May someone spiked the Holy Water with hops.Catholics are hopping mad at Miller for once again supporting the 2008 Folsom Street Fair and plan to confront SF Mayor Gavin Newsom over his embrace of leather tourist dollars. Americans for Truth About Homosexuality -- the men and women behind the documentary,"Tolerance...read more
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When Steve Cruz set out to film a porn that captured the sketchy, undercover eroticism of the late 70s, he couldn't have predicted how accurately it'd play out. Blue Movie, his directorial debut, was shut down today by the LAPD Vice Squad on the basis of an anonymous tip. It...read more
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Apparently Clay Aiken has come out. Don't everyone line up at once, now! After the jump, an annotated history of the longest coming out process in the history of man....read more
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A couple months back, we announced a contest, in association with the San Francisco Convention and Visitor's Bureau, for all you non-San Francisco gays who are dying to see a giant fetish fair up close. Grand prize was an all-expenses-paid trip for 2 to Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco,...read more
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Maybe we're a little bit oversexed here at The Sword, or perhaps we're just cynical... But is it just us, or is David Beckham wearing far too many clothes in these leaked images from his forthcoming 2009 wall calendar? True, Becks is famous for more than just his bod...read more
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Sometimes it's like Erik Rhodes is fucking with us. Just as Diesel Washington claims that he's nothing like his fearsome on-screen persona, is it possible that in addition to Rhodes' all-too-public depressive personal there's a smart kid with a wickedly funny sense of humor? Case in point: this recent photo...read more
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Act quickly, Bay Area fauns! Lord Pan, master of erotic ritual and ancient pagan god, has most recently been spotted frolicking across those eternal meadows of Ye Mighty Craig and his Eternal Lists of Time! Arousal in "Body Mind and Soul" is what this pasty lord-man has in mind, and...read more
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We couldn't have dreamt up a better headline ourselves. The hypocrisy police at BlogActive this week have awarded Mark Buse, the Chief of Staff at John McCain's Senate office, the Roy Cohn award for hypocrisy, in recognition of his work against gay and lesbian people while living as a (semi-)...read more
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Happy Burfday, Matthew Rush! You've come a thick, long way, baby....read more
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Here are some shots from Hedi Slimane's 24-page cover story for the brand spanking new VOGUE Hommes Japan. Slimane, along with the help of styling genius Nicola Formichetti, burns the magazine's debut into our collective retinae by juxtaposing black and white photos with those of ejaculatory COLOR! And did...read more
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If the internet were a sidewalk, we'd want to take a stroll with Kenneth in the 212. Kenneth, who's totally cute, has a knack for separating the gay wheat from the chaff. He's an occasional contributor to Towleroad, and his personal blog is a balanced meal that combines the high-brow...read more
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Black really isn't the new anything, and someday soon we hope to stop wearing it in mourning of Trannyshack. From the ashes of that venerable drag destination rise two distinct new weekly parties at the same venue, ye olde Stud Bar on Harrison and 9th in San Francisco: Tiara Sensation,...read more
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Yes, Travis and AM almost died in a plane crash and George Michael got busted again for coked-up urinal cruising, but the real story this weekend was our discovery that Justin Gaston, Miley Cyrus' new beau and our new obsession, is in fact a slightly douche-y John Mayer-esque singer-songwriter. We...read more
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You'd think that after a year in which he a) started a safe sex campaign, b) wrote a porn script c) toured with ManHunt d) sold some underwear and e) came out for Obama, Steve Cruz might want to take a rest, right? Not on your bladder!...read more
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When Joan Rivers performed for the leathermen at a Folsom Street Fair benefit gala on Saturday, the tension was thick: would she like what Sir was wearing? The invitation to the Folsom Street Events 25th Anniversary Gala dinner had specified "formal wear or dress leather." We did not learn about...read more
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The U.S. Coast Guard is the latest enemy of the good! We just heard that they've managed to seize two semi-submarines off the coast of Central America in the last week containing about 14 tons of cocaine en route to California. What the fuck....read more
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In her one-woman show this week, Sandra Bernhard informed Mrs. Palin -- a "turncoat bitch" -- that she will be "gang raped by [Sandra's] big black brothers" upon entering Manhattan. We are inclined to think that Sandra is joking for two reasons: she doesn't have any black siblings, and she's...read more
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New Brooklyn trio Chairlift have been compared by some music critics and bloggers to The Knife, and we can hear why with their Asian staccato accompaniment, spooky vocal melodies, and creepily upbeat dancefloor offerings. However, something about Chairlift is decidedly cutesier (just cutesy enough not to spook away any...read more
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Identical twins Dean and Dave Resnick, who among others totally creep us out, have appeared jerking off side by side in Pacific Sun's Double Size: Double the Pleasure. Ellen Degeneres claims that she's never had any children, but wouldn't you too if these fugly twins popped out? Photographic evidence of...read more
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Economy's in the shitter, summer's over and pretty soon it'll be Christmas and we'll all be old. So, in the wise old words of Miss Peggy Lee, if that's all there is, then let's keep dancing. Check out our hand-curated selection of parties for those of the homo persuasion in...read more
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The muppets may have taken on Manhattan, but Hurricane Pam has taken on Fire Island, and it's likely never to be the same again."I just shot the most beautiful watersports scene on the bay side of the island, against the setting sun," she called to tell us. "It was so...read more
