10 Lsons Learned From 60s-Era Gay Sk Mags

Contents:

• 20 GAY GREEK GODS
• SF GAY SEX CLUB EROS REOPENS NEW LOTN
• GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND
• THE MEDILIZATN OF ‘EROS’ THE ERA OF AIDS: EXPERIENC AND CONCERNS OF GAY MEN LIVG WH HIV REGARDG THE EFFECTS OF HAART ON SEXUAL LIFE THE MEDILIZATN OF ‘EROS’ THE ERA OF AIDS: EXPERIENC AND CONCERNS OF GAY MEN LIVG WH HIV REGARDG THE EFFECTS OF HAART ON SEXUAL LIFE THE MEDILIZATN OF ‘EROS’ THE ERA OF AIDS: EXPERIENC AND CONCERNS OF GAY MEN LIVG WH HIV REGARDG THE EFFECTS OF HAART ON SEXUAL LIFE THE MEDILIZATN OF ‘EROS’ THE ERA OF AIDS: EXPERIENC AND CONCERNS OF GAY MEN LIVG WH HIV REGARDG THE EFFECTS OF HAART ON SEXUAL LIFE THE MEDILIZATN OF ‘EROS’ THE ERA OF AIDS: EXPERIENC AND CONCERNS OF GAY MEN LIVG WH HIV REGARDG THE EFFECTS OF HAART ON SEXUAL LIFE
• PERFECT DAY (RTO GAY EROTI)
• FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

20 GAY GREEK GODS

Jerry Douglas's Tubstrip, a risque edy set a gay bathhoe, was a popular sensatn when produced onstage 1973-1974, the era of gay liberatn and the sexual revolutn. The play, often dismissed by mastream crics but hailed as "funny, sexy, and important" by the gay prs, ran for 140 performanc off-Broadway, then toured to eight ci over ne months, and returned to Broadway starrg the legendary adult film star Casey Donovan the lead role. Dpe s unprecented succs and acclaim, the play was not officially published until wh the but publitn of the script of the play, this edn clus a foreword by Jordan Schildcrout tled "Tubstrip and The Erotic Theatre of Gay Liberatn", which exam the signifince of the play as one of a wave of erotic gay plays (most of them fotten or lost) that emerged between 1969 and 1974.

SF GAY SEX CLUB EROS REOPENS NEW LOTN

He went on to have a major reer gay male pornography, directg numero award-wng films between 1989 and 2007, such as More of a Man, Flh & Blood, Dream Team, and Schildcrout is Associate Profsor of Theatre & Performance at SUNY Purchase. Larry Gilman plays Brian, the gay bathhoe attendant lookg for love the era of sexual liberatn. Lee Barton, reviewg the play for The Advote, lled "funny, sexy, and important, " but wonred whether mastream crics uld "tolerate anythg gay that is so open and healthy.

Some crics regard the tour as "homosexploatn, " but the Philalphia Enquirer lled "somethg of an event the history of gay liberatn... Assertg as do not the sickns but the validy of homosexual affectn and homoerotic appeal. One San Francis review praised Tubstrip as an exemplar of gay liberatn, remarkg, "When is the last time you walked out of a play or film about gays and felt good?

GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND

While tolerance is often prented as a sign of civilizatn's advancement, a readg of Greek mythology reveals greater acceptance of homosexualy ancient Athens than n be boasted wh today's world religns. While Homer never explicly stat a gay relatnship between Achill and sikick Patrocl, many scholars read a romantic nnectn between the two, as only Patrocl ever drew out a passnate si to the famoly arrogant warrr. Rearcher Johanna Hypatia-Cybelaia wr that lbian and gay vote worshipped her as Artemis Orthia, and that lbian port Pamphilia referred to the godss hymn as Artemis Pergaea.

