Morning.

my incredible amazing friend Matthew Macauley, on the cover of THE social rag of the day, Stiletto magazine 1984. One of Sydney's best and brightest and most talented, he lived his dream of being a dancer in Hollywood. Gone way too soon. #WorldAIDSDay2025

Happy 17th Anniversary, You Look Like The Right Type / November 23, 2025 (serving daily drawings from overheard conversations since November 23, 2008) / Not a raid—A PARADE / Ain't no FREE DRINKS / Edgewater, Chicago

He's one of those. (pink round 5, 1 speaker) / You Look Like The Right Type / November 17, 2025 / It's getting even pinker. / That's fine. / Rogers Park, Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

He's one of those. (round 4, 1 speaker) / You Look Like The Right Type / November 7, 2025 / I don't have a ride, but I do have space. / Downtown Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

He's one of those. (round 3, 1 speaker) / You Look Like The Right Type / November 3, 2025 / Lettuce, tomato, pickle, mayonnaise? / Do you want a lemon? / Muncie, Indiana / New queer book coming soon.

Still listening to this 13 years later / Tori Amos NPR Live, October 5, 2012, Le Poisson Rouge, New York City

He's one of those. (round 2, 2 speakers) / You Look Like The Right Type / October 27 + 28, 2025 / That might be a fantasy. / Smells good, too. / Rogers Park, Chicago / New queer book coming soon.

He's one of those. / You Look Like The Right Type / October 24, 2025 / I read somewhere that dogs evolved from wolves. / Chicago Loop / New queer book coming soon.

Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."

Celebrity sighting / Carol Kane / Petterino's, Chicago

Great Thursday night screening of Black Rabbit, White Rabbit (Tajikistan, 2025) at The Chicago International Film Festival, with Iranian director Shahram Mokri & writer Nasim Ahmadpour in attendance...and a wild typographic campaign from Ogilvy Chicago.

Saturday.

STUPID PEOPLE SHOULDN'T BREED

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Found in my vintage files: Robert Redford, Playgirl, August 1976, unauthorized publicity photo on cover. 💜 his performances in Barefoot in the Park (1967) and All the President's Men (1976).

Hairy Squared: part 2 > question, answer 💙💜 / You Look Like The Right Type / September 7, 2025 / What did she say? / I love a gay man. / Renegade Craft Fair, Wicker Park, Chicago

Hairy Squared: 2 different speakers, 2 different days💥💥 / You Look Like The Right Type / August 17 + June 24, 2025 / Apparently, I have a thing for gray beards. / You have a very sexy radio voice right now. / Edgewater + Rogers Park, Chicago

“Hold (1 of 3)” (2024) / Jessi Presley-Grusin jpgrusin / woodblock print 🎨See this artist’s full Queer Art Hub bio at: queerarthub.com/artist/jessi...

My show “Video Voice” opens in 2 weeks at four eleven gallery in Provincetown “VHS T-120” Mixed media on panel 9” x 12”

🔥Wow, right?

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More Omega Music / Dayton, Ohio

Omega Music / Dayton, Ohio

From the excellent $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives show at the Getty / The beginning (book spread) / poem by Constantine Cavafy, illustrated with copperplate etching by David Hockney, London, 1967

Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles

Trying to prepare mentally for Monday. #InTheMoodForLove

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Shout-out to queer writer, filmmaker, and artist Jean Cocteau on his birthday today, July 5, 1889. And shout-out to Sarah Reed of Hollywood, who read this copy of my (used) book 64 years ago (bottom-right inscription).

"Historians recently ranked him as one of the worst presidents in American history, while the four on Mount Rushmore are all in the top five." / LOL + F off, DT (also, beautiful interactive storytelling, once again, @nytimes.com)

💜💙 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 18, 2025 / No one thinks we're work partners. / Juneau, Alaska / Happy Pride 2025

💛 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 17, 2025 / I gotta go see if I can find six more clown noses for the show. / photographed with "Nimbus," Robert Murray, painted aluminum, 1978 / Alaska State Museum, Juneau

💥 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 13, 2025 / Will Hamlet avenge his father's death? Will Vladimir and Estragon continue to wait for Godot? / People need to do and stop complaining and how do they choose to do? / Valdez, Alaska

Happy Pride weekend, you fabulous folx.

💙 / You Look Like The Right Type / June 2, 2025 / I used to be boyish / Chicago

HAPPY PRIDE / You Look Like The Right Type / May 30, 2025 / It has to do with community and solidarity and creating mass movements and the queer creed—WE KEEP US SAFE—and the trans creed—WE KEEP US SAFE. / I've lived all over and I always come back here. / Lilly Wachowski, Music Box Theatre, Chicago

Thank you, @chalkdog.bsky.social, for the conversation!

Alan Turing #GayArt #QueerArt #AlanTuring #GayHistory #QueerHistory #Pride2025 #Pride

TAG SOMEONE YOU LOVE / You Look Like The Right Type / May 11, 2025 / You got more issues than People Magazine. / Chicago

Muncie, Indiana! From left to right: William, Frank, Lucius (seated), Edmund, and George.

Opening day of THE SHINING, 5/23/80

Art is activism. Atlanta's own @outonfilm.org is conducting a Kickstarter to support queer filmmakers. Every Buck brings another important story closer to reality. www.kickstarter.com/projects/out...

KEEP SOMETHING IN RESERVE FOR EMERGENCIES

Nostalgic for New York + Hello, again, Tony Kushner / Bethesda Fountain, Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

Great interview. Be still, my gay heart. I love the cultural and historical commentary from enamored, starry-eyed Tony Kushner.

I warmly invite you to submit a chapt proposal for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Queering Research Methods. This volume explores how every phase of the research process: design, methods, tools, analysis, communication – can be Queered. deadline: 6/30/25 deets/submission: tinyurl.com/queeringrese...

One last Mother’s Day meme for y’all. #HorrorSky #FilmSky

You Look Like The Right Type / April 13, 2025 / My husband wishes he had that kind of hair on his chest. / Burbank, California