MASCULAR

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6 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR MODERN BEAR 130

Paul-André Larocque makes cool photographs of
8 HOME MIX - Vol. XVII
Travis and Chris living the Palm Springs dream
DJ Brian Maier’s latest mix for MASCULAR
14 MASCULAR T-SHIRT STRONG ENVIRONMENTS 136
Jeff Miller – HOME Gene Dodak uses masculine sculpture
in his dynamic interior designs
16 HOMELIKE
Daniel Decot exposes the true essence of men CONTENTMENT IN AN ENVIRONMENT 138
in their homes in B&W photography Dan Romer explores security and relaxation at
home in this collection of illustrations
26 HOME ALONE
Bil Donovan investigates sexual awaking in his beautiful illustrations HOME 144
Anthony Bocaccio takes his inspiration from Italian
34 HARWOOD’S KITCHEN PLAYHOUSE masters for this collection of erotic photographs
Mike Harwood shares his photographs of
men who hang out in his kitchen HOME - SEWN 150
John Paradiso re-contextualizes homoerotic images in
42 MY MUSE AND MY HOME traditional sewn crafts most associated with home and hearth
Paul Specht “writes” a visual love letter to his husband Eric
HOME OR 7 DEFINITIONS TOWARDS DEFINING SOMETHING 156
52 ANGUSTIA DEL CLOSET This collaboration between Krys Fox and Shelton
ANGUISH OF THE CLOSET Lindsey defines home in unusual ways
Fernando Bracho Bracho opens the closet
door in this gender bending pictorial HOME 164
Richard Vyse illustrates men at home in nature
60 HOME: FINDING WHERE YOU ARE WANTED
George Towne paints men in his ongoing quest to form community HOME 172
Oliver Zeuke makes living by the sea
68 THE BIG KID IN US ALL home in this beautiful pictorial
Joe Mazza’s playful pictorial about childhood
DOMESTIC BLISS 178
76 BUILT FOR PLEASURE Ulli Richter and Christopher Studer-Harper turn
Blade T. Bannon explores the mystery of home into a fetishy, BDSM chamber
attraction in this sexy pictorial
HOMEBODIES 184
82 UNE JOURNÉE A LA MAISON Home never seemed as fun as it does in these
A DAY AT HOME colorful illustrations by Shannon Hedges
Bearceval give us a peek inside his domestic bliss
ECHOES OF A HOME ONCE BORROWED 190
88 RECYCLED CONSCIOUSNESS Vincent Keith tells the tale of being inspired by
Joe LaMattina’s surreal view of men in home environments someone else’s home in words and image
96 HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS KINGS AND PRINCES 200
Al Walz makes hanging out at home an art form The men of Vilela Valentin’s illustrations offer protection
102 HOME and safety through beautiful masculinity
Gianorso makes sexy portraits in San Francisco A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME 208
108 NO SHIRT REQUIRED: AT HOME IN PROVINCETOWN Stephen Honicki explores the transient nature of
An excerpt from Wayne Hoffman’s book An Older Man home in this psychologically compelling pictorial
telling why Provincetown is home to many THE HOMELESS CHAIR 216
110 AT HOME Gerard Floyd imbues a homeless chair with
Ron Amato’s collection of men being comfortable at home new life in these sexy self portrait

116 HOME SLEEPOVER 224

Scott Hamilton pays homage to his favorite Inked Kenny gives us his signature style in
artists, all from the comfort of his sofa these photographs of a sexy sleepover

122 HOGAR... ES LA LIBERDAD CHILDHOOD HOME 234

HOME IS FREEDOM Ludovic Seth revisits his childhood home
Alejandro Caspe shows us a judgement free in these haunting photographs
zone in these intimate photographs CONTRIBUTORS 248
128 HOME CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 256
William “Cricket” Ulrich’s painting of a “hot Russian” that
hangs in his home with his straight best friend
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Celebrating masculine art and
the men who create it

Ron Amato in front of his childhood home

Home… to be the comfort of a familiar chair. Yet

there is a yearning, a feeling of lack of
...it’s where the heart is The other day I had lunch with my friend
fulfillment. What is he yearning for? Is it
Peter. Peter was born in Panama, move
...you can’t go there again love? Is it sex? In the 1964 song A House is
to Florida when he was a teen and has
Not a Home, Burt Bacharach and Hal David
...it is on the range been in Brooklyn, New York for the past
make the case that without love, there is
30 years. I asked him what he thought of
...a house is not one no home. Ultimately, is it all about love?
when I said “home.” He immediately said
...chickens roost there Panama. I asked, “Even though you’ve been In photographer Paul Specht’s My Muse
in Brooklyn for 30 years?” “I know how and My Home we are privy to a visual love
...charity begins there
the rain sounds when it hits the leaves letter to Paul’s husband Eric. As for many
...there’s no place like it in Panama,” he answered. For Peter it is of us, the man Paul loves is his emotional
visceral. We certainly see this echoed in home. Indeed images of people, whether a
I’ve been thinking about the concept of Ludovic Seth’s gorgeous photo pictorial life partner, parent or sibling, are conjured
“Home” for the last number of weeks. I Childhood Home. I chose to end this issue up for many of us when asked to think of
know what it means to me, but what I with Seth’s photographs because I feel home. Paul’s images of Eric paired with
found is everyone’s idea of home varies by they embody many of the themes other images of objects that occupy their home
life experience. On first blush most think artists are exploring in these pages. They together, go right to the heart of home
about a structure where they once had are reminiscent, sensual, melancholy, for many. There is a sense of comfort and
shelter from the cold. However when asked bittersweet and, dare I say, sexy. shelter from the outside world, a place of
to push a little deeper, it often become a refuge with the one you love.
time period or individual that offered That got me thinking about the visceral
happiness, protection and love. I found this home. What is implanted so deep in our Memory plays a very important role in
quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. visceral experience that bubbles up only how we think of Home. Peter’s story
when we think of home? What do we feel about the rain on the leaves in Panama is
when we think of home? Certainly it is all all about memory. I know when I think of
Where we love is home - home that our the emotions listed above but, as we see home, my mind is flooded with bits and
feet may leave, but not our hearts. with Gerard Floyd’s self portraits, there can pieces of images not anchored to each
be something unexpected as well. Floyd other and in no particular order. It is this
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr depicts a man at home in what we assume stream-of-consciousness way of thinking
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about home that makes Joe LaMattina’s being Queer with a celebration of gender Bil Donovan’s gorgeous illustrations in
collection, Recycled Consciousness, so bending fabulousness. While Krys Fox and Home Alone certainly feel like memory
powerful. Indeed Joe’s technique of Shelton Lindsey collaborate with image with their overlapping bodies and
combining seemingly unrelated images and word to explore a queer boy’s journey diffuse edges. Bil talks about one’s sexual
on a single canvas mirrors the way one’s from his childhood home to creating awareness beginning at home, alone, in
mind combines separate experiences into homes wherever life takes him in Home or in the bedroom, bathroom or basement.
a seamless, surreal narrative. 7 Definitions Toward Defining Something. This brings thoughts of one’s adolescence
in their childhood home discovering their
How can any conversation about home When you live in an urban center, your view
sexuality in secret, learning what brings
not include childhood. Can anyone really of homelessness is usually shaped by the
them pleasure, developing a thirst, creating
separate thoughts of childhood from destitute living on the streets, in parks or in
a rich fantasy life. Our sexual awareness
thoughts of home? For many those subway stations. As a lifelong New Yorker, I
begins at home, but it is only when we
thoughts are often painful, especially can attest to the becoming callous to the
leave, that our fantasies can be fulfilled.
when you are queer (more on that later). plight of this part of my city’s population.
However, as we see in Joe Mazza’s The Big If you let yourself think about them too As I write this, I sit in my home in Brooklyn.
Kid in All of Us, those thoughts are equally long, the feelings of helplessness and My husband, Seth, is sleeping in our
as often joyful. I’ve been looking at Joe’s despair overtake you. However, I’ve never bedroom. Our two fox terriers, Ben and
photographs for weeks now and, still, considered emotional homelessness. What Zeb, are pushed up against him. There is a
a spontaneous smile comes to my face is it like for someone whose emotions have peaceful quiet. I know I am safe, loved and
when I see them. Joe’s pictorial adds a very no home, when they are untethered to any protected from what lies outside. I’ve lived
important and easily overlooked element other individual or experience? Stephen in many different houses and apartments
to this collection about home, the simple Honicki’s haunting pictorial, A House is in my lifetime, but few I think of as home.
elation of being a child, at home, on the Not a Home, depicts snippets of emotional For me “home” encompasses all of the
floor with your toys. The fact that Joe’s restlessness from paranoia to despair. The aspects our contributors have explored in
“big kid” happens to be a grown man who men in the photographs are in a physical these pages. Sometimes you don’t have all
exudes a potent sexiness is just the icing structure yet appear to be searching for a of them at once. Sometimes you have to
on the cake! home. test drive different types of homes before
you know which is right. Whatever home
Further on in my conversation with Peter, Okay, let’s talk about SEX. A number of our
is, it is as individual as there are people in
he said, “When you are queer, you have contributing artists approach the concept
the world. I hope as you read this, you too,
no home.” The statement made me stop of home as sexuality and sex. Inked Kenny
are home.
eating and listen closer. Asked to explain, shows us an apartment as home to a
Peter went on to talk about something brotherhood of sexy, mostly naked men - Ron Amato, May 2017
all queer people understand. When you playful engaging in normal household
are part of a marginalized community activities such as brushing their teeth and
because of ethnicity, class or geography, sitting by the fire. Only these guys do it
you usually share that status with your in groups, covered by strategically placed
family. Rarely do you share being queer towels. Maybe Kenny will let us see the out
with your family. I’ve always understood takes some day. Mike Harwood’s Kitchen
this but this was the first time I thought Playhouse is similarly occupied by naked or
of it in terms of being homeless. Fernando nearly naked men hanging out on counter
Bracho Bracho’s contribution, Anguish of tops and tables. Are they waiting to be
the Closet, addresses the solitary nature of served?
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Daniel Decot
It’s about real people in their home place -so they feel more at ease since evolving in their environment. I prefer the release during a session so I
give privilege to loosening over acting. « Don’t do, don’t act, don’t pose, do nothing », no drama effect but just a look, a presence, the raw drawing
of a gesture, a growing thought. An intense yet discreet emotion, nearly mute and blind which tends to reveal a true moment, unutterable,
subtle and far away from bashing clichés. End purpose being to suggest intimacy and not to steal it from the subject. A meeting, some shared
instants. A caring look from my ends. A deeper look on the inside from yours. I always go shooting unplanned, adapting to the environment and its
unexpected circumstances. The (natural) light conditions, the room constraints are of interest to me and force me to cope with all contingencies,
composing my picture on the exact moment. A face, a look, a body, a room. Once they have taken their clothes off, pealed their skin off their social
ID, there is just them, in front of then, men exposed in their true essence. My personae have a link with those of Edward Hopper’s paintings, for
being solitary, melancholic, mute and wholly-engrossed in their thoughts, locked within, alone, nude facing a window letting the light floating in
and suggests the possibility of an infinite world lying behind, on the other side.

