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Photographer Tony Duran is a favorite of magazine editors around the globe as well as many Hollywood celebrities. I love his portfolio because his work can be provocative but is never pretentious. Check out some of Tony's more erotic pics below.

What do you get when you combine the nuance of line and eye for detail of artist/illustrator, Miguel Angel Reyes, with the chiseled, masculine form of actor Trevor LaPaglia? You get these exquisite illustrations of LaPaglia. This beautiful artwork was shared with fans, by LaPaglia, on his social media. The artist, Reyes, captures LaPaglia with both an elegance and a rawness that is uniquely Trevor.

Written by Cristina Nualart


In the 1990s, the contemporary art scene was booming in Hanoi. New galleries opened, foreign art collectors took an interest in this relatively unknown country and, although censorship by a watchful regime did not disappear, Vietnamese artists gained some freedoms. Significant innovations included the appearance of performance art and of homosexual content in the artwork of Truong Tan, possibly the first openly gay Vietnamese visual artist.


Truong Tan’s first work showing homosexual content dates from 1992, when the painting Circus was displayed in a group show at the Hanoi Fine Arts University, where Tan was a lecturer. Truong Tan’s catalogue for his first solo exhibition in 1994 documents his tentative exploration of performance art and frequent use of ropes [see picture above]. The decision to show this work activated something in him. “My goal was set,” he said, explaining that he was ready to stop hiding his homosexuality and that he was determined to forge a career as a professional artist. It wasn’t easy, and for some time he kept his homoerotic drawings private. READ MORE

Written by Corey Saucier


They call us “fags,” and “sexual deviants,” and “abominations,” and flamboyant fem flamers who only complain about our rights… but they forget that we also stood in packed hospitals as our lovers died terrible pale-lipped deaths.

We took our friends home to hospice because their families rejected them, and we nursed them in our guest rooms until their medications no longer worked and there was no more breath for them to breathe.

We were brave…and selfless…and beautiful…and Holy, like some blue-eyed black-winged creature screaming tears into the corner with our eyes squeezed shut so that we didn’t go mad—casting spells made of light and prayer—as savage as any monster.

We gay men were bright unflinching examples of how to love the dying.

And so many of us remain….

Walking the streets of gay ghettos in bright pink shirts with limp wrists and loud gay sayings.

Yelling, “Yaaaasss!” at cocktail parties; pretending to be vapid and silly and vain….

But really we were the winged creatures in golden halos garbed in long-suffering and grace that carried our loved ones from one world to the other like angels, or fairies, or the ferocious Valkyrie. READ MORE

Harvey Milk, Sally Ride, George Takei | Illustration by Allie Kolarik

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Written by Justin Moran


Félix D'Eon has long been fascinated with art history, reveling in everything from Edwardian fashion and the golden-era of American comics, to Japanese printmaking and children's book illustrations. Though visually enrapturing, the subject matter of these works never connected with D'Eon, who's a queer Chicano man, born in Mexico and raised in Southern California. Here, the artist saw an important opportunity.


By appropriating the aesthetic of classic illustrations and trading out straight subjects for his own LGBTQ characters, D'Eon found he could use an already established visual language to showcase queer communities in a celebratory light. His work features a multicultural spectrum of queer love, seduction and sex, all presented in an antiquitous format that aims to normalize and empower historically marginalized people. READ FULL INTERVIEW HERE

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Menelas is a photographer and poet. He describes himself as an "existential detective". I was intrigued by his work. I found Menelas' images of men on rocks very sensual, raw and masculine so I thought I'd share them on Stonewall Gazette. Enjoy!

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A picture is worth a thousand words, more or less, as I don't know how many times artist John Stofka had to write the words 'Steve Grand' to create this clever and awesome drawing of gay pop-rock singer, Steve Grand. Stofka ‏used a photo from Steve's recent shoot for OutClique Magazine as his inspiration (see below).

Written by Jack Moss


Dielamb, the German moniker that Matt Lambert's thousands of Instagram followers know him by, was born in Los Angeles, though he is now more often associated with Berlin, his beloved adopted home.

Written by Zachary Small


Art historians may contend that it was Dada that brought collage into the Western canon. Specifically, it was the German Dadaist Hannah Höch who popularized photomontage as a means to access the subconscious, political, and absurd. But few art historical surveys of photomontage (or more broadly collage) have considered the medium to be a quintessentially queer art form.

