Q-Seattle Events: Tacky Tourist Clubs

Still not sure where to show off that fabulous costume you're preparing on the long weekend/week of Halloween. Well, be sure to add another destination -- or even your main destination down in Belltown at Jai Thai [get directions], 2132 First Ave. at Blanchard.

That's where Seattle Black Pride will present this year's Halloween Carnivale from 9:30 pm until 2 am on Saturday, October 27.

SBP urges you to "Be Creative, Be Sexy, Be Scary. Just Be There." And, of course, there will be prizes for the most creative costumes with cash prizes of $150, $100, and $50 for the top three contestants.

But to really get an idea of what the party is likely to be like, check out SBP's great gallery of party pics from last year's Carnivale. We can't link to the gallery directly, but you can find it on the SBP home page at the bottom of the "Events" menu.

To further confuse yourself with the wealth of Halloween options, be sure to check out Bill W's typically comprehensive Halloween listing in the left column at GaySeattle.blogspot.com.

Note: This post is mirrored from seaQwa.com.

Labels: Gay events, gay party, Gay Seattle, org:SBP, photos, Seattle, shirtless hunk

We (your editorially plural but otherwise singular WebWrangler) were so embarrassed by the delay in getting pictures up from this year's Queen City Cruise, that we almost let this weekend's mass drop of photos go by without comment.

After all, Fall has come way early this year and it's difficult by now to even imagine the spirit of such an event. But there they are. Remember that? Ahh! Summertime. To make up for our insufferable delay and to account for the recent explosion of cameras, we've made this year's collection bigger than ever.

It's a great collection. We thank everyone who sent us images, and especially Antonio Gonzales (definitely not the xAG AG) who gave us a wonderful group to choose from this year. You'll also find images from Dan Lane, Jim Cash, Marcy Kraft, Tom Poppie, Scott Cammack, Emo, Jeff Thompson. "Neil" NLM sent us some great ones (which, to be fair, have been displayed since early September) including that great shot of Moms Finley. And -- yeah -- Robin Evans contributed, too.

And, yes, we probably missed a few of the great shots in the collections. We'll probably go through again and maybe add a fourth index, but we're not promising anything.

Labels: fundraisers, gay party, Gay Seattle, Seattle, shirtless hunk

Each day, we peruse various sources of news bits about queer folk to find interesting stories. We post headlines and summaries (for now) over on a service that depends on the flaky interaction between two flaky services, Squidoo (which allows users to build a pre-formatted page on any topic that strikes the fancy) and Blinklist. (That's one of many "social bookmark" sites. Most do what they do better than that one, but we use it -- despite its frequent bugs -- because it provides the best tools we've found for the unique way we use it).

[This blog will move along with those news digests to a new news site in about, oh... late September. There's nothing there just yet.]

As we scan the headlines, we occasionally come across a "Well, Duh!" story that's presented as something else entirely. One of those cropped up today from the LA Daily News sports section. News staff writer Greg Hernandez ledes [but we'll add the links]:

When David Beckham finally started in a game for the Galaxy on Wednesday night, the event didn't just make the front pages of mainstream newspapers and sports Web sites. It also warranted the posting of a shirtless photo of the soccer star on Kenneth Walsh's gay-themed blog.

Mr. Hernandez then recounts a good-natured investigation why this might happen. Money quote from Outsports.com CEO Jim Buzinski:

"When it comes to visuals in sports, gay men and straight men are very similar except for the genders that we look at," Buzinski said. "Men are more visual. So we are just doing what mainstream sites do but we are catering to our audiences."

And, of course -- since sports writers must often write "Well, duh!" stories and become masters of the art, Hernandez recognizes the "well, duh!" moment for what it is by summarizing: "Men are men".

Another of those stories cropped up over the weekend when we came across a Reuter's headline, "Merv Griffin died a closeted homosexual". The news service had picked up the story from Hollywood Reporter writer Ray Richmond, who once worked for Griffin. When we first ran across it, we muttered, "Well, duh!", but decided not to post it in our digest.