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Australia has apparently just discovered oral sex.Professor Basil Donovan, a professor at the University of New South Wales, presented his ground-breaking findings on the sexual habits of Australians at a congress on sexual health in Perth. What's most curious, however, is that Donovan seems to have arrived from the 19th...read more
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Anderson Cooper is dating some randomheimer actor named Jonathan Chase! Pardon us if we're a little excited about this story, as it has all the elements we obsess over: A closeted celeb, softcore porn, an amazing ass and Another Gay Movie!...read more
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Master of every woman's and every gay man's masturbation fantasy, Brad Pitt, has lovingly donated $100,000 of his hard-earned cash to support gay marriage. The donation is going to help the cause of defeating November ballot initiatives in California and Massachusetts that would remove the legal right for same-sex couples...read more
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Beady-eyed celebrity vole Lance Bass announced that his upcoming appearance on Dancing with the Stars will not involve same-sex dancing, as it would distract from the integrity of the show and just be "silly.""I think it would be so silly that it would just overshadow everything else going on," Bass...read more
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Twins are hot, right? We thought so, too, until we realized that all too often they do this staring thing that creeps us out. How do straight men continue to jerk off to the Doublemint twins? Below, our guide to gay twins who creep us out most. ...read more
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New York bon vivant and DList co-founder Daniel Nardicio has begun guerrilla warfare in the tony Fire Island Pines after outraged bar owners resorted to legal action to keep Pines barflies from fleeing to the neighboring town of Cherry Grove....read more
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Famed NYC photographer Joe Oppedisano has signed on as photographer for the upcoming Steve Cruz/Leif Gobo-helmed Blue Movie for Mustang. Oppedisano, whose work has appeared in such wide-ranging publications as The New York Times, Playboy and Gay Times will be shooting all the stills on the project....read more
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Sex columnist and gay pundit Dan Savage scoffs at the get-out-the-vote posters being plastered around Seattle's Capitol Hill district by homo polticos Equal Rights Washington. "It's not exactly voting that comes to mind when I look at that poster," says Savage. "It makes me think about gym--as in, 'when was...read more
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That little slut Miley Cyrus has been hanging around with a twenty year old underwear model from Heaven. We mean, Louisiana. His name is Justin Gaston, and he escorted Miley and her clan to church a couple days ago dressed in his Sunday best: tank-top, sneakers and a cross around his neck....read more
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Whether or not you had your retirement riding on AIG, times are gonna be tight for a while. Because we love you, dear reader, The Sword has compiled these handy tips for stretching your gay dollar without sacrificing your deviant lifestyle. So before you contemplate reusing a condom, consider these...read more
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San Francisco drag superstar and the first ever Miss Trannyshack, The Steve Lady, passed away last night at home with his partner and father at his bedside....read more
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Nineteen years and sixty-four issues after it first appeared -- as a black and white photocopied zine on the streets of San Francisco -- BEAR Magazine is back from a six-year hibernation and will continue its promotion of the gay masculine aesthetic....read more
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We're not crazy about organized sports, but considering the fact that NFL players look like neck-less ogres and soccer players look like Greek statues, it baffles us that the sport isn't more popular in North America. The rise of the great underwear-model-slash-soccer-titan David Beckham has had every fag and...read more
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In times of trouble, what the world really needs is love, sweet love, and so it goes in the background of this clip from CNN in which two men begin making out and ripping each others' clothes off while the reporter in the foreground discusses the collapse of Lehman Brothers...read more
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CorbinFisher, a leading amateur website based out of San Diego, will start offering their exclusive models full health benefits (medical, dental, vision and life insurance coverage), 401(k) plans and tuition reimbursement for continued higher education....read more
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Levi's latest strategy for snagging the gay consumer involves hiring and paying a model who is not only fat and ridiculous, but also resented everywhere for being over-paid. Yes, we're talking about Perez Hilton, a spokesminstrel with an offensive speaking voice and even more offensive fashion sense who has...read more
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Because San Francisco's a town where "ambition" and "accomplishment" are defined pretty loosely, today's San Francisco Examiner sends high fives and kudos! to two city residents for saving the world and ass shaking, respectively. Nikhil is on the left, wearing a suit. Carlos is on the right, wearing a...read more
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Lindsay Lohan broke her silence on her presidential endorsement yesterday via an outraged MySpace blog, in which she concluded with the exclamation "vote for Obama!" God, she can be so bossy sometimes. Prior to her plea for change in Washington, Lohan railed against the indisputably horrifying Sarah Palin, John...read more
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Sir Paul McCartney has slammed a new book in which biographer Philip Norman claims that John Lennon wanted a gay relationship with his bandmate. In John Lennon: A Life, Norman claims that John fantasized about Paul and wanted to spend a hard day's night with him and that Lennon also...read more
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As if we needed any further reason not to like San Diego, news arrives today that four San Diego firefighters are suing the city over their forced participation in the 2007 Gay Pride parade, where they were, allegedly, sexually harassed by flirtatious homos. The suit calls the parade "a sexually...read more
