ABOVE: Wild about hairy?

BELOW: Keep reading for the U.S. prepping to take huge leaps back (for years? decades?) on abortion and gay rights, Don Lemon's accuser drops suit and suddenly forgets what he remembered, and Scott Johnson's killer will serve only 8-12 years for his murder ...

The original vest was sold for charity in 2008, but he sported a similar one in 2019. (Images by Matthew Rettenmund)

I was honored to meet photographer Marcus Leatherdale in 2019 at his Out of the Shadows show at Throckmorton. I'm saddened to hear that he died yesterday, April 22, at 69.

Trey Speegle has an excellent obituary up at World of Wonder, in which he writes about Leatherdale's early years as Robert Mapplethorpe's boyfriend and his indispensable “Hidden Identities” series in Details.

Along with Madonna — who he shot at the suggestion of her BFF Martin Burgoyne, who was his intended subject — he shot everyone from Andy Warhol to Keith Haring, Dianne Brill, Divine and more.

ABOVE: Roy Blakey's work was art.

BELOW: Keep reading for a teacher fired for being gay watches it happen again, Jennifer Grey was told her dad was a “fag” by Matthew Broderick's nutty mom and more ...

A rower, and a show-er ... (Images by Baldovino Barani for FACTORY Fanzine)

Baldovino Barani is back, this time shooting Yann Mimeau in a variety of period costumes that suit him to a T ...

 

 

 

 

 

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ABOVE: Put up your Duke. Also, many more schlong shots here.

BELOW: Keep reading for the love that dared not speak its name (but posing for pictures was okay), the Black SCOTUS justice who isn't/wasn't/ain't never gonna be and more  ...

 

 

 

 

 

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ABOVE: Good light.

BELOW: Keep reading for Marsha Blackburn running from the truth, Collins a YES on Brown Jackson, Trump still begging Putin for help and more ...

 

 

 

 

 

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ABOVE: That, my friend, is a cover.

Bonus shot from here: “Are you sure this is how Keith Haring got started?!”

BELOW: Keep reading for Biden not backtracking on Putin, Will Smith's mom enters the conversation, Madison Cawthorn's questionable orgy comment about to be questioned, how the DOJ is asleep at the wheel and more ...

ABOVE: This is the suspect in the murder of Barbara Maier Gustern, the 87-year-old woman shoved intentionally in NYC. Someone says this woman is recognizable for causing disturbances in Chelsea. I hope so. I have to believe she will soon be caught — the pic is so clear.

Bonus pic (Image via vintage)

BELOW: Keep reading for hot guys, a primeval abortion law, free(d) Jussie and more ...