sexuelle Pflege für Dummies

So sad to relay the recent death of Goddess Bunny to the Rona Barrett contagion. Goddess was one unique individual, both saint and sinner. She never let anything get her down and was certainly the only real glamorous star left in Hollywood who understood glamour in all its many forms and manifestations. Her most acclaimed roles were in Penelope Spheeris' Hollywood Vice (1985) John Aes Nihil's The Drift (1999) a remake of the Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone where she played La Contessa and that films companion piece the over-to-top romp Goddess Bunny Channeling Shakespeare also by Aes Nihil (1999) Goddess was also the star of an underground blue movie called Taking It (1983) Directed by Rafael Santaraella and like the title says she takes it from both ends by two young virile hustlers plucked off the mean streets of Santa Monica Blvd. I have so many Goddess memories and stories that I could tell but I have to save them for my book. She will be missed. Here is her obit in the New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/obituaries/sandie-crisp-dead-coronavirus.html

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My lovely and super smart daughter Michelle Juliette Carr the founder of The Velvet Hammer Heritage Burlesque Review is back producing an extravaganza for Valentines Day. If you are in the LA area check it out:
your baby grrrl is producing a new show called THE WRINKLE ROOM! We premiere it next Sunday in a Zoom lounge. This is something that was well on its way to being on stage in a lounge in Palm Springs but the world had other plans, haaa! So we decided to launch our lounge in an abbreviated pandemia fashion just for fun! The line up is solid and I'm excited! It is a matinee show so if you are up late and would like to see some old friends I would love to see you in cyberspace! I'll include all the info. for your entertainment and delight. It feels so good to flex me old razz ma tazz muscle again!

THE WRINKLE ROOM: BEEN THERE. DONE THAT. STILL KICKING ASS.

LOS ANGELES - THE WRINKLE ROOM is a virtual event which will present works by Los Angeles artists, writers, creators, musicians and noisemakers. Developed by art and culture veterans Michelle Juliette Carr, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario and Liz Garo, THE WRINKLE ROOM exclusively presents works by artists 50 years of age and older; but everyone is welcomed!

THE WRINKLE ROOM premier broadcast will be Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 3pm via Zoom using both pre-recorded clips and live performances. The project will include short films from performance art icon Nao Bustamante and award winning magician Rob Zabrecky w/ comic Neil Hamburger, an interview with photographer Reynaldo Rivera discussing his documentation of late 20th Century East Side underground culture with Semiotex(e)'s Hedi el Kholti, musical guests The Great Sadness, filmmaker Tyler Hubby, “The Phantom Movie House'' show with film reviews from film composer, The Millionaire, plus DJ Senor Amore. Hosting this cavalcade of stars will be the one and only Andrew Ableson (aka Sir Dandy-Luxe exiled Crown Prince of Kaftanistan)

THE WRINKLE ROOM will have Dick Cavett intellect with Laugh In irreverence and Midnight Special style, with a dash of Dangerous Minds cooler-than-thou attitude (and if you don’t know those references, you're too young for THE WRINKLE ROOM!)

Attendees are encouraged to dress for the occasion which will have a 30 minute meet & greet in our virtual cocktail lounge before our host hits the screen. In addition to the ZOOM viewing, THE WRINKLE ROOM will have an active chat, merchandise for sale in our boutique and tip jars for the artists.

We hope to see you at THE WRINKLE ROOM - the place for sophisticates of a certain age and those who admire them.

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The late, Brad Davis just because he is so damn sexy and I was thinking about him.

Fünf Mann Bareback Brunch Sex

Joseph Morales. For some strange reason I couldn't stop thinking of Jo Morales aka JoJo. I have known him since the 3rd Grade. Back then he was a goofy looking light skinned Mexican boy with extremely pale skin, greyish eyes and curly dark brown mop top hair. JoJo was also very hairy. He was covered in thick hair on his arms, legs and even a bit of moustache growing above his lip. He was the Tom Selleck of grade school years before Mr. Selleck was a known celebrity figure.

