Dan/Sparky
@hot-type-club.bsky.social
Bite-sized homo in Portland: informal queer/kink history researcher (hottype.club), zine publisher (pinkmince.com), occasional photographer, frequent typographer (bijoutype.com). BLUF 327, too online for too many years.
A moment of contemplation for #WorldAidsDay, from my visit eith AA Brodon last Spring
December 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A moment of contemplation for #WorldAidsDay, from my visit eith AA Brodon last Spring
Next Sunday in Amsterdam at 6 p.m., if you can join us
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Next Sunday in Amsterdam at 6 p.m., if you can join us
A little dispirited by the number of Europeans at the Brussels Ass Book Fair telling me how easily I could support Pink Mince with arts funding if I lived here. NOT IN G.O.P. AMERICA, BABY.
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A little dispirited by the number of Europeans at the Brussels Ass Book Fair telling me how easily I could support Pink Mince with arts funding if I lived here. NOT IN G.O.P. AMERICA, BABY.
Bijou Fonts for gay-coded jokes? Perfection.
There’s a promo trailer for “Eternity”, a new A24 film, that spotlights some material using Ringold Clarendon! I’ve had a lot of bromances, too.(I love when Ringold gets used in thematically appropriate ways. 🌈)
October 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Bijou Fonts for gay-coded jokes? Perfection.
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.
October 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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!
October 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I can’t be there, but if you can you should go and support everyone doing their thing!
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?...
Coming Out Under Fire: Trailer
YouTube video by DeepFocus Productions, Inc.
youtu.be
October 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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’m EXTREMELY delighted to have scored a last minute spot for Pink Mince at the Brussels Ass Book Fair this November! No turkey me this year, but I’d much rather give thanks for sharing Pink Mince with a whole new crowd, anyway. brusselsassbookfair.be pinkmince.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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
The Berlin Trilogy: a loose plan to photograph and talk to a few people during Easter weekend turned into enough interesting material for two issues of Pink Mince and a Pink Maxi. All available now at pinkmince.com #zines
September 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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...
September 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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...
It’s my birthday! Buy some Pink Mince and help support independent queer publishing (and a middle-aged homo’s rigorous moisturizing regimen) #zines #queerzine #gayzine pinkmince.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New issue! Check out Pink Mince #19 — Black & Brass! www.pinkmince.com/2025/09/pink...
September 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
New issue! Check out Pink Mince #19 — Black & Brass! www.pinkmince.com/2025/09/pink...
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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
August 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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
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Cover of the first issue of Diseased Pariah News, a humour zine published for and by HIV positive people in the 1990s.
July 31, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Cover of the first issue of Diseased Pariah News, a humour zine published for and by HIV positive people in the 1990s.
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Did you pick up a pamphlet at your last leather/kink event? Don't throw it away! Send it to the LA&M archives.
July 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Did you pick up a pamphlet at your last leather/kink event? Don't throw it away! Send it to the LA&M archives.
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‘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
Front zine: Vol 7 (‘Tony From The Bronx’).
Back zine: Vol 9 (‘Last Call’).
#queerzines
July 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
‘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
Front zine: Vol 7 (‘Tony From The Bronx’).
Back zine: Vol 9 (‘Last Call’).
#queerzines
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...
July 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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...
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July 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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My brother, My slave
by Kurt Kreisler
art by Bill Ward
from Drummer Issue 16
#drummer #leather #kink #BDSM #vintagegay
by Kurt Kreisler
art by Bill Ward
from Drummer Issue 16
#drummer #leather #kink #BDSM #vintagegay
May 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
My brother, My slave
by Kurt Kreisler
art by Bill Ward
from Drummer Issue 16
#drummer #leather #kink #BDSM #vintagegay
by Kurt Kreisler
art by Bill Ward
from Drummer Issue 16
#drummer #leather #kink #BDSM #vintagegay
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Come Out! Vol. 1, No. 7 Dec.-Jan. 1970.
May 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Come Out! Vol. 1, No. 7 Dec.-Jan. 1970.
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.
In its issue 2 we encounter “Notes from the Gulag,” an account of life in a prison for “delinquent” youths in the USSR, purportedly sent by “Igor” and accompanied by photographs supposed to be of “Igor himself.”
May 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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.
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.
First published in 1990, the increasingly sexually explicit Polish magazine Inaczej (“Otherwise”) published a special issue in Russian in 1994, intended to fight homophobia and educate on homosexuality, AIDS and safer sex, etc “in all countries of the former USSR.”
May 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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.