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2 months ago

PRIDE doesn’t always mean being Out, and not being Out doesn’t mean shame.
It’s not always safe to be Out and being Out is often attached to Western ideas of sexuality. This is what Ive learnt, Ive learnt this by listening and witnessing those who I Love and am Loved by who are not Out. While I post photos of Partners, friends and lovers past and present, there are people who faces never appear on my platform. So this is for you, for you are as constant as the setting sun snd as ever present as the sunrise and your love is warmer than the warmest ocean and nourishing like the feasts we share
❤️ by @davidhstyling

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2 months ago

Proud to be navigating good time and hard times with @thomasalbohm
FAMILY 💕 by @davidhstyling

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2 months ago

As so many of my friends are of similar age, many of us are navigating the un-navigable. Watching your parents age is natural, but when this speeds up nothing prepares you.
I’ve struggled in silence, which goes against everything I tell other people to do.
I swing between feeling lucky to have this time with my parents and guilt for the time thats been lost.
As someone who’s unwillingly been forced to navigate grief from a early age, through the loss of partners and friends. I consider myself resilient. But the sudden reality of the idea that one day I will no longer go home to see my parents, that they wont be here, I feel hugely unprepared.

I didn’t listen when people told me not to waste time with my parents, to not take it for granted and there were periods when struggle, ideologies and disagreements got in the way, I regret the strong will of my youth, just as I regret they will never truly see the beautiful kaleidoscope that is my life. Queer people get used to living life of the periphery of traditional family life always on the edge of the photograph

But I celebrate that we got past most of the struggles, I recognise my parents have done the best they can to understand my life that looks so very different from their own.

Its hard and I still carry the scares of rejection. But small simple pleasures outweigh all that now.
Breakfast in the kitchen with farther his hand holding mine as it did when I was a child, my mother enjoying a meal I cooked and the joy of us facilitating getting them both into the garden to enjoy some sunshine

These are small wins that bring big pleasures

With it being Pride I know so many queer kids face difficult relationships with their parents.

Know that you are loved friends quickly become chosen family
Be proud of you are
Love yourself first

I Love You Mum & Dad by @davidhstyling

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Its about small wins at the moment, getting my father home and and learning to lift him into a wheel chair so he can sit at the table to have dinner. These small family traditions of always eating at the dinner table help restore a sense of normality to a new way of life. Sharing these moments on here help me in my journey of accepting this new normal, while also celebrating that the hard work is at least making memories. This journey of ageing parents is a hard journey and one I feel unprepared for. As many of my friends are of similar age and some of you following me who I only know through this platform are also on this journey. Maybe this helps others feel less alone with the heartbreak of watching your parents become more and more frail. ❤️ by @davidhstyling

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8 months ago

This Road feels dark and long
This journey unwanted, unfamiliar and uncomfortable
All the mountains Ive climbed, all the battles Ive won and lost
All the struggles Ive overcome
Nothing has prepared me
My thick skin is now paper thin
The armour of life has fallen
Leaving me vulnerable
Shivering in the coldness that fills the room
Never has my past felt so close
As if my my feet should not reach the floor as I sit there on the faded furniture
This home a mirror to my parents
Slowly fading yet holding onto life
Keep Breathing
Keep Breathing
Keep Breathing

my own words by @davidhstyling

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8 months ago

Christmas is very different this year. My heart is breaking seeing my Father and Ally still in hospital.
He’s my hero and the ultimate Gentleman! So handsome at 88
Just want him to come Home ❤️ by @davidhstyling

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9 months ago

my photo
my words

Let the sun linger, let the skies delay,
In fading light, I wish to stay.
As summer wanes, the air turns cool,
Laughter fades, like a distant jewel.

The evenings grow shorter, shadows stretch long
A haunting melody, a bittersweet song
With bare-chested sunlight, we danced in the glow
Now twilight whispers of what we must know.

Each wave that retreats carries dreams of the past,
As we bid farewell to summer’s warm grasp.
So let the sun linger just one moment more by @davidhstyling

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a year ago

A community came together for this man
People drove 10 hours from Portland Oregon, from San Francisco and beyond and I flew 11 hours from London
To be here with this beautiful man
Ron is so deeply loved by all who meet him, he is truly the kindest soul.
The call I received was to come to live on the ranch to make it my home. I cant live here as long as I may want, my heart and my life dictate otherwise. But ive had the opportunity to be resident not a visitor and spend time with Ron his partner Scott , Adam, Josie and of course Gecko 🦎
Life is all about the people we share lifes journey with. Our ability to love and be loved is the most beautiful of gifts. We are all stardust, the energy that is us is also the energy that makes up the trees, the rocks, the mountains and rivers, its the same energy that makes the faun that gently wanders past me in the evening, the coyote that howls or even the rattle snakes that I fear.
We are all interconnected and when we step out of the chaos that we as humans in the west have created, a chaos that separates us from this relationship with the planet that allows us to destroy our only home and go to war with each other. When we allow ourselves to live in harmony with all thats around us, then we feel, we truly feel all that is possible
Ron has been living this way for 50 years having moved to this land as a young man at 25 and having built and rebuilt by hand this beautiful house, perfecting living off grid in balance with the land that feeds and loves him.
Ron has spent his life living with his heart and his soul and his home open
to those who care to drink from the well of love that is the land. It is no surprise that Ron is loved by so many
Thank you to everyone I met while on the land, all of you who Ive now formed deep bonds with, we lived but for a moment as one community, dancing beneath the moon, swimming in cool waters naked beneath the sun, we did all this with open hearts and gentle embrace
I love you Ron thank you for this life changing journey ❤️ by @davidhstyling

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a year ago

14 Years we’ve been supporting each other through the best and worst of times.
A relationship that knows not the distance nor the ocean that divides us for most of the year. It don’t matter because our relationship isn’t about spending every day together its about the long lasting effect we have on each other when were together. I am a better person for meeting @geckosteve all those years ago, that I do know. Words like love, family or friendship lack gravitas. We are two old souls who have lived many lives together who keep finding each other. by @davidhstyling

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a year ago

VE DAY anniversary
Art by Gilbert & George
Don’t Vote for Fascism by @davidhstyling

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a year ago

Wow what a Breakfast! Thank You @caliwithvite for making my visit to #orphanandys so welcoming , the iconic Dinner in the heart of San Frans Castro district
Pancakes Eggs Sausage Bacon and lots of maple syrup
The original interior has me feeling like Im in a movie. Orphan Andys opened its doors in 1976 and is part of the queer history of San Francisco #lgbtqia #queerhistory #queerbuisness #queer #bestservice by @davidhstyling

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