LGBTIQ+ Gay Studies
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International Mr. Leather: 25 Years of Champions
$2,500.00 Read moreJoseph W. Bean
Las Vegas and Chicago: Nazca Plains and The Leather Archives & Museum, 2004.
A detailed year-by-year history of the International Mr. Leather Competition. Australia represented from the second ever championship, Patrick Brooks, being the winner of IML 1980. Controversially, Brooks and his sponsor mistakenly thought being the winner gave them the right to host IML 1981 in Australia, though this was put down and the event continued in Chicago to this day. Despite the legal hoo-ha, with thanks to the gay paper, The Sydney Star, Mr. Australia Leather continued and sent a representative the following year, however Brooks never showed to take his place as a judge.Australia continued to send representatives to the competition many times over the years, notably with two second places, being Brent Lacey of Mr. Laird Leather Image, Melbourne in 1993, and Andrew Lennon, Mr. Mephisto of Mephisto Leather 1998. This copy double inscribed by co-founder of the championship, Chuck Renslow, both inside the book and to the cardboard shipping carton. Numbered edition of an unknown quantity, of which this copy is number 66. -
Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow
$200.00 Add to cartTracy Baim; Owen Keehnen
Chicago: Prairie Avenue Productions, 2011.
Biography of leather culture identity Chuck Renslow. Renslow co-founded a number of gay and leather community bars and bathhouses in the United States, as well as the Leather Archives & Museum, and the International Mr. Leather competition. This copy inscribed by Renslow, To Roger. -
Advanced Guide to Cruising
$400.00 Add to cartGeorge Marshall
Washington, DC: Guild Book Service, 1965.
Expanding on Marshall’s earlier Beginner’s Guide to Cruising, the Advanced guide is aimed at active Cruisers. “It is hoped that you who follow these stern precepts will be of greater value to the gay community, and of greater comfort to the Gays to whom you are so dear.” (from introduction) -
Select Trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, for Murder, Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, Bigamy, and other Offences.
$2,000.00 Add to cartNo author
London: John Applebee for George Strahan, et al., 1742.
To which are added, Genuine Accounts of the Lives, Behaviour, Confessions and Dying Speeches of the most eminent Convicts. Rare complete set of this collection of 18th century British crimes with explicit descriptions of crimes, trials, and punishments. Therein are numerous accounts of sodomy including that the case of one of the most famous of London’s gay meeting spots of the time, Clap’s molly house, being the coffee house of Margaret Clap AKA Mother Clap. “Margaret Clap, for keeping a Sodomitical House, July, 1726. MARGARET CLAP was indicted for keeping a disorderly house, in which she procured and encouraged Persons to commit Sodomy, December 10, 1725, and before and after. Samuel Stevens. On Sunday Night, the 14th of November last, I went ot the Prisoner’s House in Field-lane, in Holburn, where I found between 40 and 50 Men making Love to one another, as they call’d it. Sometimes they would sit in one another’s Laps, kissing in a lewd Manner and using their Hand indecently. Then they would get up, Dance and make Curtsies, and mimick the Voices of Women. ‘ I, Fie, Sir ! – Pray, Sir, – Dear, Sir, – Lord, how can you serve me so? – I swear I’ll cry out. – You’re a wicked Devil, – and your’e a bold Face. – Eh ! ye little dear Toad ! Come, buss ! -‘ Then they’d hug, and play, and toy, and go out by Couples into another Room on the same Floor, to be married, as they call’d it…” (vol. III, pp. 37) and so on and so forth are similar and many other crimes told, such as the murderer Sarah Malcolm (who was sketched by Hogarth), Catherine Hayes and her accomplices, the murderer poet Richard Savage (as described in Samuel Johnson’s Life of Savage), the thief John Jack Sheppard, and the sodomy trial of Charles Hitchen. -
The Boys of Taormina and the Baron von Gloeden: An Appreciation
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28cm x 20cm. [48] pages, sepia illustrations. Pictorial saddle-stapled wrappers.
