Les Aventures de Lucette, 1.—jeux de mains
An erotic short story illustrated with nine vintage photographs of a young blonde cisgender White woman who enters her humble room, undresses, then pleasures herself while perusing a clandestinely published erotic novel, the pseudonymous Louis de Cerdagne's L'Autre chose (1942). The text in Les Aventures de Lucette consists of a letter from Lucette to her university classmate, Monique, written in proper cursive on graph paper of the sort common in French school notebooks. The work is typical of French erotica of... Read More
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Sticker: "Stop Homophobic Art Bigots"
Typographic sticker in the signature style of Queer Nation/San Francisco produced via Macintosh desktop publishing using the Lucida Sans Black and Lucida Sans Bold typefaces. The design livery was developed by the cofounder of the organization, Mark Duran. This sticker protests attacks on queer artists by Republican Party politicians — one of the central right-wing strategies in the United States in what has come to be known as the Culture Wars. Notably the sticker was a response to the U.S. National... Read More
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Gaity
A short-lived monthly covering gay-male news, culture and entertainment published in Paris from July 1986 through at least September 1988. The contents reflect the ferment of gay life in France during this period, with militant organizing facing challenges from a rapidly expanding gay consumer sector and with the toll of the AIDS epidemic creating growing concern. The issues offer a mix of political analysis, reporting on AIDS, and discussions of literature and cinema, along with lifestyle features on travel, fashion,... Read More
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The Best of Europe’s Playmate
A homoerotic photo-novel consisting of a twelve-page German-language story, "Der schwüle Casanova" ("The Queer Casanova") by the pseudonymous John Newhouse, illustrated with 19 pages of color photos, mostly full-page. The text and images recount the urban sexual adventures of a young White British college boy and his conquests of other young men around Western Europe and Scandinavia. Shot on location in the streets of Copenhagen, the initial photos show the protagonist and his date sporting clever suits and ties to... Read More
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Realia: Seven Pin-Back Buttons From the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
Seven different pin-back buttons from the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, founded by Cleve Jones in San Francisco in 1986 to commemorate those lost to the AIDS pandemic. First displayed at the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1987, the quilt was subsequently displayed around the United States, ultimately growing to more than 50,000 panels. Offered here: Circular Button (1987): "The NAMES Project"; 4.3 cm diameter; metal pin-back; blank curl. Original stitch logo in white and... Read More
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5 sur 5
A fabulously trashy free gay monthly produced in Paris in 23 issues from 1983 to 1985, 5 sur 5 was published by controversial entrepreneur David Girard (1959-1990), who launched a conglomerate of gay businesses including bathhouses and nightclubs, as well as periodicals that served to promote those enterprises. Girard cheerfully claimed that he had raised the capital to start his gay business empire by turning 20,000 tricks as a male prostitute. He also unabashedly defended gay consumerism at a time when... Read More
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New-gay
A periodical entirely devoted to personal ads from individuals and couples throughout France seeking erotic contacts; published in a random order with no subdivisions by type or even by region. Despite the reference to "gay" in the publication title, the advertisers are gay, lesbian and bisexual (or "bissex" in the parlance of the journal); many present themselves as "travesti" or "transsex" — or as interested in same. A considerable number of the ads solicit participants in an array of kink... Read More
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Men International
Issue no. 11 of a nudist magazine consisting substantially of plates reproducing artsy black-and-white photos of muscular young men taking sporty poses solo or in pairs in natural settings. All the models are White with the exception of one Black model, featured in two photos.Exclusively publishing male nudes was unusual for conventional nudist magazines of the era, suggesting this publication was targeted in a semi-coded way at the homosexual male market. The editorial contents (all in English) make no nod... Read More
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Peter Burian in THAT BOY
Promotional handbill for That Boy, a groundbreaking gay adult film written, produced, directed by and starring Peter Berlin (pseudonym of Armin Hagen von Hoyningen-Huene, born 1942). The film was released in the brief period when Huene used the pseudonym Peter Burian, and first shown at the Nob Hill Cinema, a gay adult theater in San Francisco. Through his work as a photographer focusing on erotic self-portraiture, Huene went on to establish the Peter Berlin persona as one of the most distinctive... Read More
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Amour défendu!
