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Written by Shane Smith, Editor, Stonewall Gazette


Visual artist JohnPaul Wilson featured male model Gavin Drake in this sexy video. Enjoy!

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Written by Shane Smith , Editor of Stonewall Gazette


Photographer Tony Duran is a favorite of magazine editors around the globe as well as many Hollywood celebrities. I love his portfolio because his work can be provocative but is never pretentious. Check out some of Tony's more erotic pics below.

What do you get when you combine the nuance of line and eye for detail of artist/illustrator, Miguel Angel Reyes, with the chiseled, masculine form of actor Trevor LaPaglia? You get these exquisite illustrations of LaPaglia. This beautiful artwork was shared with fans, by LaPaglia, on his social media. The artist, Reyes, captures LaPaglia with both an elegance and a rawness that is uniquely Trevor.

Written by Cristina Nualart


In the 1990s, the contemporary art scene was booming in Hanoi. New galleries opened, foreign art collectors took an interest in this relatively unknown country and, although censorship by a watchful regime did not disappear, Vietnamese artists gained some freedoms. Significant innovations included the appearance of performance art and of homosexual content in the artwork of Truong Tan, possibly the first openly gay Vietnamese visual artist.


Truong Tan’s first work showing homosexual content dates from 1992, when the painting Circus was displayed in a group show at the Hanoi Fine Arts University, where Tan was a lecturer. Truong Tan’s catalogue for his first solo exhibition in 1994 documents his tentative exploration of performance art and frequent use of ropes [see picture above]. The decision to show this work activated something in him. “My goal was set,” he said, explaining that he was ready to stop hiding his homosexuality and that he was determined to forge a career as a professional artist. It wasn’t easy, and for some time he kept his homoerotic drawings private. READ MORE

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Menelas is a photographer and poet. He describes himself as an "existential detective". I was intrigued by his work. I found Menelas' images of men on rocks very sensual, raw and masculine so I thought I'd share them on Stonewall Gazette. Enjoy!

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Here's a classic 2008 photo layout called "Animale Rhapsody" from Exterface. It featured this sensual male model, Greg David.

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Dielamb, the German moniker that Matt Lambert's thousands of Instagram followers know him by, was born in Los Angeles, though he is now more often associated with Berlin, his beloved adopted home.

Aaron Scott Hildebrandt is a Canadian writer, photographer and animator who's done a photo series of the Vancouver Pride Parade every year since 2012. Why does he do it? Hildebrandt says: "Because everyone in attendance at the parade is absolutely, unbelievably gorgeous." True enough!

Hildebrandt shares some of his story, "I grew up in a place known nationally for its homophobia. Sexuality was always this distant, fringe thing, and anything outside of well-defined limitations was, well, perverted. And I didn’t understand why perversion was something worth celebrating."

That's an excellent point, Aaron. After the challenging year our community has had to experience we definitely need to celebrate as often as we can! That's why on the last day of 2016 I thought I'd post some of Aaron's pictures taken during Pride in Vancouver this past August. Here's to 2017. With Pride.

Written by Jenny Brewer


Gay dating app Grindr has produced and published its first book, called Home, by photographer and filmmaker Matt Lambert. In the publication, the Berlin-based, LA-born Matt explores “intimacy and youth, focused on LGBTQ narratives”. Home was art directed and designed by Studio Yukiko.


Grindr commissioned the book to explore the role of “safe spaces, both physical and virtual, in the development of LGBTQ+ identity”, it explains. “In the wake of the Orlando massacre, with the vitriol of the 2016 US Presidential Election, and in a world where more than 75 countries still criminalise being gay, LGBTQ rights are in a precarious position. READ MORE

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Writer David Goodman recently spoke with photographer, inkedKenny. In the interview excerpted below, the two men discuss inkedKenny's approach to his art, as well as the one person he wishes he could photograph.

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The erotic image above was taken from the 1968 film, Autumn Nocturne and was used as part of the cover of The Los Angeles Advocate, published in December 1968. Autumn Nocturne was a soft-core pornography film directed by Pat Rocco.

British artists John Parkhurst and Basil Clavering operated a photo studio specializing in military themes and bodybuilder images. According to Q News their photo sets and stories were featured in specialist magazines and sold through mail order. Many of the models were active military personnel. Parkhurst and Clavering used authentic uniforms and props, representing Guardsmen, the Royal Horse Artillery, Navy and Army. The images depict gay male erotica and perhaps the photographers found inspiration in the drawings of iconic gay artist Tom of Finland.

Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist Patricia Cronin's sculpture, Memorial to a Marriage, is in the cemetery plot for her and her partner. Cronin says: “I thought if all we get are wills, health care proxies and power-of-attorney documents to try to simulate some of the protections of marriage — which doesn’t really work — it’s not about our life together. So if all I get afforded legally is death, I thought I’d make it really elegant and dignified.”

A classic 1990 photo-text collage by the late David Wojnarowicz, presents a snapshot of the artist as a child in the 1950s, surrounded by text that grimly outlines the abuse and discrimination the boy will endure at the hands of his family, church, gay bashers, the medical establishment and the government. Countless gay men have lived that story, and Wojnarowicz’s telling seethes with a fury that could peel paint. Two years after he made that piece, he died of AIDS-related complications at 37.

AIDS also informs Daniel Goldstein’s sculptures. Medicine Man, which seems to straddle the line between despair about lives lost and hope for longevity, is a totemlike figure made of hundreds of empty medication bottles and dozens of syringes donated by HIV patients, forming a new whole out of the lives of many.

The above photos and text were excerpted from Douglas Britt's article: Gay Identity, Unfiltered.

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Last week, Olympian Matthew Mitchum was dressed as one and now these photographs from Exterface.com. I have to wonder: When did Unicorns become so popular with gay men? Not that I'm complaining! Whimsy and muscles work just fine as far as I'm concerned. What do you guys think?

Putting superheroes in old war photos is equally an odd and weird thing to do, but to each his own. Lol. More pics here.

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• Rock Hudson, Greta Garbo, George Hamilton & more from the 1960's jet set featured in a new photo exhibit

Check out some of Marina Cicogna's photographs (below) of the 1960s jet set at play. Her work is on display at an exhibit in London, England.

UK Guardian reports:
Fame as a photographer came relatively late to Marina Cicogna, an Italian woman in her mid-70s. Eighteen months ago she was talking to a gallery owner in Paris, and the conversation inspired her to re-examine some pictures of her own, just her and her friends in the 60s acting, partying, lying on the beach. Cicogna had lost the negatives, but the prints cleaned up quite well, and when they were hung at the gallery she found she had captured something rare: famous people who looked almost normal.

"Can you imagine Audrey Hepburn cavorting on the beach nowadays?" she says on the phone from her home in Modena, Italy. "Or Rock Hudson looking so relaxed with another man?"

Most of the photographs were taken between 1962 and 1968, after which, Cicogna says, "all the freedoms ended". The subjects trusted their photographer, but it may be they hardly noticed she was there. "I would never ask them to pose," Cicogna says. "Why would I? I was just with them, playing. I've had a lot of intimacy with many of these people." READ MORE AND VIEW THE PHOTO GALLERY

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I love these sexy paintings by Kent. They have a vibrancy that makes each subject come to life. Kent has had his work shown in art galleries and it has been featured in gay magazines such as Men, Unzipped and Freshmen. For more art pieces check out Kent Art Works.