Dan/Sparky

Bijou Fonts for gay-coded jokes? Perfection.

pinkmince.com 😉🌈

Make #zines and make a difference!

Never in my life has it felt quite so urgent to make goofy, horny, idiosyncratic stuff for my own reasons and not for profit, or for clout, or because it’s supposed to be respectable or easily digestible or socially condoned.

Pink Mince #16 — Letrasex

Pink Mince #19 — Black & Brass

Pink Maxi #3 — AA Bronson at Home

Pink Maxi #2 — Index

I’ve been plugging away for years at my little zines and fonts and such, because I would honestly go nuts if I didn’t have creative outlets, but as the years go by I also feel strongly that telling queer stories and making queer art — even nerdy stuff like mine — is radical and important and real.

I can’t be there, but if you can you should go and support everyone doing their thing!

I’m not even a fan of the military, but it’s maddening to hear so many stories of prejudice and paranoia and lasting scars and not see all the ways people are trying to roll back the tides of time and waste so many resources on small-minded persecution at scale once again. Sigh.

YouTube video by DeepFocus Productions, Inc. Coming Out Under Fire: Trailer

I’m rewatching “Coming Out Under Fire” and feeling rage as I sit with the ongoing feeling of dread as I watch so much progress toward social justice steadily rolled back these days. youtu.be/IM8Ox-4RMhw?...

Come and see Pink Mince and me in Brussels this Thanksgiving 🦃

I’ve been a zine machine this summer! All these new goodies and more at pinkmince.com

It’s here! Hot on the heels of the recent Pink Mince #19 is a new collection of photo portraits from this past Easter in Berlin: Pink Mince #20 — Willkommen www.pinkmince.com/2025/09/pink...

Those were a great score! And you were rockin’ ‘em.

Two copies of the Pink Mince zine placed upon a black leather jacket.

New issue! Check out Pink Mince #19 — Black & Brass! www.pinkmince.com/2025/09/pink...

Advertisement for the mineshaft school of lower education, Thursday, casino night, seventh, annual best jock strap contest, party with Butch downstairs done, and a private water sports and sleaze event down in the den. Arrive between 830 and door closed 930 and end 1130. GSA and MS members six dollars others 8 dollars includes open bar and coat check raunch wear jockey straps etc required.

The Mineshaft, a famous New York City leather bar that was open from 1976 to 1985. Flyer from the Wally Wallace collection at the LA&M. #LeatherBars

Diseased Pariah News= more than just an HIV humour magazine! Picture of a man's hand soaking in a bowl of blood. A woman says 'The blood of over 100000 Americans who have died of AIDS, Mr. President? Why, you're soaking in it!'

Cover of the first issue of Diseased Pariah News, a humour zine published for and by HIV positive people in the 1990s.

A pile of pamphlets with titles like “diabetes: sex and the dungeon” and “basic guidelines for safer sex and SM interactions”.

Did you pick up a pamphlet at your last leather/kink event? Don't throw it away! Send it to the LA&M archives.

‘For Everard’ is a #zine series by Anthony Malone commemorating the victims of a 1977 fire at Manhattan’s Everard Baths.

Front zine: Vol 7 (‘Tony From The Bronx’).
Back zine: Vol 9 (‘Last Call’).

#queerzines

3 copies of Pink Maxi zine

It took a couple of battles with my Risograph, but I’ve published a new Pink Maxi issue — AA Bronson at home www.pinkmince.com/2025/07/pink...

I cant wait to go!

#gayart #drummer #leather #kink #BDSM #vintagegay

My brother, My slave
by Kurt Kreisler
art by Bill Ward
from Drummer Issue 16

#drummer #leather #kink #BDSM #vintagegay

Come Out! A liberation forum for the gay community GAY LIBERATION FORUM Vol 1 No 7 New York Dec-Jan 1970 25c 35c Outside NYC Two Photos by Ellen Bedoz, in one photo is the phrase “Love each other love ourselves love each other love ourselves LESBIANS UNITE!”

Come Out! Vol. 1, No. 7 Dec.-Jan. 1970.

Find the BB!

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Adam here is having a little more fun with its type, but the rough spacing is making me wonder if these are locally hacked versions made for dealing with Polish. Makes me wonder about the dynamics of the Eastern European font scene at the time.

Russian foundry Paratype was already making lots of Cyrillic versions of popular western fonts by 1994, but Otherwise seems to have stuck with the basics. (Not a surprise, if they typically published in Polish.)

I think the small text is Arial, and the title is Times, so my guess is that the issue was laid out on a PC working with the default Windows fonts.

João’s whole thread is fascinating, but its intersection with my Hot Type project is also notable. There was not yet such a wide range of decent digital fonts for the Cyrillic script, and it’s interesting to see what they did with a basic palette.