June 2008

David Forest To Leave Industry as Fabscout Purchases Forest Men

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Porn star agency Fabscout Entertainment has agreed to purchase Forest Men “talent management” business from David Forest, taking over his model roster, client list and the “David Forest” brand name. Forest will be retiring to pursue other interests for a few years, though possibly less with good behavior. The details surrounding the acquisition were announced during a joint press conference at the Universal Hilton in LA, but we were too busy purchasing hookers with blow so we called in for the live feed. 

San Francisco & New York Pride: Hangover Edition

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We know. You’re tired. Your head hurts and you have some existential malaise to beat the band.  Half the people we know in SF make it an annual tradition to schedule the Monday after Pride as a vacation day from work, but here in the sweet sweet flesh and culture mines of The Sword, we are hard at work pulling together our shameful documentation from this past (all together now) Big! Gay! Pride! weekend in San Francisco, New York (where it was stormy!), Chicago, Paris and elsewhere. We’re starting off with some pictures taken personally for us by SF photographer and Flickr legend Darwin Bell of the festivities in our favorite Left Coast city.

OMG Daniel Craig Shirtless for 1 Second at minute 1:35 in New Bond Trailer

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Can we all agree that Daniel Craig is the hottest James Bond ever? (No? You like ’em hairier/older? Please, regale us in the comments about how you’ll never stop loving Pierce Brosnan or Sean Connery or those others.) Anyway, the trailer for the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace, is out. The movie won’t be out until November, but we can assume that Daniel gets at least equally as naked in this one as he did in Casino Royale (we still shower-nozzle-masturbate to those swim trunks, btw.)  And we know from shots like this one (NSFW! from a different film we can’t figure out right now) that the boy ain’t afraid to show his junk. Watch the trailer after the jump.

Sister Roma Not Desensitized To Porn Despite Having Blown An Incredible Amount of Porn Stars

IN-SwordInterviewRoma.jpg You can’t slap a ball sack in the gay porn world without hitting Sister Roma-the host of NakedSword’s porn-centered Tim and Roma Show-who’s well known as a notorious and lovable cock-slut who’s blown more porn stars than Dawson. But when not sampling the merchandise, Roma’s making porn look pretty for you as the art director for Hot House Entertainment. We caught up with Roma to find out how hard at work she actually is…

Vintage B-Roll: Jack Wrangler’s Jocks (Catalina, 1980)

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Jack Wrangler really gets off on standing in tall grass! In this vintage clip from 1980’s Jocks–which is almost like an infomercial for late 70s gay macho men–the uber sexy porn legend talks about how hot it makes him just being outdoors. To wit: “It’s like you’re part of the whole fuckin landscape! Man it’s beautiful.”

Jack Wrangler’s rugged masculinity launched more than a few ships in its day and has had such a lasting effect on porn that a new documentary, Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, is heating up film festivals nationwide. But we thought we’d go straight to the source though and let the testosterone speak for itself…


RELATED:
Trailer: Wrangler-Anatomy of a Icon

Watch Jack Wrangler in Gemini (NSFW, natch).

Thousands (or Hundreds) Turn Out for First Queer Pride Fests in India

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We’ve had our fill of swell and swilling Pride, but for some global gays it’s still about fighting for, like, civil rights! This weekend not only marked the anniversary of Stonewall in the U.S., it marked Queer Pride in India, with a parade in Calcutta and the first celebrations of their kind in Delhi and Bangalore. The freedom to be out in the open about one’s gayness hasn’t really existed in India due to a colonial area penal code known as Section 377 that punishes for sex acts “against the order of nature.” The law has been repealed in other former British colonies and a high court in Delhi is set to hear arguments against the law this week.

Porn Stars In Their Natural Habitat: The Jarics Rub Their Happiness In Our Faces

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They’re hot and they’re buff but they’ll never have sex with you
because they’re too busy rubbing their monogamy in your face. The
Jarics, gay porn’s most maddening couple (or “Gay Porn’s First
Exclusive Couple” as Falcon prefers them to be called) have started
posting the details of their blissfully coupled existence on one of
these newfangled weblogs or “Blogs” that the kids are talking about. And so they pull the curtain back on their private lives and what can
we expect? When they’re not go-go dancing, would you believe they tape
themselves having sex? To us that seems like going into the office on
a Sunday,

BUTT Beer Bust

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July 11, 2008, 4-11pm

Bistrotheque

23-27 Wadeson Street, London

Unlimited beer and a bevy of Butt Magazine readers will surely lead to mayhem at this East-London hotspot. The event kicks off BUTT Beer Busts on the first Sunday of the month, and if consumed correctly, will lead to a long hazy evening.

