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Vintage Gay Porn Is Collectable

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:44:20 +0000

Here a couple more shots from The Young Physique Annual Magazine 1962. These series of magazines, The Young Physique, Physique Pictorial, Muscle Boy, Mr. Groovy, etc. are becoming very collectable all of a sudden. Porn as we know it, is really only about 40 years old and had always been thought of as disposable. Besides being a bit embarrassing when the family comes to visit, people get tired of their porn and recycle it. The hobby of collecting porn is a relatively new concept and unlike collecting other more mass produced items (like records or glassware) I predict that vintage gay porn will only increase in value because it was a limited market to begin with.

When I first started buying vintage gay porn magazines from eBay, they were selling for only a dollar or two. In just the last year or two, I’ve seen prices really skyrocket. There are vintage porn magazines now selling for hundreds of dollars. It’s not unusual see see starting bids at $25.

For a mere $10 trial membership, you can view my entire collection of very valuable and collectable gay porn from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. And I keep adding to my collection all the time!

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The Young Physique – Annual 1962

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:07:54 +0000

Guys, THIS is the kind of magazine that you came to Vintage Bareback searching for! It’s from 1962 and it’s the big “annual” issue of The Young Physique Magazine, and it is a real stunner. Though there is no nudity, it’s the traditional beefcake magazine of posing straps and muscle men from you dad’s era.

The photography is almost on par with fashion magazines of the time and since the guys mostly kept there clothes on and didn’t have to do much man-on-man touching, the photographers were able to recruit a wider range of beautiful men. At the same time, they faced the challenge of how to not only make pretty pictures, but they had to be creative enough to make it appealing enough to closeted gay men that they would take the risk of ordering it through the mail while it was still illegal. That was a lot to think about, especially when there was no precedent set for running that kind of business.

I scanned all 70 shots from this once a year issue of The Young Physique, and though the paper it was printed on was low grade, most of the shots were full-page sized, so I was able to get pretty good scans. Go ahead, spend $10 to take a look at the guys your “funny uncle” was jerking off to before you were born!

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Artifacts of Samuel Stewart (Phil Andros) At Museum of Sex

admin — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:59:08 +0000

obscene diary from onur karaoglu on Vimeo.

During the 1950s, a professor and tattoo artist named Samuel Steward chronicled his sex life in drawings, letters, photographs, sexual paraphernalia and other items, and in so doing created documentary evidence of his experience of gay life and homosexuality in American culture at that time. “Obscene Diary,” an exhibition now on view at the Museum of Sex that includes many of Steward’s personal artifacts, drawings and photographs, is a trove of information about how a community of gay men lived in the 50s and 60s. Show runs till January 17th, 2012.

EXHIBIT AT MUSEUM OF SEX NYT SLIDESHOW AND NARRATION

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Happy Halloween

admin — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:10:53 +0000

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1969 Men’s Fashion

admin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:19:27 +0000

Fashion designer Michael Fish shows his collection of Men’s Wear for 1969 featuring satin robes, jump suits, caftans and tunics.

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XXX Rated Twist Party Cartoon

admin — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:23:13 +0000

“The Twist Party” is an XXX rated animation in the 1960’s cartoon style straight from old Disney or Hanna Barbera. It starts out very authentic and but soon turns very gay. One of the party goers spies a hot muscle hunk with a gigantic ass and decides to spice up the party by putting on stripper record. In no time, the men all strip down to underwear and it goes down hill from there. The guy with the giant ass spreads his cheeks and becomes the bottom boy for the entire party. They even go so far as to show his colon filling up with more and more cum as he gets fucked by guy after guy. Soon the entire party is men butt fucking, while the women faint at the sight.

If you’ll notice, the interesting twist in this cartoon is that all the big, hunky studs are the bottoms and skinny guys are the tops!

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Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow

admin — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:17:51 +0000

The author of this book review is an important and well-connected member of gay history. He was eye-witness to many of the events and knew many of the people involved in some of the stories told in this book about Chuck Renslow. Renslow, unlike most historical figures of modern gay life, IS still alive and is still working hard on projects like the Leather History Museum and his signature yearly event, International Mr. Leather.

The most important quote below: …Born a year before Harvey Milk and politically active 20 years before Milk hit Castro…

Book Review by Dr. Jack Fritscher

Published in Bay Area Reporter June 9, 2011.

Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow by Tracy Baim and Owen Keehnen; Prairie Avenue Productions, $24.99

In Casablanca, “sooner or later everybody comes to Rick’s.” In Chicago, the world comes to Chuck’s. Since 1950, Chuck Renslow, now 82 and one of the most famous gay men on the planet, has safely hosted thousands of GLBT visitors at his 30 venues, from his legendary Gold Coast bar (1960-88) to his International Mr. Leather Contest (1979) and his prestigious Leather Archives & Museum (1991). For 60 years, Renslow, a politically aggressive Democrat in the Chicago Machine, has been a person of interest to cops, politicians, fans, and frenemies.

Rather than review Leatherman, I can best, as a SoMa historian, serve as local tourguide to this bespoke book with its candid backstage drama of leathermen, lesbians, and Mafia wise-guys shaping homoculture two decades before Stonewall. I came out on Renslow’s 1950s Kris Studio photography and his Gold Coast, where, beginning a 10-year union, I married his handsome bartender, photographer David Sparrow. As eyewitness, I appreciate the authenticity of Leatherman, into which my two-bits was invited by leather-village griots Owen Keehnen and Tracy Baim.

