Most iconic 80’s homoerotic photo print ad/poster?

Lots of info on that Herb Ritts photo here.

Ahem…

There's an Australian photographer who does homoerotic pictures of men working, such as a junk car lot, horse stable, Blue collar settings, etc many are full frontal nudes, but I can't recall the photographer's name. Very sexy and beautiful working men, stunning images, maybe someone will know the name of the Australian photographer?... :-)

Soloflex dude

Does this count

Maxwell Caulfield

R5, Yes!

You mean Paul Freeman, probably

In honor of closet case San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Full'o'Baloney, I choose Piss Christ.

Most/all of these pictures so far aren't homoerotic, though.

R10 Helen Keller! You're alive!

The cover of The Smiths "Hand in Glove," a photograph of George O'Mara by Lou Thomas or Jim French, taken from Margaret Walters' history The Nude Male.

The cover of The Smiths "Hand in Glove," a photograph of George O'Mara by Lou Thomas or Jim French, taken from Margaret Walters' history The Nude Male.

R11 They're just pictures of guys posing shirtless. I remember a lot of girls had that picture of the model in white jockey shorts on their walls. It wasn't considered homoerotic (why would it be)? I would think "homoerotic" would indicate some hint of homoerotic sex, like, you know, a couple of guys...

Antonio Sabato, Jr. for Calvin Klein

The pix in OP is really the ultimate homo fantasy. He wins.

Iconic, but the queen in the photo was skipping leg day

L’Enfant, better known as Man and Baby (Adam Perry) holding a young baby. By Spencer Rowell in 1986, published and distributed in the 1987.

R4 You just reminded me that I had several soloflex ads on my walls in HS

Soloflex guy

R10 Homoerotic is a state of mind, dear. In the eye of the beholder, you see? Run along now and let us enjoy the beauty please

R20, I find you reductive.

Madonna's Ritts portrait was shot so that the shadow at her neckline looked like the line of where the male glans meets the shaft of an erect penis. Shoulders/breasts where shaft meets balls. Very homoerotically suggestive.

Target: gay men.

Robert Hepler Lowe

Herb Ritts

Three Male Torsos , 1986

Summer Souvenirs by Ken Haak.

Larry Scott | Herb ritts,

Acqua di gio

R8, Paul Freeman, yes, thank you for that. :-)

Brady Anderson, I don't know if it's from the 80s though.

Stupid Bing.

This.

WTF is that

David Lee Roth, King of Butterfaceland, R32.

He had an amazing bod, I must say.

Don't know how anybody ever thought he was straight.

R14, did you even bother to look up the word? The definition is very broad.

R18, is that the one Josh Hawley had hanging on his wall?

The pic at R4 wins for me. Madsen is one of the most homoerotic models ever - the sweet, feminine face, his expression of sleepy, stoned innocence, the sense of vulnerability of the pose (even the spread legs, usually an aggressive gesture, seems to be soft and inviting), his clearly visible penis, the silken tactility of everything.

R35

Yes.

The BVD ads set my young loins a-tingle.

[quote]did you even bother to look up the word? The definition is very broad.

R34 No, and I didn't look up the words "iconic" or "photo" because I also know what they mean. Okay, it's fine if any sexy photo of a muscular man can be called "homoerotic". I would just normally call that "erotic." Or just a semi-nude photo. Sorry if I offended everyone. *crawls back into hole*

r23, what? where?

Can you or someone circle the Rorschach shadow r23 sees as cock?

R4 for the win. As a young closeted gayling I just about exploded when I saw that ad. His nuts/junk visibly resting on the bench?! Thank you Soloflex for giving gay boys the equivalent of the Victoria’s Secret catalogue.

Chicago Film Festival Posters

Really, no hairy chested Jim Palmer underwear ads yet?

It's there R43.

[quote]Really, no hairy chested Jim Palmer underwear ads yet?

Not unless you count the one posted at R5.

Hey, have there been any photos posted of Jim Palmer yet?

Jim who?

