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

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)

George Platt Lynes, 1953

[H/T: Gay Cultes]

Matthew Brookes, Model Chad White and his son

And they are absolutely gorgeous together!

Gaston Goor

Cum ob hanc offensam praeclusissem mihi aditum, quem feceram, iterum ad licentiam redii. Interpositis enim paucis diebus, cum similis casus nos in eandem fortunam rettulisset, ut intellexi stertere patrem, rogare coepi ephebum, ut reverteretur in gratiam mecum, id est ut pateretur satis fieri sibi, et cetera quae libido distenta dictat.

This breach of my word closed against me the approach I had made; but I found my chance again. For not many days after, another festival brought us into the same state as before. When I heard the father snoring, I proceeded to beg the boy to be friends again, that he would let me satisfy him, and the sort of things that love delayed make you say. 

[Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 87]

Marwane Pallas

Kylix from Capua, c 490 BC (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin)

Dog

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.

[H/T: Glass cameo cup fragment | Roman | Early Imperial, Julio-Claudian | The Metropolitan Museum of Art]

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)