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Even though I'm a wimp, Kink.com manages to turn me out more often than I'd let on. I swear -- most of the time I just go to see what the perverts come up with ... and then end up buying some scene because there's a big dick, dirty talk and a cage. I don't have anything particular for the Hellraiser aethetic or Dark Age torture chambers, but I swear -- sometimes the sets are so incredible you'd think they got Julie Taymor to direct. I will admit, however, that I am also obsessed with Nick Moretti, specifically with choking on his dick. But back to the articles -- er, scenes. Some of Bound Gods most, uh, captivating images.
Continue reading ... Kink's Bound Gods ... A-Go-Go.
Dean Coxx sent out an update from his eponymous site today, announcing that he'd gotten his old fuckbuddy Duke back to the world of gay for pay sex. According to Dean, he'd driven to Duke's house in San Diego to commiserate after the Phillies lost, and that some how THIS happened. I don't honestly know what to say ... except maybe: caption this! Dean Coxx and Duke (ClubDean.com) -- Mike ![]() Massive Studios was lucky enough to shoot and post the first guy-on-guy scene with smoking-hot newcomer Leo Giamani. This soft-spoken, super-masculine 100% Philly boy has the body of a Greek Statue, a dick of death, and a pair of low-hangers that literally made me drool. In John Bruno directed scene, Leo chows down on Rod Barry's cock before Rod pokes around his ass with his tongue. The gives Rod a deep dicking but we know Rod can handle it. I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot more of Leo as the other studios trip over themselves to sign him ... but until then, check out this exclusive photo set of Leo and his first scene on Massive Studios' site.
Continue reading ... Meet The Meat: Leo Giamani.
I find my models mainly via gay social networking websites like BigMuscle, Gaydar, and GayRomeo. I met Pedro and Daniel from Sao Paulo and Miami, and Said from Lebanon over the net. There are a few times I meet guys on the street or in clubs like Jacko from Lebanon who I met in a café in Aleppo, a city in Northern Syria and then I met my exclusive Francisco Rey, while he was cleaning the pool of our hotel in the Dominican Republic. I am very shy in person, so it is very hard for me to just walk up to guys and pop the porn question.
Continue reading ... Behind The Scenes: Collin O'Neal Part 2.
Esteemed porn scholar Jeffrey Escoffier was recently explaining the evolution of nudity in film. In the mid-1950s, directors like Russ Meyer pioneered nudity in films known as Nudie-Cuties, campy comedies that featured lots of boobs. These gave way to "Beavers" -- movies that showed female crotch -- and these led to the "Split Beaver" movies, which actually showed women with their legs open. Without these there would be no porn today -- gay or straight. Got me thinking: It's actually somewhat rare to see the gay-equivalent of the "Split Beaver" in gay porn. We get lots of shots of things getting stuffed into assholes, (and some directors are really obsessed with showing a gaping one) but how often do you actually get to see an unobstructed, pristine asshole -- one thats not obscured by the ass cheeks? Here's a couple of shots of what I'm talking about -- exceptions that prove the rule, if you will: (Damien Crosse, Jesse Santana) A few more after the jump ...
Continue reading ... Male Split Beavers: Gay Porn's Final Frontier?.
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Testicular Self Exams Can Be Fun. (This is kinda off-topic, sorry, but) There is something intriguing about the trailer that handsome Mysterious Skin author Scott Heim put together for his new novel, We Disappear:
Until he (inevitably) makes the hardcore plunge, we'll have semi-nude screengrabs from his groundbreaking work on Dante's Cove. Click continue for Reichen Lehmkuhl nude gallery ...
Continue reading ... Reichen Lehmkuhl Sports Major "Wood".
On being gang banged by a bunch of mega-hung Brazilians, Roddick said: “At first I asked if I could pick which guy was going to fuck me first, but when it came down to picking the lucky prick, they all looked so enormous that I just couldn’t decide. I knew I’d be ripped a new one, no matter which one I went with. I eventually went with what looked like the easiest option and after the first few thrusts I was in heaven. The guys down there knew exactly what I wanted.” What a fucking whore! I love it. A few more exclusive pics after the jump ...
Continue reading ... Gay Porn Mystery Man REVEALED!.