An Appreciation of the Boys of Baron von Gloeden by prolific 20th century British physique photographer and smut publisher John S. Barrington (1920-1991). Receiving a formal art training in Paris, he was also a visual artist and sculptor, and earlier in his career worked in theatre design. Barrington began picking up and photographing men at the pool, eventually going on to establish one of the most prolific physique studios of the 20th century, during which time he probably published and distributed more full male nudes than any of his contemporaries up until the changing censorship laws in the latter part of the century.
Very minor handling wear. Near Fine Condition. -
Hard: Stories About Gay Men and Sex
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 13.5cm. 149 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Collection of stories about gay men exploring their sexual desires, fantasies, and realities. Contributions from Simon Payne, Con Anemogiannis, Paul Allatson, Richard Barrett, Marcus O’Donnell, Simon Hunt, Barry Lowe, Christos Tsiolkas, Kerry Bashford, Tim Horton, William Yang, John Lonie, Niko Rendevski-Todorov, Fletcher Jetspree, Jim Hillman, Gary Dunne, Tony Ayres, Michael West, Stephen Dunne, and Dean Kiley. Edited by Tony Ayres.
Minor tanning. Previous owner’s Chinese name stamp. Near Fine Condition. -
The Ghost of Ludwig Gertsch
$50.00 Add to cartSD Harvey
Sydney: MacMillan, 2000.
“On 19 October, 1990, Ludwig Gertsch was murdered – horribly – in his lover’s bedroom. No-one has ever been charged. Gertsch left behind a multimillion-dollar fortune built from gay saunas, nightclubs, black money and dark deeds. Within three years, every last cent was gone. Now, ten years after the murder, The Ghost of Ludwig Gertsch throws dramatic new light on the case. En route, it takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through parts of Sydney usually kept secret – a strange, fascination world where the belle monde meets the demi-monde and nothing is as it seems.” (from blurb) -
Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection
$500.00 Add to cartTed Gott; Angela Hesson; Myles Russell-Cook; Pip Wallis; Meg Slater
Melbourne: Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria, 2022.
“Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection is more than an exhibition catalogue. This 628-page publication expands on the themes explored in the NGV’s Queer exhibition to document the queer past, present and future of the NGV collection. More than 60 essays from authors with comprehensive knowledge of the historical and contemporary subjects encompassed by the NGV’s Queer project are presented alongside stunning reproductions of more than 200 works from the NGV collection, either by queer artists or engaging with queer issues. The essays in Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection explore the history of LGBTQ+ activism; the creation of queer spaces and communities; queerness as an artistic strategy; the expression of love, desire and sensuality; queer aesthetics; and the concepts of camp and the fantastic.” (publisher’s blurb) This extensive monograph catalogue sold out in the year of publication and has not been reprinted. -
A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects
$50.00 Add to cartGraham Willett; Angela Bailey; Timothy W. Jones; Sarah Rood
Melbourne: Australian Queer Archives and Heritage Victoria, 2021.
“A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects was commissioned by Heritage Victoria to highlight the rich, diverse and unique history of queer communities in Victoria and to demonstrate how these communities are reflected in the places, objects and landscapes that surround us. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, asexual, sistergirl and brotherboy (LGBTIQ+) people are, and always have been, an integral part of Victorian social, political and cultural life. However, the experiences and voices of queer communities have not commonly been included in the historical record and, consequently, queer heritage has remained largely invisible. This report identifies 100 places, objects and collections that have specific and unique meaning to Victoria’s contemporary queer communities. Identifying and exploring the meaning of these places, objects and collections to members of the LGBTIQ+ communities who have suggested them adds depth and richness to Victoria’s history and heritage. It also makes visible the stories and experiences of communities that have, until recently, been ignored and at times actively persecuted.” (publisher’s blurb) -
Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s Fiction
$50.00 Add to cartElizabeth Stephens
Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. -
Passing Glances: A History of Gay Cairns
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First Edition.
26cm x 21cm. [vi], vii, 109 pages, colour illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Very minor shelf wear. Near Fine Condition. -
Camping by a Billabong: Gay and Lesbian Stories from Australian History
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First Edition.
22cm x 14cm. [viii], 116 pages, black and white illustrations, map. Pictorial wrappers.
A collection of Australian gay and lesbian stories from the First Fleet to the Fabulous Fifties.
. Fine Condition. -
Did You Meet Any Malagas?: A Homosexual History of Australia’s Tropical Capital
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First Edition.
