In addition to shooting our various Original Productions, which also often feature candid footage and even more candid talks with the producers, filmmakers and stars of the adult industry, The Sword has been making and collecting these documentary clips behind the scenes and on the sets of porn productions around the globe. You’re welcome.
If the internet were a sidewalk, we’d want to take a stroll with Kenneth in the 212. Kenneth, who’s totally cute, has a knack for separating the gay wheat from the chaff. He’s an occasional contributor to Towleroad, and his personal blog is a balanced meal that combines the high-brow and the trashy; an interview of a favorite author follows a collage of shirtless football players.
When Chad Hunt announced that he was bottoming, he also let something else slip — the biggest penis in the business is retiring after Jett Blakk’s Endgame. Jett Blakk takes us on a tour of his new set with some exclusive footage of the gangbang that made history.
Porn shoots in Eastern Europe may be cheap to film but the models are, well, a little bit country. In this case, the old country. Celebrity videographer Mr. Pam brought back this chaotic footage from a recent shoot with Collin O’Neal in Serbia featuring a model named ‘Fancy’ with a fondness for pink.
And this is a problem?
Gay British documentarian Simon Fanshawe thinks so. Sir Sadness isn’t happy with the gay culture’s drug use, “corrosive” sex-obsession and “extreme vanity.” His new film, “The Trouble with Gay Men,” calls gay culture “a sewer” and laments the homosexualist movements early goals with its more recent ones. But it’s possible that the 48-year-old balding singleton is making the personal a bit too political.
An archive of historical gay video footage belonging to Gay Cable Network pioneer and sex club entrepreneur Lou Maletta–much of it in VHS format–sits uncatalogued and quickly deteriorating in a Manhattan storage room, the Boston Edge reports. Maletta began the “Gay Cable News” show, hosted by Andy Humm and Anne Northrup (pictured) as well as a gay porn review show called “Men on Film” back in 1982 on New York City public access Channel 35, which was also host to the famous Robin Byrd Show. The tens of thousands of hours of video and DAT tapes includes footage from the Continental Baths in the 70s of Bette Midler and Barry Manilow, a comment made by Dick Cheney about gay marriage back in 1984, and some of the earliest coverage of AIDS within the gay community of New York. Gay Cable News was the first news show of any kind to broadcast a picture of a Karposi’s sarcoma lesion, and that clip is now preserved by the Museum of Broadcasting.
Self-described “world’s first supermodel” Janice Dickinson (screw you Gia Carangi!) supports your right to watch gay porn, but her grasp on U.S. Constitutional Law is as tenuous as, well, our understanding of pro football.
Footage Exclusive to The Sword: Brent Corrigan may have hidden some of his best features in his role as Stan the Merman in Todd Stephens’ upcoming release Another Gay Sequel, but we hope his cross-over success doesn’t result in a permanent cover-up.
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.
We’ve finally pulled together all our footage from mr. Pam’s travels in New York and Roma’s roamings around San Francisco Pride last month. Pour yourself an adult beverage and press play.
Just when you thought the revival of disco hits and the wave of Studio 54 recreations was something we all got over in 1999, the era is rearing its sex-crazed, poly-blended, bloody nosed face again like a cracked out tranny after her morning bump. News arrives that Showtime has a new series in development, from writer Chad Hodge (Runaway) and Hairspray producers Craig
Zadan and Neil Meron. In a brilliant move, the creators are opting not use “54” in the title-since that was already taken with a certain Ryan Phillippe/Mike Myers vehicle from 1998-but are instead going for the marvelously simple “Studio.” While that earlier film was kind of lame and while we love the 70s in general and Steve Rubell stories in particular, we can’t help but yawn at this idea.
You ever wondered what the coming attractions might look like if you were sitting in a (probably sticky) seat in a gay porn cinema on Polk Street / 42nd Street circa 1986? Our new best friend on Youtube, landonbryce, is responsible for bringing these small wonders into our lives, including a couple gems from famed director William Higgins.
Until now we haven’t been able to put our finger on why Ryan Gosling’s always given us a bit of a hard on. Yeah, he’s cute — and we’ll never forget his role in homoerotic football flick "The Slaughter Rule", but we still found him hot even after he uglified himself in Lars and the Real DollGirl (you can be sure we missed him in The Notebook.)
