May

15

UndieTwinks Gets JABB-ed

May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments

Press Release Roundup: Producer/promoter Andrew Briskin announced tonight that his JABB Management has partnered with UndieTwinks.com for a two-year “wide-ranging exclusive deal…that covers all aspects of the site’s branding, touring, on-site promotions and talent scouting.” (I’ve told you we’d be hearing a lot about “branding” didn’t I? Get used to it, kids.) Part of the deal includes talent management of the UndieTwinks roster of exclusive performers. “Just wait, our first branded event is gonna be huge,” Mr. Briskin promised when we spoke earlier today. He says a full slate of events centered around Gay Pride season is in the works. The deal came about after eagle-eyed JABB reps at last month’s White Party in Palm Springs were intrigued by enthusiastic crowd response to UndieTwink events. The new online studio bills itself as “the underwear fetish site done right for the very first time.” We first wrote about ‘em back on April 15 (click here) and you folks really lo-ooo-oved the promo shot of Kyros Christian and Dillon Samuels, gently smooching and wearing candy-colored underwear, that accompanied our story.

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May

15

Beauty Shot: COLT Man Gage Weston

May 15, 2008 | 2 Comments

How ’bout another blast of male beauty? Pictured is COLT Man Gage Weston, bulging appropriately out of teeny bathing trunks. He was recently onscreen in HAWAI’I and WATERBUCKS 2. (Remember his cameo last year on Bravo’s Work Out? Click here and here.) Mr. Weston will be making the meet-and-greet rounds during Gay Pride season. Catch him—alongside fellow exclusive Ricky Parks—showing off that Superman-styled physique May 23 at Hydrate Chicago and twice on May 25; first at The North End for the Grabby Recovery Brunch and later at the COLT Contest Afterparty at Touche. [Image © COLT Studio.]

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May

15

Jason Sechrest, “Derek & Romaine” Fight Over Jesse Santana

May 15, 2008 | 16 Comments

The Grapevine: Publicist Jason Sechrest of JasonCurious.com has bickered for the past week or so with “The Derek & Romaine Show” hosts Derek Hartley and Romaine Patterson over what Mr. Sechrest feels were gotcha-type live interviews designed to embarrass performers Aaron James and, specifically, Jesse Santana when they appeared as guests on the popular Sirius OutQ satellite radio show. I initially decided not to write about it because it’s not a story that a publicist is unhappy with how he felt his clients were presented. However, Mr. Sechrest published a detailed summary of his complaints on his blog last week (click here) titled “Derek & Romaine Humiliate Jesse Santana” and angrily accused the radio hosts of taking out their beef with him on his clients. Fine, whatever, people argue all the time in GayPornLand. But yesterday, CockyBoys.com, with whom Mr. Santana shares co-exclusive status with Jet Set Productions, attempted to raise the stakes with a press release to the industry announcing they had “filed a formal complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against satellite media monopoly Sirius Radio” over their pending merger with XM Radio. Click here for more details…

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May

15

Beauty Shot: Edible Eddie Diaz

May 15, 2008 | 10 Comments

His name pops up frequently in various comment threads, so our Beauty Shot recipient this morning is Eddie Diaz, the former Rascal Video exclusive who was recently released from his contract to sow his oats hither and yon. These snaps are from WINTER HEAT (Falcon Studios) and CRUISIN’ GROUNDS (Mustang Studios). He’s also onscreen right now in EXCESS (Rascal) and CHOSEN for All Worlds Video. [Images © Falcon Studios.]

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May

14

Fresh Meat: Musclebod Cody Cummings

May 14, 2008 | 8 Comments

[Edits 05/15/08, 4:30pm.] Hot House Entertainment issued a press release this afternoon touting the debut of Cody Cummings online at The Backroom, their membership site. (Click here for their Hot Flash studio blog.) Stacked for days, Mr. Cummings—who looks like he could be Tyler Saint’s cousin, doesn’t he?—is being promoted as “straight-identified” (anymore, who ain’t?) and comes to us via NextDoorMale. He was billed as “Tyler Cummings” for them and for his eye-catching September 2007 Men magazine cover. [Image © Hot House.]

