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…
It looks like i-D, Britain’s brattiest fashion glossy, brought in the blond guns for their August Artisan Issue. In a lengthy questionnaire entitled “EVERYTHING STARTS WITH A B: 89 sentences about actor, model, poet, playwright, and artist, Boyd Holdbrook,” i-D scribe James Anderson drives the increasingly ubiquitous blue-eyed Brooklyn boy “mad” with questions, so much so that he declines to answer ten in a row before question number 41, which reveals “Boyd’s eyes are blue.” Despite how closed off the brooding model/poet insists on being, we do learn that “Boyd just replies ‘nope’, when asked who his lover is,” and then, disappointingly, “‘She knows who she is’, [he says] when asked who he would like his lover to be.” We can still fantasize, can’t we? On the topic of porno, our intrepid inquisitor discovers, “Boyd’s take on pornography is simply, ‘Whatever makes you better, pal.’
Venerable nudie magazine Playgirl is closing its print operations and focusing on the web. According to a release:
Since its inception in 1973, PLAYGIRL has established itself as the leader in adult entertainment for women, and as such, has developed a tremendous female, as well as male, audience. Over the years, the brand has expanded to include the PLAYGIRL.com website, PLAYGIRL Home DVD’s and a successful licensing division with deals that include a video-on-demand channel, a line of adult toys and a traveling all-male dance troupe.
Who knew that the solution to the dreaded meth mouth was to add a little flouride to your Drano? Rachel Ray’s evil sister gives us the recipe.
Forget HUNG, VGL or PNP, the newest way to make your online profile is to have g-a-s.
No, we’re not talking about Michael Lucas’s latest fetish line. The soaring price of oil has had many unlikely consequences, from higher food prices and staycations to requiring reimbursement for expenses incurred getting to the bareback orgy at the motel off of the 405. While a small percentage actually are looking for honest odorama, most are just looking for a little help to get from door-to-door.
“I can remiburse your gas expense,” suggests a typical voracious bottom from Hollywood. “Only tops need apply.”
We’re excited for Mug Shots (check out the NSFW trailer here) for a number of reasons: Its got one of our favorite directors (Jett Blakk), one of our favorite subjects (sex crimes!), one of our favorite penises (Chat Hunt’s), and it stars one of our favorite new rising stars of gay porn, Scott Campbell. The scruffily delicious pup gave us a steamy “blow-by-blow” (zing!) from the set.
Leo was photographed this weekend on a yacht off of Ibiza, Spain, smoking butts and taking in the view with some binoculars looking decidedly paunchy. On the boat with him were longtime buddy Lucas Haas and at least one unidentified female. We don’t want to deny the boy a good time, and we also like our cheeseburgers, but forgive us if we wish Leonardo DiCaprio would stay as young and thin as we all desire to be. He’s starting to look a little like Jack Nicholson with those angry eyebrows. Pics after the jump…
It may not be a clear case of blaming the victim, but the Newsweek cover story penned by Ramin Setoodeh tries to see all sides of the Lawrence King murder and ends up giving a rather fuzzy picture that suggests much of the blame for the crime falls on Larry, for being too aggressively flamboyant and attention-hungry, and the school for not intervening enough to tone down Larry’s behavior. The views in the piece–which tries, and kind of fails, to be balanced–include those of his father, who still doesn’t believe Larry was gay, the father of the shooter, Brandon McInerney, who thinks his son was the victim of harassment by a gay bully, and McInerney’s defense attorney, who calls the school official (Joy Epstein) who, in his eyes, let this all happen, “a lesbian vice principal with a political agenda.”
A few years ago, the fates brought us to Lazy Bear Weekend in California’s Russian River Valley and we were roundly snubbed. Granted, we’d just lost a good deal of weight and perhaps were considered traitorous, but the hostile glares kept us from going back even though, like, we can be total chasers sometimes.
We try to offer up a diverse selection of events across the continents for all of you globe-trotting gays, and since August is the month in which most of the Western world goes on holiday, please take a gander at this month’s options, which include a stop to see Madam Madonna shimmy and shake in Berlin, see the bears shimmy and screw in Guerneville, dance it up with the Euro circuit gays in Barcelona, and finish off summer at Southern Decadence in New Orleans.