You can see more of Daniel’s work at www.danieldecotphoto.book.fr

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 HOME ALONE
Bil Donovan

“Home Alone” reflects the idea about the Self. Sexual awareness begins I asked the models posing for the drawings to contemplate their
at home, alone, in a bedroom, bathroom, basement or mirror. sensuality at home and to replicate those moments in various poses.

Sexual identity begins to emerge through experimentation which There is a specific intimacy between the artist and model highlighted
heightens sexual pleasure. by a charged eroticism. My intent was to communicate that eroticism
and sensuality through the drawings with a selective suggestion of the
The discovery of self has its genesis in the home, but the intimacy of moment, allowing the viewer to create the narrative.
knowing oneself unveils the idea that home within the self.

You can see more of Bil’s works at bildonovanlimited.com instagram@ bildonovan

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 HARWOOD’S KITCHEN PLAYHOUSE
Mike Harwood

These photos were taken in the blessedly spacious kitchen of my New York City apartment, a humorous setting conducive
to narrative and metaphor, as well as offering a stimulating and disinhibiting workspace for my models.

The men are friends and acquaintances of diverse professional backgrounds. My method is collaborative and improvisational.
My style is casual and intimate, which entails the use of low light and fast film.

I create these images as artful evidence of particular erotically charged events, rather than pictures fashioned with an
audience in mind. Yet they have proven to be eminently audience worthy and valued as well by the men who inhabit them.

You can see more of Mike’s work at MichaelHarwoodPhoto.com

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 MY MUSE AND MY HOME
Paul Specht

A collection of portraits of the man whom I love.

A collection of portraits taken in my home.
A collection of images that is my love letter to the man, who is my home.

You can see more of Paul’s work at www.paulspecht.com

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ANGUISH OF THE CLOSET
Fernando Bracho Bracho

Angustias del clóset Anguish of the closet

Él, atormentado psicológicamente, presionado por la sociedad, Him, psychologically tormented, pressured by society, confused and
confundido y exhausto por el esfuerzo que hace para que su verdadera exhausted by the effort he makes so that his true sexuality does not betray
sexualidad no lo traicione en público, encuentra en su hogar vacío; sin him publicly, an encounter in his empty home; without a sister, without
hermana, sin madre o esposa que puedan interferir cuando curiosea a mother or wife who can interfere when she snoops in her closets and
en sus clósets y se sumerge en la fantasía que le da una oportunidad de immerses herself in the fantasy that gives her an opportunity to relieve
aliviar sus temores y dudas, termina conformando ese espacio en un her fears and doubts, ends up turning that space from an oasis to a hell
oasis al infierno de sufrimiento y de conductas autodestructivas que él, of suffering and self-destructive behavior that he, as a closet homosexual,
como homosexual de clóset, se somete para no delatarse y asumirse. undergoes not to betray and and is consumed.

You can see more of Fernando’s worksTUMBLR: fernandobrachobrachophotos.tumblr.com

IG: instagram.com/ferbrachobracho
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 HOME: FINDING WHERE YOU ARE WANTED
George Towne

“Home” for me is a small, one-bedroom in an old East Village tenement I love tricking my conscious to forget left-brain stuff and go to that
building. I do my art making here as well. I fill it with stuff that inspires other, unthinking place where I can do my best work. “Home” is also
me; art supplies, a ton of books about painters. I love being in front about finding community, finding where you are wanted. Some of my
of my easel, jacked up on coffee, a favorite song blaring through my paintings feature guys I’ve met along the way in that effort. I feel that if
headphones, and just allowing something unexpected to come out I keep trying to be true to myself and listen to my conscious that more
through my paintbrush. opportunities will come my way.

You can see more of George’s work at www.georgetowneart.com

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 THE BIG KID IN US ALL
Joe Mazza

When I embark creative photo projects I approach them in one of two ways; I have a concept or story in my head and I cast
a specific model to tell that story, or I meet a model who’s personality and demeanor inspires a project. In the case of Daniel
White, it was the latter. Daniel is a big sexy man and a big kid at heart. He’s an author of children’s books, loves music and
vintage toys… and clearly, loves to workout at the gym. His physical stature is big and intimidating but I wanted to capture the
big goofy kid side of him. The vintage feel to the images is meant to invoke a sense of nostalgia for the time in all of our lives
when we were kids, able to spend the afternoon playing. Working with Daniel was a true spontaneous collaboration. I think
the images really reflect the personality and playfulness to the shoot.

Model: Daniel White

You can see more of Joe’s work at themaleimage.com

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 BUILT FOR PLEASURE
Blade T Bannon

Dark Pleasures:
Dusky, Darkling, A Dark Horse, Tall Dark and Handsome, Pitchy, Murky, Silver Pleasures:
Lurid and sometimes mysterious... Cultivated
Sophisticated
Amber Pleasures: Mellowed
For those who’s hair is kissed by fire. Complete
Cinnamon Seasoned
Ginger Fit
Strawberry Prime
Auburn Ripe and ready.
Whichever the shade, they are all red.
Deviant Pleasures: What’s your pleasure?
Totally non conformative, absolutely bent, positively different, colorfully Or should I say spice, gratification, amusement, thrill, joyride, turn-on or
bizarre and playfully outside the lines... if you like...indulgence.

You can see more of Blade’s work at www.BladeTBannon.com

I’d like to share my thoughts regarding this I would like to take a moment to thank all of you enough for your support. You’re the best!
book and how it came to be. My focus during the people who contributed to this book. To my chief graphics designer John Caterino
the photo sessions was capturing each First, I’d like to thank all of the models who who offered inspirational page layouts and
model being them self. When it came to shared their time in order to provide you with technical assistance. I thoroughly enjoyed
clothing, I asked them to choose the things the beautiful images found in these pages. I his fresh ideas and creativity. We had so much
they liked or felt sexy wearing. Many times would also like to thank my husband Mike. fun putting this book together and I highly
this would involve a change into something who was a pillar of support and guidance in recommend him. ( John’s Business info)
more adventurous or playful. Either way, I the journey to its publication. I want to thank But most of all, I would like to thank you for
encouraged them to be real. I wanted to Race Bannon for offering some great advice choosing this book. I hope you and yours enjoy
share the message that we’re all unique and when I was on the fence about self-publishing. it for many years to come.
beautiful in our own special way. Always A big thank you to Stuart Goldstein for the
remember to embrace your uniqueness. It lovely day of photography which provided
doesn’t matter if you’re young or old, smooth you with the portrait of me shown above, as
or furry, lean or burley, light or dark, kink or well agreeing to appear in the book himself.
vanilla. What matters is to see the beauty that To all of the businesses and publications that
each of us holds and to value it. promoted Built for Pleasure. We can’t thank

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 UNE JOURNÉE À LA MAISON
A DAY AT HOME
Bearceval

La maison. Un lieu familier que l’on a investi, que l’on occupe, que Home. A familiar place we took over, we live in, we change to be comfortable
l’on façonne pour y être bien. Un lieu où on se réfugie, où on se sent in. It is a place where we take refuge, where we feel secure. We can be true
en sécurité. Où on peut enfin être soi-même sans avoir à jouer de rôle there, without playing any social role. We can let ourselves go there, forget
social. Où on peut se laisser aller, oublier les contraintes et les règles, et the restraints and the rules, and open up with complete peace of mind, in
se livrer en toute tranquillité, en toute intimité. C’est cette tranquillité total privacy. It’s about this peace and privacy that these simple pictures
et cette intimité qui s’expriment à travers les images simples de are speaking, showing some everyday activities on a day off: waking up,
quelques activités quotidiennes d’un jour de repos: se lever, prendre un having a breakfast, a shower, shaving, drawing or painting, maintaining a
petit-déjeuner, se doucher, se raser; dessiner ou peindre, faire la sieste, motorbike, falling asleep... Short captured moments recreating the serene
entretenir une moto, s’endormir... Des petits moments capturés qui atmosphere of a day at home.
restituent l’ambiance sereine d’une journée à la maison.

