One-time Mizer model killed actor from Hollywood’s Golden Age
Many types of men appeared throughout the pages of Bob Mizer’s "Physique Pictorial" over the years. The former all-American high school athlete. The...
Chuck Renslow 1929-2017
We learned yesterday of the death of Chuck Renslow. A friend and contemporary of Bob Mizer, Chuck was a larger than life part of gay history. He owned gay businesses in Chicago in the 1950s and 60s when owning gay businesses wasn’t popular. He was a photographer, club owner, publisher, politician and events producer. Prosecuted on a number of occasions, Chuck always won. He pushed the boundaries of the law for all of us.
His legacy will live on in his art, in the International Mr. Leather competition which he founded in 1979, and in the Leather Archives & Museum which he co-founded in 1991.
Rest well knowing you made a difference in the lives of so many.
Artist's illustrations breathe life into taboo desires
While his mainstream counterparts in the art world were being trained in some of the world’s finest art institutes and honing their craft in sterile...
Michael Stokes: Photographer’s lens captures beauty of wounded heroes
One L.A.-based photographer has literally stripped bare the stigma of injured veterans who return home from the battlefront.
Jim French’s body of work invigorated gay community, porn industry
When male physique photographer and COLT Studio founder Jim French died in his sleep on Thursday evening, he left behind a mammoth body of work that...