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Finally, COLT Joins the Poppers Trade


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“From the studio of real men comes a real smell,” reads COLT’s catalogue copy for their new Alkyl Nitrite product, FUEL. In the second most exciting product release of 2008 for throwback fags born two decades too late, COLT has paired up with time honored video-head cleaner manufacturer Lockerroom (“experience the rush” of clean videotapes!) to produce this leather cleaning solution that will have your head swimming and your anus gaping in no time.

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“From the studio of real men comes a real smell,” reads COLT’s catalogue copy for their new Alkyl Nitrite product, FUEL. In the second most exciting product release of 2008 for throwback fags born two decades too late, COLT has paired up with time honored video-head cleaner manufacturer Lockerroom (“experience the rush” of clean videotapes!) to produce this leather cleaning solution that will have your head swimming and your anus gaping in no time.

American Apparel’s Big Gay Model Search


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American Apparel is well-known for its risqué ad spreads featuring some of Los Angeles’ youngest and most agile young girls romping around in leotards, oftentimes topless. When is it, we’ve wondered, that it’ll be possible to drive down Sunset and see equal opportunity skin displays on billboards? When is Dov Charney going to throw us a big gay bone and feature some hot unknown guys in their ads, bending over and romping with equal abandon, perhaps in their ubiquitous AA multi-colored briefs? It seems the long overdue endeavor is finally in the works, courtesy of our favorite fag-rag, BUTT Magazine. “American Apparel is cruising for some new faces (and other body parts) to star in its advertisements in the upcoming issues of BUTT,” the magazine’s website recently posted. BUTT readers (and registered Buttheads) are encouraged to send in their own snapshots showcasing swag from the cotton-basics-whore-store and if chosen, will receive a $300 shopping spree at their local American Apparel retailer and see their image published as an advertisement in an upcoming issue of BUTT.

UPDATE:The Gays: American Apparel Boy Pix, Unsplayed (Gawker)

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American Apparel is well-known for its risqué ad spreads featuring some of Los Angeles’ youngest and most agile young girls romping around in leotards, oftentimes topless. When is it, we’ve wondered, that it’ll be possible to drive down Sunset and see equal opportunity skin displays on billboards? When is Dov Charney going to throw us a big gay bone and feature some hot unknown guys in their ads, bending over and romping with equal abandon, perhaps in their ubiquitous AA multi-colored briefs? It seems the long overdue endeavor is finally in the works, courtesy of our favorite fag-rag, BUTT Magazine. “American Apparel is cruising for some new faces (and other body parts) to star in its advertisements in the upcoming issues of BUTT,” the magazine’s website recently posted. BUTT readers (and registered Buttheads) are encouraged to send in their own snapshots showcasing swag from the cotton-basics-whore-store and if chosen, will receive a $300 shopping spree at their local American Apparel retailer and see their image published as an advertisement in an upcoming issue of BUTT.

UPDATE:The Gays: American Apparel Boy Pix, Unsplayed (Gawker)

Rhodes, Jacobs, Preston: Three’s Company Too!

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Designer Marc Jacobs will be unveiling more than his Fall 2008 collection on Friday-according to a source close to porn star Erik Rhodes, it’ll also be the debut of his new polyamorous relationship with Rhodes and fellow porn star Jason Preston. “This Friday will be their first outing together,” the source tells The Sword. “They’re going to take it public at the show.”
It looks like Michael Lucas isn’t the only porn star commanding real estate on Page Six these days…

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Designer Marc Jacobs will be unveiling more than his Fall 2008 collection on Friday-according to a source close to porn star Erik Rhodes, it’ll also be the debut of his new polyamorous relationship with Rhodes and fellow porn star Jason Preston. “This Friday will be their first outing together,” the source tells The Sword. “They’re going to take it public at the show.”
It looks like Michael Lucas isn’t the only porn star commanding real estate on Page Six these days…

Marc Jacobs and Erik Rhodes Wrestle For Bottom

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Barely a month after his tumultuous split from Road Rules alum Danny Dias, Erik Rhodes is off the market, having been snapped up by none other than Marc Jacobs, and ratcheting the designer’s mid-life crisis to code red. The source this time isn’t Rhodes’ blog but gossip ground-zero Page Six (it’s sort of like the old-fashioned version of Perez Hilton for all you young’uns out there). Like Perez, Page Six’s reporting is just as sloppy… they pull a quote from Rhodes’ “ManNet.com” profile (Uh, we think you guys mean ManHUNT.net.)

Rhodes responded to the story in an uncharacteristically brief post on his blog yesterday.

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Barely a month after his tumultuous split from Road Rules alum Danny Dias, Erik Rhodes is off the market, having been snapped up by none other than Marc Jacobs, and ratcheting the designer’s mid-life crisis to code red. The source this time isn’t Rhodes’ blog but gossip ground-zero Page Six (it’s sort of like the old-fashioned version of Perez Hilton for all you young’uns out there). Like Perez, Page Six’s reporting is just as sloppy… they pull a quote from Rhodes’ “ManNet.com” profile (Uh, we think you guys mean ManHUNT.net.)

Rhodes responded to the story in an uncharacteristically brief post on his blog yesterday.

