My brother and Harvey Milk
Before Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office, he was my brother’s boss on the campaign for gay rights.
Category: Write Up
Write ups, histories, and video blogs.
Rupert Bunny
Before his late marriage, Australian artist Rupert Bunny (1864–1947), mixed in a Proustian circle, including with painter Alastair Cary-Elwes whom he lived with and reaches out to here, and gay writer Zsigmond Justh, who described him splendidly dressed as an angel in gauzy Indian voile.
Crucifixion: Fetish or Art
Something about the crucifixion makes gay artists want to reference it again and again… And in increasingly abstracted nude contexts.
Pat Rocco
Pat Rocco (1934-2018) was a pioneering gay rights activist and pornographer in the late 60s and throughout the 1970s. He came out at 13, had his own radio show by 16, and was making films by the late 1960s.
Hack the Bluesky Algorithm for Success
If you want to stop depending on Facebook and Twitter, you need to learn how to succeed on Bluesky.
Leonard Chambers
Unfortunate victim of the seamy underbelly of the physique photography world Leonard Chambers didn’t set out to become a martyr for the legalization of homosexuality, but he became one.
Lyle Frisbee
Mentor and business partner of Pat Milo, Lyle Frisbee went to prison in 1957 for publishing male nudes before it was legalized. Though he only served a year’s time, in that time he contracted a fatal case of Leukemia from which he died in 1958. In that time his business partner (and some would say life partner) went to college to take photography courses, initially so that he could continue to print Lyles old works.
John Barrington: Studio as Character
John Barrington is known for leaving lights and equipment in his shot as a commentary on the process of photography with the lights arranged visually as compositional elements.
Interviewing at The Magazine
Bob Kurtz interviews Trent from the Magazine in June 2019.
Jack Drago: Midnight Cruiser
One thing I like about prowling the night is that you never know just what you might find. .. I headed down the Las Vegas strip towards the location of an infamous cruising park.