Welcome to the Rick Chris Fabulous Links Page!
If you think you have a quality business or web site that you think gay men would find interesting, please email me and I will be happy to provide you with a link on this page. NOTE: Links for XXX-rated sites, pay-for-view sites, sites selling drugs, and spam related sites are not accepted.

Gay Male Internet Art Groups

male-art-toons - The largest of the male art groups on Yahoo. English

KINROD Gay Art - Bryan from Costa Rica has put together this fine group on Yahoo.
KINROD Gay Art at Google - is Bryan's Google group.
Gay_Male_Erotic_Drawings - The title says it all for this Google group. English
http://www.gaypaintings.com/forum - Shahar's gay art forum.
http://spaces.msn.com/members/gayartists - Shahar's gay painters blog
GWP04 - Gay Wallpapers Plus 2004


The Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation
127-B Prince Street
New York, NY 10012-3154

The Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation is a non-profit foundation which was established in 1990 to provide an outlet for art work that is unambiguously gay and which is frequently denied access to mainstream venues. The Foundation's Leslie-Lohman Gallery mounts exhibitions of work in all media by gay and lesbian artists with an emphasis on subject matter that speaks directly to gay and lesbian sensibilities, including, erotic, political, romantic, and social imagery and providing special support for emerging and underrepresented artists.

It's programs include regularly scheduled exhibitions, video events, workshop presentations of plays, a slide registry, artists' and curator's talks, panel discussions, a quarterly newletter, a membership program, an archive and a permanent collection of art.

www.delftboys.com
www.schuring.net

From the Netherlands, Ad Schuring's great and thorough collection of gay art.
http://www.ButchBoyStudios.com/ From San Francisco, a web site representing the highly professional and polished work of Joel Hoyer and Martin Freeman. Joel's work involves screens, constructions and gilding which reflect his early involvement as a master frame builder. Martin's work involves expressionist painting and wonderful whimsical sculpture.
http://www.iniquitystudios.com From Texas, the masculine art of Darren Heppel.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/atlavik/ Alex from Norway's web site features his artwork of husky Russian and bearish men. Alex's lively and expressionistic sketches seem to show some Tom of Finland influence and also remind me somewhat of Picasso sketches. If you like your men big and beefy you might enjoy taking a look.
http://www.seantheartist.com/ A memorial site for John Klamik also known as Sean the artist. John passed on January 5, 2005. His work was popular and well known and was used in many early gay publications. Sean provided many humorous and editorial and political cartoons for the then fledging gay newspaper, the Advocate in the early 1970s. He signed his editorial cartoons that he did for the Advocate as "Buckshot" and signed his many cartoons he provided to gay publications as "Shawn". Sean was also noted for his erotic male illustrations.
"The world's favorite comic strip about a gay bed & breakfast. (Actually, the world's ONLY comic strip about a gay bed & breakfast !!! )" Artist Greg Fox's super online cartoon strip about the continuing drama at a gay bed & breakfast inn.



By Andy Bauer

The Gay Monsters - A webcomic where DRAB is FAB!

This colorfully flamboyant webcomic is pure campy queer horror about charming gay monsters and their contemporary queer situation. This spooktacular treat will have you screaming with laughter.



Scum Bag Fag Mag is a queer zine based in New York and Montréal. It is full of dirty humour and fun images.


Michael Broderick's HOTTLEAD
HOTTLEAD - An online portfolio of original drawings and illustrations with a decidedly all-male bent. The erotic male artwork of Michael Broderick.
 
drubskin.com

Drub
Born 1973 - Ansonia, CT, USA. Punks, skinheads and blue collar workers are my subject matter. Breaking both stereotypes and conventional production methods, Drub's artwork fuses the homoerotic with a comic book aesthetic. The result is a series of large, vibrant, lively limited-edition prints that remain playful yet are decidedly horny and perverse.

