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Ah, France! Beauty, architecture, history, romance, food and wine,  museums, art….these are all things that come to mind when I think of France. And of course, Pierre et Gilles, my favorite artists of all time!
The fabulously gay French duo have been creating homoerotic eye-popping art for 30 years now. 

 Pierre et Gilles create dreamy portraits that transport their subjects—as well as the viewers—into an alternate world where camp, pop, burlesque, religion, and eroticism mingle in perfect harmony. Visual fantasies don’t get much richer than the sexy, glittery retouched photographs by French collaborative team. Creating the sets themselves, and with Pierre as photographer and Gilles as painter/elaborator, they create one-of-a-kind artworks of an unmistakably original style. Since the mid-1970s when these two handsome men met, fell in love and began making art together, they’ve produced a consistently sensuous body of work that’s an unabashed mix of commercial and high art, glamour, poetry and homoeroticism.

Famous and not so famous actors and actresses, musicians, and porn stars have all posed for Pierre et Gilles. A host of stars has passed before their lens, such as Iggy Pop, Madonna, Marc Almond, Nina Hagen, Catherine Deneuve, Laetitia Casta, Marilyn Manson, Mireille Mathieu… though many of their portraits also feature unknowns and/or up and coming beautiful people.

Much more than just an exhibition catalog, this book brings together all of the 130 works included in the exhibition as well as an additional 170 pieces focusing on the past ten years.  460 pages, this whopping 7#   tome is a must-have “bible” on every coffee table! – Also included is a tribute text by the artist Jeff Koons.

They play with stereotypes of religion, sexuality and culture and draw from numerous genres for their inspiration. They play irreverently with our perceptions of religion and pop culture, juxtaposing the secular and non-secular, the saint and the sinner, the divine and the depraved. It’s magical. It’s sexy. It’s beautiful!

There was a wonderful photographer in the 60’s by the name of James Bidgood. A sylized precursor to David LaChappelle and Pierre et Gilles, James really revolutioned gay male erotic imagery. In a tiny studio apartment, he created fantasy lands! BEFORE photoshop. Vibrant colors and wild props he brought home from his job at Macy’s, were his signature. It is said James inspired P&G.


      


Pierre et Gilles David LaChappelle James Bidgood Turbo Tagger

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October 7, 2007   Places US, Special Events

The Rocky Horror Show – Live In Chicago

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October 6, 2007   Gay News

Whitney Houston’s Comeback Album Due Out Soon ?

        

It’s been a crazy ride for Whitney Houston! After marrying R&B singer Bobby Brown at the height of her career, rumors of drug and spousal abuse led to a decline in her album sales and her public image. Her personal troubles would be talked about more than any of her music, regularly appearing in the tabloid press. Houston began looking and sounding less like the singer people came to know and she stopped making public appearances.

Houston underwent two drug rehab programs in 2005 and 2006. Clive Davis forced her into the second one. After a successful second program in 2006, Houston divorced Bobby Brown and gained custody of their daughter, Bobbi Kristina. She has since been working on her 7th studio album with music mogul and close friend and mentor Clive Davis.

During the summer, Rapper Ne-Yo who was consulted on the comeback album said that he “is unimpressed by the CD as it is now. It is same the song performed 8 times. They all had the one same theme, which was ‘My name is Whitney Houston and this is my triumphant comeback’.

We all understand she has gone through a lot. I’m sure we all get that but I think she needs songs about regular everyday life. So that’s what I’m planning to add to the album – songs about everyday emotions.”

Last week, news broke out about a contract dispute between Houston and Sony. “Whitney Houston does not have a new contract with Arista Records/Sony BMG. She always had a contract.”

“In 2001, L.A. Reid handed her a check for $20 million. She spent it. Her recordings didn’t earn out. So now, still under contract, she’s making a new album. She’s in New York working on what she started in Los Angeles a few months ago. All systems are go.”

“Arista, meanwhile, has rejiggered her financial arrangements. They did not give her $10 million, as reported elsewhere. But sources at the company say that Houston has been compensated recently, they’re looking out for her, and making sure she’s happy and in good shape.”
 
How will it all turn out? Your guess is as good as mine.

The release date of Houston’s  album was expected to be next month, in time for the holiday season, but now some sources say it may be  early 2008.

Earlier this year, Whitney Houston’s fans  flocked to a New Jersey auction house to buy the cash-strapped singer’s castoff stained bustiers, feathered purses, scratched vinyl records, discarded underwear and other artifacts.

More than 400 lots were put up for sale, including pianos, keyboards, organs, drums, designer hats, shoes and outfits from well-known names like Giorgio Armani, Jean Paul Gaultier, Pamela Dennis, Gianni Versace and Dolce & Gabbana. Whitney could not pay her storage bills any longer and she fell behind on her property taxes at her estate in Atlanta.

Whitney Houston Clive Davis underwear Turbo Tagger

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October 2, 2007   California, Gay News, Places US, Special Events

San Francisco Folsom Street Fair Shakes Up The Religious Right

Gay Porn Blog, this year “Folsom Events set them up — and they took the bait! –  Concerned Women for America has called on CA elected officials to publicly condemn the poster for the 2007 Folsom Street Fair — a parody of the Last Supper with apostle porn stars (Titan Exclusives Tober Brant & Dean Flynn), drag nuns (Sister Roma, natch), and — gasp! — a black Jesus (source Towleroad). – Despite the fact that Folsom Street Fair is a pan-sexual event, and there are women in the poster, they are — of course — blaming the ‘Gays’.”

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What’s really a hoot is CATHOLIC ONLINE runs a host of hot photos showing the
crowds in all their debauchery!

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