Jim Palmer was a '70s underwear model. I had the Jockey briefs in r43 in 1976. Lots of different colors. They were actually called "Jockey shorts."

R5.. my very favorite jim palmer underwear AD he ever did! thank you! that soft bulge is beyond hypnotic and enticing! ...

does the cover of that charles hix book "working out" count as homoerotic?....

He was a baseball player!!!

R48 Well he was mainly a baseball star

jim palmer was a great baseball player and in the hall of fame.... the fact that he was and still is the handsomest pitcher who ever played (scott erickson a close second) AND who posed in skimpy bikini underwear (the norm back in the day) makes it that much more special....

[quote]does the cover of that charles hix book "working out" count as homoerotic?....

Well, r49, I certainly wanted to work out with coverboy Russell Henis. And not just because of his last name.

R53 Oh, that's funny - I didn't know he was on that cover - I knew him at college.

R45 Shows no image for me and has no text.

The monthly pages of GQ (which your parents didn’t question you having a subscription to in high school) offered lots of delicious beefcake imagery. Also International Male catalogue which took it to a whole other level, and was offered for free in the pages of GQ (just send them your address!)

Can't believe we missed this one: George Michael on the Faith tour.

Dat azz...

[quote]Homoerotic is a state of mind, dear. In the eye of the beholder.

Well then...

Is it possible that this hasn't been posted yet, or did I somehow miss it?

Is that 80s?

A vote for R18!

Sorry, R60, my mistake. Those Marky Mark ads for CK were from 1992. My apologies.

R4 If only Scott could have felt all the tongues wanting to lick him over and over.

Alas, he was a homophobe and embezzler.

This made my pubescent loins quiver.

Thanks for mansplaining that for us r48

Um I feel most people here need to look up what homoerotic means. And this is coming from a straight frau,-

Mapplethorpe was the king.

R66, I did look up "homoerotic," and the definition is what it is, even if some of us -- maybe even myself included -- might think it should be more specific.

When did Scott Madsen's ads for Soloflex first come out? The link at R63 says 1984, but I swear remember them from when I was in high school, which was a little earlier—probably 1981 or 82.

R66 here’s the definition:

[Quote] Homoerotic - concerning or arousing sexual desire centred on a person of the same sex.

So all the pictures shown so far fit the definition. Maybe as a straight frau you shouldn’t be here at all, let alone berating us for what we found homoerotic in the 80s?

homoerotic:

[quote] Of, relating to, or tending to arouse sexual desire for a person of the same sex.

American Heritage dictionary.

I don't think the photo has to contain two men or two women.

Shut your slimy gash, frau cunt R66. You have no business telling gay men what homoeroticism is.

Same sex as who? And there are multiple other definitions that say somethin g entirely different:

Merriam Webster: The meaning of HOMOEROTIC is of, relating to, or involving sexual activity between people of the same sex

Then you have one more similarly to the one posted from Collins dictionary: Homoerotic is used to describe things such as films, literature, and images intended to be sexually appealing to gay people.

I guess some might fall into that class, though I am not sure how you can tell it was directed at gay men. Unless they're presenting hole or something.

Homoeroticism is in the eye of the beholder. It doesn’t have to be approved by committee.

“Why a Bend Over Blazer?”

[quote] It doesn’t have to be approved by committee.

Certainly not by straight women who should GTFO.

[quote]R73 Shut your slimy gash, frau cunt [R66]. You have no business telling gay men what homoeroticism is.

Except she sounds educated.

Lucky

[quote]r72 Homoerotic - concerning or arousing sexual desire centred on a person of the same sex.

So if a man found, say, an image of Donald Trump sexually attractive, the image is homoerotic?

Spare me R78. That slimy gash cunt has no business in a gay man's website telling us how we should think.

She’s giving her impressions.

This is mine of you:

Likewise, R82.

Bruce Weber's entire issue of *Interview* for Jan/Feb '84 on the '84 Summer Olympic athletes, the whole mag.