THE MEDILIZATN OF ‘EROS’ THE ERA OF AIDS: EXPERIENC AND CONCERNS OF GAY MEN LIVG WH HIV REGARDG THE EFFECTS OF HAART ON SEXUAL LIFE THE MEDILIZATN OF ‘EROS’ THE ERA OF AIDS: EXPERIENC AND CONCERNS OF GAY MEN LIVG WH HIV REGARDG THE EFFECTS OF HAART ON SEXUAL LIFE THE MEDILIZATN OF ‘EROS’ THE ERA OF AIDS: EXPERIENC AND CONCERNS OF GAY MEN LIVG WH HIV REGARDG THE EFFECTS OF HAART ON SEXUAL LIFE THE MEDILIZATN OF ‘EROS’ THE ERA OF AIDS: EXPERIENC AND CONCERNS OF GAY MEN LIVG WH HIV REGARDG THE EFFECTS OF HAART ON SEXUAL LIFE THE MEDILIZATN OF ‘EROS’ THE ERA OF AIDS: EXPERIENC AND CONCERNS OF GAY MEN LIVG WH HIV REGARDG THE EFFECTS OF HAART ON SEXUAL LIFE

Above: Athena, center, a mural by John Sger SargentAphrodeWhile the godss of love is not intified promently as lbian herself, the Greek poet Sappho (as sapphic) of Lbos (y, as lbian) told many homoerotic tal and named Aphrode as the greatt patron and ally of lbians and homosexuals wh the Greek pantheon of gods. Above: Enrique Simo, El Juic Paris (1904)ErosWhile the bt-known myths of Eros pict the son of Aphrode as a fertily god -- the versn that proved spiratnal to the popularized Roman god Cupid -- later Greek myths portrayed Eros as one of several wged erot, and the one regard as a protector of homosexual culture, acrdg to rearch the scholarly book Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic the Ancient World.

That's why, if morn texts there is even a ht of a same-sex storyle, you n probably bet some Christian scholar has dulled down and that the origal is more wonrfully gay than the versn we have now. Left: Mid-century gay artist Gee Quatance certaly knew that sometim a Hydra is more than a Hydra. Depictns of Antas wh his legs the air were also found many gay men's hom the last century as a sort of visual to visors that they belonged to "the club.

This is perhaps the most lc of all the versns of this myth that we uld is no overtly homosexual si to the story of the battle between Antas and Hercul, yet the nsistent voluptuons of the var versns is hard to ny wh morn ey. This is another example of a sculpture found gay men's hom the middle of the last century -- sometim as a lamp ' son, Dmes, Kg of the Biston, Thrace, offers newers to his hors for dner.

PERFECT DAY (RTO GAY EROTI)

The were not solely sexual relatnships - they were ep and voted iendships full of love and passn, but probably ls sertive than what the morn-day gay man would Hermann Wilhelm Bissen, Hylas, 1846Plutarch, the Greek historian (and eventual Roman cizen), wrote that Hercul' list of male lovers was beyond numberg. Its mercial succs led to a 1959 sequel, Hercul Hendrick Goltzi, Farne Hercul, 1592A perfect partg shot of Goltzi's etchg of the ancient Roman statue known as the Farne Hercul, which had been disvered the Baths of Caralla Rome 1546 and stalled a urtyard of the Farne fay's palace on the banks of the is not one thg about this etchg that is not supergay, om the credible renrg of the mcl to the morn-day queens peerg up om the right to the astoundgly phallic (uncut as well) pediment that Hercul rts on. San Francis's last remag gay sex club is reopeng s doors time for Pri weekend.

After vatg their former space on upper Market Street December, Eros's owners began remolg and movg to their new home, where the gay Bulldog Baths had operated the late 1970s and 1980s. "We have been able to weather the cris of AIDS and STIs, the dg crisis, and we fd ourselv the only gay mercial sex venue to rema bs post the COVID-imposed closur, " said Rowe, referrg to the closure 2020 of SOMA sex club Blow Buddi.

