ETIENNE 1957 ART CHRISTMAS POSTCARD Naked Muscular Gay Carolers Sing in the Snow

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This is a ETIENNE 1957 ART CHRISTMAS POSTCARD featuring Naked Muscular Gay Carolers Sing in the Snow
Domingo Francisco Juan Esteban "Dom" Orejudos, Secundo (July 1, 1933 – September 24, 1991),[1] also widely known by the pen names Etienne and Stephen, was an openly gay artist, ballet dancer, and choreographer, best known for his ground-breaking masculine gay male erotica beginning in the 1950s.
Along with artists George Quaintance and Touko Laaksonen ("Tom of Finland") – with whom he became friends – Orejudos' leather-themed art promoted an image of gay men as strong and masculine, as an alternative to the then-dominant stereotype as weak and effeminate.
With his first lover and business partner Chuck Renslow, Orejudos established many landmarks of late-20th-century gay male culture, including the Gold Coast bar, Man's Country Baths, the International Mr. Leather competition, Chicago's August White Party, and the magazines Triumph, Rawhide, and Mars.
He was also active and influential in the Chicago ballet community.
In addition to his relationship with Chuck Renslow, in 1969 Orejudos met Robert (Bob) Yuhnke at a leather party in Manhattan.
They developed a long distance relationship until Bob moved to Chicago in 1979 to live with Orejudos.
Together they established a residence in Eldorado Springs, Colorado, in 1980, where they resided until Orejudos' death from complications of AIDS.
Orejudos continued to spend time in Chicago until his mother's death in 1984.[1][4]
Orejudos contracted pneumonia during travel with Bob in China before joining other members of a Sister City delegation from Boulder for a planned visit to Lhasa Tibet in 1987.
This illness revealed a diagnosis of AIDS which contributed to his declining health, leading to his death from AIDS complications on September 24, 1991.
Orejudos has been honored with three separate panels in the AIDS Memorial quilt.
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