This stained glass Aztec calendar blends artistic elements and styles not often seen together. (Traditionally, these are made from clay.)
Seen at the newly remodeled Taquería Los Coyotes on 16th Street between Mission and Valencia in San Francisco. (Also, if you’re looking for good Mexican food, Los Coyotes is much better than the mediocre mob scene across the street at Pancho Villa.)
-AidanAbroad
Coincidence?
The squatting man in the May 21st Rapture posters looks suspiciously like el caganer, the little squatting shitting paisano, which is Catalan’s famous nativity figure. Connection? Coincidence? This billboard is in San Francisco, hanging on the side of the building that also houses The Lone Star…
Posted in Photography, Signage, Spirituality, Subcultures
Tagged billboard, Brown Hanky, Caganer, Catalan, Culture, Kink, May 21, Nativity, Photography, Rapture, Religious Fanaticism, San Francisco, Satire, Signage, Spirituality, The Lone Star
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
High upon a hill in San Francisco sits the famous concrete Catholic church Our Lady of Maytag. It is designed in homage to that sacred, time-honored symbol of our faith…the washing machine agitator.
-AidanAbroad
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
Left to right: Jose Ortiz, Jonathan Chavez, and Steve Parelli West coast of St. Lucia, Thursday, April 21, 2011.
Other Sheep is an organizational blog about “faith and LGBT concerns worldwide.” Run by long-time partners Rev. Steven Parelli and Mr. Jose Ortiz, Other Sheep recently returned from a nine-day cruise through the Caribbean. Rev. Parelli reflects on what has changed (and what has not) since he was a closeted Baptist teenager on Martinique in 1970. To read the Other Sheep travelogue, click here. For a big evangelical coming-out party, unrelated to Other Sheep, click here.
Posted in Internet, Spirituality, Subcultures, Travel, West Indies
Tagged Baptist, Blogs, Caribbean, Christian, Culture, Evangelical, Gay, Internet, Out, Religion, Spirituality, Travel
In Orthodox Judaism, the men are separated from the women during prayer. They sit behind a mechitza (partition) or, in this case, in a balcony…which may actually be the best seat in the house. This custom is, at least in part, because of the idea that the sight of a woman would arouse a man and take his mind away from prayers.
So where does that leave a frum faygeleh (religious gay man)? I’m not quite sure…many possibilities. I snuck up into the balcony during a non-service time, and snapped this shot of what would normally be the women’s view.
-AidanAbroad
Staircase, spiraling across the 4-floor complex that serves as a community center for ultra-orthodox Jews in Moscow. Lots of men with great beards here, though it would be rude to snap a picture…
Posted in Beards, Europe, Facial hair, Men, Russia, Spirituality, Travel, WORLD WIDE: Gay around the Globe!
I found this quote especially appropriate today:
”I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
–Martin Luther King, Jr.
Words of wisdom…worth considering.
-AidanAbroad
Long before it was International Workers’ Day, it was a pagan holiday, welcoming spring. Cool Gay Texan cartoonist CMan hits both meanings with hunky truckers paying tribute to their buddy’s pole. Let the dance begin! For more of CMan, visit his blog here.
Posted in Art and Artists, Comics, Sexy Holidays, Spirituality, Subcultures, Texas
Tagged Art, Cartoon, CMan, Comics, Culture, Gay, Holiday, Kink, Mayday, Maypole, Sexy, Trucker
The Gay Highwaymen 