Gay history lover. Short story writer. Opinionated, but willing to change my mind. Gay, but it doesn't make me queer.

San Francisco, CA
This is a blatant rip-off of Bob Mizer's AMG and Physique Pictorial Magazine (1951), whose demographic was closeted gay (homosexual men) in the 50s and 60s. Now it's getting a fresh coat of 'Queer Revisonism' from the creative thieves at Gayety. There is not nothing TQs won't claim as their own. bobmizer.org/physiquepictori…
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If teen boys and girls are allowed to date why aren't 2 boys or 2 girls allowed. They's a huge gap in what's ok for gay kids. Of course, it's a double standard. It's pretty screwed up when I turned 18 it still wasn't ok. In health ed classes we were told homosexuality was a dirty disgusting lifestyle. It's no wonder why drank to excess.
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The Treasure Trail "The most beautiful part of a man’s body I think it must be there, where the torso sits on and, into the hips, those twin delineating curves, feminine in grace, girdling the trunk, guiding the eyes downwards to their intersection, the point of pleasure." Duane Michals, 1986 He is an American photographer. Michals's work innovatively uses photo sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy. Wiki
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I should added my own quote. There's nothing feminine about this portion male anatomy. I liked words minus "feminine grace." Added context. The Iliac Furrow (the formal anatomical name)Adonis Girdle or Apollo's GirdleV-Cut or V-Lines.
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You know there are people who lose their employment for saying there are only two genders, which is the same as sex. It used to be that if you said you were gay, you could lose your job. But that's where we're headed: back to those days. I'm not the only one who's heard "homosexuality is transphobic." Mark my words.
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Photographer, Konrad Helbig (1917-1986) Sicily in the Fifties, circa 1950 "Ragazzi, Sicily (Dancers), 1950-1969, Gelatin Silver Print, Private Collection Gelatin silver print, printed later; stamped by the Estate in ink and numbered '3/12' in pencil on the verso; matted. 10 1/8 x 8 3/4 in. (25.7 x 22.3 cm) sheet 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)\ Helbig was a travel photographer and gay, which influenced why he chose to photograph handsome men, some nude. Most of those photographs were published after his death, as homosexual acts were a criminal offense. The men in the U.S. are extremely uptight when it comes to physical contact, and paranoid they'll be labeled a "homo." But then I think of some of those missionary positions in MMA.
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Homosexuality is hardwired, it doesn't need to be complicated. If I were bisexual, I imagine it could be, thank God, I'm not.
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Dear TQ+s Let me reiterate: sexuality is not a spectrum, nor is sex. Gay men are homosexuals, and there is only one definition of gay. Gay men are not trans-inclusive; a biological female can not be acknowledged as a man, gay or straight. Straight women, in my experience, are often more vitriolic in their homophobia than a lot of straight guys. Call us whatever you want; we don't care. We have too much self-respect to cater to your delusions.
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"Lovers" Arthur Tress San Francisco, 1964 This image was revolutionary at the time; gay men were sexual outlaws. This image was powerful and one of the many reasons I moved to San Francisco. Young men in small towns did not expect to live freely and find a same-sex partner. It was unthinkable. The gay rights some people take for granted today didn't exist when I grew up in the 60s and 70s. It took until my mid-twenties to shake off my religious coat of shame. Equality came in fits and starts, and it took a lot of hard work, and blood, sweat, tears of gay men and lesbians. So the audacity of queers telling us that, if it weren't for "trans women color, gay white men," is ludicrous All I wanted was everything every American enjoyed, and that's to live my life freely without fear of losing our employment or housing, because we, men, loved and had sex with other men. And now that those barriers are no longer there, I'm living a life I created. And I'm neither oppressed nor the oppressor. “Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me.” Arthur Tress is a gay American photographer renowned for a diverse body of work that encompasses surrealism and homoerotic fantasy. He was one of the first artists of the 1970s to move away from documentary street photography and create staged, dreamlike images.
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Salem Beiruti Lebanese conceptual artist living Madrid.
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I refuse to passively watch homo history erased by 'queer homophobes.' o n e: first us gay magazine, founded in los angeles 1952 #gayhistory
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Keep repeating the lie until people are so worn down they accept the lie as the truth. There were No bricks to be thrown.
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The queer media can't be bothered with facts. Actually, that applies to pretty much all media.
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Joao in Catalpa Leaves, 1996. Cyanotype. photographer: John Dugdale John Dugdale John Dugdale (born 1960) is an American fine‑art photographer celebrated for his stirringly intimate imagery created through 19th‑century photographic processes and a sensibility that transcends time. Born in Connecticut, he received his first camera at age twelve and later studied photography and art history at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. By his early thirties Dugdale had built a successful commercial career—shooting for clients such as Bergdorf Goodman and Ralph Lauren—when an HIV‑related illness left him blind in one eye and with severely limited vision in the other. This loss ended his commercial work but liberated him to explore his personal artistic vision, enlisting friends and family as studio assistants. Embracing large‑format cameras and historic techniques—cyanotype, platinum printing, and the albumen process—Dugdale composes portraits that feel both timeless and deeply poetic. Working largely from memory, he creates tableaux that evoke the 19th century, transporting viewers into another era while probing the very nature of perception. “The mind is the essence of your sight,” he explains. “It’s really the mind that sees.” Dugdale has mounted over twenty‑five solo exhibitions worldwide and participated in group shows at institutions such as the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Miami Art Museum. His photographs are held in major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. An inductee of the Royal Photographic Society, he has spoken on BBC and NPR and lectured at universities and public forums, continuing to champion his 19th‑century aesthetic and to question what it truly means “to see.” holdenluntz.com/artists/john…
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Self-portrait with Raven, Photo by Aaron Jay Young I hope the raven is declawed or something is protecting his jewels.
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One more should do it; maybe not even that.
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Artworks by Paul Rybarczyk "What" Mixed Media on Paper, 16 x 20, Available "Apre Workout" Acrylic on Canvas, 36 x 24, Available "Trio" Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 24, Available "My paintings of the male nude explore beauty, strength, and vulnerability." I know it makes the "pro-masculinity" guys squirmy when you mention 'vulnerability, as if a real man doesn't think about those things. Some of the 'pro-masculine' gay guys I see on social media try too hard to be seen as normal. My unsolicited advice is: when you try so hard to prove your manhood or conditional patriotism. artworkbypaul.com/workszoom/…
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