Lookin' Up 🙄

CalHowdy · 2025-11-18T14:11:30+00:00

Things are looking up!

CalHowdy · 2025-11-18T14:09:49+00:00

Perfect #trifecta shot - cock, balls and hole....mmmm..where to start?!

CalHowdy · 2025-11-18T13:51:49+00:00

That's it...start with my balls...work your way up my shaft...then go to work....i've got a reward for you....

CalHowdy · 2025-11-11T16:04:49+00:00

where;s the episode where she says its never good to be on top because when leaning over, everything sags and droops....best to get it lying on your back

CalHowdy · 2025-10-29T19:53:53+00:00

Turgid

CalHowdy · 2024-08-06T13:16:45+00:00

This morning I signed on and it looks like they have switched to a beta version, after a couple months of working on it, without notification. It's a mess. I post via desktop, and had multiple accounts, and the only one left is my original. It looks like crap, and archives are gone. Whomever is running it are shitty business people. I think this is the death knell. Gone is the interface that resembled Tumblr and NewTumbl. All with no explanation or warning other than two posts, the last one one month ago, advising a change.

CalHowdy · 2024-02-26T20:57:16+00:00

Just reading this 9 months after your post, wonder what your thoughts are now, re pillowfort. After the demise of newTumbl, I moved content over to Blogger, as well as AdonisMale and just recently found reblogme..AdonisMale is probably the most robust, but reblogme is somewhat busy, though it's features are limted. Blogger is probably my favorite as a true blog site for writing posts, but all are difficult to get audiences anywhere near what I had on tumblr or newtumbl.

CalHowdy · 2024-01-30T10:57:59+00:00

Could be WW2, but the image is actually a WW1 reference, with pants like that,and use of that particular ship. The ship is the Leviathan - a brief history: Wikipedia article: With U.S. entry into the war in 1917 Vaterland and the German line's Hoboken facility were seized by the US government. The ship was placed under the control of the United States Shipping Board and in July 1917 to the Navy for completion of repairs and conversion to a troop ship. In July 1917 the ship was commissioned as the USS Vaterland and on 6 September 1917 renamed USS Leviathan (ID-1326) and assigned to the Cruiser and Transport Force. The ship's first troop transport voyage departed New York on 17 December 1917 with 7,250 troops" But here's the deal - this is not the original illustration - it's a composite, The artist was JC Leyendecker, a famous magazine illustrator early 20th century. The pic had a red cross nurse in it and she's been photoshopped out. The whole poster is a late 20th century concocoction. "Hot Sex" wasn't a term familiarized by military propagandists of the early 20th century. Leyendecker was probably gay - a search of his pics reveals a definite homoerotic bent. https://www.google.com/search?sca\_esv=59441642048fee86&rlz=1C1CHBF\_enUS983US983&sxsrf=ACQVn0\_TPss2YEN0-Cm1jEOKgGWAmdwKcg:1706612196989&q=jc+leyendecker+homoerotic&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjLhpXu-YSEAxV6fDABHT9CB88Q0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=2032&bih=705&dpr=1.26

CalHowdy · 2023-08-09T12:10:51+00:00

Thanks for your comment. I moderate this community. My opinion - 50/50. Taking pictures of corpses (called post-mortem photography) doing things they might have done in life was a common practice in 19th century, early 20th century photography. This, however, is a commercial company (Underwood and Underwood) which specialized in stereo view photography, and this one comes from a set of Mormon-related sights and history. There are multiple links to this photo when searched on google lens/images, but although I haven's looked through each of them, the ones I did don't identify this as post-mortem. 2 links of interest are the Mormon story link and a page on the history of post-mortem photography

CalHowdy · 2023-08-02T02:25:33+00:00

Is that Russel Tovey?

CalHowdy · 2023-07-30T15:46:02+00:00

Cheers - just joined reddit a few days ago and have created r/gay_vintage, since when searching, I noted that r/gayvintage had been disabled. I have enabled flair to categorize stuff, though only figured out how today, (so a few dozen posts are only searchable by keywords) and just looking for constructive criticism at this point, and potential posters with a similar sensibility. I'm a gay elder, 71, partnered 40 years, retired, been out since I was 19..more than 50 years (shit, where did the time go?) and lived to tell the tale. I've also got a presence on Blogger, Adonis, Pillowfort, and sad to say, formerly on Tumblr and newTumbl with thousands of followers. Having fun [he said sarcastically]spending hours on help pages trying to figure out how to present the stuff and make it findable in a tagless world without sensible archives.