You can see more of Bearceval’s work at bearceval.tumblr.com

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 RECYCLED CONSCIOUSNESS
Joe La Mattina

I enjoy watching one medium spontaneously react to another. Choosing between chaos and control as my hand hovers over a canvas is an exciting
place to be. Although I occasionally allow my work to rest here, finished, I usually begin to add more layers and lots of texture. Should subject matter
begin to surface, it is 99.9% figurative. Interpreting and manipulating the human form is what excites me and fuels my spirit to create. I love to
juxtapose unrelated images that I invite to work together through theme, color, placement and composition. Because these images that inspire me
come from very different sources and experiences, I like to call this process of combining them, “Recycled Consciousness.”

The selected images all combine a solitary, male figure, frozen in the moment, combined with the essence of an architectural element...Home!

You can see more of Joe’s work at www.joelamattina.com

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Al Walz

These are pictures of me in various rooms of my house, with some of my creative art projects I’ve put together,
to be inspired daily and also to be reminded of what I am here to do.
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 HOME
Gianorso
Here is a song From bringing me here
From the wrong side of town For showing me home
Where I’m bound For singing these tears
To the ground Finally I’ve found
By le loneliest sound That I belong here
That pounds from within
And is pinning me down (Martin Gore – “Home”)

Here is a page These portraits have been taken in San Francisco on september 2016,
From the emptiest stage while in town to attend the Folsom Fair. San Francisco.
A cage of the heaviest cross ever made Charming, crazy, fascinating. It has been love at first sight in 2009, my
A gauge of the deadliest trap ever laid first time visiting. I felt like being at “Home”.

And I thank you Thank you very much Ivan & Gabo, Bill, Frank and Dicky.

You can see more of Gianorso’s work at www.gianorso.com

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 NO SHIRT REQUIRED: AT HOME IN PROVINCETOWN
Wayne Hoffman

You can see more of Wayne’s work at waynehoffmanwriter.com

I am not Moe Pearlman. Moe checked out the barkers across the way, performers handing out palm
cards for that night’s performances. There were demented drag queens push-
ing their drunken cabarets, a couple of porn stars advertising a dance party at
Nonetheless, I have much in common with Moe, the protagonist of my novels Paramount, and a bear photographer handing out notices about his “Hot and
Hard and An Older Man: We are roughly the same age, have similar bodies (and Hairy” gallery exhibit in the east end. A Cher impersonator stood on a Segway,
body issues), and are drawn to the same types of men. Like me, Moe is a Jewish next to a little girl — an actual little girl — hawking cups of lemonade for fifty
writer. Like Moe, I am the greatest cocksucker in New York City. cents out of a little red wagon.
But more importantly, we share the same two homes: Greenwich Village, “You are one hot fucker.”
where we both live. And Provincetown, where we both play.
Moe turned away from the lemonade girl to see who’d said it. In front of him
What makes Provincetown feel like home? It’s not simply the place itself—the stood the bear from the dance floor.
Cape Cod houses, the perfect sunlight, the dunes. It’s what the place repre-
“Thanks, you too,” said Moe, reaching out to pet his hairy chest.
sents: A safe haven for a middle-aged gay guy. A cultural bizarro world where
queerness is accepted, celebrated, even cultivated. A psychic respite from the “Barry.”
shame—from external and internal sources alike—that suffocates so much life
“Moe.”
elsewhere.
“I know,” said Barry. Moe stopped petting.
As I tried to show in this excerpt from An Older Man, it’s the kind of place where
a bear like Moe—or me—can let himself be truly seen: home. “You know?”
*** “Word gets around,” he said.
Moe stood by the edge of the dance floor with his planter’s punch in hand, siz- “I see,” said Moe, smiling. “And what’s the word?”
ing up the crowd at tea. “Cocksucker.”
A short cub with pierced nipples rubbed bellies with a lanky otter wearing a “Yes, that’s true,” said Moe.
red sarong. Four skinny queens in matching tank tops that said “You had me at
woof” were bumping and grinding with more silliness than sexual innuendo. “I want to find out for myself,” said Barry.
A cluster of steroid-pumped muscle men who looked like retired Colt models Moe checked his watch. “What are you doing right now?”
— Moe called them “tea monsters,” with an even mix of desire and disdain —
danced in the center of the floor under the disco ball, their minimalist moves in- “Taking you back to my place,” said Barry.
tended to flex every chemically engorged muscle while maintaining an aura of Moe stepped off the sidewalk, and said, “I’m ready.”
restrained masculinity. The occasional non-bear could be spotted — two petite
lesbians with frosted hair and glasses were squished up against the drink rail, But Barry stopped him. “First, I want to see what’s under that shirt.”
one shaved-and-plucked pretty boy who was clearly used to being the center Moe said coyly, “You’ll see it soon enough.”
of attention danced forlornly in a corner — but the bears ruled the dance floor.
Most had their shirts off, sweat dripping down their hairy chests and backs. “Now,” said Barry firmly. “Or I’m going home without you.”

The music was junk, high-energy remixes of six-month-old songs from Nicki Barry reached down and grabbed Moe’s shirt, and pulled it up above his belly.
Minaj and Pink and Katy Perry. But it didn’t matter to anyone who was dancing. Moe hesitated for a second, at which point Barry gave him a stern look. Moe
They sang along, took photos of one another with their phones, and threw their reluctantly raised his arms, and off came the shirt.
hands in the air in unison at the appropriate moments. Time stopped for Moe as he felt the breeze on his back; he remembered the
Moe saw some people he recognized from home, and when they beckoned to time he took off his shirt at a disco when he was just out of college, only to hear
him, he joined them in the overheated mob. some nasty boy walking by mutter, “Why is it always the wrong guys who take
their shirts off?” But he snapped back to the present almost immediately, when
While he danced, two men on the sidelines winked at him, separately. One he heard a voice yell something very different from across the street: “Finally!”
of the guys who’d been at his noon orgy waved hello with a grin. And a bear
with a shaved head, gray goatee, and a tattoo on his bicep that said “Daddy” The queens in tank tops started applauding. Several guys in the street woofed
grabbed him from behind and rubbed his cock against Moe’s ass — a move their approval. The men on either side of Moe reached over to rub his chest.
that Moe enjoyed only on the dance floor. The bear grabbed Moe by the waist The Cher impersonator tossed back her curls, stuck her fingers in her mouth,
and pulled him closer, and started nibbling on Moe’s neck, tickling him with his and whistled.
whiskers. All of this Moe took happily. But when the man tried to pull up Moe’s “I don’t know what you think you look like, Moe, but it’s Bear Week,” said Barry.
T-shirt, Moe stopped him and shook his head. “Come on,” the man whispered. “So you’ve got to get over it.”
But Moe’s desire to feel the bear’s fur rubbing against his back was outweighed
by his own body issues, a source of ongoing and deepening disappointment. Moe did something he rarely did: He blushed.

By the time the music stopped, Moe’s shirt was drenched. But it was still on. He Barry grabbed his hand and led him away from the crowd. “Let’s get out of here,
peeled himself away from the man behind him and headed for the exit. Moe hot stuff. This thing ain’t gonna suck itself.”
hated to be the last one at tea. With Barry leading the way, Moe walked clear across town, past the bears and
Outside the Boatslip, Moe found a spot on the sidewalk where he could watch the tourists and the straight townies, with his shirt off.
what he called the parade, the massive group of men streaming out of tea Moe wasn’t one of those capital-B bears who was proud of his gut, psyched
dance and onto Commercial Street, blocking traffic and cruising and chatting about his bear physique. He was a small-B bear, an accidental bear, a bear by
with friends before dispersing to dinners and tricks and showers and naps. It default: He hadn’t intentionally cultivated this look, and often wished that he
was always good for a half-hour of people-watching, and catching up with ev- had a different body. But that day, on Commercial Street, Moe was a hot ticket
eryone you’d lost in the crowd. Moe knew a lot of people, and his default ex- — not just someone whose sexual skills compensated for his physical short-
pression — in Provincetown at least — was a smile; he looked friendly and im- comings, but someone whose appearance was an actual asset. Taking his shirt
mediately approachable, which made him a popular parade attraction himself. off didn’t seem like such a big deal after all.
Vic, his buddy from New York, came over and tweaked Moe’s nipple through his
shirt, before his partner Paul pulled him away. (“We’ve got reservations, remem-
From An Older Man by Wayne Hoffman, copyright 2015 Bear Bones Books
ber?” he muttered under his breath.) The quartet of tank top queens blew him
kisses from across the street. Rudd walked by and gave Moe a tentative “Hey,”
which Moe answered with a polite nod.