Renslow’s strategic business mind led gays politically into a new age. He saw first what others only saw eventually. As an occult practitioner of magical thinking, he intuited the private necessity of coming out, and the public necessity of founding safe venues to do it. Starting Kris Studio (1953), he first courted homomasculine men by creating butch social destinations, which he eventually diversified to all genders: his 2010 IML winner was FTM wheel-charioteer Tyler McCormick. Pioneering locally, he built a nationally sustainable model proving gay-owned businesses key to building community, politics, and social networks. Born a year before Harvey Milk and politically active 20 years before Milk hit Castro, Chicago native Renslow evolved a transforming 1950s heartland identity that defied city, state, and federal laws.

In 1954, with lifelong muse Dom Orejudos, the artist “Etienne,” he bought Triumph gym, photographed musclemen, created magazines, was busted by the Post Office for mailing obscene material, and helped push toward the Supreme Court decision that frontal nudity could be sent via US mail. Without that 1967 ruling, subscription mailing of 1970s sex-identity publications could not have reached readers, and Drummer would never have become SF’s longest-running gay magazine.

Synergizing business with art, Renslow’s pre-Stonewall Chicago style, driven by his can-do “Renslow Family,” helped stimulate SF’s 1970s immigrant boom. For instance, Etienne, Renslow’s esthetician, painted the Gold Coast walls re-conceptualizing bars as galleries, beginning the Muralist Movement whose “Rushmore Four” included Tom of Finland, Drummer art director A. Jay, and SoMa’s Chuck Arnett, whom Robert Opel and I dubbed Drummer ’s “Lautrec in Leather.” In 1962, Etienne tutored Arnett, who, speeding off to SF, painted his avatar mural at the Tool Box. When Life magazine pictured that mural, five years before Stonewall, it invited gays nationwide to bring all regional lifestyles to melt in San Francisco’s pot.

Within the extended Renslow Family, B.A.R. columnist Mister Marcus regularly alerted Western readers to Renslow’s Midwestern entertainments, from his annual White Party to Castro diva Sylvester singing on Renslow’s “K-Y Circuit” stages. As an IML judge for 28 years, Marcus flew to O’Hare with SF entourages, often including Folsom’s divine IML emcee Queen Cougar. Always, folks returned to SFO energized in local activism by the annual leather-family reunion that is IML. After winning “Mr. IML 1985,” SF’s Patrick Toner, using that celebrity, established the AIDS fundraiser, the Dore Alley Fair. In 1991, Renslow and Anthony DeBlase, the SF publisher of Drummer and creator of the Leather Pride Flag, founded the IML Trust-funded Leather Archives & Museum, with Joseph Bean, editor of SF’s Bear magazine, as executive director.

In 1978, creating SoMa’s first gallery, Oscar streaker Robert Opel chose veterans Etienne and A. Jay to launch Fey-Way Studio’s opening exhibit, featuring emerging talent like Robert Mapplethorpe, who told me, when assigning him his first magazine cover (Drummer 24), how his own 1970s photography was influenced by the 1950s beefcake of Renslow, who was “genius at lighting his models.”

Becoming Drummer editor, I purposely injected Renslow’s masculine, but not separatist, heartland values into the founding of that magazine, which helped create the very SF leather culture it reported on. Drummer 9 featured the “Gold Coast 15th Anniversary,” and, imitating Renslow’s first IML, Drummer kick-started the “Mr. Drummer” contest, which soon anchored the Folsom Fair. In 1980, Renslow’s business manager Patrick Batt moved to SF, helped Bob Damron found the Eagle bar, and became manager of Drummer during our editorial shift to safe sex.

Forthrightly, Leatherman dares dish dirt, such as how the rift between thwarted S&M lovers Renslow and Sam Steward, both filmed separately by Kinsey, caused Steward to move his Chicago tattoo parlor to Oakland (1964), establishing Steward as famous SF author “Phil Andros.” And those are just some local GPS links to this entertaining documentary about 20th-century gay American history.

06/09/2011

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Joe D’Allesandro Nude

admin — Mon, 09 May 2011 23:21:18 +0000

I’ve written plenty about Warhol superstar Joe D’Allesandro here at Vintage Bareback blog, but it bares repeating to dredge up these photos again for the masses that have not yet experienced the beauty and charisma of Little Joe.

There are a couple beautifully printed shots from this famous photo shoot in a magazine called Male Figure Review. It is now available for VIP Members right now.

I wanted this magazine so bad I paid a pretty penny to acquire it, and Joe D’Allesandro spread was definitely one of the reasons I bought it.

Last year I attended a special screening of a documentary about Joe D’Allesandro and Little Joe was interviewed there in the theater! Click the link below to read about it, and if you are a VIP member, I have a very rare copy of Joe in a hardcore gay sex scene, where Joe is a very willing bottom!

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Scotty Cunningham Featured In VIP Room

admin — Thu, 05 May 2011 03:18:24 +0000

Scotty Cunningham is undoubtedly one of the favorite stars of fans of early gay porn / vintage physique photography. I just added one of my most prized magazines to the VIP Room, Male Figure Review, and Scotty is prominently represented in it.

Blond and beefy, young Scotty treads the line between boy and man in this series of photos by Bruce of Los Angeles, but no mere boy would have the kind of musculature this popular model displayed in this 1969 publication.

But Scotty Cunningham is not the only slice of beef in this Issue 1 of Male Figure Review. There is plenty of muscle and some quote/unquote tastefully artistic nudity as well. This issue also includes the famous nude shots of Joe D’Allesandro that caught Andy Warhol’s interest. This magazine was so important that I spent quite a lot of money to obtain it, and now it’s available for me to share with you.

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Are They Fucking On A Dead Animal?

admin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:51:49 +0000

Is that REAL FUR? OMG, they are NOT fucking on dead animals! My, my how times have changed.