Spencer Alley

Stanley Spencer Christ carrying the Cross 1920 oil on canvas Tate Gallery Stanley Spencer The Resurrection, Cookham 1924-27 oil on canvas Ta...

Frank O'Hara by Mario Schifano, 1965 "The Beats thought the New York poets "silly and effete," as evident in the inf...

Delos, 1937 Capri, 1935 Munich, 1946 Munich, 1946 Rome, 1949 Bomarzo Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rome, 1949 Ro...

My boyfriend thinks these people will soon be rounding up the San Francisco queers and cattle-prodding them into camps behind barbed wire....

A new documentary will be released on June 18th examining the work of Mormon money (solicited by Roman Catholic officials here in Californi...

Foot-high lettering on a garage door. Still in 2010 a viable insult (and no doubt an effective threat) in the tolerant & enlightened ci...

Harvey Milk – or I should say the new Harvey Milk – spotted in the Castro today graphically transformed in the aftermath of Sean Penn'...

A friend comes over in the afternoon after work and we set off walking (and talking) from the San Francisco flats up into the San Francisco...

At the laundromat this morning I picked up a copy of San Francisco's most popular gay paper, the free weekly Bay Area Reporter. There I...

Bright morning on Valencia near 16th, where I am offered a good view of the previous night's felony vandalism as I make my way over to...

A brand-new gay rights campaign is launching itself in California, as anybody could have predicted it would. To me this resembles a theate...

Unselfconscious affection, visibly expressed. This quality has already pretty well disappeared between contemporary Amer...