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 HOME
Ron Amato

Hello, my name is Ron… and I am a control freak. For my part, I became the voyeur.

My natural habitat is a photography studio. I am king of that jungle. I Clearly the power paradigm had shifted. I was now somewhat at the
control every ray of light, every movement, every gesture, every image mercy of these men. They decided what they wanted to show me in a
captured and choose everyone who inhabits it with me. In a chaotic place they were comfortable, and in which, I was not. Oddly enough, I
world, I find comfort in the place I control. It is my home. was the shy one in this scenario.

About seven years ago, I decided to shake up that world a little. I started I knew I would be ceding some control. That was the point. I purposely
a project I now call At Home. I wanted to make images of men in their wanted to be thrown off balance and find a new pair of sea legs. And I
private spaces. Sure, I’d been photographing in people’s homes for thirty was, and I did.
years, but I had never made nudes in the models’ homes. Being naked in
your home is usually a very private experience shared only with a select I present here a selection of never before seen photographs from some
few. I was asking strangers to let me invade that intimate space. For their of those photography sessions.
part, there was a level of cautious trust, and a little bit of exhibitionism.

You can see more of Ron’s work at ronamato.com

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Scott Hamilton

I live in a flat which is piled high with the gathered property of the landlord. This
creates a unique space in the nice painterly light of the living room and this is where
I staged my series of Sofa Portraits.

Some of these works contain tributes to a few of my favourite artists but I’ll let you
work these out for yourself if you’re interested enough.

(Version 2 of Disability Benefits Officer Phones In Sick is now in the permanent

collection of the Guild Hall Gallery, London.)

You can see more of Scott’s work at www.snapschotts.co.uk

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 HOGAR... ES LA LIBERTAD
HOME... IS FREEDOM
Alejandro Caspe

La palabra hogar tiene muchas connotaciones y significados, pero lo The word home has many connotations and meanings, but I will approach
abordare desde un ángulo emocional y de pareja, el hogar es el espacio from an emotional angle and a couple. The home is the space where a
donde una persona puede ser libre de vivir su vida como quiera, en person can be free to live his life however he wants. At home a couple loves
el hogar una pareja se ama sin prejuicios, sin tabúes , sin miradas without prejudice, without taboos , with no harassing looks. The home is
hostigantes, el hogar es el espacio donde la libertad de cada persona the space where the freedom of each person is at its maximum splendor,
está en su máximo esplendor, donde nadie es señalado ni juzgado por where no one is singled out or judged for their beliefs, ideas and actions,
sus creencias, ideas y acciones, de las puertas de la casa hacia afuera se from the doors of the house out they live rules before society. The doors
viven reglas ante la sociedad, de las puertas hacia dentro del hogar se into the home can be crazy and enjoy the pleasures any way you want,
puede ser un loco y disfrutar de los placeres de la manera que se quiera, that’s why it’s called home, the place where you are yourself.
por eso se llama hogar, el lugar donde uno mismo es uno mismo.
Models: Josué León - Ricardo Guerra
Modelos: Josué León – Ricardo Guerra

You can see more of Alejandro’s work at alejandrocaspe.com

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 HOME
William “Cricket” Ulrich

I lived in a house in Berkeley, California with six other people. One of them became
my best friend and drinking buddy - Grant (a hot straight man). A couple months
ago there was an incident with a blanket and a heater that was Grant’s fault - it really
was not that big of a deal - caused some smoke but no actual fire. The other people in
the house decided to force Grant out. He came to me and asked me to go with him.
My gay friends were like “would you really move out with him?”. My response was
“I would throw a saddle on him and ride him to hell”. We started looking for a place,
and then found one - in the SF Bay Area that is really difficult to do. In the middle of all
of this a hot Russian guy on Instagram liked and follows me. Looking at his pictures, I
was inspired to paint him. I messaged him to show him what I did and see if he was
cool with it - but have not heard from him. I changed colors and did my thing with
it, because this is for myself. This was all happening in March. In our new place I’ve
saved a spot for the painting I did. Grant said he used to say he was going back to the
“house”, now with me he says “I’m going home”. Now, home for me is with Grant
and where I can hang my hot Russian.

You can see more of William’s work at williamulrich.com

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Paul-André Larocque

The first time i visited Palm Spring was 2 years ago for the photoshoot with the guys of Modern Bear and
also to create new artworks in the desert for an upcoming solo show in Montréal, Canada.
I was driving from Los Angeles and my first impression was, wow, i feel like i’m going to the moon, i’ve
never seen something like that before, it’s wonderful. I definitely fell in love at the first sight, the perfect
dry weather, the mid-century architecture and the quality of it’s habitants.
In fact, i live for the moment in Fort Lauderdale because i’m working on some projects here but i’m really
looking forward to establish myself, my creative studio, part time, in this wonderful part of California.
Palm Spring makes me feel free, safe, happy, peaceful and creative.
This is everything i need to create my artworks.
I really enjoyed to do this photoshoot with Travis and Chris in this wonderful and crazy mid-century
house, a jewel of architecture, everything was perfect, it has been one of the coolest photoshoot i ever
did.
I’m very grateful about that, what a nice opportunity for a guy who was born and raised far away, in
the country to work with wonderful persons and a beautiful, magic house, in California. Thanks for
everything, Travis, Chris, Bill and Joseph.

You can see more of Paul’s work at paulandrelarocque.com

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 STRONG ENVIRONMENTS
Gene Dodak

My love for designing and problem solving began at an early age. Whether it was rearranging the interior of our family
Victorian farmhouse or design a landscape, it all came naturally to me. I’m still enamored by interior design, which has
transitioned to exterior spaces as well. Strong Environments is a design business that I launched while living in the San
Francisco bay area. The business has evolved with the move to Palm Springs, Ca to include more residential landscape
design. Living in a warm climate automatically includes outdoor space, such as outdoor kitchens, swimming pools and
entertainment areas.

The challenge of creating outdoor garden rooms to fit the lifestyle of my clients is a wonderful challenge for me. I always
look forward to incorporating ceramic vessels and sculptures that connect both the interior and exterior living spaces.

You can see more of Gene’s work at genedodak.com

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 CONTENTMENT IN AN ENVIRONMENT
Dan Romer

The Five house shaped works are part of a series called “ Real Estate “Joseph Dreams of Becoming a Father” mixed media w/collage. 19” x
Porn” they are all 5.5” sq. and are mixed media w/foil. 24”

“This is Your Brain on Sex” mixed media w/collage. “19 x 24”. “Peaces” mixed media w/foil 19” x 24”

It is a take off on a popular American anti drug commercial that showed “Two Black Cats” mixed media w/collage on pad back w/cuts & tears.
an egg being fried in a pan. 19” x 24”

“Complex Christ” mixed media w/collage on pad back w/cuts & tears. I’ve chosen these works because they embody the component of
19” x 24”. home which is contentment in an environment. I guess the concept of
cocooning, feeling secure and relaxed.
“Home Body” mixed media w/collage. 19” x 24”.

You can see more of Dan’s works at www.danromerart.com

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Anthony Bocaccio

I am a descendent of the great Giovanni di Boccaccio – the Italian poet T¬he sensual for me is more interesting visually than the erotic. Though
who created the modern Italian language in 1353 with the publication I will not deny that my portfolio of beautiful male bodies calls forth a
of The Decameron. My Italian roots go back even further to the Greco- certain erotic tone, it is an echo of innocence, purity, and naturalness.
Roman world and perhaps even to Greece itself, and have served as an There is an Ideal at work in my photography, and although most of my
inspiration for my art, particularly the art of the male nude. My use of models do not possess the ideal body (whatever that is!) I am quick to
light and shadow, and the human form, harkens back to a time when say that the body is not important in itself but only as it points to and
the celebration of the body was a challenge accepted by the great artists reflects the beauty and mystery hidden beneath the form. The great
of the Golden Age of Greece and the Renaissance of Italy. Socratic dictate is my constant challenge as I sculpt both in bronze and
light: “The sculptor must represent in his figures the activities of the
Indeed, much of the inspiration for my nudes comes from the great soul.”
masterpieces of Italian painting, frescos, and Greco-Roman sculpture I
saw daily while living and studying painting and sculpture in Italy for As beautiful, strong, and graceful as they may be, the nudes in this
ten years. It was during this time that my understanding of light and collection are not so much showing off their bodies as they are saying to
shadow deepened to the extent that I began to see the world not full us, the viewer, “Look beyond my body. Look at my beauty, my grace and
of things, but filled with light and shadow – chiaroscuro in the Italian. magnificence, - look at my light within - and remember we are all made
in the image of the gods – Imago Dei.”

You can see more of Anthony’s work at www.behance.net/tonyboccaccio

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John Paradiso
My grandmothers were two of the most loving people I have ever known. Their homes were decorated with lovely handmade items. They were
extremely creative and made beautiful decorative gifts as an expression of their love.
I use found imagery from old porn magazines in my work. Pornography for me has been both a sexual outlet and a place to find inspiration. As
a young gay man, pornography served as my first gay sexual education. As a maturing gay man I use embroidery and quilting as a medium that
channels the stitch work I watched my grandmothers do throughout their lives. This work takes the overt sexuality of pornography and places it into
the contest of nostalgia, the home sewn, and a more romantic point of view.
Home is where the heart is.

