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Physique Pictorial Volume 7 Number 3, Fall 1957
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1957.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 7 Number 2, Summer 1957
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1957.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 6 Number 2, Summer 1956
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1956.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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Physique Pictorial Volume 6 Number 1, Spring 1956
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1956.Single 1950s issue of the most popular of beefcake magazines, Physique Pictorial, produced by Bob Mizer’s AMG. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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The Male Figure Volume Thirty-Five [35]
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBruce of Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Bruce of Los Angeles, 1966.The penultimate issue of physique photography of LA bodybuilders by Bruce Bellas (1909-1974), more commonly known as Bruce of Los Angeles. The final two issues in a slightly larger format. In this issue: John Bennett, Billy Parks, Ralph Kleiner, Frank Nisi, Big John Clark, Tom Vanselow, Jerry Rogers by Mel Roberts, Chuck Baker by Milo, Dale Hepburn, John Quincy Adams by Milo, Bill Melby, Bob Jackson, Dean Densman, Dennis Densman, LeRoy Williams & Elmer Matt.
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The Male Figure Volume VIII, Spring, 1958
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBruce of Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Bruce of Los Angeles, 1958.Single issue of physique photography of LA bodybuilders by Bruce Bellas (1909-1974), more commonly known as Bruce of Los Angeles. In this issue: Meet Jerry Roquemore, Mr. Apollo contest, Edgar Hayes, Harry Miller, Cowboys of the West, and Steven Wengryn.
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The Gay Cookbook
AU$800.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLou Rand Hogan; David Costain
Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, 1965.First edition, first printing, of “the complete compendium of campy cuisine and menus for men…or what have you” by Chef Lou Rand Hogan. Campy cartoons by David Costain. The first cookbook marketed to the gay man. Hogan, after a failed attempt at a career in show business, learned the art of cooking fine cuisine working luxury cruises where he was part of a deliciously camp work culture, the humour of which is evident in his writing style. A good copy of this early example of positive gay culture in 20th century print media.
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Aaron’s Portfolio One to Eleven
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAaron Enterprises
Los Angeles: Aaron Enterprises, No date.Catalogue of mail order erotic gay male photos and films. Each portfolio is a double-sided leaf except portfolio ten which is 4 pages, containing nude black and white stills and ordering details. Aaron Enterprises was an American studio producing erotic gay films from the 1970s through to the early 1990s.
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Aphrodisiacs: The World of Ayumi Kasai
AU$75.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAyumi Kasai
Tokyo: PIE International, 2021.“Ayumi Kasai is a pioneer and one of the most popular artists in the genre of yaoi, or Boys Love. This book contains illustrations from Kasai’s yaoi novels over the past 10 years, as well as her original work in the “Dannahan to Chiwagenka (The Husband & Lovers Fight)” series and a selection of illustrations specially drawn for the publication. On every page you can enjoy Kasai’s world of aestheticbeauty and eroticism. Contains explicit sexual scenes.” (publisher’s blurb)
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AMG Gallery & News: Premiere Issue! Summer 1986
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn-Paul Kennington; Bob Mizer
Los Angeles: Athletic Model Guild, 1986.Catalogue of models from the later blatantly homoerotic years of Bob Mizer’s AMG, the physique photography powerhouse behind the most popular of beefcake magazines. Early issues feature scantily clad athletic men in fitness poses together with homoerotic artwork by Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, George Quaintance, and others. If you can stayed focused the text provides insight into gay culture and rights at the time, as well as details on the models and artwork. Into the late 1960s and 1970s as the laws around censorship change, the beefcake physique magazine became more naked and blatantly homoerotic.
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The Male Homosexual In Literature: A Bibliography
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartIan Young
Los Angeles and Toronto: ReQueered Tales, 2020.This edition is identical to the second edition published by Scarecrow Press in 1982. It has been reset but the core content has not changed.
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The Male Homosexual In Literature: A Bibliography (Supplement)
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartIan Young
Los Angeles and Toronto: ReQueered Tales, 2020.Includes titles overlooked in the Second Edition, plus works written before the 1981 cut-off date but published later, including works published for the first time in book form. It also includes four appendixes: a checklist, a guide to pen-names, and personal essays.
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Murder and Mayhem: An Annotated Bibliography of Gay and Queer Males in Mystery, 1909-2018
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMatt Lubbers-Moore
Los Angeles and Toronto: ReQueered Tales, 2020. -


Homosexuals Today
AU$10.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCommittee for Homosexual Equality
London: Committee for Homosexual Equality, 1969.1969 promotional pamphlet of the Committee for Homosexual Equality.
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Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichael Bronski
New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002.“An anthology of early gay erotic writings ranges from the post-World War II era to the birth of the modern gay rights movement in the late 1960s.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Claiming the B in LGBT: Illuminating the Bisexual Narrative
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKate Harrad
Portland: Thorntree Press, 2018. -

After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCarolyn D’Cruz; Mark Pendleton
Perth: UWA Publishing, 2013.