Tag: culture

  • Naked Boys Reading  are HUSTLING for their 6th Birthday

    Naked Boys Reading are HUSTLING for their 6th Birthday

      Naked Boys Reading is just about to celebrate its 6th Birthday. That’s 218 readers in London alone, over 50 events, and a community that’s grown to 4 countries.  That is a lot of reading and a lot of naked flesh.. The theme for the Anniversary event is Hustling …..of course.  Hosted by NBR Founder Dr…

  • William Haines : Hollywood’s forgotten queer Hero

    William Haines : Hollywood’s forgotten queer Hero

      William (Billy) Haines was a Hollywood queer legend.  The only openly gay movie star who defied the major Studio’s blatant homophobia, and yet from 1930-1933 was their most successful male star.  In fact this record as the Number One Box Office Star who was/is openly gay sadly remains unchallenged some 85 years later. Haines…

  • Bill Cunningham was an original, a true character, in the best sense of the word.

    Bill Cunningham was an original, a true character, in the best sense of the word.

    FASHION CLIMBING A MEMOIR WITH PHOTOGRAPHS By BILL CUNNINGHAM Preface by Hilton Als After Bill Cunningham died in 2016, his family found a memoir he had written about the earlier period of his life. It was an unexpected, and enjoyable, find. Most people remember Cunningham’s work as the photographer behind the On the Street and…

  • meatzine’s calendar for 2019 celebrates real guys – as they are.

    meatzine’s calendar for 2019 celebrates real guys – as they are.

    London photographer Adrian Lourie celebrates  “ordinary” gay men by taking their pictures and publishing them in meat, a UK gay pinup fanzine.  Unlike Elska Magazine that recently devoted a whole issue to the boys of London, Lourie’s subjects are all completely naked. He is being doing this since 2010 when he just grew tired  of body…

  • Happy Birthday Freddie

    Happy Birthday Freddie

      It seems like the whole of the world …… well, at least the UK part of it …. are celebrating Freddie Mercury’s 72nd Birthday .  Ahead of the long-waited launch of the biopic BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY on  24th October in the UK and 2nd November in the US , 20th Century Fox have released  this new birthday…