Boing!!
Still showing a little too much...
Take it off, Tyson!!!
Umm...what is he hoping she'll do with that...?!
While you were busy not noticing, America's two most important gay magazines--The Advocate and Out--got extreme makeovers.
Formerly owned by gay.com parent company Planet Out, the magazines seemed for years to be searching for their identities (yes, we see the irony) and going all-out commercial. That's one thing for Out, which is putting itself, well, out there (punny, huh?); but The Advocate began as just that: a periodical publication created to support sexual minorities. So why, then, were straight celebrities featured on so many of their covers?
The identities of these magazines is important to LGBT people, even if we don't read them regularly. Or at least my parents thought so when they gave me a huge, four-pound volume of a book called Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement. Never a student of history, I was momentarily puzzled until it hit me like a ton of feather boas: This was their way of saying, We still love you, We still accept you, And you do have a history, And you do have a future.
No, really. It's true: The straight world knows about these magazines; it's one of their associations with gay people (if not necessarily with the spectrum of "others").
I've been cynical for so long--too cynical to really care about anything or believe in anyone. Last night's speech by Barack Obama actually changed that; I finally feel hopeful, and I really feel like things--all things--have the potential to change for the better.
Planet Out no longer has a stranglehold on The Advocate and Out, and we're encouraged by The Advocate's most recent issue--the one that features Barack Obama's beaming smile of hope on its over--and the forthcoming one, which will feature a lot of skin...and a discussion of body image in the LGBT population.
Yes, a lot of the guys (and girls) are typically hot--and many are typically typical.
Guess what the point is?
Gay guys, lesbians, transgender people love parts of their bodies, hate other parts. In other words, they're just like everyone else.
(Uh, except those straight guys who really do not care who they offend with the fertile wildernesses of their bodies. Seriously, WTF?!)
Anyway, The Advocate's new Editor in Chief Jon Barrett has worked for Oprah (O at Home magazine) and Real Simple, and he seems to be steering this vitally important magazine in the right direction. With a new focus on up-to-date online content (and plenty of skin), go to theadvocate.com for the hotness and stick around for a while to see the changes that are occurring--including thoughtful coverage of the historic presidential election year.
As we all know, James Franco plays a male prostitute in a new movie. In his new GQ interview, he tells about his "research" involving sitting shirtless in a corner of a room while watching an old man and two man whores get it on while snorting coke.
We can't decide--does this make Franco hotter or totally gross??
Here's an excerpt:
"There was a strip club on Bourbon Street. I had only ever been to one strip club before I went to New Orleans to do that movie. But I started going to every strip club. There was one they advertise as 'Live Sex Shows' and I went in there and met a male stripper who said he was straight and that he serviced men and women. I later found out he didn't really tell the truth all the time. But I thought he was a good model for my part. And he was the guy I hung out with the most. He would do lap dances for people, and then in between we hung out in the back. So I was with him one night and this other guy came in. And this guy came in and said to my friend, 'Hey, man, I need you for a job right now—this guy wants two.' And he said, 'I'm hanging out with James doing research for this movie.' And the guy says, 'You're doing research? Okay. You want to do real research. You're going to come down, come to the hotel. This guy's so out of his mind on coke, he won't even know what's going on. You just sit in the corner in the chair, take your shirt off, sit there, you can watch the whole thing.' I said, 'Okay.' "
GQ asks the actor if he wasn't a bit worried about what he was getting himself into?
"Yeah. Heck, yes. But then I thought, 'Well, this is real research. I've got to do this for the role, man, I've got to do this.' But yeah, it was terrifying. Especially when I get there—this guy was a doctor, apparently. He was an older man. And they whip out the cocaine and they start doing cocaine on the desk and I'm like—am I incriminating myself? I mean, I didn't do any of the cocaine. Okay? I just went there to observe. So that was scary. It was in a nice hotel. The guy who took us over had a key to the room. So he just opened up and the doctor is just lying in the bed. And he wasn't completely naked when we got in there, but he certainly got naked."