A somewhat random collection of polymorphously perverse erotic and at times comic short stories set in Italy and France from the 16th through the 18th centuries. One features a Florentine man addicted to sodomy with young men who is finally lured into sex with his wife. One recounts the sexual adventures of a castrato. Others portray erotic misdeeds at the court of Henri II. The front wrap features a black-and-white nudist-style photo of a nearly nude young woman reenacting the iconography... Read More
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CSL Community Softball League vs. PAS Police Allstars
Souvenir program for a match hosted by the Community Softball League, founded in 1973 to bring together teams from gay bars and other gay businesses and still operating today. The event pitted the CSL all stars against the all-stars team from the San Francisco Police Officers Association softball league. The booklet includes a history of the CSL by cofounder Jack McGowan and a letter of congratulations from Mayor George Moscone (1929–1978), along with rosters for all the CSL teams, photos... Read More
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Liberty Gay, Hombre Diferente
Four issues of a Catalan gay magazine primarily devoted to explicit photos of slim White men in their early 20s — although one series in no. 5 features an older model styled to resemble a grotesque classical satyr who menaces a pretty blond twink with a giant golden dildo. Each issue also includes a homoerotic short story and display ads for gay sex services and products. A full page of ads on the inside rear wrap of no. 3 is devoted... Read More
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Beauties Without a Cause
New Wave soundtrack for the short film Beauties Without a Cause (1985), a crime-caper parody by director David Weissman featuring celebrated 1980s San Francisco drag artistes Silvana Nova, Lulu and Tommy Pace (1948-1988)the latter two former members of the Angeles of Light. Music composed by Symon Michael and Michael Helland. Transparent blue 33 1/3 RPM stereo flexi-disc affixed to white card printed recto-verso in black offset. The recto of the card features a photo from the film; the verso offers... Read More
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Portfolio 1: Photographer's Choice
Album of 44 full-page black-and-white informal photos portraying nude White men in their 20s. Some are studio shots, but most are taken in domestic and outdoor settings. Also features one photo of a male-nude sculpture and one of a male-nude drawing. Most of the reproductions are of very low quality, with some showing moiré suggesting they were half-tone screened for printing from images that had already been published elsewhere. No publication year indicated, although the booklet likely was produced circa... Read More
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Sticker: "Thank You Diana / Your compassion and care for those with AIDS and breast cancer will not be forgotten"
Sticker produced by a private individual in San Francisco in response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on August 31, 1997. Photocopied in black on coated white Fasson Crack'N Peel Plus sticker paper.In the 1980s, Diana had carried on a high-visibility campaign to support people with AIDS at a time when many treated them as untouchable pariahs. As a result, her death was felt dearly by many LGBTQ people. In San Francisco, the tragedy even prompted a memorial... Read More
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International Nudist Sun
Issue no. 1 of a nudist magazine consisting substantially of plates reproducing artsy black-and-white photos of muscular young White men taking sporty poses solo, in pairs and in one shot in a group of three — all in natural settings. Two photos feature a man and a woman.International Nudist Sun is the U.S. edition of a Danish magazine, International Men, produced by Nordisk Bladcentral, with the first page of the former indicating "Copyright 1964 by N.B., Copenhagen" and with both... Read More
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Incognito Guide
Produced by the gay publishing and distribution firm Editions A.S.L. in Paris from 1965 to 1983, Incognito Guide was the first directory to gay businesses and organizations regularly published in French. The editions from the mid-1970s offered here feature extensive annotated listings for France, along with further listings from other countries worldwide. The guides include black-and-white and spot-color display ads, many with photos of listed establishments. Incognito Guide Europe, Méditerranée, Amérique du Sud, Australie, Afrique, Canada, Asie 1974 I – (Paris: A.S.L.);... Read More
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The Voice of A.G.E.
