Sometimes Martins' an my own ventures clash with the new over-enthousiast amateurs who tend to question our authority. Although some hints that we could do with some modesty sometimes, there are just as many triumphant moments, resulting in us screaming 'told you so' Sure, anyone delving into art history will admit on loads of issues there is no absolute truth, Sometimes we do get annoyed because in art groups like MAT on yahoo or GMBA on google groups we are written of as those irtritating Dutch know-it-alls. I have been active in this field for over 30 years now, and Martin even longer and it gets to be tedious to year in - year out have to convey to all the new arrivers that decades of studying, training, collecting, gathering a reference library or two, getting to know dozens of great artists in person, getting to respect their input, vision, sexuality, and legal rights should make some sort of difference. When a discussion flaires up where Martin is exclaiming: that is not a Ted of Paris work and the guy coming up with the find goes: "I'll only believe it when the artists says so himself" it can be great fun when the author comes to the resque. Ted has not been very active recently, but told us he will be getting back, which sounds just sooo great to us, suckers for his perversions. and yep, there are masses of great Parisian works treasured in 3 masterclass galleries not only by Ted, but also by Benoit, Logan, Rohr, the late Bastille, and numerous others, that have set standards in perv art with that legendary magazine Projet X in the eighties and nineties. which does nbot mean we only wallow in the past: later this month we cellebrate our own versoin of the oscars, the golden god award, to honor the greatest surprise or special contributor to our community of the moment and, as always, you can click back years of db/queerart previous monthly cover pages.