Frank Oscar Larson     New York City     c.1950

Bill Cunningham     Editta Sherman on the Train to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, New York      c.1975

Frank Oscar Larson     Ticket Windows, Grand Central Station, New York City 1954

Girlies, New York City     Uncredited and Undated Photograph

Weegee     Murder in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City     1944

Vienna Dolorosa: The Lambda Award Finalist Novel Kindle Edition

LAMBDA AWARD FINALIST HISTORICAL NOVEL

An astonishing novel about the fate of gays, gypsies, Jews, and other outsiders under the Nazi regime that is a metaphor for the inevitable fate of all outsiders under the rule of dictators, whether of the right or of the left.

Vienna Dolorosa takes place during a one-day time period - March 12,1938, the day Hitler invades Austria - in an Inner City hotel managed by a transvestite and doubling as a brothel for men who like boys dressed up as girls. old from the perspectives of various hotel personnel and guests, brothel employees and clientele, a talkative Viennese official, German police, Nazi SS, and a darling street boy Petya. Not for the faint of heart, Vienna Dolorosa includes 

“A look into the bizarre side of things, never mentioned due to the major events occurring otherwise. "Vienna Dolorosa" is a novel about Hitler's invasion of Austria, as told from the perspective of a transvestite brothel in Vienna. An unusual story filled with unsavory characters and the grittier aspects of humanity, "Vienna Dolorosa" is a skillfully written and intriguing tale, sure to please historical fiction lovers looking to read something different.” -Midwest Book Review

“A very detailed and complicated examination of one side of the horrible underbelly of Nazi politics, Vienna Dolorosa is a violent, sexually skewed, horrific novel covering one significant date in European history: March 12, 1938, the date of the Nazi invasion of Austria. Like any recollection of the horrors of war and of Nazi atrocities, Vienna Dolorosa will churn stomachs and make eyes widen in sympathy and dismay. Perhaps more so though, this story relates the truly anti-Semitic, anti-homosexual, anti-transsexual and anti-transgendered slant of Nazi ideology. In a worldview in which a very small percentage of individuals are genetically acceptable, the vast majority was endangered, but for some groups and classes-Jews, Gypsies, Russians, and homosexuals/transgendereds/transsexuals-danger was even more prevalent, and never-ending. Vienna Dolorosa doesn't hesitate to explore the horrifying possibilities of a state policy glorifying hate crimes, and faint-hearted readers should beware: mutilation, murder, and other crimes are explicitly rendered. Credit is due to author Mykola Dementiuk for the richly detailed historical fabric, which renders the Vienna culture so realistic to the reader; for the juxtaposition of Nazi horrors against the backdrop of fabled Viennese culture; and for his careful and knowledgeable exposition of the mindset and lifestyle of a Transgendered, as seen through the story of Frau Friska, the "hotel" entrepreneur.” -Rainbow Reviews

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Herman Leonard     Jazz Club the Metropole Cafe, 7th Avenue and 48th Street, New York City     1948

Diane Arbus       Child Selling Plastic Orchids at Night, New York City      1963

Allan Tannenbaum     John Lennon and Yoko One, New York City     1980

David Godlis     Richard Hell Leaving CBGB’s After a Gig, the Bowery, New York City     1977

David Godlis     CBGB’s at 4:00 AM Closing Time, the Bowery, New York City    1977

THE FACIALIST: The Lambda Award Winner for Best Gay Erotica by Mykola Dementiuk

https://sizzlereditions.com/the-facialist-the-lambda-award-winner-for-best-gay-erotica-by-mykola-dementiuk/

“Dementiuk does not hold back; he writes about everything and his eroticism is quite bold. I believe that it is his boldness that makes Dementiuk such a wonderful read. We read it and it is over and we move on except for one small fact: it is not easy to move on because everything is so real—and he never fails to give us a good story. ...Mykola Dementiuk goes where others seem afraid to go.” —Amos Lassen

Skyline of Manhattan from Brooklyn Heights, ca. 1920s-1930s.

Wurts Brothers. From a collection of photographs of New York City.

"Make it a little bigger, Joe..."