GENRE Magazine to SF: You’re Chopped Liver

HN-GenreLeavesoffSFth.jpg For the second year in a row, gay rag Genre has published their “Best Bars in America” article and left San Francisco off the list.*  While we are humble enough to admit that our hometown may not have a host of trendy fag hotspots quite on par with New York or Los Angeles, we are neither blind nor retarded enough to believe that there aren’t a handful of venues in SF that beat out, say, Joe’s on Juniper in Atlanta or Bill’s (“The gay Cheers of Lauderdale”) in Fort Lauderdale. San Francisco has the highest percent gay population of any city in the country for fuck’s sake, so ignoring the city’s gay bars two years in a row would suggest that there’s an editor at Genre who doesn’t much care for the City by the Bay, or its nightlife, despite it being the spiritual center of the gay universe (we’re looking at you Neal Boulton).

Historical Homos: A Roundup of Footage from Prides Past

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In anticipation of this week, we’ve been collecting footage of Gay Prides past, and wouldn’t you know, it wasn’t always so tacky and sponsored by beer and vodka makers!  The first “pride” wasn’t a parade, but the Christopher Street Gay Liberation March up 6th Avenue in New York in June of 1970, commemorating the one-year anniversary of Stonewall. Then other cities, including San Francisco, launched their own Freedom and Pride celebrations. After the jump, check out some Sword-curated clips of Gay Day ’79 in San Francisco, an NYC Pride march and rally in the late 70s, Gay Pride in Chicago around the same period, some footage of Stonewall, and footage from that first march in NYC in 1970.  And yes, pervs, there are many shirtless men running around in them.

Happy Pride! HIV Is on the Rise Among Young’uns

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Sorry to ruin your Thursday weekend kickoff buzz, but the CDC (via Queerty) reports that across 33 states, new HIV diagnoses rose as high as 15 percent per year between 2001 and 2006 among gay and bi men aged 13 to 24. Despite the lack of clarity surrounding some figures released earlier this year in regard to new diagnoses, these new figures do indicate that a) the Bush Administration’s abstinence-only policy toward sex education is doing a fuck lot of good, especially for Black and Latino teens, and that b) the whole bareback fetish/idiocy is not helping matters either.

Chace Crawford Still Denying He’s Gay, Also He Reads

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So yeah yeah, Chace Crawford’s agents still have him convinced that his career will be in the toilet if he admits to liking guys. He can now only pose with footballs, only shag J.C. Chasez when there are no paparazzi around, and only go to the Chelsea Equinox on off hours and refrain from any steam room play.  But chuckle chuckle, he takes all the gay rumors in stride, insisting “you haven’t made it unless there’s been a gay rumour [sic] about you.” The big revelation from this UK Metro interview? Chace reads. Like, actual books. If we are to take him at his word (which clearly we can’t about the gay stuff), he’s reading two books at once: marketing bible, The Tipping Point and David Lynch’s Catching the Big Fish, which is a little arty book about transcendental meditation. Someone’s feeling kinda sophisticated!

Deep Breaths: It’s Our Big! Gay! Pride! Weekend Guide to NY & SF

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Thirty-nine years ago this weekend, the NYPD fucked with the wrong bunch of fags and trannies, giving way to four decades of civil rights fights, the invention of circuit parties, a boon for balloon artists and flag dancers, a bonafide industry dedicated to the manufacture of tacky beads and rainbow-patterned swimwear, and an excuse for every lesbigaytranny on two legs to get drunk or high one extra weekend a year in the name of freedom. (Our apologies to the sober ones-this weekend must be especially difficult.) It’s Mardi Gras without the showgirls (biological). It’s here. We’re queer. Where’s our drink?

Rupaul’s Drag Race: VOTE NOW (for the queens we like)

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The first round casting call for Rupaul’s competitive tranny reality show is just about over. Voting ends on Friday, kids, so hurry up and vote so the country isn’t stuck with the decidedly low-rent likes of Jessica Dimon and Empress Fontaine doing speed-eyeliner challenges and pulling off each others’ wigs like they were on Flava of Love. (Btw, how did these uninspired gals rack up all these votes? Are they huge on MySpace? What gives?) With that, we give you our arguments for why these other fine ‘ladies’ ought to be in the Top 5 instead.