They did so at the urgg of gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Manlman, who had led the earlier ph to allow bathho to aga operate the cy. It pav the way for gay bathho and other adult sex venu to open the Castro, Tenrlo, and most of South of Market whout the need to receive approval om the planng missn. A dog groomer and kennel g the name of the old gay bathhoe had operated the space followed by an artist llective prr to Eros takg over the lease.

FROM TROYE SIVAN TO PADAM PADAM: ATRALIA IS S GAY ERA AND THE WORLD SHOULD THANK

NO MEN'S EARRINGS AT TIFFANY: Readg through a 1965 edn of Tiger, a magaze that nsisted of text reprted om semal gay rag Dm and pictur om the Mnota-based stud, DSI Inc, I me across a Tiffany & Co ad readg "We're sorry. I rell once hearg somethg about Tiffany creatg the policy to thwart homosexualy, but uldn't que place the memory. " As your own experience no doubt prov, rear, gay media, cludg sk mags, have been and rema sential vehicl for nscns-raisg and mass anizatn.

Meanwhile, one anti-gay hoewife wrote to a 1967 issue, "Your magaze is disgtg! TOM WASN'T ALONE: Tom of Fland remas the most famo of the gay eroti illtators, but there were plenty of others. Before he found Colt Studs, Jim French and a mystery man lled Arn, perhaps a psdonym for French himself, ran The Luger Stud, om which they illtrated and published illtrated p-ups of the burgeong gay stereotyp.

INJUSTICE LOITERS: Wh momentum for ENDA/Freedom to Work growg, let's not fet past battl over employment 1956, one year before Army astronomer Frank Kameny turned his gay-related firg to natnal news, a man named Bce Stt was dismissed om the Labor Department on spicn of beg homosexual born om a "loerg" arrt and "undisclosed rmatn that you are homosexual. "A few years later, Stt reapplied for his old job and was rejected bee of the whole gay thg.

RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

" Not only uld the ernment not prove Stt was gay, a key part of their hateful argument, but the Court said, "Feral applints for employment do not, wholly apart om Fifth Amendment ncerns, forfe all rights of privacy acrd to persons generally by the First Amendment... )It wasn't until 1998 that Print Clton signed an executive orr protectg gay and lbian feral employe om on-the-job discrimatn, and took another 12 years before Print Obama extend that orr to transgenr feral employe.

Lookg to even further, I was remd by Feral Globe, a se about Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr Employe of the Feral Government, that on June 30, 1865, before Stt v. Macy and Frank Kameny, Secretary of the Interr Jam Harla fired Walt Whman om the New York as a Clerk the Indian Office bee of homo imagery Whman's 1855 llectn Leav of Grass. The gay imagery those poems would be ed agast Whman's ghost 100 years later, durg a bate over the name of a Delaware River is the rabb hole 60s-era porn led me down?!

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

It's worth notg this advert referenc "men and women, " so wasn't specifilly terg toward the gays, but fely knew should speak to them, anyway. The pros magaz were meant to be read as liberatn texts, not gay rags.

"[It's] a masquera of non-homoerotic tent: they are steadfastly about nudism and naturalism, and the philosophi and liftyl that are part of those subcultur, " wr Jeremiah Smh at the cultural cricism magaze Renstctn. Sun's protts of heterosexualy, the ramblg says that acpany artsy shots of men athletic pos are brimmg wh gay imagery. It was around this time that Ralph Gzburg, publisher of the gay magaze Eros, was nvicted of vlatg feral "obscene mail laws.

"Referenc to this and siar s pepper most of the gay sk mags of this era, and some scenars, such as Dm's, led to their mise. Eher way, their words are enough to brg a tear to the most anti-gay of nservative patrts. WE OWE THANKS TO CLARK POLAK: In se you don't know, Clark Polak, maligned a hateful troll letter above, ran the Philalphia-based Jan Society, an early homophile movement, and eded s magaze, the oft-referenced Dm, which took s name om the Henry David Thore quote, "If a man do not keep pace wh his panns, perhaps is bee he hears the beat of a different dmmer.