Let’s be Gay Collectibles

Candles 🕯

I'm body parts.

I’m STDs

I’m the Tina Turner wall clock.

I’m the Ike Turner billy club

I'm the creepy dolls

I'm the Patrick Nagel coffee table book.

I’m the Le Chat Noir poster.

I'm the Golden Girls vhs tapes

I’m the Greg Araki DVDs.

I'm the "Dress Up David" refrigerator magnet set.

I’m the pride-of-place items which once belonged to Vivian Vance, including a set of earrings and a bounced check.

I’m the Frau who is house sitting at the place with the Greg Araki DVDs. After popping in the copy of Mysterious Skin, now I’m traumatized and wondering if he’s one of those “groomers” I’ve read about on Twitter. R10

I'm Gene dolls.

R14 these things?

I’m the Madame Alexander wizard of oz doll collection

I'm the Christopher Radko ornaments.

Candles, r1?

I’m the Tom of Finland prints.

I'm a campy old cookbook from eBay, written by Richard Simmons, Liberace, Tammy Faye or Arlene Francis.

I’m anything that is overly ornate and was once expensive, but now is a “bargain” that the fickle Fraus have sent them all to the trash bins, which are later pilfered by prancing Nancies.

I’m the signed “Queer as Folk” poster.

R22 signed by known heterosexual Hal Sparks?

I'm "Sam-I-Am," the album by Star Search winner Sam Harris.

Despite being in mint condition on vinyl, I'm actually worth less now than when I was purchased.

Anyone else shocked that the Tom Bianchi book is ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS now? I remember perusing it a few times, years ago in different bookstores and considering buying it, but alas never did. I think it was $40 back then.

I’m the Byers’ Choice Carolers that get trotted out every Christmas.

I had that, R11. Wonder what happened to it.

I'm the everything fucking Disney

I’m the Barbara Hershey and Mayim Bialk autographed laserdisc of “Beaches”

I'm the matching Richard Gere action figure, complete with a little gerbil!

I'm your early Colt Men magazines that show up on Bookfinder and eBay for over $100.

This one isn't even in good condition and is going for $174.

I'm the multiple editions of "Judy-Live at Carnegie Hall", from original vinyl all the way to the most recent cd.

"But this last one was sourced from the original tapes, includes the banter, AND it's pressed on thinly gold plated discs for optimum sound quality!"

I'm the Callas LP's lovingly wrapped in plastic

I’m Bear Pond.

I'm the collection of large dildos from the late 80s early 90s cast from porn star cocks. Some of us are hard, with a matte surface that has turned a sickly dark orange. Others are oily yet sandy and off-gassing.

I'm "jewels from mother's side of the family". His discerning friends clocked them as paste decades ago but play along because they are kind.

Full set of the Tales of the City books.

I'm a heartbreakingly random collection of "Murano glass", under-scaled and extremely grimy. "It's worth more if the label is still on, so I only dust." Several pieces are not Murano.

I'm the quality suits he bought in his late twenties and early 30s, Brioni, Cerruti, Lanvin, a couple Savile Row, Paul Stuart and Ralph Lauren, etc, that he last squeezed into in his early 40s after he had hepatitis and regained his youthful line, and that was 20 years ago.

I'm the collection of anatomically correct Billy dolls.

I’m the 1985 Krystle and Alexis dolls, staring down everyone to enter the sitting room for the past 38 years.

I'm the Franklin Porcelain Thimble Collection that Mother gave me as a present for my 8th birthday, because I am her best boy!

I’m the Big Jim doll from the 1970s.

While I am not R32, I am R32.

I'm the Tom of Finland wall calendar, the pages of June and July are slightly stuck together.

I’m the ticket stub for the January 11th, 1997 showing of “Evita”, framed next to an autographed publicity still of Madge on the Casa Rosada balcony.

r28: And everything Disney is NEW from the Little Mermaid on. - Nothing vintage from the 1930s - 50s.

I'm Fiesta Ware!

R48 1) those plates are not technically Fiesta ware. 2) highly unlikely the staging is by a gay, as the cutlery is a NO.

I'm a vast and dusty collection of Playbills, going back to the 70s. I sit on a shelf and wait to be asked about. My owner has lots of stories. Even when he had gentleman callers, they never did ask. Now the only company we get is Luz once a month, and she doesn't even bother to dust me any more.

I am a copy of Madonna's "Sex" book, kept in pristine condition because some day, my owner thought, it would be a valuable collectible.

My niece and her husband, my future executors, will open me, glance at the contents long enough to have a hearty mocking laugh, and debate whether I go into the donate pile or the trash bag.

Trash bag will win.

Real Fiestaware:

I’m the frequent purchases on Replacements to keep his 5 sets of china and dinnerware in full, pristine condition.