At 13 in middle school JoJo had a full beard, hairy chest, back, pub ic bush garden, hair on his fingers and toes. He wore a size 17 shoe and even the P.E. teachers Mr. Howard, Mr. Busch and Mr. Staudenbaur had to give him special shower dispensation because of his mighty endowment that couldnt be contained in a jock strap. In Junior High JoJo was still a major goofy Gus like he had been in elementary school. He was blissfully unaware that he had matured faster than his peers.

By high school he had turned into a gorgeous super stud, hunkasaurus having made it through most of the female student body by Sophomore year, and about a third of the male population.  JoJo was an equal opportunity hornpig. I vividly remember when we were 13 JoJo use to playfully call me the ultimate sissy. We were never friends but always remained friendly towards each other, as I was quite close to his older sisters Annabelle and Zeidy who shared his complexion and hairyness. They were quite lovely girls with bushy eyebrows, way before that trend was made popular by Brooke Shields.

At 16 handsome JoJo was simply on a Rake's Progress. Since I was in the gifted program we had never shared any classtime with each other but we lived not far from each other. I lived on Hobart Blvd and he lived on Irolo Street. One day he approached me as I was leaving the Pio Pico Public Library on Oxford Street and told me that I was the only one he hadn't had,and he would like to rectify that situation ASAP. 

I was flattered, titillated and frightened by him.  He actually asked me if I thought he was cute, and did I like his body. I told him he was amazingly good looking, and had a perfect body and I would love nothing more to please him and give him whatever he desired but that I was still a boring virgin and that I wouldn't be able to provide him with the sensations that I was sure he had grown accustomed to. If the gossip in the school was to be believed JoJo was carrying on with two teachers at our high school, the glamorous Miss Ellis and the openly gay and lecherous Mr. Marcello who had bought JoJo his Ford Mustang muscle car that he was super proud of. Mr. Marcello didn't drive so one of JoJo's duties as his underage male concubine was ferreting him around town and picking him up and bringing him to school and back home. The last thing I heard about JoJo was that he was going to LACC (Los Angeles City College) when I was at UCLA and later he had transferred to Cal State Los Angeles. I am sure someone from my past will read this blog account and email me with an update on Jo Morales.

BLIND ITEM: Name the well endowed celebutante getting hot buttered fellatio performed on him by this eager and willing young man.

Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sons Brandon Jagger and Thomas all grown up.



lovesexy young blacktor Spence Moore II

Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan's dull gay
son Jack Quaid



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The wonderous Lobster Lady-Rebecca Goyette is back!

Spring Online Courses and Workshops with Rebecca Goyette With Pratt Institute’s Continued and Professional Studies Department

Excited to be offering courses with Pratt this spring. Sharing some details and links. Stay inspired and keep that artistic magic fiery!

Brave New World: Daily Artmaking Ritual, February 2-April 6, 2021, Tuesday evenings, 6:30-9:30 PM

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In this course, we will engage in multimedia daily artmaking rituals that will enhance our artistic processes. Art techniques we will practice include: drawing, collage, mixed media sculpture, costume/prop creation, performance art/improvisation and video production. Enjoy the support of a creative community while making art that addresses our times.

To enroll in Brave New World:
Brave New World: Daily Artmaking Ritual - Pratt Institute | School of Continuing and Professional Studies

Transgressive DIY Video, February 10-April 14, 2021,
Wednesday evenings, 6:30-9:30 PM



Create your own DIY video from storyboarding to performance score, costumes, props, improvisation, music/sound, editing and credits. Tell your own story with all its grandeur and grit, using simple means. Draw inspiration from transgressive video art/Avant-garde films. Discuss content, symbolism, relationship to history/zeitgeist/social movements, visual strategies, including settings, costuming, lighting, natural elements, and special effects.
To enroll in Transgressive DIY VIdeo:

Transgressive DIY Video - Pratt Institute | School of Continuing and Professional Studies

I am also offering a monthly series of weekend workshops:



For information and to enroll in Goddess Power (February 13th and 14th):

Goddess Power - Pratt Institute | School of Continuing and Professional Studies

For information and to enroll in Drawing Marathon (March 6th and 7th):

Drawing Marathon - Pratt Institute | School of Continuing and Professional Studies

For information and to enroll in Drawing Games (April 3rd and 4th):

Drawing Games - Pratt Institute | School of Continuing and Professional Studies

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me if you have any further questions about these spring offerings at: rgoyett3@pratt.edu.

