Monday, November 6, 2017

Kevin Spacey, AGAIN; Conor McGregor, F#ggot Slur, and His Many Gay Friends; Jamie Dornan Strips In Fifty Shades of Grey Trailer; Muslim Fashion Company Creates Rainbow Hijab

Kevin Spacey, AGAIN

Two more guys have come out with allegations of sexual harassment by Kevin Spacey. I found this quote interesting because I know from personal experience that's exactly the way you feel when something like this happens.

“I was completely bewildered. I didn’t walk away thinking, ‘I’ve just been sexually assaulted.’ It was more a case of ‘That was an incredibly weird thing to happen’. Then, the more I thought about it, the more I came to realize ‘He just grabbed my -—-. That just really happened. What the hell do I do with this information?'” Nixon says.

Most of us just don't talk about these assaults. Men aren't supposed to talk about them.

You can read more, here. 

Conor McGregor, F#ggot Slur, and His Many Gay Friends

This is one of those times when you know the straight guy knows absolutely nothing about gay men or gay culture. Because he wouldn't have used that word if he did know. And in spite of Conor's "many gay friends," if he did have a clue, good old Conor would know that word is mainly used by straight men just like him who are looking for a pejorative when they are just too privileged to know any better.

The pro mixed martial arts fighter and UFC champion came under fire last month after he referred to Andre Fili, who had just beaten his teammate Artem Lobov during a fight, as a “faggot”.
Now, during an interview with Sky News, Conor has admitted that he was wrong to use the slur, but also attempted to defend his actions with an excuse that will sound all too familiar to minorities…
“I have many gay friends,” he said. “When we were campaigning for gay marriage, to legalise it, I was a big campaigner for it, so I am not against that at all.
Here's more. It gets even worse...and to be totally honest I actually don't hold anything against the guy and I really don't think he meant to offend anyone. When you're coming from a place of such white straight male privilege there's no way you can ever know just how much that one word stings and cuts. 
 Jaime Dornan Strips In Fifty Shades of Grey Trailer
Even though I did read the books, I have to admit that I didn't see either of the Fifty Shades of Grey movies, and I don't plan to see this last one. I had nothing against the books, but the movies just didn't do it for me. But I know a lot of people did like them so this should make a lot of people smile.
As the Fifty Shades trilogy comes to an end, we’re having difficulty accepting that we’ll no longer be seeing Mr Grey on our screens… but the final trailer for finale Fifty Shades Freed is making us feel a little better.
Jamie Dornan, who plays the sadistic and kinda problematic – but also really hot and rich – Christian Grey, can be seen doing his best ‘Daniel Craig as James Bond’ in the teaser as he emerges from the ocean dripping wet.
Muslim Fashion Company Creates Rainbow Hijab
This is interesting. A Muslim owned company in Australia is making rainbow hijabs to support gay marriage in this ongoing postal vote Australia's been doing in order to get gay marriage legalized. People can also wear it as a scarf, in many different ways.  
The vote has ignited a debate that’s brought out the worst in homophobes, with priests declaring ‘all gays should be shot’ and MPs telling LGBT+ people to “stop being delicate little flowers” despite their rights being on the line.
“During one of the most critical and important times in our nation’s history, we at MOGA are proud to voice our support for marriage equality in Australia,” the company said in a statement.
I hope it helps. I hope the citizens of Australia support gay marriage. That's always my bottom line. 
You can check that out here. The photos are very nice. 
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Sunday, November 5, 2017

Two Women Realize Their Husbands Are Sleeping Together; Gay Couples Who Slayed Halloween; Judge Refused To Touch HIV Positive Man's Documents

Two Women Realize Their Husbands Are Sleeping Together

My first thought about this one is that it's really creepy. I know there are a lot of people out there dealing with marriages like this, and it IS painful to deal with, but I wouldn't have eavesdropped on a private conversation and then live tweeted it to the world. 