The Worst in Gay Marketing: Miller Lite

GC-MillerLiteTH.jpg Of all the industries to court the gay dollar, alcoholic beverage companies were first in line — and it’s a natural match because fags are all sad drunks in the end (jk!). Earlier, we looked at some print ad atrocities committed by Anheuser-Busch in the name of Bud Light.  Now we come to you, after the jump, with some examples from another longtime diet beer marketer in gay publications, Miller Lite. Miller Brewing Companies stepped into the gay fray as early as the 70s as a sponsor of San Francisco Pride festivities, and later as a loyal sponsor of the Folsom Street fair’ sponsorship which they had to quietly backpedal from in 2007 over controversy spawned by a certain Last Supper-themed promotional poster.

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GC-MillerLiteTH.jpg Of all the industries to court the gay dollar, alcoholic beverage companies were first in line — and it’s a natural match because fags are all sad drunks in the end (jk!). Earlier, we looked at some print ad atrocities committed by Anheuser-Busch in the name of Bud Light.  Now we come to you, after the jump, with some examples from another longtime diet beer marketer in gay publications, Miller Lite. Miller Brewing Companies stepped into the gay fray as early as the 70s as a sponsor of San Francisco Pride festivities, and later as a loyal sponsor of the Folsom Street fair’ sponsorship which they had to quietly backpedal from in 2007 over controversy spawned by a certain Last Supper-themed promotional poster.

Gay Rodeo University


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Las Vegas, NV

February 22-24

Ever since Brokeback hit screens we’ve had a secret fantasy about mounting a horse and finding ourselves a cowpoke to poke. At the Las Vegas Academy of Rodeo Arts you can learn the ropes of the rodeo lifestyle in a setting that won’t punish you for yours. Do it for Heath! And to piss off Fred Phelps.www.igra.com

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Las Vegas, NV

February 22-24

Ever since Brokeback hit screens we’ve had a secret fantasy about mounting a horse and finding ourselves a cowpoke to poke. At the Las Vegas Academy of Rodeo Arts you can learn the ropes of the rodeo lifestyle in a setting that won’t punish you for yours. Do it for Heath! And to piss off Fred Phelps.www.igra.com

Super Bowl XLII


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Glendale, AZ

February 3

We know, so maybe a big macho football game might not be the first thing on your agenda to tune into, but considering the fact that the basis of the program is a bunch of sweaty built guys in spandex grabbing each other is one reason, another is that two of those guys are Tom Brady and Eli Manning, and a third is that the halftime shows are notorious for drama and this year Paula Abdul is premiering a music video. Yes, it’s 2008 and she’s doing that for real. So pick a boyfriend on your team-of-choice, go buy your favorite imported beer, invite your friends over, and watch the biggest pissing contest of the year! www.nfl.com/superbowl

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Glendale, AZ

February 3

We know, so maybe a big macho football game might not be the first thing on your agenda to tune into, but considering the fact that the basis of the program is a bunch of sweaty built guys in spandex grabbing each other is one reason, another is that two of those guys are Tom Brady and Eli Manning, and a third is that the halftime shows are notorious for drama and this year Paula Abdul is premiering a music video. Yes, it’s 2008 and she’s doing that for real. So pick a boyfriend on your team-of-choice, go buy your favorite imported beer, invite your friends over, and watch the biggest pissing contest of the year! www.nfl.com/superbowl

Joe DiPietro’s FUCKING MEN


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London, UK

February 10, 11, 17, and 18

The playwright who satirized straight relationships in the wildly successful and award-winning musical “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” is setting his sights on the homos for round two. A fresh and contemporary take on Schnitzler’s La Ronde, the play is set in modern-day America and uses both drama and comedy to paint a complex portrait of the pursuit of gay sex. “Some stories are poignant, some hilarious, but collectively they provide a fascinating snap shot of the American male in pursuit of man-on-man action. A fearless dissection and shameless celebration of homosexuality that will fascinate male and female audiences of every persuasion.” With the subject being gay sex and a title like that, this ought to be the show of the season! Catch the world premiere in London before it embarks on several engagements across the globe. www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk

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London, UK

February 10, 11, 17, and 18

The playwright who satirized straight relationships in the wildly successful and award-winning musical “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” is setting his sights on the homos for round two. A fresh and contemporary take on Schnitzler’s La Ronde, the play is set in modern-day America and uses both drama and comedy to paint a complex portrait of the pursuit of gay sex. “Some stories are poignant, some hilarious, but collectively they provide a fascinating snap shot of the American male in pursuit of man-on-man action. A fearless dissection and shameless celebration of homosexuality that will fascinate male and female audiences of every persuasion.” With the subject being gay sex and a title like that, this ought to be the show of the season! Catch the world premiere in London before it embarks on several engagements across the globe. www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk

Rufus Wainwright in Concert

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Wrest Point Entertainment Centre
Hobart, Tasmania

February 6, 8 PM

We love Rufus, and we even love it when Rufus channels Judy Garland like he’s been doing all over the world lately promoting his new concert album.  Check out his shows in Australia and Tasmania if you happen to be down under this month.  More info at his MySpace page.

