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Tag Archives: Gay
Gay Biker Buddy Riders from WAY Back in the Day: Koalas Club 1967
Ride like a sleeping bag! The Koalas were a Gay Motorcycle Buddy Club from the 1960s. The Koalas would hop on behind the gay club bikers and independents. Always on the back, hugging the biker like a koala hugs a eucalyptus tree. And so the name! Peter Fiske is kneeling in the front row, on the right. More on Peter here and here. Photo by Henri Leleu. Koalas Motorcycle Buddy Club, 1967. Via Ron Williams.
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., History, Leather, Photography, Subcultures
Tagged BDSM, Bikers, Culture, Gay, Henri Leleu, History, Kink, Koalas Motorcycle Buddy Club, Leather, Motorcycle, Peter Fiske, Photography, Sexy
Sights seen at SF Pride 2011 – The Leather Contingent – Big Slide Show!
Milling around before the parade, a collection of characters…bikers, new Leather, old Leather, handballers, cock-suckers and boot-lickers, old and young hippies, Sadists, masochists, Dads, boys, dogs, Leather families, Masters and slaves, cigar men, watersport lovers, Faeries, ponies, and perverts of many other stripes…
Michel Foucault described the emergence of “peripheral sexualities” from the end of the 18th century: “An entire sub-race was born, different…from the libertines of the past…They were children wise beyond their years, precocious little girls, ambiguous schoolboys, dubious servants and educators, cruel or maniacal husbands, solitary collectors, ramblers with bizarre impulses…This was the numberless family of perverts who were on friendly terms with delinquents and akin to madmen.” – from M. Foucault – The History of Sexuality
Posted in Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy Holidays, Subcultures
Tagged BDSM, Culture, Foucault, Gay, Kink, Leather, Parade, Pervert, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy, SF Pride
“Hey, Soldier!” New Gay Cali Style Manga from JoJo Mendoco
Story adapted from a true story originally published in Meat: True Homosexual Experiences from STH. “How men look, act, walk, talk, dress, undress, taste & smell.” Published by Gay Sunshine Press, 1981. “Sex for an Armless Vet.” Edited by Boyd McDonald, the STH: Manhattan Review of Unnatural Acts were a series of compilations of true stories and reader photographs. Literary porn with big props from the likes of Gore Vidal, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, who wrote:
“Everybody loves the first glimpse of naked love. Everybody’s story is the most thrilling in the world. Everybody tells their best friend their tale of the raw behind. First time they discovered an open heart with their pants down.”
For more from JoJo Mendoco, click here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Posted in Comics, JoJo Mendoco, Military, Subcultures
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Amputee, Art, Bara, California, Cartoon, Comics, Cruising, Culture, Gai Comi, Gay, Hey Soldier, Iraqi, JoJo Mendoco, Kink, Manga, Rough Sex, Sexy, STH, USMC, Yaoi
Sight seen on MUNI Bus. Hot Guest Photo
Ah, the intrinsic ambiguity of the written word. Is that a hot photo or a photo from a hot guest contributor? They say it’s six of one and a half dozen of the other, but here at GH, we say it’s 100% x 2! Thank YOU to SMG for this one.
Posted in Comics, Photography, San Francisco, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Tagged Cartoon, Cigar, Gay, Hot, iPhoto, MUNI, San Francisco, Sexy, SMG
Endangered Leather Species Alert: SF Eagle gone, NYC Eagle threatened…
Gay marriage passes in NYC. On the same night, the Eagle NYC is raided. Some insiders think this is the beginning of the end for the bar. Will this be the latest Leather institution lost to the forces of gentrification? Jeremiah from Vanishing New York seem to think so. Unicorn Booty reports from Gotham. For the death throes of the SF Eagle, click here, here, and here. For the graffiti that sprouted after the doors shut, here.
Seen in Jim’s Home Gym
My keys. His poster. Just hanging there looking good. iPhone photo.
Posted in Bodybuilding/Muscles, Collecting, Jim's Home Gym, Leather, Subcultures
Tagged Gay, Gym, iPhone, Leather Flag, Photography, Poster, Sexy
Hang Up Your Troubles! Meat Hook Ritual as Catharsis for HIV Diagnosis
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.
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
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.
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
We Fund Artists! Want a Commission? Queer Cultural Center – SF Workshop June 29
The Queer Cultural Center will be awarding at least 20 commissions of between $250 – $1000 each for individual artists and groups to help create and stage innovative community-building projects. Cross-cultural, multi-ethnic and intergenerational projects are strongly encouraged. To be considered, you MUST attend the 90-minute introductory workshop on June 29th at 7pm at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco. The address is 1519 Mission Street at 11th. For more information on the annual funding process, click here.
Posted in Activism, DIY and Maker Culture, San Francisco, Surveillance
Tagged Art, Arts Funding, Culture, Gay, Money, QCC, Queer, Queer Cultural Center, San Francisco
The Gay Highwaymen 