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A Decade of Worldwide Roar from the Warwick Rowers

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It all started 10 years with a naked calendar featuring male rowers from one university boat club…… The Warwick Rowers A chance encounter between a straight athlete and an LGBT photographer who spoke about how many men felt like him – excluded from sport on the grounds of their sexuality or because there seemed to … Continue reading



A HARD MAN IS GOOD TO FIND! a bold new exhibition charting over 60 years of queer photography of the male physique.

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       A Hard Man Is Good To Find! is a great new exhibition on at The Photographers Gallery, London, documenting queer male photography in London during the twentieth century. Such photography doesn’t actually exist in the public realm in great quantities, partly because it was illegal under the Obscene Publications Act 1857, and … Continue reading



A new Exhibit is celebrating “Physique Pictorial” Bob Mizer’s legendary magazine that pioneered naked male photography

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  Bob Mizer was a legendary photographer and filmmaker who, in the mid-20th century,  focused on images of naked male physiques pushing the boundaries of homoerotic content. He photographed thousands of men, building a collection that includes nearly two million different images and thousands of films and videotapes.  He established the influential studio, the Athletic Model … Continue reading



Barefoot Men (formerly the Warwick Rowers) launch their new calendar for 2024

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    The Warwick Rowers Calendar started in 2009. with sportsmen from one rowing team at one university in the UK stripped naked to challenge homophobia in male sport.   Ten years later, in 2019, they became the Worldwide Roar so that men from any sport and anywhere in the world could join our campaign … Continue reading



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