The one that should have been but never was. Fatties and all. Pha-Pha-Pha-Physical

But what if the eroticized male body is appealing to a girl ? Then what ? It is still appealing to the gay man, yes, but " homoerotic" should allude to erotic representation between at least two males ( or female).

But that's for the sake of vocabulary debate !

I'm here for the pretty pics !

Now, does anybody remembers short publicity clip with a beautiful man working on a machine. It was about cotton clothes (?). I remember seeing that before trailers at the movies in the mid-eighties. Wasn't French or American ? I wouldn't know.

Anybody remembers ?

Christopher Atkins, Blue Lagoon

For me the Jim Palmer ads are not homoerotic because Jim is presented as just a regular guy, albeit very attractive, who is photographed in his skivvies. The appeal is to straight women who respond to a man who is friendly, wholesome and in control of the situation.

The Soloflex ad is homoerotic because its subject is erotized in a feminine way - made to look passive, soft, inviting and innocent - in a way that I imagine most women would not respond to, even if they found Madsen objectively good-looking.

We see Palmer's personality; we see Madsen's physicality.

Or that's how it seems to me.

Every time I would go to the mall with my mother during the 80s, I would run off to Spencer Gifts and salivate over all the homoerotic merchandise. They had a poster section in the back of the store with several posters of half-naked guys. I especially remember one poster of the Unknown Comic who was naked and he had a smaller paper bag over his cock. I laugh now that it used to get me so turned on.

Homoerotic most standardly refers to allusions to same sex attraction. A cute guy in a pic is not homoerotic unless he’s in, say, a locker room with men giving off hints of veiled intimacy in the background. Then the work becomes homoerotic… by the standard understanding of the word.

There is one Jim Palmer ad that shows a little bit of his pubes. I thought his bush must have looked like the thick hair on his head.

The Unknown Comic posed full-frontal in Playgirl with a brown bag over his head. Allegedly it really was him.

Herb Ritts’ Nude Man with Bubble is my favorite 80s art piece. I don’t want to download it from an art auction house. Who knows what trouble will brew from that? Does anyone know who the model is?

I still have that Soloflex poster

r73/r81 you said it twice. In case we weren’t sure you’re vulgar trash. Go away.

Mitch Gaylord:

This Helmut Newton photo of Gia Carangi is homoerotic because the model in the suit is actually female. Had that been a male model, it would not be homoerotic.

I believe this photo when put on a billboard in England, actually caused traffic accidents

Maybe that's just an urban myth

I know i’ve seen a full-frontal of those twins in R97, both of them nude together. I can’t remember which website or who they are.

R89.. used to do the same thing.. i should have got a job at spencer's, loved when they had the calendars out too... chippendales, skin deep, hot menz and so onand of course the postcards that featured young now famous fitness models sagi kalev and mike o'hearn among others....

R88... good post, but for me, trust me, I saw jim palmer's sexuality very clearly, not just his personality....

Nipple PERFECTION at r94

meeee

Who's the guy in r42?

Only image of this ad I could find.

Photographer Don Herron from the late 70s to early 90s did shots of famous people, primarily from the arts naked in the bathtub, many were quite homoerotic.

[quote]I did look up "homoerotic," and the definition is what it is, even if some of us -- maybe even myself included -- might think it should be more specific.

Now do a Google images search of "homoerotic ads" (the subject of this thread) and see what comes up. Mostly, ads feauturing either intentional or unintentional gay and man-on-man content.

For R64 (above)

I meant R68. lol

For those who still don’t grasp the concept of homoeroticism in advertising:

I wonder what happened to Fred and his tire.

For one, brief, shining moment....

Jim Palmer wasn't an underwear model.

Jim is a former professional baseball pitcher. Jim was asked to be a spokesman for Jockey underwear. He donated his Jockey poster earnings to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

"During the late 1970s, Palmer was a spokesman and underwear model for Jockey brand men's briefs. He appeared in the company's national print and television advertisements as well as on billboards at Times Square in New York City and other major cities. He donated all proceeds from the sale of his underwear poster to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation."

