https://queerpopculture.com/ Culture high and low: books, music, movies, sometimes those with gay or queer themes en-us edifyingspectacle@nc.rr.com 2004-10-12T11:54:54-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 https://queerpopculture.com/archives/images/the_most_beautiful_dorian.php This blonde youth strikes me as the loveliest male I’ve ever seen in the role of Dorian Gray. Dorian faces the painting that has preserved his youth and beauty. Hair cut Dorian sits with the wicked Lord Henry. This strikes... 1798@https://queerpopculture.com/ Images 2004-10-12T11:54:54-05:00 https://queerpopculture.com/archives/gay_themed/the_secret_life_of_oscar_.php From a review of Neil McKenna’s The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde: McKenna’s agenda is to detail Wilde’s sexuality, his love of boys, his tempestuous relationship with Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas) and how his love of the love that dare... 1796@https://queerpopculture.com/ Gay Themed 2004-10-12T07:57:31-05:00 https://queerpopculture.com/archives/images/sinful_dorian_gray_was_a.php Tony Perkins was in a lamentable 1983 TV movie movie called The Sins of Dorian Gray. Too old to be Dorian he played Lord Henry. Belinda Bauer (who?) was Dorian Gray. Recasting the role for a woman is what passes... 1781@https://queerpopculture.com/ Images 2004-10-07T15:46:57-05:00 https://queerpopculture.com/archives/images/pictures_of_dorian_gray.php There are many images of Dorian Gray from the Oscar Wilde novel. Here are a few. The movie starring a young George Sanders. In Spanish. Dan Curtis, most famous for the Dark Shadows horror soap opera cast Shane Briant (who... 1771@https://queerpopculture.com/ Images 2004-10-06T15:08:46-05:00 https://queerpopculture.com/archives/images/gay_apprentices_secrets_.php Mark convinced Jeffrey that only a fine line divided straights from gays. Then he helped him cross it. I’m probably going to get into trouble with the queer mafia behind the Gay Agenda in disclosing the apprentice system we homosexual... 1755@https://queerpopculture.com/ Images 2004-09-30T15:50:24-05:00 https://queerpopculture.com/archives/images/ten_inches_to_toke.php This would’ve made a good accompaniment for Joint Hunger. Again you have the drug/sex pun. While I’ve never made the association myself it is easy to see toking on a joint being translated into fellatio: toking on a penis. “Author”... 1754@https://queerpopculture.com/ Images 2004-09-30T15:02:12-05:00 https://queerpopculture.com/archives/images/coming_out_ii.php Another couple of covers that exploit gay men’s coming out of the closet. Cummin’ Out isn’t even minimally imaginative. I’m sure the book was sold by its cover art and the cum was the icing as it were. Coming Out:... 1722@https://queerpopculture.com/ Images 2004-09-28T15:12:15-05:00 https://queerpopculture.com/archives/images/dick_and_peter.php You can’t really hope to apprehend the creator’s ecstasy the author or editor felt when he arrived at what probably struck him as the ultimate title for a gay porn novel.... 1721@https://queerpopculture.com/ Images 2004-09-28T14:00:58-05:00 https://queerpopculture.com/archives/images/joint_hunger.php You have to give the editorial work behind Joint Hunger credit for piling on the ambiguity. The needle lets you wonder if the joint is a marijuana cigarette instead of what lurks beneath the muscular blond’s* towel. Is the... 1714@https://queerpopculture.com/ Images 2004-09-27T16:25:18-05:00 https://queerpopculture.com/archives/listening/going_back_to_tulsa_with_.php I grew up listening to country music. Back then Hank Williams, Sr. had many tracks still on the juke boxes and many of the singers, years after his death, were performing music deeply indebted to him. Western Swing wasn’t something... 1710@https://queerpopculture.com/ Listening 2004-09-27T14:23:01-05:00 https://queerpopculture.com/archives/images/stud_house.php In real life stud house is a place you go to find a male dog for breeding your pedigree pooch. Surely there must’ve been House Stud as well as Stud House(s). Armed with hammer and tape measure our stud at... 1700@https://queerpopculture.com/ Images 2004-09-23T18:00:17-05:00 https://queerpopculture.com/archives/images/making_the_jock.php I’ve been puzzled by this old queer paperback cover for some time. For a long time I thought the mysterious figure in the background was holding a whip. And thought he looked something like someone out of an old... 1699@https://queerpopculture.com/ Images 2004-09-23T14:39:05-05:00 https://queerpopculture.com/archives/listening/julia_lees_king_size_pap.php What has been called blues music has meant many different things. Often it is melancholy even bitter reflections on lost love and frustrated lust. But a blues shouter like Joe Turner is apt to shake, rattle and role along. And... 1696@https://queerpopculture.com/ Listening 2004-09-23T09:24:49-05:00 https://queerpopculture.com/archives/images/the_happy_hustlers.php While I hope many callboys are happy I had no idea there’d been two different happy hustlers in book form. When Grant Tracy Saxon’s* memoir came out I was helping produce an early Atlanta gay newspaper, The Atlanta Barb. On... 1687@https://queerpopculture.com/ Images 2004-09-22T13:59:47-05:00 https://queerpopculture.com/archives/listening/jumping_at_the_barrelhous.php 1675@https://queerpopculture.com/ Listening 2004-09-20T15:59:35-05:00