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Wrest Point Entertainment Centre
Hobart, Tasmania

February 6, 8 PM

We love Rufus, and we even love it when Rufus channels Judy Garland like he’s been doing all over the world lately promoting his new concert album.  Check out his shows in Australia and Tasmania if you happen to be down under this month.  More info at his MySpace page.

Mardi Gras Film Festival ’08


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Sydney, AUS

February 14 – 28

Boasting a veritable “bouquet of celluloid flowers bursting into blossom” (could they BE any gayer?) the Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival sponsored by Volkswagen will showcase the brightest, most promising new films for the gay and lesbian audience. From a Jihad love story to Bruce LaBruce’s new zombie flick, there will be enough on-screen flesh, decaying or otherwise, to satisfy your carnal cravings and bring a dose of worldwide gay culture to the land down under. www.queerscreen.com

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Sydney, AUS

February 14 – 28

Boasting a veritable “bouquet of celluloid flowers bursting into blossom” (could they BE any gayer?) the Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival sponsored by Volkswagen will showcase the brightest, most promising new films for the gay and lesbian audience. From a Jihad love story to Bruce LaBruce’s new zombie flick, there will be enough on-screen flesh, decaying or otherwise, to satisfy your carnal cravings and bring a dose of worldwide gay culture to the land down under. www.queerscreen.com

Carnival

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Rio de Janeiro

February 2-5, 2008

This is the party capital of South America, possibly the world, and the four days leading up to Fat Tuesday are when both gay and straight Rio go completely fucking nuts.  Check out the Samba Parade, the legendary gay balls and the tons of gay parties and street festivities all over town.

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Rio de Janeiro

February 2-5, 2008

This is the party capital of South America, possibly the world, and the four days leading up to Fat Tuesday are when both gay and straight Rio go completely fucking nuts.  Check out the Samba Parade, the legendary gay balls and the tons of gay parties and street festivities all over town.

Hillary Clinton to Court the Gays in Exclusive Logo Interview

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A lot of the gays we know are already committed to voting for her (with the exception of the drag queens we know), but Hillary’s going to try to court just a few more of us tonight by granting an exclusive interview on the Viacom-owned Logo cable network.  We’re surprised they can even fit her in the schedule-what with all those Queer as Folk reruns and reruns of Queer as Folk-but she’ll be coming on at 7:25PM and the interview will be broadcast live on 365gay.com at 5PM Pacific time. Please note that the broadcast will be replacing episode thirteen of Queer As Folk in which Brian and Justin prepare to marry, Lindsey and Melanie move to Canada, and Michael gets a job at the Human Rights Committee.  Viewer discretion is advised.

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A lot of the gays we know are already committed to voting for her (with the exception of the drag queens we know), but Hillary’s going to try to court just a few more of us tonight by granting an exclusive interview on the Viacom-owned Logo cable network.  We’re surprised they can even fit her in the schedule-what with all those Queer as Folk reruns and reruns of Queer as Folk-but she’ll be coming on at 7:25PM and the interview will be broadcast live on 365gay.com at 5PM Pacific time. Please note that the broadcast will be replacing episode thirteen of Queer As Folk in which Brian and Justin prepare to marry, Lindsey and Melanie move to Canada, and Michael gets a job at the Human Rights Committee.  Viewer discretion is advised.

Nocturnal Vol. 50

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Arty-Farty
2/F 33 Kyutei Blvd, Shinjuku
Tokyo

February 2, 9 PM

This party happens at a bar called Arty-Farty in the Shinjuku neighborhood of Tokyo, and beyond that all we know is that it costs 2,000 yen, it starts at 9 PM and someone named Ceyren is performing.  Also, we’re told they give free refills if you bring your empty cocktail cup back the bar?  Craziness.  Info here (in Japanese).

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Arty-Farty
2/F 33 Kyutei Blvd, Shinjuku
Tokyo

February 2, 9 PM

This party happens at a bar called Arty-Farty in the Shinjuku neighborhood of Tokyo, and beyond that all we know is that it costs 2,000 yen, it starts at 9 PM and someone named Ceyren is performing.  Also, we’re told they give free refills if you bring your empty cocktail cup back the bar?  Craziness.  Info here (in Japanese).

Porno Party No. 2

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Club New Age
Nastavnicheskiy 11
Moscow

February 8

We hear this is a hot place to hang in on a frigid night in Moscow, and that sex and drugs tend to be prominent themes (here too!).  At this “porno party” there will be a “dark bar” where you’re only allowed into the special room if you take off your shirt (and preferably your pants).  Our favorite part about this event though comes via the wonders of Google Translation, which translates the description for this party as, “The most intimate acquaintances! The most daring fantasy! We lie to you, forcing discard false shame and getting the most honest wishes. Nudity thoughts and feelings, dazzling whirlwind of passion and admirable!”

Info here (in Russian).

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Club New Age
Nastavnicheskiy 11
Moscow

February 8

We hear this is a hot place to hang in on a frigid night in Moscow, and that sex and drugs tend to be prominent themes (here too!).  At this “porno party” there will be a “dark bar” where you’re only allowed into the special room if you take off your shirt (and preferably your pants).  Our favorite part about this event though comes via the wonders of Google Translation, which translates the description for this party as, “The most intimate acquaintances! The most daring fantasy! We lie to you, forcing discard false shame and getting the most honest wishes. Nudity thoughts and feelings, dazzling whirlwind of passion and admirable!”

