#sfaf

[killjo-q]

Namari sketch

[sunshinecapt11]

*claps hands together* Okay. An idea that WILL NOT leave my brain.

Jeremy & Renee unintentionally teaming up and creating a home with Kevin, Neil, Jean, and Andrew. (No logistics, just vibes for this premise)

They all interact in different degrees of affection/familiarity, but it's just--comfortable and safe.

Renee sitting on the couch and having a hot drink as she reads, when Andrew sits beside her and rests his head on her shoulder. (Jean makes his way over to sit by her feet, so she can run her fingers through his hair.)

Jeremy's up early one morning and Neil finds him and they get to chatting about ~*Exy*~. Kevin slots in behind Neil to join the conversation. Jean follows Kevin's lead and moves behind Jeremy. Andrew's disinterested, but pushes in front of & leans back on Jeremy, so he can nudge at Neil's shins occasionally.

Renee watches her boys with great fondness and is content. (Eventually, they migrate over to the table and she gets a flurry of pecks and hair fluffs.)

I feel like I have a thousand more thoughts, but to name a few:

Jeremy & Renee kiss attacking Jean and he gets indignant but never puts a stop to it (He's actually loving it.)

Kevin & Jean getting (just a little) jealous over Jeremy's attention. (Andrew picks up on their posturing and grabs Jeremy's hand and steals him away, just to be a dick.)

Renee spooning Kevin on the couch, so she can hold him close to her & give him gentle, comforting strokes across his chest.

Andrew and Renee taking Neil shopping every time he tries to get out of it, but *needs* new clothes.

Jean, Kevin, Jeremy & Renee foreign film dates. Andrew and Neil occasionally attend, but also go off on adventures (and/or wreak havoc).

I just...........I want them all to be happy and have as much love as possible.

[cabeswatercowboy]

Missed it by a bit, but wanted to make some spooky forest Adam art for his bday. 💖

I've also been binge watching Yellowjackets, and this boy would 100000% be the wilderness' fav princess.

[gotstabbedbyapen]

Apollo/Hyacinthus Reincarnation fic but instead of Hyacinthus reincarnating into the future, he was taken to the past with all the memories of his previous life.

Now he has to choose to either fall in love with Apollo and die by his hands again, or avoid the god to live out his life to the fullest.

[sunshinecapt11]

OOH! I'm working my way through the extra content for the first time and JUST snagged a screen shot of the Foxes majors.

For anyone interested! :)

(Also ft. the origin of Andreil learning Russian--which I didn't know was a thing, but my gf did, and wasn't sure where it came from. 😂)

i’m cackling imagining criminal-justice-major-andrew minyard as a paralegal. like he’s simultaneously really good at his job bc of his eidetic memory. but is also an absolute asshole to attorneys. and occasionally alludes to having committed felonies.

[whatevergreen]

“You Can Have Fun Too” poster, created by Mick Hicks for SFAF, 1984

"In 1984, Rick Crane, director of the (San Francisco AIDS Foundation) at the time, hired famed local photographer Mick Hicks to photograph two men for a safe-sex poster to be put in the city’s gay bars, baths, and other locations. Hicks worked for virtually all the LGBTQ newspapers in the Bay Area and had spent a year and a half photographing people with AIDS, chronicling their struggle with the disease. He quickly accepted the commission.

At the same time, a young Black man named Robert Gray, a native San Franciscan raised in the Bayview Hunter’s Point area of the city, and a proud sixth-generation descendant of the Georgetown 272 (a group of 272 African slaves who were sold, in 1838 by the Jesuit priests who ran George University to keep the school afloat), was rather well known in the Castro and Tenderloin areas. “I had started meeting and dating guys in my junior year in high school,” he told me. “I went to high school four or five blocks from the Castro. I would find my way up through the bar scene during that time, sneaking into gay bars and discos.” Of course, he realized that AIDS was rampant through the city.

One day, as 24-year-old Robert wandered down Castro Street, a man approached him and asked if he would pose for a photo for a safe-sex poster for San Francisco AIDS Foundation. “The gentleman advised me that a young photographer named Mick Hicks was looking for two subjects, one Black male and one white male, for the poster. Having seen so many of my personal friends succumb to this deadly virus, I felt it was something I needed to do to help stop the spread of this horrific disease. I asked myself, ‘Why not?’ With AIDS affecting so many of my gay brothers and sisters, I felt it was my responsibility to do something to contribute to AIDS awareness and prevention. I needed to take action, whatever I could do to be a voice of action and help my community.” He agreed on the spot to do the poster.

