DOC Residential Streets by Walter M. Kulash in Arts-Photography

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On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning book Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics From Before Stonewall; Thomas Waugh offers more historic and erotically charged drawings; depicting aspects of gay male sexuality that were once hidden from public view. The more than 200; never-before-published images in Lust Unearthed are from the private collection of Ambrose DuBek; a Hollywood costume and set designer (his work included George Cukorrsquo;s 1939 film The Women) who died in 2002 at the age of 87; and whose estate included a wealth of erotic materials; including books; periodicals; prints; and films. DuBek was a passionate advocate and patron of the arts who felt that life and the body were to be celebrated; he had no patience for other peoplersquo;s attempts to make him feel guilty for his attractions and desires; nor any qualms about the different worlds in which he operated. The images from DuBekrsquo;s collection published here are remarkably frank and explicit depictions of gay men ldquo;in actionrdquo; created by numerous artists both famous and unknown; and produced during a time when even nude images of men were illegal; and thus rare. Lust Unearthed brings these images out of the boxes in which they were carefully kept and into the light of present-day; where expressions of gay male sexuality can be validated and indeed; celebrated. Waughrsquo;s text is a remarkable history lesson that illuminates a once-furtive underground culture. Gay porn for the thinking man; Lust Unearthed will beguile and arouse. Features an introduction by Willie Walker; the founding archivist at the Gay; Lesbian; Bisexual and Transgender History Society in San Francisco; where DuBekrsquo;s erotic materials were donated. Thomas Waugh is the author of the Lambda Literary Award shortlisted Out/Lines and Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from their Beginnings to Stonewall. He is a professor of film studies and director of the Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality at Concordia University in Montreal.