The Canadian auteur Bruce LaBruce is one of the very best queer filmmakers:  part queercore, part queer punk, part pornographer …… (and who actually hates labels…..), and who is always pushing the envelope with his work. He combines more conventional narrative and filmmaking techniques with his appetite for extreme topics, and many have explicit sexual content at a time when other filmmakers are no longer prepared to challenge the norm. LaBruce is a fearless creative, and his influence and contribution to queer cinema is substantial and one of the reasons the Provincetown Film Festival honored him in 2023 with their Filmmaker On The Edge Award

And why Queerguru jumped at the chance to sit down and talk with him: it’s not every day you get a chance to meet a queer icon …… (check HERE) 

As we gear up for Valentine’s Day, Bruce is unexpectedly back on our radar as he has produced a GOLD COCKRING “The Revolution In My Boyfriend” that will put a smile on any loved one’s face ……plus it will be a gift that keeps on giving……lol

The unique artwork was produced with London-based art organisation A/POLITICAL and designed in collaboration with master jeweller Jonathan Johnson.   Bruce told QUEERGURU, ” The Revolution Is My Boyfriend subverts the sentimental lie of heteronormative romantic capitalism, queering the materialism of this Hallmark-industrial holiday and replacing it with a symbol of permanent uprising. In oppositionnto diamond engagement rings and monogamous aspiration, this is a different kind of ring, forged for those who refuse to kneel to patriarchy or neoliberal respectability.

He continued “The Revolution Is My Boyfriend weaponizes luxury against those who hoard it. The artwork mirrors the power structures it seeks to destroy: gold, permanence, exclusivity. The very materials fetishized by the ruling class are redeployed here as a takedown of the rich, using their own symbols to attack them.The 1% bends us over repeatedly, with or without our consent. This cock ring is about fighting back and keeping the desire for revolution. Rock hard. Fuck the rich.”

The piece carries forward the artist’s lifelong commitment to queer insurrection. It aligns with Bruce’s queercore concept of a ‘homosexual intifada’: a rejection of heterosexual normalcy, capitalist obedience, and the false promise of inclusivity in a state- and market-driven system.

“This is an object of devotion not to another person, but to revolt itself,” the artist adds. “Standing with sexual revolutionaries and radicals against assimilation, pinkwashing, and liberal compromise, this is desire as resistance, pleasure as revolt, and art as a sustained attack on wealth and unchecked power.”

Alongside the launch, an exclusive X-rated publication (edition of 50). exploring the intersection between jewellery, pornography, and art. will be released. The publication features an essay from  Barbican’s fashion curator Karen van Godtsenhoven “Harder than the boner of a German porn actor and more precious than a well-endowed diamond engagement ring, Bruce LaBruce’s  solid gold 18K cock ring cast with the phrase The Revolution Is My Boyfriend, is a politically charged jewel-cum-sculpture made for a time when the price of gold is hitting historic highs due to global unrest, tariffs and carnage,” explains Karen van Godtsenhoven.

This collaboration, conceived and designed by LaBruce and Johnson, is a unique, wearable artwork – a custom-made sculptural object intended for the body at its most bare. “I’ve been working with Jonathan Johnson for the last fifteen years,” Bruce adds, “collaborating on wearable pieces that encapsulate myartistic vision.”

“This unique cock ring is the culmination of that process. It has been created as part of my new retrospective book of the same name, published by Baron Books, a thirty-five year retrospective of my filmstills, artworks, and personal photography. The ring solidifies myethos in a single slogan: THE REVOLUTION IS MY BOYFRIEND!”

Contact india@a-political.org for enquiries.