Sexuality
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# 44306
YANG, William et al.
William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Reprinted 2022. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. New. Queensland-born, Sydney-based photographer William Yang’s significant contribution to Australian photography spans five decades. Known for his reflective and joyous depictions of Australia’s LGBTQI scene in the late 70s and 80s through to …
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# 43830
MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992)
Physique pictorial. Volume 15, number 3, June 1966
Los Angeles : AMG, 1966. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, pp. 32, black and white photographs, with cover art by TOM OF FINLAND. The breakthrough publication which saw Touko Laaksonen’s ‘dirty little pictures’ exposed to a broader gay readership. Laaksonen submitted his drawings to publisher Bob Mizer simply signed as ‘Tom’. Mizer saw the envelopes had arrived …
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# 43740
A. H. WOODS
[CROSS-DRESSING] Julian Eltinge in the “Fascinating Widow”.
[Indianapolis?] : A. H. Woods, [1912]. Postcard, 90 x 140 mm, recto with half-tone photographic portrait of Eltinge in stage costume, verso imprinted ‘A. H. Woods presents Julian Eltinge in “The Fascinating Widow”‘, and underneath in red ‘English Opera House, Week commencing Monday March 25th. Matinees Wed. and Sat.’; not mailed; two short tears at …
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# 44011
HENSON, Bill (1955 -)
Bill Henson : private view
Sydney : RoslynOxley9 Gallery, 2008. Exhibition invitation card, 210 x 150 mm, folded card, illustration on upper panel. A fine copy. The highly controversial invitation to Henson’s 2008 exhibition which saw the entire exhibition confiscated by police and the Prime Minister denounce the works as ‘absolutely revolting’. ‘On 22 May 2008, the opening night of …
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# 43828
LAAKSONEN, Touko (1920 - 1991, a.k.a. TOM OF FINLAND)
Tom of Finland. Posterbook
Cologne : Taschen, 1993. Folio, illustrated wrappers (light handling wear), text in English, French and German, illustrated with 6 posters illustrated with Tom of Finland’s homoerotic hypersexualised imagery. While much of Tom of Finland’s early career was spent ‘under the covers’, this pioneering erotic gay artist is now celebrated internationally for his genre defining subject …
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# 42516
MIZER, Bob (1922 - 1992)
Physique pictorial. A very substantial run of 77 issues 1951 – 1991
Los Angeles : AMG, 1955 – 1991. 67 issues of Physique Pictorial (a very substantial run, the first seven issues from 1951 – 1953 being photocopies reprinted in 1997, the original vintage printings beginning with vol. 5, no. 2, 1955, through to vol. 41, 1990), octavo, pictorial wrappers, each approximately pp. 32, black and white …
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# 43672
RONIN FILMS
Red Matildas : women, peace and politics in the Great Depression
[Drop title]. Canberra : Ronin Films, [1985]. Portfolio, 310 x 220 mm, printer in black on red card, with 9 single-sided press-release sheets loosely enclosed; in very good condition (appears complete, as issued by the film’s distributor). ‘Through the lives of three women Red Matildas explores the social and political conditions in Australia during the …
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# 43043
CALIFORNIA MOTOR CLUB
California Motor Club. Wallaby Run 1972
Pin back badge, 4 cms in diameter, with a map of California and an image of a palm tree and a wallaby. Early badge for the gay motorcycle club, the Wallaby Run referring (much like the ‘kangaroo route’), to bounding up and down the state making various stops.
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# 43137
DUNLAP, Steven, et al.
[LGBT BANKING]. Welcome to www.glbank.com
Pensacola, Florida : G & L Internet Bank, 2000. Octavo, self-wrappers, pp. [12], illustrated. Rare promotional booklet for the short-lived G & L Internet Bank (1999 – 2002), established to service and invest in the gay and lesbian community in the United States. ‘We are not just gay friendly … we’re gay’.
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# 43133
SMITH, David Emerson
I promise you this. A collection of poems for Harvey Milk (signed presentation copy)
San Francisco : David Emerson Smith for the Poets and Artists, February 1979. Octavo, colour printed wrappers (light edge wear and toning), pp. [iii]; 29, stringbound, black and white illustrations. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed inside the upper wrapper ‘To David, in homo-erotic boy love David Emerson Smith’ and also inscribed ‘Love & Eros, the …
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# 43145
H.I.M.
H.I.M. The Look. The Lifestyle. The Catalog. The catalog for the gay man.
Roanoke, VA : H.I.M., circa 1992. Quarto, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. [36], illustrated in colour, mail order form. Formal wear, leisure wear, underwear and fantasy fashion targeting the body conscious gay man of the early 1990s.
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# 43143
AH MEN
Ah Men Mexican Cruise
West Hollywood : Ah Men, 1978. Quarto, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. 32, mailing label, order form intact, illustrated, a fine copy. Don Cook founded Ah Men, Shop for Men on Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood in about 1960 (some sources say 1958, the others 1961), the shop successfully trading until the mid 1980s. Located close to the …
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# 43181
WOMEN'S NATIONAL ABORTION ACTION COALITION (USA)
[POSTER] The time has come for abortion law repeal … and we shall be victorious / March on Washington DC and SF, November 20, for the repeal of all abortion laws,
against forced sterilisation and restrictive contraceptive laws. New York : Women’s National Abortion Action Coalition, [1971]. Poster, 430 x 280 mm, offset-printed; very good condition.
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# 43134
LADY BUNNY
Wigstock West. San Francisco 1996
San Francisco : Wigstock West, 1996. Quarto, illustrated self-wrappers, pp. [32], illustrated in black and white. Souvenir program for the west coast edition of the famous drag queen Wigstock Festival. ‘Wigstock was an annual outdoor drag festival that began in 1984 in Manhattan’s East Village that took place on Labor Day. Continuing, with a few …
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# 43176
BROPHY, Chris (compiler); BLONSKI, Annette (editor)
Australian women’s film & video : a catalogue of films and videos produced or directed by Australian women
/ compiled and researched by Chris Brophy ; edited by Annette Blonski. Melbourne : AFI Distribution Ltd., 1988.Octavo (210 x 145 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers, pp. 104, illustrated; includes indexes, bibliography; a very good copy.
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# 43136
RU PAUL (supermodel of the world)
[RU PAUL]. Make love not AIDS
Postcard, unused, with portrait of RuPaul Charles by Mike Ruiz, printed verso ‘Make love not AIDS salutes RuPaul for his continued support in the fight against AIDS’.