The story would probably have made a few ripples in the blogosphere as it did when -- along a few others -- local blogger "Rad Ass Homo" scolded the industry mag, "I say shame shame to the Hollywood Reporter -- they should know better or at least have some respect...This could of ran a week later or something..."

Richmond's story had been scooped by a meatier posting about Griffin's closet on the blog of outing-meister Michelangelo Signorile, who offers reasons why Griffin's choice to remain in the closet was not just a personal matter. Among the examples:

Griffin's closet had him firing gay men who'd actually made it up through the ranks of his own company, simply because they were openly gay. There is a story in Queer in America about a man identified as "The Mogul" who did just that. I can now reveal that The Mogul is Merv Griffin. Open homosexuality is a threat to the closeted, and powerful people in the closet like Merv Griffin will often do whatever it takes to squash those who are open and who might advocate that all among the powerful should come out.

But Richmond's story turned from "Well, duh!" to "Taa Daa!" later in the day when Reuters dropped it from its entertainment feed. Even the original source, Hollywood Reporter, briefly dropped the story from its site on Saturday. And all of that saying-and-not-saying in the age of the web, along with reactions to it, was enough for Signorile blogger Kevin Allman (who's been all over the background story) to give the affair a name: "MervGate." *

We had another "Well, duh?" moment this morning when we saw something in BoingBoing about the gay papa of departing "Bush brain" Karl Rove. Since the 2006 book, The Architect had identified Rove's step-father as gay, this is a "more to the story" take on the "Well, duh?" theme. According to a BMEzine [NSFW] editor quoted by BoingBoing essayist Xeni Jardin, "Karl Rove's father was not only gay, but a part of the early body piercing scene and a regular at 70s piercing parties... There are pictures of him on BME."

Adding new details is always a good reason to resurrect an old story. [Just like quoting a story about gay blogs posting beefcake of straight athletes is an adequate reason to, well... post beefcake of straight athletes.]

* [Update:] Allman link to "MervGate" added after he added a helpful comment. Thanks.

Labels: blog-on-blog, celebrities, link bites, shirtless hunk

The New York Fire Department (which, of course, is known as "FDNY" rather than the other initials which could be pronounced as a not-encouraging word) has cancelled a fundraising effort that last year raised over $150,000 for the department.

It's all the fault of "a series of gay blogs" according to news reports. Those blogs were atwitter last week when a non-profit foundation released its annual calendar featuring FDNY firefighters posing shirtless, but innocently for the cameras.

The calendar itself wasn't the problem. Instead, what "embarrassed" department officials was an unrelated video that made the rounds on the blogs showing the chosen cover boy for this year's calendar in a more far more revealing, but still quite innocent interaction with the all-female crew making the first "Guys Gone Wild" DVD.

The New York Post has fun with its description of the clip:

The embarrassing video of 22-year-old firefighter Michael Biserta of Brooklyn's Ladder Co. 131 and his enormous member is featured in the 2004 Joe Francis-produced DVD "Guys Gone Wild."

The video clip began to circulate when Biserta appeared on the 2008 calendar that went on sale Tuesday.

In the clip, the female camera operators goad Biserta to show them his fire pole.

When they ask him to dance for them or get up on the bed, he refuses, but does agree to get in the hotel room's shower in the nude.

Biserta also, we should point out, reluctantly agrees to show that his "fire pole" will fit all the way around his wrist as a kind of bracelet after a good-natured, feeble protest that "you girls are a bad influence on me."

"This -- this," says an only slightly embarrassed Biserta in the clip, "is the craziest thing I've ever done."

We think it's even a stretch to call the video "salacious" as the New York Daily News does in its story.

The FDNY was caught off-guard by the DVD, which came to light after the latest firefighter calendar was printed and the shirtless firemen appeared on NBC's "Today" show.

Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta responded to the salacious developments by prohibiting city firefighters from ever posing for the charity calendar, which is published by the FDNY Fire Foundation.

But please, judge for yourself. The site and the page aren't anywhere close to safe-for-work, but it's only fair to direct you to PornForPatric's post about the calendar that includes (if you wait long enough for the inevitable server delay) the video clip in question. Fleshbot also linked, but apparently lost access their version of the video clip. They do, however, offer several stills. Andy Towle linked to those posts an others on his widely read news blog, Towleroad.