Still Not Cool to Be Queer in Cuba

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Organizers of a Cuban Gay Pride March that was scheduled to happen today in Havana were allegedly arrested and beaten by Cuban police before the march could begin, according to Ambiente Magazine. The march, the first of its kind in Cuba, was planned to begin this morning at 10 AM at Don Quixote park and proceed to the Ministry of Justice, more as a formal protest for mistreatment of sexual minorities under the rule of Fidel Castro than as a celebration. Raul Castro’s daughter, Mariela Castro, has recently been influential in heading the nation’s Center for Sex Education and in leading a public rally against homophobia.

Mr. Black Reopens in NYC and You Better Believe The Ass Is Back

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Boy George has licked it. Debbie Harry’s posed with it. Michael Lucas may have proposed to it. The pert, glowing buttocks of a certain cocktail waiter at NYC dance den Mr. Black known only as The Ass has returned along with the reopening of the club, and thank fucking god. Hailed as the best thing to happen to NYC nightlife in a decade, Mr. Black was briefly shut down after a police raid last summer that resulted in no charges being pressed, but with the Bleecker location closed and everyone feeling pretty pissed off. The place has moved to the Flatiron (27 W 24th) and had its grand reopening on Friday, when everyone from Justin Bond to the Barbie twins lifted a drink in relief and posed with The Ass. See some gratuitous ass shots, after the jump.

The Sword Interviews Great Porn Videographer, mr. Pam

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Of all the characters and misfit toys in the gay porn industry, Pam Dore (aka “mr. Pam”) may be the most unlikely. The easygoing Northern California girl is now one of the most sought after videographers in the gay porn industry-she’s shot for COLT, Hot House, Lucas, Studio 2000, Jet Set and, most recently, Black Scorpion. We sat down with her over a plate of French fries to discuss her life of lube.

After Stonewall, Documentary Trailer

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We prefer vintage black and white footage of angry lezzes and homos to rainbow beads and go-go floats, but the former did give way to the latter. So, just like Mom trying to remind you that the meaning of Christmas isn’t all shopping, we’re here to remind you that Freedom came before Pride.  Also, fun footage of gay hippies dancing around in 1970, including a tranny in a Nixon mask!

Varla Jean Merman Does Stonewall, Schoolhouse Rock -Style

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Young fags, and we’re sure a few porn stars among them, occasionally need to brush up on their gay history. Just so everyone understands, Pride parades got their start in 1970 with the first Gay Freedom Day march happening in New York to commemorate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in June 1969, outside the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. In this charming little bit of drag-queen animation, Varla Jean Merman teaches a lesson in song, about Stonewall, in the tradition of Schoolhouse Rock.

Chicago Pride Footage ca. 1980?

Gay-ChicagoPrideHistPB.jpgIt’s officially Big Gay Pride week, with parades in NY, SF and Chicago all this weekend as well as the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in 1969. With that in mind, we’re going to curate a collection of historical homosexual footage this week, including this stellar clip found on YouTube from Chicago Pride-we think, judging from haircuts alone, it’s from around 1980 but might have been a year or two before.

We especially love the song at the end, playing as they show scary teenagers throwing things and the dude with the White Power T-shirt…

Anti-Gay Politicos To Get Taken Down, Karl Rove-Style, By Gay Mafia

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Have you heard of the Gill Action Fund? Neither had we. But this month’s Advocate has a cover story about this semi-secretive, pro-gay political action committee founded by self-made millionaire Tim Gill, creator of Quark design software. The fund is directed by Patrick Guerriero and Bill Smith and seems to be modeled on Newt Gingrich’s GOPAC which was used in the 1994 mid-term elections to win Republican majorities in the House and Senate. Guerriero and Smith both have Republican backgrounds, working with the Log Cabin Republicans and Karl Rove himself, and now they’re using the dirty tactics of the GOP to bring down anti-gay candidates for state offices of both parties.

