This is the trailer to a new movie called “Watch Out”. Matt Riddlehoover plays a guy who is basically in love with himself to the exclusion of all others. I know a few guys in Sydney like that, I wonder if they have blow up dolls with their photo on the face?
I found this over at Ethan Says!
I watched “Shelter” this afternoon, starring Trevor Wright as Zach an artist who has sacrificed huge things to help his self absorbed sister look after her son. He finds himself in love with his best mate’s older brother who challenges him to go after what he really wants. It’s a beautifully told story and rings fairly true as a coming out tale.
Brad Rowe plays his love interest and does a good job although he seemed to be too hesitant in the love scenes. I cried a few times in the movie, first when Sean kisses Zach for the first time. It all just seemed so natural and right. As someone that constantly holds out hope for good gay cinema but is frequently disappointed, I was really happy with the way this movie was handled, even if they did use the same footage of Zach pushing his surfboard under a wave about 3 times!
For those of you that are in the U.S. the Logo channel is running a special segment on the gay lifesavers and our participation in the Mardi Gras parade. I’ll find out more about when it’s running and keep you posted.
A few months ago I was one of four people in a music video that was a pretty wild and sexy afternoon. It was also very messy. The video we shot will apparently never make it to air on television because it’s a bit too racy for the music label execs. If my mother ever saw this video she would be torn between happiness and shock. Happy because I’m kissing a girl and licking her nipples etc, but sad because a) I’m doing the same to another guy as well, and b) because I’m doing it publicly. Oops.
Update: Someone has deleted it from Youtube or flagged it as inappropriate. I’ve put it on to dailymotion. We’ll see what happens now.
Last night was an education for me. It was the farewell party for my trapeze teacher who is off to Europe for 10 weeks. We started at a nearby pub with a very mixed crowd but then 5 of us headed to the Sly Fox, the nearby Dyke Bar. The three teachers from my aerial school are dykes from 23 to 35 and I have to say listening to them changed a whole lot of ideas.
The stereotypical view of lesbians is that they move in and live happily ever after in monogamy town for life while we gay boys are supposedly out fucking everything that moves. Two of the girls are in relationships that are pretty rocky and the single one has had two disfunctional monogamous relationships and they were all kissing other people last night who were not their girlfriends, and two of them pashed each other. So much for the U-haul and the beagle.
A while back I posted about appearing in a music video for Seany B. Basically the video was pretty raunchy with two couples engaging in a bisexual food fight orgy. It appears Sony’s lawyers have decided that it’s a bit too provocative to be released. We are hoping that they might allow it on youtube or something, just not on the commercial TV stations.
I still haven’t seen it, but the guy that directed and filmed it says it looks fantastic. I’m hoping to see it in the next few days, but I won’t be able to post it until all the legal stuff is sorted, if ever.
Following the Californian court ruling to overturn the ban on gay marriage I just saw this on Ellen and it made me get a bit teary with happiness. Ellen seems like such an amazing person. All the very best to Ellen and Portia.
What comes to mind when you read the following advertisement that accompanied the above images. Note I’ve blacked out his eyes.
“JO on rails - 48 (philly)
Want age 25-70 guy to come over and jo in my model train room. Mutual touching and stuff but nothing more than that… i’m not gay. It’s all HO scale. Then after you finish you can stomp around and kick the trains and buildings like a monster (don’t break they are my sons) we can do thus until 4 am or until we get tired. Also I have lots of imitation crab meat in my freezer that I need to get rid of so you can have a bunch when you leave. It’s all perfectly good we just got too much!!!”
I’m all for people exploring their fantasies but a few issues strike me about this ad. Mutual touching but he’s not gay? How is he going to explain a trashed train set covered in cum to his son? Why would you buy huge amounts of imitation crab meat and is this how we pay hookers these days?
Every now and then you click on a link that just takes you to a place that opens your eyes a little bit wider. I found this video on youtube of a hot military boy deepthroating a banana. I have to ask why? Why does a straight military boy in an army that doesn’t tolerate gays, feel the need to go along with a video that makes him look like he’s done gay things before? There’s no sign of a gag reflex, lucky bastard. Why, in the list of related videos are there a bunch more straight boys deepthroating bananas? I’m baffled, but oddly aroused.
In these times where Christian fundamentalism and religious bigotry are leaving their mark, I think it’s very important that shows like Grey’s Anatomy and Brothers and Sisters are showing regular guys, being gay and god forbid even kissing. I think the conservative parts of America and Australia and other countries around the world need to see stuff like this to prove that gay men are everywhere, and in every walk of life. And personally, even though this is scripted television, I’m a sucker for a romance.
I’d heard about this from reading blogs but just watched this report in full. It’s so sad that people still use the word “sissy” and trot out that old line, it’s Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve. The fact that the woman called the Emergency Services hotline because two guys were kissing shows remarkable ignorance and bigotry but I guess on a positive note it shows that Baltimore was having a quiet crime day. Perhaps the most disturbing part for me was the guy who said he believes in carrying a gun and that people should be “put down”.
Anthony Larrisey sent me through these images yesterday of this series he’s been working on for a while. Anthony is a brilliant bodypaint artist that has been seen on the pages of Aussielicious a few times before. I can’t imagine how time consuming it must be to paint fishnets on a guy.
This has reminded me of something I saw on a profile on manhunt. Some guy had written “If you wear low v-neck t-shirts and have a drag queen for a friend then we won’t get on and I’m not interested.” Are some guys still so threatened by their own sexuality and full of self-hatred that they can’t chill out and have a bit of fun. I thought as gay men, we’d earned the right to express the feminine side we are supposed to be in touch with, even if it is for a laugh. Personally, I’m fine with the fact that I’m not the most butch thing in the world, nor the most camp and I love a bit of genderfuck theatrics if they are done well.
Over the last few years, one of the things some friends and I’ve discussed, in various groups is people you’d turn for. Whether from straight to gay or gay to straight. One of the women on my list is Michelle Pfeiffer, in a heartbeat.
It all started with this movie. Batman Returns from 1992. I’m not into latex or whips or anything, but damn she just looks so freaking hot. And a woman in a killer pair of stiletto boots, absolutely!
Who would YOU turn for?
KEVIN Rudd has been presented with his first major challenge on gay law reform from within his own party, with ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope challenging him to allow gay and lesbian civil unions in the territory.
Mr Stanhope said the Prime Minister - a self-described social conservative - should allow the move, arguing that if Mr Rudd could demand China respect the human rights of Tibetans he should defend the rights of his own citizens at home.
Read the full article here.
Luke McFarlane from Brothers & Sisters has officially come out after much speculation. He chose an interview with Canadas Globe & Mail to end the speculation.
“Though no secret to his family and close friends, Macfarlane has, until now, been guarded about his personal life as a gay man. Over lunch in Los Angeles, where he lives, he initially insists that he has no concerns about his public revelation - but a few seconds later he is shifting nervously in his chair, and concedes that he is ‘terrified.’ … ‘I don’t know what will happen professionally … that is the fear, but I guess I can’t really be concerned about what will happen, because it’s my truth.”
I’m genuinely pleased that more and more actors are coming out and I hope that it shows a growing acceptance and understanding by the wider community. Now we just need to wait and see if these actors are given straight roles or typecast as the gay friend.