Vintage photographs of gay and lesbian couples and their stories.
Foreign Parts by Andrew Martin
We've been around a long time.
Browse around! I’ve got so many toys. Don’t be bashful. Step up, boys. Come! I’ll show you things you cannot get elsewhere Come! Make with the offers and you’ll get your share. You like my first edition? It’s yours, that’s how I am. A simple definition: You take art, I take spam. - Frederick Hollander
Joan of Arc, a peasant girl, became a military leader in medieval France. After being burned at the stake by authorities, she became a beloved martyr and saint.
For the past twenty years, authors Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell were scavenging flea markets, estate sales, old suitcases, family archives, online auctions, and shoeboxes to collect 2,700 old photographs. All taken from the 1850s to 1950s, the sensitive pictures bear witness to the romance between men when male partnerships were illegal.
Making Love was revolutionary in its normalizing representation of gay people. Now those who dared to bring a love story about two men to all corners of America in 1982 reveal to BuzzFeed News how they quietly made history.
I stumbled upon these fantastic covers of “gay pulp” paperbacks from the 1970s the other day and immediately became entranced with them. I saw a few of them at the blog Knee-Deep in the Flooded Victory and immediately knew I had to find out more. It turns out that these covers date from 1974 and 1975; they are from the “RAM-10” series from Hamilton House, a company about which I have no information. It may not be apparent how unusually striking these covers are—for a nice gallery of more standard-issue gay paperback covers, you could do a lot worse than this post I did for DM a couple of years ago. You’ll see that the more usual style of gay pulp covers relies on well-nigh abstract juxtapositions of male silhouettes and that male/Mars symbol in garish colors. Not so for the RAM-10 series, which uses documentary-style photographic portraits of males dressed up as gay archetypes in front of a field of light blue or blood red, while a vertical line pierces the book’s title and author in a stately serif font. Actually, the covers remind me a bit of Gay Semiotics, the brilliantly deadpan monograph that photographer...
"Gay Pride Week" Homosexual Liberation 1973. This is a downloadable poster to print it yourself at home, take the file to your local print shop, or upload the file to an online printing service. This poster has been digitally restored, but retains small imperfections to maintain the original character of the artwork. It's not an original vintage poster. · WHAT YOU WILL GET: Listing includes 5 PRINTABLE FILES in high resolution at 300 DPI that can be printed at any of these sizes: ➡ 2:3 ratio file for printing: Inches: 4"x6", 6"x9", 8"x12", 10"x15", 12"x18", 16"x24", 20"x30", 24"x36" Cm: 10x15cm, 20x30cm, 30x45cm, 40x60cm, 50x76cm, 60x90cm ➡ PaperSize (ISO) file for printing: 5"x7", A5, A4, A3, A2, A1, 50x70cm ➡ 3:4 ratio file for printing: Inches: 6"x8", 9"x12", 12"x16", 15"x20", 18"x24" Cm: 15x20cm, 22x30cm, 30x40cm, 38x50cm, 45x60cm ➡ 4:5 ratio file for printing: Inches: 4"x5", 8"x10", 11"x14", 12"x15", 16"x20" Cm: 10x12cm, 20x25cm, 28x35cm, 30x38cm, 40x50cm ➡ 11:14 rario for printing + PDF printing instructions: Inches: 11"x14" Cm: 28x35cm - This listing is for a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical product will be shipped and the frame is not included. - If you are needing a different size please message me and I would be happy to resize it for you for free! · HOW TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FILES? After the checkout process, you will receive an email that your payment has processed and it will include a link to your download. Alternatively, you can find your files by viewing your Etsy account and clicking on the "Purchases and Reviews" section. · LICENSE: License is for personal use only. You can print this artwork for yourself or use the print as a gift, but you cannot share or resell the digital files. · NOTES: This poster has been digitally restored and enhanced, but retains small imperfections to maintain the original character of the artwork. The colours of the prints may appear slightly different than on your screen due to colour display variations. This Artwork is Copyright of ©PulpArts. This purchase is for PERSONAL USE ONLY. Commercial Use is prohibited. You may not share/distribute the original files. Please contact us for any inquiries. Retro Gay Poster, Gay Pride Poster, Gay Liberation Front Poster 1970, Gay Art, Vintage Wall Art, Pride Gift, Gay Rights Print, LGBTQ Art, Queer Art Print For more printable art visit our Home Page: https://www.etsy.com/shop/PulpArts Thank you for supporting my small business! 😊
Let Us Be Gay. The ‘gay’ word dates to the 12th century, derived from the French gai and meaning joyful and lighthearted. It took on a sexual meaning in the 17th century when gay was often applied to people who were ‘addicted to pleasures and dissipations.’ Linked with prostitution, brothels were described as ‘gay houses.’ The meaning of the word continued to evolve and began to be used ‘underground’ in reference to homosexual relationships in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the 1938 film Bringing Up Baby, the actor Cary Grant wore a feathery robe because his clothes had been sent to the cleaners and ad-libbed the line: ‘I just went gay.’ This was the first use of the word gay to mean homosexual in a film. The actor, one of Hollywood’s leading men, was bisexual. In 1951, gay appeared in the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time as slang for homosexual. This marvelous menu cover image was in use in 1935 and was meant to convey gay as being cheerful, lighthearted and free from care, encouraging people to enjoy an evening out. The 1930s did not start off well for Americans because the economy was at an historic low and there was high unemployment. But in 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president, and over the next nine or ten years his New Deal, which would use the power of the federal government to try to stop the economy’s downward spiral, had great effect and helped millions find work. Prohibition, when the sale of alcohol was forbidden, ended in December 1933 and, with the economy strengthening, there was a new sense of optimism in the air – hence the Hotel New Yorker’s entreaty to Let Us Be Gay. Gallery quality Giclée print on natural white, matte, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper using Epson archival inks. Custom printed with border for matting and framing. Each order includes a print of the interior menu. All printed in USA.
Foreign Parts by Andrew Martin
Courtesy Stephen Rutledge. Sweden, 1955. Courtesy Stephen Rutledge. Swe...
We've been around a long time.
I stumbled upon these fantastic covers of “gay pulp” paperbacks from the 1970s the other day and immediately became entranced with them. I saw a few of them at the blog Knee-Deep in the Flooded Victory and immediately knew I had to find out more. It turns out that these covers date from 1974 and 1975; they are from the “RAM-10” series from Hamilton House, a company about which I have no information. It may not be apparent how unusually striking these covers are—for a nice gallery of more standard-issue gay paperback covers, you could do a lot worse than this post I did for DM a couple of years ago. You’ll see that the more usual style of gay pulp covers relies on well-nigh abstract juxtapositions of male silhouettes and that male/Mars symbol in garish colors. Not so for the RAM-10 series, which uses documentary-style photographic portraits of males dressed up as gay archetypes in front of a field of light blue or blood red, while a vertical line pierces the book’s title and author in a stately serif font. Actually, the covers remind me a bit of Gay Semiotics, the brilliantly deadpan monograph that photographer...
Avec le temps... Avec le temps, va, tout s'en va. On oublie le visage et l'on oublie la voix, le coeur, quand ça bat plus, c'est pas la peine d'aller chercher plus loin, faut laisser faire et c'est très bien. Avec le temps... (...) Avec le temps, va, tout s'en va, et l'on se sent blanchi comme un cheval fourbu et l'on se sent glacé dans un lit de hasard et l'on se sent tout seul peut-être mais peinard et l'on se sent floué par les années perdues. Alors vraiment, Avec le temps on n'aime plus.