To make a long story short: The two women suspected that their husbands, Richard and Jeffrey, were cheating on them… with each other. So they booked a flight together to crash the men’s alleged “business trip” in Chicago and hopefully get to the bottom of things.
Lucky for us, the woman eavesdropping live tweeted the entire conversation…
You can read the tweets here.  I did do some investigating, and I found there's a network for people dealing with marriages where one person is gay and one is not. 
Gay Couples Who Slayed Halloween
I have to admit that articles like this really make me feel like the Halloween Grinch. I like Halloween, and I love this time of year, but I never really got into it enough to actually take the time out of my schedule to dress up as anything. Not once, at least as a full grown adult. And a lot of that is because I really don't have time to do these things.

But I do like watching other people do it. So there's this...

This week saw the arrival of the spookiest night of the year – Halloween – and as expected, gay men around the globe took the opportunity to go all out and look as cute as possible with their outfits.
Thanks to the power of social media, we’ve been granted a window into some of the most creative, sexy, and downright adorable costumes that same-sex couples have been wearing this year.
Here's the rest. There are some great pics, and my hat is off to anyone who does take the time to do these things. Maybe next year I'll re-think this for myself.

Judge Refused To Touch HIV Positive Man's Documents

This is scary...that a judge would actually be so ignorant about HIV. And even worse, he's from Riverside County, CA, which is our county where Tony and I live part time, in Palm Springs, CA.

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – A convicted murderer who preyed upon a lonely socialite nine years ago could get a new trial because a judge may have been caught in a secret recording saying he ignored court motions submitted by the gay, HIV-positive defendant.
Riverside County Superior Court Judge David B. Downing, who has since retired, was allegedly recorded saying he didn't read motions from Kaushal Niroula specifically because Niroula has HIV and his documents came in envelopes that were licked closed.


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Saturday, November 4, 2017

Three Gay Marines and A Raunchy SEX Tape; Dad In Caitlyn Jenner Costume Offends Everyone; Kenyon Official and "Demonic Gay Lions Having Sex

Three Gay Marines and A Raunchy SEX Tape

Get ready for this one. It happened in Scotland.

Here's part of the police report:

The footage shows a former co-accused turning around and beginning to urinate. Luke Bowen then comes towards him, bends down with his head at the other man’s crotch and is seen to be drinking the urine. Luke Bowen then undoes his belt and begins to urinate then drinks his own urine.

You can read the rest here. The three marines have been kicked out of the military.

Wait until you read the comments. That's all. 


Dad In Caitlyn Jenner Costume Offends Everyone

Some guy in Ohio decided to dress up for Halloween as both Caitlyn Jenner, and Bruce Jenner. He wore the Bruce costume first, and then he changed into the Caitlyn costume later in the evening. He tweeted photos of both costumes. And a lot of people are not laughing about it...including me.

The Tweet quickly went viral, but got a lot of backlash from transgender people who believe the costume to be insensitive.

I think they knew exactly what they were doing. You can read more about this here.

Kenyon Official and "Demonic" Gay Lions Having Sex

This one is not as odd as it sounds when you read about how gay men are treated in places like Kenya. The homophobia and hate is often hard to believe.

In any event, this is the kind of mind set I'm talking about.

A Kenyan official is demanding two male lions are separated after they were caught having gay sex.
Ezekiel Mutua, the chief executive of the Kenya Film Classification Board, described the incident as ‘bizarre’ and demanded answers. Mutua is fiercely anti-gay, recently banning an episode of Disney’s Andi Mack for featuring a gay character.

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Friday, November 3, 2017

Milo Yiannopoulos's Big Backer Cuts Financial Ties; LGBTI Activist Murdered In London Home; "Stop the F#gs" Hate Flyers Florida University

Milo Yiannopoulos's Big Backer Cuts Financial Ties

The billionaire investor, Robert Mercer, has decided he's not supporting Milo Yiannopoulos or Breitbart any longer, and he's made it very clear as to why he's doing this.

However, the Trump donor said he came to see that Yiannopoulos “caused pain and divisiveness undermining the open and productive discourse that I had hoped to facilitate. I was mistaken to have supported him, and for several weeks have been in the process of severing all ties with him.”

There's more here. There are comments you don't want to miss.


LGBTI Activist Murdered In London Home

This is sad to read.