Info here (in Russian).

Is The Advocate Getting Dangerously Thin?

GC-AdvocateTH.jpgNick Denton, Gawker Media founder and current Managing Editor of Gawker.com, yesterday dissed friend Aaron Hicklin’s decision to leave his job at the arguably more relevant Out in order to become Editorial Director for Planet Out Magazines–a job which Denton assumes will include the shutting down of The Advocate.  The nation’s first ever magazine for homophiles saw us through Stonewall and disco and AIDS and Will & Grace–maybe it’s outlived its relevance? 

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GC-AdvocateTH.jpgNick Denton, Gawker Media founder and current Managing Editor of Gawker.com, yesterday dissed friend Aaron Hicklin’s decision to leave his job at the arguably more relevant Out in order to become Editorial Director for Planet Out Magazines–a job which Denton assumes will include the shutting down of The Advocate.  The nation’s first ever magazine for homophiles saw us through Stonewall and disco and AIDS and Will & Grace–maybe it’s outlived its relevance? 

When Romaine Attacks: A Short Herstory of Violence

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Angry ficus Romaine Patterson won’t get off our backs and we’re worried a bit about her stability! After bearer-of-bad-news Jason Curious alerted the two to our predictions for their GayVN hosting highlights, Romaine suggested on air to gal-pal Derek Hartley that she’d attack us at the awards. We take back what we said about this event being boring!

“I’ll punch him in the face and show him what a hate crime is!” the new mom steamed. Moments later, Romaine threatened to bitch slap our erstwhile defender Jason Sechrest, while maintaining that she was not, in fact, a humorless lesbian.When she giggled at the suggestion of one caller’s offer to cut our throat, we finally believed her. Whoa! Those hormone treatments sure can make a gal angry. Derek would have grimaced if his face hadn’t been frozen in 2004.

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Angry ficus Romaine Patterson won’t get off our backs and we’re worried a bit about her stability! After bearer-of-bad-news Jason Curious alerted the two to our predictions for their GayVN hosting highlights, Romaine suggested on air to gal-pal Derek Hartley that she’d attack us at the awards. We take back what we said about this event being boring!

“I’ll punch him in the face and show him what a hate crime is!” the new mom steamed. Moments later, Romaine threatened to bitch slap our erstwhile defender Jason Sechrest, while maintaining that she was not, in fact, a humorless lesbian.When she giggled at the suggestion of one caller’s offer to cut our throat, we finally believed her. Whoa! Those hormone treatments sure can make a gal angry. Derek would have grimaced if his face hadn’t been frozen in 2004.

British-ney Spears Has Her Finger on the Gay Pulse


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Before being nicknamed “The Package” and officially committed to UCLA Medical Center last night, Britney had exhibited some behavior denoting nothing short of a full-fledged short-circuiting, faithfully documented by the omnipresent TMZ.com video cameras. In this amusing yet terribly depressing clip, Britney affects her favorite new British accent while chewing bubblegum, asking one paparazzo, “Why don’t you go film your friend? Maybe you guys can make a lot of money together. Gay videos are in, y’know?”

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Before being nicknamed “The Package” and officially committed to UCLA Medical Center last night, Britney had exhibited some behavior denoting nothing short of a full-fledged short-circuiting, faithfully documented by the omnipresent TMZ.com video cameras. In this amusing yet terribly depressing clip, Britney affects her favorite new British accent while chewing bubblegum, asking one paparazzo, “Why don’t you go film your friend? Maybe you guys can make a lot of money together. Gay videos are in, y’know?”

New York Fashion Week


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New York City, NY

February 1 – 8

Fashion week is for more than making fun of Marc Jacobs and getting shoved by Janice Dickinson backstage at the Heatherette show, it’s also for celebrity sightings! With the writers’ strike still in full effect, preventing the red carpet fuck-you moments that Hollywood’s fashionistas have planned for the awards season, they are flocking to New York to be photographed at Bryant Park instead. In between gawking at Lindsay Lohan’s trajectory off the wagon and Rachel Zoe’s terrifying collar bones at Halston, you might also try catching Madonna and Gucci’s Malawi Fundraiser at the United Nations (at a bargain of $350), Chlöe Sevigny’s party feting her eponymous line for Opening Ceremony at Webster Hall, or Marc Jacobs’ closeout show at the Armory on Lexington Avenue. A firsthand account might benefit you, after all, when the accusations of plagiarism inevitably hit the blogosphere the following Monday. www.style.com

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New York City, NY

February 1 – 8

Fashion week is for more than making fun of Marc Jacobs and getting shoved by Janice Dickinson backstage at the Heatherette show, it’s also for celebrity sightings! With the writers’ strike still in full effect, preventing the red carpet fuck-you moments that Hollywood’s fashionistas have planned for the awards season, they are flocking to New York to be photographed at Bryant Park instead. In between gawking at Lindsay Lohan’s trajectory off the wagon and Rachel Zoe’s terrifying collar bones at Halston, you might also try catching Madonna and Gucci’s Malawi Fundraiser at the United Nations (at a bargain of $350), Chlöe Sevigny’s party feting her eponymous line for Opening Ceremony at Webster Hall, or Marc Jacobs’ closeout show at the Armory on Lexington Avenue. A firsthand account might benefit you, after all, when the accusations of plagiarism inevitably hit the blogosphere the following Monday. www.style.com

