Showing posts with label gay hero. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gay hero. Show all posts

9/16/18

OSCAR WILDE TEA SALON @ TOM HOUSE~ HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO

 & THE PURPLE CIRCUIT PRESENT 
 OSCAR WILDE'S 
 164TH BIRTHDAY SALON
THE LORD OF LANGUAGE
  OCTOBER 17TH  5PM 
 $20 advance~ reservations  
$25 day of the salon

 HAND-BLENDED TEA & DAINTY SANDWICHES WILL BE SERVED
 FOLLOWED BY OSCAR'S FAVORITE~  "PRINCESS CAKE"  
 HOSTED BY RICK CASTRO 
 TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE
 1421 LAVETA TERRACE
 ECHO PARK, CA 90026
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
 (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) 
was an Irish poet and playwright. 
After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, 
he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. 
He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray,
 and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.
Oscar Wilde is considered a literary & gay icon, and the great-grandfather of gay rights.

Here are but a few of Oscar's epigrams~

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”  

  "Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." 

   "True friends stab you in the front."





8/12/18

7/26/18

JAMES BALDWIN TEA SALON @ TOM HOUSE- RESERVE NOW!

 PRESENTS  
WEDNESDAY TEA SALON

  AUGUST 1ST-5PM   
     (SALON ENDS PROMPTLY @7PM) 
           $15-PREPAID RESEVATIONS    
    $20 DAY OF THE SALON    
   PREPAY- antebellum@earthlink.net      
           ~ENJOY~   
     HAND-BLENDED TEA  
      CAKES & DAINTIES    
    VIEW EROTIC ART   
     ENGAGING JOVIAL CHATS  
  RELAX & HAVE A NICE CUPPA 
LEARN MORE ABOUT JAMES BALDWIN    
    HOSTED BY  RICK CASTRO 
        TOM OF FINLAND HOUSE  
      1421 LAVETA TERRACE   
     ECHO PARK, CA 90026  
JAMES BALDWIN
 (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987)
an American novelist and social critic
His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), 
explore intricacies of racialsexual
and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. 
Some of Baldwin's essays are book-length, including The Fire Next Time (1963), 
Baldwin's novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration not only of African Americans, but also of gay and bisexual men, while depicting some internalized obstacles to such individuals' quests for acceptance. 
Such dynamics are prominent in Baldwin's second novel, Giovanni's Room, written in 1956, well before the gay liberation.

In 2016, Raoul Peck released his documentary film I Am Not Your Negro
It is based on James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript, Remember This House. It is a ninety three minute journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights Movement to the present of Black Lives Matter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond.
In 2017, Scott Timberg wrote an essay for the Los Angeles Times in which he noted existing cultural references to Baldwin, thirty years after his death, and concluded: 
"So Baldwin is not just a writer for the ages, but a scribe whose work—
as squarely as George Orwell's—speaks directly to ours."


7/15/18

THAT MAN: PETER BERLIN


That Man: Peter Berlin (2005) Poster

Full Cast & Crew

Directed by 

Jim Tushinski

Cast (in credits order)  

Peter Berlin...Himself
Armistead Maupin...Himself - Author 
John Waters...Himself - FIlmmaker 
Jack Wrangler...Himself - Adult Film Actor 
Daniel Nicoletta...Himself - Photographer (as Dan Nicoletta)
Wakefield Poole...Himself - Filmmaker 
Robert W. Richards...Himself - Artist 
John F. Karr...Himself - Porn Reviewer 
Rick Castro...Himself - Filmmaker / Photographer 
Guy Clark...Himself - 'The Flower Man' of San Francisco 
Lawrence Helman...Himself - Producer / Publicist 
Robert Boulanger...Himself - Neighbor and Building Manager 
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marc Majors...Himself - James (Peter's longtime friend) (archive footage)
Sal Mineo...Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department 

Peter Berlin...additional camera
Jochen Labriola...additional camera

Cinematography by 

Jim Tushinski

Music by 

Jack Curtis Dubowsky

Film Editing by 

Clarence Reinhart
Jim Tushinski

Editorial Department 

Rosanne Tan...post-production assistant (uncredited)

Other crew 

Peter Berlin...courtesy of: 'Peter Berlin' photographs and videos / film excerpts courtesy of
Horst P. Horst...photograph by: courtesy Horst Estate
Richard Horst...courtesy: photographs by George Hoyningen-Huene
Tim Kincaid...film excerpts courtesy of (as Joe Gage)
Christopher Makos...courtesy of: photographs of Andy Warhol
Wakefield Poole...film excerpts courtesy of
Robert W. Richards...courtesy of: artwork of Robert W. Richards
Andreas Steinkogler...translation
Steven Toushin...film excerpts courtesy of: Bijou Video
Brandon Blake...legal services: Blake & Wang P.A. (uncredited)
Paul De Cham...post facilities manager (uncredited)

Music Department 

Jack Curtis Dubowsky...musical arrangements / musician: guitar / musician: piano
Thalia Moore...musician: cello
Nik Phelps...musician: flute / musician: oboe

Produced by 

Robert Boulanger...associate producer
Lawrence Helman...producer
Marie Pelletier...associate producer
Jim Tushinski...producer

Sound Department 

Patrick Bowsher...sound designer / sound mixer

Thanks 

Michelle Ackerman...thanks
Daniel Bao...thanks
Glen Bassett...thanks: In Touch for Men
Peter Berlin...very special thanks



Aaron Black...thanks
Jay Blotcher...thanks
Robert Boulanger...special thanks
Zachary Buchanan...thanks
Jim Van Buskirk...thanks
Rick Castro...special thanks
Ray Chance...special thanks
Guy Clark...special thanks
Carol Coombes...thanks
Rick DeCroix...thanks: Streamline Films
Durk Dehner...thanks
Gert Elfering...thanks
Kevin Elliot...thanks
David Freiser...thanks
Jean-Paul Gaultier...thanks
Tim Haselman...thanks
Ken Henderson...special thanks
Andrew Horn...thanks
Richard Horst...thanks
John F. Karr...special thanks (as John F. Karr and the amazing Karrchives)
Tony Katavich...thanks: OUT Magazine
Jeff Katz...thanks
Tim Kincaid...thanks (as Joe Gage)
Terence Kissack...thanks
Jochen Labriola...heavenly thanks
Christopher Makos...thanks
Jayne Mansfield...heavenly thanks
Robert Mapplethorpe...heavenly thanks
Armistead Maupin...special thanks
Sal Mineo...heavenly thanks
Marilyn Monroe...heavenly thanks
Daniel Nicoletta...special thanks (as Dan Nicoletta)
Kristian Alexis Perry...thanks
Wakefield Poole...special thanks
Troy Prickett...thanks: Falcon Studios
Robert W. Richards...special thanks
Pamela Rosenthal...thanks
Steve Savage...thanks
F. Allen Sawyer...thanks
Veronica Scharf-Garcia...thanks
Dinah Shore...heavenly thanks
Kent Taylor...thanks
Steven Toushin...thanks: Bijou Video
Michael Van Horn...thanks
Kurt Walters...thanks
Andy Warhol...heavenly thanks
John Waters...special thanks
Margaret Whiting...thanks
Jack Wrangler...special thanks