Chris Hall, Monday, October 11, 2010 - 12:48pm
If you're a bank or a school, today is Columbus Day, which celebrates the day hundreds of years ago when Christopher Columbus came across the American continent thinking it was India. For the rest...
Simon Sheppard, Friday, October 8, 2010 - 4:21pm
I guess a lot of us hanker to be around to witness a cosmic turning point in history. That would explain why, for a good 2,000 years, Christians have been saying, "Today is the first day of the End...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 10:57am
People often ask about this photograph. Where was it taken? What was happening? I'm always happy to talk about this image, because of all the photos I've taken, "Miriam on the Waterbed...
Tim, Friday, October 1, 2010 - 5:58pm
Like many people, I have been deeply affected by the Tyler Clementi tragedy. I find I cannot stop thinking about that fateful series of events that led to a college freshman jumping to his death...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 11:52am
People often ask—am I a voyeur?
Well, yes I am. Obviously, I like to watch, especially when explosive subject matter pops my eyeballs. But that's just one level, one of many. A voyeur...
Kara Dax, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 3:11pm
September 26, 2010 – San Francisco – Folsom Street between 7th and 12th was packed with leather men and women, kinksters, fetishists, and tourists for the 27th annual Folsom Street Fair. The event...
Midori, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 12:00pm
Some sort of a shift is happening in the general social consciousness about women and kink. For a change, it seems to be a good shift this time.
Albeit a small sampling, my travels and teaching...
Arielle Loren, Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 1:36pm
In popular culture, the stereotype of black men continues to resemble the Big Bad Wolf. Imagine a black man. What do you most likely see? He's tall, muscular, uber-masculine, darker in skin...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 12:50pm
On November 4, 1968, a sassy new tabloid newspaper appeared on New York newsstands. Screw cost twenty-five cents and was devoted entirely to sex and porn. Because of the growing demand for...
Kamela Dolinova, Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 11:58am
Sex at Dawn, the new book on prehistoric human sexuality by Dr. (of psychology) Christopher Ryan and Dr. (of psychiatry) Cacilda Jethá, has already gotten heaps of media attention—with good reason...
Simon Sheppard, Monday, September 20, 2010 - 10:07am
Well, well, well. It comes as no surprise that the Director of Issues Analysis of the frothingly anti-queer American Family Association, one Bryan Fischer, hates Muslims, as well.
Well, not "...
Chris Hall, Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 2:01pm
Everyone who has ever watched a porn film—or even done so much as pick up a dog-eared copy of Penthouse—knows the archetypal lesbian fuck scene as envisioned by mainstream pornographers....
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 10:58am
In 1969 a "serious documentary" called Pornography in Denmark opened in a New York movie theatre and didn't get busted. That opened the door to other explicit films, like Sex USA and...
Chris Hall, Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 3:52pm
Mrs. Betty Bowers, for those not in the know, is America's Best Christian, and as she notes in the video below, is "so close to Jesus, the rest of the Trinity calls her Yoko." In her spare time,...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 1:07pm
Back in New York after shooting Mardi Gras, I got a call from Trixie, a six-foot drag queen (and fellow New Yorker) I'd photographed on Bourbon street. "You invited me to your studio,...
Chris Hall, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 2:25pm
In America, it wasn't that long ago that the idea of having condom commercials on television was hugely controversial. It was only in 1991 that Fox (of all channels) broadcast the first commercial...
Arielle Loren, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 1:16pm
Things have changed. The beloved hip hop of the eighties has gone on to inspire a new generation of music, affectionately calling itself by the iconic genre’s name, but truly a musical genus with...
Simon Sheppard, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 11:13am
Back in the W. Days, President Bush had no problem coming up with a simple—not to say simple-minded—reason why Islamic militants were jihading against us virtuous 'Murricans: They hate us for our...
Charles Gatewood, Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 12:51pm
I learned a lot about homosexual culture by reading C.A. Tripp's book, The Homosexual Matrix. I was especially interested in Tripp's ideas about the nature of sexual arousal. Erotic...