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This past fashion week had its highlights for us Sword scribes (slamming vodka tonics with Alice Dellal, stealing bottles with Lydia Hearst, watching Foxy Brown perform at the Alexander Wang party, and of course, free swag) as well as its low moments (being thrown out of the Prada party...read more
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When director Jett Blakk wrote us to tell us that his new set was on lockdown, and that even as friends, he couldn't tell us what was going on, we took it as an affront ... and a challenge. Luckily, porn isn't exactly the Pentagon and Blakk isn't working on...read more
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The Idaho Republican senator Larry Craig (otherwise known as Minneapolis' hottest piece of Republican grandpa bathroom ass) continued efforts to persuade a three-judge panel to toss out his guilty plea on Wednesday, for soliciting gay sex from a police officer by tapping his foot beneath a men's room stall...read more
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Christopher Owens and JR White, along with a cast of rotating backup players, make up Girls: San Francisco's hottest new export. Their first-ever show at Cafe DuNord sold out and had rabid MySpace fans screaming along all of their lyrics, and they've since attracted the attention of everyone from...read more
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When studlet Dominik Rider posted a touching eulogy to his dearly departed pug Midge earlier this week, we felt his pain but also paused to wonder what kind of dogs gay porn stars tend to have. The answer, overwhelmingly, seems to be: small lap dogs. In fact, that was all...read more
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Hell hath no fury like a ho scorned, especially when that ho is Karrine "Superhead" Steffans, best-selling author of Confessions of a Video Vixen. Karrine so took it there by giving the internet a tour of the lube-stained bag of "ass beads" and other miscellaneous instruments of anal pleasure that...read more
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Summer's basically over, gents, but there is still much drinking to be done. Care of the Sword's tireless editors we bring you this roundup (by no means complete, or even-handed) of stuff going on for those of the homo persuasion this weekend in not just two meccas, but now three!...read more
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The new Fox game show unveiled yet another gay porn cross-over this weekend: Ajay from the gay porn site Sean Cody is "facing the hole" in the American version of the Japanese game show "Hole In the Wall." INSERT JOKE HERE. INSERT SALACIOUS REMARK HERE....read more
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What's the easiest way to get a visa in a first-world country? Evidently, have sex with a gay hooker. An immigration agent in Australia is being investigated on charges that he assisted Indian and Bangladeshi men in getting visas by having them photographed au natural with a male escort. The...read more
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Steve Cruz, gay porn's own Energizer Bunny, gathered his porn friends to make a PSA in conjunction with his How I Roll safe sex campaign. The video, which features Francois Sagat, Vinnie D'Angelo, Blake Riley, Francesco D'Macho, Matthew Rush, Jason Ridge, Johnny Hazzard, Damien Crosse and others, has been featured...read more
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Super-sexy, gay folk singer Daniel Cartier got his head tattooed while Francois Sagat was still in école élémentaire. He's that hardcore. Although he no longer has the backing of a major label (he was signed to Elton John's now-defunct Rocket Records), the iconic, critically acclaimed one-time escort and actor continues...read more
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And this is a problem? Gay British documentarian Simon Fanshawe thinks so. Sir Sadness isn't happy with the gay culture's drug use, "corrosive" sex-obsession and "extreme vanity." His new film, "The Trouble with Gay Men," calls gay culture "a sewer" and laments the homosexualist movements early goals with its more...read more
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Butt-loving bon vivant Michael Lucas spent last night among the high society ranks of Nichole Richie, Frodo and, appropriately enough, American Gigolo star Lauren Hutton at the Marc Jacobs Spring '09 Womenswear show. It's good to see the press shouting his name, though it must be hard to compete with...read more
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In a noteworthy step away from the complete destruction of western humanity, Mexico officials began distributing new sex education literature in Mexico City's public schools that includes, among such topics as STD prevention and women's rights, information on respecting people's sexual identities. When we were in school, our sex...read more
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You may have heard about this giveaway we're doing. The folks at the San Francisco Visitors' Bureau are helping us to give away an all-expenses paid trip to San Francisco for the weekend of Folsom Street Fair (August 26-28). Well, we got so many clever responses to our Match Game-style...read more
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Radar O'Reilly doppleganger Daniel Radcliffe has finally been exposed, and we can't imagine something less than deserving of fanfare. Our lovers over at Fleshbot pointed us to the camera phone pic, but there are somethings that are better left to the imagination. After all, the horse-loving play is called Equus,...read more
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Sarah Palin's husband Todd is the self-described "First Dude" of Alaska, an avid moose hunter, and four-time winner of the Iron Dog Snowmobiling Competition. We think Mr. Palin would fit in better in a Joe Gage flick than the White House, and it might have something to do with his...read more
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Southern Decadence may have been cut short, but New Orleans' gay bounce music is still going strong. The local hip-hop variant has been increasingly dominated by a squad of trannies, sissy boys and out gay men who, far from segregating themselves in a gay ghetto, have become integral to the...read more
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There was a time when Barack Obama couldn't get a square meal in Hillary-loving Hollywood -- oh, how the times have changed! The candidate who's currently being accused of a life of cultural elitism will prove his critics wrong with a special performance with that balladeer of the working class,...read more
