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    Get a Piece of Skin Off Bruce LaBruce (Photos)

    Christopher Harrity

    Christopher Harrity is the Manager of Online Production for Here Media, parent company to The Advocate and Out. He enjoys assembling online features on artists and photographers, and you can often find him poring over the mouldering archives of the magazines.
    Christopher Harrity is the Manager of Online Production for Here Media, parent company to The Advocate and Out. He enjoys assembling online features on artists and photographers, and you can often find him poring over the mouldering archives of the magazines.
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    Bruce LaBruce and the Tom of Finland Store form a happy (open) relationship.
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    Bruce LaBruce and the Tom of Finland Store form a happy (open) relationship. Read more below.

    If you are not familiar with Bruce LaBruce's work, he is sort of a bastard love child of Kenneth Anger and John Waters. Maybe a little scarier. His first claim to fame was the zine J.D.s in 1985. And that little chapbook essentially made the '90s homocore scene possible. He also made a bunch of crazy-ass films meant to challenge everything you hold dear about God and country. What a relief to let go of all those old ideas.

    His fetishized views on sexuality and his tendency to include very hardcore sex scenes in his films and art work make his current offerings through the Tom of Finland Store a perfect match. Even 30-something years after the launch of J.D.s, Bruce LaBruce can still shock -- in that way you like to be shocked.

    Bruce LaBruce and Joakim Andreasson (TOFS creative director) have announced the online reiteration of "Faggotry." Following retrospective gallery exhibitions and programs in London (Gallery 46), Madrid (La Fresh), Los Angeles (Lethal Amounts) and New York (MoMA), the online platform will be made up of over 100 photographs that LaBruce has produced over the past 25 years, and are now available as part of an exclusive offering via Tom of Finland Store. (Warning: very adult content.)

    The presentation includes photographs from film sets, candid shots of fellow artists, friends, and collaborators, photographs made for movie promotion and posters, excerpts of shoots for magazines, photography for gallery shows, and documentation of live performances.

    "To be honest, I just keep doing what I've always been doing. It's the political spectrum that keeps shifting, although its goal posts always seem to shift more and more to the right side of the spectrum in terms of capitalism, corporatism, and neo-liberalism. My work has never been particularly accepted by the gay orthodoxy, and as assimilation advances, it's even less popular!" -- Bruce LaBruce on the Glory Hole blog

    Assembled here is a small gallery of the images we can show you without scaring the horses in the street. Go to the Tom of Finland Store for the really scary stuff.

    Above: Bruce LaBruce, Klaus von brucker #2 (No Skin Off My Ass production still), 1990, courtesy of the artist and Tom of Finland Store.

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