[quote]Now do a Google images search of "homoerotic ads" (the subject of this thread) and see what comes up. Mostly, ads feauturing either intentional or unintentional gay and man-on-man content.

Yes, and I would agree that those types of ads are more accurately described as homoerotic, in my opinion. I'm just saying, that's not the definition I found. But also, arguably, a photo of a bunch of naked or near-naked men together IN A NON-SEXUAL SITUATION, like the one at R109, is no more homoerotic than a photo of one beautiful man displaying his body for the camera.

I'm sure OP (and most of us) was looking for great images, not a pedantic debate of the definition of "homoerotic."

R88 Masden's thing was basically "Buy a Soloflex and you might get hot enough to fuck me." Must have been hard for a homophobe to realize that he was a sex object for horny fat men. If only he'd escorted back then, he'd have cleaned up.

R87 The urban legend about Blue Lagoon is that Atkins got sunburn on the soles of his feet since gay director Randal Kleiser fucked him so often. Time often isn't kind to guys like Atkins, but he's had steady (if minor) acting work more or less continuously since the movie was made, 40 years ago.

More Scott Masden, for me his hottest photo. He looks like he wandered from the Garden of Eden, not having an interest in Eve or her apple.

Who will take care of him?

[quote]Madonna's Ritts portrait was shot so that the shadow at her neckline looked like the line of where the male glans meets the shaft of an erect penis.

Yeah, we're sure that was absolutely on his mind when taking it.

R23: Unemployed Millennial with massive college debt who did a bullshit PhD on gender.

speaking of homoerotic? the Batman Tv show! enough said....

speaking of homoerotic? the MOST homoerotic kinky perhaps scene (certainly shower scene) ever put on film... Reb brown's infamous shower scene in the 1973 movie "Sssssss"!..

R119 The info I come to DL for!

R118, Ritts was referencing a work by Man Ray where the woman's neck/penile imagery is quite explicit.

Madsen's homophobic comment came after an attempted sexual assault by a photographer. He may or may not have been a homophobe prior to the incident, but it appears to have been the thing that caused him to exit the business.

R122 Very clumsy of the photographer. Sometimes, a little drink can help get things going.

That's so true

It's from the '90s, but still...

r111 see Tommy in r70, too.

R110, Fred with Tires is model Fred Harding. I don't know what he's been up to lately.

This.

R121 is talking about Man Ray's "Neck" set from his "Anatomies" series, with his girlfriend, photographer, Lee Miller, as his model. "Lee Miller served as the subject for this famous image in which the angle of the model's tilted head and neck makes her flesh resemble an erect penis."

R6, fix that link.

Ritts was also a sex pest. A friend of mine told me horrible stories.

R109, that ad was designed - very specifically - for women.

Makes me wonder if there was ever a gay porno based on the Soloflex ads.

More r ecent but 80s style

R133's link will keep the DL Mole Patrol busy for a few hours.

R114 How many images have you provided?

[quote]But also, arguably, a photo of a bunch of naked or near-naked men together IN A NON-SEXUAL SITUATION, like the one at [R109], is no more homoerotic than a photo of one beautiful man displaying his body for the camera.

There are many non-sexual situations in ads that have always been deemed homoerotic, that's why they come up when you Google them. The Outsiders (film) was considered homoerotic and many people have pointed that out, even though the situations are non-sexual. For one example.

I’m not seeing the penis in Madonna’s neck, r23! Is it a Magic Eye kind of a thing?

There are no pics of Scott Madsen later in life? That's really odd.

R137, you can kind of see what Ritts was going for in the photo 2nd from top right.

That's not what I meant, R136. To repeat -- a photo of two or more naked or near-naked men together in a non-sexual situation is arguably no more HOMOerotic than a photo of one man displaying his body, because both types of photos would presumably appeal to straight women as much as to gay men, whereas as a photo of two or more near-naked men caressing or kissing or groping or screwing each other could obviously be termed homoerotic with no fear of disagreement.