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May

14

Gay Porn and the Women Who Love It

May 14, 2008 | 3 Comments

The terrif Tristan Taormino has a new column online at VillageVoice titled “Girls Love Gay Male Porn” and subtitled “Brokeback Mountain was just the beginning…” (click here to read it). This subject bubbles up in the pop culture zeitgeist periodically, and from a purely anecdotal point of view, these days there is far less clutching of the pearls at cocktail parties when I bring this up. We receive a fair amount of mail from female fans (both straight and of the lesbianic persuasion) who adore gay porn fuck flicks. “I know lesbians who dig it more than any other kind of hardcore fare. I briefly dated a genderqueer dyke who just loved gay male porn,” Ms. Taormino writes. “She ran out and got the newest title from her favorite company the day it came out. In this case, she adored movies from Bel Ami, which feature young, hairless European lads (think the boy-on-boy version of the straight barely-legal genre). The boys are very pretty and androgynous, and some of them could definitely be mistaken for dykes with their clothes on. But other girl-loving girls love über-butch men, leather daddies, and big hairy bears, so it’s not always about androgyny.” Click here for more from Tristan Taormino’s column…

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May

14

New Release Desk: “House of Leather”

May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments

HOUSE OF LEATHER is the debut title from Backroom Films, a sister company to Bear Video and Bear magazine, ButchBear films and ButchBear.com. All of them fall under the BearOmniMedia umbrella that also includes a variety of bearish products. Per a recent press release, BearOmniMedia (I rather like that sobriquet) is seeking to tighten its grip on the bear/hair/leather market with a relaunch and re-branding efforts (didn’t I tell you we’d be hearing these buzzwords a lot?) that now includes Backroom Films. HOUSE OF LEATHER, as you can see, features the unsinkable Tober Brandt, who will headline a premiere party Friday, May 23 at The Bijou Theater in Chicago. The director is Steven La Butch (too cute, that) and costars include Adam Faust, Matthew Ford, Josh West and Park Wiley.

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May

14

Chi Chi Talks Sex, Condoms, Racism

May 14, 2008 | 1 Comment

The MenofColor blog is longtime friend of this site and they actually link to us frequently—I know, right?—so I’m more than happy to draw your attention to a recent two-part interview with directrix Chi Chi LaRue. Part One (click here) covers her early years as a dykelet and newbie in the porn biz, as well as the differences between directing straight and gay porn. She also pooh-poohs any assertion that she is an “accomplished DJ,” referring to herself instead as a “drag queen jukebox.” That’s a clever turn of phrase, but I’ve suffered through a lo-oo-ot of bad DJ’ing, and lemme tell ya, kids, DJ Chi Chi has a knack for pumping up a room. Part Two (click here) of the interview discusses safer sex, and whether racism plays a role in how gay adult films are cast, produced and marketed. [Image © C1R.com.]

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May

13

“That’s One Tasty Hole!”

May 13, 2008 | 6 Comments

Following the new Tom of Finland fragrance—and to say nothing of COLT’s line of branded clothing and knick-knacks—Christopher Hull, CEO of The French Connection, has invented a backdoor deodorant called (natch) Butt Pirate. Gotta love it! They’re billing it as “an intimate deodorant, natural moisterizer and all-around fun product for the bottom connoisseur.” Better yet, it is available in Chocolate, Strawberry and Vanilla flavors (”That’s One Tasty Hole!” is the hilarious tagline. “I’m hoping we come out with Banana soon,” chirped their press rep when I called to confirm a few details). Better still, it’s “vegan-friendly and uses all-natural organic ingredients.” Cheers.

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May

13

AMG Brasil Tells a Dirty Joke

May 13, 2008 | 4 Comments

AMG Brasil director-CEO Dennis Bell has announced the winners of their recent “Poke ‘n Joke” dirty joke contest and giveaway, tied to the release of CARNAVAL. In that film, Anderson Alves, Max Kairon and Ricardo Onça perpetrate a threesome dressed as a duck, a gorilla and George W. Bush. No, I’m not kidding. “We wanted to see how dirty our customers could be,” Mr. Bell sez in the press release. “I guess we wanted to see if they were funny, too, but we were mostly interested in seeing just how filthy they could be. As it turns out…some of the jokes were downright depraved.” Yeah, there’s a shocker. The first-placer received the entire 13-DVD AMG Brasil catalog and other goodies. Click here for the winning jokes…

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May

13

Planet Porn: Tommy Blade Frolics in Vegas

May 13, 2008 | 12 Comments

Sexy photo, eh? This is Tommy Blade following a recent go-go gig Thursday, May 1 at Krave nightclub’s Naughty Boys Party for Las Vegas Gay Pride. (He was joined by Dean Coxx, Matthew Ford, Johnny Hazzard and Trevor Knight, among others.) Notice the graffiti tattoos scribbled by enthralled admirers. [Image © Johnny Hazzard.]