LGBTI activist Julian Aubrey was found dead in his London flat on Monday (30 October). He was stabbed multiple times before dying at the scene.
Aubrey, 55, was a former co-chairman of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea LGBT liaison group. He also served as a counselor working with sexual abuse victims.

You can check that out here. Three men were arrested for suspicion of murder.


"Stop the F#gs" Hate Flyers Florida University

There have been a lot of racist things happening in the Philadelphia area in schools. I'm not going into detail, but they are some of the worst things you could imagine. And it's hard to believe it's happening in schools. Well, now it's happening to gays in Florida at this university.

A Florida university is currently investigating homophobic flyers posted around the campus.

Unknown people posted the flyers across large areas of the University of West Florida’s campus on Tuesday (31 October). UWF spokeswoman Megan Gonzalez said the flyers mostly appeared on doors leading to lecture halls.

You can read the rest here.  We're living in interesting times.

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Thursday, November 2, 2017

FREE Gay Book Excerpt: Altered Parts by Ryan Field; Max Emerson's Latest Revealing Naked Male Photo Not Banned; More Kevin Spacey Abuse Accusations

FREE Gay Book Excerpt: Altered Parts by Ryan Field

I've posted another excerpt from my new release, Altered Parts, below. There's also a link to Amazon, and it's being distributed and sold in most other venues where online gay romance novels are sold.

You can check out the link and excerpt below.

Max Emerson's Latest Revealing Naked Male Photo Not Banned

I have to be honest. I don't even know who this guy is. In the course of one day...or maybe just one morning...I see so many naked guys exploiting themselves for attention they all start to look the same to me.

This seems to be the era where if a guy doesn't take off his shirt and drop his pants in public there's something wrong with him. And I guess this Max Emerson isn't going to let anyone call him unique.

The NYC actor and model sure isn’t afraid to flash the flesh. However his latest Instagram post might just have shown us all more than we’ve seen before… or maybe a little too much?!
During a stay in a hotel, Max decided to get up close and personal with us all by showing off the facilities in the building – and more specifically the anti-fog mirror.
Here's the rest. It is SFW.

More Kevin Spacey Abuse Accusations

I really didn't want to post about this anymore, but it's news, and it's all still coming out. Now there's this new accusation. Below is just one quote from a much longer article that goes into more detail.

I guess he must have come up behind me and yanked down my baggy jeans, and he goes to f*ck me and I’m like, “No, I don’t want to.” And he pushes hard, and grabs me, and starts shoving up against my a**hole, and it hurts like a motherf*cker. I again tell him no, and he tries again. I am strong enough, thank God, both somewhere in my brain and in my body, to get him off of me. … I saved myself in many ways in that minute from the much deeper trauma that would’ve come from having been raped. Thankfully, some part of me was strong enough to be like, “F*ck no.” I’m so grateful to that little 14-year-old, that he didn’t say, I have to let him do this or he’ll stop loving me.

