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Some of you may remember that a couple years ago I started to make an effort to credit photographers where possible; today’s post was supposed to be this simple photo, credit the photographer, and done. But what about a link? Jim Moss on BJland — oh, that’s embarrassing! I know he did a lot of work for Drummer, (quick search, Drummer 35, 36, 37, 39, oh gosh) and perhaps also directed a few pornos….director Jim Moss at GEVI. Hmmmm, not til 1988, but this photograph appeared in 1981, maybe a more interesting link…

stumbled upon this – The Gay Editorial Market and the Transnational Production of Racialized Desires which summarizes:

“This chapter focuses on the growth of the gay publishing industry in Mexico and examines how, since the late 1980s, some gay publishers, editors, visual artists, and pornographers in North America began to think of brown Mexican and Latino men as marketable. Some of those individuals were Hidalgo de la Torre, Jim Moss, and John Rowberry. The chapter argues that by creating a network and by producing and circulating gay magazines, erotic imagery, and pornography that capitalized on brown bodies, these men expanded notions of the erotic and helped to consolidate a gay market for these representations in Mexico and the United States. The chapter also offers a critique of these men’s work; while it expanded notions of the erotic and offered alternatives on the gay market, it also drew on and reinforced colonial mindsets that profited from the production of exoticizing images for white and/or middle-class gay consumers.”

And all that work for Drummer, which means you know I have a lot of pics going back 10-20 years on this page not credited… so much for the quick post and run!