A soft watercolour wash of deep crimson and charcoal black bleeding into muted flesh tones, suggesting a charged, defiant atmosphere

MANifesto

Adventures in Sodomy — Only Adults

HOMO exists as intelligent and radical inquiry into living as a pervy homosexual today. We admire brains, brawn, and guts over polish and conformity.

We tend toward dissent, provocation, revolt, and secession from mainstream fag life.

Our inspiration is drawn from the aesthetics, politics, and ideas manifest in the Castro and the Village in the mid-'70s — a moment before assimilation flattened the edges of gay culture into something safe and saleable.

What We Stand For

  • Rejection of the sanitized, mainstream version of gay life sold back to us as the only option.
  • An embrace of provocation, revolt, and the right to be difficult, hungry, and unresolved.
  • A celebration of vintage, hairy, pervy, and experimental imagery — the stuff left out of polite galleries.

We wish HOMO to be a visual memoir and a digital bathroom stall for sex, graffiti, and intelligence — a place where contradiction is allowed and nothing is explained away.

Carry It Forward

Read more about the thinking behind HOMO, or get in touch with original work and ideas.