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Pretty Flapper Girl

Vintage erotic photograph of a topless girl of the jazz age. A very pleasing and happy image.

Suffragette Fashion Statement

Is this very early photograph of a woman wearing a suit asserting her freedom from gender stereotypes or is she being mocked?

Sadao Hasegawa

Gifted Japanese arts knowing for his homoerotic paintings and drawings.

In Praise of Pretty Boys

The wholly secular worship of beautiful young gay males.

Early 1970s Crush

Peter Berlin: as a just out gay youth, he was the first actor I wanted to sleep with.

Tender Conversation

Two cute young men in sweet converse.

The most beautiful Dorian Gray?

Italian opera performance of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Sinful Dorian Gray (was a woman!)

Bad adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray starring a woman.

Pictures of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray was made into a movie more than once.

Gay Apprentices (secrets of the Gay Agenda)

Before we recruit young straight men into the homosexual lifestyle we require them to become gay apprentices and learn how to be a queer.

Ten inches (to toke?)

Gay paperback: 10-inch Toker combines references to both smoking pot and oral sex.

Coming Out II

Gay males who have had fantasies of being overpowered by young straight men, frat boys, jocks.

Dick and Peter

Dick and Peter - was the title of an old gay erotic novel.

Joint Hunger?

Does the cover of joint hunger refer to pot, steroids or an appendage below the waist?

Stud House

Stud House is a popular phrase in the world of queer popular culture.

Making the Jock

Making the Jock by Chad Stuart

The Happy Hustlers

Grant Tracy Saxon published a memoir of life as a callboy and a guide to bisexuality and another man wrote a novel called The Happy Hustler.

He loved dick (don't we all)

Gay novel about someone who loves Dick or Richard or well you decide . . .

The Gay Jungle

Sadly early gay paperbacks didn't have painted covers comparable to mass market books.

Queens Town Court

Old gay paperback novel showing two young men kissing.

Bad Boys in the Band

Adult gay romance based on Boys in the Bad

Meat Packaging

Old gay paperbacks that hide male genitalia or opt for very discreet hiding of them.

Queen's Quarterly

Early 1970s gay magazine for queer men without hangups: Queen's Quarterly.

Lynne Cheney writes of lesbian love

Cover of Lynne Cheney's novel about gay women in frontier America. What did Mary think?

Transgendered paperback covers

Old gay novels that purport to show transvestites, transsexuals and other ambiguously gendered persons.

The boys of hardon beach

In a gay novel of 1972 gay young men pranced across hard-on beach in this Spade Classsic.

When the roll is called in Sodom, I'll be there

Unusual gay paperback in that it features both gay men and women but not together in some faux-bisexual agenda.

Oriental Guys

Images of Asian gay men.

Queer lad among his toys

Early In Touch magazine cover of a young gay man sitting among some toys.

The Manager

Was The Manger a cheap novel about using homosexuality to push a political offical out of office?

Singular explanation of queer sexuality

Meredith's Gorman's novel says that men become gay because they need other men to feed their vanity

Cockalorum

Paperback cover of a youth clad in a dollar sign. What if Richie Rich had been gay?

Strange Marriage

Joseph Hansen under the pseudonym James Colton wrote a novel of two gay men and woman entitled Strange Marriage.

Les Pervertis

Decadent young gay man on the cover of Ferri-Pisani's Les Pervertis.

Two gay men on the moon

Old photograph of two men arm-in-arm sitting on old Mr. Moon.

Stranger at the Door

Victor Banis gave me a copy he wrote under the name Don Holliday, Stranger at the Door.

Somewhere, somewhen two gay men embraced

In America's past at least two gay men felt it was safe to kiss and embrace in public.

Queer goodness: two boys kissing

Two blond gay youths embraced in a lovely kiss.

My Brother's Image

Gay historical romance set in 18th century Holland, gay men persecuted by Roman Catholic Cardinal.

Boys Behind Bars

Gay paperback cover: Boys Behind Bars.

