Sorry, I keep posting little teasers and progress shots, but I’m working on 5000 different projects right now (…ok, two, but they really are very big!) and it’s taking time for the finished products.
But, the good news is that is big burly man chest up there, and it’s a little preview of one of the two major projects. I decided that there are not enough male pin-ups out there in the world (obviously), so I am working on a calendar. My goal is to get it done and printed in time for MoCCA, because it’s looking very likely that we’ll have a table there again this year.
John Doran, an ex-sergeant in the marines who was discharged for being gay before DADT was repealed. Shortly after, he was scooped up by the Family, who keep an eye on these matters, and became one of its most valuable and devoted recruits as an expert in explosives, hand-to-hand combat and sniping. He usually works as muscle and cover for the Family’s more violent operations (liberation of “gay cure” camps, raids on businesses that back conservative politicians, and extremist religious missionary groups), as well as solo hits. He is currently partnered with Daniel Gotarde, one of the highest ranking professional hackers in the Family’s fold.
L. and I have a dream project - a Coen brothers/Quentin Tarantinoesque cathartic and inexcusably violent blockbuster about the gay mafia called Bash Back! It would star people like Stephen Fry, Rupert Everett and Alan Cumming as mafia dons, Stephen Colbert and David Hyde Pierce as the conservative villains, and Buck Angel, Queen Latifa and Bailey Jay as mafia hit men and women. John Doran would be played by Michael Fassbender. Obviously.
lawrencegullo:
geekquality:
Among the many talented people I know is my friend Fyodor, who lives in New York with his equally lovely and talented husband, Lawrence. They are illustrators and performers, working on individual projects, as well as a comic book together, Baritarian Boy. Note: Some of the content posted on their Tumblr blogs/comic, while no less delightful, is occasionally NSFW.
Fan art is not Fyodor’s general niche, but he has done a few drawings that would be relevant to our readership’s interests. With his kind permission, I’m sharing some for you here. Let’s start with some Sherlock:
“Cumberbatch locked me in a high tower of his mind palace for a thousand years.”
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Thank you for the lovely write-up!!
You should totally check out Geekquality, babies. It’s a fantastic blog dedicated to exploring social and political issues of race, gender, sexuality, feminism and ability in geek and fandom cultures. It also has Betty White, puppies, and the infamous ass-boob pose. I mean, what more do you even need?
oldhollywood:
Different From the Others (1919, dir. Richard Oswald)
Different From the Others, initially released in Germany in 1919, may be the first feature-length film to address homosexuality.The silent film stars Conrad Veidt as Paul Korner, a renowned concert pianist & closeted homosexual who falls in love with his student (Fritz Schultz). Their secret romance is discovered by a blackmailer who threatens to expose Korner as a gay man, which in 1920’s Germany meant public disgrace & possible incarceration. The story ends tragically with Korner being shunned by society & driven to suicide.
Different From the Others had a specific gay rights law reform agenda - director Richard Oswald & co-screenwriter Magnus Hirschfeld, a prominent sexologist/gay rights activist, made the film as a response to Germany’s Paragraph 175, a law which made homosexual acts between men a crime (and which also had the effect of making gays vulnerable to blackmail).
Different From the Others was banned shortly after its release and prints of the film were among the “decadent” artworks burned by the Nazis after they came to power in the 1930s. As a result, only fragments of the film remain available for viewing.
