(Leonard Keith)īatt and Green say the photos are not only rare but probably the earliest photographic records of a same-sex couple in the Maritimes, showing their affection to each other but not to their community, which would have punished them for it.
Batt and Green say 'the boys' were sometimes photographed together with the help of friends or a camera timer. Leonard Keith (1891-1950) and Cub Coates (1899-1965), photographed using a Kodak camera purchased by the Keith family in 1905.
