More Focus, More Pocus

Photography + Pop Culture + Pride

COLLIDE PRESS began as a part-time passion project—an outlet for my love of creating LGBTQ art and design. Over the past year, it’s grown into my full-time obsession, expanding into LGBTQ creativity and history.

Once upon a time, my focus was my Shop. Today, it’s my Substack.

Once upon a time, I fought censorship tooth and nail—especially on YouTube.
Today, I look for creative workarounds that don’t compromise my creative vision.

Like most mashups and remixes, COLLIDE PRESS hasn’t always been easy to define:

It’s part eye candy. It’s part history.
It’s part manly montages. It’s part mouthy manifestos.

Lately, I’ve been feeling the need to clarify, define, evolve, and focus.

Don’t worry—the spark’s still here. I’m not turning away from the male form or the power of montages. But I am reframing the shot. Zooming in. Going a little deeper.

So what’s next?

📸 More Photography
🤩 More Pop Culture
🌈 More Pride

This isn’t about playing it safe. It’s about playing it smart.
It’s about queer creativity—not just queer thirst.
About honoring the past and remixing it for the present and future.

Whether you're here for the eye candy or the history lessons, I’m honored you’re here, my dears. You're right where you belong.

Welcome to the “new and improved” COLLIDE PRESS:
Created. Curated. And Queer!

Keep calm and carry on!
Clint 🌈✌️

COLLIDE PRESS is a reader-supported publication.
Please consider becoming a paid subscriber or patron.

Thank you. Yes, YOU, boo!

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

• My Inner Mayhem (

  Gay Sex Coaching
  )

• Tank And The Bangas: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert (NPR Music)

• Live with Karl Dunn (

  Undividing with Karl Dunn
  )

• David Lebe: A Life in Photographs (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

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ON THIS DAY = MAY 18

• 1822 = Mathew Brady = American photographer and journalist

• 1852 = Gertrude Käsebier = American photographer

• 1872 = Bertrand Russell = British historian, philosopher, and Nobel Prize laureate

• 1886 = Jeanie MacPherson = American actress and screenwriter

• 1897 = Frank Capra = Italian-American filmmaker

• 1902 = Meredith Willson = American playwright and composer

• 1909 = John Koch = American artist 🌈

• 1911 = Big Joe Turner = American singer

• 1912 = Perry Como = American singer and tv host

• 1912 = Richard Brooks = American filmmaker

• 1913 = Charles Trenet = French singer and songwriter 🌈

• 1914 = Pierre Balmain = French fashion designer 🌈

• 1917 = Bill Everett = American author and illustrator

• 1921 = Patrick Dennis = American author 🌈

• 1922 = Bill Macy = American actor

• 1931 = Don Martin = American cartoonist

• 1931 = Robert Morse = American actor

• 1934 = Don Bachardy = American portrait artist 🌈

• 1941 = Miriam Margolyes = English-Australian actor and voice artist 🌈

• 1946 – Reggie Jackson = American baseball player and sportscaster

• 1950 – Mark Mothersbaugh = American singer-songwriter and painter

• 1952 – George Strait = American singer-songwriter

• 1953 = Alan Kupperberg = American comic artist

• 1955 = Chow Yun-fat = Hong Kong actor and screenwriter

• 1969 = Martika = American singer-songwriter and actor

• 1970 = Tina Fey = American actress, producer, and screenwriter

• 1975 = Jack Johnson = American singer-songwriter

• 1975 = Jem = Welsh singer-songwriter and producer

• 1979 = Jens Bergensten = Swedish video game designer

• 1980 = Felicia Pearson = American actor, author and rapper 🌈

EVENTS

• 1593 = Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe.

• 1912 = The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.

• 1926 = Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson “disappears” in Venice, CA.

• 1927 = Grauman's Chinese Theatre opens in Hollywood, CA.

• 1969 = FREE (Fight Repression of Erotic Expression) is formed at the University of Minnesota.

• 1980 = Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage.

HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES

• National HIV Vaccine Awareness Day

• National No Dirty Dishes Day

PORTRAIT + QUOTES OF THE DAY

“The departure of my sitter is like the breaking of a spell. I never alter any detail of the work I've done once the sitting has ended.”
Don Barchardy

MORE COLLIDE PRESS

• SHOP = Art Prints + Merch + Pride

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