Jerker, or The Helping Hand: A Pornographic Elegy with Redeeming Social Value and a Hymn to the Queer Men of San Francisco in Twenty Telephone Calls, Many of Them Dirty (commonly known simply as Jerker) is a 1986 one-act play by Robert Chesley. The two-character play traces the relationship that develops between a disabled Vietnam veteran, J. … Continue reading
Legendary photographer and one of the very best queer raconteurs ever, Michael Childers has a whole history steeped in old glamorous Hollywood, plus his stint working with Andy Warhol etc etc
YET he lives very much for the present: we caught him when he came to Ptown (via Palm Springs/Paris/Provence) where he has a whole wealth of friends who know him as a gay Kevin Bacon ……all of us are just six separations away from him and each other. Check out what he had to say to Queerguru.
Lyle Ashton Harris (is an American artist who has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photographic media, collage, installation art, and performance art. Harris uses his works to comment on societal constructs of sexuality and race, while exploring his own identity as a queer, black man. Now the Albert Merola Gallery in Ptown is presenting the … Continue reading
Technically Andrew Sedgwick Guth’s solo show at the Treadwell Gallery in PTown had ts Closing Party last night BUT we are assured by Shann Treadwell the gallery owner/curator that the show will still be hanging for the next few days. PLUS the good news is that Treadwell whose Gallery has just enjoyed a phenomenal … Continue reading
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Legendary photographer and one of the very best queer raconteurs ever, 
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