Camel
One last scene from the war years, this 1945 ad for Camel cigarettes is a good example of how easy it is to read gay messaging into an old ad that obviously didn't intend it. There was nothing especially unusual about a sailor bumming a cigarette at the shaving sink. But the collective imagery—two young sailors in the steamy lower decks of a ship, one guy borrowing the other one’s shirt—is almost more suggestive now than it was 68 years ago.
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