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Title: Bill Schmeling drawings
Dates: undated
Collection Number: 2008-09
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Extent: 1 folder
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: The collection consists of 12 original ink drawings by Bill Schmeling, aka "The Hun." According to the Leather Archives &
Museum website, Schmeling is "a Portland, Oregon based, homoerotic, homomasculine fetish artist active in the late twentieth
and early twenty-first century. The Hun as a pseudonym personifies the intense subject matter of his work, which focuses on
scenes involving hyper-masculine muscular characteristics, sadomasochism, prison rape and brutality, scatology, leather and
uniform fetishes, police and military settings, and other scenes of extreme gay sexuality."
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research. Mailing lists and other records holding the names, addresses, and/or phone numbers of individuals
will be restricted for 20 years. The erotica in this collection may only be viewed by researchers age eighteen and over and
it is made available for educational and research purposes.
[Identification of item]. Bill Schmeling drawings. Collection Number: 2008-09. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Robert Fong, executor of the Estate of Gordon T. Salter, on November 10, 2006.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of 12 original ink drawings by Bill Schmeling, aka "The Hun." According to the Leather Archives &
Museum website, Schmeling is "a Portland, Oregon based, homoerotic, homomasculine fetish artist active in the late twentieth
and early twenty-first century. The Hun as a pseudonym personifies the intense subject matter of his work, which focuses on
scenes involving hyper-masculine muscular characteristics, sadomasochism, prison rape and brutality, scatology, leather and
uniform fetishes, police and military settings, and other scenes of extreme gay sexuality." The site goes on to say that "Hun's
works occupy a unique place among gay erotic artists. He has spearheaded a more intense style of artwork that captures scenes
and fantasies often avoided by other artists, such as Tom of Finland, as well as emphasizes a uniquely grotesque style involving
oversized body parts, excess body fluids, and other features on a hyper-sexual scale." GSSO linked terms: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_001236;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000268; http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D001154; http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_000374;
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GSSO_003450
Leather
Art
Kink
Erotica
Gay men