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Sexpertise: 3. Homosexual Incest
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGustavo Leal R.
Hollywood: University Circle Press, 1971.Third in a series of 4 pseudo-sexological pulp studies, this number focused homosexual relations between brothers, graphically illustrated throughout.
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Homosexual in Society: Photo-Documented
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartFrank R. Clark
Hollywood: Twilight Pub, 1970.Pseudo-sexological pulp account of homosexuality in American society in the 1960s interspersed with graphic photographs, some in colour, of male and female homosexual and straight couples.
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The Leatherman’s Handbook II
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd to cartLarry Townsend
New York: Carlyle Communications, 1989.A completely new sequel to the definitive exploration of the gay S&M leather scene. The updated second edition.
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Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gay
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartArnie Kantrowitz
New York: Pocket Books, 1978.American LGBT activist speak openly about his homosexuality. One of the first autobiographies by a gay rights activist.
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The Other Face of Love
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRaymond de Becker
London: Sphere Books, 1971.A definitive study of homosexuality. Translated from the French by Margaret Crosland and Alan Daventry.
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International Mr. Leather 1990 Poster
AU$600.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEtienne
Chicago: International Mr. Leather, 1989.Poster for the International Mr. Leather 1990 competition with artwork by Etienne [Dom Orejudos] (1933-1991). Etienne was the head judge of the 1990 competition. This copy inscribed by the 1990 winner, Mark Ryan, Mr. Boston of Riders MC, to Roger RJ Chaffin, Gary Chichester, and the team at Back Door Promotions. Chaffin and Chichester formed Back Door in 1985, putting on gay events and organising AIDS charities.
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International Mr. Leather: 25 Years of Champions
AU$2,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoseph 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.
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Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow
AU$200.00 Read MoreAdd 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.
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Advanced Guide to Cruising
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd 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)
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Select Trials at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, for Murder, Robberies, Rapes, Sodomy, Coining, Frauds, Bigamy, and other Offences.
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd 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.
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The Ghost of Ludwig Gertsch
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd 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)
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Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd 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.
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A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd 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)
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Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s Fiction
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartElizabeth Stephens
Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. -
Heat: Gary Lee: Select Texts, Art & Anthropology
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd 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.
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Ah! Nana (Complete Set, 9 Issues)
AU$1,200.00 Read MoreAdd 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.
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Ah Men Sale Poster, 1979
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd 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.
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Ah Men Ship To Shore
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd 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.
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Ah Men Sunsations
AU$120.00 Read MoreAdd 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.
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Ah Men Presents Action in the ’80s
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd 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.