Eine Inspirationsquelle des Projektes stellt die kleine Textsammlung Von der Freundschaft von Michel Foucault dar, wobei der Freundschaftsbegriff bei Smell it! – v.a. bei den Ausstellungsbeiträgen – weiter, mitunter auch thematisch unmittelbarer, aufgefasst wird.

In its obsession to classify and find an underlying order to nature, one of the objectives of science has been to develop a system of taxonomies for bodies. Through their representation systems and the devices used for their exhibition, cartographies of the

This book explores each site in five chapters of photographic images, primarily by AA Bronson, together with a brilliant and often humorous reflection on queer animals, forest rangers, shamanism, and park sex by Peter Hobbs. A group of drawings by Chicago artist Elijah Bergher completes the volume.

Taking the idea of a place wherein all is the same as its starting point, the issue contains the journal’s broadest set of interpretations to date.

Artworks by Megan Francis Sullivan, 2010-2012. All source images found in “Boys, Kerle, Männer”, Issues 1 to 11, 1971.

"THEY SOFT” is a collaboration between the artists Elke Auer and Toni Kochensparger, exploring femininity, fragility and queer feelings in New York, during the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency, through photographs, writing, collages and drawings.

The book was solely designed by women, from cover to paper, from typeface to printing.

Beiträge von: Christa Benzer, Martine Beugnet, Martin Frey, Lars Henrik Gass, Brent Klinkum, Friederike Pezold, Bert Rebhandl, Dietmar Schwärzler, Sylvia Szely, Viktoria Tremmel Interviews mit: Helmut Herbst, Luke Morris, Franz Novotny, Agnès Varda

Taking HIV criminalization as a starting point, Cell Count brings together artists who unpack and reconfigure the metaphors and assumptions that enable the punishment and incarceration of people living with HIV.

Translady Fanzine is an annual photographic periodical that responds to, and honors, historical trans publications - specifically Transsexual Illusions (circa 1990).

Queer Formalism: The Return is the first installment in the Critic’s Essay Series published by Floating Opera Press. Comprising long-form essays, this series gives voice to critics who offer thought-provoking ways in which to subvert or replace normative modes of discussing culture.

This book is dedicated to the complex artistic trajectory of Chiara Fumai, who played a significant role in the development of performance and feminist aesthetics in the twenty-first century and who died prematurely in 2017, at the age of only thirty-nine.

»Ich nehme das Testosteron nicht, um mich in einen Mann zu verwandeln, sondern um das zu verraten, was die Gesellschaft mit mir vor hat. Ich will schreiben, vögeln, eine Art postpornografischer Form der Lust empfinden, meiner low-tech Identität eine molekulare Prothese hinzuzufügen. Um deinen Tod zu rächen.« B.P.

This video documents the exhibition Gender Check at MUMOK Vienna.

Madill's work addresses the construction of identity around the unstable binarism of homo/heterosexual.

The studies of Gendering Post-Socialist Transition presented in this volume follow the economic, political, social and cultural effects and traces of system changes in the lives of women and men after 1989 in eleven countries of Central and South Eastern Europe.

Brice Dellsperger pushes the boundaries of genre and gender. In his multifaceted reprises of iconic film sequences—all assembled under the title Body Double—the cineast and artist reenacts selected scenes from well-known films frame for frame and lets his “body doubles” perform all of the roles, be they male or female

Mizna is a critical platform for contemporary SWANA literature, film, art, and cultural production centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists. For more than twenty years, we have been creating a decolonized cultural space to reflect the expansiveness of our community and to foster exchange, examine ideas, and engage audiences in meaningful art.

"Gay Sex is the Answer" is a reappropriation of gay magazines from the 1970’s and 1980’s.

The winter 2021 issue of Mizna, guest-edited by Tarik Dobbs, challenges conventional forms, language, and ideas within literary processes and traditions.

The winter 2020 issue of Mizna is guest edited by Palestinian graphic novelist Leila Abdelrazaq and addresses prompt of A New World Order. These days, it seems as though revolutionary changes are happening daily.

