Tag Archives: Film

Kicking James Broughton! And it’s a Big Joy. Really…

Posted on July 1, 2012 by gayhighwaymen | Leave a comment

Friend of this site Jok Church is working on Big Joy! The Adventures of James Broughton. Artist, adventurer, beatnik, and gay hippie, the subject of the upcoming Stephen Silha film was known as an all-around non-conformist. Born in 1913, he lived until 1999. The documentary biopic is in post-production and the filmmakers could use a bit of filthy gorgeous lucre to get it in the can. Can you help? Check out the trailer and consider contributing to the Kickstarter campaign.

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Posted in Art and Artists, Film, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Men, North America, Subcultures

Tagged Art, Beatnik, Big Joy, Culture, Film, Gay, Hippie, James Broughton, Jok Church, Poet, Stephen Silha

Rise Up! The REAL 99%…

Posted on December 23, 2011 by gayhighwaymen | Leave a comment

The real 99% isn’t even human. Think there’s an evil elite and everybody else is innocent victim-pie? That’s not even cute on Saturday morning cartoons. We are all complicit. Everything eats and is eaten. Bert sez: Food is the first thing mortals follow on. And that’s where it begins…

Photo Gay Highwaymen from a poster seen on Market Street in San Francisco

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Posted in Film, Food, Human Animals, iPhone, Photography, San Francisco, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Signage

Tagged Animals, Brecht, Culture, Film, Hunger, Occupy, Philosophy, Planet of the Apes, Revolution

War Horse! The Ride of a Lifetime

Posted on November 7, 2011 by gayhighwaymen | Leave a comment

The new Spielberg epic. The Great War as seen through the eyes of the cavalry horse, Joey. Ride on!

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Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Europe, Film, History, iPhone, Military, Signage

Tagged Film, Men in Uniform, Military, Sexy, Soldiers, War Horse, WWI

Beautiful SOMA Banksy – Hot Rat!

Posted on July 20, 2011 by gayhighwaymen | Leave a comment

Banksy on 9th St. SF. Photo: Gay Highwaymen, Dec 2010.

Banksy! We snapped this shot on 9th St between Folsom and Harrison Streets in San Francisco’s SOMA (South of Market) district some time back. Popped up “just so” during last year’s run of Exit Through The Gift Shop.

Hey, B,…if you ever want to extend your marvelous marks into the rural fabulosity of NorCal, you are invited. Hospitality, anonymity, great groovy walls and other cool surfaces guaranteed!

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Posted in Activism, ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Art and Artists, Collecting, DIY and Maker Culture, Photography, San Francisco, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc., Subcultures

Tagged Art, Banksy, Culture, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Film, Folsom St, Grafitti, Photography, Rat, San Francisco, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Signage, SOMA, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.

Nabbed “Departed” Mob Boss Bulger = surprisingly HOT as a Young Thug…

Posted on June 30, 2011 by gayhighwaymen | 1 comment

1953 Boston Police - James "Whitey" Bulger

His early mug shots attest to a certain brooding criminal sexiness. Whitey Bulger, the inspiration for Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, was arrested in Santa Monica earlier this month. The 82 year-old mobster ran Boston’s south side for decades and was responsible for dozens of gangland killings. Jack Nicholson portrayed him in the movie.

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Posted in Boston, Crime, Film, History, Photography, Signage, Subcultures

Tagged Boston, Crime, Film, Gangster, Mobster, Mug Shot, Photography, Sexy, The Departed, Thug, Whitey Bulger, Wise Guy

Hang Up Your Troubles! Meat Hook Ritual as Catharsis for HIV Diagnosis

Posted on June 23, 2011 by gayhighwaymen | Leave a comment

Jorge Vieto in "Ritual"

Friend of this site Jorge Vieto is featured in the short film Ritual, directed by Jorg Fockele. He hangs suspended by hooks, his body swinging free in a ritual of body/spirit integration. Vieto is a well-respected young Leatherman, and a Fraternal member of The 15 Association. He uses extreme physical rituals in part to process the emotions evoked by a positive diagnosis. Vieto spoke with Scott Brogan of the Bay Area Reporter about the psychology of the scene here.

