I’ve posted about this 1978 Colt Studio A Man’s Guide To Gay America before
ummmm, and its been in the drafts folder because I wanted to…..?
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I’ve posted about this 1978 Colt Studio A Man’s Guide To Gay America before
ummmm, and its been in the drafts folder because I wanted to…..?
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Maybe you were going to do a bigger post about guidebooks in general? I know we talked before about the glimpse of the one seen in that Cadinot short film, when the guy is lying on his stomach and pulls his dick out through the leghole of his shorty shorts, while checking a guidebook and a map. I know the film was called Stop:
https://gayeroticvideoindex.com/video/23452
… but can’t remember what the book was called, only that we talked about it. And I may have sent you a screengrab from the few seconds the cover was shown. Anyway this looks like an interesting book, I hung onto a few Damron guides from back when they still printed those, one from the 90s I think. And I’ve found at least a few on the archive though those are quite hard to scan without ripping the pages out since they were so compact.
I should have checked reddit before I sent my comment here, because I reviewed Stop before – and the guidebook was called Incognito:
“Anyway after his initial ride guy 1 pulls a blanket out of his pack, leans back against a tree and fishes his meat out the leg hole of his shorts, which quickly elongates as he strokes it. He lays down on his front without putting his dick away and pulls it back between his legs, while looking at some maps and a guide book called Incognito, the 1978 edition. This sent me on a sidecar search, apparently Incognito was (or is?) a gay guidebook that started printing in Amsterdam in the mid 60s, with listings for cruisy spots, most found in Europe but around the world too…”
https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageGayVids/comments/1rt6osr/stop_french_art_1980/
And then I left a link to an InTouch magazine (from the same collection Obsessed just referenced, glad to know the link still works and that he and others find it useful), where I quoted what it said on page 39:
“Gay guides are a bitch to assemble and to keep up to date — even when the area is limited. World guides are nearly impossible, still the INCOGNITO GUIDE, 1975, published in its 10th year by A.S.L., Paris, and distributed in the U.S. by House One, North Hollywood, is one of the most impressive. Many will find it well worth the price for the artwork. American readers may be disconcerted to find many of the U.S. listings dated, but this is primarily a European guide (180 pages to 15 for the U.S. the rest of the Western Hemisphere, Asia and Africa) and while Dude City and the Bitter End West are no longer 2/3rds of the Hollywood scene…”
https://archive.org/details/in-touch-for-men/InTouch/In-Touch/InTouch-1975-08%2B09-v2n19-adonismale/
Zephyr, I’ll have to check all this out! Thanks.
I kind of find these old gay guide books fascinating. The same way that articles, news features, and ads from old porno mags are fun. I don’t think I knew that Colt put this one out. Although the cover looks very familiar. First I’m seeing the inside though. I love how it’s all weathered on the outside. I’d love to see the whole thing, but I’d bet this is something that you’d have to buy a hard copy of. It’s tough to see someone scanning the whole thing. What a headache. Then again some people are really devoted to saving these kinds of historical things for the sake of posterity. Thank goodness for that!
Some of the gay guides were more genuinely informative, and others were almost just an excuse to publish more hot photos. Either way, they’re cool to look back on.
If there’s a Colt man on every other page as it appears to be here, it would probably be like an index of 1970s Colt men, including early, lesser-knowns like Jordan Hunter (aka Jordan Walker) above on Louisiana. Although it doesn’t look like they provided model names. Typical Colt.
BJ, you may not have known why you had this in your drafts, but I’m glad you posted it!