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Parting Glances: Jim Wigler’s Amazing Vintage Photos!

By Mark Adnum / Sunday, December 9th, 2012

Jim Wigler has been photographing the men of San Francisco since the early 1980s. He was working for Drummer magazine at the time. He created the exhibit Faces of AIDS which toured with the Quilt, and worked as an editor for porn studios including Bijou World and Hot House.
Jim’s collection of negatives and chromes is vast, and he is steadily uploading them to his new Tumblr.

Blasts From The Past: Into The Gay Porn Time Tunnel

By Shawn Baker / Sunday, July 10th, 2011 / (3) Comments

“Dated” — it’s such an unfair word.
Sometimes, being era-specific can be a virtue.
Gay porn doesn’t really date all that well — it’s amazing to see how polished and professional the medium has become since the days of the handheld video revolution — and I’m frankly glad for that. So much of “new” porn is striking me as rather bland; creative sets have fallen by the wayside in favor of these generic “porn house” locales, music is no longer sublimely terrible than it is just ambient synth, and context isn’t as integral to setting a scene’s mood anymore.

Lewd, Crude, and Full O’ ‘Tude: The Raw & Ravishing Rick Rude

By Shawn Baker / Monday, April 11th, 2011

Butch Bear Overdrive: The Brawny Brute Force of Lyle Alzado

By An Unpaid Intern / Thursday, April 7th, 2011 / (2) Comments

Even though I tell myself that this is tragic and chemically-enhanced male beauty, I still can’t stop my groin from stiffening at the sight of it. As a child, I had no conception of what “gay” was — much more the existence of the Muscle Bear — but that didn’t keep me from laying eyes on Brawn Master Lyle Alzado, secretly desiring that he would punish me hard, and thinking…
…Daaaaayuuuuum.

Milkin’ It: Mirror, Mirror On The Wall

By An Unpaid Intern / Friday, March 25th, 2011 / (1) Comment

I’m fairly certain that many a gay man’s body enhancement obsession can be directly linked to this ad and its variants which aired during many of our formative years. Gym equipment, gay workout shorts, the idealized self reflected in the magic mirror — all of it achievable if you just chug gallons of milk. Didn’t we all drink it, but how many of us grew up into fucking Disney princes?

Reboot!: Paper Dolls All In A Row

By Nightcharm / Friday, March 11th, 2011 / (2) Comments

The greatest fucking TV cast ever.

Underneath The Sycamore Trees: Return To Twin Peaks

By Shawn Baker / Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 / (1) Comment

“…and it’s like I fell into a dream…”
David Lynch’s peerless Twin Peaks — the autumn-hued, gauzily dreamy, swooningly romantic, endlessly quotable, and shudderingly scary series that gave birth to the new wave of culty ’90s network TV — turns twenty this year.
This past weekend, the artist collective In The Trees held a banner event to commemorate the occasion at L.A.’s Clifton’s Cafeteria — a woodland-bedecked eatery that proves trees don’t just grow in Brooklyn.

Pity The Fool: Won’t You Help An Uncle Tom Today?

By Shawn Baker / Friday, February 11th, 2011

David Alan Grier as the immortal Don “No Soul” Simmons, hands-down my favorite gag in Amazon Women On The Moon.
We should totally start a charity for GoProud!:
“Gays Without Scruples.”