Happy Spring!
Rebecca Goyette

www.rebeccagoyette.com

Beschädigter Gruppensex der unteren Bande

My former Club Sucker at the Garage partner Frank Rodriguez sent a lot of pristine archival material to my gallerists to be used in the upcoming installation for the 13th Gwangju Biennale. Frank kept things in much better shape then i did. Here is a little preview of the kinds of things the sexy little tiny Papa Rodriguez contributed to the exhibition. Sending all my love and kisses to Frank and his super lovesexy musclebound and talented ginger artist lover Patrick Lee.





My darling young daughter Wu Tsang has an online event happening tomorrow featuring Big DaDDy Diaspora, the accomplished poet and scholar Fred Molten along with others. You may find it quite illuminating.

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Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi
is pleased to announce

Fred Moten in conversation with Wu Tsang,
Mawena Yehouessi and Rosanna Puyol

On the occasion of Visionary Company at Lafayette Anticipations

About Fred Moten's poem 'Come on, get it!

Available online
Thursday 28 Jan 2021, from 7 to 7:45 pm (CET)







Its Raining Men, Amen!

I've been getting a lot of fan male from a young British man named Arthur Chatto who I now come to find out is the grandson of the late Princess Margaret and 26th in line to the throne of England. How Bridgerton of me is that?




Chatty Chatto

Der konkupiszente hirsute Professor

Had a lovely time being on the jury for the London Short Film Festival. The organizers of this very prestigious festival Phil Ilson, Akino Aquino and cute little Thomas Grimshaw were a delight as were my fellow jurist Jason Ryle and British/Nigerian director Ngozi Onwurah who lives in Santa Monica, California with her German husband.

Trying to finish my installation for the 13th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. Working in overdrive via Zoom with curatorial assistant Krisztina Hunya and Davide Quadrio who is designing the entire pavilion. Main curator Natasha Ginwala is already in Korea going through her mandatory 14 day quarantine. I won't be traveling for the exhibition but I am also getting so much wonderful support from my team at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi. My installation is recreating The Hag Gallery from Participant Inc, in 2012 as well as a version of my studio The Cheese Endique Trifecta and Club Sucker at the Garage 1994-1999.

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My former NYU student Beatrice Glow is quite prolific. Here is her latest project:

Dear friends and colleagues,

I hope you are keeping well during these wild times. I’ve recently landed in Singapore as a visiting Artist-in-Residence at Yale-NUS College. I feel extremely grateful and lucky to be able to continue to travel and build new friendships in person. After spending Christmas and New Years in quarantine, I have been warmly welcomed into campus life, began teaching a Media Arts for Just Futures course, and set up shop in an enormous studio at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art at Gillman Barracks. This week, I will be participating in Singapore Art Week and will be introduced to larger college community through a Rector’s Tea event. Please find below the press release for my participation in the Yale-NUS College Artist-in-Residence Programme. I will be giving a public lecture in February that will be accessible online, so please stay tuned! Thank you for your continued support and sustained dialogues!

Warm wishes,

Beatrice

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Sherry Milner and Ernie Larson are the Comden & Green of the International Art Film Scene. Here is the latest missive from Sherry:




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My divine daughter Wu Tsang has something new and special that she has unleashed on the world. Check it Out Pulver:

Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi
is pleased to announce

Louis Vuitton Men’s Fall-Winter 2021 Show

With a new film by Virgil Abloh and Moved by the Motion
Directed by Wu Tsang

Now online


filmmaker Bros. Jake & Conor Allyn. They appreciate socially distanced, well planned and organized Bukake Parties.


My super gorgeous and mega talented daughter Wu Tsang

The World's Most beautiful boy Björn Andrésen from the 1973 film Death in Venice

Durchnässt in urinierter Grafschaft

 
Nancy Pelosi invited me to the inauguration but unfortunately I won't be able to go as I don't have a goddam thing to wear, unless I pull out my impeachment gown that is still stained from last year. Thrilled that instead of an inauguration ball there will be a socially distanced Bukake Gala where Lady Gaga, Bruce Springstein along with Marilyn Manson will be the featured performers.