GQ: And so where in the room did you go?
"I was just standing over near the desk. And they all got in the bed and, I mean, he was out of his head. He was so high on cocaine, I guess, or drunk or whatever, and he was saying, like, 'Oh, my wife and daughters are coming tomorrow, but this is great.' It was the first time I ever saw a cock ring. He put on a cock ring. And then they both kind of like stood over him, and the guy was, like, stroking both of them and he was like, 'Ah, all these cocks, I love these cocks.' " (Later, Franco would tell Cage about all this, and it would become the inspiration for when Cage's character in the movie, a pimp called Acid Yellow, snorts a line and then declares, "I love coke cock.")
GQ: And did you take your shirt off to, so to speak, be in the vibe?
"Yeah, I guess I had my shirt off."
GQ: You must have felt: This is a very weird thing to see.
"It was. It was mixed, because on one hand, it was scary, strange to be there—you know, I've done bad things and I have been arrested but I have never been in that situation. So I was feeling all that, but then on the other hand it is just like a human interaction, so there's none of the movie music going on to heighten the situation. And so it had this strange, you know, casualness to it. Just people having sex, or about to have sex, and there I am standing in the room, you know. And so that was weird."
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Seriously.
JT's best friend and business partner (they design clothes together), Trace Ayala, must've been hard-up for some press, because he just told inTouch the gayest thing ever:
"I see the kid naked all the time, so if he is wearing a Speedo, I'm like 'Yeah! He actually has clothes on!" Trace, 27, tells In Touch about Justin donning a tiny, skintight bathing suit in his latest flick, The Love Guru.....Trace says he approves of the singer's girlfriend, Jessica Biel. "You know, I have never seen him with anyone like that - ever,"...Trace also told In Touch that Jessica helps the pair with their denim designs."
Um hello...details?!?
Happy birthday to the only 45 year old in the world who can get away with calling himself "Johnny"!
From WinterTypppe, behold: Gilles Marini, who gives good ass in the unnecessary feature film version of Sex and the City.
We said unnecessary, not bad! Everything about the original SATC was gratuitous, so we have nothing against a gratuitous movie version!
Nathan Lane to a naked Cheyenne Jackson: "My God, you're HUGE!"
Is Xanadu too gay??
Preposterous!!
This video makes us fall in love with Olivia Newton-John all over again...and besides Ms. Pac Man, she's the only hetero crush we've ever had! Nothing gay about it!
Little Peter is 29 today!
In honor of his birthday, we've posted his best-ever photoshoot, self-styled, below. Click to see it grow!
Tom Ford's new ad campaigns features a lot of serious nudity. Not bare asses, but bare everything.
We like the photos, but we wonder: what exactly is Tommy Boy selling?
Head over to EthanSays for a few more shots...mostly boobs.
Some screen caps from Showtime's salacious The Tudors, in which JRM plays Henry VIII.
No Little Henry sightings yet, but if this is all we can get--we'll take it!!
JMack with ANTM's Nigel Barker
JMack's superboobies!
He's a star!
We're honestly not sure exactly what's going on here.
Or here.
Eff Project Runway! He's already a winner!
...and sooo hot...
...and sooo sensitive....
...and sooo intense...
...and sooo...pumped!
And bare!
And ____________________.
[Fill in the blank yourself. You're on your own for the rest of these.]
Happy 39th birthday to hot Taurus, brilliant designer, reality TV star and AIDS activist Jack Mackenroth!
Jack is arguably the most visible Project Runway candidate ever, or at least is in fierce competition for that title with current winner Christian Siriano, which is ironic since Jack had to leave the show halfway through the season due to illness.
Well, there's no question Jack is back and, er, bigger than ever!
We love you, Jack, and we hope you come back to the show next season despite its move to Lifetime, which still calls itself "television for women."
Jack is enough man for all of us! Wish Jack a happy birthday on his MySpace page!
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