[godkissedme]

[yvesdot]

I have seen a young lady with her table loaded with volumes loaded of fictitious trash, poring day after day and night after night over highly wrought scenes and skillfully portrayed pictures of romance, until her cheeks grew pale, her eyes became wild and reckless, and her mind wandered and was lost — the light of intelligence passed behind a cloud, and her soul was forever benighted. She was insane, incurably insane from reading novels.

-- an anonymous pastor in 1864, on the greatest threat to young women

[the-badi-archives]

BADI, otherwise stylized as Bʌ́di (バディ), was a Japanese magazine for gay men that ran from 1994 to 2019. The magazine first started with illustrated covers, but as gay culture became stronger and men less afraid, they began gracing the covers as well. The magazine published a range of content from manga to life advice, fashion articles and sexual health advisories.

I personally find BADI one of the most beautiful and impactful gay magazines, and it's safe to say it's had a massive impact on gay visual culture. While I don't have a perfect archive that goes back to the early days, I have located all monthly issues of BADI from 2010 to 2019 and saved the covers to my hard drive. I will be scheduling them to post on my blog once a week. They will be tagged under #The BADI Archive.

This post will act as a helpful masterlist, and I hope you all enjoy the ride with me. If possible, I'd love to go back and collect vintage editions as well! Anyone who has any leads, please let me know.

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2019 (END)

[kukuaaa]

Cassia Agyeman, at around 660°, 2026

lithograph print on recycled aluminium

21.8 x 42cm

[dyingenigma]

kelela ‘new avatar’ shot by neva wireko

[dovesndecay]

Look man it's taken me almost 30 years to figure out a fraction of who I am and maybe that's an indicator of how slowly I learn or maybe that's just how long it takes for us to rid ourselves of the toxic sludge adults filled our cups with as children but I will fill my own damn cup from here on out

[dovesndecay]

Don't let anyone make you feel like time is running out. You've got so much time to learn and change and grow and wither and rebirth reparent and repair yourself from all the wounds you survived and learn how to thrive for the first time

[pmamtraveller]

"Sweeping Off the Male Gaze" by Japanese illustrator Yuko Shimizu.

[igneousbody]

amarelo manga (mango yellow, 2002) dir. cláudio assis

[updownfragile]

Promised Sky (2025, dir. Erige Sehiri)

[killyridols]

where’s my hug at? by taylor simmons, 2023, oil & spray paint on canvas, 60 × 56 × 3.1 centimeters

[killyridols]

lovers iii by taylor simmons, 2021, acrylic & oil on canvas, 34 × 27 centimeters

[newguineatribalart]

Aboriginal Dot Art by Emily Kngwarreye

[taohun]

the correspondent, agha shahid ali

[zrkalo]

vremena goda (1975), artavazd peleshian

[sivavakkiyar]

Nineteen Eighty Four, The Singh Twins

[sivavakkiyar]

June 5th

[thelastgoodcountry]

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

[9876543234567893-deactivated202]

1959 series of postcards depicting the Soviet republics: Belarusian SSR, Armenian SSR, Georgian SSR, Azerbaijani SSR.