You can see more of John’s work at www.john-paradiso.com

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OR 7 DEFINITIONS TOWARDS DEFINING SOMETHING
Photos: Krys Fox
Text: Shelton Lindsay

You can see more of Krys work at krysfox.com and more of Shelton’s work at www.sheltonlindsay.com
Home
From three days old to 23, 50 Oak Street was home
to me. A little green house set into the side of a
hill, at the terminus of two dead-end streets, our
most notable neighbors where the mental asylum
to the left and the morgue to the right. As a child,
the family joke was that we lived between the
‘Nuts and the Stiffs’, and now that I’m a grown
man whose spiritual home is just me on my knees,
looking for a man to please, perhaps these comical
utterances were actually prescient spells from my
otherwise seemingly muggle-ish Father. But those
walls were home in an unquestioned way. The
sounds the breeze made as it rustled the trees, the
track the moon light made as it poured through my
skylight and cut shadows into witches. There was
little about that place that was unknown to me.
The gouges on the floor, the nicks on the walls, the
legacy of me. It was home on a cellular level. I shed
my skin to dust for two decades plus three years in
that home. It was my sweat mixed with the paint
on those walls, those were my hands that dug the
earth to flower beds, and cut out graves in the grass
to put pets to rest.

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 Welcome, Homo
Until of course you find yourself deep in the forrest
in some unknown State, surrounded by a bunch of
men in tulle and sequins, leather drag looks and
jocks straps. This is a different sort of home. Here,
when I walk down a wooden path, the scent of mud
is mixed with cum and a vegan feast on the wind.
Here is where an old lover will clasp me by the hands
and say, ’Welcome Homo’, planting a kiss across my
lips.
It’s here my friends and I will bathe nude in the
light of a blood moon, reflected by shards of pocket
mirrors until lit our bodies glows and we have no
more shadow. It is here that I will stare into the
eyes of a fellow moon washed mortal and new
lover at the edge of the bonfire and fuck him in the
straw while he rips the fur from my back. It is here
that I will hold him in my arms and see in his eyes
something so akin to divinity. This is the place the
brave call home, this is the land of the free.

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Spiritual Home
Saying that my spiritual home is ‘just me on my
knees’, makes me sound like some dumb cock
hungry slut who feels most validated as a social
being when there is a cock smashing into the
back of my throat as I raise my ass into the air and
fantasize about that moment when my lover grows
too horny and their eyes glaze over and they flip me
onto my back and take my ass into their hands and
pry it open while they fuck me. And that’s not me
at all; I’m not dumb that is. Everything else about
the above otherwise is pretty much spot on. HOME.
They say home is where the heart is, and my heart
beats in the throbbing dicks of whatever men are in
front of me.

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Home is where the heart is
For ages by body was nothing but the bag my soul
had been poured into. A young gay boy, I was terrified
of becoming the thing that I desired: a man. I was
afraid at being laughed out of the gym, ridiculed for
my weak body, told I could never be what I wanted.
This ideal masculinity was one trip to the gym too
many, and so I never went. My body grew, the edges
of my flesh began their explorations outwards, until
I began to pour out over the edges of my outfits.
One day I slipped on nothing more then a porcelain
floor and just like that snapped, cracked, broke my
body, a shattered elbow, an inflamed wrist. Maybe if
I had listened to my body before this, maybe if I had
let my body be anything other than the sack of me,
it would have been more ready to greet that floor
without breaking. Yet in that breaking, I broke open
some other part of me, and soul poured into body
until home became the completeness of unity. And
now the gym is not as terrifying to me, now working
out is a pleasure, now working on myself, this ‘home
improvement’ of my body is not so scary. No division
here, my body, my heart beat, my home, me.

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Home Improvement oversized t-shirts and flannel. Having never really seen the show, (but
having looked at 8 seasons worth of publicity stills) I probably could tell
I never watched this show.
you the major plot points relating to each character, as they appear to be
In writing this I read a bit about this show. more archetypal representations of the GREAT AMERICAN HOME than
complex character studies.
Pamela Anderson was apparently on this show.
Home has so often been reinforced and explored inside the context
From what I can tell her job was to hand Tim Allen and some other guy
of the nuclear family, with its defined power structures, roles,
power tools, in a segment called ‘Tool Time.’ Which is perhaps a very
assumptions… Home is less a place then a set of cultural rules that
apt name for the segment which mostly center around sexist jokes and
dictate how individuals cohabitate and share space. In America, in the
insulting effeminacy in men.
90’s when I was growing up, ‘Home’ was an office, the Father was the
I also wonder was there ever a person of color on this show? Or a gay? boss, the Mother was the office manager, and the children were the
Or anything that hints at diversity? Most of the promo images I have grunts, with their homework, their chores, their days spent mopping
seen are just a bunch of white people in front of a white fence wearing floors. Home, the address of the patriarchy.

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 Home of the Brave
I’m standing on the side of the road in rural
Tennessee holding hands with a lover when the
coke can flies from the car and slides through that
space between us.
Some time before a different lover and I walked
around a quaint California town when they start
driving past us in this pick up truck, screaming
‘Faggots’ out the window. Stopping at the end of the
street to turn their truck around and drive back at us
as we run off the road and down the hill, through
the stream and into a forest we have never seen.
I’m wearing Old Navy in Louisiana when yet again
someone hurls insults at me as they drive by, though
I’m less insulted and more amazed they could
recognize me as a ‘FAG’ wearing a grey waffle shirt.
We call this country the home of the brave, but I
do not see much bravery here. We call this country
home, but it was home to others before us. Can a
country be ‘HOME’ to so many when their is such
hate in our houses?
A collective home like a country is a patchwork
quilt of wants. It’s unwieldy and personal and yet
overly shared. Home is both your own place, and
the space that the present Goverment seems so
concerned with surveilling. Sexuality, the roles of
women, microwaves—if the home is not a heavily
policed space, with rigidly informed rules, it puts the
foundation of the Republic on edge, for when the
home becomes an explorative space where people
question rules, it means they are likely to question
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There is no place like Home
Why the fuck did she leave Oz? As a kid I was always
perplexed as to why Dorothy was in such a rush
to get back to Kansas where everything was grey
scale and lacked magic. There she was, a budding
high femme lesbian with a thing for older women
(Aunty Em, Glinda, even that Wicked Witch) who
had discovered a Monochromatic City that gave
you makeovers THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF SONG,
accompanied by three great faggot side kicks and
she chose to go back to an actual pig pen.
Through it all she kept chanting, “Home.” Perhaps
it was meant to speak to the importance of family,
of returning to where you belong, of finding your
way back. But for me as a baby gay, I always felt
she had found home the moment she awoke in Oz
(in her actual home mind you) and that she was
just too indoctrinated by their weird Kansas Cult to
realize that she had finally found that place over the
rainbow.
That ‘home’ Dorothy was so desperate to return to
was just another big old word for ‘the known’ and
she was so caught up in it all she never listened to
her own advice. Could she not see it?
There
is
no
place
like
home.
For a long time I thought the emphasis was positive,
as if home was the best place, but maybe this whole
time it was just a darker more nihilistic moment
where Dorothy was trying to tell us that there is NO
place that comes close to being a home, because
home is not real. It’s a thought you’re always
running towards but never reaching. It’s an ideal
that motivates, it’s that feeling of true safety that’s
just beyond you. Home: it’s the place adventures
start and stop at. Home is the place that bookends
the experience, but maybe it’s no place at all.

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Richard Vyse

“Nature is not a place to visit but home. Man captured in line and spontaneous brush strokes

at home by sea or going to the woods is going home.”

You can see more of Richard’s work at manartbyvyse.blogspot.co.uk

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Oliver Zeuke

No siempre el hogar es el lugar donde nacimos o crecimos. En realidad Home is not always where we were born or grew up. In reality home is
el hogar es el lugar donde nos gustaría morir. Terminar esta etapa de la the place where we would like to die. Finish this stage of our existence, life.
existencia, la vida. Que mejor sitio que un lugar cerca del Mar, renovador What better place than somewhere near the sea, replenisher of energy,
de energía, transmisor de paz y de descanso espiritual. Con esa sensación transmitter of peace and spiritual rest. With that feeling of the infinite ...
de infinito... de que nada se acaba sino que continúa de otra forma. nothing is finished, everything continues in another form.
- J. Carlos Nuñez - J. Carlos Nuñez

You can see more of Oliver’s work at www.oliverzeuke.com

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 DOMESTIC BLISS
Images - Ulli Richter
Text - Christopher Studer-Harper

When it started, he had only moved the cardboard boxes with last year’s Joseph had wondered where the grids and spikes were, the burning
Christmas decorations in another corner to turn the attic into a torture coals and the tortured screams. Instead, he found comfortable pillows
chamber. and chaises longues.

Later, with a couple of meters of steel chain, the boiler room had shifted Hell is homey, cozy and safe. Hell has a wall unit and crocheted doilies. It
into a dungeon. Then the velvet sitting room, where tea spilled onto is where the passionate people are.
lace, was twisted into an interrogation cell. And finally, despite the
tomato stalks and the goldfish pond, the back garden was also a prison And since you will never leave, you might as well get yourself
courtyard and the shed served as a sleazy builder’s caravan. comfortable. Because, to rule in hell is better than the alternative.