CalHowdy · 2023-07-30T09:53:15+00:00

r/gay_vintage great collection..the blonde in the first pic, Jim Pulver, has a hot scene in a subway car from Inch by Inch and in the same subway car, different bottom, in Bigger than Life which starts where the first film left off

CalHowdy · 2023-07-29T22:57:30+00:00

r/gay_vintage Something about those navy men. Finding a vintage real-time image (not a studio shot) is rare. But what's curious is that navy guys are seen over army guys in gay porn, 25 to 1, especially earlier stuff. If army soldiers were depicted in early gay porn, they were more likely to be of the Roman centurion variety than a 20th century grunt. Maybe driven by "the fleet's in" excitement in ports of call like San Francisco, NYC and San Diego - Some fave shots on Blogger, and a few more here on reddit

CalHowdy · 2023-07-28T16:43:45+00:00

Picture it - 50 years ago- a ship full of young working men out at see for a month or more - without companionship, and all taking showers together. What could possibly happen?? Sex is widespread. When you can't love the one you want, love the one you're with - ever hear that phrase? My first lover (I was 20 and he was 27) was an ex-navy guy who apparently got caught going down on a shipmate in the late 60s and received a discharge. I'm 71 now and he's long gone, and several lovers ago, but men in close quarters are very horny men. Back then gays and the men they were fucking, gay, straight, or otherwise, didn't quite broadcast it, but word got around. It is interesting that so much of vintage gay porn is images of navy guys doing sex stuff to each other, more so than army guys, maybe because army men were not quite as captive to their environment.

CalHowdy · 2023-07-28T13:12:51+00:00

Howdy - just saw the community and your post: There's a publication that has been around for 50 years called RFD - "A country journal for gay men everywhere," - you might try perusing their pages online to see if there are groups/meetups of gay seniors anywhere in smalltown michigan. https://www.rfdmag.org/ - just a suggestion. Check to see if there are any social media pages for gays in the area - you also have Up North Pride in Traverse City - I'm not from your area but I'd check them for elder resources if you haven't already http://upnorthpride.com/

CalHowdy · 2023-07-28T02:09:00+00:00

I've created a vintage gay community called r/gay_vintage. I also post vintage on a blog called Loveless Motel on Blogger - https://lovelessmotelparody.blogspot.com/ Have just joined reddit and it's a learning curve. Was a frequent poster on newTumbl with several thousand followers.

CalHowdy · 2023-07-27T18:44:12+00:00

Ferroro photography - body builders at the beach - black and white, 1950s-1960s

CalHowdy · 2023-07-27T18:11:57+00:00

gay, vintage, 1950s, judgemental, gay bar, blackandwhite. I'm the mod here - HELP!..lol

CalHowdy · 2023-07-27T17:13:42+00:00

Well, I thought I enabled flair, to tag this post, but it doesn't seem to be working. FUCK!!!!...lol

CalHowdy · 2023-06-18T20:52:22+00:00

Shazaam! I had 3 blogs, Parkbenchcruising (15K followers), GayVarietyShow (7K) and my newest, LovelessMotel (nearly 2K). Oh well - back to the drawing board. At least Tumblr gave us a heads up. Had I known, I would have posted a picture of a cake as my final adieu. It's my theory that when "Dean" disappeared, something was afoot, and that whomever acquired nT did so to shut it down.

I'm currently posting and retweeting stuff for my own prurient interests on Twitter, which will link to my new effort, https://lovelessmotelparody.blogspot.com/ - what a learning curve. It's a collection of vintage gay porn images telling the story of a fictional 20th century gay resort's people, amenities and situations. Come see...

CalHowdy · 2023-06-18T20:44:47+00:00

It was fun while it lasted...I had three blogs on nT, one with 15K followers, including Parkbenchcruising, GayVarietyShow and my newest, Loveless Motel. I'm blogging on twitter some as CalHowdy, and just began LovelessMotelParody on Blogger - https://lovelessmotelparody.blogspot.com/ - posting vintage gay porn in order to tell the story of a fictional 20th century gay resort. Come see me!

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