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Brooklyn Boys: The Photography of Danny Fitzgerald and Les Demi Dieux
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDanny Fitzgerald; Robert Loncar; James Kempster
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 2013.The 20th century physique photography of Danny Fitzgerald and his Les Demi Dieux studio, edited and written by Robert Loncar and James Kempster of BigKugels Photographic.
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Champion
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWalter Kundzicz
Frankfurt: Goliath, 2003.Monograph on mid-20th century physique photographer Walter Kundzicz of Champion Studio
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Nubile Nostalgia: A Teenage Wasteland
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSteph. Gorkii
London: Editions Aubrey Walter, 1999.Introduction by John Wood. This copy inscribed by Steph. Gorkii.
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The Night of Your Life: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGerry North
Sydney: Rural and City Media Services, 1992.Photobook history of the protest march to the Pride event. The deluxe hardcover edition with the limited edition stamp designed by Brian Kent.
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Bruce of Los Angeles
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBruce of Los Angeles; Jim Dolinsky
Berlin: Bruno Gmunder, 1990.Monograph of physique photography by Bruce Bellas (1909-1974), more commonly known as Bruce of Los Angeles.
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California Boys: Colour Photographs 1959-1980
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMel Roberts
Santa Monica: Fotofactory Press, 2000.Monograph of photographer and filmmaker Mel Roberts (1923-2007) who lived and worked as an openly gay man.
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Of Those Alone
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRobert Hutton
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1958.The pseudonymous autobiography of Horace Charles Forbes Cheston, published under the name Robert Hutton shortly after the release of the Wolfenden Report. Written at a time when homosexuality was still criminalised and taboo, Of Those Alone offers an unusually candid account of Cheston’s sexual and emotional life. Moving between Paris, California, New York, and the South of France before returning to England, he recounts his affairs, his ill-fated marriage to an American woman, and his descent into alcoholism, concluding with redemption through Alcoholics Anonymous, an organisation he later helped to establish in Britain. One of the earliest openly homosexual autobiographies of the postwar period, it precedes the more widely known works of the 1960s gay liberation era and is quite likely the first memoir of a gay alcoholic writer.
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International Mr. Leather: 25 Years of Champions
AU$550.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoseph W. Bean
Las Vegas and Chicago: Nazca Plains and The Leather Archives & Museum, 2004.A thoroughly illustrated year-by-year chronicle of the world’s premier gay leather contest, founded by Chuck Resnlow in Chicago in 1979. Australia entered the IML story early: Patrick Brooks, the winner of IML 1980, became the first non-American titleholder and remains one of the most competition’s most controversial champsions. Brooks and his sponsor reportedly believed that winning the titled conferred hosting rights for the following year’s event, and briefly announced plans for IML 1981 to be held in Sydney before organisers clarified that the contest would remain in Chicago. Despite this misunderstanding, the Australian leather scene flourished, with Mr. Australia Leather contests continuing through the 1980s and 1990s, regularly sending representatives to IML. Notably, Australians achieved two runner-up finishes: Brent Lacey, Mr. Laird Leather Image (Melbourne), placed second in 1993, and Andrew Lennon, Mr. Mephisto Leather (Sydney), placed second in 1998. Bean’s volume documents these milestones among hundreds of photographs and profiles of titleholders, capturing a global leather brotherhood that prominently included Australia from its earliest days. Unrecorded in Australian institutional collections.
