heretik @heretikradikal@mastodon.social

—of orifices and afterhours,

*img c. 1980 The Hole Liquor Leather Afterhours. San Diego, CA
#ThePrurientAd

The bricklayer shall lay me: he shall tap me into place with the handle of his trowel; and to him I will the word which with my mips I have not spoken.

—#EdwardCarpenter, 1905 TD

, as well as in the fluidal communards,

*img 1548-50 School of #BaccioBandinelli, Two Standing Male Nudes
#LesFolliesDesHommes

We went through a mass death experience and then we took a break.

—#SarahSchulman, 2001 Through the Looking Glass / Loss within Loss
#ThePrurientAd

#diamundialdelaSIDA
#worldAIDSday

*img 1988 #ChériSamba Marche de soutien à la campagne sur le SIDA

(a virus craftsmanship)

*img c 1987 #counterprobe pamphlet, SF · dept. of germ warfare research, #aids / ill. 1983 #hughjardon
#LesFolliesDesHommes

, we are all simultaneously workers and wanters—born of labouring bodies and desiring bodies— . . . the intimate metamorphosis of the skin craftsmanship

#SoftSubversions

Mythologized by Uranian poets and homogenic socialists what made the rough lads on East London particularly inviting was that they embodied a position counter to moral and sexual conformism.

—#JohnPotvin, 2008
*img n.d. #GavinWatson East London Skins

Derriere vous, dans votre errance, mon ombre vous suivra, pour vous inciter à l'extrême, vous pousser dans les bouges, vous jeter dans le bras de l'amant d'un soir qui, d'un coup, incarnera pour vous la ville maléfique et merveilleuse.

—#GuyHocquenghem, 1980 Le Gay Voyage #heretikread

, but every stone has its place;

*img 1956 #IndalecioOjanguren, el harrijasotzale Florencio Sarasua levantando la piedra cilíndrica de 112 kg en el frontón Astelena de Eibar, Euskal Herria #HarriJasotzaileak
#LesFolliesDesHommes

, it is the drama of the body; the tenderness of the stone.

*img c 1531 #Michelangelo Il Crepuscolo, tomba di Lorenzo de' Medici duca di Urbino, dettaglio della testa e petto (1990s #AurelioAmendola), Sagrestia Nuova, Basilica di San Lorenzo, Firenze
#LesFolliesDesHommes

(male intimacy and its codes of enactment)

*img c 1938-9 Anonymous, #JacobEpstein Jacob and the Angel (unfinished)
#LesFolliesDesHommes
https://tate.org.uk/art/artworks/epstein-jacob-and-the-angel-t07139

Ah, Love! could you and I with Him conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits--and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

—#OmarKhayyám, xith c. (1859) Rubáiyát
*img 1882 #WalterCrane The Roll of Fate

athletics vs. aesthetics;
—the virile powers of superb manhood.

*img 2009 #BenCuevas Jockstrap (knit wool, performance)

, among the fruits of physical training. The 'nude' both as cultural myth and embodiment of physical perfection proposed a moral transformation of the male body, one transcendent from its pathetic, crude 'naked' state, seemingly absolving it from any nefarious associations.

—#JohnPotvin, 2008
*img c 1901 Strongman

Em constitueixo en el procés de 'posar': i prompte em faig un altre cos, em transformo per endavant en una imatge. Una transformació activa: flairo que la fotografia crea el meu cos, . . . o el mortifica,

#CoordinadoraDeMariconsAutònoms

'nem fent.

Perhaps gay men are in particular fascinated by these old photographs left behind, disregarded, for we are (or at least I am) all too cognizant of our own lack of material legacy.

—#JohnPotvin, 2008
*img c 1880 Companions #heretik_xyz

The interior space of the hammam enabled a performance of masculinity to be at once codified, acted upon and sensualized, yet it offered the constant and precarious potential for the subversion of the body's public use.

—#JohnPotvin, 2008
*img 1865 #DavidUrquhart the hammâm, Manual of the Turkish Bath
#HomoSexEthnography

'queer realism,' . . . 'realness’ '. . . Or, all those things that we homos have to do when we’re not committing sodomy.

Do Gay Be Crimes,
#AdamFales thoughts and words on #ChristopherChitty Sexual Hegemony: brilliant!
https://homintern.soy/issues/11-9-20/sexualhegemony.html

*img 1979 #WilliamBetsch Hammam Moulay Idriss. Fez