Category Archives: GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc…

Woof! A Versatile Gay Companion.

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Jam the Giant Poodle! As big as an Alsatian at seven months, he will be HUGE. According to the mid-century classic, The Book of the Poodle: “The poodle’s versatility as a watchdog, retriever and gay companion, combined with his emotional stability and physical soundness, assure him of a welcome place in our society. His charm and his desire to please are fundamental attributes. The instinctive qualities of complete fidelity and devotion are known to all. His eagerness for affection is not based on ambition but on an appeal to the universal heart of mankind: that those that live to please must please to live”

Gandhi, Defaced

Seen in Wiese Alley in the Mission District of San Francisco. Not sure if the vandal doesn’t like Gamdhi, or just wanted a place to tag.
-AidanAbroad

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Payphone: Free Call to God

Seen on a pay phone at the CalTrain station in San Francisco: Apparently you can now call God (or a bank) for free. There were too many drunk Giants fans swarming the station, so I didn’t stick around and make a toll-free call to God…but if anyone else has gotten through to the Divine on this pay phone, I’d love to hear how your call went!
-AidanAbroad

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Today in Strange Ads: Homoerotic Malaysian Sandwich Cookies!

Check out the bones on these boys! And the stiff cream filling. Thanks to friend of this site Cornelius Conboy for this one. The illustrator is Vince Low; the ad is from the Grey Agency in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. Fluff & Stuff is a popular brand of sandwich cookie, with a tag line of “Your inner desires. Right in the middle.” Indeed! Oreos were never like this…

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Leather Family Values

20110824-103948.jpgOne of the earliest and most popular uses of photography continues to be among the most common. Snap! This is a family photo. Here’s to chosen family! And to photography…the truths it reveals and the lies it tells. Sometimes, it is more important that a story be interesting than completely accurate….

Did the Gays crack the Washington Monument?

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It’s official. The world’s tallest stone building, the rock-hard phallic symbol of the United States of America, cracked in yesterday’s rare east coast earthquake. Satirical website ChristWire has scooped the “real” religious extremists in blaming the gays. They write: “Tremble and cower, nation of perverse homosexual communist fecal fetish meisters. Do you think you can lustfully revel in the mucky glory hole of a skippy-dee-doo-dah gender denier and then get away from God’s wrath, gays?” Well…we can TRY!

SOMA Clouds, Part II

Here’s another shot of the clouds in SOMA this morning. At the cross streets of Division and Brannan.
-AidanAbroad

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SOMA Clouds

There are particularly beautiful clouds over the Bay Area this morning… Here’s a shot of some clouds over San Francisco’s SOMA (South of Market) district this morning.
-AidanAbroad

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Shoes over the Armory

A pair of shoes strung over a wire above the old Armory building in the Mission (now home to kink.com studios), with a San Francisco flag waving in the background. I’m not sure whose idea it was to throw the first pair of shoes over a high wire, but it now seems to be a trend, of sorts. Urban art, perhaps? Not sure if this qualifies, but I thought it was worth posting.
-AidanAbroad

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More Morning Frog

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Wet Ass. Deep Grunts. Bulging Eyes. What? Cool morning Frog at Twisted Timbers.
Yes. Gay Highwaymen IS getting all Basho on y’all.

Another Morning Frog here.