Drub currently lives in San Diego, CA
About the Artist
Using a computer has really allowed my technique to blossom by allowing me to mix fine quality line art with bold and arresting color treatments to make the images really jump out from the paper but remain refined. The mixture of traditional graphic illustration with the sexually explicit subject matter I find subversive without becoming pretentious. The images are primarily figure studies of guys caught in the act in a way that he viewer can easily connect with. My artwork is not at all cold or impersonal. Quite the opposite, it is racy and very accessible. Sometimes I feel that a lot of homoerotic art is often quite beautiful in an abstract sense and technically well executed but somewhat idealized and even a little sterile. Today more than ever I think we need something that is human and warm that we can connect with. If you have a sense of humor that helps too.

DurkART

Durk is a Florida gay artist who specializes in delightful, upbeat abstract paintings.
Durk's homepage is at: http://durkart.com and his MySpace page at: http://www.myspace.com/durkart

Also: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/durkART0001
and, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ARTIST4PEACE

The Sultry World of Bobby Cook
http://www.bobbycookstudio.com
The Sultry World of Bobby Cook. This Arizona artist offers homoerotic drawings of centaurs, giants, bikers, truckers and cowboys. Also featured is the artist's erotic male on male fiction.
Tedited
http://www.tedited.com
Tedited is an artist living in Oslo, Norway. He creates contemporary homoerotic art/gay art, inspired by his love of the male naked body and soul.

Randy RD Riccoboni

http://rdriccoboni.com
http://www.squidoo.com/i-paint (blog)
http://www.cafepress.com/woofmuseum

Randy RD Riccoboni is an insightful, American born artist (California, 1960) influenced by a plethora of sights, sounds, colors, textures and emotion. This self-taught artist acquired his drive and inspiration from encouragement given him by family, friends and public school teachers. Riccoboni's profound love for art and architecture are evidenced in his paintings, landscape and portrait masterpieces; art work that captures the essence of a person's spirit, the love given from animals as well as the beauty and intensity in his land and cityscapes.

German artist Daniel Cool
Web site: http://www.danielcool.com
Auf Deutsch and in English

The paintings stand for respect, friendship and love. For acknowledgment, equal rights and an end of each kind of discrimination. My work developed in the indication of the rainbow. The colors stands for: Red - life, orange - healing, yellow - sun, green - nature, blue - harmony, violet - mind. They give a positive life feeling. It is my appeal to the society for more tolerance and solidarity.

"My pictures stand for friendship, partnership and love."

Meine Bilder stehen für Freundschaft, Respekt und Liebe. Anerkennung, Toleranz und Gleichberechtigung. Vor allem aber ein Ende von Diskriminierung jeder Art. Meine Arbeiten sind im Zeichen des Regenbogens entstanden. Die Farben stehen für: Rot - Leben, orange - Heilung, gelb - Sonne, grün - Natur, blau - Harmonie, violett-Geist. Sie geben ein positives Lebensgefühl. Es ist mein Appell an die Gesellschaft für mehr Toleranz und Solidarität.

Meine Bilder stehen für Freundschaft, Partnerschaft und Liebe. Die Motive der Bilder enthalten Botschaften für die Community. Sie sollen die Kommunikation und das Zusammenleben untereinander positiv fördern. Man hat die Möglichkeit neue Perspektiven zu sammeln und zu entdecken.

Artdesy.com - An Art Directory

 


Entertainment e-zines and Blogs

Musicians, Entertainers and Performers

Rick Chris very much recommends the Queer Music Heritage web site. If you are at all into music and would like to see how much gay performers have contributed to the music scene over the years, this site is a MUST SEE. For those of us who love music, JD Doyle has catalogued an incredible amount of information on gay artists and albums including some incredible rare stuff. A fun site to visit and JD has done a great service for the gay community by preserving the history and memory of these artists and recordings. QMH is also a radio show on KPFT radio in Houston, Texas and is also netcast.
Daniel Cartier

Daniel Cartier
For more info about Daniel Cartier's music and to purchase his CDs click here.

