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Mayor of Folsom Street launches at Center for Sex and Culture
Daddy Alan Selby. It’s been nearly a decade since we lost him. At that time, he was working on his autobiography, titled “The Mayor of Folsom Street.” In memorium, this year, that book will finally be published. It’s planned release is December, 2014. On June 6th, an exhibit based of materials from his archive will open at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco. In 2015, the archive will move to Chicago, to The Leather Archive and Museum. On Sunday, March 2nd, the project will launch at CSC. A small, informal fundraiser from 5 to 8 pm will feature a short reading from the book, a sneak peak at the exhibit, a silent auction, an open mic of speakers and the launch of the Mayor of Folsom St t-shirt fundraising campaign.
Posted in AIDS, England, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., History, Leather, Men, Obituary, San Francisco, Scholarship, Subcultures
Tagged Activism, AIDS, Alan Selby, Autobiography, BDSM, Center for Sex and Culture, Community, England, Exhibit, Hall if Fame, History, Leather, Leather Archives and Museum, Mayor of Folsom Street, Mr.S, San Francisco, Service
Safe Sex Bang!
Many of us remember vividly the period in the 1980s and 90s when campaigns promoting safer sex practices developed, looking back on the visual materials from these campaigns has been both a moving experience of memory and an exciting new perspective of the work many of us did in that time. As these posters and other materials begin to pass in to something more like history than recent memory, we get to see them again. Thankfully, we can now see a little more of their artistry rather than only seeing the urgency that created their message.
These materials are of both cultural and artistic significance. They were often created by advertising and illustration professionals who were suddenly free to apply their best and most innovative ideas that may have been constrained by mainstream business. With the lives and health of their community at stake, and often their own, these artists brought all of their skill to bear on efforts to save lives.
The catalog will contain images of these collected materials, primarily posters, including safer sex campaigns from North America, Europe, and Oceania. We will also include an art historical essay by Alex Fialho as well as Alex’s interview of Buzz Bense about the collection he accumulated and a foreward by Dr. Carol Queen.
Please join us in producing this important volume of materials, both for the preservation of history and to communicate to the world more broadly the great power of the work so many did in desperate times. Your contribution is critical to our success. You will be rewarded at various levels with copies of the catalog, original posters (duplicates from the collection), CSC Library tote bags (it’s like we are PBS, no?), and even a personalized tour of the archive guided by our gallerist, Dorian Katz and CSC executive director Dr. Carol Queen.
CSC’s exhibition displaying nearly 100 of these safer sex posters from the Buzz Bense collection opens on November 8 at 7 pm, and runs through January 31st 2014.
– See more at: http://www.sexandculture.org/#sthash.W72ZWNqo.dpuf
Jingle boys! Hot Leather Dad captures Santa skivvy run in SF Castro in cool seasonal video. Ho! Ho! Ho!
Jingle boys! Also a few girls, Dads, Queens on Segways, frosty snowmen, etc. Hot Leather Dad Steve Gaynes shot the scene seen here. Click through for groovy video! A fun(d)raiser for the SF AIDS Foundation.
Posted in Drag, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Internet, Leather, Men, San Francisco, Sexy Holidays, Strange Holidays, Subcultures, Surveillance, Video, Youth
Tagged 2013, Castro Street, Christmas, Gay, Leather Dad, Runners, Santa, Sexy, SFAF, Skivvy, Surveillance, Video, Xmas
Other Blogs: Cool Brit Art Site Crab Wise
Hey, duck-boy! Sculpture by Liu Xue. Other hybrids include frog-men, half-seals and other chimeric creatures.
What a hot-head! Photography by Kyle Thompson.
Like hairy guys? This furball by Markus Leitsch might be…right up your alley. For more interesting things to point your eyeballs at, visit Crab Wise!
Lichen that Beard!!!
Old man beard lichen. Really! That’s what it’s called and we are lichen it.
‘Burban Street Art. Really!
Suburban, that is! For Bourbon St. And boys showing their dicks for beads click here. These Novy boots are knocking sox outside The World Famous Turf Club, Hayward’s Gay bar, one of the oldest in the SF Bay Area. Post WWII – 1946. Welcome homo, boys!
Cool pink t-Rex. Artist unknown. Drawing on map. In a Chronicle box. I think this is the same artist who did the yellow Dr. Seuss fish in the next medley.
Do you give a flying fuck? JoJo Mendoco does. Yellow fish? Maybe.
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Art and Artists, Comics, DIY and Maker Culture, East Bay, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., iPhone, JoJo Mendoco, Men, Photography, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc., Subcultures
Tagged Boots, Culture, Flying Fuck, Gay, Hayward, Jeremy Novy, JoJo Mendoco, Street Art, Suburban, T. Rex
Super Spider Shelf Men…
Spider-Man and Superman: They do whatever super-spider shelf men can! Sight seen in a truck stop gift shop. For a strange mid-century Japanese Batman who takes it up the butt, click here.
SF Eagle sports cool vintage bar art. Texan digs it!
Cool bar art in the patio of the SF Eagle. Paint on plywood. Big! The Texan has fun with them. That’s ex-Texan, meaning from Texas and the operative word is FROM. The artist is Webster, 1998 vintage. In the style of that Finnish guy, Tom.
Want a Big Cock? Try Radiation!
Radiation Range? Well, it worked with vegetables on Gilligan’s Island. Maybe it’s just a mid-century myth. It could always back-fire into a micro-bantam. Hate when That happens! Cockadoodledoo…
The Gay Highwaymen 