Here are some video stills from the shower contest at Spin nightclub in Chicago, IL. I took them with the new love o' my life, my Digital Harinezumi 2.
You can see some pix that I took at another Spin shower contest here.
For the past few years, I've been working on a project chronicling my adventures in gay strip clubs across the country. Now I've compiled the project into a photo book and video presentation. Below, you can order the book, which includes pictures of such adult film stars as Brent Corrigan, Blake Riley, Cameron Marshall, and Austin Wilde. You can also view an excerpt from the video presentation and footage from the video premiere. Enjoy and thanks, as always, for the support.
WHO AM I:
I am a writer/photographer, who has written for The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Vibe, and Spin, among other publications. I've served as Pop Music Critic for the Buffalo News and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I hold a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland in College Park, and am currently Associate Professor of Journalism at Northern Illinois University.
WHAT'S THE BOOK ABOUT:
It's the true story of how I started stripping as a part of a grad school project and ultimately found the experience to be life changing. Through various twists of fate, stripping led me to become an entertainment journalist (the book include humorous run-ins with Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, and Mary J. Blige) and now a college professor.
WHAT CRITICS HAVE SAID:
"Unafraid to bare it all...readers will feel they’re in the hands of an expert." Publisher's Weekly
Writer/photographer Craig Seymour has been chronicling gay strip clubs for more than two decades. He is a former stripper and the author of the memoir, All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C. He also has a photo book, American Boys: a strip club diary, which documents his travels at gay strip clubs across the country from 2006-2009. He has written for The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Vibe, and Spin, among other publications, and holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Maryland in College Park.
AMERICAN BOYS is a photo diary chronicling my adventures in gay strip clubs across the country from 2006 - 2009. It includes pictures of such adult film stars as Brent Corrigan, Blake Riley, Cameron Marshall, and Austin Wilde, and scenes from XL (Providence, RI), Tea Room Theatre (San Francisco, CA), Nob Hill (San Francisco, CA), Splash (New York, NY), Mr. Black (New York, NY), Hydrate (Chicago, IL), and Spin (Chicago, IL).
ALL I COULD BARE: MY LIFE IN THE STRIP CLUBS OF GAY WASHINGTON, D.C.
A frank, funny, explicit, and surprisingly inspiring memoir about a mild-mannered graduate student who “took the road less clothed” and discovered his true self.
"Unafraid to bare it all...readers will feel they’re in the hands of an expert." Publisher's Weekly
"...a bare-assed, neon-lit tour de force..." The Bay Area Reporter
"Raunchy splendor...somehow both bawdy and sweetly nostalgic at the same time." Dallas Voice