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The Swimming Hole (1884–85) is a painting by Thomas Eakins. It is perhaps the most famous work by Eakins and considered a masterpiece of American painting. In this work, Eakins took advantage of an exception to the generally prudish Victorian attitude to nudity: swimming naked was widely accepted, and for males was seen as normal, even in public spaces. Eakins was the first American artist to portray swimming in the nude. By the 1970s some American writers were beginning to see Eakins' work, and specifically The Swimming Hole, as having homoerotic overtones. However, Eakins' (homo-)sexuality has never been conclusively determined.
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Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
Zoom ahead to today. Older (I'm 34 years old), gay and still in Mississippi. But happily of course, except still for that lack of snow. Even here in Mississippi, I am out of the closet and very active in Mississippi gay rights issues. I have children - 2 little furry ones, a cat named Nino (pronounced Nee-no) and a chocolate dachshund (yes, that's a wiener dog) named Hershey (rightfully so because he's long and brown reminding me of a Hershey's chocolate bar).
Deep fried Snickers bars and deep fried Oreo cookies. We deep fry almost everything in the South. Hell, if we could figure out how to deep fry sweet iced tea, I'm sure it would be a staple of the South as much as sweet iced tea itself.
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People who say "I’m not a racist/sexist/homophobe/etc." then go on to make a remark that proves they are one. We are all only human, we all have our prejudices, but those people who can’t even see their own really disgust me.
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