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Weekend viewing: "Portfolio", 1983

"I Saw Daddy Eating Santa Claus"

(Working on finding the source for this ...)

This week Bill Cunningham went out looking for leopard prints and had a more rarefied find on the streets:  Rollerina!

(Photo via)

On the lighter side, here's "Scared Bros at the Haunted House".

EVERYTHING IS SO SERIOUS RIGHT NOW.  Or is it just me?  Facebook friends have just been serving up all this great content about class, economics, banking and all of the big topics of the day.  And Steve Jobs!  And just the terror that any of the Republicans could ever be President again.  It's just a lot to handle.

Meanwhile Halloween is twenty-five days away.  Yes, Gay Christmas is coming back to save us all from the terrifying world in which we live.  To get you geared up, here's a gallery of dudes at a haunted house taken with a hidden camera.  It's a good time.

Kevin Tachman takes us behind the scenes at the McQueen show.

See the set at Vogue.

Hirsute bargain available.

 

If you like pictures of hairy fellows, and if you like coffee-table books, and if you like sales, you might want to check out powerHouse Arena's skid sale.  Hairy, pictured here is just $11.00!  And there are lots more bargains to be had.  Check it out.

Via Brokelyn

Perhaps you love dance or perhaps you love pictures of gays from history or perhaps you love both.  If any of the above is true, then here is a set of photos of gay dancers from the early 20th century just for you.

This is a Helmut Newton photo of Karl Lagerfeld in St. Tropez in 1973.

There are about thirty-seven thoughts that come to mind viewing this, but perhaps yours are less viscerally sexual?

Via

This is a photograph of Liza Minnelli flipping you the bird as shot by Terry Richardson.

Or it's somebody that looks like her?  Perhaps a CGI or a wax figure?   Photochopped and cropped?  As mentioned before ...

1940's New York captured in color.

Here is a collection of Kodachrome pictures of New York from the 1940's.  The full collection was recently donated to Indiana University (my alma mater) and has thousands of photos from photographer Charles Weever Cushman taken all over the world.

This is a photograph of Liza Minnelli in fur and leather as shot by Terry Richardson.

 

 

 

Sorry it couldn't be found in higher resolution, but She was shot by Him for the upcoming issue of Love Magazine.  Other shots include Minnelli in Richardson's glasses (a given) and Minnelli dressed as the Statue of Liberty.

FYF After Dark: Assorted Euro/"Natural"-ish/"Non-traditional" (given mainstream porn is your standard)/Vaguely hipster-ish hotness on sale.

Paco y Manolo are a photographic duo who have a magazine called Kink that's celebrating its fifth anniversary with a sale on past issues. Some issues are not as cheap as others and some come with a photographic print of the main subject of that issue, but all can be found here.

To my eye, these guys have a great technique that has resulted in images that strike just the right balance between art, porn and beauty.

Information on buying their photography available here and an additional and easy to navigate selection of their photography here.

Some favorite images of mine, including the uncensored version of the photo above, after the jump ('cuz they NSFW. 'Course!)...

More from Visionaire's newest edition, starring...Ladyfag?!

Rod promised and I'm making good...

We received a link to Peter Beste's shoot of Desi Santiago's rituals and installations for Visionaire 60: Religion from its star, Ladyfag, though you might not recognize her?!

Stunning work, no? (Did you follow the link? Do it!) Click through for my favorite image (NSFW)...

Update on a riot romance...

The riot kissers have been identified (Friday, actually, but we've been "busy" here at FYF.) and are real. The photo was not staged and everyone (in the couple) is ok.

Mr. Chivalrous is Australian, turns out...doesn't change clothes often and is rather unheeding of what's around him. At least according to Mom.

Original tip via, with photo and additional info via.

Riots are sexy.

The above photo, captured during the street riots in Vancouver (over a fucking Hockey game), is pretty amazing, no?  I'm telling you right here and right now that, in the riots that will occur if marriage equality fails in the New York Senate (and yes, things will be probably get messy if this bill fails), I plan to be fucking in the middle of the street, too.  Seriously Republican Senators, if you do not want gays fucking in the streets, then get on the right side of history and pass the damn bill.

OMG!! SOOOO FLUFFY!!!!

"Rise and Shine, Little Raccoon"

NOT a painting. Get in!

Via NPR

These are GREAT!

(Also here if Facebook won't cooperate.)

Via another Facebook friend.

Cherry Grove vintage photo

Mister Devin Elijah now repped by Ottawa's (and FYF's long-distance art gallery crush) La Petit Mort.

So international!

Polaroid of fellow photographer Isauro Cairo shot for FYF Friend DIRTY MAG (Issue 2).

From the La Petit Mort website:

"Devin Elijah is a 27 year old self taught photographer of Jewish and African American descent. The subject range of his portrait work spans the diverse stream of personalities that have populated his life and consciousness and subsequently his art since arriving in New York in 2007."

He also shot these, of yours truly, several years ago after a rather traumatic experience.

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