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Chet Bannon, who is one of the sitting ducks on the upcoming Real World: Brooklyn--currently shooting in and around Red Hook and Williamsburg where evil, entitled hipsters have been throwing things at the poor kids and trying to harass them back to Manhattan where things are less painfully cool--is a...read more
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Chi Chi LaRue's opening an a smut store on Santa Monica Boulevard called (wait for it...) "Chi Chi LaRue's". They won't be carrying drag accessories -- at least not yet. Instead, the "upscale styled boutique" will carry the entire line of over 2,000 titles in the Channel 1 Releasing catalog...read more
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When we heard one of our favorite Australian TV gems, Kath & Kim, was being picked up by NBC for a pointless and less-funny American makeover, it was like so depressing. Seriously, no offense, but those billboards of Molly Shannon and Selma Blair make us want to totally kill ourselves...read more
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The Republicans are going to do their damndest to keep her off the network interview shows and out of the harsh spotlight of actual journalists for as long as possible, but information is trickling out about the woman who is in line to be second-in-line for the presidency of the...read more
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Are you one of those homosexuals who still orders Cosmopolitans in a busy club on a Saturday night? Or one of those fools who shoots Courvoisier like it was tequila? Our stalwart, go-to Castro bartender, Yuri Kagan, has a few suggestions which may improve your chances of getting laid--or at...read more
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While the last few couples race to the alter shotgun-style to beat Proposition 8, other trend-setting gay singles are rushing to foreign countries (and to unwed mothers) in hopes of scoring this season's hot gay accessory: little babies! Popularized by gay style icons such as Angelina Jolie, Madonna and Sarah...read more
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While we didn't exactly expect her to don a track suit and start doing kicks Sally O'Malley-style once she turned 50, but we didn't expect she would start reaching out to the Pope either....read more
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The 17th Annual San Francisco Fringe Festival is going on this week, and we were not even aware that it existed until a few days ago when we were handed a flyer for "Tenderloin Christmas Hustler." As promising at that title sounds, we are skeptical as to the need for...read more
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Italian researchers claim that marijuana-based preparations may be more effective than traditional antibiotics in the fight against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), or as it's more clinically known, "Gay Staph." The scientists published their paper in the Journal of Natural Products and say that while they've known that cannabinoids like marijuana...read more
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Understandably, Ann and Nancy Wilson of the rock duo Heart told Entertainment Weekly they felt "completely fucked over" by the Republicans' use of their song "Barracuda" during their convention this week, presumably in reference lipsticked Alaskan pitbull Sarah Palin. To wit, after Universal Music Publishing and Sony BMG issued a...read more
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Normally, we only pay to watch porn stars when they're actually, you know, doing it. But Johnny Hazzard? We'd pay to watch him grope a stuffed chihuahua. The handsome, handsome, HANDSOME star makes his mainstream debut tonight on Here! TV's pay-per-view series The Lair wherein he falls under the spell...read more
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An archive of historical gay video footage belonging to Gay Cable Network pioneer and sex club entrepreneur Lou Maletta--much of it in VHS format--sits uncatalogued and quickly deteriorating in a Manhattan storage room, the Boston Edge reports. Maletta began the "Gay Cable News" show, hosted by Andy Humm and Anne...read more
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Each month we strive to bring you a selection of parties, exhibits and events of note so that all you globetrotting gays can plan your calendars accordingly. This month, we'd like to point you to a Gay Ski Week in New Zealand (it's still winter down there, you see); your...read more
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Summer's basically over, gents, but there is still much drinking to be done. Care of the Sword's tireless editors we bring you this roundup (by no means complete, or even-handed) of stuff going on for those of the homo persuasion this weekend in not just two meccas, but now three!...read more
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Hold the sauce on that 12-inch! The manager of a Subway in Missouri fired employee Kurt Wild's after his gay porn past was discovered. Wild was working a Subway restaurant outside of St. Louis when the customer recognized him and threatened to boycott if the 22-year-old sandwich artist wasn't fired....read more
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John Maus may be inaccessible to some, but once you get past the lo-fi recording and manic tempos, Mr. Maus is pure pop. His 2007 album Love Is Real was one of the unsung triumphs of the year, featuring spangly power anthems with positive lyrics and surreal ( and creepy)...read more
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Because it's still like 1950 over there, a "cutting edge" talk show in Kenya broached the topic of homosexuality for the first time ever on national television. The show, Hatua, is supported by foundation and grant money aimed at liberal causes in East Africa, and the intent of the episode...read more
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Ever suspect that Michael Lucas was secretly a conservative Muslim? We neither, but the first issue from his new fashion blog, "Michael Lucas Style" features the star-director-shopper modeling designer Rick Owens, including an inventive Lucas-of-Arabia take on a scarf. But expect more than edgy dress-up pics from Lucas, who promises...read more
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Suspicious screen-grabs of someone resembling DeAndre Cortez Way getting head from another man have hit the internet this morning. You may know him better as rapper Soulja Boy, the one single-handedly responsible for bringing us one of the most annoying songs-and-dance combos of all time, "Crank That"....read more
