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Bastille was the pseudonym taken from the name of the Paris Métro station by the late Frank Weber, a gay male erotic artist born in the US but settled in Paris who first came to prominence in the 1980s through his association with the Danish perve porn magazine Toy. Weber's accomplished oil paintings, in an unmistakable style, exhibit a set of preoccupations centering on rubber, piss and scat, with a predeliction for shaven men, tubes invading body orifices, gasmasks and oil. His peculiar rubber costumes are quite unlike standard issue fetish wear, and have since been imitated by the more adventurous rubber clothing suppliers. His name is sometimes cited in contact ads to indicate those who share his interests.
A Bastille Archive in Paris has been set up to preserve Weber's work and can be contacted via IEM (who also publish postcards) at 208 rue Saint-Maur, F-75010 Paris, tel +33 (0)1-42 41 21 41. There is also an unofficial Bastille web page in Sweden.
US-based lesbian writer, activist and self-proclaimed sadist who has become arguably the best known and most influential modern commentator on SM through her involvement in the pioneering San Francisco lesbian SM group Samois, books such as Sapphistry and (as editor) The Lesbian SM Safety Manual, and regular columns in The Advocate magazine. She helped popularise the theory that SM involves an exchange of power, polemicised against the anti-porn current in feminism, and suggested that an SM sexuality could exist independently of sexual identities built around gender by her notorious assertion that: 'If I had a choice between being shipwrecked on a desert island with a vanilla lesbian and a hot male masochist, I'd pick the boy' (Califia 1993:169).
Pat Califia's homepage has info about all her books and forthcoming public engagements.