(Apologies to tmz.com)
While you could get him a T.M.X. Elmo or a copy of State of Denial, there's nothing like a little porn so long as it's well chosen. My short (well, short of a hooker) list for the guys in your life follows after the jump.
Continue reading ... Gay Porn XXX-Mas Gifts.
Continue reading ... Live Gay Porn: Tim and Roma Go To the Theatre.
Two new gay-porn-eque YouTube clips have me moist as a snack cake. First, a music video for the official theme song to Falcon's Velvet Mafia is, like, actually really terrific: Second, another clip of my #1 porn crush, Johnny Hazzard, doin' a little dance. Can't say I'm a huge fan of the song, but, man, who knew lil Johnny could shimmy like that? He makes me want to lick the monitor. Did I just say that out loud?
Continue reading ... Attack of the Gay Porn Music Video.
In contrast to yesterday's premier of the Masque trailer, today I present what could be its polar opposite: the ultra-slick trailer for "Shortbus", John Cameron Mitchell's much-anticipated indy film with hardcore sex:
Continue reading ... Ceci N'est Pas Une Porn: John Cameron Mitchell's "Shortbus".
Every since Veoh did a 180 on their pro-adult user agreement a few weeks ago and yanked all porn suddenly, a couple of adult-friendly video clip hosting sites have started vying for gay porn-hungry eyes. The verdict's still out for me on which one I like the best -- especially since none have become a mega porn storehouse in the way that YouTube is for music videos. That's why I'm hoping that y'all will chime in on the comments section with your experiences and impressions of these sites (especially any technical issues you may have encountered: I've heard stories of these embedded clips not working for some, and even crashing people's browsers.) 1. VideoEgg
Continue reading ... YouTube vs. Video Egg vs. PornoTube: Thoughts?.
If you're feeling scrawny or flabby or in any way dysmorphic about your bod, you might want to skip over this round up of the best, most unabashedly narcissistic muscle worship clips currently playing on the YouTube. 1: Mark Dalton stuffs his big business into a charmeuse bikini. The lycra boxer briefs weren't gay enough, I guess ...
Continue reading ... YouTube Round Up: Viva Bigorexia!.
He's also been fingered as the "ringleader" of the division -- bringing at least two other soldiers to Dink and starring in two films himself. For the first time, they've released a photo, but I don't recognize him from any of the Active Duty stuff I've seen (thank god it's not Cole though!) Can anyone out there confirm him as "Donnie" or seen any of his movies? Click Continue for a bigger image of Wesley ...
Continue reading ... Gay Porn "Ringleader" Charged.
Last week I posted a link to Gabriel Knight's video for "Was It Something That I Said?" on YouTube. The video was a montage of images from Wet Palms, and the song was written and composed by Knight, who plays Lucky Hanson on The WP. The song really started to grow on me, and I guess I wasn't the only one: within two days over 8,000 people viewed it. Then YouTube pulled it for violating their terms of use -- not the gay sex, bu the depictions of drug usage (take a few minutes surfing around YouTube and see just how hilariously random that decision was). Anyway, Jet Set was nice enough to send over a link to the video on their servers, so we don't have to worry about it going anywhere anytime soon ...
Continue reading ... Gay Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'N Roll: Wet Palms Video Returns.
A requisite YouTube-related entry, our top five clips for the week run the gamut from vaguely homoerotic to out-and-out porn. 1. Dorm Room Jerk Off: So quintessential YouTube, it's pracitally already a cliche: A buff college boy jerks off, like, in his, er, dorm room (first spotted on NakedCityBoys).
Continue reading ... GayPorn BoobTube: YouTube HumpDay TopFive.
The massive success of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain unleashed waves of speculation as to what porn puns would follow -- with plenty of people offering there own ideas. Can you the three pornos currently in production from two "audience suggested" fakes?
1. Bareback Mountain Answers after the jump...
Continue reading ... Bareback Mountain: Gay Cowboys Unleashed!.
