Category Archives: Photography

Do You Give A Flying Fuck?

Posted on August 25, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Sight seen South of Market. San Francisco. Near the “Worst Western” hotel on 9th Street between Folsom and Harrison Streets. What the fuck?

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An Empress and a Gentleman: So Long, Jose Sarria…

Posted on August 24, 2013 by | 1 comment

20130824-113529.jpg Soldier. Homosexual. Native Son. Candidate. Empress. Activist. Gentleman. Widow. San Francisco Legend. R.I.P. Jose Sarria, aka the Nightengale of Montgomery St, the Widow Norton and Empress Jose I. born December 12, 1922/23. died August 19, 2013.
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First Gay Candidate.

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Empress of San Francisco.

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Regal Departure.

(Haiku for Jose Sarria)

Funeral service at 11am on Friday, September 6th at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. Internment in Colma, reception at Lookout Bar on 16th Street.

Mike Caffee, who knew Jose, says his friends sometimes jokingly called him “the Nightmare of Montgomery Street” – instead of “Nightengale!”

The Bay Area Reporter has more here.

Photos 1, 2 & 4 Courtesy of the GLBT Historical Society (San Francisco).

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Whip those Mules! Really.

Posted on August 16, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Whip those Mules, you mule-driving man! Actually, this site only endorses whipping willing humans. Sight seen on the menu cover of the Roadhouse Restaurant and Bakery in the Mohave desert town of Boron. Famous for the 20-mule team. Hmmm. 20-boy team could be entertaining!

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The Harsh Truth of the Camera Eye. DYGAFF?

Posted on August 14, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Do you give a flying fuck? Well, do you? Click here. Why not? Stickers seen in Long Beach, CA, on the side of a newspaper rack, in the gayborhood around 1st and Cherry.

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Leather Stallion Sailor

Posted on August 12, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Hey, Sailor! Hot men’s room art in the Leather Stallion, bar in Cleveland, Ohio. USA.

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Urinal Still Life

Posted on August 12, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Urinal Still Life
Kansas City boy oh boy
Duchamp did it first

Haiku & photo: GH

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Hey, Sad Cat…Do You Give a Flying Fuck?

Posted on August 9, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Do you give a Flying Fuck? Well DO You? Click here. And here. But…only if you want to…

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Over a Century of Service…

Posted on August 8, 2013 by | 2 comments

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Brilliant Service
From a Beautiful Big Boy
Cleveland, Ohio.

More haiku. Why not?
More Gryphon. Even More.

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A little Leather…

Posted on August 7, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Via pal of this site Big Gay Al. He’s not on South Park. He’s South of Market. And here. Want more Sex Dwarf? Here. No idea this pic’s pedigree. It’s “from the Internet.” Know more? Inquiring minds always appreciate provenance!

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Happy Bomb Day Very Much!

Posted on August 7, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Hey, baby…you’re the Bomb for sure.
Daddy’s nuts soaked it up, transmitting the glowing juice to the next generation. Mutants are here, hear? Hot core fixes the future like a photo. Burning, shining, nausea and finally freaky tadpoles. Hop on Pop, fly-boy! Twitching and different and Noh going back now. Happy Hiroshima Day very much! And Happy Andy Birthday too. Thank you. Thank you. (GH)

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They’re starving in Africa. They’re rioting in Spain. There’s hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls. The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch. And I don’t like anybody very much!

But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud, for man’s been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lovely day, someone will set the spark off… and we will all be blown away.
They’re rioting in Africa. There’s strife in Iran. What nature doesn’t do to us… will be done by our fellow man.

(Sheldon Harnick)

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