His home was his castle, but this fortress might just be firmly planted - Christopher Studer-Harper
within the strange writhing walls of Dis.

Latex by Latex Catfish (www.latexcatfish.com) for all the outfits.

You can see more of Ulli’s work at www.kinkinprint.com and www.ullirichter.com

You can see more of Christopher’s work at clawsandcotton.tumblr.com
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Shannon Hedges

My favorite place is Home, my private safe space. In my work I try to ground

the fantastic in reality and make the mundane fantastic. These pieces show the
facets of daily life through an exaggerated lens; the exciting, the sexy, and the
small emotional moments. Home is where you live your own life, and if you’re
lucky, share yours with someone else.

You can see more of Shannon’s work at shannonhedges.com

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 ECHOES OF A HOME ONCE BORROWED
Vincent Keith

A home is a portrait. It reflects elements of its owner’s character. So too, I felt compelled to occupy this man’s home. To experience it and to
a home can live. And while it requires a human presence to achieve its leave my mark having done so. It wasn’t a territorial impulse, more like
true potential, a home also retains memories, dreams and the evolution wanting to be part of the party, to contribute something of my own.
of a life. It is a container that houses the material and the ethereal. It is a Shooting Giorgio in that amazing space was my way of responding to
vessel that both transports and protects. A home can impart and retain the generosity shown to me, and of leaving (and taking) something
a feeling, and that’s perhaps why I find them so fascinating. In a sense, special.
they speak.
This home was not, could not, be mine. It wasn’t a portrait of me either.
I have been fortunate enough to travel extensively and to have enjoyed But the person I am today, the journey I have been on, have been ever
the hospitality and generosity of many. In a number of instances, the so slightly shaped by the experience of that weekend. These images
actual owner of the home wasn’t there. These experiences are what are amongst the few that I have taken that truly capture the way I see
I was channelling when I made this series of photos – the experience things. They reflect back to me an aesthetic and a sense of my own
of inhabiting another person’s space, of feeling the sensations of their creative voice – each element working to create a whole picture.
home, and even hearing the echoes of their presence.
I’ve never been back to that apartment, or to Barcelona, for that matter.
My dear friend Giorgio was borrowing a friend’s apartment in Barcelona I know its still there though. When we left for that weekend, I had no
while on a brief sabbatical, and he invited us to come join him for a idea what I would find, and perhaps that made me open to experiencing
weekend of Autumn warmth. Giorgio’s friend is involved in the creative something new. A discovery. Myself. A home.
arts, which was reflected in his home. There was a sense of theatre and
anticipation comingled with a noble peace.

You can see more of Vincent’s works at vgkphoto.com

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Vilela Valentin

Home is where we feel safe and happy.

The king and princes are the symbol of the safe harbor. Protection, masculinity.

You can see more of Vilela’s work at vilelavalentin.weebly.com and www.instagram.com/vilelavalentinarte and at
pt.pinterest.com/valentinfranzin/vilela-valentin-art-work and you can follow him on twitter.com/valentimandre1
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 A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME
Stephen Honicki

One of the things I’ve come to realize over the past many years is that space in which the figure (portrait) exists, as often times the setting in
a house is not a home. A house is a structure. It is a dwelling. It may which a portrait is made tells us more than we might imagine. I strongly
even be a one-of-a-kind architectural design. But all the wood, shingles, believe that in addition to the “text” that accompanies the photograph,
wiring, cement, and nails do not make it a home. the essence of an environment can add mystery to an image or answer
questions about the subject being photographed.
Our lives take place behind those closed doors and curtains of one’s In addition, throughout my photographic series, I have always made
home, and yet very few people actually get a true glimpse as to what it a practice to photograph my “actors” in their homes; believing that
goes on within that home. Those that inhabited it create a home. one’s home environment is typically a reflection of self – adding a
Whether is be a single individual, a couple, or even a couple with psychological and authentic layer to the photograph.
children, interactions amongst the individuals within the environment –
along with internal and external forces – is how I define a “home”. I believe a home – like a relationship – is temporary. Whether it be twenty
years or twenty months, having the mindset of creating a “home” for
My selections of photographs depict the photographic portrait and oneself (and others) allows for one to detach from the physical nature of
the spaces (environment) in which they occur – in this case the various a house (and its belongings) and focus one’s energy on building a home
places I’ve called “home” over the past decade. I strive to communicate with the person(s) one chooses to be with at any given moment in time.
how the figure relates and perhaps changes in direct relation to the

You can see more of Steve’s work at www.stevehphotography.com

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 THE HOMELESS CHAIR
Gerard Floyd

I found this pre-homed chair online. I’m not sure what kind of life it had before but I found it in
a cold East London warehouse full of pre-homed furniture.

I had considered re-upholstering it but I love the garish yellow/orange colour too much and I
can’t think of a fabric that would suit it better. It was well cared for so I guess it was my good
luck that someone fell out of love with it.

Shortly after I gave this chair a home I was given a camera that had been pre-homed and
loved. These are the first self-portraits I took with that camera.

You can see more of Gerard’s works at futurerealistic.tumblr.com

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Inked Kenny

Many people find home with friends. As Harper Lee wrote in To Kill a Mockingbird, “You can
choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family.” These photographs are a celebration
of chosen family.

Location: Zuko Manor Chicago

Set Design: Rich McMurray/Boxtanical Designs

You can see more of Kenny’s work at inkedkenny.com

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 CHILDHOOD HOME
Ludovic Seth

Childhood home...
Forgotten, abandoned... not always intact in our memory, it often remains a lost paradise.
We still live in it, sometimes, in our imagination, as of fragile occupants of the vestiges of our memories.
Under the intimate daylight, in the sweetness of a cosy setting, or the sourness of a place ravaged by time.... what’s driving us, exploring the universe
of our childhood homes ? Nostalgia, pain, hopelessness... peace of mind, reverie, desire, hope ?
“Childhood home” is part of a large series : “Territories of abandonment”, that blends urbex and nude male.

You can see more of Ludovic’s work at www.ludovic-seth.fr

Model : www.instagram.com/mathiyeux/
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WORK BLAKE LITTLE
Publication: March l 2017 Specs: 10.25” x 12.5” • 124 pages • 96 Photographs • Edition of 1,000 • $55

After the worldwide success of Blake Little’s PRESERVATION

comes WORK, the third volume of male portraiture after the
bestselling COMPANY OF MEN and MANIFEST. With an
insightful foreword by rock legend Bob Mould, who shares a
similar obsession with making art, WORK is different from
his Little’s previous books. This body of work documents his
compulsion to photograph as a practice, an exercise for an
art
artist that’s as necessary as breathing. His work is what he
does and who he is.

The subject matter is familiar to fans of Little’s

previous works but his new models broaden the gay
masculine archetype he established in his previous
books. There is new individuality and even humor,
and even wider range of ages and types.

The photographs themselves are darker, moodier, richer portraits with more depth. For
these pictures, he has experimented with lighting and composition, going for less
rigidity and perfection and instead capturing more spontaneous moments. Photographs
were taken in and around Little’s Los Angeles studio and on location in all the places he
traveled to recently including England, Spain, Canada and the US. WORK features 96 color
photographs of remarkable men in a large hardcover format, designed by award-winning
graphic designer Sean Adams.

Blake Little | 323.466.1616 | www.workthebook.com | Los Angeles CA 90068

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Daniel Decot - I am a photographer Gerard Floyd - Born in Ireland in the Paul Specht - grew up on the North George Towne - is a painter born in
living in Mons (Belgium). My search? 1970’s I choose to remember very lit- Shore area of Massachusetts , just Port Jervis, NY. He studied at School
... a picture as simple as possible. I tle about my childhood years. Except outside of Boston. He developed his of Visual Arts and has settled in New
prefer the release during a session. that it was clear from very early on love of photography from his father York’s East Village. His artwork has
No drama effects , no acting, but just I was not the sort of boy that fitted who gave him his first 110 camera. In been featured in solo exhibitions
a look, a presence, the outline of a in. I was a bit odd and the local priest 1987 he attended the University of at venues such as the Michael Mut
gesture, no artifices. A true emotion, was the first one to finger me for it. Massachusetts Amherst to pursue Project Space, The Barbara Ann Levy
discrete but intense, my purpose is Irish Catholic priests are very percep- a BFA in print making before gradu- Gallery, and The Delaware Valley
to reveal little bit of truth, far away tive when it comes rooting out the ating from Boston’s New England Arts Alliance. His work has been
from sensationalism. My approach evil that lies deep within a young School of Photography where he highlighted in group shows at the
on a certain neutrality accentuates boy like myself. So, as soon as I was studied portraiture and advertising. Leslie–Lohman Museum, the Forbes
the mystery and let the spectators old enough I moved to London only Since 1992 Paul has reveled in cap- Gallery, and the National Arts Club.
imagine their own story. It is about to discover that I was not odd or evil turing the unique beauty and hum- Publications such as American Artist
meeting someone, about sharing enough for the big city. Luckily as this ble elegance of his subjects in their Magazine, The Art of Man, Art &
some time together. No voyeurism. is London no one has ever noticed. I own homes. Paul currently resides in Understanding (A&U) Magazine,
No transgression.. A loving contem- have never forgotten the advice my the Pioneer Valley of western Mas- Time Out New York, and Metrosource
plation from my side. A sincere in- mother gave me as she hugged me sachusetts with his husband Eric, have featured his paintings.
trospection from then. And trying goodbye on that St. Patrick’s Day at along with their dog Roxie.
to suggest, through our differences, the airport and they have become
through the grain of our skins, our words to live by, she said… “Some
similarities, identity, up to the most people say more than they know and
intimate. some people know more than they
say.” I currently live quietly in one of
the busiest parts of London where I
do a lot of listening while stroking my
ginger beard.