Raging Stallion is hot on his trail, however - and I'm not talking about their mutual fondness for models of color. You can download the trailer clips for Michael Brandon's latest video, Hard as Wood in full iPod video glory here. Finally, porn on public transit! Glory be! -- Mike
/> I've since found a few that I like. DeliverMale.com, which recently acquired Ohghurl.com, my previous fave, making it the biggest gay adult DVD rental site with the broadest, most up-to-date selection. Highly recommended -- especially if you get embarrassed renting porn at the local mom and pop. But what's in it for you, you ask? Funny you should ask! They're offering GPB readers a free trial -- just enter the promo code "GPB3946" at check out. Inviting your mailman into your home to watch some just-delivered porn is the easiest way to get him into bed. It's a little know fact that most of the men in my family -- at one point or another drove trucks. Big, fat 18-wheelers; my dad even had a Mack. So you'll excuse me if I get more than a little excited about COLT Studio head John Rutherford's latest project -- the just-finished-filming trucker fantasy, Big Rig. Inspired by real-life truckers (one of whom phoned in to Sirius Radios's OUTQ Derek and Romaine Show and offered use of his rig).
Continue reading ... 'Big' Tease: Buckshot Calls In Truckers.
At age 25, he's truly an inspiration to us all. I can only dream to have achieved 1/2 of what he's done by the time I'm his age! -- Jack
And if that's not enough I'm hoping to also make an appearance there too. Fun times, fun times. -- Jack
- Mike
Free gay porn is perhaps the most tangible benefit of being a gay porn blogger and gay porn reviewer. It's also a chore -- sorting through thousands of fair-to-middling titles, looking for something new or noteworthy -- which is why we were so excited earlier this month to see Mutiny from Dark Alley Media. Fleshbot, our favorite partner in porno, is doing us one better and giving away autographed copies of the nouveau vague sailor sex-a-thon with a New Yorker-style captioning contest. Coming up with a caption for pornographic puzzle isn't the easiest task -- porn isn't the subtlest of mediums -- but we're sure you're up for it. - Mike Gay porn can lead to some pretty heated arguments. This weekend I found myself debating the intricacies of the uniform fetishes and, oddly, whether uniforms -- gay cop porn in particular -- denote a subordinate fetish of BDSM or if it's more accurately labeled a genre of its own. The gay porn video that spurred it on -- Tag Adams' Caught ... But Not Arrested (All Worlds Video) -- embraces the contradiction in its title. Gay men will do anything to get out of the ticket. It's easy to see why gay cops and gay police an enduring subject for gay pornographers. Not only is it convenient to have handcuffs, night-sticks and uniforms already built into the sex scene, but once you see the flashing lights in your rear-view, you know where the sex is headed going. Boy meets boy, boy pulls over boy, boy fucks his way out of a night in prison after a frustrating period of protesting too much. This year has already seen a number of high profile gay porns with cop themes (Michael Lucas' Czech flavored Juvie Boys, Chi Chi LaRue's Hole Patrol). And with Scott Peterson, Robert Blake and Michael Jackson all facing stiff sentences, it'd be odd if I wasn't obsessed with life behind bars. When I'm I gonna see the gay porn version of The Great Escape? -- Mike
-- Jack
Jeff Stryker did runway for Thierry Mugler years ago. Mark Dalton modeled underwear for Raymond Dragon, ( Mister Dragon is no stranger to porn), and lest we forget John Bartlett got (straight) male model Brad Kroenig to pretend he was a porn star and drop trou on his runway last year. Jeremy Penn modeled for the short-lived Tom of Finland Clothing line (that is, clothes inspired by the legendary porn artiste - click on the previous link for a picture of Mr. Penn looking tough), and maybe also A&F, but don't, like, quote me on that. I even spied Marcus Iron on the runway last year for SF-based menswear designer D. Romero. Oh, and of course Michael Lucas started his career doing runway and print in Europe before he defected to the US. I mean, it makes sense: Porn stars have nice bodies and, well, most fashion designers are big nelly queens anyway. -- Jack