170 drawings of the same beautiful cock. What’s wrong with a cock? Nothing at all. Even less if it is the most beautiful cock in the world, because a cock doesn’t mean anything but itself: source of life, source of pleasure. The life drawings in this book, made with delight and admiration, claim to pay tribute tothe most beautiful cock in the world.

This book extends from Megan Francis Sullivan’s 2016 exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern, titled ‘The Unanswered Question’.

Started as a xerox zine, a saturated compilation of drawings done by amateurs, musicians or comics authors, Nazi Knife explored, in its more recent issues, some more singular editorial approaches: the publication seen as a library, as a collection of motley elements, where raw materials, symbolic references or cultural products could be combined, or as the visual repetition of few fetishistic obsessions, modulated by an architecture of filters, quite opaque to say the least.

Queer Zines, the catalogue, collects the variegated practices of zine makers past and present, from North America and Europe, and lists them alphabetically, starting with Toronto's 88 Chins and ending with the Dean Sameshima zine Young Men at Play.

Queer Publishing - A Family Tree: The Queer Tree of Life maps the landscape of queer LGBTQ publishing between 1880 and 2019 in an international context.

Window is Alexis's first full length novel in the form of a truelife vignetted memoire. Written from a swivel chair in Crown Heights, the stories meander through Alexis's surreal memories of growing up gay in Kansas, grasping for substance in fleeting hookups, gaining possessive rein on his powers of seduction (often via texting), and abusing them in San Francisco. Accompanied by photos from his voluminous archive, these stories are a full, and blurry, portrait of searching for "true love" in a multitude of disposable romances.

Curator Christine Eyene challenges the Eurocentric and patriarchal frameworks that have informed the history of sound art and, to some extent, continue to define current practice. Sounds Like Her is a challenge

Box set including Queer Zines Vol. 1 (second edition) & Vol. 2

The summer 2020 issue of Mizna is guest edited by Zeyn Joukhadar and speaks to bodily autonomy, embodiment, and self-determination within a queer, transgender, SWANA, and Muslim lens. Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices bears witness to our rich history, and imagines futures for ourselves.

The artist book consists of three different photography series MEMENTO MORIENDUM ESSE 2012 In this five-part series, shot in dark locations, the photographer uses a hard light flash to capture the reflections of shiny leather jackets on the backs of various men.

“S.T.H.” (Straight to Hell) is an underground gay pornographic magazine.

A very personal choice of art, cinema and fashion. nspired by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc’s Blaue Reiter Almanac that, in 1912, brought together without hierarchy contemporary art works and works of folk art, Puits d’amour offers one possible vision of the best of 2016 in various creative fields. The affection I have for them is the only link between the collected works.

Die Entwicklung von Genderkompetenz ist Teil der gesellschaftspolitischen Verantwortung der Angewandten und ein wichtiges Element ihrer künftigen inhaltlichen Profilbildung.

Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto was first published in 1986 after she had shot and nearly killed Andy Warhol. The text used here is the very slightly altered version issued later.

After his studies at the arts academies in Berlin and Düsseldorf, Ull Hohn (1960–1995) moved to New York to attend the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1987.

Poster Boy is a quarterly print poster magazine that features six models that have been captured in modern minimalist forms.

Mode verwandelt. Mode lebt davon, dass sie alles, was in ihrem Namen in die Welt gesetzt wird, zur Inszenierung macht.

Das Nackte ist ein ureigenes Phänomen der europäischen Kultur, das alle Länder, Epochen und Künste des Okzidents verbindet. In der Skulptur, der Malerei und der Photographie des Westens, von Griechen über die Renaissance bis zur Photographie etwa eines Ralph Gibson: der Akt gehört zu den größten Herausforderungen der Künste. Selbst die Kirche verbarg zwar das Geschlecht, doch bewahrte das Nackte.

Frederick Weston and Samuel R. Delany come together for a wide-ranging dialogue, reflecting on their overlapping histories in Times Square, the deep impact of AIDS on their creative practices, and the ever-changing intersections of race, sex, language, and art.

