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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 #4”, The Daily Derriere, February 13, 2017

I scanner was acting up again, so I decided to just redraw “Down Low With Lou, #4” instead of continuing to dick around with the scanner.  I’m posting both the new redraw (as of February 9, 2017) and the original sketch, done in late 1987. This is a drawing of the semi-idealized version of myself, reacting hostilely to Lou Grant’s harassing behavior.