Gay Couple Talks About Their 6 Decades of Commitment and Love: VIDEO
Here's your MUST-WATCH video for Friday.
This is the first short film created for THE DEVOTION PROJECT, featuring William I. Campbell and John V. Hilton who met in the 1950's and have been together for 7 decades. The Devotion Project is an ongoing series of films documenting LGBT couples and the love they share.
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
Antony Osso explains the backstory behind his short film series THE DEVOTION PROJECT:
God bless these lovely men.
Posted by: jaragon | Nov 18, 2011 7:02:10 PM
Videos like these should go viral everywhere, not just in the gay community. When more straight people see couples like these men, committed to each other and obviously in love, it takes away the argument that being gay is only about lust and promiscuity. That can only help in the fight for equal rights and marriage.
Posted by: Laura | Nov 18, 2011 8:06:19 PM
Absolutely beautiful. What a wonderful couple.
Posted by: Akira | Nov 19, 2011 12:13:15 AM
I cant believe what i just saw this is life changing, id give all that ive acomplished to find someone like that
Posted by: Luis Valencia | Nov 19, 2011 12:52:45 AM
This made me cry.
Posted by: Geoff M | Nov 19, 2011 1:14:04 AM
Wishinbg you health and happiness in the year to come
Posted by: cheap uggs | Nov 19, 2011 1:50:55 AM
You've got to realize that saying 'I wonder which one cheated first' is essentially an expression of personal fear: fear that you don't have what it takes, that you don't deserve love yourself or that you are incapable of giving yourself to another. Cynicism is always an expression of fear and failure.
Posted by: Steerpike | Nov 19, 2011 2:48:37 AM
You may be hot stuff now, but one day (if you're lucky) you'll be an old, old man. And if you have another sweet old man beside you, you'll be a very lucky old man.
Posted by: Steerpike | Nov 19, 2011 2:50:41 AM
Thank you Mr. Osso for producing and sharing this video.
@Paul Weidig please accept my condolences for your loss.
Posted by: charley | Nov 19, 2011 4:27:08 PM
Jamie, believe it, or in your case, don’t believe it, but some of us keep our relationships monogamous. My last relationship was monogamous for both of us, and it ended because I developed (ironically) Dystonia-Parkinsonism, a movement disorder that has taken every thing I love, including my ex. Neither of us had the tools to cope with this part, but if we could have worked harder on honesty of our stages of grief and coping we could have still worked it out.
Regrettably that ship has sailed, but I’m home in Oxford, and I miss so many people, including my ex. And monogamy is a requirement with me. I want intimacy in my life. And these 2 warm and beautiful people made me remember that from 27 November, 2007 our lives were changed.
Posted by: Gary Brubaker | Nov 19, 2011 7:52:16 PM
Their love and commitment to one another immortalized on film. What a fitting tribute to these wonderful men. I was moved to tears, tears of joy that someone had found another so early in life, and held on to what they found in each other. Truly a thing of beauty.
Posted by: Beau | Nov 19, 2011 10:26:10 PM
Beautiful. MTE.
Posted by: Mark M | Nov 20, 2011 2:41:10 PM
The so jaded remark,"which one cheated first" cracked me up. The sang froid of such cynacism! And writing "...their love doesn't count" was a much appreciated and hilariously macabre commentary on effemaphobia. Both examples of the outlandishly entertaining mind-spins one can find on this website.
Posted by: uffda | Nov 21, 2011 6:14:45 AM
It's easy to stay in a relationship when you get to pound a young twink in the gym sauna every once in a while. Nothing keeps men together like strange.
Posted by: Nickel | Nov 24, 2011 12:55:38 AM