Katy Perry gets lucky and accidentally references "Pink Narcissus"

Is anybody seeing the visual connection between that Katy Perry "Teenage Dream" album single cover and James Bidgood's singular, beautiful-looking gay fantasia "Pink Narcissus"? The fag photographing Perry sure does borrow a lot of the visual signifiers of Bidgood's strange, seductive and little-seen 1971 film: bright neons bathed in a cool, blue, fluorescent glow; a sex-object subject cast in a half-sunny, half-icy pallor; and a mythological-ish nature motif.

I haven't seen Katy Perry repeat this specific visual reference anywhere else, but the first time I saw that photograph I couldn't help thinking of Bidgood's "Pink Narcissus" hustler boys, laying beautifully prostrate in scenes of glittery, faggy debris:



 

introduction

hello, dark and faggy world!

this fine pizza ass right here heralds my first step onto the well-trodden path of blogging in the blogosphere. here i'll be posting things that may pique the interests of cultured, discerning fag boys and their many admirers.

while any fag or non-fag can scroll through the internet and find things that delight and inspire him/her/zer, this blog will serve as a personal compendium of all the queer things that have delighted and inspired me. so this is my history project, an effort to praise and preserve the faggy things that may have been lost if we weren't invested in sharing and promoting our own interests, nudging others towards the films, books, performers, innovators and subversives who've touched our gay ass hearts and minds. so, let's carve out a tunnel and skip towards gomorrah in these awful, awesome faggy latter days.