#The Joy of Gay Sex

[nomorekyriarchy]

Censorship of the book The Joy Of Gay Sex in so-called "canada."

The book includes information about safety, culture, history, love.

The book is archived and readable online here.

[don-simon]

From 1970, Michael Leonard began moving from illustration to become a professional painter. His work reflects his sexuality in the beautiful and affectionate way that his portrays people at work and play – mostly men, but women also. He was asked to paint Queen Elizabeth II in 1985, and he illustrated Edmund White's groundbreaking book The Joy of Gay Sex in 1977. Michael died in October 2023 – please check him out at https://thespaces.com/michael-leonard/

also: https://michaelleonardartist.co.uk/works/paintings/exhibited-painting/afternoon-kites

The image above is titled: Scaffolders (1978) The image below is titled: Afternoon of the Kite (1972)

[slate-skylar]

She'd clocked him, of course, and he lowered his head but stole the cigarette back. "Didn't say that," he replied. "I don't know if they're willing to do anything. I just know they shouldn't have to." But shouldn't was a useless word -- this shouldn't be happening, any of it, and yet by all accounts, it seemed to be.

Cress took his offering, bringing the cigarette to her lips, where her smile was more smug than condescending. It had been a bit of a taunt, one that seemed to be working. Of course, he said, and his fire rekindled, the passion in his words cementing a known truth: that Twelve would always be his great love, despite everything.

"You see yourself in them?" Cress wondered if Slate saw himself in all wounded things, if he had it in him to bet on something that wasn't poised for losing. "And their spirits? Are they willing to do anything?" Survivalist meant one thing. Survivor was another thing entirely.

[tsbrunapinheiro]

Feelin' a bit horny🥵 Who's up for a little suckin' action?😜😁 💦🍆 Any takers? 😘💋⬇

[mrmousetolliver]

Untitled (1977) illustration for The Joy of Gay Sex drawn by Michael Leonard. Michael Leonard was trained and worked as a commercial illustrator. Desiring to express a more personal vision, in the early 1970's he began exhibiting his paintings and after his first one man show in 1974 he began to leave commercial illustrations behind. Besides illustrating The Joy of Gay Sex, in 1985 he was asked to paint a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. At first declining, he changed his mind if she would agree to his terms: No regalia, informal dress and with one of her dogs. To his surprise she agreed and the portrait is now in the National Portrait Gallery.

[ofmd-ann]

Prioritising my mental health in the workplace ✨

[pisshandkerchief]

why do you mean you have trouble discovering new music. back in my day we got our obscure music recs from the welcome to night vale weather and we fucking liked it

[princessjessika03]

how deep can u go? xx

[queerism1969]

[jeypawlik]

I Got Married, a year ago today!

A year ago today I got married to Max (previously known as Michelle) and marriage is so much more wonderful than anyone ever told me or what I'd thought about. I did a comic on it shortly after the wedding. Of course we had a wedding during Pride month! I hope y'all read it: https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/i-got-married-jey-pawlik/

[creamyalyssa]

Would you like to fuck a trans girl🍆💦🥵

Feel free to text me if you're shy follow me and I'll text you 💋🥵

[raqualswonderfunblog]

[butch--dean]

thinking about me approximately one year ago deciding to see what the destiel fanfiction game had gotten up to in the last decade while at my parents’ for Christmas…… and now here I am………… I love you all thank you for bringing so much joy into my life <3

[lycorid]

Sometimes venturing onto the For You side of Twitter sparks joy.

Based take. Shoujo and Josei are fucking top notch, both in characters and art style (how can you not think they’re beautiful?)

“Ruined the JJK and MHA fandoms” is WILD. I avoid fandoms for the most part (except perusing tumblr for the occasional fucking thesis women write about character motivations i love you women <3) because they usually suck. Seriously, I kept up with OPM for a bit because it was entertaining but holy shit the subreddit (very much full of men) is literally just… sexy woman. More sexy woman. Memes about artist constantly drawing sexy woman. Memes. Occasional power scaling arguments. Low quality page colorings of the exact same page. There is NOTHING. How the hell can women ruin the fandom when the fandom IS the women?!

It’s the women creating in depth analyses on characters; it’s the women writing fanfiction, creating doujinshis; it’s the women creating fandom centered accounts; it’s the women buying every new merch piece that comes out AND giving free advertising by posting about it online. And then men will go on and rag on women for doing all these things. It’s infuriating.

Longevity of a series is also something these idiots ignore. Seriously, look at Katekyo Hitman Reborn. The manga ended in 2012 and the creator is working on a different series. Katekyo Hitman Reborn still gets regular merch releases. This is a series that ended over a decade ago and still has an incredibly dedicated fanbase of, I wonder who, that regularly spends enough money to keep it consistent. You cannot look me in the eyes and tell me that series is supported mainly by men. I do not care how hard Amano Akira tried to alienate her female fans with her treatment of the female characters you know exactly whos spending the money based on who is constantly getting merch (minus the titular character, because of course he has to be there.)

Honestly I don’t give a damn that fandom can often be absolute insanity; you get a group of people together and it’s always going to be a shitshow, that isn’t unique to fandom, people just like to pretend it is because as always, there’s an undercurrent of misogyny because people know women carry that shit but they only want to acknowledge it when they can use it to criticize them.

I love that she came for the JJK fandom as well. I’ve been following the series because honestly it is really fucking funny because it is the epitome of shounen tropes. The author literally baked them into the world. Explaining your abilities to the opponent makes them stronger. So this entire series you get giant pages of just white with text explaining every little fucking thing like theres a narrator standing over your shoulder making sure you can’t possibly miss anything on the first read. Fuck dude, I don’t mind exorbitant amounts of text in my manga, but you cannot be serious in pretending that is good writing. There’s a deus ex machina that every character can pull out of their ass called a binding vow. Black flash also falls into this category.

Hell, the latest arc has literally just been flashback after flashback playing during the battle of the characters forming a bunch of plans in preparation for the fight we currently are following. This is genuinely one of my most hated tropes. The characters just get off screen power ups that then get handwaved as “well we showed you the flashback right?” there is NO anticipation, any excitement you feel for the battle is purely manufactured rather than genuine. It’s not “I can’t wait to see how the growth I followed of these characters affects the battle” it’s “wow, what cool ability will they pull out of their ass next?” I hate it I loathe it and it’s even worse with emotional moments. Why couldn’t you write this into the story in the first place? Why are you giving it to me in a shitty flashback?

Maybe I didn’t explain it well enough because I launched into a rant. The reason I hated it so much is because it forced the reader to be an observer rather than an active participant in the manga. Everything is spoonfed to you. You don’t need to reread the chapters over and over to put together the pieces on how, where, and why each action took place, the author does that for you. You don’t see everything from a new perspective when you read it a second time, catching lots of things you may have missed because you’re not allowed to miss anything the author deems important.

I enjoy this manga. There is good things about it. But it is nowhere near the god manga (“kamige” would be the term if it was a visual novel; I don’t know a manga equivalent) men like to pretend it is. It genuinely seems like they think everything being explained every page is good writing.

Based and succinct.

Anyway, you shouldn’t restrict yourself from experiencing specific genres because they’re for “the lessers” because that’s actually fucking cringe and maybe you should touch a Josei manga, or even a Shoujo manga. Maybe it’ll open your eyes and you’ll realize, hey, women’s media is actually- oh who the fuck am I kidding just pull the trigger.

[tsbrunapinheiro]

Can I be ur first trans girl? ^.^