Gayest Generation: Navy Recruiting Posters from World Wars I & II

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Wow, it really doesn't get gayer than this. Talk about on the downlow! :-D Lets hear it for heavy metal and a boatload of seamen.

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05/23/2007
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floresarts about 1 year ago

Thanks so much for posting these images. I am a graphic designer who has always been fascinated by advertising and propaganda art from the Depression era through the 1950's. These are a wonderful glimpse into the American psyche during the WWII era on so many levels. Interesting to witness our definition of "masculinity" change over the years. Oh, and as a gay man, I just think these are fabulously fun and campy! :-D

MEME over 2 years ago

BRILIANT!
HOMOEROTICISM ALWAYS EXISTED IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER, AND EVERYWHERE! IT'S JUST THE HYPOCRITICAL REGIMES AFTER WW2 WHICH CREATED THE BRILLIANTLY FASCIST ILLUSION THAT ANYTHING
"GAY" IS A NEW "DISEASE" OF THE LIBERAL AND "PROMISCUOUS" WORLD.

cmennucci over 2 years ago

hahaha this is too much! I would have never thought of it like that having seen just one or two but it's like Westside Story...seemed to be so tough in the day and you look at it now and it seems so gay.

jasonbentley over 2 years ago

biblio: you're dead-on about the resemblance to pulp fiction paperback covers. Most of these posters were created by wage-earning, working class artists who made the transition from the New Deal work programs (responsible for some of the most compelling graphic design in American history) to the War effort and then on to the publishing industry as the War came to a close. It was assembly line work (the kind of work that vexed and later fascinated the young Andy Warhol), done free-lance. Therefore much of the anonymous commercial art done post-1945 is the handiwork of a relatively small group of working professionals, mostly based out of New York. Pulp novels, movie posters, text-books, Boy Scout manuals, magazines, ads...the list goes on.

kimee over 2 years ago

Homoeroticism Marketing done right! (lol)

bibliolept over 2 years ago

I guess that we can make fun of these generations as well as give them their due. The first one and the last one are the best; in fact, that submarine poster's style is uncannily similar to "bored housewives' trashy novel" cover art.

jasonbentley over 2 years ago

Hai, Ninja, that's cuz it's the US Navy. :-) If one spends any time in San Diego during shore leave, the air of ambiguity hangs very heavy over the wooded groves of Balboa Park. ;-) Ahoy, ahoy

ninjapirate007 over 2 years ago

these are strangely homoerotic

Yoda2 over 2 years ago

Very cool...love these.