Construction workers on the 59th floor of the Pan American Building in New York. The Empire State building is seen in the background, 1962.(Getty Images)

Helen Levitt     Subway Portrait, New York City      1978

Todd Webb     Fulton Fish Market Wharf, New York City      1946

Lucien Clergue     Nu Zébré à la main levée, New York City     1997

Horst P. Horst     Round The Clock, New York City      1987

THE NEW YORK QUEER MEGABUNDLE: 5 Complete Books by Mykola Dementiuk

From the Lambda Literary Award-Winning Author!

No one has ever chronicled the sexual adventures—and misadventures—of Manhattan's gay men like Mykola "Mick" Dementiuk.

“Mick goes where others seem afraid to go...to the world of hustlers and drag queens and those somewhere in between, and he never fails to give us a good story. Dementiuk does not hold back; he writes about everything...and is eroticism is quite bold.” —Amos Lassen

“I recommend Mykola Dementiuk … Mick has been called “the bard of 42nd Street” … his works are not for the squeamish nor for those who insist on fairy tale endings … he’s more a shot of Jack than a sip of champagne.” —Gay Book Reviews

https://sizzlereditions.com/the-new-york-queer-megabundle-5-complete-books-by-mykola-dementiuk/

Viviane Maier     Woman Outside the Public Library, 5th Ave, New York City     1953

Louis Faurer     New York City     1973

Sid Kaplan     The Belmore Cafeteria, New York City      1977

Sid Kaplan     The Bronx, New York      1969

Sid Kaplan     Newsstand, Stairway to the Third Ave El, Southeast corner of 42nd Street, New York City     1955

Sid Kaplan     Beginning of the Dismantling of the Third Ave El, New York City    1955

Sid Kaplan     Halloween, Times Square, New York City      1954

Hermann Landshoff     Photographer Weegee, New York City     1948

"Mick Dementiuk writes stories of the day when Times Square was all about sex, drugs, and cold spit ... about coming of age inside the just-burgeoning hardcore movie houses of the 1960s. It's... vivid. Harsh, real, and yes, erotic." --Susie Bright.

Here is a landmark book -- the first print publication of seventeen stories by Mykola Dementiuk, one of the most distinctive voices in queer literature. Sixteen were published individually as short ebooks; "Missy the Sissy" has never appeared anywhere before.

Included are: "On the Prowl," "Times Square Cutie," "Eighteen Today." "Trio At the Movies," "Love for Sale" and a dozen others. Times Square Queer also features a moving and penetrating personal introduction about growing up queer in the 1960s, amid the sleazy porn theaters and bars crowding Times Square that had become a gay mecca.

"Mykola's stories of ... the delights and depressions of young men living difficult lives in imperfect times... do a magnificent job of drawing us into the character's heads." --Bibrary Bookslut.

Mykola's New York is "...very gritty, with a cosmopolitan impersonality about it; impersonal relationships, impersonal sex, and the-devil-take-the-hindmost ethos. [His work is] eagerly recommended." --Gerry B's Book Reviews.

https://sizzlereditions.com/times-square-queer-paperback-collection-with-bonus-material-by-mykola-dementiuk

Eddie Hausner     Little Italy, Grand Street at Mott Street, New York City      1974

Hermann Landshoff     The Roller Skaters, New York City     1946

Morris Huberland     Madison Street, Lower East Side, New York City     c.1950

Frank Oscar Larson     Boys Playing, New York City     c.1950

Frank Oscar Larson     Mott Street, Chinatown, New York City     1953

Bob Gruen     Al Green, Times Square, New York City     1972

Bob Gruen     Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan and Dave Van Ronk Backstage at “Friends of Chile” Benefit concert,” the Felt Forum, New York City      1974

The “Friends of Chile” concert was organized by Phil Ochs.  It was intended to protest involvement by the United States in the overthrow of the democratically elected Socialist government of Salvador Allendein Chile and its replacement by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, and to provide assistance to survivors and refugees from Chile.  Performers at the concert included Phil Ochs, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Dennis Hopper, Dave Van Ronk, Joan Baez, Melanie, several of the Beach Boys, Tom Rush and Bob Dylan.

Dylan was notoriously drunk off his ass at the show.  You can see him here getting himself into that condition.

Hermann Landshoff     Sculptor Eva Hesse with Her Sculpture, “Not Yet,” in Her Studio, the Bowery, New York City     1969

Hermann Landshoff     New York City     1941

Hermann Landshoff     The Roller Skaters, New York City     1946