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As you may recall, we and many of the SF gays put on our 70s best and showed up to be extras on the set of Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic Milk. It looks like the film is on schedule for release in November, and the trailer just arrived...read more
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A new study by Swedish researchers suggests that there may be a genetic marker for monogamous tendencies in men, and its name is RS3 334. Long story short, the gene affects receptors for a hormone called vasopressin which is directly linked to commitment phobia, and its converse, cuddle mania. The...read more
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Oh, San Francisco: you've really got a fair for everything. The 5th Annual Hairrison Street Fair took place this weekend and the hirsute and rotund flocked to it like a free buffet. We've been banned from the fair ever since the year they found out we drink diet soda, but...read more
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You probably recognize Request model Cole Mohr from the latest cross-dressing Marc Jacobs ads, where he dons dresses and shades in a nod to the dreamy days of Kurt Cobain, and gets stomped on in the process (see image). When his modeling agency blogged his arrival to NYC with...read more
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For the second season of gay-to-the-max snooze-fest Top Design (which premieres tonight on Bravo at 10PM) the ersatz fag network once again did not disappoint with the gay casting quotient, with 6 out of the 7 male contestants (and 2 out of 2 male host/judges) being big 'mos. While we...read more
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We were hoping it wouldn't last because, well, we're bitter bitches. But it appears that Damien Crosse and Franceso D'Macho are well on their way towards marital bliss. Not only did Damien move to Madrid to live with his little "Bunny Raper" last month, but the two are headed to...read more
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If Fred Phelps didn't exist, we'd probably have to invent him just to keep ourselves entertained. This week, the Westboro Baptist Church Minister used his increasingly nonsensical video pulpit to "thank God for Gustav" for ruining the week-long Southern Decadence event in New Orleans, where "the filthy fags of America...read more
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While porn fans come in both red and blue, it shouldn't come as a suprise (except maybe to Manhunt founder Jonathan Crutchly) that gay porn stars are rooting for Obama. Of course, when we started polling porn stars, Obama could barely get a hand-job from the boys; now, they're nearly...read more
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We might not care for the party's platform, but if we had the choice of which to convention to cruise, the RNC gets our vote: Minneapolis Craigslist M4M is burning with hot, thick and hung Republicans looking for a chance to release their delegates....read more
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A collective "BOIIINNNG!" ripped across the web this weekend, after male super-Zoolander Tyson Beckford decided to get naked and jump into a pool at a Marie Claire magazine party in Australia. While any chance to see Tyson nearly nude is one we'll gladly take, the real point of discussion...read more
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Perhaps capitalizing on the popularity of Swingtown, a Florida start-up called YOLO (You Only Live Once) Cruises is launching the first cruise for swingers on April 26, 2009. Marlene Brustle, who may or may not be a saggy-titted polyamorist herself, is President of YOLO, and insists that this is a...read more
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According to his MySpace profile, Levi Johnson, the 18-year-old impregnator of GOP VP nom Sarah Palin's daughter, is a self-described " f - - -in' redneck" ... and hot!...read more
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What did you do this weekend? "Confirmed bachelor" Kevin Spacey was spotting smoking a joint and practically fingering the bare ass of a hot twink while vacationing in Croatia. From the reddish splotch on the Croatian beauty's ass, one could surmise he was being a very bad boy (not to...read more
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In a bizarre case of life imitating art, David Duchovny, who plays a sex-addicted character on Showtime's Californication, was admitted to a rehab facility for sex addiction in real life on Thursday. His wife of eleven years Tea Leoni, of Spanglish fame (we love that movie), is apparently sticking...read more
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Well, jeepers Mr. Smith. Just when we thought you might be resolving to let the world know what we already have 100% established and confirmed about your sexuality* (after admitting that you and Jada are swingers), and just when you seemed like a likely candidate for the blind-item'd gay actor...read more
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Gay prison romance is a subject generally best left to Dateline NBC, porn films, and the Times' Modern Love column, but when it intersects awkwardly with the California gay marriage boom, it's a hard subject to resist....read more
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Kansas City's Cody Critcheloe and his band of camped-up crazies come together to form SSION, an electronic/grunge/punk music project from hell. Merging the '80s synthpop style of Marc Almond, Yaz, and Nina Hagen with an attitude decidedly brattier, SSION is sort of like riot grrl with laptops and drum...read more
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It's Labor Day weekend, and we aren't at Burning Man. If you're reading this, then probably neither are you. So care of The Sword's tireless editors, we bring you this roundup (by no means complete, or even-handed) of stuff going on for those of the homo persuasion this weekend in...read more
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Tranny supermodel Claudia Charriez -- who got snapped up by The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency after she was kicked off of America's Next Top Model for being a bio-male -- has surfaced again... this time in porn! Claudia's appearance brings the total number of JDMA cast members who've bared all...read more
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We're skipping out on Burning Man this weekend because our fur pants are at the dry cleaners. But this won't keep us from dreaming about getting lucky with dusty straight boys who use the annual desert gathering to get so fucked up on E that they don't mind getting a...read more
