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Tag Archives: Sexy
Countdown to Mardi Gras: NOLA Slideshow of Street Scenes Seen
Parties, protesters and counter- protesters. God is Unfair? No shit, Sherlock. He’s the Top, and it’s a life-long scene that ends in a snuff. Enough? There is always more where that came from. That’s the way it works, you see. More to come…
Posted in New Orleans, Photography, Surveillance
Tagged Culture, Gay, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, Photography, Sexy, Surveillance
Getting Hard in the Big Easy with the Princes of Perversion and the Lords of Leather
Lord Consort XXVII Tim Lott as "Gargoyles" - Bal Masque 2010
Gay Highwaymen visits New Orleans for Mardi Gras! This site will be reporting live from NOLA from now through Fat Tuesday. The traditions of Mardi Gras are many and obscure. Krewes, King Cakes, Mardi Gras Indians, Zulu Coconuts, Boeuf Gras, Flambeaux and of course, the Bal Masque with its Tableaux. Gay Highwaymen will attend the Lords of Leather Bal Masque on Sunday night. The Lords of Leather describe themselves as the only Leather oriented Mardi Gras Krewe in the world. On a previous trip, the Princes of Perversion made us feel very welcome. These sexy young royals are the NOLA arm of the Radical Faeries. They will show their colors at Sunday’s Bal. As will we…
Posted in Leather, New Orleans, Subcultures, Travel
Tagged BDSM, Culture, Gay, Kink, Krewe, Leather, Lords of Leather, Mardi Gras, Masque Bal, NOLA, Princes of Perversion, Sexy
Great Gay Leathersex Art: Who was Michael Palmer?
It measures about 5′ x5′ and used to hang in the Jackhammer, an old Leather bar in San Francisco. The Jackhammer has been closed since 1996 and this painting now hangs in a private home. It is signed “Palmer” in the lower right corner. A quick consultation trip to Brand X antiques in the Castro district secured a last name, a look at a couple of prints on sale for a couple of thousand dollars each, and an awful story. The proprietor told us that the artist’s first name was Michael. He had quite an extensive body of work, most of which he held in his studio. When he died in the middle of the plague years, his mother, horrified by her little boy’s adult proclivities, destroyed everything.
This sort of thing happens too often. Wonderful Willie Walker, friend of this site, and founding member of the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society, used to dumpster-dive the estates of deceased gay men whose “families” would throw away their collections in shame. Walker – a hero to gay historians and a legend among archivists of any stripe. We miss you, you little weirdo.
Western art is built on the bodies of naked ladies. They call it “The Nude.” The ancients understood the beauty of the male body. We understand it. But – and this is for artists and collectors especially – the folks might not. Make wills, make bequests, make sure your lover has power of attorney, give gifts to the young gays and make sure the good stuff gets into good hands. Generations coming up will need their history. We are making it now and it is our responsibility to make sure it survives.
Meantime, any information on Michael Palmer, gay artist living in San Francisco in the 1980’s would be much appreciated.
For a bit on Chicago-based artist Etienne, click here.
Posted in Art and Artists, Collecting, History, Leather, San Francisco
Tagged Art, BDSM, Boots, BrandX, Culture, Gay, Gay Artist, History, Homoerotic, Kink, Leather, Michael Palmer, Palmer, San Francisco, Sexy, SOMA, Whip, Willie Walker
Pubic Moustache gets Shaved! Before and After, but GH is seldom SFW
From handlebars to a buzz! What a difference a day makes…and a clean, sharp blade does not hurt, either.
Posted in Photography, Subcultures
Flogging the Peg Boy! Sexy Sailors from London’s Studio Royale.
Another interesting vintage photograph. From Studio Royale of London.* It’s got that mid-century film still thing going on and a nice reference to the old law of the sea. Whether in the legitimate Navies or their pirate shadows authority condensed into the will of a single man, the Captain, and was enforced by, among other things…the sting of the lash.
For another mid-century photo, this one of mysterious provenance, click here. For more on homoeroticism on the high seas, check out Hans Turley’s Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality and Masculine Identity. NYU Press, 1999.
*Thomas Waugh. Hard to Imagine Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall, New York: Columbia University Press, 1996, page 256.
Homoerotic Contact Sports…Sizzling Hot Turkish Oil Wrestlers!
This is courtesy the very provocative and entertaining Men Without Clothes blog. This is a teaser. What moves! Lots more there. We were turned on to it by friend of this site slave jody, who knows he’d never make a win in this sport because he so enjoys getting pinned. Down, boys! All the way. Good boys. For a very different wrestler, click here.
