4th of July
This 4th of July (Independence Day), we look at the American flag. I think this World War I photo is my oldest unashamed male image with a U.S. flag, probably dating from 1918. The flag on the Red Cross sign is too small to make out the details, but it would have been a 48-star flag. New Mexico and Arizona had been admitted as the 47th and 48th states in 1912.
Here's another 48-star flag (the top row of stars is cropped off). Alaska and Hawaii were added as the 49th and 50th states in 1959.
The flag is associated with everything patriotic. The military has always loved the flag.
The flag has also been used as a protest symbol. Here, a naked guy waves an upside-down flag, which is a distress symbol, at the Vortex I rock festival in Oregon in 1970. The festival was partly a protest of Nixon's Vietnam War policies.
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A more recent protest, this 2020 photo by Carlos Mariel called Fundamento was a protest of the killing of George Floyd, showing the flag symbolically tying and immobilizing a black man.
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The flag has also been used in art. This 1950s painting by Raoul Pene DuBois is called Male Nude with American Flag.
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In this 1970 dance piece by Yvonne Ranier called Trio A, nude dancers have flags draped down their front, but are exposed in back.
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This 1983 art photo by David Lebe is called Stars and Stripes.
And the flag even appears in gay porn. Remember Rule 34: if it exists, there is porn about it.
But, primarily, displaying the flag is a statement of pride and love of country, like this flag-waving guy at the Woodstock 99 festival ...
and this guy by the Golden Gate bridge ...
and these beachgoers ...
and this rider in the 2015 Fremont Solstice Parade.
On a different note, earlier this year, this guy was caught on a security camera stealing a flag from a house in Ormond Beach, Florida. It made the news because the thief was naked.
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We end with this photo. It's not just a butt, it's an American butt.
Happy 4th of July to all of you!
9 comments:
Happy 4th to one and all.
Great post, thank you. Happy and safe 4th to all, especially your pets. Paul
Happy Independence day to all. Note that the flag in the porn clip is incorrectly installed.
Great post, thanks.
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Why is the 2015 Fremont Solstice Parade labeled Ianto Jones 2006?
Happy 4th july, sorry, i'm late, hope you have nice holidays. We can't pose like that with flag, we'll be in troubles, dead serious
All of this user's photos have the watermark IantoJones2006, regardless of when they were taken. The photo was from a photo album called "Fremont Solstice Festival 2015."
It has a whole motif in the cape genre. Mostly Golden Age stuff where the antagonists are, well, Nazis. Besides Captain America and the Falcon, DC had the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy, and they acquired Uncle Sam from Quality Comics.
By the 80s, it was seen as corny. (And these days, someone on YouTube would bitch that his chosen ideology is for some reason the bad guy.) So, DC created villainous versions like Deathstroke (similar origin to Captain America, became a mercenary after Vietnamization, now embodies failure, making him a perfect antithesis for a perfectionist like Dick Grayson, but they only recently fought for the first time in a decade) and the Force of July (They're not actually villains. Just...very dumb.)
I also love how Deathstroke and the Force of July are villains for opposite reasons, and both harass one of the Dynamic Duo. Deathstroke is a hardened cynic who does admittedly love his children (even if he's somehow an even worse dad than Batman) and hopes his son will find happiness with his nemesis, but is drawn to conflict due to indoctrination and may or may not care just how horrible his employers are. The Force of July are naïve and easily manipulated: Of course Batman's evil because the media say he's good.
These days, I think the patriotic genre of superheroes are mostly found in Nazi victory timelines.
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