Punk Queer Lives.

"No one claims the title of punk, I wonder if anyone ever did. The media called us that, they built up an image of one-minded automatons, bred on violence to all. I remember reading an interview, before the rise of the punk movement, an interview with the Dictators, a hard rock group from New York. They were vehemently anti-gay. This disgusted me then and it does now. It represents a return to imbecility, to censorship. The new right. I am a member of the new right and I want you dead. I hate your guts. I hate the fact that you will all probably go home and put on your Eagles or Grateful Dead albums, so you can remember what real music sounds like. I'd like to break every single album by those and any other band which promotes mainstream bullshit, whose prime occupation is boredom of an unaware sort. I'm bored, but I know why. It's because of people like you."

typewritten journal, 1977-78

Fire Engine Red Hair

A postcard collage from 1978 with "ransom note" lettering, my "fire engine red" hair secure under clear packing tape...



...and the press-type lettering we used back in the seventies--small sheets of letters that you'd try to keep in a straight line but invariably fail at. The plastic sheets would buckle with the pressure of the rubbing stick, making it hard to keep straight (pardon the expression).

late '77 Land camera Polaroids

in the fall of 1977 I moved back to Florence, Massachusetts, into the home of filmmaker Tom Joslin and his partner, Mark Massi, where these pics were taken. I worked that fall at Hampshire College in the photo department, checking out equipment, getting film developed for students, being the resident punk. Mark and I were closer; Tom was teaching at Hampshire, and Mark more the house husband/artist. Mark is likely the person shooting these self-portraits for me.



Tom and Mark were profiled after their deaths in 1989 from HIV/AIDS in the documentary Silverlake Life: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108138/

and speaking of Multiple Male Orgasms!

the link on Amazon for my name as a contributor to Gay City vol. 3, Re-Pulped, takes one to a list that includes the title Multiple Male Orgasms. Would that it be me!

Or that I would be as clever as that to have grown for self-portraits in 1978 with a Polaroid One-Step to having an M.A. in Psychology and having had orgasms with multiple men. Oh, wait, I did do that, didn't I?

Well, I weren't so clever as to have written a book about it, and I can't brag that my bisexuality in mind has led me to a fourth edition Updated for Women!

But there's some Lurid Images! Sensational Characters! and Scandalous Storylines! to be had in Vol. 3 but nothing to tell my nieces and nephews to stay away from.
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