Dracula's Legacy of Blood, Lust and Queer Immortality
Tsarouchis’s Greek Pantheon: Gay Eros & Zeibekiko Icons
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 of chiffon, glycerin, and outlaw muscle. His mother sewed the briefs. He choreographed the rest.
Eugene Séguy’s Diptera: Entomology as Graphic Poetry
Séguy’s illustrations, governed by taxonomic fidelity and the formal grace of Art Nouveau, are decorative declarations. Reminding us that even the humble fly contains a symmetry as deliberate as any architectural frieze, and just as enduring.
Cartographer’s Gaze: Émile Prisse d’Avennes Canvas of Islamic Art
Stieglitz — from Manhattan to Lake George & the Sky
Vetti, Flesh & Queer Rebellion: Lionel Wendt’s Erotic Ceylon
Lionel Wendt conjured a Ceylon ungoverned by imperial cartography. Where colonial rule had criminalized queer intimacy and privatized the commons, Wendt’s gelatin silver prints offered a counter-archive: lush, erotic, and defiantly abundant.
Henry Scott Tuke and the Queer Erotics of Edwardian Sunlight
There are afternoons that behave like secrets. Not whispered—just unsaid. Henry Scott Tuke knew this. He painted them. Salt-damp bodies along the Cornish coast, young men folded into each other’s shadow and gleam. Not staged. Not coy. Just... held.
Muscle and Myth: Sascha Schneider’s Gay Symbolism
Schneider painted like someone smuggling voltage. He wrapped classical allegory around homoerotic fire, camouflaging danger in toga folds and divine musculature. In a language only the outlawed understood: each canvas a sigil, each body a cipher.
Baron von Gloeden’s Sicilian Mythography
Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden reimagined classical antiquity through the sun-drenched bodies of Sicilian youth. Exiled by tuberculosis to Taormina, he transformed the village into a queer Arcadia—where marble myths met Mediterranean flesh.
Was Leonardo da Vinci Neurodivergent?
Historians call it genius; neuroscientists suspect a mind wired for hover and leap, restlessness and rapture. But was Leonardo’s electric creativity a Renaissance variant of what we call ADHD? Or did it spring from a wider constellation of neurodivergence?