30cm x 21cm. 233 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Conversations with thirteen gay men from the Northern Territory, including a priest, a hustler, the owner of a wine bar, a political activist, and the first Territorian diagnosed with AIDS.
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Heat: Gary Lee: Select Texts, Art & Anthropology
$100.00 Add to cartGary Lee; Maurice O’Riordan
Darwin: Disheval Books, 2023.
An extensive anthology spanning five decades of the career of Larrakia artist and anthropologist Gary Lee. An important collection of writings and imagery on ethnicity, masculinity, and queerness in Darwin and beyond. With contributions by Dino Hodge, Daniel Browning, Tracey Moffatt, Jane Cush, Maurice O’Riordan and Wendy Brady. Edited by Maurice O’Riordan. Features extensive bibliography and a Larrakia & Darwin Aboriginal glossary. -
The Night of Your Life: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras
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First Edition.
31cm x 24cm. 176 pages, illustrations, some colour. Black leather, silver lettering, pictorial onlay, slipcase.
The deluxe hardcover edition.
Previous owner’s name of Queensland gay historian Clive Moore. Near Fine Condition. -
Friends of Dorothy
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First Edition.
32cm x 24cm. 168 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Monograph of Chinese-Australian photographer William Yang, containing his intimate portraits capturing Australia’s homosexual and creative life in the 20th century.
Minor shelf wear. Foxing to top edge, else very minor foxing and tanning. Previous owner’s name. Very Good Condition. -
Le Fleau Social No 1 & 2
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First Edition.
43cm x 31.5cm. 12; 12 pages, 2 volumes, purple illustrations. Illustrated self-wrappers. Text is in French.
First two issues of the short lived French gay newspaper Le Fleau Social [The Social Plague] published by Groupe 5 of the Front Homosexuel d’Action Revolutionnaire (FHAR), the radical gay and lesbian rights movement in early 1970s Paris, with art direction by Alain Fleig. Only six issues were published between 1972 and 1974, these first two issues being the only two issues published in 1972 under the direction of the unknown R. Pelletier and are representative of the FHAR and Mouvement de liberation des femmes (MLF) origins of the newspaper before its dramatic shift away from homosexuality in issue 3 as the mysterious Pelletier splits and Fleig assumes full editorship.
Old horizontal fold, less pronounced on No 2. Minor tanning, more so to top half of lower panel of No 1. Very Good Condition. -
Ah! Nana (Complete Set, 9 Issues)
$1,200.00 Add to cartJanic Guillerez; Marjorie Alessandrini; Anne Delobel; et al.
Paris: Les Humanoides Associes, 1976-1978.
Complete set of the French women’s comic magazine Ah ! Nana which evolved out of and was published by the comic book publishing house of Moebius (Jean Giraud), Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet, and Bernard Farkas, Les Humanoides Associes. During a staff lunch of their magazine Metal Hurlant (the original of the English adaptation Heavy Metal), Jean-Pierre suggested to the women present (including his wife Janic Guillerez who became chief editor of Ah! Nana) to create a women’s magazine and feminist newspaper. Ah!Nana ran for nine issues, each with its own theme, coming to a short end following the magazine being banned to minors after the publication of the eighth issue devoted to homosexuality. This led the editorial team to go all in on the ninth and final issue, devoting it to incest, leading to the French censorship Commission banning the publication, labelling it pornographic. -
ROB Catalog 5: Leather Rubber Twisted Gear
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First Edition.
30cm x 21cm. 131 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Late 1990s catalogue for leather and fetish wear brand Rob.
Very minor shelf and handling wear. Near Fine Condition. -
Ah Men Sale Poster, 1979
$30.00 Add to cartAh Men
Hollywood: Ah Men, 1979.
1970s fold out sale brochure for the iconic West Hollywood clothing store catering to gay men. Founded by Jerry Furlow and Don Cook in the late 1950s or early 1960s it has been called the first gay retail shop in the area, which developed into one of the most prominent gay villages in the United States. -
Ah Men Ship To Shore
$60.00 Add to cartAh Men
Hollywood: Ah Men, No date.
