Sorry to say, but it seems I have been all tied up for too long.
Time to poke my head up and nose around a bit, at least, once I am done playing with myself…
Smooches from your KC ‘mo, Gryphon.
Category Archives: Facial hair
Other Blogs: The Gay Manifesto. “Survival is a Choice”
An interesting counterpoint to the stereotype of the urban, liberal, out and proud gay, the author of The Gay Manifesto is rural, more libertarian than liberal and off the grid and proud. He describes himself: “I am a pissed off Gay American living off-grid in the mountains of Southern Colorado. I built my own cabin, grow most of my own food, generate my own power and brew my own beer…”
Posted in Activism, DIY and Maker Culture, Facial hair, Food, Gardening, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Human Rights, Internet, Men, Photography, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Subcultures
Tagged Activism, Colorado, Culture, Drop Out, Gay, Headlines, Homestead, Maker Culture, Off-Grid, Rural Gay Life, Survival
“Happyfuckin’ 4th of July, Unclefucker!” New Yaoi Bara Cali Manga from JoJo Mendoco
Posted in Activism, Art and Artists, Comics, Facial hair, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., JoJo Mendoco, Leather, North America, Porn, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Sexy Holidays, Strange Holidays, Subcultures
Tagged 4th of July, Art, Bara, Cartoon, Comics, Culture, Eric Cartman, Gay, Homoerotic, JoJo Mendoco, Manga, Mask, OWS, politics, Satire, South Park, Uncle Sam, Unclefucker, Vendetta, Yaoi
Jackhammer Bear
Bear friend shot in Mendocino County. Vintage T-Shirt from the former Jackhammer bar in San Francisco.
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Beards, Collecting, Facial hair, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Human Animals, iPhone, Leather, Men, Mendocino County, Photography, San Francisco, Signage, Subcultures
Tagged Bara, Bear, Beard, Gay, Gay Bar, iPhone photography, Jackhammer, Leather, San Francisco
Go Bears! F***king Hot Wearable Cal Satire
Our pal “King Tut” turned us on to this fun and funny t-shirt designed and manufactured locally the old fashioned way: hand-drawn and screen-printed in the artist’s studio. In fact, he gave us the shirt off his back! What a good boy. Artist Auvrey makes these and others and hangs out in San Francisco’s Castro Gayborhood. This one takes off on the UC Berkeley “Cal” mascot. Got the colors down, too. We like it…even though we are Stanford Dads. Hah! Go Bears!
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., DIY and Maker Culture, East Bay, etc..., Facial hair, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., San Francisco, Signage, Sports
Tagged Animals, Art, Bara, Bear, Culture, Gay, San Francisco, Satire, Screen Printing, Sodomy, T-Shirt, UC Berkeley
Eric Robinson’s “Leathermen” at QIY: Queer It Yourself – Big Gay Art Show
Eric Robinson and "Leathermen" at Las Manos Gallery in Chicago
Eric Robinson’s wet-plate ambrotypes will be showing as part of QIY: Queer It Yourself, which opens Saturday at SOMArts. The exhibit presents alternative, queer, do-it-yourself processes and projects, collaborations, zines, posters, green architecture, activist interventions and recuperations of low-tech media. Robinson took his 19th century kit (big awkard camera, portable darkroom, an array of chemicals, beakers and trays…) to the Dore “Up Your Alley” Fair in 2010, supplementing a series of portraits of Leathermen that he began the previous year. Images from that series will be on exhibit. More on Robinson here, here, here and here.
Robinson at work making wet-plate ambrotypes. These one-of-a-kind photographs on glass were common during the mid 19th century. As it disappears into the digital realm, this work reminds us of the physical, chemical and optical origins of photography. At the same time, generic conventions suggest that “fetish” photography should be slick and polished, suitable for publication in magazines, and “straight” in the photographic sense. These images kick that cliche, their hand-hewn aesthetic underscoring the sense that we are looking into not only the history of photography, but that of Leather. Old Guard all around…QIY is part of the National Queer Arts Festival. This year’s theme is A Sustainable Queer Planet. More on the festival here and more soon. QIY opens Saturday, June 4th with a reception from 1pm until 4pm. SOMArts is located at 934 Brannan at 8th St. in San Francisco. The gallery is tucked under the freeway, just to the east of the Trader Joe’s complex.
Posted in Art and Artists, Beards, Collecting, DIY and Maker Culture, Eric Robinson, Facial hair, Leather, Men, Photography, San Francisco, Southern Illinois, Subcultures
Tagged 19th century, Ambrotype, Art, BDSM, Culture, Dore Alley, Eric Robinson, Gay, Kink, Leather, Leathermen, LGBT, Old Guard, Photography, QIY, Queer Arts Festival, Queer It Yourself, San Francisco, Sexy, SOMA, Somarts, Up Your Alley Fair
Other Blogs: Accidental Bear and his Daily Hair Ball
This Ready to Bare site’s promo describes itself as a site dedicated to Queer Culture , Art, Community, Discussion & Celebrity Interviews. Regularly entertaining, Accidental Bear features the Hair Ball of the Day. Big fun for fur fans!
Posted in Beards, Facial hair, Internet, Photography, Subcultures
Tagged Accidental Bear, Bear, Beard, Gay, Hairy, Hirsute, Internet, Otter, Photography, Sexy
Men Kissing for I.D.A.H.O. – Sexy Slide Show!
Happy International Day Against HOmophobia! More on I.D.A.H.O. here, and more gay kisses here. Our love is stronger than anyone’s hate.
Posted in Activism, Beards, Facial hair, Leather, Men, Photography, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Sexy Holidays
Tagged Activism, Culture, Gay, IDAHO, Leather, Men kissing, Photography, Sexy
Tickle your Fancy at the World Beard and Mustache Championships
via Accidental Bear, who writes: “Just imagine the upkeep and maintenance on these beards. I want to give them a two-snaps-in-circle, via In Living Color days for the commitment. How many pretzels or peanut M&M’s have they lost in these beards, only for them to drop out at the most awkward of times. The back stage area must be busier that a toddler beauty pageant. I am all about a fuzzy man with a beard, but my next question I want to ask one of these ‘mountain man’ is, “During sex, do you tie it back or like a drag queen tucking the naughty bits, do you tuck it somewhere?” For more on the World Beard and Mustache Championships, click here.
Posted in Beards, Facial hair, Strange News, Subcultures
Tagged Beard, Culture, Facial Hair, Gay, Mustache
Hung like a…
Hector Silva
New sexy monster from Los Angeles based artist Hector Silva. More about him and his homeboy art here.
Posted in Collecting, Facial hair, Hector Silva, Men
Tagged Art, Centaur, Culture, Gay, Hector Silva, Homeboy, Kink, Sexy
The Gay Highwaymen 