Norwood Young's "House of the Naked Davids"
Nineteen naked “Davids” festoon the Hancock Park residence of Norwood Young. The huge reproductions of Michelangelo’s famous statue have not always been popular with Young’s neighbors. His decorating choices have made him the subject of several lawsuits over the years. He notes of the sale: “It’s up to the new owner to decide what to do with all the David statues.” For the LA Times article, plus a video of the strange spread, click here.
Posted in Architecture, Collecting, Gardening, Los Angeles, Strange News
Tagged architecture, Art, Camp, Culture, David, Hancock Park, House, Kitsch, Los Angeles, Michelangelo, Naked
Richard Bolingbroke. Lost. 2009. From the series "Art is a Four Letter Word"
Friend of this site Richard Bolingbroke has launched a new website. Bolingbroke says of his series Art is a Four Letter Word: “Words and images are the two main ways we communicate and understand the world around us. In these paintings I explore the interplay of words and images in an effort to understand both the innate tension that exists between these two methods of defining and recording ideas, and the bond that they can create with intellect and sensation.” His new site is live, here. Enjoy!
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Tagged Art, Culture, Gay, Image/Text, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Spirituality, Watercolor
Posted in Photography, Subcultures
Tagged Culture, DILF, Gay, Hot Dad, Photography, Pop, Sexy, William Burroughs
Cock-a-doodle-do-me! Great found still life pop art from a pal’s place down the peninsula. Snap! Shoot. For the true taste of the West Indies, click here. For the wild cocks of San Juan Bautista, here. iPhoto: GH 
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., iPhone, Northern California
Tagged Art, cock, Culture, iPhone, Photography, Pop, Pun, Satire
When an androgynous male model named Jo Calderone appeared in Vogue Homme Japan last year, celeb watchers noted that he looked a lot like Lady Gaga might in male drag. Turns out, that is exactly who “he” was. The young diva, who dodges regular rumors that she is intersex, shows off Jo on the cover art of her next single, “You and I.” You Go, Guy Gaga!
Posted in Drag, Japan, Photography, Strange News
Tagged Art, Culture, Drag, Homme, Intersex, Japan, Jo Calderone, Lady Gaga, Music, Photography, Queer, Vogue, You and I
Posted in Art and Artists, Leather, Photography, Spain, Strange News
Tagged Art, BDSM, Culture, David Blazquez, El Fotomata, Gay, Human Furniture, Kink, Mobiliario Humano, Photography, Seville, Sexy, Spain
Rudolf Brazda is photographed in 2008 in Berlin in front of a memorial for homosexual victims of the Nazis. Brazda died Wednesday, according to a German gay rights group. He was 98. (Ronny Hartmann / Associated Press)
“They were never able to destroy me. I am not ashamed.” Buchenwald survivor Rudolf Brazda lived almost a century as a gay man, enjoying the tolerant climate of the Weimar Republic as a young man, and living openly with his lover. When the Nazis came to power, all that changed. Brazda was arrested under the notorious Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code and deported to the Buchenwald death camp. The pink triangle that marked him as a homosexual in the camps may have also helped saved his life. “Others died but I came through” Brazda once explained. At least twice he was helped by SS guards, with whom he probably had sexual relationships. He discretely describes the guard who intervened to prevent his execution for insulting another guard as “infatuated.” After liberation, Brazda settled in Alsace, where he met his partner Edi in 1950. The couple stayed together until Edi’s death in 2002. Earlier this year, Brazda was honored by the French Legion d’Honneur. Kim Willsher of the LA Times reports from Paris. Story here.
Who knew?
Posted in Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy Holidays, Surveillance
Tagged Culture, Dore, Gandhi, Gay, Leather, Look Alike, Photography, San Francisco, Surveillance, Up Your Alley
Posted in Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy Holidays, Subcultures, Surveillance
Tagged BDSM, Culture, Dore Alley, Fetish, Gay, Gear, Kink, Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy, SOMA, Street Fair, Surveillance, Up Your Alley
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
The Gay Highwaymen 