Adolphe Thabard, Le Vainqueur

Nir Arieli, 'Flower He Is'
(Headpiece design by Philipp Shchekin and Anthony Brownie)

The artist writes

In this project I am using flowers as a metaphor for the male dancer, evoking questions about youth, decay, fragility and innocence. When a dancer turns from a boy into a man, he is in the peak of his physical ability. Like a flower in full bloom that will soon wilt, this point in a dancer's life is both beautiful and tragic.

Carl Larsson, Amor Mercurius

Alexander Adams. Argonaut (for RC) (2025)

Matteo.twink

Adamo Tadolini, Ganymede and Zeus

Julien de Parme, 'Love Standing' (1762)

Dmytro Komissarenko, Ostrovskyi in Narcissus Dreams (2017)

Vincenzo de Rossi, Hercules and Diomedes (1560)

 
This statue, currently in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, was commissioned by Cosimo I de’ Medici as one of twelve (of which seven were completed) showing the Labours of Hercules.

Diomedes is obviously losing, because he's trying to pull Hercules's dick off. (Either that or he's trying to make peace by giving him a hand-job.)

And the demigod's tool looks unhappily small - and maybe not altogether intact!

targphoto, 'A P O L L O'
(Outfit designed by the artist, made by Petr Kalouda)

The model is of course David Čiháček, and his membrum virile is in fact very beautiful, so it's a pity I couldn't find an uncensored version of this.

ai.ryvius, 'Daedalus and Icarus'

Mikel Marton, 'Brett, 18'

According to the artist, this lovely young man just got excited by the experience of being snapped in the altogether.

And so something simple and innocent also became something beautiful and holy.

You'd have thought that a guy with a tattoo like this one on his back would be reasonably easy to identify, but in actual fact I have no idea who he is.

Sergei Anikin (aka Musyupick), 'Portrait of a guy with flowers art nouveau'
(aka 'A boy pressing the delicate petals of fragrant lilies to his cheek')

Connor Woods

Arno Breker, Der Sieger (1939)

Luisl4nd, 'He eating a flower uwu'

Victor Gadino, Mars (2022)

Sasha Olsen, Petr Pak, for Yummy Magazine

Emil Sutor, 'Germanische Familie' (1935) Klinik Heidelberg (Holz)

As boys, we fought to keep this flame from being extinguished by the world around us.

"Be the best. Quit crying. Don't overthink it. Take it like a man. You need to stand up for yourself. Leave the weak behind. Try harder next time. Don't apologize; he'll get over it."

For some of us, the flame was snuffed out by abuse, by relentless bullying, or by physical pressure. For others, it gradually dimmed through societal expectations.

For the gay men among us, we fought back all the harder and built a wall of defiance around the flame. And in creating a unique sense of self, the flame survived into adulthood where it still fuels our inner and outer lives.

 
Suggested Reading: "Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives" by Walt Odets

The Green King

Central to the design is the motif of the Green Man, an ancient figure from British folklore, symbolic of spring and rebirth, to celebrate the new reign. The shape of the Green Man, crowned in natural foliage, is formed of leaves of oak, ivy and hawthorn, and the emblematic flowers of the United Kingdom. 

[A new photograph of The King and The Queen Consort | The Royal Family]

Giulio Romano, Phaethon losing control of the chariot of his father Helios (1558)

George Platt Lynes, Prometheus

Bartek Szmigulski, Arran Sly for YummyZine

A nineteenth-century painting by the Swiss-French painter Marc Gabriel Charles Gleyre depicting a scene from Daphnis and Chloe

'Crying The Neck' at St Columb Major (2008)

Gaston Goor, 'Love crowned with roses' (1974)
Cover for Roger Peyrefitte, The Exile of Capri (1959)

Connor Woods

@joana_de_artes, Hermes and the Infant Dionysus

Barahona Possollo, 'Pelops and Poseidon'

Louis Fratino, 'I Keep My Treasure in My Ass'

This isn't exactly "Aryan", but it does remind me of that scene in American Gods.

Serge Henir

Mathias Chaillot, 'Les garçons regardent le lever de soleil au Point du jour' (2021)

Ryan James Caruthers, 'Beautiful Boys'

St. Jinx Art, 'Ridin’ the Maypole or something'

Aldo Bahamonde, Morpheus 

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,
And saw, within the moonlight in his room,
Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom,
An angel writing in a book of gold:—
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,
And to the presence in the room he said,
"What writest thou?"—The vision raised its head,
And with a look made of all sweet accord,
Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord."
"And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,"
Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low,
But cheerly still; and said, "I pray thee, then,
Write me as one that loves his fellow men."

The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night
It came again with a great wakening light,
And showed the names whom love of God had blest,

And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. 

['Abou Ben Adhem', by Leigh Hunt]

AdeY, "Autumn Is Coming"

Jules-Elie Delaunay, Reapers in the Roman Countryside