In the meantime, we appreciate your patience while we try to recover the past month and a half worth of entries. Should you need porn immediately, get to NakedSword.com or RealGuyPics.com. Those of need of snarky comments and salacious chat should get thee to Gay Sex Blog, or the always charming Fleshbot. -- Mike Will your family buy you gay porn? No. Your lover? Doubtful? Us. Um, yeah. But the deadline is Wednesday at midnight. Three months of all-you-can-watch gay porn courtesy of NakedSword.com. All you have to do is write a short essay on your favorite members of Naked Sword's Dream Team. Runners-up get the first three episodes of Wet Palms, in case we haven't already bullied you into watching it. In case you haven't already, vote in the NakedSword poll, or take a look a the guys in the gallery. (Oh, and btw, the entries we've gotten are rad (and sometimes a little crazy) but, um, good show fellas!) Porn star-activist-redhead Will Clark (left) is turning up the heat tonight in New York with the conclusion of his “Porn Idol” contest at the O.W. bar. He’s the ringmaster – well, the cockring master, for the grand finale in which amateur beefcake pump their stuff. Wonder if fellow New Yorker will be Michael Lucas sneaking in to steal the talent? -- Mike
When MTV gets going with the gay LOGO network next March, I doubt we'll see anything as remotely sexy as John Rutherford's high-end Johnny Brosnan/George Vidanov starrer. Filmed in Greece, produced in the US, on TV in France. I guess it's true that the language of love knows no bounds. And while currently, Pink TV has stuck to a diet of gay porn and pop culture (Wonder Woman, So Graham Norton), maybe we need to call Vivendi or CanalPlus or someone, somewhere in France about Wet Palms. The boys would love to get their fan mail in French. Meanwhile, HBO subscribers are getting a taste of the good life last night with Thinking XXX, a behind the scenes look at the making of the hottest coffee table book ever. -- Mike
Baby, don't you worry about the haters. -- Mike I dunno ... Lloyd Banks, Ty Lattimore -- you never seen them in the same place at the same time. I'm not saying, I'm just sayin' ... -- Jack How many times has Sally had to say, "It's pronounced man-geena"? (thx. Sparks) Randy government-funded Australian researchers have concluded that daily porn consumption is an essential part of a healthy media diet according to the Manila Bulletin Online. ''When you look at people who are using it in everyday life, over 90 per cent report it has had a very positive effect,'' author Alan McKee said. Hot. Reminds me of my Aunt Eileen, a jeroboam of cheap Bordeaux and researched-based alcoholism. Bottoms Up! -- Mike In case the 10,000 banners I put up didn't hit you over the head enough, I'll repeat: NakedSword.com is supplying GayPornBlog with free gay porn clips every day. Five to be exact. Totally, like, free and stuff. No catch other than we want to get you hooked and coming back every day for more. And they're good (most of the time ... heh heh heh). Check them out by clicking here (or any of the banners to the left). I've been meaning to post something about Juanita MORE!, one of San Francisco's most enigmatic drag muses, and her completely hot "Booty Call" photos, which feature sexy boys in various states of undress in her apartment, but then the boys at Banana Guide beat me to it. Check it out and then check her out and then buy a print or a T-shirt. -- Jack
Continue reading ... Gay Porn Shoot: Wet Palms, Day 6.
-- Mike I guess it's big cock week at Gay Porn Blog. The gay porn natives are restless and no one can seem to agree with me on my selections for the largest cock in porn. Furthermore, the voting on the last porn poll is being compared to a Florida Erection. Send me your suggestions. A new poll to be posted later today. -- Mike
Continue reading ... Porn Star Dick-lexia: Chad Hunt vs. Chad Donovan.
Check, please! Factory Video's hirsute hit Furry Fuckers: 56k|100k|350k (free gay porn clips courtesy NakedSword.com) The appeal of surfers is hard to miss: tight, lean bodies, sun-baked skin and the thick pendulous cocks that help keep balance astride a wave. Plus, they've always got the best weed.
There's so much surfer trade in the Body Shoppe's Southern California Surfers series that it makes you really wish the summer were endless. Of course, if you're looking for something a little lighter, Laguna Adventure isn't a bad place to finish. It's populated with seafoamed covered twinks acting up over Spring Break. Talk about Guys Gone Wild! If this isn't a fetish, it should be. -- Mike
Jeers to neo-fascist censorship movements. Someone, like, call Michael Moore or something. According to MSNBC, the crazy kids behind Girls Gone Wild are producing a new reality porn line called Guys Gone Wild aimed at "college-aged girls" and, oh yeah, gay guys. Look for drunken frat boys dangling their limp trade in your mailbox any day now. (Thanks for the tip, Sis.) -- Mike
Continue reading ... Guys Gone Wild: Gay Porn Gets Mainstream.