Having a great time on the jury for the London Short Film Festival with my fellow jurists the British/Nigerian director Ngozi Onwurah and independent Canadian First Nations programmer Jason Ryle who use to be Executive Director of Imagine NATIVE an indigenous run arts organization. Jason is Ojibwe just like my best girlfriend and longtime collaborator Glen Meadmore who originally hails from Winnipeg, Canada. My grandmother was a Choctaw raised on the reservation so there was a lot of Native American energies flowing during our Zoom Jury Meetings.

Had a sweet reunion of sorts via the phone with my dear old friend Jose Montaño. Jose is a very cultured and prolific genius. Who has worked a varied and storied career as a Production Designer for Film and Commercials. He is probably best known for his work on the REM video Losing My Religion and the Elizabeth Taylor commercials for White Diamond directed by Herb Ritts and countless other projects that you've seen and weren't aware of. Jose's father was a famous Bolivian architect and his mother a Swedish actress whose family has far reaching international activist roots. Jose now works only for social justice causes with his very talented husband Ty in the Seattle area. They actually live in one of the incredible sculptural mid century homes his father had designed. It was so great to klatch with Jose after so many years apart. Jose, the late great Mrs. Michael Glass and I were quite the triumph errant back in the day in Los Angeles causing major havoc.

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The latest from Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi:

Bortolozzi Gazette

Now featuring a special contribution by
Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings

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A great fundraiser for an old movie palace in San Pedro, California with my old pal the great Janet Klein:

On January 20, 1931, Warner Brothers opened their magnificent San Pedro Theatre to a star-studded crowd with back-to-back sold out shows.
Kick off a year of celebration at the Warner Grand's 90th Birthday Party, a livestream event featuring music and old time style short film from Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys playing the vaudeville and ragtime hits of the 1920s & 1930s plus an onscreen cocktail/mocktail demo!

Tickets can be purchased with or without a Party Package. Packages include cocktail/mocktail ingredients, birthday cake and party favors. Follow along with our local mixologist to make delicious Prohibition-era refreshments.

Packages will be available for pickup. Flapper attire optional.

Fundraiser for Love the Lobby, Grand Vision’s Campaign to restore the Warner Grand Theatre’s historic lobbies.

Look out for other virtual (and maybe live) events throughout the year. More Concerts and Swanky Cocktails, Classic Films, Lindy Hop Lessons, Pub-style Trivia and more!

DATE: Saturday, January 23, 2021 / 7:00 PM --- TICKET ONLY

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DATE: Saturday, January 23, 2021 / 7:00PM --- TICKET & PARTY PACKAGES

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wettbewerbsfähige große Schwänze

wettbewerbsfähige große Schwänze-When I lived in Koreatown in a very large homo moderne flat on Edgemont Drive my downstairs neighbors were a very cute couple named Keythe Farley and Ann Close-Farley. They had moved into the building in the last five years or so that I lived there and were friends of Laurie Pike, the publisher and editor of Glue Magazine where I wrote a regular column called "Because I Said So". Laurie use to say that they were the "ultimate queers in that Keythe was a gay man and Ann a lesbian, Laurie Pike also compared their marriage to that of the great writer Dodie Bellamy and late poet Kevin Kellian, two personal heroes of mine in the queer literary scene of San Francisco and beyond.

I didnt know very much about Keythe and Ann when they moved in other then what Laurie told me, that Keythe was a theater actor and director with Tim Robbins' Actors Gang and Ann was a costume designer. They seemed pleasant enough with Ann favouring crazy colored hair and kooky outfits. My eyebrows were raised a bit when Laurie mentioned that they were religious, as I didn't know what to expect from that. They wound up being quite pleasant neighbors, we were never friends but we were friendly. I think they were a little scared of me, and since i had been living at the complex for the longest time I was Queen Bee, so they never complained about the noise that I made even after they started to have children. I was the top floor apartment and lets face it I don't think many people would want to live below Ms. Vaginal Davis.

Later I found out that Keythe had written a Broadway bound musical theater piece called BatBoy that became very well received. Shortly after that they bought a house somewhere in the suburbs I believe.