“You Can Have Fun (and be safe too)” read the final poster. The image that Hicks created featured Robert, shot from the back, embracing a white model (Hicks’ partner Nick Cuccia), his white arm and bubble-butt standing out prominently against Robert’s skin. Even the Chronicle columnist Herb Caen took notice of the photo. The sex-positive message of the poster advocated “mutual masturbation,” “erotic massage,” “imagination and fantasies,” and “limiting social drugs.” The poster portrayed and promoted gay sex as normal, expected behavior, and emphasized the pleasure that could be had while still protecting oneself against transmission of the virus. The poster caused a huge sensation and started appearing in gay bars, discos, and bathhouses from San Francisco to New York. Mr. Gray told me, “As the young kids would say today, ‘it went viral,’ no pun intended!”

(Castro, San Francisco postcard, 1984)

Regrettably, the poster also launched a two-pronged backlash, one prong based in religious prudery, the other in racism.

By asserting that gay sex could be both fun and safe, the poster was the first to portray gay sex as normal, healthy, and fun. Even before AIDS, gay sex had been viewed as aberrant, “unnatural.” As an offshoot of that prejudice, AIDS was thought by many as a visitation of the wrath of God on immoral men who were violating God’s law. How many times did we hear in the early 1980s, “At least AIDS is killing all the right people”? The poster’s sex-positive message was condemned as an affront to decency and family values.

Even more lamentably, the poster inadvertently shone a light on the racial animus within San Francisco’s gay community. As Rick Crane told the Bay Area Reporter in 2014, “Gays as a group were considered second-class citizens and, ironically, gays themselves were treating gay blacks the same way — as second-class citizens.” Although racial tensions had eased somewhat from the flashpoints of the ‘60s and ‘70s, there was still a clear racial divide in the bars in the Castro. The Pendulum was the Castro’s only gay bar where black men and white men went comfortably to meet; the other Castro bars catered primarily to whites. The Trap, located in the Tenderloin district, also catered to interracial couples. Thus, some of the bars and other establishments refused to display the poster, deeming it “unacceptable.” Regarding the response to the poster, Gray said, “I would go into bars, and I would hear the chatter amongst people about the poster. I heard some really positive things, but also some really negative, racially motivated things.

(Below: "Thyrell And Chris Outside The Pendulum Bar SF", 1986 by Jim James aka Photojimsf)

“At the time that I did the poster,” he continued, “I had no idea that it would be so controversial. Honestly, had I known this upfront, I might not have done it. But looking back on it now, I would do it again because it was the right thing to do.” But still, he laments, “Who would have thought that a photo would open my eyes to the racism within the gay community? We are so much more alike as a people than different. One would think we could get along better and come together for a cause greater than us individually. Being a proud Black gay man, I must fight harder than most for myself and for those who come after me.”

These days, Robert Gray is still that proud Black gay man who changed the face of safe-sex advocacy. Sixty-two years old now, nearly forty years since he posed for the SFAF poster, he is semi-retired and lives in Vallejo, California. He is now a widower, having lost his partner of 42 years (his husband since 2013). He remains quite proud of the poster to this day, even if that pride is somewhat tempered by what he considers a lack of recognition for his work. “I thought over time I would see the poster in the gay pride parades or that I would be given some special honor from major players in the movement, like GLAAD. There is still a lot of racism in the gay community.”

Adapted from a February 18, 2022 article by Hank Trout:

https://www.sfaf.org/collections/status/why-did-a-safe-sex-poster-spark-controversy-in-1984/

[ankouartheadcannons]

@bumblebee-chimera

The temptation to sketch SFAF Seth-

[confessions-of-a-ghost]

ikfmfittot-"michiwr, sfaf". ikwiait, imh, imhc, hf, hswapomlffy... bwiftw, iamow. yadnbfiahdayki. yscbdoh, yhcbdoh. tinawbnc. tinr. swapoylansig. ihsmbyntai, ibytfpwi. ibfmoum, ocmtsenaist. ikwintd, yikfbitt. iwymm. iwyhbk. iwiws.

[blizzardmuses]

"Wouldn't be a socialite without your party favors"

She looked an absolute mess tarted up in what a Gotham flesh peddler would think a nice dress. Or maybe the low tier politician she adorned the arm off chose it for her, it was certainly not something Katarina ought to wear.

