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The domestication of the homosexual is alive and well.

Are the cool kids already writing about the "straight gaze TM"?

Bingo card:

dim lighting

(mythical) gay bar with dim lighting , non-pop club music , no drag queens, and no women

straight acting wounded chap is the prize - the fag is the carer

butts, so many butts

This Polish drama is beautifully shot, darkly funny and full of social commentary about the difficulty of being a gay father in Poland. Even

#tv #fags #faggotry #hbo #proud #great freedom #inversion

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Visitors watch the Yellow River from the Xiaolangdi Dam (China)

See the highlights of Malicious Damage, a collection of library dust jackets defaced by playwright Joe Orton and his boyfriend Kenneth Halli

#joe orton #the absurd

Located on the outskirts of Barcelona, this former cement factory was transformed into Bofill’s home, studio and office

#architecture #ricardo bofill

Gaaaaaaay

#fags #faggotry #poncy utopia

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A tatoo said to be popular with gay criminals. L'homme criminel: Atlas. 1888.

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A little more from Les Tatouages: étude anthropologique et medico légale [x]

“…hands intertwined, holding a pansy with initials: it is a tattoo that I found on several homosexuals; daggers in the left breast area (it is a dagger in the heart, a mortal wound, a wound always open and on the edges of which the draftsman never fails to draw three or five drops of blood). The dagger is the tragic instrument, the one that impresses the most. It is not represented only on the chest, but on other parts. I saw it on the arms, in the back, on the anterior part of the thighs. Often there are two daggers crossed or two hands holding a dagger together and the inscription below: to life, to death.”

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Petrus van Schendel - "Evening at the Vaux-Hall, Brussels Park"

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Robert Rauschenberg: Autobiography (1968) Detail

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An ancient Etruscan tomb painting, often referred to as the "Tomb of the Chariots" (Tomba delle Bighe). The fresco dates to around 490 BCE and was discovered in the Tarquinia necropolis in Italy. It is one of the earliest known depictions of same-sex intimacy in Western art.

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Peep Show: Untitled Anonymous, from Andrew Roth’s PPP Editions, features an archive of remarkably obsessive photos taken primarily in New York in the mid-1960s by an unknown photographer. Critic Vince Aletti’s essay on that archive is excerpted here.