R53 I had that Working Out book in the 1980s. It gave me a handful of good stretching and workout routines I incorporated into my regular exercising. The good looking guys were a bonus. I came across it about 2-3 years ago when looking through of book library and donated it along with dozens of other books I no longer have use for to my local Salvation Army. I remember considering keeping it for old times sake, but decided I need to get rid of any clutter I was holding on to for sentimental reasons.

Willie Aames as a discount Christopher Atkins in "Paradise".

Personally I think "Zapped" should have been about him and Scott Baio fucking, as a prelude to Charlies in Charge.

Scott’s workout video is very homoerotic

R143 His tight sweaty hole deserved a lot of very gentle penetration.

^why gentle ?

R145 Better to go slow at first, until they are ready for the full Gronk. Wouldn't want him getting all weepy like Tebow.

His voice in R143 is a boner-killer.

R147, this x 1,000, plus he sounds, well, gay.

I'd still do him.

Quite frankly one of the most homoerotic things for me was seeing that shower door pop open revealing a slick, wet, treasured trailed naked Gregory Harrison each week in the Trapper John MD opening credits at .31.

R149 Yes, they certainly improved on their surrogate Hawkeye Pierce.

More a publicity still, but I think this pic of the cast of Weird Science did it for this gayling.

Were at reply152 and you guys are arguing about what is considered homoerotic? Well, this poster is my definition:

r125 my apologies, I am not trying to be a dick for pointing this out, but that is not Tom Cruise at r70.

The picture most dreaded by Professor Ilan Mitchell-Smith.

R154 Ilan rocking those panties.....

Will those of you who wish to play Argue please take your conversations down the hall? You are distracting the rest of us from the task at hand. Thanks!

WHET Scott Madsen? Any now pics of him. I crushed on him hard

^He was an embezzler, tried and convicted. Went to prison for it. Died "unexpectedly" Sept 8, 2021. I'd bet good money that "unexpectedly" is a euphemism for fentanyl, but of course I could be wrong.

Good to know, r153. I remember the poster, so I google imaged it, and was surprised to find it was Tom Cruise in the photo. I saw a couple of references to this, including this ebay listing with the headline, "LEVI'S 501 JEANS RETAILER'S POSTER 1982 TOM CRUISE." So I figured "oh well, it's Tom Cruise." Glad you let us know.

You don't know who the model is, do you? That's what I was really trying to find out.

^ Here's the ad for the poster.

Young Chris Evans’ classic Tony Duran photos.

Not 80’s homoerotica, but definitely inspired by then.

R161 Yessss! Very remembered, these really stood out. These were shot in 2004, for Flaunt magazine.

sorry r159, i dont know.

r158 not the same guy. the dates are off. Soloflex Scott was born in the 60s.

Trust me, it's the same guy. And he's dead. -R158

^ sure when you link to authenticated obit, i will trust you. otherwise nope.

Gonna keep this thread on watch.

R166, if this is your Scott Madsen, he would have to have been less than 10 years old when he started doing Soloflex ads. The one you link to has him 48 in 2010; the one who died was 47 in 2021.

r169 thank you... love r165 and r167 (thank you for going through the trouble)

“Uncle’s Vancouver business” sounds like a euphemism.

R151, the Pretty Puppy Party Pack Pic. I so wanted a poster for my wall (but would never have had the nerve to put it up). Link is to an alternate version where Ilan looked even cuter.

That movie gave 15-tear-old me very strong feelings from Chet's butt to Ian and Max's guyliner to yes, the male lead in Kelly Lebrock's underwear.

R155 Time for a remake - I'll get to work on casting!

Anything with young Billy Warlock. I wanted to "Flip" him over and rim him cross-eyed.

Had this poster...the always sexy Jon Erik Hexum!!

This 1984 poster of Rob Lowe is something of a twofer - it shows up on the door of Corey Haim's closet in Lost Boys, also known as "Iconic Homoerotic 1980s Poster: The Movie"

R3

Paul Freeman

R155 He was 16 at the time. Oldish, but I'd have made an exception.