Why, yes. Yes, he does. He also goes shopping. Wonder what the Bear bought?
Category Archives: Travel
Does a Bear Piss in the Desert?
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., iPhone, Leather, Men, Palm Springs and the Desert, Photography, Road Trips, Southern California, Travel
Tagged Bear, California, Culture, Gay, High Desert, iPhone photography, Piss, Travel, Yellow Hanky
Emigrant: The Other White Meat?
I came across this delicately-worded plaque commemorating the Donner Party at a snowy highway rest stop on a recent road trip on Route 80, over the Donner Pass. Notice that it says many died…but not all. No mention of how the survivors survived. Also, “emigrant” is misspelled.
(Post title credit: The Texan.)
-AidanAbroad
Posted in GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., North America, Northern California, Road Trips, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Signage, Strange News, Travel
Tagged California, cannibalism, Donner, Emigrant, high Sierras, Highway, may, misspelled signs, Nevada, party, pass, Rest stop, Road Trip, route 80, Sierra Nevada, Snow, white meat
Big Gay Boat Trip: Jack Fritscher on Going Down on the Titanic
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, Honcho magazine published in serial form a short novel by author and advocate of homomasculinity Jack Fritscher. This weekend, Palm Drive Press is publishing his Titanic: The Untold Tale of Gay Passengers and Crew, 100th Anniversary Collectors’ Edition.
Fritscher notices the details and comments on contemporary media reportage, saying: “In movie-newsreel footage shot three days later on the deck of the rescue ship Carpathia immediately after it docked in New York, a dozen of the surviving Titanic crew, mostly sailor lads in tight white pants hiding little, showing lots, can be seen in very intimate horseplay, camping around, and posing in life jackets, pretending to faint. Of the 885 male crew on Titanic, 693 (or 78%) died. Altogether, 1,352 men perished. If, according to Kinsey, one out of six ordinary men is gay, then 225 gay men died. If two out of six in the travel industry are gay, 450 gay men died, making the Titanic an overlooked but essential chapter in gay history.”
Looking forward to this read! Flip open the cover…take a deep breath and…go down. Speaking of sweet-looking sailors, click here and here. Studio Royale’s take on ship discipline here. More on the gay implications of the Titanic and That Sinking Feeling here.
Posted in History, Literature, Men, Travel
Tagged Culture, Erotica, Gay, History, Jack Fritscher, Literature, Titanic
Sit on his Sniffer! Free Parking in Rear. Pinocchio’s in the Desert.
The desert classic…
Giant Cocks of Bhutan!
We found this photo illustrating an unrelated article on relative penis size around the world on Out Traveler. It’s a doorway in Bhutan…Land of the Fire Dragon. Is that what we’re calling them these days? Fire Dragons? Cool! So: Welcome to the Year of the Dragon. Soon…
NY Tollbooth
Northbound toll booth in New York state, with some interesting iPhone/window reflections.
– AidanAbroad
Posted in New York, Road Trips, Travel
Tagged iPhone, New York, Photography, Road Trip, Tollbooth
Waterbury, CT: Mosque Under Construction
Just drove by an interesting construction project in Waterbury, CT: a mosque (the walls are blanketed in a particularly loud shade of green plastic sheets), partially obscured by pizza and furniture billboards.
-AidanAbroad
Hot Leathers in rural CT?
Reporting from middle-of-nowhere, Connecticut: Have the Gay Highwaymen stumbled upon a Mr. S outpost, or perhaps a dungeon surrounded by tobacco fields and cows? Or is it a disappointing but optimistically-named retail space filled handbags and wallets?
Didn’t have time to investigate this store, just caught a glimpse of the “HOT LEATHERS” sign as we drove by seen in rural CT near Ellington. What’s inside? It’s a mystery, unless a CT reader of this site can enlighten us.
-AidanAbroad
Posted in Connecticut, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Leather, Road Trips, Signage, Subcultures, Travel
Tagged BDSM, Connecticut, Hot, Leather, mystery, Rural, store
BART Reflections
The third and final image from my BART commute this cold and rainy morning: Reflections in the window of the BART/CalTrain station in Millbrae, CA. Below, the CalTrain tracks and a northbound train; in the reflection, the canopy roof of the train station. The light of the rising sun on the clouds in the reflection adds a bright spot to the gray sky.
-AidanAbroad
BART Art.
BART art – seen on the inside of a recycling bin at the 16th Street Mission BART station in San Francisco.
-AidanAbroad
The Gay Highwaymen 