Posted in Subcultures, Turkey, Wrestling
Tagged Culture, Men Without Clothes, Oil Wrestling, Sexy, Sports, Turkey, Wrestling
Gung Hay Fat Choy! Sexy Gay Maoist Satire From Musk Ming.
Gay ex-patriot Chinese artist Musk Ming lives and works in Berlin. He “beats the communists with their own aesthetics” and “appropriates the saccharine Maoist propaganda illustration style to explore the ancient gay tradition of China.” Indeed he does. For more sexy Chinese New Years, click here, here and here.
Posted in Art and Artists, China, Sexy Holidays
Tagged Art, Berlin, China, Chinese New Year, Culture, Ex-patriot, Gay, Gung Hay Fat Choy, Maoist, Musk Ming, Propaganda, Sexy
Music Musings: Soft Cell’s Sex Dwarf – 1981 Underground Kink Classic Vid
Soft Cell: just another way of saying “differentially permeable membrane.” Biology’s version of the club doorman. You get In. But You: Keep Out. No, really. Here’s slinky kinky Marc Almond as a young thing back in the day, fetishizing and valorizing monstrosity in the underground hit Sex Dwarf. David Ball on synthesizer. Together, they were Soft Cell, best known for their hit cover of Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go. Coming at you live, this gem was also covered by Nine Inch Nails, among others.
Originally published in 1981 as part of the album Non Stop Erotic Cabaret, the lyrics to this kink classic by Marc Almond and David Ball:
Sex Dwarf…Isn’t it nice
Sugar and spice
Luring disco dollies
To a life of vice
I could make a film
And make you my star
You’d be a natural
The way you are
I would like you on
A long black leash
I would parade you
Down the high street
You’ve got the attraction
You’ve got the pulling power
Walk my little doggy
Walk my little sex dwarf
(Here, doggy, doggy)
We could make a scene
We’d be a team
Making the headlines
Sounds like a dream
When we hit the floor
You just watch them move aside
We will take them
For a ride of rides
They all love your
Miniature ways
You know what they say
About small boys
Sex dwarf…
I’m in my Rolls Royce
Look it’s so huge
It’s big and it’s gold
With my dumb chauffeur
Looking to procure
Run little doggy
Lure a disco dolly
Run my little sex dwarf
I feel so lonely
Get my little camera
Take a pretty picture
Sex dwarf
In a gold Rolls
Making it with the dumb chauffeur
Sex dwarf…
We could make an outfit
For my little sex dwarf
To match the gold Rolls
And my dumb chauffeur
We’ll all look so good
We’ll knock ’em cold
Knocking ’em cold
In black and gold
We can have playtime
In my little playroom
Disco dollies
My sex dwarf
And my dumb chauffeur
I would like you on a long black lead
You can bring me all the things I need
Sex dwarf…
Posted in England, Europe, Music, Subcultures, Video
Tagged BDSM, Culture, David Ball, Dumb Chauffeur, Gay, Kink, Marc Almond, Music, Sex Dwarf, Sexy, Soft Cell, Video
Hard Time Cupid gets his Valentine’s Day Happy On
Point. And. Shoot!
When we first published this, we had no idea about the provenance on this delicious vintage-looking image.
Patrick Mulcahey informs us that the model is John Pruitt, a favorite of Colt Publishing. Gerard Koskovich ids the photographer as Jim French, aka Rip Colt. Thanks, Guys!
Posted in Archery, Men, Photography, Sexy Holidays
Tagged Art, Cupid, Gay, Hard, Photography, Sexy, Valentine's Day
Febe’s “Leather David” Sculptor Mike Caffee at the Powerhouse
Leather David Home and Bath
History in the bars! In 1966, artist Mike Caffee created the iconic “Leather David [that] became one of the best-known symbols of San Francisco leather. [It] appeared on pins, posters, calendars, and matchbooks…and plaster casts”*
Forty-five years later, Caffee is still on Folsom St., now at the Powerhouse, where he will be presenting a slide-show in conjunction with Forever Folsom, Jose Guevara’s Valentine’s Party at The Powerhouse 1347 Folsom Street San Francisco. 7-10 pm. Sunday, February 13th, 2011. For more, click here.
*Gayle Rubin, excerpted from “The Miracle Mile: South of Market and Gay Male Leather, 1962-1997″ in Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture (City Lights: 1998)
Posted in Collecting, History, Leather, San Francisco
Tagged Art, Febe's, Gay, Kink, Leather, Leather David, Mike Caffee, Powerhouse, San Francisco, Sculpture, Sexy, SOMA, Statue
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