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“Down Low With Lou #9, The Daily Derriere, February 18, 2017

I drew this series in December 1988/January, 1989. 

I had met my spouse in September ’85. We agreed to be monogamous for the first year of our relationship, but after that we opened things up with 3 rules: 1) Safe sex, 2) No friends or mutual friends, 3) No one more than 3 times. This last one proved unnecessary; casual hook-ups rarely repeated more than twice; it was like, “Is this going anywhere? No? Well, have a nice life”. I would average two nights out a week; my favorite bars were the One Way and The Gauntlet II (in Silverlake), and the Spike (in West Hollywood). 

My spouse preferred bars for straight Hispanics. He’d play pool with them until closing (2 AM) then continue the drinking out back, hopefully resulting in his getting to give the straight guys blow jobs. His motto was, “The difference between a gay Hispanic and a straight Hispanic is three beers”.

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“Down Low With Lou, #8”, The Daily Derriere, February 17 2017

This drawing was done in January 1989. I had joined ACT UP/LA  in the fall of ’87. Since I and my husband had just bought a house with a garage and a back yard, I volunteered my house as the site for the signage painting and float construction. ACT U? LA was a really fun, artistic group, with lots of great, humorous-yet pointed ideas for activism. It didn’t dawn on me, at first, that the majority of the members had AIDS or HIV. Duh. Comparatively speak, I was a dilettante, a fair weather activist. My life wasn’t at immediately at stake; I and my husband got tested for HIV for the first time in that summer.

My spouse was not a member of ACT UP; he was active in Democratic politics; in fact he was a delegate committed to Jesse Jackson in the ’88 presidential election. The delegates had to meet (twice a month? One a week on Fridays?) in Sacramento because it was equally inconvenient for everybody.

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“Down Low With Lou #7”, The Daily Derriere, February 16, 2017

This is one of my better drawings in the series. Done on January 5th, 1989, the onset of one of the most eventful years of my life. I had gotten involved in Act-up LA after getting politicized at the Second National March on Washington For Lesbian and Gay Rights, on October 11, 1987. My late husband and I had bought a house together in August of ’88 and moved there in October ’88. I was experiencing economic insecurity as my staff jobs storyboarding TV animation turned freelance, then dried up or became intermittent. Yet I was at a peak of my powers, having started gaining mastery as a draftsmen in 1987.

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“Down Low With Lou #6/#6_1, The Daily Derrier, February 15, 2017

Once again my scanner/Photoshop interface has been getting weird, hence the partial scan. Instead of attempting another scan, I chose to re-draw it, especially since I’m not wild about the 27 year old drawing. I opted to flop in, in anticipation of tomorrow’s drawing.

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“Down Low With Lou #5”, The Daily Derriere, February 14, 2017

Happy Valentine’s Day. I forgot all about it until this morning, when my husband wished me day-related salutations.

I recently purchased the dvd set of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season One. I was disappointed, watching these episodes for the first time in 40 years, to see how small Ed Asner’s basket was in the tight slacks his character, Lou Grant, habitually wore. Around this same time, a friend reported reading Mary Tyler Moore’s autobiography. According to my friend, Mary reported an incident where she stumbled upon Ed, who was coming out of a shower on the set, buck naked. She judged Ed to be quite well endowed. This makes the non-basket-pushing quality of his TV appearances somewhat mystifying. Did he strap it down? Was he a “grower not a shower”? I suppose, at this late date, we’ll never know.

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“On The Job #2”, The Daily Derriere, February 8, 2017

This is drawing #1 in a series of three that I excavated from the masturbation sketchbook I kept in 1987/1989. I call this series “On The Job” because it has a vaguely blue collar vibe to it.

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Daily Derriere, September 13, 2016, “Bedtime Story”

I drew this for “Chiron Rising”, a porn mag dedicated to 60+ men and their admirers, back in 1989. when I was 30 or about to turn 30. At the time, 60+ was trending a bit on the old side for my tastes. Now that’s my peer group; men in my preferred taste range (35 -55 years old) are now YOUNGER MEN. My 52 year old husband is a YOUNGER MAN. Ed Asner, when he started playing Lou Grant in 1970, was in his early 40’s. He was my adolescent ideal of the erotic father figure, and now the character he played, at the age he started playing Lou Grant, is young enough to be MY SON, if I had children. Trip out or what?