The Flaming Suckers

The Flaming Suckers - was that just an odd way of saying gay men?

Whee! That Man from C.A.M.P.!

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. inspired men from O.R.G.Y. and S.T.U.D. and in turn spawned Dingo Stark the man from C.A.M.P. written by Victor Banis.

Donnie Does Dallas

Gay novel about a young gay man in Dallas, cheap thrills at best.

Homos Don't Cry

Homosexuals don't cry is an old trashy gay paperback novel.

The Self Lover

Gay paperback novel with the unedifying title The Self Lover.

The Story of Q

Gay novel about queer sadomasochism and power exchange sexuality from the 1970s.

Astounding Transvestite Tales

Scans of the covers of three issues of an early transgendered zine, Astounding Transvestite Tales.

Clothesdick

Clothing magazine aimed at gay men?

Mansion of Men

Old gay paperback novel whose cover talks about the insights that can be hard from discovering that you are queer.

Alex Cohen (gay artist?)

Hoping I can learn something about Alex Cohen a possibly gay artist of whose work I've seen only one image of a blond boy.

Coming out

What is it like for a gay man to come out of the closet. What books do they read for insight into being a queer male?

Gay Vampire

Was the gay vampire really an agent of the dreaded gay agenda?

Anybody order a cowboy (extra abs, hold the shirt)

Early gay paperback with a shirtless cowboy or farm boy on the cover.

Jean Paul (not the pope nor Sartre)

French gay magazine featuring a young man named Jean Paul.

Mysterious Frenchman

Was was Ferri Pisani?

Gay Paris 1925

Book about gay men in Paris in 1925

L'homme de cuir

Photo cover of a French paperback of a leather glad gay youth.

Her strange struggle

Vintage Kozy Korner book featuring two gay women.

Male Brides

Trashy old paperback about a male bride, gay marriage of a sorts?

Donnie and Clyde

Vintage queer paperback retelling Bonnie and Clyde and Donnie and Clyde

Michelangelo's David

Michelangelo's David on display at Galleria dell' Accademia in Florence after the controversial cleaning, refurbishment

Mr. Ballerina

Trashy old paperback novel about gay men in ballet, male dancers

The boy and the mask

Is that a young gay man or woman on the cover of an old issue of The Ladder?

Toxic Boy

Toxic boy's lovely male photography

Guy with nice 1970s haircut

Attractive drawing of a man with 70s style haircut. Is Kent a fashion artist?

The Powerful Story of a Man's Conflicting Loves

Covers to Charles Jackson's novel about a married gay or bisexual man who committs suicide

Gay But Not Happy

Early gay book publishing: paperback states that Mr. Rodney Man Love is gay but isn't happy about it

Gay Liberation Front

From the gay liberation movement to gay Republicans

Gay cowboys & indians

Toby was a homoerotic illustrator and even did a couple of gay comic books

Woman From Another Planet

Frank Belknap Long's Woman From Another Planet

Jackie Curtis

Andy Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis who was in many of the Paul Morrissey movies starring Joe Dallesandro

Whipping a Hang-Up

1970s gay paperback from Trojan Classics

Larry Townsend's Leather Ad

Scan of an early publication devoted to gay personal ads for men devoted to leather

Sophomore Meat: A Jock Book

Old queer paperback cover with two gay athletes on the cover

Homosexual Marriage in 1953

Gay marriage was the theme of an issue of homophile movement One Magazine in 1953.

Stereotypical images of gay males

Trying to find cartoons, drawings, paintings that show gay men as stereotypes, sissies, nelly males, earlier queer popular culture

Henry Scott Tuke & Thomas Eakins

Two homoerotic artists who celebrate the image of male youth

Asian gay male art

Images of gay men by Asian artists

Sometimes girls kiss each other

Early image of two women kissing

Blondes in white shoes

Handsome youths in white shoes

Young man abed

A lovely image by a gay artist named Jeff Davies about whom I've managed to learn nothing.

An embrace

One man with his arms around another

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