L.A. Rebellion Rugby Player Auction


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Los Angeles, CA

February 8

We’ve all done our fair share of ogling rugby players, and LA’s Eagle Bar is giving us, yes, the gays, a chance to walk away with one of our very own! The Los Angeles Rebellion Rugby League is known for it’s all-inclusive spirit and support of gay athletes, and are hosting an auction to benefit their cause. With drink specials and bulging thighs in short rugby shorts, there’s no excuse to be anywhere else. www.larebellion.org

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Los Angeles, CA

February 8

We’ve all done our fair share of ogling rugby players, and LA’s Eagle Bar is giving us, yes, the gays, a chance to walk away with one of our very own! The Los Angeles Rebellion Rugby League is known for it’s all-inclusive spirit and support of gay athletes, and are hosting an auction to benefit their cause. With drink specials and bulging thighs in short rugby shorts, there’s no excuse to be anywhere else. www.larebellion.org

Swiss Docs to HIV+ on Meds: You May Now Screw With Abandon

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OK.  We admit: That headline is a bit sensational. 

Researchers in Switzerland have reached the first ever medical consensus that HIV+ patients on an effective anti-retroviral regimen for six months or more, who have undetectable viral loads and no other STDs, show no risk of transmitting the disease to sexual partners.  There are, of course, as with all statements given by the medical community, many caveats.

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OK.  We admit: That headline is a bit sensational. 

Researchers in Switzerland have reached the first ever medical consensus that HIV+ patients on an effective anti-retroviral regimen for six months or more, who have undetectable viral loads and no other STDs, show no risk of transmitting the disease to sexual partners.  There are, of course, as with all statements given by the medical community, many caveats.

Puberty-Halting Drugs Now Available for Trans Kids

Baby dyke image c/o drinkinainteasy.blogspot.comThe new issue of The Advocate has a story about a swell new option for transgendered children: hormone-blocking drugs to halt the onset of puberty.  Call us crazy, but does this not sound like a dangerous tool in the hands of a neurotic mother who a) has fucked up ideas about what her child’s sexuality is or isn’t, or b) might want to keep her kid from growing up?  This is a complicated issue to be sure.  On the one hand, we’re all for making the lives of trans teens easier and helping all those pretty young ladies trapped in boy bodies avoid years of electrolysis and facial feminizing surgery. 

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Baby dyke image c/o drinkinainteasy.blogspot.comThe new issue of The Advocate has a story about a swell new option for transgendered children: hormone-blocking drugs to halt the onset of puberty.  Call us crazy, but does this not sound like a dangerous tool in the hands of a neurotic mother who a) has fucked up ideas about what her child’s sexuality is or isn’t, or b) might want to keep her kid from growing up?  This is a complicated issue to be sure.  On the one hand, we’re all for making the lives of trans teens easier and helping all those pretty young ladies trapped in boy bodies avoid years of electrolysis and facial feminizing surgery. 

Radio Homo Derek Hartley Doesn’t Like Us

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Sirius Radio hosts Derek Hartley and Romaine Lettuce shot back at us today for us calling them houseplants. We issue the following retraction: it was rude to refer to their looks when we had so much material about them being boring. No offense!  (BTW, Derek, Puffins are small, cute sea birds… did you just call your co-host fat? For shame! We just meant she looked like a muscular penguin.)

Jason Sechrest, our favorite Judy Garland-impersonator and passer-along-of- bad-news, kindly pointed out to the two radio hosts via IM
that they weren’t going to get a warm response in San Francisco, at
least as far as The Sword was concerned. Not entirely true!

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Sirius Radio hosts Derek Hartley and Romaine Lettuce shot back at us today for us calling them houseplants. We issue the following retraction: it was rude to refer to their looks when we had so much material about them being boring. No offense!  (BTW, Derek, Puffins are small, cute sea birds… did you just call your co-host fat? For shame! We just meant she looked like a muscular penguin.)

Jason Sechrest, our favorite Judy Garland-impersonator and passer-along-of- bad-news, kindly pointed out to the two radio hosts via IM
that they weren’t going to get a warm response in San Francisco, at
least as far as The Sword was concerned. Not entirely true!

We Dig Faux Vintage Erotica

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Nightcharm, one of our favorite websites, recently highlighted the work of French artist Benoît Prévôt, who’s kind of like what Tom of Finland would be if he’d existed at the turn of the last century and drew illustrations for Gentlemen’s Quarterly.  Prévôt’s artwork is male erotica, but set against a backdrop of Gilded Age glamor and style.  Also: crazy penis fountain!

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Nightcharm, one of our favorite websites, recently highlighted the work of French artist Benoît Prévôt, who’s kind of like what Tom of Finland would be if he’d existed at the turn of the last century and drew illustrations for Gentlemen’s Quarterly.  Prévôt’s artwork is male erotica, but set against a backdrop of Gilded Age glamor and style.  Also: crazy penis fountain!

