Bijou Blog: Great Non-Sex Moments in Classic Gay Porn Films including Casey Donovan in a dual role, the last known footage of Greta Garbo, a dance sequence & documentation of an early ’70s L.A. queer community.
Dudley Sutton (6th April 1933 – 15th September 2018) R.I.P.
Remembering British actor Dudley Sutton who died yesterday, at the age of 85. His recent career was mostly in television, but here he is in the 1963 British Film “The Leather Boys”, where he played gay biker Pete, who has fallen for straight biker Reg (Colin Campbell). The last picture shows rehearsals of Joe Orton’s hit comedy “Entertaining Mr. Sloane” in 1964, where he played the very first Sloane, to Madge Ryan as Kath. Also pictured is Joe Orton himself.
Information from onlyhuman34 …the other actor in that film, Colin Campbell passed away, last March 2018. (I wondered what happened to him, thanks for the information – R.I.P to both of them)
It’s taken a minute, but I finally updated pinkmince.com so you can order Pink Mince #14 — Very Influential (or t-shirts or back issues, too, which I totally encourage)
I’ll tell you what’s ferocious. Freddie’s comeback to Sid calling him “Freddie Platinum” when they were recording down the hall from each other at London’s Wessex Studios (Queen for News of the World, Pistols for Bollocks).
Sid Vicious made the mistake one day of bursting into Queen’s control room and antagonizing their frontman. “Have you succeeded in bringing ballet to the masses, then?” he sneered. “Oh, yes, Simon Ferocious,” Mercury replied. “We’re trying our best, dear.”
Then, according to Queen biographer Daniel Nester, Freddie rose from his chair and began to playfully flick the safety pins displayed on the front of Sid’s leather jacket. “Tell me,” he asked, “did you arrange these pins just so?” When Sid stepped forward in an attempt to intimidate Freddie, the singer simply pushed him backwards and inquired, “What are you going to do about it?” Sid immediately backed down. [x]
Aaaargh! Pink Mince and some of the source material for the “Punk Mince” and “The Stroke” issues is featured in this incredible exhibition about Letraset at the Sheffield Institute of Arts and I want to see it SO MUCH. The exhibition is connected to Letraset: The DIY Typography Revolution, the fantastic book about Letraset and its history that was published this year, which included an interview with me, some photos of Pink Mince, and lots of photos of items form my collection of Letraset sheets, ephemera, and paraphernalia.
Aaaargh!Pink Mince and some of the source material for the “Punk Mince” and “The Stroke” issues is featured in this incredible exhibition about Letraset at the Sheffield Institute of Arts and I want to see it SO MUCH. The exhibition is connected to Letraset: The DIY Typography Revolution, the fantastic book about Letraset and its history that was published this year, which included an interview with me, some photos of Pink Mince, and lots of photos of items form my collection of Letraset sheets, ephemera, and paraphernalia.
Pink Mince #14 — Very Influential — is at the printer and ready to debut at the NY Queer Zine Fair this weekend! Come check it (and other great stuff) out!
Gay Leather Scene Tones Down From Hard-Core to Dress-Up
By Michael Musto, The New York Times, December 22, 2015
On a warm Saturday night in November, about 800 gay men wearing harnesses and other items made of leather gathered at Brut, a party held at Santos Party House in Lower Manhattan.
Mostly in their 20s and 30s, the men danced to pounding house music, flirted in an intimate lounge below the dance floor and ogled two beefy go-go men gyrating on boxes. Shirts came off, but leather harnesses stayed on all night, as Brut bills itself as New York’s only monthly leather party.
But if the party was introducing the leather scene to younger gay men who had never heard of the Village People, it also underscored a social shift: The leather scene has lost much of its overt sadomasochistic edge, and is now more about dressing up.
