20 Imag From the Naked Age of Erotic Gay Theater

Contents:

• 'DON'T SNEAK': A FATHER'S COMMAND TO HIS GAY SON THE 1950S
• 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
• DADDY, GAY DADDY BEAR, RETRO LGBT RABOW, LGBTQ PRI T-SHIRT
• VTAGE GAY MAGAZ, INCLUDG ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS

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

I'm not sure he ever went to a fight drsed like this But the gay imagatn 's entirely appropriate, cute k for a some reason I like the green outf that's his tramark too. In the gay art universe they all mix eely, hookg up and sharg quts. Royale Stud - Unapproved School The mchmen Royale Stud Open Archive, a project to pile a prehensive llectn of imag by the legendary 50's pneers of Brish gay photography has now transferred om the mchmen blog to a new dited blog and gallery.

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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. 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.

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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?

In this StoryCorps animated short, The Sat of Dry Creek, he remembers the advice his father, a dairy farmer, gave him when he realized his son was gay. Germany has been churng out gay hs for nearly a century.

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Here, 11 gay movi, om the dramatic to the edic, om the absurd to the touchg, om the Weimer Republic to unified Berl, straight out of Germany.

Madchen Uniform ("Girls Uniform"), 1931: While homosexualy was simply allud to the aforementned flicks, was on full display Madchen Uniform, the tale of a boardg school girl who falls for her teacher. Anrs als du und Ich ("Different From You and Me"), 1957: Not to be nfed wh the siarly gay 1919 movie Anrs als die Anrn ("Different om the Others"), this mid-20th Century narrative revolv around rich kid Kls's affair wh a lower-class peer named Maned. And drama also ensued when the picture me out -- not only were nservativ displeased wh the gay ntent, early gay activists were livid over an endg which, spoiler alert, Kls is "cured" of his homosexualy.