Orthodox Knesset Members Encouraging Gay Shame in Jerusalem

HN-IsraelBansGayPrideTH.jpg A bill before the Israeli legislative body would allow the city of Jerusalem to ban gay pride festivities, and one of its supporters has compared the homosex to a disease not unlike bird flu.  Well golly!  Looks like they’ve got their very own Mike Huckabee!  Nissim Ze’ev, a member of the religious Shas Party, went on to use the old animal sex comparison (yawn) and to suggest that homosexuals seek rehabilitation like “alcoholics and drugs addicts.”
 

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HN-IsraelBansGayPrideTH.jpg A bill before the Israeli legislative body would allow the city of Jerusalem to ban gay pride festivities, and one of its supporters has compared the homosex to a disease not unlike bird flu.  Well golly!  Looks like they’ve got their very own Mike Huckabee!  Nissim Ze’ev, a member of the religious Shas Party, went on to use the old animal sex comparison (yawn) and to suggest that homosexuals seek rehabilitation like “alcoholics and drugs addicts.”
 

Kathy Griffin Gets Re-Banned From ‘The View,’ Rejoiced by The Gays

CS-KathyGriffinAdvocate Normally we find women who so openly embrace fag-hagdom either terrifying or morbidly depressing, but we just can’t help loving Kathy Griffin. Sure, the refreshing, brutal honesty and shameless love of gossip have been so played out in our direction that it at times feels like a condescending retread even from the best of them, but there are moments-shining perfect moments-when Kathy Griffin rises above every stereotype she wants to fulfill and really makes us proud to have her. We refer, of course, to the times when she actually manages to piss people off.

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CS-KathyGriffinAdvocate Normally we find women who so openly embrace fag-hagdom either terrifying or morbidly depressing, but we just can’t help loving Kathy Griffin. Sure, the refreshing, brutal honesty and shameless love of gossip have been so played out in our direction that it at times feels like a condescending retread even from the best of them, but there are moments-shining perfect moments-when Kathy Griffin rises above every stereotype she wants to fulfill and really makes us proud to have her. We refer, of course, to the times when she actually manages to piss people off.

I Can Haz Ball N Chain?

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The first in a two-part series looking at new online personals/matchmaking options for gays in the market for a relationship. This part: the advertising push.

If being single on a frigid, rainy night isn’t bad enough, the non-monogamously inclined in San Francisco now have to deal with insecurity times a thousand at the Castro underground MUNI station:

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The first in a two-part series looking at new online personals/matchmaking options for gays in the market for a relationship. This part: the advertising push.

If being single on a frigid, rainy night isn’t bad enough, the non-monogamously inclined in San Francisco now have to deal with insecurity times a thousand at the Castro underground MUNI station:

College Kid Invents Fun Board Game That Involves Cocaine, Anal Rape

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Rhode Island School of Design student and Kansas governor’s son John Sebelius is marketing a limited edition board game on his website that makes child’s play of many of the ups and downs of actual prison life.  Game pieces pictured include a “glock” and “bag of coke,” and the website describes game play as: “Escape prison riots in The Yard, slip glass into a mob boss’ lasagna in
the Cafeteria, steal painkillers from the nurse’s desk in the
Infirmary, avoid being cornered by the Aryans in the Shower Room…” 

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Rhode Island School of Design student and Kansas governor’s son John Sebelius is marketing a limited edition board game on his website that makes child’s play of many of the ups and downs of actual prison life.  Game pieces pictured include a “glock” and “bag of coke,” and the website describes game play as: “Escape prison riots in The Yard, slip glass into a mob boss’ lasagna in
the Cafeteria, steal painkillers from the nurse’s desk in the
Infirmary, avoid being cornered by the Aryans in the Shower Room…” 

Clay Aiken Claims to Be Asexual

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It’s now been two years since green beret-turned-porn star John Paulus claimed to have done some dirty deeds in a hotel room with singing robot-muppet Clay Aiken, and the singer now tells New York Magazine he has never had a relationship with anyone and simply has no time for romance or sex of any kind. 

“I just don’t have an interest in … any of that at all. I have got too
much on my plate,” he says. “I’d rather focus on one thing and do that
when I can devote time to it, and right now, I just don’t have any
desire.”

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It’s now been two years since green beret-turned-porn star John Paulus claimed to have done some dirty deeds in a hotel room with singing robot-muppet Clay Aiken, and the singer now tells New York Magazine he has never had a relationship with anyone and simply has no time for romance or sex of any kind. 

“I just don’t have an interest in … any of that at all. I have got too
much on my plate,” he says. “I’d rather focus on one thing and do that
when I can devote time to it, and right now, I just don’t have any
desire.”

The Sword Guide to Gay Party Drugs, Installment 4: Ecstasy

GC-EcstasyTH.jpg Remember that scene in Go (1999) where Sarah Polly sells Benadryl to those teenagers and tells them it’s E and they sit in the van an hour later going, “I think I feel something!” and “Is it, like, a wave, or more of a zoom?” That was funny.

Ecstasy was super hot in the 90s, but judging from the pile of orange slices on offer at the last circuit party we breezed through (guest list, stood horrified, left within twenty minutes), and the way those twinks were rubbing each other like demented kittens in line for the bathroom, amateurs are still rolling in droves.