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May

13

Sex, Leather, Rock ‘n Roll at Tom’s Bar

May 13, 2008 | 2 Comments

If it’s Pride season, then we’ve got fundraisers up the wazoo. Yesterday we wrote about the launch of the Tom of Finland Foundation’s first fragrance, and today we’ve got the details on another ToFF event: the 17th Annual Tom’s Bar fundraiser, to be held Sunday, June 15 at the Faultline Bar here in Los Angeles. Tix are $10 (or $8 for ToFF members). The press release promises silent auctions, a leather “exchange,” Best Butt and Best Chest contests, and a performance by Born in Death Valley (Brian Grillo of Extra Fancy’s new band), which is described as “muddy rock fed from glamcore adrenal glands with a good ol’ fashioned soulspike injection from American gutters.” Just how I like it!

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May

12

Sneak Peek: Dean Monroe’s “Venom”

May 12, 2008 | 8 Comments

Didja know Dean Monroe has recorded an album? It’s called Venom and here’s the cover art. The sexalicious Mr. Monroe was recently Grabby-nominated for RICH KID (Private Man) and was onscreen last year (nothing so far in 2008) in COCK SHOTS 2 for Studio 2000, plus MEN AT WORK 2 and OUT ON VACATION (both Alphamale Media). Yeah, but he sings?! I know, I know…but consider that Dean Monroe is one of those guys who happens to be really good at, well, everything. He’s the Euro-Johnny Hazzard. And he’s also genuinely humble and unassuming, which makes it really hard to resent him (and makes the Venom album title an intriguing choice). On his blog, Mr. Monroe says the first single is titled “Drop Your Guns” and debuts at the end of the year; Venom is set to drop early in 2009.

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May

12

New Release Desk: “XXX Foot Sex”

May 12, 2008 | 5 Comments

[Edits 2:10pm.] Press Release Roundup: Last week we wrote (click here) about Pacific Sun Entertainment signing “kinky straight woman” and S/M specialist Chimera Chase to helm their first B/D blue movie, BOUND FOR GLORY. Enrique Currero and Dominik Rider are among the costars of that one. Ms. Chase certainly isn’t allowing any grass to grow under her feet, as PacSun is now flacking XXX FOOT SEX, a foot fetish fuck flick she directed. (In the press release the studios admits “Da Feet”—yoinks!—in a headline, which I think is actually a more evocative movie title. There’s also an unfortunate bit about going “footloose”). Enrique Currero joins his BOUND FOR GLORY costars Luke Cross, Mark Gilfone and Jaysin Keys with Jonathan Gabriel (spelled “Jhonathen” here) and newbies Jared Dailey, Ricky Diaz and Pierre “Troian” (”Trojan,” maybe?) Pacific Sun is certainly making efforts to track the sexual spectrum these days. Could a halfway decent bisex flick be in the works? One could say they are covering “all worlds…”

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May

12

Ex-COLT Hunk Returns to “American Gladiators”

May 12, 2008 | 5 Comments

Alex “Militia” Castro will be among the returning warriors when American Gladiators debuts its second season tonight on NBC (click here for his bio). Curious observers had wondered whether the 6′3 hunk of bald, bulging Cuban muscle would be dumped from the show when the blogosphere caught word that he was formerly known as COLT Man Elian Cortez. That didn’t happen. And why should it? We’ve had erotic performers pop up this season on Bravo (Michael Silas on Step It Up and Dance) and CBS (Oscar “Ozzy” Lusth on Survivor: Micronesia; “Crazy” James Zinkland on Big Brother 9) and the sky didn’t fall. Mr. Castro’s flex-and-pose run for COLT was fairly brief back in 2001, but it was memorable and has been repurposed in several calendars and playing card sets. Click here and here for our previous stories on him. And although Militia is one hunky man-mountain, season-one winner (and new Gladiator) Evan “Rocket” Dollard has the blond, innocent good looks and mischievous twinkle in his eye that set my own crotch “rocket” blazing (yeah, I had to go there. They named him “Rocket”!) [Image © NBC.]

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