That was all, apparently, a bit too much for FDNY officials, but we don't understand how exactly any of this should be embarrassing to the department.

In fact, at least one of his fellow firefighters seems to be similarly non-offended, according to the Daily News

One of Biserta's fellow Bravest at the Lorraine Ave. firehouse was amused by his colleague's lewd past.

"Nice," the firefighter said, flashing a thumbs-up.

Labels: blog-on-blog, link bites, shirtless hunk

We've mentioned a couple of other art exhibits that open this month, but one that looks to us like it belongs at the top of any intinerary is Queer Eyes 3, a photography exhibit that opens June 10 at Art/Not Terminal gallery at 2045 Westlake Ave [get directions].

A group of 12 notable local photographers will be showing their work at the in the "Subterranean Room" of the gallery. The exhibit runs through July 3 and features a special "Pride Reception" on Saturday, June 23 from 7 to 10 pm.

The third annual exhibition of photographs by members of Image Collective, a group of amateur and professional gay male photographers from the Seattle area. More than just a way to spotlight the work of the individual artists, the show is a celebration of people, places and perspectives as seen, collectively, "through queer eyes".

The works of the twelve participating artists, which range from the blatantly erotic to the esoteric, will be shown together for one month only in a unique blending of personal styles and subject matter.

We offer here just a hint of what you'll see with two stunning images by Andrew Caldwell. (Who, by the way, shot the still popular publicity stills for last year's Queen City Cruise.)

Several more examples from the other photographers can be seen on the bio page of the exhibit website which includes links to the websites of several of the photographers.

Update: Because the model, unfortunately, had second thoughts about displaying the wonderful images, we had to remove a couple of the example shots from this post. Don't worry though -- there's still plenty of wonderful images to see in the show.

Labels: gay pride, Gay Seattle, photos, Seattle, shirtless hunk

So, then... we offer the embarrassed video of a lip sync attempt below. Not because it's a particularly good attempt. Not because it's a better dance attempt than what Sanjaya might come up with. Not because we're all that fond of Dolly Parton's 9 to 5.

We offer partly because it's kinda cute to see how embarrased the guy is about doing it at all. But then... he posts it despite his embarrassment.

But, mostly -- let's be honest here -- we post it because the lip sync is done by our all-time favorite in the collection of hunks over in the Rumor Machine, Jonathan Jesensky who we've mentioned (and pictured) before. He is, by all reports, a nice guy, a carpenter, a bar-tender, a model. He was a Marine. He is, above all, an uber-hunk. Find more pictures here and here and here [work warning: The latter two links play audio].

If the name isn't familiar, you might not recognize him in the video with his shirt on and with the glasses. So we offer this reminder:

And so here's the other, innocent view from a post on Jonathan's MySpace blog (at http://www.myspace.com/jesensky since it's virtually impossible to link directly into that place) :

Labels: eye candy, link bites, shirtless hunk, video, youtube

If you were to land here by, oh -- say, clicking on a picture in a search engine -- and also looked around for just a second, you might see that link up above for Rumor Machine. The rumor part of that page long ago became lame, but the other part of it might still hold some interest. There you will find hundreds of pictures of male eye candy. You can make the images show up randomly, or click "Auto Hunk" and go through the whole collection.

And -- as we occasionally do -- we've added a couple of dozen new treats to the machine for your viewing pleasure.

The ever-appealing actor/model Marco Dapper now gets the top spot in image count with nine. With the addition of some shots from his recent DNA shoot, he just beats out the former favorite, model/carpenter/bartender/Iraq-vet Jonathan Jesensky who has eight images in the machine (for now). Want to know more? Check out Jonathan's music-filled site. And here's an interview with Jonathan, who is judged to be "Extremely intelligent, dangerously handsome, and a very nice person.".

He's currently appearing (with the recognizable tattoos) in online ads for Rufskin jeans.

Most of them are, of course, straight boys in the collection, and so it was embarrasing for us to note that we hadn't yet included any pics of the out model and reality-show star J.P. Calderon, who was recently the cover boy of Instinct magazine. We've fixed that oversight with several images.

