Charming and hung porn superstar Colby Taylor was named NakedSword’s NakedSwordsman 2008 today, dashing the hopes of eleven other hopefuls and cementing Taylor’s place in the porn firmament. The legendary top man will make his debut this Saturday at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. We’ll be first in line.
Arosa Ski Resort
Gemeindeverwaltung Arosa
Rathaus
Postfach 165
7050 Arosa
Arosa, Switzerland
January 5-11
This highly popular gay ski week takes place at Arosa, which rests right at the top of a 6,000-foot Swiss valley. Spend the day enjoying the slopes, ski back to your room with a Swiss mister, or simply go to check out the parties. Always sunny, always snowing, it sounds too good to be true because it probably is: hurry up before you miss it. www.arosa-gayskiweek.com
Bilbao, Spain
January 20-25
Beginning in 2004, Zinegoak Film Festival showed 25 GLBT films in one screening room over the course of four days. This year, the festival takes place at four theaters, showing 95 films over five days in Bilbao before traveling off to assorted Bizkain villages. Spend time watching international queer cinema in Bilbao, home of the infamous Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim museum, where you can stop in and check out some Richard Serra sculptures between screenings. If all this art and design fails to keep you entertained, thank God for good old fashioned Spanish gentlemen! www.zinegoak.com
Hedda Lettuce may be the only one running for
office, but that hasn’t stopped our favorite cross dressers from weighing in
on their current crop of presidential candidates. After discovering that most
of our favorite porn stars are voting for Hillary, we thought we’d check in
with the drag queens. Turns out sisterhood ain’t that powerful …
Testing testing
When a hedge-fund manager turned up dead in West Palm Beach a few weeks back, we had a hard time getting excited about the possible gay porn connection.
At the supposed center of the male-strom was “Tiger,” a poorly tattooed one-time star with a penchant for posing on eponymous rugs. It was easy to look away. But now that annoying tranny star Kayla Coxx is involved, it seems there’s no avoiding it.
After all the nog and slog of the holiday season, what we really want for Christmas is a hooker. Not some tarted up masseur offering mutual-touch with release, but an honest-to-god two-hundred-dollar escort.
We asked fifty working porn stars for a moment of their time. Turns out not everyone is available
Care of The Sword’s editors, we bring you this roundup, by no means complete (or even-handed) of gay stuff going on this December 31st in San Francisco and New York-the two metropolises we currently have the bandwidth to cover.
After the jump, a few ideas for ringing in another New Year in more fun (and possibly regrettable) ways.
Holiday YouTube videos have replaced Christmas
cookies as a seasonal MUST over these past couple of years. For fags like us, YouTube isn’t just another
sensory replacement for food (just ask our dealers!), but also a chance to
catch some of the most bizarre and under-appreciated queer cinema ever made. We’ve
known that gays and yuletide cheer are an incompatible match ever since we came
out during Christmas of freshman year and our crazy Aunt Rachel threw her turkey leg at us, screaming “fuck” a lot-so you can imagine the tongue-in- cheekiness we have in store for you with our 12 Gays of Christmas Video Collection.