Filmed in the Dungeon at Mr.S, Ritual will screen in the afternoon at 1:15 pm at the Castro Theater in San Francisco, Friday June 24th, as a part of the film compilation entitled STILL AROUND from The HIV Story Project. Brought to you by Frameline and the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.

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Posted in AIDS, Film, Leather, San Francisco, Spirituality, Subcultures

Tagged 15 Association, Art, Culture, Film, Gay, HIV Story Project, HIV/AIDS, Hooks, Jorge Vieto, Kink, Leather, Ritual, San Francisco, Sexy, Suspension

Glitter Emergency and More at Frameline’s 35th SF LGBT Film Fest

Posted on June 20, 2011 by gayhighwaymen | Leave a comment

It is the middle of the SF LGBT Film Festival, high holy days are underway in the City by the Bay, Pride is coming, and outside the festival’s host venues, gay film buffs are rubbing their bleary eyes after marathon sessions in the dark. The cinematic apparatus, not that other dark! There is something for everyone at this annual festival, now in its 35th year. The shorts programs are some of the best, and for those with short attention spans, are just the ticket. One film is not doing it for you? Wait 5 minutes. The next one could be all that.

“All that glitters is indeed gold in this wonderful collection of shorts featuring several gems from our very own Bay Area filmmakers… Take a look at disgusting alien bodies and eavesdrop on the deaf relay system. Follow a camera off a bridge in a memorial for lives lost. A dispute on the high seas can only be settled by a dance off (of course), and we’ll see just how campy an AIDS camp can be. Rounding out the program is a silent comedy set to Tchaikovsky and starring Peggy the Peg-leg Ballerina.” via festival director Jennifer Morris

“Glitter Emergency” shows at the Victoria Theatre, 9:30 pm on Tuesday, June 21st, 2011. The Victoria is located at 2961 16th Street in the Mission district. Built in 1908 as a Vaudeville House, it is the oldest operating theatre in San Francisco.

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Posted in Activism, AIDS, DIY and Maker Culture, Film, History, San Francisco, Subcultures, Video

Tagged Art, Culture, Experimental, Film, Frameline, Gay, Glitter Emergency, LGBT, Mission district, Music, Queer, San Francisco, SF LGBT Film Festival, Shorts, Victoria Theatre, Video

Friday the 13th is So Gay…

Posted on May 13, 2011 by gayhighwaymen | Leave a comment

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Posted in Film, Signage

Tagged Art, Culture, Film, Friday the 13th, Gay, Iconography, Phallic

Cinema taught me how to become the person I wanted to be…

Posted on May 12, 2011 by gayhighwaymen | Leave a comment

Mickey Chen, center, poses with the two leading actors from the director’s 2007 short film Fragile in Love.

Author, gay activist and documentary filmmaker Mickey Chen is a friend of a friend of this site. Thanks to Guo-Juin Hong of Duke University for this one! Chen’s best-selling book Taipei Father New York Mother is coming out as a film. Both are semi-autobiographical and based on Chen’s difficult family background. Chen recently talked to the Taipei Times. He has described cinema as his “mother” and explains: “Children from dysfunctional families have different ways of licking their wounds. My brother is addicted to gambling, my older sister died of an overdose, and my younger sister spends her life in the frantic pursuit of love. I choose to hide in the abstract world of literature and the arts. I became parentless at the age of 10. Cinema taught me how to become the person I wanted to be.” Good stuff. For the rest of the interview, click here.

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Posted in Activism, Film, Scholarship, Subcultures, Taiwan

Tagged Cinema, Culture, Film, Gay, Mickey Chen, Sexy, Taipei, Taipei Father New York Mother, Taiwan