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Dance: Friedemann Vogel
Another installment on male ballet dancers and their remarkable bodies. Passed on by Mike McKinley, Chris Ambidge, and Arne Adolfsen from the Male Ballet Dancers Facebook page, Friedemann Vogel as...
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Les Danseurs
(Another posting about the male body, but with some fine photography.) From the models.com site on the 11th, a piece by Jonathan Shia, “Matthew Brookes’ Ballet Dancers”. Highlights: Flip through the...
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José Parra
Assembling materials for my posting on Jack Adams underwear for men took me further into the world of homowear, premium men’s underwear brands (pricey, emphasizing athleticism and stylishness, plus...
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Professional muscle hunks
It started with a postcard from my friend Max: (#1) The card said this was a photo of model Nathan Black, from Body Image Productions. That led me to the company’s website (not especially easy to...
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Calendrical hunks
Two male-hunk calenders, one with an image for the Christmas season. Mr. December from the Meet the Bern calender, supporting Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders: (#1) And the cover image...
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A piece of male art
From Chris Ambidge a little while back, this arresting piece of sculpture in the form of a human body — a collaboration between model and photographer to yield an image that looks like something made...
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Morning name: John Varvatos
The menswear guy, especially coats and footwear (shoes, boots, even Varvatos Converse sneakers — high end sneakers, at $100 to $140 each), though now he’s branched out in other directions: men’s...
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Notes on male ballet dancers
Two recent items passed on to me by Mike McKinley: one a photograph of young male dancers at the barre, the other a video compilation of dancer Joseph Gatti in an assortment of his roles. The...
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Two books of male photography
(This posting alludes to some male-male sexual practices — given the content of the books, that could scarcely be avoided — but in measured language rather than street talk, in accord with the tones of...
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Loving couples
Two things that came to my attention over this holiday (Valentine’s and Presidents Day) weekend, both involving same-sex couples: a piece on two men who are a couple (an engaged couple, in fact), Tom...
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A passion for pickles
Note: this posting is about pickles (in the American sense: pickled cucumbers) and uses of the word pickle, especially in proper names; my main theme is that pickles and the word pickle tend to be...
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Paul Sixta and Marios and more
(About photography/video and the male body, rather than about language.) It started with a wonderful atmospheric photograph of a gorgeous nude man, sent to me by Mike McKinley, but without a source....
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Ganymede on the fly
(Sex in the Greek/Roman mythological world, but it’s man-man sex, sometimes described here in pretty plain terms, so it might not be for everyone.) On AZBlogX, some images from the Ganymede series on...
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Escorts, rentboys, male hustlers
(Only a bit about language, and given the topic, not for kids or the sexually modest.) The subject of the 2009 book: Escort: 40 Profiles with Photographs of Men Who Sell Sex (text by David Leddick and...
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Two extravagant mani-corns
(Unicorns are of course phallic symbols. But there’s more here.) The first Facebook query came from Melinda Shore, who hoped I’d be able to identify the heavily muscled model in this campy purply-pink...
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Pretty in pink: my homo pony
Yesterday, I posted, in “Two extravagant mani-corns”, two homoerotic photos of hunky men dressed as unicorns: #1 elaborately posed, #2 an unposed shot taken on the fly at this year’s Coachella...
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Male photography: Leo (and Mikele)
(Mostly about male art, not much about language. Sexy, but far from incendiary.) It started with a mailing, weeks ago, from this aggregation site that keeps sending me ads (mostly lame) for gay porn...
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Lili Darvas
(on actors, writers, and artists, with not much on language) … and Billy Mumy and Ferenc Molnár and Edith Barakovich. It starts with some tv I watched yesterday: “Long Distance Call”, episode 58 of the...
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George Platt Lynes and Jared French
(About art and sexuality. Not much language in it.) Terry Castle, my Stanford colleague (in English literature), has been using Pinterest to compose a kind of history of modern art in pictures,...
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Photo sets
Another unearthing — of photo sets (or photosets) from two male photography studios in the 1990s: Colt Studio (American, the work of Jim French / Rip Colt) and Marco Studio (Brazilian). Details on the...
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