Mr Queen the captain and two flight attendants greeted dressed in the emerald green he took for the logo of his business as well as nightly outfit. Small well paid crew that were trusted for the discretion for their employer rarely took these long flights alone.

The plane itself was white but the Queen Industries logo also in emerald green stood out specially as the Q was a circle pierced by an arrow. "I need to get that painted" he muttered to himself. Queen Consolidated now. The private plane was low in the priorities.

Welcome on board.. the young male attendant greeted offering Katarina a hand to enter the Gulfstream 9700 aircraft as the older female took Oliver's coat. The pinacle of luxury, the only model that used SFAF fuel, he was passionate about sustainability and offsetting carbon emissions didn't mean he had to sacrifice his comfort.

Mayhaps some water or champagne with your juice cleanse madamme?

"Both. And a glass of bourbon"

Of course mr Queen.

Not a lot needed to be commanded as his laptop was placed on the table alongside their refreshments.

He was a skilled touch typist researching all of her story, what the press said about it anyway.

"Is that him my darling girl" My darling girl not darling girl. "Is that the man that's done this to you?" Not too many Christians that fit the profile in the GCPD system, well manicured fingers massaged the top of her head to soothe any distress seeing him on the computer screen might cause .

"He won't be hurting you anymore I promise. All you have to do my little jewel is ask for it. I want you to say it..." She was beautiful in the way a blazing inferno was beautiful.

"I want you to say Oliver don't let him hurt me again and he will never touch you again"

He shouldn't.

But he wanted to!

But it was not right...

His nose bumped against hers.

"If only you knew how enthralling you are. All you had to do is glance at me and I can not but to want to do everything to protect you..." He would not kiss her yet but her breath was so warm against his lips, they were almost meeting. The powerful jet engines hummed as their ascension completed and the craft leveled.

"You have bewitched me and I pray you show mercy and release me...before you are the end of me" He took her hand and kissed the tip of her index finger.

"That is where you have me...wrapped around your pretty little finger. Be merciful with me...I'd tear myself apart if you but asked it"

Kat took comfort in Oliver's words. She didn't fight for her purse. Just going along with it for now. He got her out of a nasty situation and he wasn't asking for too much out of her. Right.

"Ok fine but can I at least have xtc maybe coke then?" Kat frowned as she was told no harsh drugs at his place. She would listen to him only asking to compromise.

She was scooped up being carried to the car. She wasn't even that heavy either being really light. Put into the car as they drove to the airport.

Casey nodded as she used her ability to form a shadow transporting herself back to Gotham like she wasn't ever gone. "Pleasure doing business, Mr. Queen.."

The narcan was given to her in the meanwhile as they were now on the plane flying back to Star city. She was feeling well enough now her hand finding it's way along his thigh rubbing it. "I'm feeling better..want me to make you feel better now?"

@blizzardmuses

[noahreids]

Noah-a-Day-May (2023 Edition) | Day 12 ⇢ Performing "Hold On" at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Tribute Celebration (2020)

[sunshinecapt11]

Queen of Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms Workin' Hard, Playin' Hard✨️💖

Had a chat with the lads (gender neutral), about the Foxes breaking into Wymack's place & doing various things.

One of our chat members made the INCREDIBLY valid point that Kevin would probably help himself to a nice bath, accompanied by a bottle of vodka.

The image would NOT leave my brain until I drew it out, so enjoy!!!

[cabeswatercowboy]

[jonathangroffappreciation]

Stills from another recent appearance, from Michael Bellissimo’s Facebook page:

Highlights from this evening's San Francisco AIDS Foundation Tribute Celebration. Virtual is the new normal but it was not lost on me that SFAF started in another pandemic forty years ago. I've been part of this journey to end HIV in our lifetime for the past twenty five years since my first SF to LA cycling fundraiser in 1995. And since then I've raised close to $100k. Tonight's event raised almost $500k and featured Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Cleve Jones, Judith Light, Jonathan Groff, Noah Reid and RuPDR contestant Rock M Sakura. Enjoy! I do miss my adopted second home. #SFAF

[athensthid]

Had a blast at this years San Francisco’s Anime Festival! #cosplay #thelegendofzelda #legendofzelda #ocarinaoftime #navithefairy #navi #navicosplay #heylooklisten #link #sanfranciscoanimefestival #sfaf #japantown #japantownsf #japantownsanfrancisco 🧚🏻‍♀️💙 (at Japantown, San Francisco) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Kky5aJjOJ/?igshid=1sbrkfes2aqog