While on the subject of gay porn, the aptly named "always available" guys at Video 10 got their shit tore up last Gay Pride. Take a look see at how this year compares. Now -- having distracted you with twinks -- I'm off to find myself a sweet hot daddy. -- Mike Arnold is holding a phone poll vote on the issue of same-sex marriage. Call and "let your voice be heard," if only to piss off Mike and his personal-as-political fear of commitment. Anyway, here's what you do: Call (916) 445-2841 (then this faggy voice thanks you for voting.) Sadly his Mapplethorpe sessions are not listed as a hot topic. -- Jack I called, but only because I want Ryan Seacrest to take Dunkleman back into his arms. As for Jack, he's got paper dress syndrome -- he marries quicker than Jennifer Lopez and divorces as readily as Drew Barrymore. -- Mike
1. Orlando Bloom's Rug 2. Mary-Kate & Ashley
4. Wet Palms 5. Buckle-Roos While it's no doubt pretty tame in comparison to the things that come across my desk, I have to admit to getting titillated by the prospect of real naked college jocks. Ivy League no less! Harvard's "first sex magazine," H-Bomb, hit select Cambridge newsstands amid much fanfare and a lukewarm reception by critics. (Ok, critics being my pal Ralph, who's obsession with printed matter caused him to fork over $14 for a two issue subscription.) I'll take his word and pass: "Even though they're Harvard kids, they are still just kids. Dorky college kids are dorky no matter where they go." Lesion learned: Tame things are perceived as more sexually provocative when they come from the places we don't expect them to come from. --Jack I can't say that the porn community will mourn the loss of the man who famously refused to utter the phrase AIDS and unleashed the obscenity obsessed Meese Commission on us lowlife smut-peddlers. I remember when I was a kid watching stolen VHS tapes, they'd always start with a call to arms to protect free speech. You'd fast forward most of the time, but you still got it drilled into my head that I might be forced to defend my right to bust nut. Looking at the justice department's docket this fall, it looks like we're going to have to again. And I can't wait. I can't think of a better industry to defend. I'm dedicating my afternoon nutbust to John Ashcroft and his breast covering crusade. Viva la resistance! -- Mike
But I was picking up birthday gifts for this one this afternoon and I realized that it's just the yearly eruption, the fiery birth of the Class of 2004, all bright-eyed and bursting with dew. And the mall was packed. It's enough to make you melt. (There was even a sweet-assed jock on the bus reading a yearbook. A fucking yearbook! It was too much, really. I think I'm developing allergies.) In that vein/vain, I offer you smutty pictures of self-exploiting youth in need of some extra cash. Happy graduation, perverts. --Mike Just when I was about to crown Penelope Cruz "Beard of the Year,"* I came across this rara avis -- a mutton-chopped Mormon missionary! The scruffy lad is forced to carry a "beard card" (available by prescription only, I kid you not!) when on the BYU campus. I bet Sandra Bullock keeps hers in a Swarovski -studded clutch. I think Tony Randall's wife may have a spare for sale. -- Mike *I do not mean to imply that either Tom Cruise or Matthew McConaughey prefers the company of gay men. Only that the women they date seem to.
Happy Memorial Day weekend, yo!
