Anonymous -- Perry Street |
Aram Jibilian -- Untitled |
Drawn from memory and depicting sites from Chinatown to The Rambles and the Twin Towers, the submissions were curated into a sexy, sardonic, meditative, and ultimately moving book. As subjective blueprint of the city, it values not simply the space "as is" but how it has been performed and engaged, highlighting the fundamental connection between public space and queer life. This ain’t your mamma’s NYC.
Aram Jibilian -- Untitled |
Anonymous -- Perry Street
Who: Me and a Greek-German boy.
What: Public sexual encounter.
When: Summer 2010.Where: Across from Perry Street, on the park overlooking the West Side piers.
How: After wandering aimlessly through the city, an invisible magnetic force led us there.
Aram Jibilian -- Untitled
In this warm steamy men’s bathroom on the 6th floor of New York University’s Leon Shimkin Hall, I found a place to blow off some serious art school steam. There were always at least a couple of other men waiting.
Jean-Michel Sivry -- West Side
It was Sunday. We marched westward through Bank, Perry, or Charles Street. At the crossing with Greenwich Avenue there were the trucks side-by-side. We reached the final avenue before the river. Guys passed beneath the decrepit structure of the elevated highway. On the other side, the docks, the wonderful wharves. In the vast warehouses in ruins, openings were used, doors had been opened, gaps in the walls. Inside: stairs, scales, holes through the floors, metal debris, spokes of light, glass canopies, panels collapsed... an architecture of desire.
Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public (Forever & Today, 2011) features additional texts by Aiken Forrett, Eileen Myles, Joel Czarlinsky, Johan Andersson, José Esteban Muñoz, Kate Bornstein, and Tim Dean, amongst others. To purchase, visit Printed Matter (195 10th Ave., NYC; 212-925-0325) or e-mail petitemort@foreverandtoday.org. Click here to preview in entirety.
4 comments:
To answer the question -- College Dorm Room, then a couple of more encoutners with him in other locations....have lost all contact with him, but he opened very slightly the door that is now more widely open.
What count's as a homosexual encounter? I felt pretty rebellious the first time I connected to jockey.com. My first time that meant anything was on a computer, and it was incredible. My first real encounter just left me completely unsatisfied, and actually left me pretty hollow afterward.
1979, 16 y/o, bathroom at an outdoor flea market. Then two years later a guy two states away through an ad in the Advocate.
After that, I met a string of boyfriends through church, including and ending with my partner of 16 years.
Dan
I guess my real "first time" was in a motel room with a classmate, hoping not to get caught by the guy in the other bed. We were at the state high school drama festival. I was 17, he was 16.
Peace <3
Jay
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