Seen on Valencia Street.
-AidanAbroad
Category Archives: North America
Urban Elephant
Esta Noche… Por Día.
Esta Noche, the Latino gay/drag bar on 16th St in the Mission District, SF, on a Monday morning.
-AidanAbroad
Posted in Drag, Northern California, San Francisco, Subcultures
Sidewalk lust.
More man (boy?) lust graffiti. I haven’t seen Jaime to my knowledge, so I can’t attest to it’s accuracy, but since I seem to be documenting lust today, I thought this fit well.
Seen in front of Cesar’s Cafe on Valencia Street.
-AidanAbroad
Posted in Men, Northern California, San Francisco
Early morning lust…
I found this graffiti on the side of my building’s call box this morning. Booty call? Not exactly street art, but perhaps something close, if viewed in the right light. I suppose this is one way of giving voice to your desires, though perhaps not the most effective…
-AidanAbroad
How to Wear a Dress Like a Man
Oops… I mean, a SARONG, not a dress.
Kabuki Springs (the Japanese baths in San Francisco is apparently worried that its male customers will feel insecure in their masculinity if they are expected to wear the same garment as the women who come there. So to compensate, Kabuki offers the male-sounding title of “Court Classic.” Humorous directions for achieving this style include such masculinity-affirming suggestions as “spread your legs wide” and “breathe.”
Seen in the locker room at Kabuki Springs and Spa in Japantown SF, which I highly recommend…the baths, that is. (Tuesday is coed; Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays are men-only, clothing-optional nights.)
-AidanAbroad
Posted in Men, Photography, San Francisco, Signage
AIDS Ribbon on Twin Peaks
The AIDS Ribbon on Twin Peaks in San Francisco – commemorating 30 years of AIDS, and remembering all of those we have lost.
Seen from Civic Center/Market Street.
-AidanAbroad
Rest in Peace. Rest in Power. George Wong
Friend of this site George Wong passed away the morning of June 6, 2011. George was a long-time officer with Avatar Los Angeles and a Gay Games gold medalist in volleyball. He will be missed. For the Leatherati obituary, click here.
Posted in Leather, Los Angeles, Men, Obituary, Subcultures, volleyball
Tagged Avatar, Culture, Gay, George Wong, Kink, Leather, Los Angeles, Obituary, R.I.P., Volleyball
Hairy Cartoon Bears at Magnet!
Noel Ibay
Noel Ibay is exhibiting his images of Bears and Chubs at Magnet. The show is called BEarMUSEMENT, and includes graphite drawings, electronic media, cartoons, and pop-culture parodies and is intended to queer audience notions of male beauty. At Magnet in San Francisco through June. 4122 18th Street in the Castro district. Part of the 14th Annual Queer Arts Festival. More on that here.
Posted in Activism, Art and Artists, Collecting, Comics, DIY and Maker Culture, Men, San Francisco, Subcultures
Tagged Art, Bara, Bears, Chub, Comics, Culture, Gay, Magnet, QCC, Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, Sexy, subculture
Grab some what?
Seeing this advertisement, with fit male baseball players’ crotches at eye level, beer was not the first kind of “bud” I thought they were suggesting that I grab. Nor did I think of “buddies.” A friend from Mendocino thought of green buds when he saw this. Quadruple entendre? Maybe even quintuple?
Seen at South Van Ness and Division Streets in SF.
-AidanAbroad
Posted in Baseball, Men, San Francisco, Signage
Trash.
Seen on my street before the cleaning truck came by this morning. I always wonder how the lonely shoe got there…
-AidanAbroad
Posted in San Francisco
The Gay Highwaymen 