1970s catalogue for the iconic West Hollywood clothing store catering to gay men. Founded by Jerry Furlow and Don Cook in the late 1950s or early 1960s it has been called the first gay retail shop in the area, which developed into one of the most prominent gay villages in the United States. -
Ah Men Sunsations
$120.00 Add to cartAh Men
Hollywood: Ah Men, No date.
1970s catalogue for the iconic West Hollywood clothing store catering to gay men. Founded by Jerry Furlow and Don Cook in the late 1950s or early 1960s it has been called the first gay retail shop in the area, which developed into one of the most prominent gay villages in the United States. -
Ah Men Presents Action in the ’80s
$60.00 Add to cartAh Men
Hollywood: Ah Men, No date.
1980s catalogue for the iconic West Hollywood clothing store catering to gay men. Founded by Jerry Furlow and Don Cook in the late 1950s or early 1960s it has been called the first gay retail shop in the area, which developed into one of the most prominent gay villages in the United States. -
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The Ah Men Catalog [1979]
$100.00 Add to cartAh Men
Hollywood: Ah Men, No date.
1970s catalogue for the iconic West Hollywood clothing store catering to gay men. Founded by Jerry Furlow and Don Cook in the late 1950s or early 1960s it has been called the first gay retail shop in the area, which developed into one of the most prominent gay villages in the United States. -
Ah Men Stepping Out
$100.00 Add to cartAh Men
Hollywood: Ah Men, No date.
1970s catalogue for the iconic West Hollywood clothing store catering to gay men. Founded by Jerry Furlow and Don Cook in the late 1950s or early 1960s it has been called the first gay retail shop in the area, which developed into one of the most prominent gay villages in the United States. -
Wintersun, Ah Men
$120.00 Add to cartAh Men
Hollywood: Ah Men, No date.
1970s catalogue for the iconic West Hollywood clothing store catering to gay men. Founded by Jerry Furlow and Don Cook in the late 1950s or early 1960s it has been called the first gay retail shop in the area, which developed into one of the most prominent gay villages in the United States. -
The Ah Men Catalog
$80.00 Add to cartAh Men
Hollywood: Ah Men, No date.
1970s catalogue for the iconic West Hollywood clothing store catering to gay men. Founded by Jerry Furlow and Don Cook in the late 1950s or early 1960s it has been called the first gay retail shop in the area, which developed into one of the most prominent gay villages in the United States. -
International Men Enjoying Naturism, Inc. Imen 1998 Membership Directory II
$65.00 Add to cartInternational Men Enjoying Naturism, Inc.
: International Men Enjoying Naturism, Inc., 1998.
Member directory of gay nudist organisation, IMEN. Lists members’ contact info with brief personal statements. The directories were distributed privately to members only. Listed by US State, with international members from Belgium, Canada, England, Hong Kong, and Norway. -
Alle de Copyen van Indagingen, als mede alle de Gedichten Op de Tegenwoordige Tyd toepasselyk
$2,000.00 Add to cart[UTRECHT SODOMY TRIALS]
No place: No publisher, [1730].
A relic of the Utrecht sodomy trials, the large scale persecution of homosexual men in the Netherlands starting in 1730. Without author or publisher, literally the title translated to [All the copies of summonses, as well as all the poems applicable to the present time], listing of men accused of sodomy, with charges and sentences, many of death, accompanied by long moralistic poems on the depravity of the crime. 2 parts in one, the second part, Vervolg op alle de Copyen, being a continuation. This copy with the second part ending at page 94 with the final charge in October of 1730 and ending with the poem by P. Schim. Copies of various sizes are noted of part 2, perhaps indicating different issues, from page 94 to 151 the list continues to 1731, perhaps being issued later. -
The Coronation of Emperor III of San Francisco
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First Edition.
27.5cm x 21cm. 28 pages (including wrappers), black and white illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers.
Program for the coronation of the Emperor of San Francisco, a gay community leader, at the Grand Ballroom, Sheraton Palace Hotel, September 14, 1974. Foreword by Russ, the second Emperor, and signed by him. Includes numerous tributes and advertisements for local bars, clubs, and businesses. Laid in is a sheet listing The Court of H. I. M. Russ, Emperor II of San Francisco.
Very minor tanning. Near Fine Condition.