Bil Donovan - I have an ongoing

Ron Amato - born and raised in Brook- fascination with the human figure,
lyn, New York. He has been making whether revolving around my work
photographs since his early childhood as a fashion illustrator or through my
when his parents bought him a plas- personal work. The fashion work is
tic camera and darkroom starter kit. based on an ideal of refined beauty and
Fernando Bracho Bracho - He is a Vene-
After a few of false starts as a fashion, light whereas my personal work has
zuelan journalist and a freelance pho-
documentary, and wedding photogra- an emotional bent reflecting personal
tographer who has been granted the
pher, Ron began making photographs experiences. The presence of the
third prize of the fourth Seguros Cata-
Ludovic Seth - 45-year-old French of men for fitness magazines. Simul- figure is essential to communicating
tumbo Photography Biennial in 1990;
artist, trained at the Faculty of Arts taneously, Ron’s personal work took various themes such as Love, Desire,
he was also a member of the group
of Montreal at the age of 22, he’s an a turn to more erotic images of men. Loss, and Spirituality.
awarded the Monseñor Pellín Prize in
1990 and the National Prize of Journal- architect by profession. Photogra- His breakthrough exhibition of self-
ism in 1991; he received the Grand Prix phy has quickly become a focus for portraits at Richard Anderson Fine Arts
of the Salon of Visual Arts of the City him, but also a complement media in NYC in 2000 was in many ways a pre-
of Coro in 2007; the Order of Artistic to drawing, to capture the world cursor to his recently released book, The
Merit was bestowed on him by the around him and report on issues that Box. Ron is currently an Associate Pro-
University of Zulia in 2011. He has been affect him. He has explored various fessor of Photography at Fashion Insti-
a still photographer in many Venezu- artistic themes including the male tute of Technology in NYC. He has a BFA
elan cinema productions. He has more body and the space - whatever the from School of Visual Arts and an MFA
than a dozen published books, and has scale - it inhabits, to reveal all of from Long Island University. Ron still
participated in numerous exhibitions the poetic intensity of their intesec- lives in Brooklyn, now with his husband
in his country and abroad. tion. His work explores the graphic Seth and their two smooth fox terriers,
dimension and aesthetic qualities of Ben and Zeb.
nude artistic male, in an abstract or
figurative way.
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Alejandro Caspe - Born in Tijuana Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, the
BC in 1974 and in 1992 started in National Arts Club, the Hebrew Union
photography. From childhood he was College Museum, the Milwaukee
attracted by the nudity in advertising Institute of Art and Design and the
models and as continuing a childish Menschel Photography Gallery at
game, moved that morbid early Syracuse University.
consolidating his artistic work, at
maturity, aesthetic and expressive
universe that identifies his work.
This led to a creative look that has
conceptualized a disturbing personal
eroticism that, far from anchoring
pornography is a legitimate original
and bold artistic statement.
Joe LaMattina - For thirty-five nears, I Gianorso - I am a photographer, living in
was employed as an art educator with Rome, who is passionately obsessed by Clas-
the Hackensack Public School System sical Art, which has influenced, somehow
in New Jersey, USA. Loving my job as and somewhat, my vision and my attitude in
taking portraits of men with generous curvy
teacher and mentor, I spent those years bodies.
and most of my energy inspiring young
artists ages five to eighteen. It was an Oliver Zeuke - Oliver Zeuke was born
amazing experience. Retired since 2010, in December 1973 in Bavaria, near
I decided to continue my journey with Munich and moved to Düsseldorf
a shift, which allows me more time to in 2007. In 2013 the now passionate
focus in integrating my studio time, photographer, bought his first SLR
gallery shows, and private teaching. camera. Out of vacation photos and
Since then I have been exhibiting my snapshots developed his today’s
work at various venous around the passion for photography. From that his
Richard Vyse – Internationally collect- world. I was formally represented by
ed artist Richard Vyse has shown in slogan “From Snapshots to Passion”
Agora Gallery in NYC. My work is divided arose. In 2015 he started to work more
galleries in Manhattan and Honolulu. into three categories that I have named,
He has studied at the School of intensively with photography and
“Human Essence”, “representational”, launched the project “Sexy Sunday”
Visual Arts in Manhattan and taught and “Abstract/Organic”. Most pieces
at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. His together with his husband in March
are mixed media. 2016, which already after a short
art has been featured in the Art of Al Walz - A creative seeker – “I’ve
Man magazine #18, Men Addicted always been inspired to take what time is enjoying great popularity and
magazine Spring 2016, Noisy Rain people discard (trash) and create constantly growing interest. Especially
magazine Winter 2015/Summer 2016 something unique from it – VERY the love for detail photography is,
and Mascular magazine #15. His art pro-recycling!” Most of my work is what makes the photos special. “The
is in the Leslie+Lohman museum in personal to me in some way, and no viewer shall feel more than he sees”
Manhattan. two pieces are similar. Besides his first photo exhibition
in November 2016 in Cologne, the
passionate photographer is currently
working on his first photo book called
“Sexy Sunday”. Open to new ideas and
challenges, he is constantly evolving
his self and his photography.

Blade T. Bannon - began as a model.