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Gangbang! From mild to wild,
we’re not into bullshit. We’re versatile, we’ve got major loads to spill down
your throat, and all with no strings attached! If interested, please join the club:
On the latest Tim and
Roma Show, the two “Best Personality” nominees (thanks for giving them big heads, Cybersocket!) wax political over how barebacking
titles seem to be gaining popularity and how the trend parallels increased HIV
rates among gay men. Too bad the episode didn’t air before the filming of British Bareback Vacation, because one
of the co-stars contracted HIV on the set and is now thinking of suing the
film’s producers in
order to prevent other young men from suffering the same fate.. Hasn’t anyone told him that being popular is
the ONLY THING THAT MATTERS? (via GayVN
News)
Rome
December 7-14, 2007
For five years and counting, the Leather Club Roma hosts the hottest leather-fetish event in Italy, grimly titled Catacombs. What happens when you take Folsom Street Fair and relocate it to one of Europe’s most beautiful cities (filled with some of the world’s most beautiful men)? Apparently you get seven days of bull whips, ball gags, and nonstop sex. “Perhaps the crown jewel of the theme parties, spread throughout the long weekend, is the Black Leather Uniform Fans party. Strict dress codes apply: black leather only.” Wearing a uniform never felt so freeing. http://www.lcroma.com/catacombs.htm
Rome
December 7-14, 2007
For five years and counting, the Leather Club Roma hosts the hottest leather-fetish event in Italy, grimly titled Catacombs. What happens when you take Folsom Street Fair and relocate it to one of Europe’s most beautiful cities (filled with some of the world’s most beautiful men)? Apparently you get seven days of bull whips, ball gags, and nonstop sex. “Perhaps the crown jewel of the theme parties, spread throughout the long weekend, is the Black Leather Uniform Fans party. Strict dress codes apply: black leather only.” Wearing a uniform never felt so freeing. http://www.lcroma.com/catacombs.htm
Rome
December 7-14, 2007
For five years and counting, the Leather Club Roma hosts the hottest leather-fetish event in Italy, grimly titled Catacombs. What happens when you take Folsom Street Fair and relocate it to one of Europe’s most beautiful cities (filled with some of the world’s most beautiful men)? Apparently you get seven days of bull whips, ball gags, and nonstop sex. “Perhaps the crown jewel of the theme parties, spread throughout the long weekend, is the Black Leather Uniform Fans party. Strict dress codes apply: black leather only.” Wearing a uniform never felt so freeing. http://www.lcroma.com/catacombs.htm
Porn director-turned- private investigator Paul Barresi
claims that he’s found no evidence of Tom Cruise’s rumored homosexuality, despite
the connection to Scientology, a gay vague haircut and a seemingly endless
stream of court-challenged claims by former lovers, according to In Touch Weekly. “Everything I’ve
found and everything I know points to Tom being heterosexual,” Paul told
the magazine. Oddly, it was only a year ago that Barresi was in the
opposite situation – facing legal threats from Cruise’s celebrity legal
eagle, Bert Fields, to remove a claim by Barresi that he had found evidence of the star’s sexcapades with a
What flavored balm goes on smooth and keeps the mustiest puckers fresh as a teenager? If you answered Anal-Ese, well, son, you’re one hell of a
professional. Today as part of our Worst Products Marketed to the Gays series, we feature this desensitizing agent long used on porn sets to keep the loosest goose from squealing after a three-hour Arpad-Miklos pounding. Generally, the benzocaine confection has been marketed to women trying to get over the hump, so to speak. As gays scoop up more products marketed to women (Special K, Juicy Couture, Enchanted), it gets harder to believe that any woman (or alternately, the man who wants to pop her in the pooper) is gonna care that her thumping hole is flavored like a maraschino. Of course, we’re not really sure that a guy who’s numbing himself for a three-day party is at the top of our menu, either… but we digress.
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).
Remember when I sifted through the pornos on NakedSword and pulled out the covers that I thought were the best? Well, I had to overlook a lot of hideous, disturbing, FUCKED UP covers then, and going back to find some to showcase together for the DONT’s now proved to be one of the most excruciating experiences I’ve had since I’ve worked here. It made for a great appetite suppressant though: OMG NEW DIET CRAZE?????????
After the jump, take a look at some box covers that make me wanna die.
They say that you should never judge a book by its cover. They’re totally wrong. Bad marketing is always something that should be judged, harshly in our opinion, while awesome covers deserve unmitigated praise, attention, and preference. “Why buy something that will look ugly on your bookshelf?” The same is true in gay porn packaging. With the wealth of outstanding imagery that pornographers have to design graphics around, it’s a marvel that some studios pump out nothing but ugly video boxes. Sifting through the newest additions to NakedSword 4.0, we couldn’t help but be amused by some of the porn boxcovers that we came across and impressed by their sheer artistic value. After the jump, check out some of the prettiest pornos that NS has to offer, and also feel free to check out our follow-up: The Don’ts.
