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Interesting and provocative thoughts on gay history, gay sexual history, gay porn, and gay popular culture.

Famous Porn Stars of the Past: Focus on Jon King

Famous Porn Stars of the Past:  Focus on Jon King

 

 

Mitt Romney

 

Flahback to election 2012: the Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, is a Mormon. 

 

In fact, he is some type of elder in the church. Those facts had proved to be controversial, but the Mormon Church had previously created controversy by supporting Proposition 8 in California.

 

Now the church has supposedly lessened (slightly) its anti-gay stance by supporting a Salt Lake City ordinance barring housing and workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation. 

Why is this? What do the Mormons believe about homosexuality? Perhaps a magazine published by gay Mormons (yes, they exist!) can give us some insight. 

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Retrostuds of the Past: Focus on Johnny Rahm

 

I've set up some “kick ass” Pinterest boards for Bijouworld in order to increase our social media outreach. 

Last weekend, I was particularly bored, so I decided to use my expertise to set up my own personal Pinterest boards. I spent two days creating pins and repinning and liking pins. Yes, I fear I have become addicted. I've even started doing it from my phone. Yikes! 

So - what is Pinterest and how does it work? According to this article, Pinterest is a social network that allows users to visually share, and discover new interests by posting (known as 'pinning' on Pinterest) images or videos to their own or others' boards (i.e. a collection of “pins,” usually with a common theme) and browsing what other users have pinned. 

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Sweatpants

 

A few months ago, an unmanned Chicago Transit Authority Train somehow broke free from its moorings in the yard, passed through two braking systems that should have stopped it, and slammed into a train going in the opposite direction. Thirty-three people were injured, none seriously.

 

I heard that at one point the train was actually going uphill by itself?! 

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It's Art and It's Porn: The Legacy of Arch Brown

It's Art and It's Porn: The Legacy of Arch Brown

With Jack Deveau and Tom DeSimone, Peter de Rome dominated the gay porn industry of the 1970s. Emphasizing his talents for sexual farce (as in the short film “Deliveries in the Rear” in Private Collection), artful photography, particular (some might claim peculiar) lust, kink, and bizarre, surrealistic images, de Rome demonstrated that sex could be art, and vice versa. 

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The 55th Street Playhouse in New York City: A Fabulous Journey from Horses to Porn

The 55th Street Playhouse in New York City: A Fabulous Journey from Horses to Porn

In 1971, Wakefield Poole created a sensation when he and producer Marvin Shulman released the gay porn film Boys in the Sand at the 55th Street Playhouse in New York City. Producer Wakefield Poole placed ads in, and got the film reviewed by, both the New York Times and Variety

 

Later that year, J. Brian's gay porn film Seven in a Barn showed at this same location. 

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