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Max Schutler is Mr. Gay Argentina; Brad Benton Weighs In
November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Check it out, kids. The winner of Mr. Gay Argentina is a striking hottie by the name of Jorge Schmeda. He will represent his home country in the International Mr. Gay competition to be held January 19, 2008 in Hollywood. Mr. Schmeda is better known to Constant Readers by the nom de porn Max Schutler. Congrats! (Side note: Our own Christian Owen was a finalist for Mr. Gay USA, but he lost.) Read on for a bit of background, as well as commentary his gay porn compatriots Brad "Dylan Vox" Benton…
Max Schutler debuted in 2006 under the name of "Gustavo Nunez" for director Flash Conway‘s TANGO CITY. Soon afterwards he was snapped up by Falcon Studios (for one film), Hot House Video (two movies) and then Raging Stallion Studios, who quickly put him to good use. God, he’s fucking gorgeous! That TANGO CITY scene with his then-boyfriend Marcelo Romano is sensual, romantic and just flat-out fantastic. But his duo with Justin Christopher in MIRAGE is eye-popping hot; the sight of Mr. Christopher’s long, thick cock sliding between Mr. Schutler’s tight, muscular buns is a boner-inducing highlight of 2007 and should be a GAYVN/Grabby nominee.
He also appears in RUSH AND RELEASE for Falcon. For RSS he has so far filmed BANG THAT ASS (a co-production with Monster Bang Video), GRUNTS: THE NEW RECRUITS, not-yet-released GRUNTS: MISCONDUCT and the aforementioned MIRAGE. For Hot House it’s COMMUNION and JOCKSTRAP.
So which gay porn compatriot has weighed in on Jorge/Max’s selection as Mr. Gay Argentia? That would be Brad "Dylan Vox" Benton in an essay for GayWired.com and picked up by PageOneQ (here’s a link to the whole essay):
"…this week, Argentina announced their representative that will participating in the 2008 international event that takes place early next year. The winner is none other than sexy porn star Max Schutler… The question of one’s past hardly seems relevant in a competition like this, but it does raise the issue: What exactly constitutes a representative of the gay community, and how well do we as a community accept ourselves? … The competition is produced by the Noble Beast Foundation, which has created the competition to ‘raise the visibility of non-stereotypical gay men.’
"On their website, they claim that their goal is to ‘humanize gays in the media by providing alternative images for the press that represent more diversity in gay culture by showcasing leaders from around the world,’ and ‘confront homophobia by examples and press stories about gay men that show that gay is not a stereotype and do so in a way that creates the most impact and debate.’
"In the United States, gay porn is often looked upon as representing the gay community in a negative light, but other countries like Argentina have less hang ups about allowing their community to be represented by someone who has participated in the industry. For most naysayers, the problem isn’t so much that a porn star will be representing a country at the competition as it is about the validity of the competition itself.
"Mr. Gay USA was awarded last week to Jonathon "JT" Taylor from San Francisco. The sexy guy has two undergraduate degrees in business and biology and is currently working on his Master of Public Health and is planning to become a M.D. He seems like an amazing candidate to represent the gay community, and his amazingly hot looks couldn’t have hurt his chances of winning either. But if you really look at the field, they are all incredibly hot, with perfect shapes, great abs and fantastic smiles, so one begins to wonder: What is the competition really about?
"The organizers say they are "looking for all types of guys, from gym-bunny to math geek with a passion to lead," but the math geeks seem to have taken a much further back seat to the gym bunnies…like perhaps on a different bus.
"Unfortunately, there is very little information about the new Mr. Argentina other than he is the new cover boy of Guapo Magazine, but even if he is a rocket scientist, would that really have been the reason he won? The organizers insist that they are looking for the ‘unassuming average Joe who just may be spectacular precisely because he will inevitably say, ‘this is not my thing’,’ but looking at all of the participants and finalists from the past few years, one could hardly say that any of them are average. They are hot. Gay guys like hot guys. It’s that simple. Sure, it’s great if some brains and humor are attached to the package, but when it comes down to it, no one is going to give Woody Allen the Mr. Gay Title…
"Undoubtedly Mr. Gay Argentina will quickly and discretely fall to the wayside…in January. My thought is the American judges will not look so kindly on his porn background. But at least the Argentineans were looking at the competition for exactly what it is when they made their choice for a delegate: It’s a beauty pageant. It represents the finest looking gay men in the world, and it’s great that a porn star was chosen to be part of the event. There is nothing wrong with porn or rewarding and promoting beauty, but thinly disguising it as a means to conquer gay stereotypes seems like an injustice to the men involved. Sometimes it’s OK to call a spade a spade, and no one will object to the eye candy that will be present at the competition. But if Mr. Gay is truly trying to break down gay stereotypes, then they may have missed the mark."
Contact JC Adams at JCAdamsXXX@aol.com
[Images © Guinda Artist Agency.]
Official site: International Mr. Gay delegates
Official site: Max Schutler at Raging Stallion
Official site: Max Schutler at Falcon Studios
Official site: Max Schutle
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Now that is one handsome man…
These Mr. Gay contests are jokes. The winners are 9 times out of 10 stereo typical by definition. The USA winner usually is twinkish in appearance and very fem. The pageants are nothing but another weekend of debauchery for a bunch of gay boys.
this is so gay you dont look hott bitch.