Dennis Hensley Dennis Hensley
The multi-talented singer/actor/host Dennis Hensley, a great looking man with a beautiful voice.
Andy Northrup Andy Northrup
This hunky, attractive Canadian singer/actor has received acclaim with his first two CDs, Slow Burn Avenue and Cardboard Logic. Andy's music is sophisticated and sensitive yet he delivers it with a rich, masculine flavor, through the pleasant baritone range of his voice. The music could be described as rock/folk, yet it drifts and flirts comfortably with other musical styles which makes for entertaining listening. Andy's also one very nice guy. His CD's can be purchased at CDBaby. Andy's MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/andrewnorthrup

photo: Johnny Vinton
Mark Weigle
Musicians are also artists - using a palette of sound. Mark Weigle is a gay man whose music is a mix of country, pop and folk. He has released four CDs of his music and he has a substantial following of fans. Mark states that his music is broad enough that it appeals to fans of a lot of different styles. He says that the common denominator in a lot of his work is that it's gay-themed.
Jay Spears

Jay Spears
Fun grooves, juicy harmonies, extra crispy guitars, and gay as a three dollar bill. What's not to like? Go ahead, play with Jay - you know you want to.

With ear-catching toe-tappers like I LIKE MIKE and CRYIN' OVER BRIAN, Jay Spears' debut album BOY HOWDY was Outmusic's nominee for Outstanding Album 2003, and the feel-good swing of I LIKE MIKE made for a hit single and a smash music video (think swing-dancing baseball players) that still airs in heavy rotation on Viacom's LOGO channel. Now Jay's back, and his new CD is called PLAYIN' ON MY TEAM, of course. The gay love-child of Randy Newman and Tom Waits, Jay's new batch of homo-pop gathers gay dating, R&R, urban techno, Irish-Catholic guilt, acoustic story-song, a boy-on-boy cover of a 1963 girl-group chart-topper, and even a big ol' full-choir gospel tune for our wacky Evangelical pals into one great big way-gay musical bouquet.

Boy Howdy - I Like Mike - Playin' On My Team


Josh Zuckerman banner

www.joshzuckerman.com

Josh Zuckerman
This promising singer/songwriter/musician expands his musical horizons with each song he composes and records. Josh's lyrics are said to be truthful, surrounding life's challenges and quest for spiritual growth. His musical conviction and well articulated melodies are spirited and intriguing. Although the New Jersey resident considers himself a musician, Josh remains mainly focused on strong songwriting and vocal harmonies. Josh has performed and traveled in over 15 different countries.

His title track song "a totally new sensation" of his CD of the same name, was nominated for an Out Music Award for outstanding songwriter of the year. The song is also included on the soundtrack recording for the film "Know Parking." Josh has been written up in publications across the world including Instinct Magazine, Time Out NY, PlanetOut.com, HX and Swerve.


Retail

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Query Booksellers

If you are in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area or plan to visit there, stop in and browse at Query Booksellers for a unique and diverse selection of books, gifts and much more. Query has a wide range of gay books, the best popular titles and regional interest books as well. Query Booksellers was awarded "Best Independent Bookseller" in the 2005 City Pages Best of the Twin Cities.

520 East Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55414
612-331-7701


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The Wilde Roast Cafe

Next door to Query Booksellers and joined by a connecting doorway is the Wilde Roast Cafe. The Wilde Roast Cafe is a coffeehouse with an update Victorian feel. A comfortable place you can come alone or with friends to enjoy a latte or glass of wine by a 1900's fireplace on a Chesterfield couch.

