Category Archives: Europe

Jewish Moscow: Chabad sanctuary, a queer man’s view from the women’s balcony

Posted on May 4, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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

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Posted in Europe, Men, Russia, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Spirituality, Subcultures, Travel, WORLD WIDE: Gay around the Globe!

Jewish Moscow: staircase at Chabad shul

Posted on May 4, 2011 by | Leave a comment

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…

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Posted in Beards, Europe, Facial hair, Men, Russia, Spirituality, Travel, WORLD WIDE: Gay around the Globe!

May the 4th STILL be with you! Great Gay Portugese Androids. #maythe4thbewithyou

Posted on May 4, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Gay Androids! From the Portugese comics/cosplay site Cinemaxunga. Worth a visit!

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Posted in Comics, Film, Portugal, Sexy Holidays, Subcultures

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Authentic Caucasian Food

Posted on April 30, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Authentic Caucasian food, served at the Chabad in downtown Moscow by handsome, dark-eyed waiters from the Caucuses.

What do Caucasians eat, exactly? Chopped salads. Spicy chicken. Fresh herbs. Ground lamb. Flaky pastries for dessert.

Tasty.

-AidanAbroad

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Report from Jewish Russia

Posted on April 30, 2011 by | Leave a comment

I recently visited Eastern Europe – Warsaw and Poland – to learn more about what Jewish life is like there. I will post photos from my trip here, so stay tuned.

This is the first one: a map from the Jewish Community Center in Moscow. Each light represents a Jewish community somewhere in Russia.
-AidanAbroad

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Posted in Europe, History, Russia, Spirituality, Subcultures, Travel

Top o’ the Morningwood to You!

Posted on March 18, 2011 by | 1 comment

JoJo Mendoco 2011

A JoJo Mendoco original, inspired by Japanese comics: yaoi bara, gai comi and manga in general as well as Western gay erotic artists such as Etienne. For the 2012 St. Patrick’s day offering, in which a rough sex leprechaun sticks it to a Brit boy, click here. For lots more JoJo Mendoco, here.

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Posted in Art and Artists, Comics, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Ireland, Japan, Leather, Sexy Holidays

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Happy Sexy St. Patrick’s Day!

Posted on March 17, 2011 by | Leave a comment

This hulking leprechaun is via the Muscle Manifesto blog. Origin and date unknown. Digital media…no pens and pencils here…all pixel-pushing and paths.

For other Sexy Holidays, click here, here, here and here. There are plenty of others in the Sexy Holidays category.

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Leather at the Voodoo Mystere in New Orleans: Custom and Vintage Mix at the Bar

Posted on March 7, 2011 by | 5 comments

Geragear Custom Leathers owner Frederique Delius relaxing on the bar at the Voodoo Mystere Lounge on North Rampart Street in New Orleans. If you need leather in NOLA, drop in and talk to him. He tends bar Saturday through Tuesday from 11am to 7pm. A man of at least several talents, Frederique was born in East Germany, hopped the wall as a youth, and spent 15 years as an NYPD cop before moving to New Orleans. He is also a nice guy and quite easy on the eyes.

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Flogging the Peg Boy! Sexy Sailors from London’s Studio Royale.

Posted on February 22, 2011 by | 2 comments

Another interesting vintage photograph. From Studio Royale of London.* It’s got that mid-century film still thing going on and a nice reference to the old law of the sea. Whether in the legitimate Navies or their pirate shadows authority condensed into the will of a single man, the Captain, and was enforced by, among other things…the sting of the lash.

For another mid-century photo, this one of mysterious provenance, click here. For more on homoeroticism on the high seas, check out Hans Turley’s Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality and Masculine Identity. NYU Press, 1999.

*Thomas Waugh. Hard to Imagine Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall, New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, page 256.

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Homoerotic Contact Sports…Sizzling Hot Turkish Oil Wrestlers!

Posted on February 20, 2011 by | Leave a comment

This is courtesy the very provocative and entertaining Men Without Clothes blog. This is a teaser. What moves! Lots more there. We were turned on to it by friend of this site slave jody, who knows he’d never make a win in this sport because he so enjoys getting pinned. Down, boys! All the way. Good boys. For a very different wrestler, click here.

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