butchness makes me feel so safe. butchness makes me feel so beautiful. butchness makes the world make sense to me. i am wrapped up in butchness like a warm blanket.

one of my favorite facts about gekko hayashi (artist who drew gay erotica) is that he was straight guy who pivoted from sci-fi & monster stuff to illustrating for gay & bdsm mags at like 50 years old because he wanted to expand his artistic horizons, and compensated by lack of lived experience by setting up a phone line for gay men to call in & recount their stories so he could illustrate them...legend

Leanne Franson

"Bear and Aphra 2" by Jessica Tanzer, 1989.

source: Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image, edited by Susie Bright & Jill Posener

"Untitled" by Katie Niles, 1990

source: Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image, edited by Susie Bright and Jill Posener

No such thing as too Butch

"High Femme" from the collection of Debra Bercuvitz and Kris Knutson

source: The Femme Mystique, edited by Lesléa Newman

fag out with your friends!

God is a transexual

This is a piece I originally created when I was 18, a pic of my face with the paint and makeup from this music video

It was iconic at the time and received well. With the prompt "god is a gay man"

I have been thinking of ways to document my body after changes on testosterone but nothing jumped out at me as representative of my life right now. Until it hit me. Compare myself to something I created as a kid, and make it nude. My current career (that's actually my dream job lmao) as a porn star has made me so much more confident around my body, my sexuality, my gender, my masculinity. And my Tumblr audience has helped with that so much. I don't think I will be using these images on any other sites because it doesn't feel like PORN to me, it feels like art. This is me documenting my body at this part in my transition, which is an ongoing project I embarked on pre testosterone

Hopefully this isn't too cringe

a cozy aging catboy for your troubles (he/him)

I’ve been such a good boy, I deserve a prostate 😔

trans divinity

U^ェ^U

Bound Leather Zine, ph. Steven Harwick.

Black and white photographs of trans man Rupert Raj (circa 1970s) posing shirtless in bed (from the digital transgender archive)