The Eastsider LA reports that the Cove Avenue Stairway in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles may be renamed in honor of Harry Hay, who in 1951 formed the early gay rights group the Mattachine Society in a house he lived in at the top of the stairs. For the full article, click here.
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Harry Hay Stairway!
Happy 271st Birthday to the Marquis de Sade!
Thanks to friend of this site Mike Caffee for alerting us to this! Mike, who is the artist who created the famous Febe’s “Leather David” icon, informs us that way back in the day, his Old Guard circles threw elaborate, very kinky parties in commemoration of the birthday of the original polymorphous pervert.
Hide/Seek in San Francisco with Curator Jonathan D. Katz
Hide/Seek Curator Jonathan D. Katz
Last October, The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery opened Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, the first major museum exhibition showing how the questions of gender and sexual identity have dramatically shaped the creation of modern American portraiture.
For background on the censorship scandal that ensued, click here, here, and here.
On June 3rd, Jonathan D. Katz, director of the doctoral program in visual studies, State University of New York at Buffalo, will discuss his role as co-curator and will consider such themes as sexual difference in depicting modern Americans; how artists have explored the definition of sexuality and gender; how major themes in modern art-especially abstraction-were influenced by this form of marginalization and how art reflected society’s changing attitudes. -via QCC
The program is at The LGBT Community Center at Market and Octavia. It begins at 8pm and costs $10. Want to get more of Katz? Want to give more to regional arts and humanities? Come to the Pre-party!
From 6pm until the lecture starts, enjoy a reception for Dr. Katz to benefit the Queer Cultural Center‘s Queer Conversations on Culture and the Arts: a series of lectures co-presented by QCC and the California College of the Arts. QCCA brings together locally and nationally renowned artists, writers, filmmakers, and scholars for a series of conversations to discuss a broad range of topics in the humanities and the arts. Reception tickets are $25-$100 donation and include wine, hors d’oeuvres, and preferred seating at the lecture.
Posted in Activism, Art and Artists, Collecting, DIY and Maker Culture, History, Men, Photography, San Francisco, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Scholarship, Video, Washington DC
Tagged Art, CCA, censorship, Culture, Exhibition, Gay, History, National Portrait Gallery, Photography, Portraiture, QCC, QCCA, San Francisco
Happy Serenely Sexy Vesak! #BuddhasBirthday
Sputnik photo 2009
In Bangkok, the gay hangout Q Bar is closed Tuesday for Vesak, a national holiday in Thailand and much of the Eastern world. More than Buddha’s Birthday, as it is sometimes known, Vesak commemorates not only the birth, but also the enlightenment and passing of Gautama Buddha. Other names for the commemorative day include Vesākha, Wesak, Visakah Puja, Vaishaka, Buddha Purnima, Visakha Bucha, Saga Dawa, 佛誕 (fó dàn), Phật Đản วิสาขบูชา and Araw Ni Buddha. Photo by Sputnik via Flickr.
Posted in Asia, History, Photography, Spirituality, Subcultures, Thailand
Tagged Art, Bankok, Buddha's Birthday, Culture, Gay, Q-Bar, Sexy, Spirituality, Vesak
San Juan Bautista One-Room Jail…Cozy!
These old one-room jail cells are common in the American West. It seems that every mission town and stagecoach stop had one. Some had fold-down plank beds, others had bunks. This one features a metal cot with attached shackles. No night-time escapees! Most had a jug for washing and a hole for a toilet. Sometimes, a chair. Luxury lifestyle living! The San Juan jail was built in 1870.
Renaissance iPhone?
The telegraph has been called ‘The Victorian Internet.’ But this thing? Remote communications? On-demand printing? Database? Imaging technology? All in a mobile device! Of course, there are still a few bugs in the system. For the very latest in Renaissance apps…
Tagged Art, Culture, History, Internet, iPhone, New Media, Print, Renaissance, Smartphone
New Yaoi Bara Manga style NSFW Gay Priest Comic Art from JoJo Mendoco
Bless Me Father - JoJo Mendoco 2011
“Dressed like a priest you was. Tod Browning’s freak you was…” Bless me Father. Inspired by a story in Juice: True homosexual experiences from S.T.H. writers Volume 5. From the Gay Sunshine series edited by Boyd McDonald. This series from the 1980s featured true stories and reader photos. Other provocative titles included Meat, Cum, Flesh and Sex. Gay reality one-handed reading. Good stuff. More about S.T.H. later…and plenty of JoJo Mendoco, including Top o’ the Morningwood, Ouch!, SirYesSir, XV.1, Fukya!, and I Want You To…
Posted in Collecting, Comics, History, JoJo Mendoco, Men, Spirituality
Tagged Art, Bara, Boyd McDonald, Catholic, Comics, Culture, Gai Comi, Gay, Gay Sunshine Press, Guilt, Jesus, JoJo Mendoco, Juice, Kink, Manga, Priest, Sexy, Spirituality, STH, Yaoi
The end of the San Francisco Eagle…or is it? Pics and rumors.
The San Francisco Eagle Tavern closed its doors this last weekend. Rumors that it would stay open another month proved unfounded. Is this the end of The Eagle? Self-styled San Francisco “Master of Real Estate” Seth Munter thinks it isn’t. He writes on Facebook: “The Eagle will rise again. John and Joe have no choice but to make sure the Eagle re-opens. They can and they will. Why? Because they cannot AFFORD to do anything else but see that the Eagle reopens. Otherwise, they will lose The Hole In The Wall…” Interesting political logic. For the entire post, click here. For pictures of condos that have been proposed for the site, click here. For a list of all the gay Leather bars called The Eagle, here.
Posted in History, Leather, San Francisco, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Subcultures
Tagged Culture, Gay, History, Kink, Leather, San Francisco, SF Eagle, SOMA, Tavern
No Esquire Covers for sexy Seals who smoked Osama
photo: Kyle D. Gahlau/U.S. Navy.
Team 6 is the ultra elite division of the already elite Navy SEALs. These are the special ops who purportedly took out Osama bin Laden. There won’t be any parades for these guys, though. Heather Murphy, writing for Slate said: “When asked about Team Six, officially known as the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group, one former Navy SEAL told Business Insider, simply, ‘There is no Team 6.’ This means that while these mysterious fellows may have taken out Osama Bin Laden, they won’t get to brag about it.” For the complete article, and a sexy slide show of these very fit guys, click here.
The Gay Highwaymen 