518 Hennepin Ave. E.,
Minneapolis, MN 55414
612-331-4544

Writers

http://www.alanilagan.com Alan Ilagan
Writers are creative people too and you might enjoy exploring the writings of author Alan Bennett Ilagan. Along with his writing his site features the projects Alan has worked on, a biography and a gallery of photos of the writer.
Wildcat Press Patricia Nell Warren
One of the first novels I read with positive gay characters was Patricia Nell Warren's The Front Runner, a very successful book also translated into 10 languages (and celebrated it's 30th anniversary of publication in 2004). To learn more about this Montana native and her books, click on the link at left.
William Maltese
Many of William Maltese's early pulp fiction novels have become collector's items often commanding three-figure sums on auction venues such as ebay. This internationally best selling author has achieved great success in the field of gay literature starting with his novel ADONIS and continuing with his sci-fi TLEN series and continues with his on going STUD DRAQUAL MYSTERY series. Also available are Maltese's gay sci-fi epic BOND-SHATTERING, for nightwares L.L.C., and his gay adventure/romance BEYOND MACHU released by Haworth Press in May 2006.

MLR Press (ManLoveRomance Press) provides you with some of the very best in gay erotic romance and fiction. From lust-filled, stolen moment to long, lazy afternoons of lovemaking, we have the man-on-man mayhem you're looking for wrapped up in solid plots with heroes you can love with a passion. Maybe even hate with a passion, but passion will always be a part of it. Immerse yourself in the exotic, action-packed adventures and thrilling mysteries of gay fiction master William Maltese, author of over 150 books. Or try the intriguing, sensual sleuthing of Lambda-nominated, best-selling author Josh Lanyon, then sample the steamy romances from the explicit writings of the award-winning Laura Baumbach. There is a reason they say her stories are so hot the pages curl. Add in the works of contributing authors Drewey Wayne Gunn and Sarah Black, and you have a combination of talents that will have you coming back again and again.You find some of the best in erotic artwork on our covers. Manlove. You know you want to. Go ahead. Read us. Reading is man's second favorite activity to do in bed.


Manloveromance News is the new monthly newsletter for thirty (plus) of the hottest authors of male/male erotica and romances worldwide. Each month we will update you on members' new releases, reviews, appearances and other tidbits. Subscribe now and keep updated on the latest in the sensual world of M/M erotic romance and fiction by some of THE best authors you'll find anywhere in print and on the Net.

Our authors include: Evangeline Anderson, Kayelle Allen, Lena Austin, Mardi Ballou, Laura Baumbach, Ally Blue, James Buchanan, Kirby Crow, Kay Derwydd, Vincent Diamond, Leigh Ellwood, Erastes, Renee George, Fiona Glass, Sedonia Guillone, Nathan James, Timothy Kelley, Jourdan Lane, JL Langley, Marguerite, William Maltese, Renee Manley, D.J.Manly, Sean Michael, Willa Okati, S.A.Payne, CB Potts, Luisa Prieto, Nigel Puerasch, M.L.Rhodes, Kira Stone, Julia Talbot with the talents of graphics artist Deana Jamroz.

 

TV, Radio and Motion Pictures

Lets have a party…a TVparty that is.
This is one of Rick Chris's favorite sites on the web, hosted by your pal (and mine) Billy Ingram. Let's face it, we all grew up with TV and this good looking site, with its well written articles and streaming video clips, does a terrific job of bringing back a lot of powerful memories. You might say this web site is comfort food for the soul. To read about or watch a clip of a childrens show you used to watch when you were a kid is like suddenly finding one of your old childhood toys. Plus, there's so much else on the site, insight into behind the scenes drama, celebrity gossip, hilarious TV show outtakes and more, that a visit to this site is well worth your time. An excellent site, Mr. Ingram!
http://www.alternatechannels.org/radio.htm "Queer" moments in old-time radio programming. Interesting. From the United Kingdom.

 

Fun Stuff at Brian's Drive-in Theater, an online museum devoted to B-Movies, Movie stars
and all sorts of related information and photos!



 

 

Serving the Chilean gay Community for 8 years.

Gay Chile. Since 1998 has been the path to the Americas in the Spanish language. During these years Gay Chile has become the preferred route to friends around the world. All of the information about the Chilean gay people and a complete guide to the Chilean gay scene. Gay Chile.