Newsletter of Atascadero Gay Encounter (AGE), described in the masthead as "a therapeutic group dedicated to the understanding and acceptance of all GAY people everywhere." Produced by a community organization in Atascadero, a town of 29,000 people in semi-rural Northern California. Features advice columns on coming out, dealing with stress and "love addiction"; a "true-life story" by a bisexual woman recounting her life and her coming out; poetry; and reports on programs and activities sponsored by the organization. No printed month... Read More
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1974–1975 Gay Guide of the World
Unique volume of an international gay travel guide which, according to the front wrap, features "bars, baths, beaches, boutiques, clubs, cruising areas, parks, promenades, restaurants, shops, tea rooms, theatres."An amateurish, haphazard production with cities given in alphabetical order regardless of the country where they're located, making use quite inefficient. The individual listings simply give the business name, address and phone number — but with no indication of the type of the establishment.Compared to earlier guides such as the Lavender Baedeker... Read More
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Queering Cultural Spaces: From San Francisco to the World (1989–1992). An Overview of Projects, Media Responses & Subsequent Interpretations, Including a Comprehensive Bibliography
by Boy With Arms Akimbo / Girl With Arms Akimbo
Illustrated overview of the work of the San Francisco-based queer cultural activist network Boy With Arms Akimbo/Girl With Arms Akimbo. Akimbo's prosex posters, stickers, protest signs, t-shirts and installations addressing issues of queer sexuality, freedom of expression and HIV/AIDS appeared internationally in the streets, at protests and in galleries in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The zine-style guide to research on the group consists of two parts: The final backgrounder produced by the Akimbo in 1992, with a discussion of... Read More
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Sticker: "The Person Next to You May Be a Homosexual — Does It Matter?"
by Gay Activists Alliance
Sticker produced by the Gay Activist Alliance, the reformist gay-rights organization in New York City founded six months after the more politically and tactically radical Gay Liberation Front was established immediately following the Stonewall Riots of June 1969. The GAA adopted as its logo the lower-case Greek letter lambda (λ), which GAA leaders believed to be a symbol from physics to indicate the exchange of energy. The sticker offered here features the logo alongside the mailing address for GAA. CONDITION: Somewhat... Read More
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Cadinot Berlioz symphonie fantastique
by Jean-Daniel Cadinot
Photographs by Jean-Daniel Cadinot (1944-2008), the most original gay porn auteur of the 1970s-1990s in France. Starting as a theatrical photographer in the 1960s, Cadinot began producing male nudes for the emerging gay erotic press in France in the early-1970s, then published his own one-off magazine-style albums, often organized around a theme and including texts positioning the photos as serious works of art. In the 1980s, Cadinot turned to the work that established his commercial success: directing and distributing gay... Read More
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Cadinot présente drague | Plus Four Note Cards
by Jean-Daniel Cadinot
A narrative series of photographs by Jean-Daniel Cadinot (1944-2008), the most original gay porn auteur of the 1970s-1990s in France. The images portray the adventures of a Black American college student as he discovers Paris and its homoerotic possibilities, mixing images of the central character at celebrated Paris tourist sites with intimate photos of his hookups from cruising the streets. In one series, a White artist picks up the student and takes him to his studio to pose nude for... Read More
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A voile et à vapeur
by Sylvain André (pseudonym of André Dromer)
A dizzying narrative of a young male-female couple on summer vacation on the Côte d'Emeraude in Brittany who soon are pursuing bisexual adventures together and separately.Ultimately, the couple connects with an African potentate who embarks the couple and their friends for erotic extravagances on his two yachts, both of which have names evoking queer literature: Bilitis and Corydon. No holdings in WorldCat or the Catalogue Collectif de France.NOTE: Photo masked for public posting. Unmasked photo upon request.
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L'Etalon homme
by Romain Fabert
A homoerotic photo-novel published at a point when the gains of the first wave of gay organizing in France were being consolidated, an urban commercial gay culture was emerging, and the AIDS crisis had not yet taken hold. The era saw a marked development of explicit gay fiction, yet the genre remained semi-clandestine. This was particularly the case for books with erotic illustrations, distribution of which was restricted to seedy sex shops. The 64 pages of color plates in L'Etalon homme... Read More
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