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If the tranny takeover of mainstream entertainment were not eminently clear to you yet, please take as evidence one Derrick Berry, the tranny Britney Spears who's made it to the semi-finals of America's Got Talent. Sharon Osbourne can't get enough of Derrick's routine--lip-syncing to a near-decade-old Britney hit in a...read more
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Taking a lead from the ever-popular "scripted reality" genre, AMG Brazil announced the details of their latest project, a "documentary-style" porn called Rio, where each model is interviewed about his sexual fantasies which they later get to live out on camera (let's just pray none involve Spencer Pratt)....read more
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Who said Republican politicians are the only ones trolling bathrooms for sex? With Manhunt deserted after the McCain-Crutchley debacle, ever-horny gay delegates are flocking to Denver Craigslist M4M -- some even posting from the convention floor (!) -- looking for nearby bathroom and post-speech hotel room action. And you thought...read more
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Bridge queens everywhere can rejoice: Gay Republican Hypocrite playing cards are here! Assuming you haven't spent your declining disposable income on a Sham Wow or crystal meth, you can now cue your bid with cards detailing the indiscretions of Larry Craig (King of Spades), page-hound Mark Foley (King of Hearts),...read more
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As much as we love the goings on in the Great State of Denver, the most exciting news we've heard out of the convention has been that cross-dressing M*A*S*H character Klinger was was based on an actual gay... and wanted to stay in the army. Obviously, he actually was mental....read more
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Del Martin, one of the two elder lesbians who were first to be married by SF Mayor Gavin Newsom back in the Valentine's Day Uprising of 2004 and again in June 2008 when the CA Supreme Court finally legalized same-sex marriage, died today at age 87. She was admitted to...read more
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How can you not love Barney Frank: the left-handed gay Jew is an ardent supporter of medical marijuana and has an established predilection for twink hookers. But during an interview with Corey Johnson of Towleroad TV, he talked tough about two issues facing the LGBT community: the increasing conservatism of...read more
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Never one to be shy in front of the camera, Michael Lucas has posted a whole mess of new photos of himself on his blog. They range from mild (standard shots of him looking dapper in well-tailored suits) to, well, wild (smokey-eyed and stiletto heeled). The most shocking photo, perhaps,...read more
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In his few short years in porn, Steve Cruz has been something of a dervish. He's shot for almost every major studio, won numerous accolades and launched a safer-sex awareness campaign. Earlier this month, he announced he'd be moving to Mustang to co-direct (with Lief Gobo) his first feature, Blue...read more
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Fast on the heels of our hero Allison--who huffed so much computer duster she was "walkin on sunshine" and napping blissfully in cemeteries--comes this little musical spoof of A&E's Intervention from the people at Funny or Die (who, incidentally, are not often *that* funny). It features Tony winner and star...read more
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Remember that period in early 80s where everyone from Charo to William Shatner decideed to cash in on the (waning) disco trend by putting out a disco album? With the exception of Ethel Merman's, they were a pretty terrible lot, marred in no small part because it felt like pandering....read more
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An Australian private school teacher has resigned after his students discovered his profile on a gay hookup site and passed it around the entire school. While logging into an educational website on an overhead projector during a class, the teacher used an odd word as a username which some clever...read more
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The tiny capital of Helena Montana is getting some joy out of gay sex these days, at least at the public library. Despite calls from residents who have derided it as "smut" and "a how-to manual for young homosexuals" directors at the Helena Lewis and Clark Library decided to the...read more
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We've got to admit we were secretly rooting for the Chinese divers. The American was cute, and the perfection from the hosting team did become a little redundant, but who doesn't like an undefeated team of superhuman Eastern magicians every once in a while? Look, all we're saying is...read more
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Although the the concept of a "Rentboy Pool Party" is fairly self-evident, in case you were wondering what goes on there, well, porn fans, porn stars, and real-live rent boys converge upon a location equipped with some sort of pool ... add a cash bar and some Drag Queens and...read more
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Cole Escola and Jeffery Self, under the moniker VGL Gay Boys, have made a small splash recently both on YouTube and Off-Broadway -- we've enjoyed their brief sketches on gay marriage and on getting Sex and the City tickets, not to mention the one wear Cole plays Bernadette Peters. Self's...read more
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Marc Jacobs may have battled obesity, addictions and a string of porn star boyfriends, but in the most recent issue of the New Yorker, the seldom-effacing designer reveals that he's still pretty pleased as punch to be the Marc Jacobs....read more
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And so it goes, the end of an era, yadda yadda. We've talked it up plenty, and we're still not convinced that Heklina will never trot the Trannyshack brand out again in the name of fame and a few thousand dollars, but as a weekly club that remained vaguely underground...read more
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Forget about tying the knot unless it's attached to the bedpost.Researchers at the Journal of Sexual Medicine say that couples that practice BDSM (that's bondage and discipline and sadomasochism, for those not attending the Folsom Street Fair) are more in touch with their sexual needs, ranking lower on scales of...read more
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Self-described "world's first supermodel" Janice Dickinson (screw you Gia Carangi!) supports your right to watch gay porn, but her grasp on U.S. Constitutional Law is as tenuous as, well, our understanding of pro football....read more
