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Peter Churcher

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"Witness my Act and Deed", 1882 - Frank Paton, British (1855 - 1909)

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A BAKER'S ASSISTANT MIXING , 1894

Harper (Robert Goodloe) Pennington

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“Boy’s In The Sand”…Richard Stabbert (11x16”, acrylic and chalk paint on canvas) detail

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“He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.”

Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys (painting by Richard Stabbert)

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Christian Hook (b.1971) Gibraltar

Self Portrait with apple green

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André Serfontein (South African, b. 1961). oil on canvas

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Life lesson in bronze

"Homeless Jesus" statue by artist Timothy Schmalz outside the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, 135-139 West 31st Street, off of 7th Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Hot Sand/ Richard Stabbert

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"We can't call what she had talent. Everyone has some talent. What she had was closer to magic. A supernatural power. Never mind the life: When she was on stage, you were in the presence of something magical, supernatural."-Marlon Brando on Judy Garland/From "Come Up A Man" ...born on this day

1922

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“Sometimes, stupid and cute ARE enough.” -John Waters

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Cornelius Annor, W (Artist)

we have taken our sit,

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beach vacation 🌴

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christian hogue

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The Astor Bar in New York City, especially during the 1940s, was known as a popular, yet discreet, meeting place for gay men. While it maintained a public reputation as a respectable Times Square rendezvous, the Astor Bar also gained a reputation as a gay pickup bar, particularly during the 1910s and through the 1950s. This reputation was further solidified by its inclusion in songs like "Well, Did You Evah!".

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Pancrazio Buciunì ( 1879- 1963) was the Italian model, lover and heir of Wilhelm von Gloeden, the German photographer who settled in Sicily in the late nineteenth century and was significant in his documentation of Taormina and its beautiful young men. When Wilhelm von Gloeden arrived in the hilltop city of Taormina overlooking the Ionian Sea, he engaged the services of local boy, Pancrazio Buciunì, named after Pancras of Taormina. The young man was extremely handsome, with dark skin and large eyes. Von Gloeden nicknamed him "Il Moro" (The Moor) because of his dark complexion. Il Moro first became one of von Gloeden's models, then assistant, pupil and eventually lover. By some accounts the couple were truly in love. Buciunì looking after von Gloeden when he was sick, administering medications, getting special food from townspeople, preparing the saltwater baths that doctors prescribed. He also arranged for local youths to participate in the midnight parties von Gloeden threw for his guests. Von Gloeden would return to Taormina in 1919, as soon as WW 1 ended continuing to photograph until 1930 with Pancrazio Buciunì by his side. When von Gloeden died in 1931, Buciunì was named as his heir. When Pancrazio Buciunì died in 1963, some 800 remnants of Von Gloeden’s work remained with him and his descendants, who still remain in Taormina, have kept a part of his collection.

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John Waters photographed by Andy Warhol, 1972.