When this allegedly happened, the guy was 15 years old. Here's the rest. 
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Before I had a chance to reply, he turned and started walking to where I'd parked the car. I'd never been carried before by anyone, let alone a good looking guy like Clay, and I wasn't sure where to put my arms at first. I couldn't just let them dangle, and I couldn't lift them up in the air, so I gently wrapped my arms around his shoulders and he didn't seem to mind in the least.
He took long steps and never wavered once. His breathing remained even and he never broke a sweat. It seemed so effortless and so normal for him to carry me that way I gently caressed the back of his neck, as if I'd done it by accident, and said, "If I get too heavy you can put me down." I wanted to see how he'd react if I touched his neck lightly in more obvious way.
"I'm good. We're almost there anyway."
I hugged him a little tighter and said, "I think you'll have to drive. It's my right foot and I'm not sure I can drive this way."
"I know how to drive," he said. "The cowboys on the ranch taught me when I was 13 years old."
I wondered what else the cowboys had taught him.
When we reached the car, I turned the handle and he guided the passenger door open with his knee. As he lowered me onto the front seat, I held his neck and his cheek brushed up against mine. I inhaled his strong scent and took a quick breath. My first instinct was to rest my lips on his cheek but I didn't dare. I still wasn't sure about anything. I was still on the verge of shaking. I didn't want him to think I was a queer, especially since he'd gone out of his way for me. But more important, I didn't want him to reject me.
After he got me settled, he leaned inside the front seat and reached for my ankle. He removed my shoe and sock and slowly ran his fingers around my foot.
He squeezed my foot and asked, "How's that feel?"
I nodded. "Okay." The way he was touching me sent of a rush of emotions from the deepest part of my body. I didn't even know I had these emotions and I wasn't sure how to keep them hidden.
He ran his fingers up my foot and gently squeezed my ankle. "How's that?"
"That's the sore spot," I said. As sore as it was, I wanted him to continue touching it.
Then he told me to wiggle my toes and try to move my foot. A moment later he gently rubbed the bottom of my foot and said, "I don't think anything's broken. It's a sprain and you'll have to rest it for a few days. I learned a lot about first aid on the ranch. We didn't have a doctor around so we had to do certain things on our own."
"It doesn't hurt as much now as it did a minute ago," I said. I think that's because he was touching me so gently and I couldn't stop staring at his lips.
"I am so sorry I pushed you," he said. "I should know better."
As he looked into my eyes I let my instincts take over. I did something to him that I never would have done to any of the other young men I knew on the mountain. I reached out and caressed his cheek slowly. "I know you didn't mean it. It was an accident. I'm fine."
We stared at each other for a moment or two, and there was one point where I thought he might lean forward and kiss me on the lips. I wanted him to kiss me. I wanted him to climb on top of me in the car and kiss me for hours. Most of all, I wanted him to make the first move. However, he kissed my sprained ankle instead, and then jogged around to the other side of the car so he could drive me back down the mountain. And as odd as that was, for one young guy to kiss another young guy's ankle that way, we never acknowledged it even happened. There didn't seem to be a need to explain it, or even normalize it with a joke.
As the sky darkened, he drove down the mountain with more alacrity and confidence than I'd ever possessed on my best day, and I was as familiar with that old dirt road as I was with my own hands. He knew nothing about it. He remained focused on the road and by the time we pulled up to the barn across the road from the main house, he parked so slowly and quietly the old car didn't even jerk.
I noticed my aunts were still sitting out on the front porch as they usually did on warm summer evenings. Aunt Ted in a high-backed wicker chair reading one of her fashion magazines, and Aunt Matilda in a white rocking chair working on her needlepoint. At first, they didn't even notice us pull up, but I wasn't looking forward to this. The instant Clay unfolded from the driver's side and rushed around to help me get out, they both jumped up and ran down the front walk to see what had happened.
The fact that Clay insisted on carrying me to the house made things even worse. When we met them at the front gate Aunt Matilda pulled it open so fast she almost tripped, and Aunt Ted clutched her lace top and swooned.
"What happened?" Aunt Matilda asked, with one hand pressed to her stomach and the other to her throat.
"I'm fine," I said. "I'm not seriously hurt." I knew this would set them both into a panic and I would have preferred avoiding this entire scene if possible. My aunts were both creatures of habit and whenever something challenged their normal routines they tended to gasp and swoon a lot, especially if it involved me. I was the only one they had left and they depended on me a lot more as a grown man than I'd once depended on them as a child.
Clay carried me up the front steps and gently set me down on a wicker loveseat. While he pulled a small wicker table forward so I could rest my sprained ankle, he turned toward my aunts and said, "He sprained his ankle up on the mountain. We were up in the tree house and all of a sudden…"
I cut him off fast. I didn't want them to know he'd accidentally pushed me out of the tree house. I didn't want them to hold that against him. Even if they knew it had been an accident, I knew they would never forget he'd been the one who'd pushed me. "I tripped over a rock. I feel like a big dumb idiot now. I should know better. I'm just glad Clay was with me otherwise I would have had to walk all the way down the mountain alone." I sent him a look and winked, hoping he wouldn't mention pushing me out of the tree house.
"Oh, you're so right," Aunt Ted said. "Thank the lord for Clay. If he hadn't been there to help you I don't even want to think about what could have happened. You have to be more careful, Joe Buddy. You must pay attention to your surroundings."
"Yes, Ted," said Aunt Matilda. She turned toward Clay. "Thank you so much, young man, for being so responsible. You are a true hero. I don't even want to think about the possibilities if you hadn't been there to help our poor Joe Buddy."
I couldn’t argue with that. Clay was my hero, and in more ways than one.
Then my aunts rushed into the house to chip some ice from the ice box. A few minutes later, they wrapped the ice in a homemade muslin pouch and set it on my ankle. It was already starting to feel better and I didn't think it was a bad sprain. I tried to tell them but they wouldn't listen, so I just sat there and did what everyone wanted me to do.
As daylight faded, Aunt Ted stood up from her chair and turned to Aunt Matilda. "I'm going to bed now. Naturally, I assumed Clay would be spending the night with us and I got the south guest room on the third floor all ready for him right after dinner. But under these circumstances I'd prefer it if he spent the night in Joe Buddy's room."
"I'm in total agreement, Ted," Aunt Matilda said. "This way Clay can help Joe Buddy upstairs and help get him into bed." She glanced at Clay. "That is if Clay doesn't mind spending the night in Joe Buddy's room and helping out that way."
"I'm fine with that," Clay said. "I'll carry him upstairs in a few minutes. Don’t worry about a thing, ladies." He seemed so eager to comply.
"I think I can walk on my own now," I said. It only feels a little sore now.
They ignored me and smiled at Clay. "Thank you so much, Clay," said Aunt Ted. "It's so nice to have a man around the house."
"I agree, Ted," said Aunt Matilda. "It's been a long time since we've had a man here."