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Hustlers
AU$1,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartPhilip-Lorca diCorcia
Gottingen: Steidl, 2013.Oversize photo book by American photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia (1953-) documenting male prostitutes. “I took the Hustler photographs following a period of repressive stomping on the U.S. Constitution’s First Amemdment, “Freedom of Speech”. An appropriate personification of the moment would be Jesse Helms, a man deeply committed to his bigotry. He was responsible for a lot of the stomping. In 1989, the National Endowment for the Arts was attacked for supporting a Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition that was canceled as a result. In the same year, the money I received from the NEA had a proviso attached which required that I not transgress “American” values; at least that is how I remember it. I’ll be it was more onerous. Other artist recipients called for a boycott, or some kind of protest. I decided to beat Mr. Helms et al. at their own game, mendacity. I paid the “hustlers” in these photographs with the money awarded to me by the NEA. The price was meant to be the normal cost for the lowest common denominator of street sex. Of course it varies. Hustlers lie a lot too. I’ve included in the titles the name, age, hometown, and price paid of each one, as an emphatic declaration of the identity mutation and the taxonomy of the project implied. And, as a report to the government of its well-spent dollars. (from artist’s statement) A selection of 21 of the photographs were exhibited in diCorcia’s first museum show, Strangers, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1993. Here for the first time the complete series is published in it entirety.
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The Colt Album
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn S. Barrington; Rip Colt [Jim French]
London: John S. Barrington, No date.Early monograph on American illustrator and publisher Jim French AKA Rip Colt, edited and with a short introduction by English physique photographer John S. Barrington. This issue without a date in the imprint, other copies seen are printed 1973. Unrecorded in OCLC.
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The Leatherman’s Handbook II: Updated Second Edition
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: Carlyle Communications, 1989.A completely new sequel to the definitive exploration of the gay S&M leather scene.
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Tom of Finland: The Comic Collection (5 Volumes)
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTom of Finland
Koln: Taschen, 2005.Taschen compilation edition of the homoerotic comics of Tom of Finland AKA Tuko Laaksonen.
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The Gay Seventies
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHal Fischer
San Francisco: Gallery 16, 2019.Collected edition of the photo-text works of Hal Fischer produced between between 1977 and 1979 including the highly important Gay Semiotics. FischerÂ’’s works were major investigations of gay life in late 1970s San Francisco. Contains: Gay Semiotics; 18th near Castro St. x 24; Boy-Friends; A Salesman; Civic Center; Cheap Chic Homo; At the Center of the Gay Universe.
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Homosexuality / Heterosexuality: Concepts of Sexual Orientation
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid P. McWhirter; Stephanie A. Sanders; June Machover Reinisch
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.The Kinsey Institute Series Volume II.
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Did You Meet Any Malagas? A Homosexual History of Australia’s Tropical Capital
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDino Hodge
Darwin: Little Gem Publications, 1993.Conversations with thirteen gay men from the Northern Territory, including a priest, a hustler, the owner of a wine bar, a political activist, and the first Territorian diagnosed with AIDS. This copy with numerous gift inscriptions to a gay policeman.
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Whose Homosexuality? Which Authority? Homosexual Practice, Marriage Ordination and the Church
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian Edgar; Gordon Preece
Adelaide: ATF Press, 2006.Interface: A Forum for Theology in the World Vol. 9 Nos 1 & 2. A special double issue of this Australian theology journal focusing on homosexuality with contributions by Bryden Black, David Clarke, Denise Cooper-Clarke, Graham Cole, Keith Dyer, Brian Edgar, Debra Hirsch, Muriel Porter, Gordon Preece, Peter Sherlock, and Mark Thiessen Nation.
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Bold: Stories from Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex people
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDavid Hardy; Elizabeth Whiley
Panton Hill: The Rag and Bone Man Press, 2015. -
Gay Source: A Catalog for Men
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDennis Sanders
New York: Coward, McCann & Geohegan, 1977.The Whole Earth Catalog of gay America; from help lines to holiday destinations. Compiled, written, and edited by Dennis Sanders with the assistance of Michael Emory. Illustrations by George Stavrinos. Feature articles by Felicine Picano, Ian Young, and many others.
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Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gay
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArnie Kantrowitz
New York: Pocket Books, 1978.American LGBT activist speak openly about his homosexuality. One of the first autobiographies by a gay rights activist.
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The Other Face of Love
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRaymond de Becker
London: Sphere Books, 1971.A definitive study of homosexuality. Translated from the French by Margaret Crosland and Alan Daventry.