Of Fleeting & Lasting Interest

We often make snap judgments which then either disappear or settle for some reason into the peculiar incubator of our minds: there they may die or perhaps they break through into something lasting and important for us and others. And we must share them. ...

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“ATELIER VENICE” by François Rousseau

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David Hockney

From Illustrations of thirteen poems from C F Cavafy 1966

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Samurai Bara: Ten Men. (2024)

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© Alan Spazzali

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BURT LANCASTER Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) dir. Norman Foster

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Jack & Michael, 1913. “He was helping himself to my butt.”

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Suzanne Billet de Fombelle (French 1899–1953) The Bathers

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Paul Cadmus (American, 1904-1999), Preliminary Study for the 'Three Dancers Resting', 1971. Crayon on paper, 17 x 15 in.

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William Rothenstein (British, 1872-1945), Portrait of W.B. Yeats, 1898. Lithograph, 43 x 26 cm.

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US Navy Sailors, study for a Collier's Magazine cover by J.C. Leyendecker, 1917.

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A San Francisco Street Scene (1977) by Crawford Barton

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Crawford Barton (June 2, 1943 – June 12, 1993) was an American photographer. His work is known for documenting the blooming of the openly gay culture in San Francisco from the late 1960s into the 1980s.

Many of Barton's images documenting long-haired freaks dancing in the street, love-ins in the park, "dykes on bikes," cross-dressers in the Castro, and leather men prowling at night have become classics of the gay world. He photographed some of the first Gay Pride parades and protests; Harvey Milk campaigning in San Francisco; and celebrities including poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and actors Sal Mineo and Paul Winfield.

It was his circle of friends and acquaintances that inspired his most intimate erotic photography, especially his lover, Larry Lara. Barton described Lara as the “perfect specimen, as crazy and wonderful and spontaneous and free as Kerouac, so I’m never bored and never tired of looking at him.” Considered as a single body of work, his photographs of Lara dancing in the hallway of their flat on Dorland Street, a bearded hippie in the door of a cabin in Marin, a sensual nude in the hills of Land's End, suggest the fullness, richness and complexity of the man he loved most.

In addition to his fine art photography, Barton worked on assignment for The Advocate and the Bay Area Reporter, as well as The Examiner, Newsday', and the Los Angeles Times.

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White egrets "kissing" as part of their mating ritual By: Tokutaro Tanaka From: Life Nature Library: Animal Behavior 1965

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We make history everyday by existing in a world that has consistently tried to make us disappear.

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Bronx, Wakefield, NY, 2 3 26, Photo by Joe Bruha, Copyright 2026