"Hey, what do I look like?" I said. Even though Clay was a little older and stronger, I started to feel a little insulted.

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Wednesday, November 1, 2017

"Sex and the City" Gilles Marini and Hollywood Sex Abuse; The Problems With the Movie "Call Me By Your Name"; Bette Midler On "Hocus Pocus" Remake; Gay Instagrammer Supports Trump and Wears Blackface

"Sex and the City" Gilles Marini and Hollywood Sex Abuse

Here's another story that came out recently about sexual abuse in Hollywood, with men.

Gilles Marini, who played Samantha Jones’ boy toy in the 2008 Sex and the City film, has opened up about his experiences with Hollywood execs in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
“I was approached by extremely powerful people,” he tells People“I became a piece of meat for many executives in Hollywood.”
You can check this out here. 

The Problems With the Movie "Call Me By Your Name" 
I haven't been thrilled with the way they've been promoting the movie, "Call Me By Your Name," as a gay romance. But this article takes it even further by tackling something completely different. It's not the first time I've seen people discussing this either.

“Call Me By Your Name” is a film about the “forbidden” romance between a closeted seventeen year old boy and a twenty-four year old man. Based on the book of the same name, the movie portrays a relationship in which the older adult clearly knows that what he’s doing is wrong, yet he still starts a romantic and sexual relationship with a high-school aged teenager. 

You can read that in full here. 

Bette Midler On Hocus Pocus Remake

Midler doesn't sound too thrilled about the remake of Hocus Pocus. I don't know anything about it and I didn't even know they were doing a remake.  

In any event...

Asked about the remake at her annual New York Restoration Project’s Hulaween party, Midler didn’t mince words, saying the TV movie would be “cheap.”
“I know it’s cheap. It’s going to be cheap!” she told People magazine. “I’m not sure what they’re going to do with my character. My character is very, very broad and I don’t know who they’re going to find to play that.”
Here's the rest. I think we should wait and see before we judge. 

Gay Instagrammer Supports Trump and Wears Blackface

Here we go again. You really do have to wonder about the kind of person who does something like this, and how badly they need attention.

This year for Halloween, Crane decided to dress up as Storm from X-Men. NBD, right? Wrong. His costume was complete with Storm’s signature shock of white hair, her yellow cape, and… her dark skin.

Not surprisingly, people weren’t so into a white dude wearing blackface for Halloween. They immediately began calling out Crane’s costume choice. (If you really need a lesson on the deeply racist history of blackface, here’s a start.)

Check this out here. I really couldn't care less about his politics, but the blackface crosses the line. 

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