Calderon's post-Survivor story is an interesting one.

Having just recently learned to accept his sexuality at the relatively late age of 31, J.P. is still plagued by self-doubt. "I don't want to send a bad image to anyone, but sometimes I'm still conflicted. I'm hoping I won't always be, but I don't know." He goes on to share an example about his volleyball teammates and fellow models that has replayed in his mind time and again. "I see them naked all the time. They're my bros. They're my team mates," he explains. "I don't look at them in that way. I never check them out like that. But, I always think, God, if I came out are they gonna start thinking , 'Oh, J.P. is checking me out' or who knows what. That bothers me because they're my friends, my buddies."

There's almost always more just behing the image in the Rumor Machine. Click on the image or the name underneath to browse off to the web source for that image. You'll usually find larger versions there and several other

Labels: eye candy, shirtless hunk, TV

Ya gotta give it to the folks at Ginch Gonch underwear: They know how to promote their product to gay guys. And, hey, with pics and vids like these from the Boy Culture premier party, we'll gladly fall for it.


Ethan Reynolds, Benjamin Bradley and more Gonch Boys were out in force at the premier of Boy Culture [prior post]. The underwear company was a co-sponsor of the party along with The Advocate and TLA Releasing. A "Mr. Nightlife Hollywood" says of the party that was packed not only with packed underwear, but many of the gay-, playing-gay, or just gay-friendly faces in Hollywood:

Hollywood film premieres can be lots of fun to attend, but every-so-often you go to one that leaves you saying "boy, oh boy that was lots of fun" days later. Such was the case with the premiere of the critically acclaimed indie film Boy Culture.

You might ask, "What happens when Ginch Boys come out (out of their brief briefs, that is)?" Fortunately, for those willing to follow a not-safe-for-work link, PartyWithBrandon.com has the explicit but unnamed details.

Wearing limited edition Boy Culture-logo briefs, Ethan and Benjamin also headed out elsewhere on the town, also visiting the birthday party for celebrity gossipist Perez Hilton.


YouTube link

And, of course, there was a photo shoot with the not-available-to-you logo briefs:


YouTube link

But, really. Given our obvious fondness for sailor pictures, we couldn't resist this one from the current front page of the Ginch Gonch site:

Labels: eye candy, gay party, link bites, shirtless hunk

SLOG was (as usual) on top of this (as it were) when the news broke in a military publication: The Marines have added a few unexpected charges after opening an investigation of Cpl. Matt Sanchez who appeared in gay porn features before signing up as a Marine.

The investigation was done by Reserve Col. Charles Jones, a staff judge advocate, who infomed Sanchez of the charges last week.

Jones wrote that Sanchez's participation in porn films was part of the investigation, but that two of the three allegations against him involved lying "to various people, including but not limited to, representatives of the New York City United War Veterans Council and U-Haul Corporation" about deploying to Iraq at the commandant's request.

"Specifically, you wrongfully solicited funds to support your purported deployment to Iraq" by coordinating a $300 payment from the UWVC and $12,000 from U-Haul, Jones wrote.

Sanchez vigorously denied the new charges, calling them "demonstrably false" in an interview with Marine Corps Times. He had earlier argued that what he describes as a "summer job" doing porn shouldn't be of concern to the Marines.

In a March letter addressed to MobCom commander Brig. Gen. Darrell Moore, who will ultimately decide what to do with Jones' investigation, Sanchez said he's never done anything to bring dishonor on the Corps since enlisting and that "my past is behind me."

"The Marine Corps is a conversion experience, what men were before they joined is not as important as what they become," Sanchez wrote.

An earlier story about Sanchez in a sister publication, gave this background.

A Reserve corporal whose star has been rising in conservative circles over the past few months -- including appearing on Fox News and being photographed with right-wing firebrand Ann Coulter -- has acknowledged appearing in gay porn films.

Cpl. Matthew Sanchez, 36, now a member of the Individual Ready Reserve, has made national headlines since, as a student at Columbia University, he stood up to war protesters who publicly vilified him for his military service while administrators there refused to intervene, citing freedom of speech.

