1990LIFESTYLES
Charles Gatewood's BIZARRE, WEIRD WACKY WILD STUFF AS IN FETISHISTS, MEN IN DRAG, THOSE WILD TATTOOS & PIERCINGS, MARDI GRAS AND SO ON LATE 80s; Montage of overweight dancer, cultish naked people with body paint, punk kids kicking mock police car, dykes on bikes; Nearly naked blue man in parade, gay pride parade, butch women dancing, Man hitting motorcycle with sledgehammer, chick with tape over nipples dancing in club, punk kid w/spiked hair, nose ring, tattoos, Tattooed sword swallower, person holding pet python. Interviews cool drag queens Rock band with cool 60s style backdrop, tightrope walking rat, man under arrest, nude neon signs, woman outside strip club Performance artist wearing red dress, fetishist nanny dominatrix puts clips on woman's nipples; Funny talking head woman speaking seriously. NYC hippies etc on sidewalk, airhead host Speakers at marijuana legalization rally. Men take up the chant, "The Pope smokes dope!". Man covered in tribal tattoos in shower, woman dancing at nightclub Dancing Coke cans and their ilk, adult skater doing tricks, rock band, people dancing on sidewalk, escape artist street performer; Halloween masquerade party lots of drag queens good costumes including McDonalds Nazis! Exposed boobs & creepy performance artists Human vampire cutting mans throat and drinking the blood, another Pope smokes dope guy!; Daytona Beach biker rally...same W.T.s from 'Weird Biker Week'...motorcycle with U.S. flag, muddy chick flashing people Motorcycles in velodrome thing defying gravity, chick wiggling her butt, White Power & swastika t-shirt, Gap-toothed woman playing with anatomically correct doll; Bikers dancing, pair of really overweight bikers Bikers actually riding motorcycles, going into bar...woman shows ugly unicorn tattoo on her breast, chicks in bar Handmade 'Cold Beer' sign.'No Weapons, No Colors'; Swastika baseball cap! Big-tough-swastika-hat-man says he's on the yellow brick road...off to see the wizard...think he's a friend of Dorothy? Spring Break of the later 1980s...dancing, bikinis, drinking games...there's a Spuds Mackenzie, Drunk blonde guy hanging with the only black guy around; Raft relay race across pool...one guy loses his trunks...wet t-shirt contest but being 1987 its cropped tees, dancing Mardi Gras...where else but New Orleans...street performers, costumes including: white trash! That's a good one; Gay couple wearing silly leather chaps & doodads, er, adult venue like a strip club, street performer, dancing, Gumby costume That's a good one- man wearing boobs flashes camera, chick with boobs hanging out, street musicians, drag queen mermaid Bondage nut wearing handcuffs, male flasher costume, masochist getting whipped, costumes amusing and with gay & pagan elements; Fantastic street performers break dancing, cool Old World street musicians, black man dancing, bare chested woman on balcony; Cajun street musicians, gay men kiss (not romantically, just friends), nuns dancing with the devil, another gap-toothed chick; Guys holding up squirting dildo! San Francisco Gay Pride rally, Dykes on Bikes! topless woman with body paint dancing not crude; Lesbian chick orgasming loudly for tourists, man talking into a dildo like its a microphone, women dancing in Gay Pride parade; Man playing harmonica pretty good, men & women wearing whatever you call it...bondage wear, neo-Pagans doing this & that...; OM tattoo, great contrast between early 90s trendsetter and the host...dressed up as a 1985 interpretation of 'punk rocker'; Male host (who is clearly more intelligent than the female host) shows off a tattoo on his butt cheek..and trick safety pin in nose; Noise musicians...accompanied by a tortured clarinet...tattoos & piercings galore, body painting, fire eater, Burning Man stuff; More tattoos & piercings, people in tattoo parlor going under the gun, the Bangles! Trio of women with colorful dyed hair CU man getting his nose pierced thru the septum! He wipes away the tears...Pan appreciative audience in club Chicks playfully wrestling, nudes with body paint, and...for want of space - Burning Man type stuff & Mardi Gras stuff...ending with some drunken bikers singing the national anthem...play ball!
Charles Gatewood (November 8, 1942 – April 28, 2016) was an American photographer, writer, videographer, artist and educator, who lived and worked in San Francisco, California from 1987. From 1998 to 2010, he was a photographer for Skin and Ink magazine. During this period, Gatewood produced over thirty documentary videos about body modification, fetish fashion and other alternative interests. His San Francisco period subjects include the Folsom Street Fair (15 times), Dadafest (4 times) and Burning Man (4 times). Gatewood also photographed a number of nude studies during this period.