See the rest on our Events and Travel page.
There are a lot of videos floating around the ‘tubes of people singing along to, or singing alternate versions of, this summer’s lesbionic top-40 jam “I Kissed a Girl” by Katy Perry. While this kid singing in his car with orange hair comes in a close second, we have to give props to this rocking gay cover of the song set to edited footage from Matt Sterling’s 1994 opus All American starring Bo Summers and Chris Champion.
Some girls originated this shtick on YouTube, to the tune of Daft Punk’s ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,’ but thankfully a couple of young studs in their underwear decided to follow suit.
Le Boy Nightclub
102 Rua Raul Pompeia
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro
August 1
How does the hottest gay club in Rio celebrate the DJ’s birthday? How else than by turning it into a full out orgy style sex club! Brace yourself for a lot of “bunda” and men of Max Schutler caliber ready to party and play the Rio way!
First there was Obama Girl, then the shirtless pick of Barack on the beach. We’ve seen Photoshopped Obama nudity on the cover of Radar and we’ve resisted offers to taste Obama’s chocolate nuts. Evidently, it’s not enough. The Stranger, Seattle’s alternative weekly, is asking readers for Obama slash fiction (or, as they call it, “Obamarotica”).
He plays Mary Louise Parker’s snarky oldest son Silas on Weeds and as of this season he’s really grown into a man! Hunter Parrish is actually 21 years old and has also done a couple of feature films including Robin Williams’ mortgage- payment-maker RV, and last year’s Hillary Swank do-good-teacher opus, Freedom Writers. And lately, the blogs have been abuzz(!) about all his gratuitous shirtlessness this season. The boy’s destined to be a star: just look at that shaved chest! OK, we’ll stop exclaiming and let you see, after the jumpsies.
This 1998 biopic of Athletic Model Guild founder Bob Mizer shows us that in the days before Chi Chi La Rue and fisting and fart porn, a kinder, gentler and semi-erect empire ruled, paving the way for the multi-billion dollar gay porn industry that we know and love today.
New Orleans, LA
August 27
A bevy of fat trannies, from annual host Chi Chi La Rue to the Lady Bunny and ever-hilarious Shirley Q. Liquor are set to host the biggest annual gay bash in the South! Hot boys, hush-puppies and alligator nuggets will be passed around like pictures of the Visconti Triplets. Our advice: bring bug repellent and either some headphones or plenty of ecstasy.
Sutton Tennis Center
London, England
August 1-3
‘Go for the games, and stay for the clubs’ seems to be the motto of this LGBT tennis event. If you aren’t so hungover you can barely stand, you will more than likely be the winner of this tournament. The biggest plus here is the chance to hook-up with the gayest tennis bodies in the world, and get your 40-love on!
Olympic Stadium
Berlin, Germany
August 28
The Material Girl turned Maternal Woman turned Madam impersonator launches her eighth concert tour a week before in the UK. However, we suggest that seeing old Madge in a real city that isn’t Cardiff. We’re sure the show will be a big fucking spectacle and whatever, but in a city like Berlin, you can drink away your post-show letdowns or toast to the Material Mom’s latest success, whichever the case may be. Also, Robyn is the opening act!
Maybe she’s angry that Madonna has been short-listed ahead of her to play Madam in the Wayland Flowers biopic, or maybe she’s gunning to star in Grumpier Old Women, but Joan Rivers out did herself last night at the Orlando Citrus Council’s Women of Distinction Dinner benefiting the Girl Scouts. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Rivers outraged some of the audience by referring to the girls as ‘whores’ and suggesting that Paris Hilton would have done well to try and get a “Wearing Panties Patch,” while in the Scouts.
Tyra Banks is not the only supermodel with over 500 facial expressions. Gay porn’s own Jean Franko — a former “profectional” model himself — has taken the art of smiling (or in his case, admonishing) with his eyes to a whole new level. While Jean’s blog further showcases his versatility, with literally hundreds more, we picked our 20 favorites.