Sanchez has appeared on cable television programs such as Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" and "Hannity & Colmes," and penned an editorial for the New York Post. He also wrote a Back Talk column for the Jan. 1 edition of Marine Corps Times titled, "Missing the big picture: Ivy League protesters feel superior to service members."

Prior to the investigation, military officials said that they were not sure how past participation in gay porn might affect a service-member's career:

[O]fficials at Marine Forces Reserve in New Orleans were unable to confirm whether Sanchez had enlisted prior to the end of his film career or if Reserve Marines were prohibited from doing porn when not in a drilling status. ...

Matt Sanchez (center) as Rod Majors. Tom Bacchus has the unedited versions.

...Officials at Marine Corps Recruiting Command were unable to say whether past participation in gay porn disqualifies a potential enlistee because it was unclear how the current "don?t ask, don't tell" policy might apply.

The chain of military papers opened that question to its readers with a discussion forum that poses the question "Should past participation in gay porn disqualify a potential enlistee?" Sanchez often participates in the forum. Several of the posters are less than kind to him. Example:

Mr. Sanchez seems to be suffering from the "have your cake and eat it too" syndrome.

In the big scheme of things, gay porn is much more of a detriment to morale than being gay, which Mr. Sanchez disingenuously (and self-servingly) claims he isn't.

Perhaps Mr. Sanchez isn't gay in the strictest sense of the word. He's not the first man who can justify having anal intercourse with another man and claim that he isn't gay. Hundreds of thousands of men do. Perhaps our language lacks a sufficient construct to describe whatever Mr. Sanchez and thousands like him insists they are: men's men, straight-acting, guys-next-door, who just happen to like to get it on anally with their buds. ...

I don't fault Mr. Sanchez for acting in porn. I fault him for trying to capitalize on his Marine reservist status to advance his own agenda. I fault him for joining the Marines knowing that he did not possess the qualities that a true Marine exemplifies. I fault him for continuing to dissemble in the face of the truth. I fault him for being arrogant enough to think that his case deserves special consideration.

Go to Iraq, Mr. Sanchez. Fight like a Marine. Then I'll fight for your right to remain one. Otherwise, you're just acting -- which is what you seem to do best.

But beyond the usual message-board attacks and counter-attacts, the discussion offers several intriguing posts on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) policy. Example:

If the military were serious about discharging service members for what it calls "sexual misconduct," there would hardly be a military left. If you've ever had sex in anything other than the missionary position, you're violating Article 125 of the UCMJ. I can't count the number of senior officers I knew who cheated on their wives in Subic Bay, Korea, etc. Yet, Marines only seem bothered by the sexual misconduct they find personally distasteful.

Having sexual relations with a consenting adult, whether it's the same gender, on film or for money is a has no bearing on a Marine's performance of duties in combat. In fact, the same qualities we admire in combat - boldness, ferocity, fierceness etc., are the same traits that cause Marines like Cpl. Sanchez to behave the way he does in his private life. I'd much rather fight with a guy who's daring enough to put himself out there the way Sanchez has than Marines who are too timid to step outside the line once in awhile.

Many of the Corps' most revered "saints" were the ones who broke the rules. The reason they're legends is that Marines happen to like the rules they broke.

Many of you may not be aware of the good Sanchez is doing. Thanks to his efforts, a liberal college like Columbia, in the most liberal corner of the universe (Manhattan's upper west side) has agreed to recognize war vets and build a memorial. He's intervening to help a wounded Marine combat vet gain admission and you can bet he won't stop there.

It's pretty petty and shallow to criticize someone's person or status as a Marine just because you don't like their bedroom habits or personal life.

DADT isn't an issue that Sanchez addressed in his time on the airwaves of conservative broadcasters, but he's now getting an unexpected lesson on the issue. Maybe he'll turn his fundrasing skills to the issue, eh?

Labels: celebrities, DADT, eye candy, news bites, shirtless hunk

Matt and Brian at SeattlePaparazzi.com have added new galleries of pics from the March Gay Bingo party. It was Groovy '70s night, complete with big hair, polyester, and plenty of the usual fun.


