A couple years after God shut Micky’s down by setting it on fire, the West Hollywood gay bar is back in full form. On Thursday nights the party is Cocktails with the Stars, and we’ve submitted a cocktail napkin questionaire to the promoter, Scotty B, to find out what happens when porn stars, slobbering fans and alcohol-soaked dollar bills come together.
Every so often we come across a pair of faces that we just can’t help but compare — usually a porn star and a Hollywood celebrity, but sometimes we make exceptions for dead people and Vegas tiger-wranglers. So in the grand tradition of Spy magazine, we bring you The Sword’s Separated at Girth: The Series.
Gays are just as good–if not better–at putting away the booze as frat boys and Irish people, so it is no surprise that gays just wanna have fun on St. Patrick’s Day too.
Extra, Extra! The new gay weekend starts on Wednesday–or maybe, more accurately, this whole “weekend” business has never really mattered in fagdom, especially the under-employed!
We asked Lex Laziruzz–star of Pitbull Productions’ GayVN-nominated film Da Hating Game–to give us a list of his 7 favorite albums of all time, and why they were important to him.
Occasionally we at Sword HQ in San Francisco feel pangs of jealousy toward our fag brethren in New York and we wish we had never left there–even though it’s dirty and crowded and East Coast winter makes us want to die.
We only just discovered awkward stylist reality competition show Glam God, which came to us from VH1 via Logo, currently re-airing after our favorite show, Rupaul’s Drag Race.
Photographer Slava Mogutin is hot, and talented, and he scares us a little–three qualities we always look for in a mate.
Liza Minnelli and David Gest’s divorce was bad, but the bitter feud between Liza’s perma-tanned doppelganger, Jason Curious, and his ex-bestie, Angel Benton, is worse. The two porn PR mavens bared their well-painted claws in a series of vitriolic blog posts of the type normally reserved for lesbian starlets.
One of them resists getting mauled by striped white tigers. The other willfully gets mauled by hairy white bears. Are Roy Horn and gay porn star Tristan Phoenix separated at girth?
We’ve been super lazy about updating the Lunchtime Poll, but here you go, kids.
Could porn stars have put Obama over the edge? We’re pretty sure the answer is ‘no’, but that doesn’t mean we don’t appreciate an excuse to post half-naked pictures.
Mustache Mondays @ rotating location
10PM
This is a party for ironically-dressed hotties and too-cool-for-school freelance gays who may just be right when they insist that Mondays are the new Fridays.
Tigerheat @ Avalon
1735 Vine St.
10PM
Pedophiles and scenesters alike will enjoy this raucous warehouse party, which combines an earnest happy-go-lucky underage crowd with a ‘tudey contingent of too-cool scenesters.
Temptation @ Apple
1735 Vine St.
10PM
Jeffrey Sanker’s brand new party features pop music and dirty go-go boys. Chi Chi Larue presides and DJ Morningstar spins.
Black really isn’t the new anything, and someday soon we hope to stop wearing it in mourning of Trannyshack. From the ashes of that venerable drag destination rise two distinct new weekly parties at the same venue, ye olde Stud Bar on Harrison and 9th in San Francisco:
Whether or not you had your retirement riding on AIG, times are gonna be tight for a while. Because we love you, dear reader, The Sword has compiled these handy tips for stretching your gay dollar without sacrificing your deviant lifestyle. So before you contemplate reusing a condom, consider these hedges against stag-flation.
While porn fans come in both red and blue, it shouldn’t come as a suprise (except maybe to Manhunt founder Jonathan Crutchly) that gay porn stars are rooting for Obama. Of course, when we started polling porn stars, Obama could barely get a hand-job from the boys; now, they’re nearly orgasmic in their support and posting blogs about him … in ALL CAPS even! And while some even made private noise about supporting McCain during primary season, even the most outspoken of them hasn’t risked the ire of the McCain-hating gays.
In his few short years in porn, Steve Cruz has been something of a dervish. He’s shot for almost every major studio, won numerous accolades and launched a safer-sex awareness campaign. Earlier this month, he announced he’d be moving to Mustang to co-direct (with Lief Gobo) his first feature, Blue Movie , based on the reels of the late 70s so we asked him to name the top five classic pornos.
Much like a David Lynch character who walks backward into our lives, mutters a few strange incantations, and disappears as quickly as she came, La Pequeña seems to have just heard the news about old Hill losing the race to Barack, so she’s signing off. She has posted her last, angry, midget-drag tribute, naked, wrapped in an American flag, declaring unequivocally, “Fuck you America! Fuck you Obama! Fuck you Tyra Banks, Oprah, Tiger Woods.” We’re starting to think this is racist, but anyway, it’s pretty funny/disturbing, right?
Say what you will about Michael Lucas’s politics, but he knows how to work a carrot and a stick: this week the Lion of Chelsea posted pictures of hot men at Tel Aviv Pride as part of his continued campaign in support of Israel. After all, who cares about peace in the Middle East when you’ve got a piece in the Middle East?
