{"id":25806,"date":"2023-12-03T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25806"},"modified":"2025-01-03T23:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T23:00:12","slug":"my-gay-heroes-4-peter-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25806","title":{"rendered":"MY GAY HEROES, #4: Peter Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"499\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2563-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25807\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2563-1.png 1000w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2563-1-300x150.png 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2563-1-768x383.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Peter Berlin as Nature Boy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the height of my dalliance with \u201870s gay porn, some while ago now, I discovered Peter Berlin. He was a Tom of Finland type, only for real, in the flesh. And I was pretty amazed at that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2559-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25808\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2559-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2559-1-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2559-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2559-1-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2559-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2559-1-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2559-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Read a bit more about him <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2014\/oct\/02\/peter-berlin-photographer-porn-star-gay-icon\">here<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"517\" height=\"517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2561.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25809\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2561.jpg 517w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2561-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2561-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/img_2561-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Those flares!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the above pic, the image on the left makes him look rather like a hyper-homo-eroticised Owen Wilson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the height of my dalliance with \u201870s gay porn, some while ago now, I discovered Peter Berlin. He was a Tom of Finland type, only for real, in the flesh. And I was pretty amazed at that. Read a bit more about him here\u2026 In the above pic, the image on the left makes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25806\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MY GAY HEROES, #4: Peter Berlin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6Ie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25811,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25806\/revisions\/25811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}