Bt gay ics, lbian ics, and trans ics.

Contents:

• GAY COMICS
• GAY COMIC STRIPS
• GAY AND GRAPHIC
• TAGGAY+MALE+ICS
• 'DON'T SNEAK': A FATHER'S COMMAND TO HIS GAY SON THE 1950S

GAY COMICS

PLEASE DO NOT SCROLL DOWN TO VIEW THESE DRAWINGS IF YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE OFFENDED BY IMAGES OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVITY.

But always he had a secret sile illtratg stori Amerin gay magaz. Many of them posss a distctly homoerotic flavour and mt have given great pleasure to many young stunts durg their studi.

Gay Comix (later spelled Gay Comics) is an unrground ics seri published om 1980–1998. Created by Howard Cse, Gay Comix featured the work of primarily gay and lbian rtoonists.

GAY COMIC STRIPS

Gay Comix also served as a source for rmatn about non-mastream LGBT-themed ics and events. The ntents of Gay Comix were generally about relatnships, personal experienc, and humor, rather than sex.

GAY AND GRAPHIC

Artists producg work for Gay Comix clud. Kchen Sk Prs published the first five issu of Gay Comix; thereafter was published by Bob Ross, publisher of the Bay Area Reporter gay newspaper. Andy Mangels eded issu #14 to #25 and a special issue featurg Barela; Mangels changed the tle to Gay Comics startg wh issue #15, part to divt of the “unrground” implitns of “ix”.

Excerpts om Gay Comix were clud a 1989 anthology tled Gay Comics. The enigmatic actor, art llector, gay activist, globetrotter, and doyenne of the SoHo scene has, along wh his late partner J.

Together, the pair found the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art—the first stutn of s kd—which is down the block, on Wooster, unassumg Llie happened to poke his head out to the hallway to terme the e of the ck; before he uld shut the door, a group om the art magaze I worked for had charged their way through. This somewhat jad crew of crics was ankly awed to fd every available surface the dky, crimson Prce Street loft absolutely vered—let me repeat: vered—wh explicly homoerotic art all styl and media, cludg var se-specific murals.

TAGGAY+MALE+ICS

At the start of his and Lohman’s llectg days, more than 60 years ago, “gay imagery was unfortunately the hands of pornographers exclively, ” Llie lamented. Photo by Max Burkhalter for wi-rangg llectn gently illtrat the changg landspe of public gay life and the civil rights advanc crementally gaed sce he began discreetly buyg homoerotic art the 1950s. It is only the last three s that homosexualy has gaed legal protectns the Uned Stat.

When the llectn began to take shape, sodomy was outlawed ( still is several stat), and gays uld be refed service at bars and other there were numerable challeng to gog about buildg such a libido, Uranian llectn. Much like homosexualy self, gay art was hidn away—tucked the back rooms of galleri, wh entry granted by s and vert nods passed between figur who had to read the other as part of their circle.

'DON'T SNEAK': A FATHER'S COMMAND TO HIS GAY SON THE 1950S

Generally, homoerotic works “were ma for iends, ” Llie said, and they’ve only more recently been g to the market. He ced the Amerin artist Pl Cadm, “a very charmg man” he knew through gay circl Cann. Born the remote town of Deadwood, South Dakota, 1933, Llie had saved enough money by the time he was 17 to take a b to Los Angel, where he enuntered his first gay muny.

After his two-year stt was up, Llie enrolled the Sorbonne Paris before travelg throughout Europe, livg Venice and Amsterdam, known as the gay pal of post-war Europe. Tipped off by a iend, Llie “found a ltle old ticky-tacky shop, ” as he relled, that trafficked the sale of homoerotic art.

An elrly gentleman, whom Llie perceived to be gay, sat behd the unter. Ccially, however, this perd allowed him to experience the nuanc of gay culture around the world, which drastilly changed his worldview.