And, hey! We heard that, but you're wrong. Those cylindrical things most folks are holding are daubers. That's daubers, used to mark the bingo cards.

If you don't already have your tickets to one of the remaining regular Gay Bingo nights, you're out of luck until June. They haven't yet put up the "sold out" sign for the June 9 Rocky Horror Gay Bingo night. Hurry to make your reservations or drop by the Lifelong Thrift Store [see map]. Other nights are sold out for the year, so you'll just have to find a friend who was wise enough to get tickets early. Or you could get yourself on a waiting list and hope for the best.
But there's another way to get in on the fun at the major fundraising close-out of the games. Tickets are still available for the Black Tie Bingo fundraiser to be held this year at the W Hotel downtown [get directions].

A host committee table that seats ten goes for $2000. "First class" tickets are $200 each. You could get in on the still-elegant "coach class" for $175 each.

The evening includes a cocktail hour+ starting at 6pm. Dinner and entertainment starts at 7:30 pm. You'll be playing bingo in style at the trendy W. Prizes include travel packages to great W Hotel destinations around the country. There will be celebrity callers, unexpected surprises, and, of course, Gay Bingo star GLAMAZONIA.

This major fundrasing event for Lifelong AIDS Alliance is sponsored by W Hotels and Alaska Airlines.

Labels: eye candy, fundraisers, Gay events, gay organization, Gay Seattle, photos, shirtless hunk

Celebrity rumor isn't our area. (For that we go to some of the sites listed on our Queer Pop page.) But, hey, we have that picture among the hundreds on our Rumor/Hunk Machine page, and we just hate to miss an occasional excuse to bring some of that beefcake eye-candy over here. So here goes...

Country singer Kenny Chesney insists that he is not gay. Really. That's not what his ex-wife meant when she listed "fraud" as the reason for requesting an annulment."

It's not true. Period. Maybe I should have come out and said, 'No, I'm not (gay),' but I didn't want to draw any more attention to it," the 38-year-old country singer says.

We believe him even if he does look like any number of guys at The Cuff's country dance night. Even the tight levis have never set off our (admittedly flawed and underused) gaydar.

The rumor apparently got some traction when celebrity sniffers, taking a brief break from their ANS obsession, discovered that Chesney's ex, Renee Zellweger cited "fraud" as reason for requesting an anullment of their brief four-month marriage.

He was interviewed for 60 Minutes by Anderson Cooper. (wink, wink, nudge...).

Labels: celebrities, eye candy, link bites, shirtless hunk

Gemini, one of the co-producers of the event, has a hot collection of photos by Malcolm Smith now online from last week's Revivial party at Element.

On this BratBoySchool Bulletin, Ethan Reynolds had this to say about their time in town

Once again the Emerald City made us feel welcomed and like VIPs. Our event for Revival Sunday seemed to go quite well. The crowd was packed, the music was great, and the place seemed filled with excitement....

As many of you already know, Seattle is home for Ben. So there is a special feeling when we step off the airplane. His mood is brighter and his laugh is even more infectious. This visit allowed us to dance as Project BE, be a part of a photo shoot, and spend time around his home. I absolutely love his family and enjoy seeing them.

He also noticed I-957 while he was here and likes the approach.

[By the way, those coming from there are looking for the post just below this one.]

Labels: eye candy, gay party, Gay Seattle, photos, shirtless hunk

It's Revival day once again. Seattle's new Sunday party will make its second apperance this evening starting at 6 pm at Element, [get directions], across the street from EMP at Seattle Center. Party until midnight with a cover of only $5.
Tonight's featured guests are go-go boys Benjamin Bradley and his boyfriend Ethan Reynolds. It's a bit of a public homecoming for Bradley who grew up in the Seattle area and graduated last year from Western Washington University in Bellingham.

Bradley got his start in porn when after he met fellow Seattlite Roman Heart. In an interview with Reynolds, his current beau and go-go partner at tonight's Revival, Bradley explained how he first met Heart who was already a noted porn star.

