Tag Archives: Culture
Sexy Jesii: It’s a bird; it’s a plane; OMG it’s Super-Christ!
Jesus on Steroids! This Easter Week Billboard offering recalls 19th century notions of athleticism as a physical proof of spiritual virility and power. With a stiff dose of 20th century body-building culture. More soon.
Posted in Bodybuilding/Muscles, Sexy Holidays, Signage, Spirituality
Tagged billboard, Bodybuilder, Christ, Christian, Culture, Gay, Jesii, Jesus, Muscles, Sexy, Signage
Fukya! New from JoJo Mendoco. Cali Mangaka. G-Men inspired Leathersex Art.
Fukya! JoJo Mendoco c2011
“Let’s enjoy G-Men’s way.” New from JoJo Mendoco. This one is directly inspired by the Japanese G-Men series. Mainly manga for gay men, G-Men focuses on Bara (Bears), Gaten-Kai (Blue-Collar Men) and other masculine types. G-Men features photographic material as well as cartoons and personal ads. Mangaka (manga artist) Gengorah Tagame is a driving force behind this hot series. More on him soon. Very visual in its impact, no reading knowledge of Japanese is needed to enjoy G-Men’s way!
Posted in Comics, Japan, JoJo Mendoco, Leather, Mendocino County, Subcultures
Tagged Art, Bara, BDSM, California, Comics, Culture, G-Men, Gai Comi, Gaten-Kai, Gay, JoJo Mendoco, Kink, Leather, Leathersex, Manga, Rope, S/m, Sexy, Yaoi
Competitive Timbersports! Hot Lumberjacks work the Wood.
These lumberjacks look okay to us! They can come work on our trees anytime. Timbersports is the lumberjack version of rodeo: a competitive event to show off working skills. Surprising that there seems to be no gay competitive timbersports team. After all…Timbersports!? And Lumberjacks are certainly iconic enough. Touko Laaksonen, known as Tom of Finland, certainly thought so…
Tom of Finland for Physique Quarterly
Posted in Subcultures, Tibersports, Video
Tagged Culture, lumberjack, Sexy, Timbersports, Tom of Finland, Touko Laaksonen, Video
Men Kissing…sexy slide show.
Facebook, that gleaming bastion of Internet freedom, is purportedly zapping pics of same-sex kisses. FB users have responded with Kissing is Cool, a virtual public event and discussion. More on that here. For revolutionary Egyptian kisses, click here and here.
Posted in Internet, Photography
Tagged censorship, Culture, Facebook, Gay, kiss, Kissing is Cool, Leather, Men, Photography, same-sex, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Sexy
Palm Sunday’s surprisingly sexy Processions: sacramental slide show
Palm Sunday is a movable feast, marked by processions that simulate Christ’s entry to Jerusalem by donkey. His path was said to have been strewn with palm fronds. Fronds used in contemporary rituals are burned and the ashes used to mark the foreheads of the faithful on Ash Wednesday. Look forward to a slide show of hot Catholic guys with ashy foreheads this coming week, as well as a series of sexy representations of Christ, called Sexy Jesii. Happy Easter week to our Catholic and Christian friends. God loves all His children and He has a wicked sense of humor!
Posted in Spirituality, Subcultures
Tagged Ash Wednesday, Catholic, Christian, Culture, Easter, Movable Feast, Palm Sunday, Procession, Sexy, Spirituality
The Beast in Me…
…is caged by frail and fragile bonds. Nick Lowe’s quiet, intense, acoustic analysis of his own shadow. Not gay per se, but it does speak to Leather aesthetics and spirituality. We should all be so well-acquainted with our own beasts. Another quiet intense man, Johnny Cash “The Man in Black” covered it here. Careful of the quiet ones. And keep the restraints handy.
Posted in Music, Spirituality, Video
Tagged Aesthetics, BDSM, Beast in Me, Culture, Johnny Cash, Kink, Leather, Man in Black, Nick Lowe, Spirituality, Video
Can you hear me NOW? I’m Gay. The Verizon Guy is coming out!