I'm the vintage magazines that could turn to dust the second you touch them but were $20 each on eBay.

I am the muscular male mermaid Christmas tree ornament, displayed all year long.

I’m the expressive abilities lost in a homophobic-taunted youth that lead to an arrested development.

R32, today is the 62nd anniversary!

We are two original Blackgama "What Becomes a Legend Most" poster ads, rather amateurishly framed. We feature Diana Ross and Joan Crawford. We were meant to be the start of a collection -- Cher was supposed to be next -- but when the lover who was obsessed with Avedon walked out the door, so did our owner's interest in acquiring any more like us.

I’m everything Patti LuPone ever sold on eBay.

I’m Patti^s dignity

Patti never HAD any dignity.

I'm a worn and sticky 1st edition of "As I See It" by Greg Gorman.

I'm anything James Dean related.

Anything Judy Garland-related

I'm a first edition of Dancer from the Dance, now $300-1,000 on AbeBooks.

I'm all the phallic art

Wanna see my Abercrombie & Fitch shopping bags?

I'm vintage 80s powerhouse fragrances, men and women. If I've been stored correctly (highly unlikely) I'm worth a pretty penny.

I’m dildos and butt plugs

I'm your vintage International Male and Undergear catalogs. They used to send me out quarterly for FREEEEEE!

Now generally going for $25-30 a piece, or sold in small lots for $75-100.

Don't you just have to have that one you're missing!?

I'm The Big Penis Book

R31 - wow, I've got an entire box of those old Colt magazines sitting in a closet - maybe time to sell!

There was a poster awhile back telling us to buy up the Tom Bianchi books when they were still regular price because they were going out of print, not sure anyone listened.

Those books are as rare as Tom's T cells.

R70 I also used to get the International male catalogs for free for years. I think they started sending it to me when I subscribed to QC. I think I had almost two decades of both on a shelf in the den. Shortly after I decided to throw them out I saw them on sale on Ebay, so selling for a decent amount. They were next to mint condition, so in hind sight I should have held on to them.

why would you have saved a tacky clothing catalogue anyway? One was just like the other. Why save them all? I realise they have nostalgia value now, but what would the point of have been then? Did people save sears catalogues from previous years, in their den?

I'm glad to be none of the 76 collectibles above.

The first edition of Dancer from the Dance is the only non-embarrassing possibility, especially if accidentally a first.

I'm last summer's dried hydrangeas, gathering dust (and losing color) in a mid-century modern water pitcher knock-off from Home Goods on the fireplace mantle.

I'm the ceramic dessert plates with whimsical painted scenes of Paris that my sister-in-law bought for me at Anthropologie for my 55th birthday.

I'm the $400 plaid wool Jonathan Adler cat bed the cat wants nothing to do with.

I’m the official, limited edition Ruby Slipper replicas.

That male mermaid ornament is hot, R55. I'll have to get some.

I’m Earring Magic Ken, mint condition in the box.

I'm KITSCH.

I’m every Cyguy diva doll ever made.

Gangbang pictures of white on Asian twink

R86 was sent to the Gulag for not following the agenda 🤖

Don’t ya know, Elder Gay, everyone is T.

I’m the 50 year old Partridge Family, Brady Bunch & Julia lunch boxes. Each complete with thermos!

Paul Freeman's "Bondi" series of photo books are getting pretty pricey. I believe there are four of them in the series. Copies of "Bondi Urban" (various condition) appear to be priced anywhere from $150 - $750.

I’m the drawer full of certificates of authenticity for the Precious Moments figurines, all of which were smashed during a heated argument over a brunch menu.

In what busted up trailer park was this, R90?

R91 They were mother’s.

I'm the complete run of Erasure CD singles.

I'm the checkbook cover celebrating the 1993 March on Washington.

I'm FleshJacks. I'm almost identical to FleshLights, but I'm marketed to gay men.

I’m the acrimony found between collectors of Staub and Le Creuset.

Tears of evening solitude collected in Chinese cloisonné snuff bottles.

r96 So funny.

I’m empty bottles of Rush and Amsterdam.

Shall we go into the other room now? Gather round that kidney shaped parquetry table. I've laid out some new Battersea boxes if you'd like a look. There are magnifying glasses in the velvet bags on the lower shelf. Help yourselves.

You don't collect Battersea boxes? Maybe bibelots are your thing, more general. Into the next room then, that table top just there in the corner, yes, the one with the sunned Fortuny silk cloth, just as you say

I see you do know good things!

I’m the Sondheim cast albums, all carefully arranged in order of production.

Vintage Board Games like "Dream Phone" ...

or Mystery Date

Im the multicoloured Jeannie bottles.