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GC-EcstasyTH.jpg Remember that scene in Go (1999) where Sarah Polly sells Benadryl to those teenagers and tells them it’s E and they sit in the van an hour later going, “I think I feel something!” and “Is it, like, a wave, or more of a zoom?” That was funny.

Ecstasy was super hot in the 90s, but judging from the pile of orange slices on offer at the last circuit party we breezed through (guest list, stood horrified, left within twenty minutes), and the way those twinks were rubbing each other like demented kittens in line for the bathroom, amateurs are still rolling in droves.

The Hot Boxxx Girls

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Aunt Charlie’s Lounge
133 Turk Street
San Francisco

10 PM til 12:30ish, Fridays and Saturdays

Get your dollar bills ready as the girls pull out
all the stops (and at least five costume changes apiece) at this
old-school, non-ironic dragztravaganza.

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Aunt Charlie’s Lounge
133 Turk Street
San Francisco

10 PM til 12:30ish, Fridays and Saturdays

Get your dollar bills ready as the girls pull out
all the stops (and at least five costume changes apiece) at this
old-school, non-ironic dragztravaganza.

SF Gays Add Staph to Fats and Femmes

While other staph-afflicted urban centers like Boston and New York are frantically posting public service announcements about the disease on Craigslist, men in San Francisco have a different agenda, using “staph-free” and “No staph” as a way to get laid. A quick search of Craigslist M4M in Boston, New York and Los Angeles turns up nothing but well-meaning alerts about the new MRSA strain that’s been spreading among gay men. Even seemingly sexy enticements (“Hot Sex in Chelsea — 25”) turn out to be warnings in disguise.

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While other staph-afflicted urban centers like Boston and New York are frantically posting public service announcements about the disease on Craigslist, men in San Francisco have a different agenda, using “staph-free” and “No staph” as a way to get laid. A quick search of Craigslist M4M in Boston, New York and Los Angeles turns up nothing but well-meaning alerts about the new MRSA strain that’s been spreading among gay men. Even seemingly sexy enticements (“Hot Sex in Chelsea — 25”) turn out to be warnings in disguise.

The 5 Low-Lights of Heath Ledger’s Mourning Glory

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We, and just about every other news outlet on the planet, reported yesterday on the “tragic,” “shocking” and “devastating” death of Heath Ledger.  But, frankly, we’ve become as fascinated by the proliferation of the media’s over-wrought and bad-tasting mourning as we are the one-time gay cowboy’s convoluted demise.  Twenty-nine hours after the announcement, we present these five newsy low-lights of post-Ledger crepe-hanging.

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We, and just about every other news outlet on the planet, reported yesterday on the “tragic,” “shocking” and “devastating” death of Heath Ledger.  But, frankly, we’ve become as fascinated by the proliferation of the media’s over-wrought and bad-tasting mourning as we are the one-time gay cowboy’s convoluted demise.  Twenty-nine hours after the announcement, we present these five newsy low-lights of post-Ledger crepe-hanging.

WA State Looking to Establish Gay Divorce Before Gay Marriage

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We’re apparently not the only Negative Nancys around who always foresee the end of a relationship before it even begins.  State lawmakers in Olympia, Washington unveiled legislation on Tuesday that would extend the state’s already established domestic partnership rights to include provisions for separation or divorce as well.  The legislation would establish community property rights, probate protections and joint responsibility for debts for domestic partners, as well as extending end-of-life rights, nursing-home visitation, veterans benefits and spousal testimonial privileges now held only by hetero marrieds.  Openly gay state Representative Jamie Peterson (D-Seattle) says, “[it’]s just an issue of basic fairness,” and we would have to agree.

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We’re apparently not the only Negative Nancys around who always foresee the end of a relationship before it even begins.  State lawmakers in Olympia, Washington unveiled legislation on Tuesday that would extend the state’s already established domestic partnership rights to include provisions for separation or divorce as well.  The legislation would establish community property rights, probate protections and joint responsibility for debts for domestic partners, as well as extending end-of-life rights, nursing-home visitation, veterans benefits and spousal testimonial privileges now held only by hetero marrieds.  Openly gay state Representative Jamie Peterson (D-Seattle) says, “[it’]s just an issue of basic fairness,” and we would have to agree.

YouTuber Accuses Barack Obama of Being a Gay Crackhead in 1999


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The first sexual harassment allegation has popped up in regard to one of the 2008 Presidential candidates this year, and we’re not even all the way through January! With all of the drag queens itching to go down on Barack in the backseat of a limo (or behind the stage of Trannyshack), it comes as something of a shock that this homely son of a bitch somehow slipped above Obama’s standards. Just think of what Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers could have accomplished if only they were afforded the futuristic voodoo of webcams and uploaded media-sharing mega-sites. Maybe with hordes of commenting viewers on their sides (or not) they could have reached the level of infamy that LarrySinclair0926 is achieving. Despite the fact that what he’s saying is suspect (come on, who would spring for crack over powder?), he’s reading from cue-cards, and the fact that his voice sounds suspiciously like Bobby Trendy’s, we at least know we have a potential star on our hands. Scandal-shmandal! No one’s paying attention to the election when there are new internet celebrities to clock in on! After the jump, watch LarrySinclair0926’s allegations in all of their badly-lit, uncertain, streaming glory.

