Don Peters (1936-2001) Title winner of : IFBB Mr International 1966 AAU Mr Los Angeles 1967 AAU Mr California 1967 IFBB Mr Western America 1969 Before he was a bodybuilder he was in the Marines 1957-1960 and later had bit parts in tv shows in the 1970’s. The book Muscles, Smoke and Mirrors ll by Randy Roach recounts the unusual arrangement of Don Peters living in a house purchased for him by wealthy businessman James Larson. Larson made a fortune from his educational film studio in Los Angeles and was an admirer of bodybuilders and the physique scene. Bodybuilders referred to Larson as Dr Strangelove, and called Peters’ house the pleasure palace as Peters’ house was equipped with a swimming pool, full gym and billiard room. Peters and Larson would host summer barbecues and dinner parties at the house. And at times Joe Weider would feature the house in his bodybuilding publications to publicize how well some bodybuilders lived. One of the spare bedrooms featured a two-way mirror where Larson and his select guests would watch bodybuilders, including Peters, strip and workout nude for their entertainment. Larson and Peters were both married men with children, a common thread in physique culture. -Rj
I think there is a book out there waiting to be written on the intersection between Hollywood, bodybuilding, and the closet. The Larson pool parties remind me of George Cukor’s pool parties for fresh-faced young contract players. They weren’t mandatory, I guess, but they were useful to new arrivals. And then Jimmy’s Backyard, from that brief moment when Hollywood decided that pansies were amusing and should be cultivated — all events that were semi-public at the least, and all events that were an entrée into more private arrangements.
Ons het soortgelyke situaties in Suid-Afrika gehad waar liggaamsbouers hulself van ander mans gebruik gemaak het. In Johannesburg was 'n gimnasium wat liggaamsbou-kampioene opgelei het, baises 'n huis van call-boys. In Pretoria was daar 'n skandaal van 'n anti-apartheidsamptenaar wat poolpartytjies met naakte liggaamsbouers gehou het, sommige van hulle swart mans ! In Durban die skandaal van 'n anti-gay amptenaar wat strandpartytjies met seksueel gewillige branderplankryers aangebeid het. In Kaapstad het 'n liggaamsbouer die wêreld vol gereis as 'n seun wat vir die jet-set gespeel het. En 'n regter van die amptelike liggaamsbou-organisasie het seksgunsies van liggaamsbouers gekry in ruil vir hoë tellings. - Praetorius
Elke groep het goeie en slegte appels – en enige samelewing met magsverskille is ryp vir misbruik. Maar die spanning tussen aanvaarding en verwerping kan kreatief wees ... waar dit nie vernietigend is nie! En spanning tussen eweknieë en potensiële bondgenote kan blom of korrodeer of – en selfs – opgelos word. My mantra is: "Wees vriendelik en aanvaar wat jy kan – en nie meer nie."
Welgestelde, gekultiveerde mans in Suid-Afrika van die 1920’s tot die 1960’s het diskrete gay-salonne in hul huise gehou. Hulle het hof gehou met goeie kos, jong mans van die teater en ballet, intellektuele gesprekke en politieke diskoers. Sommige het die saad van die anti-apartheidsaak geword. Ander gay-salonne was wild met gay-balle en jong mans wat hulself beskikbaar gestel het vir seks. Dit het 'n skeuring in die gay-gemeenskap veroorsaak - diegene wat reguit en diskreet opgetree het, en diegene wat meer flambojant en oop was. Elkeen het die ander blameer toe die apartheidsregime in 1969 agter homoseksualiteit aangeval het. - Praetorius
Adonis dans les escaliers.
ReplyDeleteDon Peters avait un physique élégant, les idées esthétiques.
-Beau Mec
Don Peters (1936-2001)
ReplyDeleteTitle winner of :
IFBB Mr International 1966
AAU Mr Los Angeles 1967
AAU Mr California 1967
IFBB Mr Western America 1969
Before he was a bodybuilder he was in the Marines 1957-1960 and later had bit parts in tv shows in the 1970’s.
The book Muscles, Smoke and Mirrors ll by Randy Roach recounts the unusual arrangement of Don Peters living in a house purchased for him by wealthy businessman James Larson. Larson made a fortune from his educational film studio in Los Angeles and was an admirer of bodybuilders and the physique scene. Bodybuilders referred to Larson as Dr Strangelove, and called Peters’ house the pleasure palace as Peters’ house was equipped with a swimming pool, full gym and billiard room. Peters and Larson would host summer barbecues and dinner parties at the house. And at times Joe Weider would feature the house in his bodybuilding publications to publicize how well some bodybuilders lived.
One of the spare bedrooms featured a two-way mirror where Larson and his select guests would watch bodybuilders, including Peters, strip and workout nude for their entertainment. Larson and Peters were both married men with children, a common thread in physique culture.
-Rj
I think there is a book out there waiting to be written on the intersection between Hollywood, bodybuilding, and the closet. The Larson pool parties remind me of George Cukor’s pool parties for fresh-faced young contract players. They weren’t mandatory, I guess, but they were useful to new arrivals. And then Jimmy’s Backyard, from that brief moment when Hollywood decided that pansies were amusing and should be cultivated — all events that were semi-public at the least, and all events that were an entrée into more private arrangements.
DeleteAnd! The closet, so useful and so imperfectly secure … as Rock Hudson found out.
DeleteYes, that comfortable closet that becomes a suffocating tomb.
Delete-Rj
Ons het soortgelyke situaties in Suid-Afrika gehad waar liggaamsbouers hulself van ander mans gebruik gemaak het.
DeleteIn Johannesburg was 'n gimnasium wat liggaamsbou-kampioene opgelei het, baises 'n huis van call-boys.
In Pretoria was daar 'n skandaal van 'n anti-apartheidsamptenaar wat poolpartytjies met naakte liggaamsbouers gehou het, sommige van hulle swart mans !
In Durban die skandaal van 'n anti-gay amptenaar wat strandpartytjies met seksueel gewillige branderplankryers aangebeid het.
In Kaapstad het 'n liggaamsbouer die wêreld vol gereis as 'n seun wat vir die jet-set gespeel het.
En 'n regter van die amptelike liggaamsbou-organisasie het seksgunsies van liggaamsbouers gekry in ruil vir hoë tellings.
- Praetorius
Elke groep het goeie en slegte appels – en enige samelewing met magsverskille is ryp vir misbruik. Maar die spanning tussen aanvaarding en verwerping kan kreatief wees ... waar dit nie vernietigend is nie! En spanning tussen eweknieë en potensiële bondgenote kan blom of korrodeer of – en selfs – opgelos word. My mantra is: "Wees vriendelik en aanvaar wat jy kan – en nie meer nie."
DeleteWelgestelde, gekultiveerde mans in Suid-Afrika van die 1920’s tot die 1960’s het diskrete gay-salonne in hul huise gehou.
ReplyDeleteHulle het hof gehou met goeie kos, jong mans van die teater en ballet, intellektuele gesprekke en politieke diskoers. Sommige het die saad van die anti-apartheidsaak geword.
Ander gay-salonne was wild met gay-balle en jong mans wat hulself beskikbaar gestel het vir seks.
Dit het 'n skeuring in die gay-gemeenskap veroorsaak - diegene wat reguit en diskreet opgetree het, en diegene wat meer flambojant en oop was. Elkeen het die ander blameer toe die apartheidsregime in 1969 agter homoseksualiteit aangeval het.
- Praetorius