Art + Design x Life

Dracula's Legacy of Blood, Lust and Queer Immortality

Forget what you think you know about vampires. They were never just horror tropes or Halloween clichés - they were...

Yannis Tsarouchis’ Greek Pantheon: Gay Eros & Zeibekiko Icons

Beneath the sodium glow of dockside lamps and the bougainvillea-shadowed stoops of Piraeus, Yannis Tsarouchis once walked as if through...

Bob Mizer Uncaged: Straps, Shadows & Subversion

In postwar Los Angeles, behind a hedge-lined bungalow on West 11th Street, Bob Mizer assembled a visual counterculture from scraps...

Vetti, Flesh & Queer Rebellion: Lionel Wendt’s Erotic Ceylon

In the shadowed interstice between empire’s endgame and a nation’s awakening, Lionel Wendt conjured a Ceylon ungoverned by imperial cartography....

Henry Scott Tuke and the Queer Erotics of Edwardian Sunlight

Henry Scott Tuke's spent afternoons painting secrets in plain sight. Not whispered—just unsaid. Salt-damp bodies along the Cornish coast, young...

Sascha Schneider: Gay Symbolism of Muscle and Myth

Sascha Schneider painted like someone smuggling voltage. He wrapped classical allegory around homoerotic fire, camouflaging danger in toga folds and...

Baron von Gloeden’s Sicilian Mythography

Baron von Gloeden reimagined classical antiquity through the sun-drenched bodies of Sicilian youth. Exiled by tuberculosis to Taormina, he transformed...