The act of collaging can be a passive and even violent affair — the slicing of limbs, the composing of Frankensteinian faces — yet queer artists have continually turned to the technique for its ability to recast that violence by rearranging symbols of aggressive hypermasculinity into scenes of same-sex tenderness, providing a rare glimpse into the paradoxical softness of roughness. Central to the queer practice of collage is the construction of new worlds and identities, the outward use of a violent action to protect a vulnerable inner life. READ MORE

Written by Jenny Brewer


Gay dating app Grindr has produced and published its first book, called Home, by photographer and filmmaker Matt Lambert. In the publication, the Berlin-based, LA-born Matt explores “intimacy and youth, focused on LGBTQ narratives”. Home was art directed and designed by Studio Yukiko.


Grindr commissioned the book to explore the role of “safe spaces, both physical and virtual, in the development of LGBTQ+ identity”, it explains. “In the wake of the Orlando massacre, with the vitriol of the 2016 US Presidential Election, and in a world where more than 75 countries still criminalise being gay, LGBTQ rights are in a precarious position. READ MORE

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Writer David Goodman recently spoke with photographer, inkedKenny. In the interview excerpted below, the two men discuss inkedKenny's approach to his art, as well as the one person he wishes he could photograph.

Via Antinous Gay God:
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, who died under suspicious circumstances in 1610, was an extraordinary painter whose homoerotic images of young men have caused art historians to call him the first modern painter. St. Caravaggio is the Patron of Gifted Bad Boys — Gay Boys who are blessed with incredible talents but who are too impatient and too rebellious to abide by the rules of society. READ MORE

Written by Shane Smith, Editor, Stonewall Gazette


The erotic image above was taken from the 1968 film, Autumn Nocturne and was used as part of the cover of The Los Angeles Advocate, published in December 1968. Autumn Nocturne was a soft-core pornography film directed by Pat Rocco.

British artists John Parkhurst and Basil Clavering operated a photo studio specializing in military themes and bodybuilder images. According to Q News their photo sets and stories were featured in specialist magazines and sold through mail order. Many of the models were active military personnel. Parkhurst and Clavering used authentic uniforms and props, representing Guardsmen, the Royal Horse Artillery, Navy and Army. The images depict gay male erotica and perhaps the photographers found inspiration in the drawings of iconic gay artist Tom of Finland.

Written by Shane Smith, Editor, Stonewall Gazette


What do you get when you combine the nuance of line and eye for detail of artist/illustrator, Miguel Angel Reyes, with the chiseled, masculine form of actor Trevor LaPaglia? You get these exquisite illustrations of LaPaglia. This beautiful artwork was shared with fans, by LaPaglia, on his social media. The artist, Reyes, captures LaPaglia with both an elegance and a rawness that is uniquely Trevor.

June 22, 2010

[Canada] Paul Jackson’s One of the Boys is a complex, layered, and compassionate analysis of homosexuality in the Canadian military during World War II. Through careful and painstaking research, using archival evidence including court martial proceedings and interviews, he writes into World War II a social history of homosexuality in the Canadian Forces — a social history that had been, as he notes, ignored by military historians. At the heart of the book are six chapters which focus on what he refers to as “the regulators and the regulated.” In the three chapters on “the regulators” he considers how the military sought to regulate homosexuality through the definition of policy, how military law was used to function as a deterrent and how military psychiatry and medicine played a role in the regulatory process. He then turns his attention to the “regulated” and considers queer servicemen in Canada, queer servicemen overseas, and the effect of homosexuality on the esprit de corps, unit cohesion, and morale. He uses interviews and court martial records to bring to life this social history where he eschews simple answers.

Read more at Canadian Dimension

Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist Patricia Cronin's sculpture, Memorial to a Marriage, is in the cemetery plot for her and her partner. Cronin says: “I thought if all we get are wills, health care proxies and power-of-attorney documents to try to simulate some of the protections of marriage — which doesn’t really work — it’s not about our life together. So if all I get afforded legally is death, I thought I’d make it really elegant and dignified.”

A classic 1990 photo-text collage by the late David Wojnarowicz, presents a snapshot of the artist as a child in the 1950s, surrounded by text that grimly outlines the abuse and discrimination the boy will endure at the hands of his family, church, gay bashers, the medical establishment and the government. Countless gay men have lived that story, and Wojnarowicz’s telling seethes with a fury that could peel paint. Two years after he made that piece, he died of AIDS-related complications at 37.

AIDS also informs Daniel Goldstein’s sculptures. Medicine Man, which seems to straddle the line between despair about lives lost and hope for longevity, is a totemlike figure made of hundreds of empty medication bottles and dozens of syringes donated by HIV patients, forming a new whole out of the lives of many.

The above photos and text were excerpted from Douglas Britt's article: Gay Identity, Unfiltered.

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Last week, Olympian Matthew Mitchum was dressed as one and now these photographs from Exterface.com. I have to wonder: When did Unicorns become so popular with gay men? Not that I'm complaining! Whimsy and muscles work just fine as far as I'm concerned. What do you guys think?