From the small volume Scouts in Bondage and Other Violations of Literary Propriety. Edited by Michael Bell, a proprietor of secondhand books from the “ancient coastal town” of Lewes, England. Scouts is a collection of amusing covers, this one from 1959 is subtitled “An Adventure Story for Boys.” What? That’s what Neo-colonial crypto-homosexuality was called in the middle of the 20th century…
Tag Archives: boys
Leathers in Mozambique
Posted in Africa, Collecting, England, Europe, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., History, Leather, Literature, Military, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Youth
Tagged Adventure, Art, Books, boys, Colonialism, Culture, Edward M. Christie, England, Gay Gaze, Leather, Literature, Michael Bell, Mozambique, Pop Culture, Wordplay
First of the Happy Sexy 2012 New Years Posts
Ringing it in with the boys! No idea who the artist is on this little one. As always, extra information is well appreciated.
Sights seen at the 2011 “Up Your Alley” Dore Street Fair: Puppy Boys
San Francisco’s K-9 Unit enjoys an afternoon of Puppy Play. Woof! Sunday afternoon at the Up Your Alley / Dore Street Fair. For more hot men and boys from this year, click here. For pics from 2010’s Fair, click here. Photos: Gay Highwaymen
Posted in Human Animals, Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Strange Holidays, Subcultures, Surveillance, Wrestling, Youth
Tagged BDSM, boys, Culture, Dogs, Dore Alley, Fetish, Gay, Gear, Kink, Photography, Puppy Play, San Francisco, Sexy, SOMA, Street Fair, Surveillance, Up Your Alley
Styles of Masculinity in early 20th Century Photography…Sights Seen in Old Snap Shots
Plucked from a California photo box in a Sonoma County Antique Mall: boxers, cowboys, dads, dandies, hunters, footballers, motorists, photographers, sailors, soldiers, sons, students, swimmers, tough guys, workers, writers and other interesting men and boys. Vernacular snap-shots from the first half of the twentieth century.
Posted in Collecting, Northern California, Photography
Tagged 20th century, boys, Culture, History, Men, Photography, Sexy, Vernacular Photography
Bacha Bazi – The “dancing boys” of Afghanistan
Private dancer: The practice of bacha bazi ('boy for play') is growing in Afghanistan. Photograph: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
The PBS documentary series Frontline has produced an investigative piece on the ancient Afghan practice of Bacha Bazi, translated as “boy play.” Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi reports in The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan. Watch the full 53 minute program on-line at PBS. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad also reported on the apparently growing phenomena in September of last year in the UK’s Guardian.
The Gay Highwaymen 