I don't know why I suddenly started to think about them but during this second lockdown in Berlin my feeble mind keeps trailing off to the not so distant past.

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My West Coast gallery is showing a fascinating exhibition. If you are in the Pacific Northwest and are able to you might want to check it out:

Adams and Ollman is pleased to present three works by William "Bill" Traylor (b. 1853, Benton, Alabama; d. 1949, Montgomery, Alabama) on view at the gallery January 9 through February 6, 2021. Traylor, a self-taught artist, born into slavery, began to draw at the age of 85 while living on the streets of Montgomery, Alabama. Using discarded cardboard and signs, pencil, and poster paint, Traylor recorded his memories of plantation life and later observations of the city—uniquely and distinctly describing animals, human figures, and abstract forms with a commanding use of line, color, and composition. Traylor's body of work speaks poignantly to the complexities, inequalities, and tensions that the artist experienced and witnessed during the Jim Crow Era in the United States.

adamsandollman.com

Keythe Farley, actor and director  looking quite distinguished with his salt and pepper hair.

Costume Designer Ann Close-Farley looking sweet and bubbly.

Costumes of Ann Close-Farley

WISSEN SIE SCHON

Der Gott und Die Bajadere' Der Zug Nach dem Westen

Joel Gibb of The Hidden Cameras forwarded to me recently a review in the old indie music periodical Option of Glen Meadmore's album Chicken & Biscuits from the 1980s. The dude reviewer lambasted Glen's record showing his contempt and rampant homophobia in no uncertain terms. That was typical in the 1980's and 1990's, and I could give a million other examples of such behavior in the print media both mainstream and so called underground press.

I remember quite vividly in the early 1990s getting into a playfull voice mail battle and letter writing calling out with Mike Shea, the queer normative publisher/editor of AP (Alternative Press) Magazine out of Ohio. The publication had printed a rather snarky review of the premiere issue of Fertile LaToyah Jackson Video Magazine.

Looked up AP online recently and they still exist. Now thats a major achievement as both Option and SPIN Magazine bit the proverbial fairy dust years ago. Saw pics of Mr. Shea and he has aged quite well looking like a distinguished skateboarder silver fox. I've only been to Ohio a few times. The first time with Margaret Cho's Notorious C.H.O. Tour back in 2001-02 and then in 2006 when Jenny Klein invited me as a visiting artist at Ohio State University in Athens, Ohio where I did my infamous Tom Cruise Loves Women-The Women and Tom Cruise presentation that enthralled the campus.

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Its the new year so i want you all to see a new sun in the sky and help support Lia Gangitano's Participant Inc. Gallery in New York City. Participant is the only Not For Profit Gallery in New York and needs your support. Donate donate donate now and then donate again.

Someone from Los Angeles was telling me the other day that the Silverlake pub Akbar had raised over $150,000 in less than 48 hours in a Go Fund Me campaign. This particular person seemed to think that the owners of the bar used Covid relief money to pay for a lot of personal business and home expenses and didn't extend money to employees. I've known the owners of Akbar Scott and Peter since the old Theoretical days and I hope that this is just some idol gossip. One of my dearest friends Kimberly Kim of North Korea who use to be the head bartender at Bricktops at the Parlour Club in the Russian Quartier of Hollywood and has been a longtime employee of Akbar and does the amazing club Day Goth with Bradford Nordeen. I hope some of the money raised will go to helping Kimberly Kim.

I hate to think that the owners weren't supporting employees, especially as they are very successful entertainment industry players. Of course i know nothing about the ins and outs of running a business being a right brain personality type. Back in the mid 1990s i would sometime take the place of Divinity Fudge checking ID's at Akbar which was always fun and flirty.

I wish that legendary LA queer bars like The Score and The Spotlight had been able to have fundraisers that could have kept them in business.




2020 2021 THANK YOU


2020
Jordan Strafer, No Bag
On view through January 10, 2021
participantafterdark.art


Untitled (Unintelligible Yoruba prayer)
Performed by Raymond Pinto
Organized by Serubiri Moses
Video & Lighting Director: Glen Fogel
Production Manager & Camera: Jordan Strafer
Audio & Video Engineer: Lazar Bozic
Video Premiere upcoming on Participant After Dark starting January 17, 2021


JOE IS JOE
a reading performance from Joe Westmoreland’s 2001 classic novel Tramps Like Us, hosted by Eileen Myles and Tom Cole, with special guests: Brontez Purnell, Erin Kimmel, Samuel Delany, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Tony Stinkmetal, Lori E. Seid, Ryan McGinley, Johanna Fateman, Roberta Colindrez, and with music by Anohni



Jordan Strafer in dialogue with Darla Migan



Jonathan Berger, An Introduction to Nameless Love
Co-commissioned and co-presented with the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020 in The New York Times
Johanna Fateman's Best of 2020 in Artforum
Thomas J. Lax's Best of 2020 in Artforum
Andrea K. Scott in The New Yorker
Jerry Saltz Best of 2020 in New York Magazine
Roberta Smith in The New York Times
Evan Moffitt in Frieze
Abraham Adams in Artforum
Emily Steer in Elephant
Brienne Walsh in Forbes
Ksenia Soboleva in The Brooklyn Rail
Gabriella Angeleti and Wallace Ludel for The Art Newspaper
Stephanie Simon with Spectrum News NY 1



VAGINAL DAVIS PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
DJ set by: April Hunt
Welcome by our host: Justin Vivian Bond
Toast to our outgoing Board President Jacqueline Humphries by:
Lia Gangitano and Jeffrey Gibson
Presidential Acceptance Poem for Participant Inc
by our incoming Board President: Vaginal Davis
Followed by remarks, performance and video interludes by: Jonathan Berger with Michael Stipe, Baseera Khan, Susanne Sachsse, Sofia Moreno, Charles Atlas, Glendalys Medina, CHRISTEENE, Narcissister, Ron Athey, and a closing astrological forecast by Constantina Zavitsanos and Tourmaline.
ASL Interpretation: Candace Davider
Technical Director: Glen Fogel
Cameras and video tech: Lazar Bozic and Jordan Strafer



CHRISTEENE
LIVE VIRTUAL SHOW AND VIDEO RELEASE
In October 2020, we launched PARTICIPANT AFTER DARK, a virtual performance, screening, and event space with a full-length live performance by the artist labeled "CHRISTEENE" in anticipation of a worldwide viral release of their new music video NIGHT WINDOW directed by PJ Raval and presented by Barrett Barrera Projects. Performed at Coffey Street Studio in Red Hook BK, Principal Designer Guy Smith of Free Radical Design Group Inc on sound, lighting, cameras, and live-stream with Technical Director Glen Fogel.

The site hosts artist projects commissioned specifically for the AFTER DARK web platform and remote viewing. PARTICIPANT invited artist Glen Fogel to design and develop AFTER DARK. Artists will work with Fogel through the Fall/Spring 2020-21 season, inhabiting the site and fully modifying it for their projects' specific needs. AFTER DARK is conceived of as a blank slate, removing as much institutional framework as possible. The site will only present current projects, and will often go ’dark’ in between events.


CONTEXT-CON
An online book launch (in the form of a Comic Con) event celebrating Alexandro Segade's graphic novel The Context, published by Primary Information. Co-hosted by Human Resources, Los Angeles. Interpreting The Context’s superheroes, special guests include: Ei Arakawa as Drives; Jennifer Doyle as The Body; Jonah Groeneboer as Form; Mary Kelly as Cathexis; Jennifer Moon as Barelife; Tavia Nyong’o as Objector; and David Velasco as Biopower; followed by Alexandro Segade in conversation with scholar andré Carrington; and live drawing with graphic novelist Luciano Vecchio.


Divas nos Queremos
A conversation with Sofia Moreno, KJ Freeman, and Laura Brown
Co-hosted by HOUSING NY
See Terremoto

Shrine: DJ Set, Poetry Reading, Public Discussion
Raymond Pinto, Serubiri Moses, Pamela Sneed, Jaime Shearn Coan, and Kojo Abudu; an evening of commemorations dedicated to Assotto Saint and Rotimi Fani-Kayode, conceived as a platform for re-memory and revisiting 1980s sexually dissident history in NYC.