YouTuber Accuses Barack Obama of Being a Gay Crackhead in 1999 Read More »


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The first sexual harassment allegation has popped up in regard to one of the 2008 Presidential candidates this year, and we’re not even all the way through January! With all of the drag queens itching to go down on Barack in the backseat of a limo (or behind the stage of Trannyshack), it comes as something of a shock that this homely son of a bitch somehow slipped above Obama’s standards. Just think of what Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers could have accomplished if only they were afforded the futuristic voodoo of webcams and uploaded media-sharing mega-sites. Maybe with hordes of commenting viewers on their sides (or not) they could have reached the level of infamy that LarrySinclair0926 is achieving. Despite the fact that what he’s saying is suspect (come on, who would spring for crack over powder?), he’s reading from cue-cards, and the fact that his voice sounds suspiciously like Bobby Trendy’s, we at least know we have a potential star on our hands. Scandal-shmandal! No one’s paying attention to the election when there are new internet celebrities to clock in on! After the jump, watch LarrySinclair0926’s allegations in all of their badly-lit, uncertain, streaming glory.

Heath Ledger, 28, Found Dead in SoHo Apartment

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Another young beauty has gone down for the Big Sleep.  Page Six reports that 28-year-old actor Heath Ledger was found dead today in a Broome Street apartment of an apparent drug overdose.  Ledger’s film career tended toward independent projects, and his final film appearance may turn out to be the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight, in which he stars as The Joker (scary pic after the jump).

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Another young beauty has gone down for the Big Sleep.  Page Six reports that 28-year-old actor Heath Ledger was found dead today in a Broome Street apartment of an apparent drug overdose.  Ledger’s film career tended toward independent projects, and his final film appearance may turn out to be the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight, in which he stars as The Joker (scary pic after the jump).

The Sword Guide to Gay Party Drugs: Cocaine

GC-CocaineEltongHP.jpg It’s that time of year when urban gays across the nation begin making their resolutions.  Some may vow not to use their credit cards anymore.  Others might delete their Manhunt profiles and pledge to stop randomly hooking up with anyone who thinks they’re hot.  A goodly number, though, have probably resolved in the last few weeks to lay off the Devil’s Dandruff. The Bolivian marching powder. The booga shuga.  You know – blow.  Just to give you all a hand in sticking to your guns, we offer this field guide to the great leveler of personalities that is cocaine.

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GC-CocaineEltongHP.jpg It’s that time of year when urban gays across the nation begin making their resolutions.  Some may vow not to use their credit cards anymore.  Others might delete their Manhunt profiles and pledge to stop randomly hooking up with anyone who thinks they’re hot.  A goodly number, though, have probably resolved in the last few weeks to lay off the Devil’s Dandruff. The Bolivian marching powder. The booga shuga.  You know – blow.  Just to give you all a hand in sticking to your guns, we offer this field guide to the great leveler of personalities that is cocaine.

CDC: Not All Fags Diseased Whores

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In a statement released this week, the Centers for Disease Control issued an apologetic-sounding coda to the study recently released by the Annals of Internal Medicine regarding the new, antibiotic-resistant strain of staph bacteria infection among MSM (Men who have Sex with Men) in San Francisco and Boston.

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In a statement released this week, the Centers for Disease Control issued an apologetic-sounding coda to the study recently released by the Annals of Internal Medicine regarding the new, antibiotic-resistant strain of staph bacteria infection among MSM (Men who have Sex with Men) in San Francisco and Boston.

Zac Efron, Mrs. Obama Both Trannies, Says Drag Queen

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Contentious presidential candidate and drag performer Hedda Lettuce is once again vying for sensational headlines in the blogosphere, and we at The Sword are happy to oblige.  In consecutive blog posts yesterday and today, Ms. Lettuce suggested that teen heartthrob Efron was not in fact hospitalized for an appendectomy, as was publicized, but that “he went in and had his penis removed and replaced with a shiny new vagina. Or maybe they just freshened up his old vagina.”

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Contentious presidential candidate and drag performer Hedda Lettuce is once again vying for sensational headlines in the blogosphere, and we at The Sword are happy to oblige.  In consecutive blog posts yesterday and today, Ms. Lettuce suggested that teen heartthrob Efron was not in fact hospitalized for an appendectomy, as was publicized, but that “he went in and had his penis removed and replaced with a shiny new vagina. Or maybe they just freshened up his old vagina.”

Huckabee: Gay Marriage Slippery Slope to Interspecies Unions

huckabee.jpg Republican Presidential hopeful and former whale Mike Huckabee compared homosexuality to animal fucking today in an interview with Belief.net, stating his worry over the slippery slope our society might careen down should civil unions between gays become legalized. After expressing his desire to amend the constitution to read more like the Old Testament, Huckabee offered the following pearl necklace of wisdom:


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huckabee.jpg Republican Presidential hopeful and former whale Mike Huckabee compared homosexuality to animal fucking today in an interview with Belief.net, stating his worry over the slippery slope our society might careen down should civil unions between gays become legalized. After expressing his desire to amend the constitution to read more like the Old Testament, Huckabee offered the following pearl necklace of wisdom:


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