U.S. Customs Lets Kate Moss Fly Back and Forth With All That Blow But Won’t Give Boy George a Visa

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Don’t go writing us any letters. We have nothing to prove that Kate Moss flies in airplanes or goes through customs with cocaine.  But it does seem highly unfair that U.S. Customs should deny Boy George a visa just as he was attempting to return to the States for an upcoming tour and to give a free concert to the NY Department of Sanitation (with whom he performed his community service for his 2006 bust for cocaine possession). Poor fella! Just as he trying to pull his shit together and writing a cheesy dance ballad in support of Barack Obama!

Drunken LA Dispatch: ‘A Club Called Rhonda’ at Guatelinda

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Can we be frank for just a minute? We don’t always like gay bars. Sure, we like drinking-and gays are champions at that-but the Stoli-soda-splasha-cran crowd wears thin after a decade or two and we find ourselves ever hungry for the new and different. Thankfully, our pals at Gay Bar Culture (based in LA but covering other cities too) are there to cut through the endless pairs of Dior sunglasses and clouds of Tom Ford for Men in search of huggable trannies and bars that would make us be proud to be gay again. It’s about time…

Physical Attraction: Shoulders, The New Pecs

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We’re not sure if it’s the rise of a new fetish or a particularly targeted shipment of horse testosterone, but in the past few years shoulders seem to be overtaking pecs as the body part that separates the (super) men from the boys. Sure, it gives you a wide stance and makes your waste look teensy, but it’s gotta be tough carrying around a bowling ball on the top of each arm.  There are guys who are big all over, and then there are those who seem to be modeling their arms on a drumstick. After the jump, we assess the top five among the top-heavy.

American Gladiator Wishes He Were on ‘Pants Off Dance Off’ Instead

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Not that you needed any further convincing that a show called American Gladiators was gayer than Will Smith. First they force the guys to dress up like Folsom Street Fair rejects, then it was revealed that former COLT Man Alex Castro was the gladiator named Militia (!). But then a recent turn on the UK version makes it even gayer: a wide-chinned contestant had his shorts ripped off him by the Gladiator as he tried to scale some lager-than-life foam rubber phallic symbol. What was he wearing under his Spandex shorts? Would you believe a Spandex Bikini and a jock strap? The guy’s got a great pair of muffins on him, but come ON now.

 

Broadway Babes Bare (Almost) All For AIDS Charity Thing

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We’ll quit with the Broadway shit after this, we swear. But the Broadway Bares/Equity Fights AIDS event this Sunday is as close to porn dancing as some chorus boys have done since last year, when they got those Broadway gigs and hung up their G-strings for good (or until the show closes and they go back to doing “massage”).

Maybe Someday This Whole Marriage Thing Will Blow Over

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Wishful thinking on our part, but anyway, we know it’s a huge legal landmark and blah blah. For lack of any other notable news on the gay front, here’s another not-so-breathless gay marriage news roundup from around the blogosphere.

We begin with the announcement that perpetually tedious AfterElton vloggers “Two Gay Guys,” Brent Hartinger and Michael Jensen, are coming to Cali to get married in July. And guess what?! They promise to bring their camcorder! We can’t fucking wait. (Editor’s Note: The Sword exists to offer sweet relief from such mind-melting mediocrity to all those of you with a sense of humor, a penis, and teaspoon of taste. No offense. And what the fuck are they drinking in that video, Midori sours? Christ.)

Ask A Go-Go Boy: Our Unsolicited Advice Column

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A few weeks back we took to playing matchmaker for lonely posters on Craigslist’s M4M section, connecting every “Coach Dad” with “Jock Son” and so on. Lives were changed that day and we took it one step further. We took our favorite and fearless go-go boy, porn star Cory Koons and asked him to provide advice, albeit unsolicited, to those man-hungry M4Mers throwing their wishes in Craigslist’s virtual well. Flame on!

The Sword’s Folsom Street Fair Giveaway

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Okay, here’s the deal. The Sword, in association with the San Francisco Visitor’s Bureau, is happy to announce a contest for the filthiest fags out there (or whoever reads this site on a regular basis and wants to come to San Francisco during the filthiest weekend of the year). Grand prize is an all-expenses-paid trip for 2 to Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco, the weekend of September 26th, 2008.  The deal includes airfare, hotel accommodations, meals, an SF CityPass
giving you free access to public transit and museums, complimentary
massages, and VIP passes to Folsom Street Fair on Sunday, September 28th. 