Get a good look at some of the hot action (Michael Brandon limp! Inappropriate touching! Outre sexual personae!) in these vacation photos. It sure looked better than my weekend. At your own risk: 56k | 150k | 350k -- Mike The Netflix way of DVD renting is great for a lazy-ass like myself, (one monthly fee, rent all the videos you want, free shipping, no late fees, etc, etc, etc) but if they were smart they'd follow OhGhurl's example and only carry gay porn. Isn't that all anyone rents anyway? Oh, and girls, the management team at OhGhurl.com (aka my friend Ryan) was nice enough to give GPB readers a ten-day free trial. Enter the code "GPB0527" on the signup page. (Do I get my free account now, Ryan?) -- Jack I spent the weekend in New York at a wedding. Not only was it creepy and Stepford-stylie, but midway through the service the bride and groom left the alter to pray to Madonna for children. What's next -- praying to Oprah for prosperity? Somebody stop me. Anyhow, I was left with the foul taste of heterosexual monogamy in my mouth and I could only pray to St. Courtney for blessing me with a job in gay pornography. I could rant on like Aunt Ida but honestly I'd rather have some cock. The modern battle between cock and companionship dominates the table talk in the fourth installment of Michael Lucas' stellar Fire Island Cruising series. The legendary Russian porn star tackles the age-old question of gay relationships -- all the while tackling his houseguests' temptations with a lengthy buffet of hot gay sex. -- Mike As part of a larger HIV awareness campaign, Titan's about to unveil a kick-ass new safer sex outdoor ad campaign in San Francisco just in time for gay pride featuring hot-as-hell Ben Jakks. The ads alone will cost Titan an estimated $10,000+ ... perhaps proving they're willing to put their money where their mouth is about their commitment to raising awareness of HIV prevention. See also: -- Jack Like the editors of Fleshbot, we had no idea who this Darius character was either, but any hot 21-year-old Scottish pop star who wears a kilt and no underwear is sure to make us prick up our ears (to borrow a perfectly innocent expression from that part of the world). Darius Exposed (on Fleshbot) --Jack I guess a guy really can't get a break these days. And what about the truckers? Does no one speak for them? -- Mike Personally I'm going to hold off until they show me the anal cream pie. In 2002 my best friend and longtime creative partner, Jack, proposed I move back to San Francisco from New York. His suggestion that we to focus our collective energy in the gay porn industry - has proved both more challenging and more rewarding than either of us could have imagined. Jack and I were lucky. Though we were sequestered in a small Connecticut town whose video store hadn't updated it's gay porn section since 1992, we did manage to get our paws on some of the true classics of the medium, the work of the greats. Rick Donovans topping of Matt Ramsey in The Bigger the Better (see 5/3/04 Movie of the Week for more on this). Jeff Strykers foul-mouthed seduction of a rain drenched Mike Henson in In Hot Pursuit. Joey Stefanos ecstasy-fueled bottoming in French Kiss. Ryan Idols testosterone-fueled ass eating (and pounding) in Idol Country. Good stuff.
Continue reading ... Gay Porn Blog: Porn Again!.
Watch the fun for yourself here, or get your own butch makeover watching the Top 5 leather gay porn movies at NakedSword.com: 1. Skuff by Hot House. Starring: Kyle Reardon, Kyle McKenna, Jason Ryder, Tom Matthews, Doug Jeffries, Tristan Paris, Gunnar Nielson, Daryl Brock, Tony Zerega, Jason Branch, Marcus Iron, Blake Rodgers Jonny McGovern, the "Gay Pimp", has a new music video. He's the same Gay Pimp that did the Soccer Practice video that everyone was talking about last year. It looks cute, watch it. Mayor of New York town marries gay couples
Friday, February 27, 2004
(02-27) 10:08 PST NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) -- Up to a dozen gay couples began exchanging wedding vows on the steps of village hall Friday in a spirited ceremony that opened another front on the growing national debate over gay marriage. Officiating was Jason West, the 26-year-old Green Party mayor in this village 75 miles north of New York City, who joined Gavin Newsom of San Francisco as the country's only mayors to marry same-sex couples. "What we're witnessing in America today is the flowering of the largest civil rights movement the country's had in a generation," West said. Billiam van Roestenberg, 38, and Jeffrey McGowan, 39, were the first to wed to the cheers of the crowd. Wearing suits, they held hands and carried flowers. "I feel happy and joyful and peaceful," van Roestenberg said. "A little bit of peace has finally come in. I feel proud to be an American." "Now I'm normal and equal like every one else," he said. More than 100 people, mostly supporters of gay marriage, turned out on the green across from village hall, outnumbering family and friends of the couples there to marry. A few scattered protesters carried signs opposing gay marriage. Jay Blotcher of High Falls, N.Y., said that while West could only give him a certificate and not a marriage license, it was still important to go through the ceremony. "We have to show people who we are," he said. "We've been badmouthed by