Their shirts are unbuttoned, their hair is moussed, and their default expression is “Fierce!” They may not tap dance, but the post-Will-and-Grace era has our reality TV schedules filled with stereotypical re-imaginings of actual homosexuals so predictable in their gayface that even Charles Nelson Reilly would have winced. They’re waxed and tweezed and teased and highlighted.
When Michael Lucas labeled Raging Stallion “snitches” last week, claiming they had inspired and furthered the legal troubles that arose after Lucas released Michael Lucas’ La Dolce Vita, it was the shot across the bow in what could be a larger legal battle between the two. Meanwhile, the Fellini Estate, assisted or unassisted by Raging
Stallion, continues to press Lucas with renewed interest. Here’s our
selected time line of the butting heads, the blogs and the lawsuit that
has everyone ducking for cover.
The first thing any self-respecting homosexual does, after choosing an outfit and tarting
up a Second Life avatar (complete with no-crunch abs and a Flock-of-Seagulls hairdo), is head to a bathhouse. Thanks to the realism of modern role playing,
our fantasy lives are now full of the same poor choices and fraught with the
same anxieties as our waking life.
The stud of Spanish
Harlem takes invades Europe in Tiger Tyson’s Eiffel Tower, but when he’s not
fucking the men he politely terms “Frenchies” the charming top man takes in some culture. In this clip,
Tiger checks out the Louvre, hears rumors of a late-night sex party in the Jardin des Tuileries and feasts on a baguette. Get
your mind out of the gutter for once and get some culture.
Villa Vizcaya
Miami, FL
November 21-26
Begun as a fundraiser for an HIV/AIDS service organization in 1985, the White Party has become a ginormous dance party at a huge estate called the Villa Vizcaya in Miami Beach. Expect the usual tweakers and a lot of Eurofags in white jeans, but also expect drag queens on stilts with white wings, faggots in feathers, and lots and lots of opportunities for groping pecs and having unsafe sex. As well as safe sex, of course. http://www.whiteparty.org/
Your one-stop shop for getting up in everybody’s asses! Each week we’ll dig up all the dirt that’s served to be dished so you won’t have to dig it up yourself. This week we have Michael Lucas’s faked death, Danny Roddick’s real death and porn star responses to Britney’s career death! Who could ask for anything more?
Swallow it all down after the jump…
Let’s face it: John Travolta is a terrifying and disturbed individual. If you sat back and enjoyed him in Hairspray we’re going to stop being friends with you, and his creepy, narcissistic, Scientology-framed interviews in entertainment magazines are enough to make us lock ourselves in a room with DVDs of AbFab just so we won’t get brainwashed by the madness. Imagine the exquisite triumph then, when we discovered Get Shorty J! It’s like we can go back in time and un-cast John Travolta from that “cool” movie, and replace him with a trio of men of our dreams! Instead of going from mobster to Hollywood producer, this character goes from mobster to NAKED – and it rules. Throw out that little gift you received free with your first DVD player, because there’s a new version on the market and there’s no shitty sequel…yet.
See larger image after the jump…
Hiro Ballroom
363 W 16th Street
New York
Sundays 9PM – 4AM
It’s getting a little bit mobbed after midnight at this weekly fete, but given that Sundays are for drinking …
Downtown Palm Springs
November 3, 2007
You know the drill: parties, nods to culture like films and exhibits, fags mumbling “happy pride” while sipping mojitos, and a parade on Sunday featuring some dykes on bikes and uncomfortable tourists and trannies in shiny outfits. It’s the closing event of California’s half-year-long pride festivities, and this time it’s in the desert people, with performances from Ari Gold, Brian Kent, and meteorologically inclined diva Martha Wash. Bring your sunscreen, and your sense of entitlement, and wander the streets among the well-heeled gays of Southern California, i.e. the ones who choose what you watch on television and take percentages off the top from the Shakiras and Anistons of the world so they can keep themselves in fresh BMWs and Prada sandals. http://www.pspride.org/
Wonkette made our Thursday not just for referring to Congressman Larry Craig as “gay restroom goblin Larry Craig,” but for posting this exclusive interview with former geek twink turned “bear-about-town” David Phillips. The take-aways from this piece: there apparently used to be a go-go-boy bar for rich, closeted right-wingers called La Cage Aux Follies on Capitol Hill and we wish we’d been there; Larry Craig is a feces-averse top; and Phillips, besides having apparently bent over for Craig in the Spring of ’87, was allegedly the trick of choice for a host of married Houston oil execs back in the day.