Screencap Sexpot: Gilles Marini Ain’t So Bad When You Wipe the Snail Trails Off His Chest

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Sex and the City may have left us bloated and flaccid, but if you strip away the four shrew fetishists, you’re still left with some good guy candy. The snail-trailing husband-chasers may not appeal to us, but the 0.5 seconds of a shadowy, swinging penis do. Some considered it to be “large,” and while it’s certainly impressive it may not deserve ALL the digital ink being spilled by our fellow bloggers.

Separated at Girth: Spencer Pratt Edition

IN-SeparatedSpencerPrattDean.jpg The Hills is like porno without the good parts: all flash and no cash. Who better then to inaugurate our Separated at Girth feature than creepy, cliche-for-pay OC fratboy Spencer Pratt!  Doesn’t he remind you of a certain gay-for-pay model who’s recently started his own web venture?

 
 

Leather Gear, Fetish Gear, and Bare-Assed Drinking: Folsom Street East

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Along with the Pride Rally (which, though we might enjoy seeing Madame, sounds like a snore), Folsom Street East marks the kickoff of Pride Week in NYC. Though it may not be as large or as famous as the Folsom Street Fair in SF, it’s bound to be just as Dirty with a capital D (okay, maybe not). There used to be an actual leather scene in Manhattan, and there used
to be a bunch of dirty-ass bars and sex clubs around the Meat Packing
District, before all of New Jersey showed up and it became the new
SoHo, or midtown, or something. Anyway, we’ll stop dating ourselves. The event is now held on West 28th Street between 10th & 11th, 2PM to 8PM on Sunday, June 22.

Frameline; Or How Calling It a Film Festival Makes Your Porno Look Like Art

MM-Bramadero-Frameline.jpg Gay indie film directors may aim higher than porn, but they shoot ’em just the same. In the 80s and early 90s, the characters in gay films tackled AIDS and coming out; about a decade ago, they began tackling each other. Take the closing night film of last year’s Frameline LGBT Film Festival in San Francisco, Shelter. Beneath all that tender coming of age surfer drama lay a sexy cross-generational flesh fest, with more titty than a copy of Playgirl.

Weekend Event Roundup: June 20-22

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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 the two meccas we currently have
bandwidth to cover, San Francisco and New York.  Check back soon to see
us cover more gay urban centers near you (sorry, Cheyenne, we may never
get to you).

Our heavily editorialized listings after the jump…

Dirty Tricks Ep. 10 – Bar Scene B-Roll

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In this extra-creamy episode of the East Village-based gay porn sitcom, Ginger Beef (a.k.a Epiphany) and the boys are hanging out at the bar after hours and eating mac ‘n’ cheese. Sexy bartender Eddie takes a pass to save his breath for an early-morning sex date with Cory Koons.

See the hardcore stuff here.

Nude Beckham Simulacrum More Impressive Than Actual Beckham

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In a moment worthy of Jean Baudrillard, David Beckham was on hand to sign autographs in San Francisco’s Union Square, only to be upstaged by the unveiling of a giant David Beckham ad for Emporio Armani. Almost as if he knew that he was more potent as a signifier than as the signified, tiny clothed Beckham departed shortly after the fascist simulacrum was revealed. The giant Beckham, an image from an underwear campaign, was hung from a the top of Macy’s, just underneath the Cheesecake Factory balcony. 

Tim & Roma at The Grabbys

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Roma went to The Grabbys, and all we got was this lousy case of herpes simplex (type 1)! While we nurse our mouth sores, relive the magic of late May 2008 with our star-filled, urine-soaked trip to Chicago. Featuring Damien Crosse, Diesel Washington, Erik Rhodes, Roman Heart, Collin O’Neal, Jett Blakk, Tory Mason, Jake Deckhard, Steve Cruz and about 1000 other whorey urchins.

 

Petrov’s Hammer Would Have Earned Him More Money If It Was In His Ass, Not An Old Couple’s Head

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The Tampa Tribune is reporting that former porn star Nicolay Petrov was paid a measly $800 – $1000 dollars for a hammer attack on an elderly Florida couple that resulted in an attempted murder charge. For that price, the Grabby-winning gay-for-pay star could have easily shot a scene (with that same hammer) that wouldn’t have caused him any legal difficulty. Conversely, he could have probably shot the crime scene and sold it to Max Hardcore if he’d peed on the 65-year-old Galina Komissarchuk and made her claim she was 18.

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