He started with erotic art shows and
was hired for private artist workshops
as well as for local colleges. While
working with sketch artists, he learned
many of the classic body positions and
appreciated the connection between
Wayne Hoffman - the author of Mike Harwood - Born and based in
the artist and model. He had a great
three novels—Hard, An Older Man, New York City, Michael Harwood
love for photography and decided
and Sweet Like Sugar—and his short has been an exhibiting artist since
to follow his passion. He started as
stories and essays have appeared in the mid 1970s. His porno-satirical
an assistant for SFBearhunter who
such collections as Best Gay Stories collages were shown at Group
was one of the lead photographers
2010, Mama’s Boy, and Fresh Men Material (1981). In the 1980s he turned
for 100% BEEF Magazine. He has Bearceval – Born near the Pyrénées, and
2. As a journalist, he has written for to 35mm photography as a means
been working as a professional now living and working in south Sain-
the Wall Street Journal, Washington of recording the visual delights and
photographer for almost a decade tonge, not too far from Bordeaux. Stud-
Post, Billboard, the Forward, Village peculiarities he encountered in the
and is honored to have been chosen ied history and art history. Interested in
Voice, and A Bear’s Life. He is currently city and in his travels. Also, within
to appear many publications. He has writing, drawing (especially with red
executive editor of Tablet magazine. the fertile confines of his apartment,
donated numerous hours to charity chalk), painting and photography which
He lives in New York City and the he began to work on an original
organizations as well as many framed was used before to serve as a basis for
Catskills, but he’s been going to approach to photographing naked
pieces for use in auctions. He currently drawing.
Provincetown for nearly 30 years, to men. Harwood’s photography has
lives in San Francisco California with
work and to play. been exhibited at the Leslie-Lohman
his husband Mike.
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Scott Hamilton - Scott A Hamilton: I Paul-André Larocque - Born in a Gene Dodak - Gene Dodak earned
his BFA degree in Sculpture, Ceramics Shannon Hedges - I am an Illustra-
started taking photographs with my small village in eastern Québec,
and Design from Central Michigan tor splitting time between Columbus
father’s cameras in the 1970s then Newport, Canada, but now living in
University. Additional studies include and San Francisco, who finds there
went on to photograph bands around Fort Lauderdale, Paul-André Larocque
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, are stories to tell everywhere we look.
Glasgow while at university in the spent his childhood in the great
the University of Toronto and Sagi- I use my simple and quirky style to
1980s. People are what interest me outdoors, surrounded by forest and
naw Valley College. In San Francisco, bring attention to details and aspects
most though I will have a go at any- the sea. His father, also fisherman and
he worked as a window designer for of stories others might not notice.
thing that catches my imagination. lumberjack, taught him a virtue he will
I’ve had photographs published in never forget and always cherish the Neiman Marcus and Visual Manager
QX and Boyz magazines as well work freedom and freedom to be yourself. for the Polo Alto Store. Gene and his
exhibited at the Strand Gallery in 2013 Paul-André Larocque is a photographer husband Art founded Strong Environ-
(as part of the Gayzed exhibition) and of many talents, a travel reporter, an ments in 1994, a Landscape and design
at the Guild Hall gallery (London) in art director, an entrepreneur and an business in the Bay Area. Inspired by a
November 2016 (as part of their Mon- artist with more than a thought. His life-changing move to palm Springs in
ey and Power exhibition). That piece mind is pure chaos where images 2004, Gene resumed working in clay
is now part of the Guild Hall’s perma- and colors intertwine, but everything medium that he loved during his col-
nent collection. These days I feel that is in order, or what appears to be. He lege years. At Silica Ceramic Studios
I still have a lot to learn. www.snap- creates multimedia works and how he met and quickly became friends
schotts.co.uk it proceeds, is the result of a personal with Mid-Century artist Paul Bellardo.
and unique approach. Diagnosed with Paul’s artwork influenced some of
ADHD syndrome a few year ago, his Gene’s current sculptures. Gene works
works reflect his own state of mind; at his home studio and at Silica Studios
an explosion of a multitude of images, in Palm Springs where he constructs Krys Fox - NYC based photographer
ideas and colors, a beautiful chaos. For one of a kind, large, wheel-thrown and and artist specializing in portraiture
him, creating is the best therapy ever. altered sculptures. His artwork has with a dark, emotional, surreal filter.
been exhibited nationally and can be With inspiration ranging from Surre-
found at Woodman/Shimko Gallery in alism, 70’s Underground and Exploi-
Palm Springs tation Cinema, Victorian and Latin
American Art and Queer Culture, Fox’s
eye is unique, intense, unflinching and
tender. Originally from Southern Cali-
fornia, Fox relocated to NY in 2010. His
work has been exhibited throughout
William “Cricket” Ulrich - After col- California, NY and the UK. In print
lege in Ohio, a three month study of his work has graced the pages of Pa-
painting, drawing and art history in per Magazine, Time Out New York,
Paris, France made me determined Out, The Advocate, UK’s Gay Times
to be an artist. After Paris, I moved to Magazine, Headmaster Magazine No
San Francisco. 1998 finds me with two 2, Next, Frontiers, Next Door Maga-
pieces in the collection of the Museu Dan Romer - My Home is when I am in zine (and two years of covers!), RFD
de L’Erotica (Barcelona, Spain). As I’ve the process of creating art. I am fearless Magazine, Summer Diary Project, Pink
gotten older my work has been decid- when I live there. In doing my work, I re- Mince, QX Magazine, XY and others.
edly more gay. Group shows by Center mind myself to be that way more in my Vilela Valentin - has developed the He has photo spreads in three cof-
for Sex and Culture (2013 & 2014) and every day life. I am not so much looking drawing artistic tools deeply as a fee table books published by Bruno
Queer Cultural Center (2015) have to record what I am seeing, but more solid base for his artistic career since Gmudner, of NY Legend Joey Arias in
maintained my presence in San Fran- what I am feeling at that moment childhood, the emergence of the the coffee table collection DR.A.G.,
cisco, though I now live in Oakland. I with the model and its environs. That “Vilela Valentin” language appears and is currently at work on publishing
have an art studio in Berkeley, Califor- can also include the remnants of the well defined from 2012 with the books featuring his popular, annual 31
nia with Firehouse Art Company. process itself to give the piece it’s own “Roman” picture, oil and gold leaf Days of Halloween Series and his on-
history. Life is not static, and neither is on wood. He was considered “Ho- going memento more inspired Styx
my work. My biggest hope is that I will mosurrealist” by a critic of French Series.
ALWAYS feel comfortable in this home, art. Since that first moment he has
and will never stop renovating and re- maintained his artistic activity, as a
250 thinking. designer, painter and illustrator.
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Shelton Lindsay -Shelton is a writer/ Anthony Bocaccio - Anthony Boccaccio Christopher Studer-Harper - is a Inked Kenny - His inspirations come
performer and producer working began his photographic career with Swiss artist working predominantly from a legacy of influences and
and living in NYC. He is currently National Geographic Magazine in with installative and performative relationships. A lifetime of leaving a
working on a series of modern queer 1971. His work has taken him to over practices. Originally educated as a mark on people and faces has now
myths. 30 countries in as many years, from the developmental psychologist, he now transitioned to imagery. He challenges
Great Wall of China to the volcanoes prefers to explore themes such as his subjects to be aware of their
of Iceland and the sweltering jungles violence, intimacy and vulnerability confidence, passions and desires,
of the Brazilian Amazon. He is most through finely crafted objects, putting them in the center of their
known for his beautiful travel shots performances and text. own exhibition and finding no excuses
yet while working with the human He works in Bern, Switzerland and when that hunger is realised, bringing
figure, his sensitivity rivals that of the Berlin, Germany. the subject to a whole other level..
great painters. Indeed, his artistic life
began as a young painter, and later as
a musician trained in classical piano at
the Eastman School of Music. He lived
in Brazil as a teenager and in Italy as a
college student. In 1996, he returned
to Rome for 10 years to continue his
painting and learn the art of sculpting
under one of Rome’s most gifted
Ulli Richter - Ulli Richter is one of sculptors, Alessandro Nocera.
the leading documentarians of
the gay BDSM-scene and a gifted
photographer of natural portrait and
architecture. His work is known for
its often intuitive-dramatic lighting Stephen Honicki - a photographer and Joe Mazza- is a photographer cur-
and encompasses a wide array of media arts educator who is currently rently living and working in San Fran-
emotions, ranging from unsettling living and working in the Capital Re- cisco. His early work as a photogra-
stillness to utter madness. In recent gion of New York State. He earned a pher was shooting film in remote and
years, Ulli has developed a style of BFA at the State University of New desolate places around the world. His
documenting and portraying BDSM- York (Albany) and received his MS in focus was not on scenery, but on the
play that echoes Baroque painting. Art Education at the College of Saint faces of the people who lived there. It
In contemporary art photography Rose. Photographs from his narrative was those people who helped form
he is bridging the tension between series, “Between Heaven & Hell”, “Cou- his fascination with the story behind
careful scene setting and lighting and pling”, “A Solitary Man”, and “The Book the eyes of his subjects – a trait that
capturing the free emotions and wild of James” were recently exhibited as still finds it’s way into his work. For
John Paradiso - earned his BFA at the
actions so characteristic of BDSM-play. part of a two-person show entitled, the past 25 years he has worked in
SUNY (Purchase) and his MFA at the
“Biography” at the Photo Center of the the film and television industry both
SUNY (Buffalo). He describes his work
Capital Region, Troy, NY, a group show as an actor, and a photographer/vid-
as metaphorical and based upon iden-
entitled, “Human Essence” at the Alba- eographer. It’s here that he learned
tity, sexuality, and love. He has work in
ny Center Gallery and in a solo exhibi- about lighting and composition to
private and public collections includ-
tion, “The Simplicity of Life” at the 39th create a sense of emotion or drama in
ing the Kinsey Institute, the Library of
Street Gallery in Brentwood, Maryland. his images. Most of his work now is
Congress, The Leslie-Lohman Museum
In addition, Stephen has had various in the commercial side but he still has
of Gay and Lesbian Art, and the Univer-
work from his series selected to be a passion for developing new talent
sity of Maryland. For many years, John
a part of several Exhibitions By Art- and collaborating on photo shoots to
Paradiso, served as a health educator
ists Of The Mohawk-Hudson Region capture something spontaneous and
in the HIV/AIDS community where he
and Photography Regionals. Outside unique.
developed educational programs and
provided peer-based counseling. More the area, Honicki‘s photographs have
recently he was an Artist-in-Residence been showcased at the Paducah Inter-
at the Washington Hospital Center national Photo Exhibitions, Munson
Vincent Keith - Born in Beirut in 1967, working with adult cancer patients. Williams Proctor Art Institute, and the
Vincent is a photographer, collaborator He is currently the Director at the 39th Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and
and magazine publisher based in Lesbian Art, to name a few. 251
Street Gallery, Gateway Arts Center.
London. He’s married to his husband
Peter and has two children.
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Photo: © Gerard Floyd 2016
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PARTY
It’s time to PARTY! Let’s get this PARTY on the road! Together we can build a better PARTY! Our
PARTY is the best, and it can really deliver. For some, a PARTY consists of a sunny day, a swimming
pool with 30 hairy men, and lashing of punch. For others, a PARTY consists of a group of like
minded people, often in close quarters, pursuing a shared objective. In either case, the PARTY
has social aspects and political ones too. One may be the antidote to the other. Both anticipate
celebrations, they can have their awkward moments, people can feel left out, and there’s
generally a leader or organiser of some kind, at the very least, a steering committee.
Issue No. 20 of MASCULAR Magazine is dedicated to PARTY. These last few years have been fueled
by political activity, often with unpredictable or disappointing results. Promises, accusations,
fights and name calling all followed the second martini, or the were displayed in TV for all to
watch. And yes, there were tears, laughter, shouts and hurrahs. But after the big event, many are
left asking themselves “why do I do it?” These events are simply a part of human intercourse.
They take a lot of energy, move at their own pace, and sometimes end in inconclusive ways.
Hopes, fears and dreams are played out on a stage, and there are lead actors, supporting roles
and an audience. Views are emboldened or changed. In the throes of the moment, we all feel
very alive and very much “in the now”, but these moments often fade into memory the next
time, inevitably, there is an event.
We invite artists from all over the world to help us examine the role PARTY plays in our lives.
Dressed up or down, with mates or as new meat - give us your creative take on what this very
human pass time represents. Be it political or not, there are celebrations, failures, values and
decoration that all form part of the experience of what it is to PARTY. Fertile ground for artists of
every persuasion and in every medium. Polemic or “fancy dress”, comfortable shoes, tuxedoes or
even Speedos... get your point across, make a splash - PARTY with MASCULAR.

If you are interested in contributing to Issue No. 20, please contact MASCULAR Magazine at: [email protected]

Deadline for submissions is July 17, 2017.

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