London/England – Lonely young men are lining up to join the Freemasons
(by Peter Carlyon, The Londoner, 21th May 2025)
I grew up with a really strong tribe of women around me”, says Joshua Pasquale, 28, standing outside the hulking bronze doors of Freemasons’ Hall on Great Queen St, Covent Garden. When I meet him he’s ethereal, draped in a silken white gown under a cartoon blue sky. “But what I was really missing was brotherhood.”
It took a move to London for the Canadian model to decide that a suitable source of supportive masculinity were the Freemasons, the mysterious fraternal organisation which bloomed in the revelry of London’s 18th century alehouses.
Joshua’s initiation ceremony is the following week, and he’s only here to shoot some photos for his modelling portfolio. But behind him are around 100 anxious and aspirational-seeming men who hope one day to…
Share:
