*img 'of that supposedly ahistorical and universal entity called “the body”—' 1927 #GeorgeKotsonaros lifts #JackDempsey at a wrestling show, Santa Mònica, CA

If the sexual body is indeed historical—if there is, in short, no orgasm without ideology—perhaps ongoing inquiry into the politics of pleasure will serve to deepen the pleasures, as well as to widen the possibilities, of politics.

— #DavidMHalperin, 2002 HtDtHoH
#heretik_xyz

*img 2025 #homoheretik [ #EdmondDesbonnet + #MarcGaucher #AgenceRol ]

, in effect, like tourists in the archives: [we] misrecognize the sexual features of the period [we] study as exotic versions of the already familiar.

— #DavidMHalperin, 2002 HtDtHoH
#thefaggotarchive
#homoheretik

*img 1990s #不破久友 #fuwa 男の千一夜物語 + *txt But I have also been motivated by the shock and disappointment of seeing a revolutionary movement of sexual liberation and political insurgency settle down into a complacent, essentially conservative form of identity politics that seeks less to change the world than to claim a bigger piece of it. —#DavidMHalperin, 2012 HtBG

( the shock and disappointment of seeing a revolutionary movement )

— #DavidMHalperin, 2012 HtBG
#desiresillustrated #不破久友
#heretik_xyz

*img XVIth C. Anónimo, Ecce Homo (copia de #Tiziano), prado + c 1983 #RichardJorasch San Francisco Bound, in Feb 1983 #DrummerMag No 61 centerfold

(I may well choose to style myself as a deviant, as a social or sexual pariah, . . .

— #DavidMHalperin, 2012 HtBG
*img XVIth C. Anónimo, Ecce Homo (copia de #Tiziano), prado + c 1983 #RichardJorasch San Francisco Bound, in Feb 1983 #DrummerMag No 61 centerfold
#QueenlyDiptych