Is there something in the water? No, no-we already know about the horse steroids and ketamine. We were thinking Propecia. When NakedSword shot eight studio exclusives at the 3rd Street Gym in San Francisco, we were there but evidently too concerned with shoveling falafel in our mouths and asking Tiger Tyson’s political advice to notice that everyone was having sex without us. The results of the shoot debuted in Men magazine this week
Siegfried and Roy were in SF this weekend to visit their young twink protégé, “the Voice of Magic,” Darren Romeo, whose show is currently in previews for a six-week engagement at the Post Street Theatre. Despite the Germanic-gay tiger-rustling duo’s notorious closetedness, Siegfried (sans Roy) attended an afterparty that doubled as Siegfried’s birthday party at Social Club, Gus Bean’s preppy-fag fest at the Lookout.
Like a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of astronomical events, the International Mr. Leather Expo is happening in Chicago this weekend AT THE SAME TIME as the infamous Grabby Awards. The Sword will be covering the weekend live-blog style, in association with Fleshbot. After the jump, a refresher (in case you missed them the first time) on this year’s Grabby nominees.
When Raging
Stallion director Ben Leon won a GayVN for his work on
finally came into his own.
shot and edited over thirty films for the San Francisco-based studio, and The Sword
met with him at the
to talk about getting in, getting out and the stuff that keeps us in the
business. The full interview after the jump.
Sorry for the delay on these, folks… but for those who still care…
Nightcharm introduced to us to its cute side project, Lurid Digs, a year or so back (links NSFW) and we still find ourselves drawn in by its mysteries. It’s basically a series of pics and visual analysis of the decor seen in various poor souls’ ManHunt profiles. It is reminiscent of (or perhaps was the inspiration for) another favorite site, Hunters and Gatherers, and the latter’s writers may be a touch funnier. But we love Lurid Digs’ focus on the interiors, the tantalizing glimpses into the intimate boudoirs (and living rooms, and basement rumpus rooms) of all those suburban and ex-urban gays we’ve heard so much about in the news.
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.
What happens when you get seven exclusives from seven different studios together in the same room? A good deal of penis touching, it seems. The boys came together as part of a boxing themed photo shoot for NakedSword by Greg Thompson whose extensive work with Chi Chi LaRue and other studios has provided more than a few scandalous coffee-table books.
Thanks to a few well-placed handjobs and a bottle of Kahlua, we’ve weaseled our way into Grabby headquarters and stolen the list of nominees that’s scheduled to be published tomorrow. We started to tally the studio with the most noms, the movie with the most noms and the studio with the most movies and, well, wait… what were we saying? Sorry, we totally fell asleep. It doesn’t really matter since there’s enough noms here for each studio to spin, Bush-style, an edge up on the competition. By noon tomorrow, everyone will be in the lead.
Porn directors are sentimental fags like us, so it should come as no surprise that many of your favorite porn scripts are secretly based on classic movies-Chi Chi’s latest, Unknown is based on Ghost, and Steve Cruz’s Hotter Than Hell drew its inspiration from The Devil and Daniel Webster. Or maybe it was Bedazzled. But for every totally obvious porn parody (Oliver Twink, American Booty, Raiders of the Lost Arse) there’s a host of movies that you might never have realized drew their inspiration from mainstream. (Damn the distractions of the flesh.) See if you can match the the porn movies after the jump with the Hollywood screenplays that inspired them.
We must admit that the 2008 GayVN Awards on Saturday weren’t quite the drool-inducing sedative that we feared they’d be. The Lady Bunny was downright hilarious and Derek and Romaine‘s bitterness-shtick was amusing, at least to us, since they wouldn’t stop talking about what “assholes” we are. Sorry everyone loves us, okay? After the jump, check out how many of the night’s biggest stars chose to ditch the duo’s face-planting, painfully ill-received punchlines for a hot, impromptu photo shoot in the glass elevators!
Two+ hours and countless fart jokes later, the 2008 GayVNs are over. While Derek and Romaine were limited to a five-minute intro due to bad press and an industry revolt, Lady Bunny hammed it up with Laugh-In segments and Benny Hill-style humor. High-larious. GRUNTS and Link were the big winners, but before we go back to our regularly scheduled pornography, we offer this uncensored look at the highlights of the best award show we’ve seen in awhile. Award highlights:
Best Videography: Brian Mills, H20
Best Director: Chris Ward and Ben Leon, GRUNTS
Best Picture: GRUNTS, Raging Stallion
Performer of the Year: Jake Deckard
Best Sex Comedy: The Intern, Lucas Entertainment
Best All-Sex: Link: The Evolution
We will probably include them in our upcoming “How Did America Not Know They Were Gay” series, but for now all we have to report is that Las Vegas wonder twins and occasional tiger bait Siegfried and Roy are planning a one-time comeback show, part of a fundraiser for the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute. And yes, it will include the tiger, Montecore, who mauled Roy. The two performers have stuck to their (possibly moronic) belief that Montecore was not simply acting like a normal tiger lashing out against her keeper, but in fact sensed that Roy was having a mini-stroke and was dragging him offstage to safety.
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…
This may be the first year that the GayVNs best the Golden Globes in viewership, and we couldn’t be more pleased: not only has our industry’s little fete grown in recent years, the clothes are more exciting. No offense to Valentino Garavani or Domenico Dolce, but porn star fashion — with it’s reliance on mesh, mess and meth — is infinitely more exciting. We’ve got 35 days until we can bring you the new Spring Collection, so until then, here are the nominations …