The Photographic Work of Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk bought his 35mm Nikon rangefinder--a Nippon Kogaku--while serving in the Navy in the 1950's. Although Harvey made few images of his personal life early on, he began photographing more soon after his discharge.

For Harvey, the subject that continued for many years to have the greatest visual appeal was men--men from behind, men close-up, men sleeping, men cruising, men parading, men relaxing. Scott Smith, later Harvey's long-term lover and the executor of his estate, would become Harvey's favorite model, often posing for an entire roll of film in a single setting under his obsessive direction. The many images of Scott to be found in the archive exhibit a heartfelt intimacy, friendship, domesticity, and desire, revealing the photographer's true love for his subject. Although there are a number of sexually explicit photographs in the archive, I have decided not to include them in the exhibition in the belief that some images belong solely in the realm of privacy and legend.
more at http://www.queer-arts.org/archive/9906/milk/

Electronics Alive

I'm very Excited About Electronics Alive 5 ... We have had amazing lectures from very special guests. It is so motivating to see the energy and the variety of works that are being created today. Check the site http://ealive.utarts.com and try come to my carte blanche video selection on Wednesday March 18th in Reeves Theater.

Nowhere without my Parents, ShortFilm by Vicente Bonet Spain

James Asal Jr: Creator of Adam and Andy

By Antonio Capurro - Gay Agenda

I learned about Adam and Andy 6 years ago when I was doing my research about gay comics online. At that time I was working in Lima, the capital of Peru, managing the section called “Lima Gay” for a very open minded web site. When I saw Adam and Andy I fell in love with the likable characters. Since I was a boy, I very much enjoyed reading my favorites such as Superman, Batman or Spiderman. They fulfilled my fantasies of superheroes because even when I would dream, those were the gay males in my mind and I always wished I could have that kind of story. Finally, I found Adam and Andy and thier creator James Asal Jr.

I never imagined that years later I would have the opportunity to interview him. Going into an artist’s world is always to a new opportunity to discover a fascinating and powerful mind. Artist tend to havesensitive souls that carry a huge spectrum of ideas.

James is a skillful, talented and very nice man. A person committed to his ideas and art. He is a cartoonist, an illustrator, a gay artist who got the inspiration and the courage to give us a wonderful gay comic.

Find more of Adam and Andy here: www.adamandandy.com
Interview at . http://www.gayagenda.com/2008/11/meet-james-asal-jr-the-creator-of-adam-and-andy-a-gay-comic/

About LGBT Marriage and the American Society

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Colombia 14 years old

Just noticed that Colombian Sisters first appearance is now 14 years old
here how it was back then at the English Cementery in Bogota (spoken in Spanish)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV3cNQRp_hY

80 ways for being anonymous by showing everything

The Era of Internet 2.0 has given us the opportunity to broadcast and publish our private life to everyone, nevertheless some of us find very creative ways of showing and hiding at the same time.

Masculine sexuality often becomes a field where appereances, power, fear and shame work together at the same time.

The self image of the contemporary male is powerful but fragile at the same time. We have been taught to look strong, invencible, corageous, assertive and powerful no matter what. Is this the real contemporary male? what happens beneath the muscles, the hair, the bellies, the beards?. It seems we have not seen it already. More at

http://www.art-industry.com/jorgerodriguez/80/index.html

Love and Masculinity

Image from the Exhibition by: Carlos Gutierrez Solana
It is a good opportunity to re-take this blog born from the universal love project, thinking about the Masculine Role in contemporary societies.

A role that has been changing very slowly. A "comfortable" role for most men who apparently get the power, the money and the rights in most cultures and who have never questioned it or re-examined it.

From here and with the basis of the historical research on sexual diversity I extend an invitation to think about a new masculinity that may open the opportunity to affection, vulnerability, shared power and opportunities। A masculinity that is not afraid of sharing the privileges and that aims to build societies hand by hand with femininity and all other possible gender identities.

Nothing is Normal, Nothing is Weird

NOTHING IS NORMAL NOTHING IS WEIRD
This exhibition presents sexual diversity as something universal to all cultures, it has been created for young people between the ages of 12 and 20, so they can understand that there is a wide range of options for their sexual life both now and through an appreciation of multiple legacies of Human Experience in different times and places.

In Colombia, as in many other countries Homo, Bi, Trans, Lesb, are very hard issues to come to terms with when you are 12 to 20 years old and do not have an educational or economic support that let you speak up freely, so our purpose is to help these boys and girls grow strong from their inside.


ESPAÑOL
NADA ES EXTRAÑO, NADA ES NORMAL
Esta exhibición presenta al público algunos de los personajes, momentos y sucesos que han construido espacio para las opciones que existen hoy para nuestra identidad sexual y afectiva.
Amor y sexo han sido por muchos años , temasque abordamos con miedo, vergüenza y normalmente desde la ignorancia y el prejuicio, son aspectos fundamentales para la felicidad humana sobre los que siempre estamos pensando y hablando.

La experesion afectiva y sexual,es algo inherente a la especie humana y ha estado presente a lo largo de la historia y en todas las civilizaciones tal como la diversidad lingüística, étnica, espiritual y cultural. Diferentes culturas a lo largo de la historia la han entendido desde múltiples puntos de vista, algunos más estrechos que otros genrando libertades o limitaciones en las cuales cada uno de nosotros ve su individualidad comprometida.