SICHTBARES UND UNSICHTBARES IN DER EUROPÄISCHEN LANDSCHAFT

In Los Ang in the 1980’s there were two distinct sex cults that flourished in the post punk cosmos. The first was the notorious Godz, led by a charismatic Australian cyber punk looking man named Damian of the O-men. Damian was very striking, muscular and had quite an influence on a number of Hollywood punky boys with his group that operated out of a gallery space called X=Art in West Hollywood, North of Santa Monica Blvd at San Vicente.

I attended a lot of that particular galleries events, as they were part of a circuit of independent galleries, performance and project spaces that were similar to my Hag Gallery. My home gallery Hag, with the subtitle: small, contemporary, haggard was somewhat of a first at that time, so I received a lot of party and “eventa” invites.

I even had a short fling with an artist who performed regularly at X=Art who called himself “Miracle!”. I can’t remember the exact spelling of his name, it may have had a “K” in it instead of a “C”. He was a wiry ginger haired character with a giant floppy of a penis who favoured wearing harem pants and had his hair shaved on the sides, but featured a long braided tail acted as his calling card.

In those years I lied about my age regularly getting a kick appearing to be years younger then I actually was. So if I was really 19 I would say I was 14, and an emancipated minor.
“Miracle!” was in his late twenties, and I found out later only chased after jailbait boys.Years later he wound up murdered in prison, but that’s a story for another time.

Getting back to Godz. All the boys in the Godz sex cult had the word “Godz” tattooed in the inside of their lower lip. Damian their leader was always very nice and respectful with me, and never tried his hypnotic sex majick mojo--- not that it would have worked on a black lady—we aren’t that needy, readily looking for acceptance.

Damian wound up dead of Mrs. Aids in the early 1990s but years after his passing I would occasionally run into men with the Godz tattoo. I think the handsome and extremely well endowed hairdresser Craig Pzadoris had been a member of Godz when he was young. Later Craig became involved in a strange S&M laden relationship with the artist Richard Hawkins which had some Godz overtones to it. I had nicknamed Craig "Pia Pzadorable" when he use to go out with the late milliner Richard Wanda, "The Man" and shared a Silverlake house with my former collaborator Quasi O'Shea of Amoeba Records & Filmworks. The last thing I heard about Craig was that he moved to San Francisco from Los Angeles and gave up his successful hair styling career to become a chef. Craig was such a golden child, tall, broad shouldered with dark, brooding Heathcliff good looks.

The other sex cult involved Perry Farrell of the alternative music group Jane’s Addiction and Lollapalooza Concert Festival. After Perry’s band Psi Com broke up and before he started Jane’s Addiction he lived in a big craftsman house on Wilton Place that was Hancock Park adjacent. In the house lived Perry his many girlfriends and boyfriends that included the much younger boys that would form the nuclei of Jane’s Addiction namely Stephen Perkins, Eric Avery and Dave Novarro. Perry has a dinosaur penis and a lean tight bod, and had a way of looking at a person and making them immediately feel very connected to him. I met Perry through his Orange County girlfriend Xiola Blue who was a smart and stylish teenage girl from a posh international pharmaceuticals family like or probably was The Sacklers.

It's been so long now I don't really remember.

I certainly thought that Perry was sexy, but I could never fancy a white dude sporting long and ungainly dreads. Only certain black people can get away with that look.

My art band The Afro Sisters and Jane’s Addiction performed together often at clubs like Theoretical and Silverlake/Echo Park and Downtown LA parties. I saw first hand Perry’s sexual prowess over multitudes of fans and supporters. He certainly had that guru affect. When Perry was in the band Psi Com he lived off of Melrose Avenue and Vine Street near these tiny little court apartments that looked like ramshackle huts near the famous club “The Grandia Room” where the Rhythm Lounge held court. This wasn’t far from the trendy coffee shop of Dora, an eccentric Cuban lady who was gifted a solid gold Cadillac by Elvis Presley in the 1960s.

Perry Farrell’s sex cult was less obvious then Damian’s but it was more powerful and far reaching as it encompassed both queers and straights.