"Johnny, are you queer?" is a brief meditation on the steamy dynamics churning beneath the surface of The Wild One, one of the most deliciously homoerotic epics of all time, intentionally or not.

his intimate book explores Broy Lim’s realization of his homosexuality in his hometown of Singapore, where it still remains illegal. Combining personal texts and photos, and now they know narrates Lim’s sexual identity and his nine-year relationship with his partner, while also representing the broader struggle of many youths who navigate their sense of self in conservative heteronormative societies.

Modefotografie existiert nur über das Frauenmagazin. Die Geschichte dieses fotografischen Genres ist daher mit der der Frauenpresse verbunden. Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, als die ersten Frauenzeitschriften erschienen, war die Fotografie noch immer nur eine Hilfsillustration.

The magazine is created by and for queer nerds who feel outside the mainstreaming of queer culture. It covers the ordinary lives and interests of queers, because the ordinary is often quite interesting.

"The Queerness of Memory" proposes ways of remembering a past that cannot be clearly seen, one which is loaded with affective confusion, historical disorientation and the desire to return to that which still hurts.

The unravelment of the fundamental conditions of the possibility of interpretation is needed not for getting outside the circle, but for staying within in the right way. (English)

FAGS is a photo book by Jacopo Benassi. It brings together images in which the artist portrays and documents his own intimacy over a 25-year period, from the day he announced his homosexuality: a human journey comprising meetings that have left an indelible sign on his personal story as an artist.

In the years since Stonewall, the world has witnessed an outpouring of research, critical inquiry, and re-interpretation of gay life and culture. This book draws on groundbreaking new material to present a comprehensive survey of all things gay.

This anthology gathers writings on art and gender in Eastern Europe, contributing almost neglected historical and contemporary aspects to present debates, thereby shedding new light on the field as a whole.

In his photo series, Asamoah shows us young men through time, finding contentment within the transitions of boyhood to adult-hood.

Homosexuelle Frauen und Männer gehören bis heute zu den oft vergessenen Opfern des Nationalsozialismus. Über ihr Schicksal, ihre Verfolgung und ihren Alltag ist wenig bekannt.

In ihrer Beschäftigung mit gesellschaftlichen Normen und familiär geprägten Verhaltensmustern ergründet die Künstlerin das vielschichtige Phänomen der Identität in seiner Interaktion von Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung

Visual AIDS artist member Ben Cuevas speaks to Annie Sprinkle about art, knitting, postporn, ecosex, HIV, love, loss, risk, activism, feminism, go-go dancing, orgasms, humor, death and more.

The site of the leather bar Eagle LA, in Los Angeles, has been home to three highly popular leather bars over the decades: the Shed, the Outcast, and the Gauntlett II. The Eagle LA, opened in 2005, follows a long-standing tradition of leather fetish and uniform, set forth by leather Eagle bars around the country.

This double-reared, pocket-sized zine is a soy-based ink cmyk offset print on 50% recycled fiber paper in an edition of four 69.

In the book the mind is the body Lisa Gutscher journies into the body and presents a fantastic tapestry of stories and visuals. Like a children's science book, the artist reveals before us readers the magic of the body without confining it to machinic partitioning, binary oppositions or theory as such. It is stories, both visual and textual, that are the fuel and destination of this journey:

Hipster Porn nimmt Butts stilbildende Originalität in den Blick. Über die Perspektiven von Queer Theory, Masculinity Studies, Medienwissenschaften und Affekt Theorie wird die Welt des Fanzines lesbar, wie umgekehrt auch deren theoretische Positionen durch Butt herausgefordert werden.

The currently favored image of the Weimar Republic is constructed as a liberal one that emphasizes the individual freedom to shape one’s life. Meanwhile, the collectivist face of the workers’ movement and the artists inspired by it were and are mostly ignored.

Multiple Spirits is a "Bilingual Queer Art Zine from/within Japan".

Soggetto nomade (Nomadic Subject) gathers, for the first time in one volume, shots taken by five Italian photographers between the mid 60s to the 80s. The photographs are