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There's an idea called 'Queer Erasure' which is all about pretending that homosexuality didn't exist in the past.

I'm not saying that's happening here because I really have no idea what was happening with this photographer but it's an interesting thing to keep in mind.

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There is a forum on Reddit for this where people document humorous examples of such erasure.

EDIT:

Here’s the link

https://www.reddit.com/r/SapphoAndHerFriend/

Seems like it's mostly memes about how it's always happening, but few/no actual examples of such erasure... plus a few "weird things from insert social network".

That's kind of the terminal state of most subreddits, so maybe it was better once.

Yes, your assessment is exactly right. I remember when that sub was very young and I was a teenager. It started with the 15 or so actual examples of historical queer erasure, and then went on to the 50 or so examples of ambiguously queer figures that the members of the sub felt should be viewed as queer, and for a while it was the same few things being reposted so memes were tolerated, and now it's basically just memes and social media posts. Such is the life cycle of a subreddit.

It's still happening. Recently, two models got married after several years of quite intimate and personal photos on instagram... but they were just very good friends.

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