Hand-painted sign on a Nor Cal bait shop. Wouldn’t want to be the boy on the skis. Gulp! For more ski-doodle doings,here.
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Big Bite Bait Shop Art Brut…Boss!
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., etc..., Food, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Men, North America, Northern California, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc., Subcultures
Tagged Art, Culture, DIY, Fishing, Gay Gaze, Hand-painted, Rural, Signage, Waterskiing
Leathers in Mozambique
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…
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
Hot Homoerotic Mid-century Watersports
The boy on the bottom certainly seems to be enjoying the view, and who can blame him?
Photo postcard in Colortone process. Published by Lakeland News Co., Lakeland Florida. Circa mid 20th century.
Bucking Bronco, Whipping Cowboy
Ride ’em, Cowboy! Throw ’em, Bronco!
Photo postcard published by Chas. E. Morris, Chinook Montana, 1906. Early color process. Collection of Gay Highwaymen.
Big Boy: Bigger Gator!
And a big toothy grin on this giant reptile. Snap! Ouch. Watch out. Don’t let it do the spin. Can’t blame it for wanting a taste of this delicious looking boy, though.
Photo: Aquaglades. Murphy Bros. Press Inc. This 12 foot American Alligator was estimated to be 100 years old. Photo postcard circa mid 20th century. Collection Gay Highwaymen
Maybe he’s YOUR boy…
Or maybe he is OURS. We could flip for him. Goodyear advertisement Collier’s magazine, September 26, 1942. Collection of Gay Highwaymen.
Vintage Coolness: Hot Mounties and K9 Crew
Woof, woof, woof, woof and woof! Oh…and the Canadian Mounted Police aren’t a bad-looking pack, either!
Enemy Upstairs! Get on his Tail…
It looks like this flyboy is wearing a dog collar and leash! He’s not. At least not in this image. From a WWII era Collier’s Magazine advertisement selling the latest in sound technology: the throat microphone. Can’t make yourself heard over the engine noise and machine gun fire? No more! The Western Electric throat microphone helps win battles!
Happy Fuckin’ National Pig Day!
Oink! Better late than next year. Friend of this site Jake Hale tips us off to this obscure holiday. He got the word from Sister Piggy Sue of the Palm Springs Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. And she should know! Comic Strip Ap montage by Gay Highwaymen. For more fuckin’ pigs click here.
The Gay Highwaymen 