I am not going there again, I have posted so many photographs on Hemingway's sexuality previously, but I have never seen this one before.
I have posted, I think, one photograph of Hemingway dressed as a girl by his mother, it was a not uncommon practice I read and, although jarring to my twenty-first century sensibilities, I discounted it, as whoever I read did. And I have posted tons of photographs of Hemingway as an adult doing something with his crotch. I post this one, and I assume there are others of a young Hemingway dressed as a girl, because in this one he's grabbing his dick again. As I argued in 2014, although there is a limited universe of ways in which one can hold one's hands and although they naturally drape to the side at crotch level, and although there are tons more photographs of Hemingway not doing something at his crotch there are just too, too many photographs of him doing something down there--when other men in the same photograph are not--for it not to mean something. And it means he was sexually confused and androgyne all of his life and that is evident in close reading of his writing.
I have posted, I think, one photograph of Hemingway dressed as a girl by his mother, it was a not uncommon practice I read and, although jarring to my twenty-first century sensibilities, I discounted it, as whoever I read did. And I have posted tons of photographs of Hemingway as an adult doing something with his crotch. I post this one, and I assume there are others of a young Hemingway dressed as a girl, because in this one he's grabbing his dick again. As I argued in 2014, although there is a limited universe of ways in which one can hold one's hands and although they naturally drape to the side at crotch level, and although there are tons more photographs of Hemingway not doing something at his crotch there are just too, too many photographs of him doing something down there--when other men in the same photograph are not--for it not to mean something. And it means he was sexually confused and androgyne all of his life and that is evident in close reading of his writing.