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Madonna kicked off her Sticky and Sweet Tour this weekend to swarms of screaming queens and teens at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. And in typically sensational, borderline retarded fashion, a video montage that played during the opening of a "Like a Prayer" remix "showed flashing images of destruction followed...read more
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Oh, the humanity. Are gay singles really cancerous?Reading the Times' Modern Love column garners the same amount of schadenfreude as watching A&E's Intervention: craggy divorce stories, against-the-odds prison romances, passionate assisted-living hook-ups and childhood lost loves all dusted with saccharine and the occasional Beatles lyric....read more
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Even though it was only a week, it may well go down as the industry's anus horribilis. Car crashes, high profile divorces, firings, dye jobs: Big-time change is in the air and let's all hope it's a thing of the past....read more
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He's a model-turned-soap-actor-turned- prime-time-TV-star who always ends up naked, and he's built a career on that fine, hairless torso of his. He's more than your garden variety pretty boy, though--he has a certain bravado and swagger that you just can't fake, which probably comes from spending so many years on...read more
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Brent Hartinger of AfterElton.com does not think Another Gay Sequel is as good as the first one. Mostly because of all the sex.Normally we ignore AfterElton, since it's already been proven that most of the site, and his column in particular, is actually written by a lonely gay computer with...read more
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A new Zogby poll conducted for the Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute found that among 1,089 likely voters, 60% said they "strongly" or "somewhat" agreed they could support a lesbigay for President. 71% said they would support a lesbigay as cabinet-level secretary (ahem, Condoleezza). As much as we despise polls...read more
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When we saw the most recent cover of Italian Vanity Fair (because, like, that's all you can get at Sword Summer HQ on the shores of Lake Como), we had to do a double-take. Partly that was because we were tanked and one take no longer does it, and partly...read more
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This episode of A&E's 'Intervention' from last week, about a girl named Allison who's loves huffing computer keyboard duster a little too much, has spawned multiple YouTube clip compilations. This one is surely our favorite, because it really hammers home both her signature line ("I'm walkin on sunshine!") and the...read more
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Care of The Sword's tireless editors, we bring you this roundup (by no means complete, or even-handed) of stuff going on for those of the homo persuasion this weekend in not just two meccas, but now three! San Francisco, New York, and LA. (Sorry, Cheyenne, we still may never get...read more
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In a move that is sure to be looked back upon as a milestone in the straight-ification of gay life, that bastion of banality, Hallmark, has released a series of same-sex wedding greeting cards. One, showing two headless men in tuxedos holding hands, says "Two hearts, one promise." Yes, sure,...read more
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Ricky Martin's became the father of two twin boys that were conceived "via gestational surrogacy," according to his publicist, who added, "Ricky is elated to begin this new chapter in his life as a parent and will be spending the remainder of the year out of the public spotlight in...read more
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Condoms have never been all that cool in India, so the BBC World Service Trust India--with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation--has released a cell phone ring tone that features a professional singer chanting the word "condom" 50 times, a capella. Not being all that into ring tones...read more
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When the restaurant critic for the Broward New Times showed up at the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida, she had no idea she'd the hotel had been taken over by the annual Summer Internext porn convention. Sadly for the chef at Aizia, Gail Shepherd had a hard time separating the...read more
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Maybe it's the squatting. Maybe it's the legs in the air. Maybe it's the OMFG-it's-too-big face he makes when he's flipping through the air. Olympic diving may be full of compromising positions, but Chinese diver He Chong takes the cake. He maybe the world springboard champ, but you don't learn...read more
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Dear Pete Doherty, How do we loathe thee? Let us count the ways! Not only did you bring heroin back in style (1) and cost us a few of our German friends who followed you into Crackville, U.K. like rodents to a collapsing pied piper; but you singlehandedly ushered...read more
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Somehow we missed this last week--actually, truth be told, the only one of us who cared was out of town last week--but NYC downtown DJ-promoter-wunderkind Cazwell released the video for his new single "I Seen Beyonce at Burger King," featuring Johnny Makeup and some drag queen as Beyonce, as...read more
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Rumor has it that former New Kid on the Block, Jonathan Knight (Jordan's little brother) has long been openly gay and is planning to go public with the news--outside the hallowed halls of PerezHilton.com that is--any second now! Jonathan probably hopes for the great wealth and accolades which have followed...read more
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In an intimate ceremony at their home attended by 19 guests, dyke power duo Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi we married this weekend, as reported on Ellen's website. Today, photos have surfaced of the ladies.In other news, more organizations and individuals are heaping millions into the coffers on both...read more
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Forget sourcing for Elite Model Management--Janice Dickinson should probably turn her attention to casting for Falcon. In an amazingly unsurprising turn of events, another gay porn star has turned up on the clavicle-bearing grandma's reality show....read more