1. Icelandic Phallological Museum HUSAVIK, ICELAND Through Sept 10 It’s your last chance to visit the world’s only penis museum. Over 200 preserved phalluses represent every mammal that can be found in Iceland. (Yes, that means whales, polar bears and humans, among others.) 2. Run For More Time
FRANKFURT September 14 This popular charity event is the German counterpart to America’s Walk for Life. Not into exercise? Don’t care about AIDS? Skip the race and go straight to the beer-soaked after-party. 3. Janet Jackson Rock Witchu Tour
VANCOUVER September 10 After spending seven years away from the road, the mistress of thump kicks off her highly anticipated North American tour in Vancouver. Eh? Eh! 4. Folsom Street Fair
SAN FRANCISCO September 28 Are you ready, Daddy? This annual leatherfest is celebrating its 25th year of bald heads and hairy bodies. Time to polish those leashes and memorize those safe words! 5. Atlantic Stampede Gay Rodeo
GAITHERSBURG, MD September 5 – 7 Watch as that cowboy riles up a steer, mounts him and holds on tight. After the show, buy him a drink and show him what you learned. | 6. Gay Sunday at the London Zoo
LONDON September 14 Hang out with the bears. Stave off the apes. Smile at the peacocks. And if you have time, go take a look at the animals too. 7. Get Wet Weekend
CURACAO September 25-28 Star DJs, boat parties and art shows await. How nice: a Caribbean island that throws the gay boys a party instead of stoning them outside a pharmacy in a mass mob. (Holla, Jamaica!) 8. Rainbow March
SAPORRO September 14 Saporro is not just a premium Japanese beer. It’s also the host of Japan’s longest-running gay pride parade. Don’t miss the dance party the night before the march. 9. South African Gay Film Fest
JOHANNESBURG September 4-14 Take in the best of gay and lesbian cinema with this diverse offering of screenings, workshops and city-wide events. 10. Gay Ski Week
QUEENSLAND, NZ Aug 29 – Sept 7 With powdery slopes, apres-ski socials, retro bowling, wine-country hiking and closing night dancing, this annual event attracts skiiers from across the gay globe. |
Over the years, the Anheuser-Busch Companies and their advertising agency, DDB Needham Worldwide, have made some truly valiant efforts to court the gays into drinking more Bud Light (fags love diets!). Among these inspired campaigns, found in back issues of Out and HX, we chose a few to remind us that Heidi Fleiss and David Forest aren’t the ones who should be charged with pandering.
After the jump, we take a look at the last decade of Bud Light print ads geared toward gays.
Marc Jacobs is showing a lot of skin these days, and not just on his runway models. Jezebel notes that in this month’s issue of Arena Homme Plus, the it-man designer traipses about his Paris flat without a shirt on discussing the fact that he is having a mid-life crisis, buying a lot of jewelry, and getting some asinine tattoos (“I had thought, what a dumb thing to have your own name put on your body. But I really wanted to have my initial, so it had to be in the context of something really stupid: the M&M.”). Of course, now we want more than a walk-on in the next Lucas feature…
More embarassment (and skin) after the jump.
For years our favorite porn stars were ones with popped collars and golden locks, but the masculine influence of the gay bears seems to have killed the once-dominant preppy aesthetic. The days of the Bumble-and-Bumble- moussed, frosted-tip, blond-spiked porn star is officially over, according to our survey of nearly fifty working men, few of whom even have time for highlights.
News that Cal/OSHA, the government agency which monitors and enforces workplace safety and health, had been snooping around a Naughty America shoot sent ripples through the porn industry this week, sending gay porn producers in particular into a frenzy.
More after the jump…