This is it folks. We’re wrapping up this series on all the famous pre-Pride fags who passed as ‘perpetual bachelors’ back in the days before AIDS and parades. There are of course a few historical homos we skipped over — like Sir John Gielgud (a classically trained British theatre actor who Mom hadn’t really heard of before Arthur anyway), Allen Ginsberg (he was never really in the closet), and Cary Grant (might have been bi), to name a few. But we tried to hit all the high points in the recent history of down-low gaiety and televised gay minstrelsy: Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Reilly, Rock Hudson, Elton John, Tony Perkins, Village People, Montgomery Clift, Freddie Mercury, James Dean & Sal Mineo, Truman Capote, and Raymond Burr.
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!
It may not be our cause celebre, but we know big news when we see it-and we love a good media circus! In case you’ve been on a silent meditation retreat for the last month, today’s the day that county clerks across California are issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Last night two elder lesbians were married here, and elder lesbians statewide went to receive licenses in offices open late to mark the official moment the law took effect, at 5PM. Update: We were out in front of San Francisco City Hall, and there were no Phelpses!
Just because we aren’t allowed in the military doesn’t mean we don’t celebrate grotesque death in high numbers and senseless patriotism like straight guys do! Just because we spend our Monday nights with The Hills instead of football and are invited to baby showers, women’s restrooms, and other places straight guys can’t go doesn’t mean they’re allowed to keep us out of holidays involving beer and fun in return! Put your neighbors’ parties to shame, pull out the kegs, fix your jaws around a hot dog, and crank up our latest holiday mega-mix.
If only Home Ec had been all feeding cupcakes to each other and saying “lick it some more,” like Pierre Fitch does in this scene from Longshot: Making the Game (Jocks, 2004). We love how Filippo Romano, as the football jock, shoves that spatula in his mouth and Pierre says, “Oh it’s so big.”
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ABC News conducted a little social experiment for 20/20 which aired on Friday in which they had two sets of actors, one a gay couple and one a lesbian couple, sitting on park benches and kissing in broad daylight. They tried this in two locations: Birmingham, Alabama and Verona, New Jersey. Guess what they found? While straight men tended to not mind seeing the pretty lesbos getting it on (shock!), many folks found the boys kissing to be distasteful, especially in the South.
Freddie refers to his lifestyle as “very grand” in this 1977 interview with the BBC, and the interviewer makes a funny comment, over footage of Freddie mincing around with a whip, about Freddie never being called “conservative.” But the gem here is footage of Freddie performing with Royal Ballet.
Ten years after his last movie, Jeff Stryker still commands one of the most impressive names in porn. Whether you think he’s a superstar, a train wreck or a Norma Desmond-ish conflation of the two, few can do it quite
like he does. He may have helped invent the whole “gay-for-pay” porn
star mold, but his early work with Matt Sterling and John Travis is every bit as
strong today as it was twenty years go. We have seen precious little of his wooden,
tough-talking-top schtick (anyone remember 1999’s “Can I Be Your Bratwurst Please?” Thought not.), which is why we were so excited when we stumbled upon his self-administered YouTube page.
It seems useless to point out the fact that heterosexual males have always been friends with one another. From ass-grabbing on the football field to anal rape in prison, man-on-man companionship has run the gamut from being totally platonic to homosocial, to brutally homosexual without ever encroaching on gay culture-that is, until now. Somehow over the course of the last decade or so, a magnifying glass has been placed over the interpersonal relationships of straight dudes and in 2008, the phenomenon of the “bromance” has reached a sudden fever pitch in popular culture. While Ben Affleck and Matt Damon were able to escape gay-baiting punchlines in the late 90s, male celebrities today are all but prohibited from hanging out without speculation being made as to their sexuality. The reason for this isn’t, as the Seattle Times proposed (paraphrased by Gawker), because “guys are marrying later, more of them are living together to offset the financial hardships of subsisting on a single income, [and it allows] bromances to flourish.” It’s actually because they are ALL GAY.
