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Happy Sexy Italian Yaoi Bara New Year! Gai Ragazzi Comi.

Posted on December 31, 2010 by | 1 comment

It’s not such a small world, after all. This ciao! to the new year is from Awakening Art, the site of an Italian illustrator who makes, collects and promotes gay erotic comics and illustrations. Many, like this one, are influenced by the Japanese manga genres of Yaoi, or boy’s love, and Bara, or Gai Comi, which features older, tougher characters and scenarios. The term Bara probably came from Bara Kei or Ordeal by Roses, the title of a 1961 book of semi-nude images of gay author Yukio Mishima by photographer Eikoh Hosoe. Barazoku was the first mainstream gay magazine in Asia, and began publication in 1971. And since the 1980s, the term bara-eiga or rose film has been used to describe gay cinema. Look forward to some genuine Japanese Bara on this site in 2011. Meantime, open up, enjoy the ride…and pop a cork! Ciao!

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Happy New Year from seminal Leather Artist Etienne!

Posted on December 31, 2010 by | 2 comments

Happy New Year! Everyone knows seminal Leather artist Tom of Finland, but there were a lot of other artists who were his contemporaries and who worked in a similar vein. One of the other stars was “Etienne” – the nom d’art of Chicago-based Leatherman Dom Orejudos. Read Durk Dehner’s article on his work at the website of the Leather Archives and Museum. Tom and Dom had a mutual admiration society as artists, and maintained a correspondence. And The Texan recalls that back in the day Etienne was “a big old bottom.” Here’s his rendition of a very festive holiday party. Bottoms up and best to All in the New Year!

Other sexy holiday posts from the past year: Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, World Aids Day and Christmas.

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Cold War Red China Gay Comic Book Hero Saves Drowning Pal

Posted on September 17, 2010 by | 4 comments

Comrade in Arms

From friend of the site and Duke professor Hong Guo-Juin, who notes: “It is in fact from a comic books in 1960s China, to quote my friend who shared this image with me, ‘about spies and revolutionary war and…about two comrades-in-arms, literally!'”

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