We met through mutual friends. We both grew up in the Seattle region, and I knew of him from the gay community gossip. I knew he did porn, and I had always wanted to meet him to see if he was as beautiful in person as he was in his photos. And he was. We met around Halloween of 2004. Long story short, we both felt instant attraction not only physically but emotionally. Its really hard to describe, but I fell so hard and so fast for him. We always had so much fun together, and felt so at ease in each other's presence. Although we are not currently together, we still have an amazing bond. He is honestly my first TRUE love.

Heart asked Bradley to do a scene with him for the video, Driver. Bradley was hired to do a second appearnce for Falcon Video in Cross Country, Part 1. He then did Sized Up, Little Big League 2: 2nd Inning, and Boot Boy for Channel 1 Releasing. He's currently under contract with Rascal Video which features him in No Cover, The Wrong Side of the Tracks, and Delinquents.



Their Seattle stop at Revival is just one of several stops they're making in a busy schedule of February appearances for Reynolds and Bradley. Bradley said on his official blog that he and Ethan "always have a good time when we do our appearances. That is very important to us. However, we do it with class and style. We know we are hired to do a job and we get'er'done."

He offered this on the blog last week:

This will probably make everybody throw up... but I just want to say that my boyfriend is so beautiful and amazing. I'm really lucky. Just thought I would share.

Who's gonna disagree with that, eh?

Bradley even gets his own entry in the user-generated encycolpedia, Wikipedia. He also has a typically slow-loading (and noisy) MySpace page, but no longer updates it.

Reynolds is founder and editor of the popular website Brat Boy School where he keeps track of models, porn stars, and other hawties.

Labels: eye candy, gay bar, gay party, Gay Seattle, Seattle, shirtless hunk

Are you feeling the need for Revival during this uncommon winter deep freeze? Egan Orion of Overload Productions has teamed up with other local party promoters to revive your spirits this weekend with the first of what could become frequent Sunday parties.

The hunky Carlson Twins of A&F fame will be special guests and should lift your... umm -- spirits as Overload, Gemini Events, and JB Productions team up to present Revival, a major Sunday dance party at a new (to them) venue: Element at 332 Fifth Ave. N. across the street from EMP at Seattle Center [get directions].

Party from 6pm until midnight with a cover of only $5.

Element has two dance floors. DJ Brian Gorr says he'll be "spinning old circuit and of course other surprises as we once again celebrate Sunday nights in Seattle." DJ Violate will pump out the music for the second dance floor, spinning "top-40 mashups, old skool, and new skool."

Although Element imposes a fairly strict dress code for its usual crowd, Orion said that he trusts the queer crowd for Revival to dress right without any kind of formal code. "There's no dress code for the event besides what every other bar/club would expect," he told us.

Orion's Overload has produced parties at Sugar, Neumo's, Chapel (including Red Light on New Year's night), and other venues but he said he's looking forward to the new possibilities at Element.

"Element is the largest venue I've used as a venue for an Overload event," he said. For this one, he's working with JB Productions and Gemini Events. "Gemini has recently started doing events in Seattle. SweetSpot at Sugar was their first set of events, and Revival is their second venture," Orion explained.

You can look forward to more Sunday Revivals in the future, Orion said. "We intend to do Revival as a monthly party in time," he explained. "This first party is a proof of concept and a way to introduce people to the space. As we get into Spring, Revival will be held every month with all sorts of exciting special guests!"

Keep up with all Overload events and other interesting parties (including gay ski week at Whistler) by subsribing to Overload's new email list, A Queer Night Out. (Sign up for the list at the bottom of the page.)

Labels: gay bar, gay party, Gay Seattle, Seattle, shirtless hunk

Joshua and Jacob Miller, the hunky gay twins from Kalispell, Montana, who starred in a Logo reality series this fall were kicked out of the Jehovah's Witnesses last week. They hadn't been practicing Witnesses, but their family members were.

According to a press release sent out last week by the twins, the action taken last week by their church means that

Our immediate family is to have limited or no contact with us. And all other practicing Jehovah's Witnesses around the world are not to speak with us ever again.

That particularly nasty practice is called "disfellowship" by the Witnesses. But, at least they make official something that is all-too-common in other churches.