Sorry for the delay on these, folks… but for those who still care…
In the case of a Charles Nelson Reilly or, say, a Paul Lynde, it’s especially hard for us to comprehend how any able-minded American in the twentieth
Getting inside the mind-as well as the pants-of a porn star is something we’ve all longed for once or twice, and with these new things called blogs we all have the chance to hear stories directly from the models’ own mouths fingers, sometimes daily. As loyal Sword readers should know, RJ Danvers, Diesel Washington and Erik Rhodes are all avid bloggers, while many other stars like Steve Cruz, Francois Sagat and Brent Corrigan also dabble as online diarists. If you’ve been paying attention to the sometimes sordid, always amusing musings of the porn elite, this week’s quiz should be a snap. The first email we get with all correct answers will receive a month of free porn on NakedSword. To quote Spaceballs: Do your worst.
Because we don’t have time, the way our friends at Fleshbot do, to review all the porn that comes across our desks, The Sword has asked our friends in academia for a little help making sense of the latest porn titles.* First off, Titan Media’s Telescope, a delicate rumination on the power of the gaze/gays dichotomy, starring Diesel Washington and modeled on Brian DePalma’s post-Hitchcockian thriller Body Double.
When it comes to matters of the flesh, it’s been an eventful spring. We know that spring break is over for most of you (assuming that any of you, dear readers, are actually young enough to enjoy it), but we’re hoping that the time off from the books has given everyone a chance to catch up on the three months of arrests, awards and AndroGel patches that you might have missed. Do you know Erik Rhodes from Eric Hanson? Can you sing all the words to “I Wanna Teabag You?” The most number of correct answers wins free porn from Michael Lucas and first runner-up, a one-month membership on NakedSword.com.
While we do not argue with the idea that there is such a thing as “gay news” or at least “news items of gay interest” (especially when they involve drag queens or hookers), we do take issue with the boring-ass shit that 365gay.com throws up on their homepage every day. Maybe gays have more slow news days than straights. Maybe we’re just easily bored. In any case, after the jump, here are a few of today’s blow-me-down snooze-flashes.
We have a deep appreciation for Rock Hudson and all the other “perpetual bachelors” of mid-century America, and feel a certain kinship with the proto-homos of yore. We understand that prior to AIDS and parades, we weren’t exactly on the suburban radar, but, uh, COME ON NOW! Some of those pioneering old schoolers look pretty fucking gay to us, through our (admittedly) contemporary lens. So today we continue to examine how the generations before us managed to believe these guys were just, you know, a little funny.
Anthony Perkins
1932-1992
He was the soft-spoken, pretty-boy star of Psycho who fucked Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson and didn’t manage to sleep with a woman until he was 39. Anthony Perkins’ story is more sad than it is funny, but we want to take a moment to marvel at what used to pass for a straight man in these parts and appreciate old Tony’s work in his closeted prime.
Who’s that lurking in the background of Titan Media’s new title, Telescope? Hint: He’s 6’6, 240lbs, black, and mad as hell! Why yes, it’s Sword crush object Diesel Washington, who came out swinging on his blog today about being relegated to a second-tier cover spot for what is supposed to be his first headlining feature for the contracted studio. In Telescope, Diesel plays a “wealthy, well-dressed urbanite” through whose point-of-view the scintillating actions of the film unfold.
Late last night when all of the grown-ups were peacefully asleep, MTV aired the documentary program TRUE LIFE: I Work in the Sex Industry profiling Jet Set exclusive Aaron James, and somewhere in the world a future porn star was born.
You ever wanted to get so close you could practically feel Jake Deckard slap your ass or think you could reach out and touch the hair on Roman Ragazzi‘s stomach just before he comes? Well that day is almost here, pervs. Raging Stallion is rolling out the first gay title on the Blu-Ray format, the multiple-GayVN-nominated Grunts, with a street date of March 31. Because of the high costs currently associated with production for the format, it is not likely that too many more Blu-Ray discs will be rolling out in the future, but for all those early adopters this 22-man, 40-scene epic should serve as a great big taste of what the future has to offer.
When GayVN-winning director Jett Blakk sent us the porno How To Seduce A Straight Man, we were curious if we could use it to replicate his success. Three black eyes later, we filed suit against the director. Turns out, we were doing it all wrong. As part of his settlement, Jett Blakk agreed to give us actual tips for seducing straight men. While courage, both liquid and otherwise, is in involved in these recipes, we have to say they work better than the penis in the popcorn trick that nearly resulted in a situation that would have required Romaine Patterson to save us.