religious zealots. We've been deprived by President Bush and we have to show people that we're your friends, neighbors and family." One protester stood outside the hall with a sign that read, in part, "It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve." "It's against nature," Angelo Da'Quaro said. "It's against religion, it's against all of that." The ceremonies came a day after the state Health Department said New York's domestic relations law does not allow marriage licenses for same-sex couples. It said a clerk issuing such a license or anyone solemnizing such a marriage would be violating state law. West and some legal experts said they read the law differently. "For a marriage to be legal in this state all that's required is for it to be properly solemnized by someone with authority to do so," West told the CNN cable network early Friday. "I'm fully able to do that." Vincent Bonventre, a professor at Albany Law School, said nothing in New York law explicitly prohibits same-sex weddings, but that the framers "clearly were contemplating opposite-sex marriages." Discussion of gay marriage heated up this month after the top Massachusetts court ruled that anything less than full-fledged marriage for gays there would be unconstitutional. Since then, San Francisco officials have performed more than 3,400 same-sex marriages and have challenged their state law barring such unions. Earlier this week, President Bush endorsed a movement to amend the Constitution to ban the practice. A bill in the New York Legislature would ban same-sex marriages. Similar bills have died without action in the past. At least 34 states have enacted so-called defense of marriage laws. www.villageofnewpaltz.org
The show is called "Flop" and his medium is to take photos of things on TV and make a colage out of it. He also made colages out of stacks and stacks of 3 by 5 notecards that were once his "to do" lists. There is definitely some irony in John Waters touring his art shows around after poking fun at the art world in "Pecker". And speaking of peckers... Has John Waters been an influence on porn? I'd say he's probably the BIGGEST influence in the way porn has evolved, especially in the beginning. Put a group of gay men together for a few hours, and at least one reference to a John Waters film will inevitably come up. ("My daughter does NOT have bugs! My Tracy is a clean teen!") Quoting John Waters movies is especially prevelant among our little community of rentboys and twisted ex-film students. ("Who wants to be FAMOUS??! Who wants to DIE for art?") I'm sure there are plenty of examples of gay porn movies that were influenced by John Waters movies, at least in the acting style. Off the top of my head, I can think of three 1970's movies: Non-Stop (with a birthday party featuring naked waiters and a drag queen that pops out of casket), Drive (a sadistic drag queen with a plan to rule the world), Casey (Casey Donovan in a dual role as himself and his fairy godmother), and two more recent comedies Porn Academy and Devil Is A Bottom. Watch these movies and tell me the humor didn't get influenced by John Waters. Despite the fact that most new porn movies have no plot at all, I still feel that John Waters encouraged a whole generation of film makers to pick up a camera and shoot something, even if it is low budget. And if you have ever seen Chi Chi LaRue's stage show, I think she'd be the first to admit that she got a lot of her inspiration from Divine, too. I'm sure I'm missing a lot of references and influences to John Waters films, if you think of any, please add your comments.
Had coffee with Drew Warner on Saturday, then ran into him on Sunday at the Fair hanging with Falcon's Matthew Rush (sorry, no picture).
Speaking of the Falcon party, it was big bash for their new two-part release "Drenched", shot in Hawaii, so naturally it was a Hawaiian theme with all the boys in loin cloths.
Chase Hunter, the star of Drenched, was featured in this movie, as it is his return to the business. Apparently, the only thing preventing him from doing movies all these years was a jealous boyfriend, which he no longer has to contend with. Wow! What a weekend, and the Castro Street Fair is only a few days away! This item comes from NewScientist.com via Jonno (my hero!): Masturbating may protect against prostate cancer Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition. Subscribe and get 4 free issues. It will make you go blind. It will make your palms grow hairy. Such myths about masturbation are largely a thing of the past. But the latest research has even better news for young men: frequent self-pleasuring could protect against the most common kind of cancer. A team in Australia led by Graham Giles of The Cancer Council Victoria in Melbourne asked 1079 men with prostate cancer to fill in a questionnaire detailing their sexual habits, and compared their responses with those of 1259 healthy men of the same age. The team concludes that the more men ejaculate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop prostate cancer. The protective effect is greatest while men are in their twenties: those who had ejaculated more than five times per week in their twenties, for instance, were one-third less likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer later in life (BJU International, vol 92, p 211). |