If you're wondering what all the fuss is about (or just want to catch more eye-candy), you could -- if you dare -- watch a marathon of all seven Nemesis Rising on Logo next Saturday morning (Dec. 30) starting at 7am (that's Eastern time, but we who don't get that channel assume they might have a west coast feed that shows it here at the same time).

A USA Today pop blogger even rated the show as a guilty pleasure, while warning, "J&J make some of the most watered-down, eardrum-shattering pop music since, oh, O-Town."

And that's being nice. Unfortunately there's already way too much saccharine "nice" in the pop pablum performed by the twins. Their album includes a cover of Nic Gilder's creepy 1979 one-hit wonder Hot Child in the City. And they (or their producers more likely) make the song about a very young prostitute sound nice.

The song from the album that qualifies as their hit, Number One In Heaven [YouTube], shares the same edgeless niceness even though it's a celebration of a one-night stand.

There are clearly some great possibilities in their song selection. But just as they waste the name "Nemesis" they also waste the chance to do something -- anything -- slightly interesting with their performances.

So, we're not sure it's worth even TiVoing the marathon, but you can catch a few video clips on Logo's site. It looks to us that the clip called, Nemesis: Special Episode Part 2 pretty well summarizes all the issues of the show. That clip also includes a live video of their dreadful rendition of Hot Child.

Labels: eye candy, Gay, religion, shirtless hunk, TV, witch hunts

As we mentioned when we posted Toronto speedo pics, we were waiting for this one.

As he does each year, Towleroad now has a rich and varied collection of pictures of the original Santa Speedo Race that was held this weekend in Boston.

The sixth annual race, held Saturday, is a creative benefit for Ellie Fund to fight breast cancer.

A full collection of photos of the race by Patrick Lentz is available on Flickr.

You'll also find more pics on the benefit's own site.

Labels: eye candy, fundraisers, link bites, shirtless hunk, speedos

We love it when folks from cold places get creative with Christmas-time fundraising, like, oh... Santa Speedo races. The Parisian Boys blog found pictures (including the ones seen here) from the Toronto Santa Speedos who took to the streets of the Yorkville neighborhood last Saturday December 9th 2006. The run was a benefit for a children's health charity.

The original Santa Speedo run in Boston is scheduled for next weekend.

Labels: fundraisers, link bites, shirtless hunk

R-Place [see map] will host a party Wednesday night from 10pm to Midnight for the movie Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds.

And no, unfortunately, you won't get to see super-hunk Marco Dapper or any of the other hot-stud stars in person, but you will get to watch trailers for the film. And they'll be giving away posters and other schwag including DVDs of Eating Out 1.

To whet your apetite, check out these behind-the-scenes shots of some of the men of Eating out.


We mentioned the movie yesterday because of the Dapper hunk pics, but in case you missed it amidst the eye-candy, the movie opens Friday at the at the Varsity [get directions].

The Boy Culture blog has a great interview with the Marco Dapper and many pictures. (And yes, guys, he's straight. Sigh.)

And here's another trailer, just in case you really need to know what the movie's about:

Labels: gay bar, Gay events, Gay Seattle, movie, Seattle, shirtless hunk

Sorry. Your webwrangler has neglected his wrangling duties, but what finally got him to pay attention to this site again was finding a few new pictures for the Rumor Machine. We even added a button to let you automatically cycle through all of the nearly 200 hot studs featured there. (Hint: To start from a random spot, click the "Show Hunk" button before clicking the "Auto Hunks" button.)

The guy who gets the second-most pics in the new set is Marco Dapper, star of the new movie "Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds." It opens Friday, Dec. 15, at the Varsity [get directions]. Check out the trailer:



But as hard (ahem...) as it was to pick only four pics of Marco, we found ourselves unable to resist even more shots of a model, Jonathan Jesensky [office warning: His hot site plays audio], whose innocent+nasty images first caught our (umm...) eye on a Flickr photostream by Pete90291. There are six shots of Jonathan in the Rumor Machine with links to see hundreds more.

If you click on most of the pics on the Rumor Machine page, you'll be transported to the source site with (usually) larger versions of the pictures. (Unfortunately, Genre has taken down the amateur pics that are include