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When we saw the recent cover of the Sports Illustrated, we knew something looked familiar. So we took one part Unsinkable Mr. Phelps and mixed him with a the designing doyenne of the Upper East Side, Tory Burch. While we might not make it onto Project Runway yet, maybe the...read more
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Last year, the New York City Fire Department caused a three-alarm scandal when they put Michael Biserta on the on the cover of their first-ever calendar and it was soon revealed that he had also appeared in some ultra-softcore porn swinging around his massive (and we mean massive) fire-hose-of-a-cock....read more
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This week's Project Runway features some of New York's best known drag queens--like Varla Jean Merman, Sherry Vine and Sword fave Hedda Lettuce-- but based on the new teaser on the BravoTV.com, they might as well have rounded-up cross-dressers at amateur night in the Catskills. Even the audience of aspiring...read more
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In an advertising campaign about as original as the CW's 90210, The Gap reaches its manicured shark fins into the publishing, art, film, and modeling worlds to cast an "unlikely" group of young professionals in the depressing conglomerate's new ad campaign. To display the universal appeal of their revolutionary...read more
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The Vatican is transferring the body of John Henry Newman, a Victorian-era Cardinal buried with his life-long partner Father Ambrose St. John in a shared tomb in Rednal, England, to a sarcophagus in the Oratory Church in Edgbaston, and gay activist Peter Tatchell is having none of it. While the...read more
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Tour buses have been using the Castro as a photo op in recent months, and the ladies of the canyon are NOT happy. "God knows we love tourists," Patrick Batt, the beleaguered owner the Auto Erotica porn store and sex shop told the San Francisco Chronicle, "But these people are...read more
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What's the matter with kids today? We were intrigued to hear about author Scott Sherman's debut novel, First You Fall, about a hustler who becomes a sleuth because, like, we love Klute, though we were surprised to read that he didn't bother to talk to anyone except, uh, Miss Vivian....read more
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By getting Harry Potter Star Daniel Radcliffe to drop trou on stage for Equus, producers cleverly managed to get teams of horny teenage girls and Mrs. Robinson-style housewives to see an otherwise obscure play. So what do producers of Harry Potter dream up to build up interest in an otherwise...read more
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The indie-electronic duo The Presets may have been staples of new music festivals like South By Southwest and CMJ, but when they headline this year's Folsom Street Fair is San Francisco, they can expect a slightly different crowd: the leather community....read more
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Britain's equivalent of our FBI, M15, is contracting with the LGBT rights group Stonewall to actively recruit from the lesbigaytranny population for positions in domestic intelligence. The move marks a decided shift from longstanding anti-gay policies within the British intelligence community that largely stemmed from something we missed in our...read more
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We know we spend our days staring at ill-placed tattoos and perineum piercings, and evidently we're not the only ones. After reporting last Friday on Zeb Atlas's first on-screen anal, there was a furious chase to identify the lucky bottom, based primarily on a few shots of a distinctive tribal...read more
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We were on set today as Zeb Atlas finally took the plunge -- literally -- and drove his thickness up a pair of warm and firm buns during the final scene of Falcon's upcoming movie, Best Men, but sadly Falcon PR guru Troy Prickett is making us keep it a...read more
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If you find yourself in Beijing for the Olympics and you're looking for a gay bar, you most likely will find yourself at Destination, a two-floor "western style" gay bar. But instead of grumbling at your lack of choices, consider yourself lucky: many gay activists were concerned that government officials,...read more
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While most people try to give their properties the most wide-ranging appeal before trying to rent them out, pan-sexual pornographer Mr. Pam is taking SF-style approach with her SOMA loft, listing it on Craigslist as a "Sex Loft" complete with "washer/dryer for playsheets & soiled panties" and "huge clothing optional...read more
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One of the industry's true "power brokers," Troy Prickett (here, with Roma and TJ Hawke) has been finding those diamonds in the rough and shining them up until they become that rare breed of gay porn superstar: the Falcon Exclusive. Like a gay porn Clive Davis, Prickett has developed...read more
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We may never get enough of vintage AMG magazine shots. While his shots may not have the mauled and gunslinging theatrics of a Tico Patterson, Al Vincent still has that naughty next-door- neighbor-kid look about him, the kind of guy who'd just as soon make you suck him off as...read more
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We've seen a lot of stuff on Craigslist -- cell phones in assholes, duct taped mummies and PNP retiree daddies. But this is the first time we've seen someone submit a charcoal sketch instead of a head shot. Because, like, if he's on the police's "Most Wanted" list, he's OBVIOUSLY...read more
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Surely Manhunt founder Jonathan Crutchley thought being profiled in Out Magazine would be a boon for business, but the revelation that he's a Republican and contributed to McCain's campaign is causing sex-hungry members to hunt elsewhere. Irate commenters on a post by Towleroad related to the story are claiming to...read more
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We've been madly in love with New York-based comedian/writer/performer Greg Walloch ever since we saw him suck face with Michael Lucas in his 2001 film F**k The Disabled. Not that we need any excuse to worship him; he's oozing with talent and in case you have any doubts just watch...read more
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