El portal Gay de Chile desde 1998 es el más antiguo portal gay latino americano de habla hispana. Posee completa informacion acerca de la vida gay diurna y nocturna, noticias, gay chat etc.


The Power In Pride Award was created to inspire and recognize those websites and webmasters who honor diversity and show pride for the GLBT community on the internet.
The Rainbow Award is exclusively bestowed upon those who have made a contribution to the GLBT Web community through excellence in content, design, creativity, presentation or overall concept of their web page.

Queery Button


Gay USA Men provides a place where gay men in the United States can interact and enjoy online entertainment.

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Ultimate Not-For-Profit Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Intersexed & Their Allies Community & Life Site!

Southern Most AIDS/HIV Ride 3
"The SMART Ride"
Glen Weinzimer, Director
Southern Most AIDS/HIV Ride 3
The SMART Ride
1314 E Las Olas Blvd. Ste 302
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
1-866-696-7701 glen@thesmartride.org www.thesmartride.org
One truly remarkable and awesome site featuring not only Castro Street but a wonderful illustrated history of San Francisco's gay community. This important site is Donald's labor of love, an incredible testament to the people and places that not only pioneered the gay movement in America but created a dynamic and wonderful place and time. A must see!

San Francisco's Castro
by Strange de Jim

San Francisco's Castro by Strange de Jim. Photos from 1870 to the present. You'll see how a quiet Irish Catholic neighborhood suddenly added "World's Gay Mecca" to its list of attractions, how opposites learned to live in harmony. Whether you use this knowledge to bring about world peace is entirely up to you.

http://members.aol.com/strangecastro

An fascinating web site by author Strange de Jim with many photos of the Castro and it's history.

We Did That An inspirational personal web site which shows that people cannot be limited in their aspirations simply because they are gay. Page two of the site features a list of links to web sites devoted to famous gay people.
September 11, 2001: Gay Victims & Heroes Michael and Paul from Jacksonville, Florida have furnished me with links to some interesting sites they have built.
Michael put a lot of work into his 9/11 memorial web page which includes photos and is most definitely worth a look.
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs: First Gay Activist: 180 Years of Pride in 2005 Michael and Paul also have a very thorough web site which explores the life and writings of 19th century gay pioneer Karl Heinrich Ulrichs.
Stand Up and Be Counted! Cape Cod resident Nate has created this web page with a little information about himself, issues he's concerned about and links to his favorite gay pages.

The Milwaukee LGBT History Project Web Site is dedicated to preserving and making available to the general public, the history of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community in the Milwaukee area and all of Wisconsin. It attempts to gather any recollections, photographs, and material artifacts relating to the history of GLBT life in Wisconsin, and present them in an organized and cross-linked manner. It strives to help "old timers" recall and resurrect memories of what was, and simultaneously allow the newer generations and the general community to appreciate the depth and value of past people and events in shaping both the freedoms and continuing challenges of gays and lesbians.

The PBS-TV gay and lesbian monthly newsmagazine featuring segments on current events, gay history and Harvey Fierstein's editorial "Out Takes". Video clips and information about the show are available on the web site.
Andrew Sullivan
Web site and blog of writer, columnist, essayist Andrew Sullivan. Author of Virtually Normal - An Argument About Homosexuality and other books.
I know that some people don't like Andrew Sullivan or some of his viewpoints. The thing is, in a free society someone's viewpoint does not matter as much as the fact they are willing and have the guts to express it. At one of the low points of my life when I was experiencing a lot of difficulties for being gay, I saw Mr. Sullivan on I believe, the Charlie Rose show. He was delivering an argument in defense of homosexuals on the show and lifted my spirits considerably. Therefore, I put Mr. Sullivan on my heros list. I don't agree with everything that Andrew says, but then again I don't agree with everything anybody says.

 

To have a web site concerned with protection and preservation of human rights and freedom of expression or gay political actvism and gay rights, listed under this banner, send an email.


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