Olympics - Part 18

Gus Kenworthy

Gus Kenworthy is a British-American skier.  He represented the U.S. in the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics, and Great Britain in the 2022 and 2026 Winter Olympics.  He won a silver medal in the slopestyle event in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

In 2015 he came out as gay in an interview with ESPN.  Rolling Stone noted that he was the first action-sports star to come out.  During the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyong Chang, South Korea, NBC TV caught him kissing his boyfriend, above.

He was also photographed kissing fellow gay U.S. olympic athlete Adam Rippon during the 2018 Olympics.

Kenworthy has been photographed nude.  Above, on a ski slope.

On the same slope, with the frontal view concealed.

Though he won't show frontal views, he has no problem with showing us a rear view, whether with kangaroos ...

or in the kitchen.

We end with this video clip of him doing a naked ski jump.

Performers - Part 84

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Photographers - Part 84

Walter Zak

Walter Zak, above, is a London-based fashion, beauty and still-life photographer.

He has made an extensive series of nude male photographs of many different models that he calls his "Boys" series.  Above: Christopher.

Connor Bladen.

Another photo of Connor Bladen.  It's so dark, you can hardly see anything.

Out of curiosity, I brightened it in Photoshop, above.  All of this detail is in the original dark image; it's just so dark you can't see it.  Why does Zak like his photos to be so dark?  I don't know.  Perhaps he thinks it makes them look more artistic.

James Glynn.

Ricky Roman (left) and John Moore (right).

Lukey, photographed for Crotch magazine.  Not every Zak photo is too dark.  This one and the next one are reasonable.

Robert Decanio.

Zak did a photo shoot for Mayl Wear, a maker of limited-edition "concept" clothing and other products for gay men.  Zak photographed Zachary Morris wearing a Mayl Wear T-shirt.  A different photo of Zachary wearing this T-shirt was used on Mayl Wear's website.  But the reason this photo wasn't used is not the frontal view; Mayl Wear used other photos with frontal views on their website to appeal to their gay target audience.  I think the issue with this photo was that although it shows off Zachary, it doesn't show off the shirt, which says "HUNG".

We end with a photo of Zachary Morris in the shower.

Calendars - Part 85

 Vellohomo 2025

On the first of every month, the site Vellohomo posts an online calendar page (in Spanish) for that month.  Today we'll see some of the months for 2025.  Gracias, Franco!

Here's Mr. January.

Mr. February.  As you can see, Vellohomo's calendar men show a bit more than the typical nude calendar.

Mr. April is hairy and muscular.

Mr. June presents a rare rear view.

Mr. July.

Mr. August.

Mr. September.

We end with some jolly Christmas elves for December.

Protests - Part 84

 Stop Bush, Sydney Australia 2007

On Sept. 7, 2007, protesters gathered in Sydney, Australia, the site of an APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) meeting, at which economic leaders of 21 nations met, including an appearance by U.S. President George Bush.

The majority of Australians were opposed to the U.S. war in Iraq, though the Australian government supported the war and Australian troops served in Iraq.

The next day there were more protests on the streets.  Protesters included these two guys.  On the left, his painted slogan "Hey Scipione, where's my concealed weapon?" is directed at Andrew Scipione, the New South Wales Police Commissioner.  The guy at right's slogan says "Hey, cops, look but don't touch.  I mean ... freedom."

They wore socks that barely hid their dicks, but then ...

the police arrested them.  In the process, his sock fell off, so everyone got a look.

There was another demonstration called "Bums for Bush" in which 50 people mooned an official APEC motorcade.  The letters painted on these bums say "no to bombs."

But not everyone opposed Bush.  This guy decided to show his support for Bush by mooning with a "Pro Bush" sign on his butt.

Easter 2026

Easter

Today is Easter.  This year we feature a series of drawings by French artist David Gilson.  He has produced a series of slender books of drawings called Un Minet pour Matou, as well as additional drawings online.  They feature a man called Matou and his cat Minet.  You need to know that matou is French slang for tomcat, and minet means kitty or pussycat.

Above, Joyeuses Pâques means Happy Easter in French.  We see Matou dressed as an Easter bunny with a noticeable bulge.

Another Easter drawing, showing a bit of a rear view.

In this Easter drawing, Matou says "I see that you have found the eggs, my Minet."

Followed by: "Give me my eggs, my Minet."

Another Easter drawing, and the plot thickens.  Matou has a boyfriend, young Dr. Rouminet, a veterinarian.  You need to know that in French, roux means redhead (ginger), and in French slang, minet not only means kitty, it means twink.  So Rouminet, a redheaded twink, is another minet for Matou.

The drawing says "A bunny for Rouminet and a bunny for Matou".

In this Easter drawing, Rouminet is inside the huge bunny head, saying "I'm dying of heat down there," and Matou answers "My poor bunny."

This is a New Year's drawing, not Easter, but it shows us a bit more of Rouminet and Matou.

Matou is hairy, and Rouminet is into that.  We end with Rouminet and Matou making love.

Happy Easter!

Ivy League Posture Photos - Part 63

Ivy League Posture Photos

Yale started taking nude photos of incoming freshmen in 1919 as part of a program to detect and correct posture problems.  The Yale photos have erroneously been associated with William Sheldon, a psychologist at Harvard and author of Nazi-like eugenic theories who used Harvard nude posture photos to illustrate his theory of somatypes.  The Yale program predates Sheldon, and, as far as I can tell, the Yale photos were never connected to Sheldon's work.

Here are posture photos of nine more Yale students that I had the opportunity to acquire.

This is Yale freshman Emmet G. Rand, Jr. on October 12, 1953.

In 1952, Yale installed an apparatus using mirrors to photograph the front, rear, side and top view.

This is Yale freshman G. J. on October 8, 1953.

Note the strange pins stuck to each student's back and chest.  The pins were stuck on at specific points for later posture analysis.

This is Yale freshman David Robert Englund, Jr. on October 15, 1947.

Photos taken before the fall of 1952 show only a side view.

This is Yale freshman Ronald Emerine on October 16, 1947.

Supposedly, by examining the angles formed by connecting the points where the pins touched the body, certain posture problems could be detected.

This is Yale freshman Henry Jacob Silverman on March 4, 1952.

If posture problems were detected, the student had to attend remedial posture sessions, and a second posture photo was taken.

This is Yale freshman John London Hawkins on February 14, 1952.

The photography and analysis of the photos was conducted by the staff of Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium.

This is Yale freshman Matthew James Beemsterboer on January 19, 1952.

Nobody outside the gymnasium staff saw the photos.

This is Yale freshman Thomas Glen Hathcote on February 9, 1952.

The photos were not published for other students to see.

This is Yale freshman William Ernest Goodman on February 18, 1952.

The posture photo program was discontinued in the 1960s, and later, most of the photos were burned.  However, some of the photos escaped burning, including the photos that I have been showing in this series.

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Note: some of my followers consider these photos an invasion of privacy for the students.  To protect the privacy of the students, I redact the names of students who may still be alive.  I only publish the names of students who have died.  Legally, the right to privacy does not extend beyond death, i.e. it does not extend to spouses and relatives of the deceased person.

I consider these photos to be a historical record of the time.  Almost all of the Ivy League posture photos were burned when their existence became widely known.  In my opinion, that was akin to book-burning of books that someone claimed were obscene.  These photos are not obscene.  They should be celebrated, not hidden away.