After nine years in a corporate closet, Paul Marcarelli is coming out as gay. The horn-rimmed spokesman for Verizon talked to Spencer Morgan of The Atlantic about the contract that has sealed his lips for the past decade. It had what amounted to a no self-outing clause. Anonymous mascots are not supposed to have lives that could publicly detract from the characters they play. And being gay is still good dish, way too juicy for the bean-counters to risk. Homophobia blurs with the bottom line. Marcarelli’s catch phrase “Can You Hear Me Now?” will certainly go down in the history of TV advertising slogans – along with other pervertable classics such as: “Where’s the Beef?” “Don’t Squeeze the Charmin'” and “You’re soaking in It.” Marcarelli is currently in post-production on The Green, a film he wrote and co-produced and which focuses on a small-town gay couple who become embroiled in a scandal. Look forward to it on the festival circuit. The Atlantic article is available here.
Posted in Television
Tagged Advertising, Can You Hear Me Now?, Coming Out, Culture, Gay, Guy, Mascot, Paul Macarelli, Spokesman, Television, TV, Verizon
Another Giant Lumberjack on US 101
Icons often outlast their inspirations. Lumber and fishing long since gave way to wine and weed in California’s Mendocino County. This restaurant mascot lumberjack walks roadside forever in Willits. And he’s not the only giant lumberjack on the 101: here is another.
Posted in Mendocino County, Northern California, Signage, Timbersports
Tagged Culture, Gay, lumberjack, Mascot, Mendocino County, Photography, Statue, Timbersports, US 101, Willits
Ouch! New Yaoi Bara Manga Style California Gay S/m Erotica from JoJo Mendoco
More here and here. And a brand new 3-panel Catholic guilt redeemed or “Bless Me, Father!” image right here. For “SirYesSir”, click here.
Posted in Comics, JoJo Mendoco, Leather, Mendocino County, San Francisco, Subcultures
Tagged Art, Bara, BDSM, Comics, Culture, Erotic, Gay, JoJo Mendoco, Kink, Leather, Manga, S/m, San Francisco, Sexy, The 15 Association, Yaoi
Gay Guerrilla Leather Bar at Straight Skylark in San Francisco #SaveTheSFEagle!
What else do we do in Leather bars other than wear leather, socialize and drink? We make out, grope, slap face and ass, suck cock, drink piss, eat cigar ashes, trade gut punches, whip and get whipped, talk trash, fuck in corners, lick boots, tap sacs, work on nips, use the slaves, and so forth. In short, we have Leathersex, or at the very least our rough version of foreplay.
In the tradition of Queer Nation Kiss Ins and the club activist Guerrilla Gay Bar scene, the San Francisco-based ad hoc Save the Eagle gang is organizing a takeover of the straight Mission district hipster bar The Skylark. Its owner is purportedly involved with underhanded machinations to acquire the lease and license on the Eagle space – and turn it into a straight bar. See more here and here.
So tonight, the Skylark goes “Leather” for the night. Well, sort of. The idea is to wear Leather, use pink highlighters to encode paper money as “gay” and spend money at the bar. If everyone “respects the space that we are borrowing tonight” as the organizers suggest, then everyone may mix just fine. This begs the question: why even have our own spaces? WE know why. But – how do we show them why…while still respecting their space? That’s a hard one!
From organizers Kyle DeVries and Anna Glendon Conda Hyde: “Tonight at 8 dress in leather and head to the Skylark bar on 16th. Mark your money with a pink pen or marker so that it is seen as coming from our community. This is not about harming the Skylark but rather showing what would be lost if the Eagle went away and showing how queer space is not always the same as “just any bar”. We as a community should be vocal and visible while respecting the space that we are borrowing tonight.
So far the Skylark has not signed a lease due to public pressure. We are the first step closer to saving the Eagle. The Board of Supervisors issued a Commendation Certificate in recognition of the Eagles efforts in raising over 3 million dollars during its 30 year run for the queer community and are working to have the space land marked. They are also hoping to work with the concerned parties to negotiate a way to keep the Eagle as a space for our community.
Thanks for showing up and especially to the 15 people who stayed till 730 to make public comment at the Board of Supervisors meeting after 6 hours of waiting.
The people united can not be divided. Deep respect Anna and Kyle”
Posted in History, Leather, San Francisco, Subcultures
Tagged Activist, Bar, BDSM, Culture, Direct Action, Gay, History, Kink, Leather, LGBT, Mission district, San Francisco, Save the Eagle, SF Eagle, Skylark, SOMA
The Gay Highwaymen 