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Bob Mizer's Homo Erotic World Uncovered



Bob Mizer's fabulous late-period full-color homoeroticaBob Mizer's fabulous late-period full-colour homoerotica published.

Bob Mizer spent 48 years making photos and films for his Athletic Model Guild, and 41 years publishing Physique Pictorial, America's first, and most explicitly gay physique magazine. His diaries, kept from the age of eight, make it clear that he was openly homosexual from his late teens, but until the age of 42 he lived and worked in his mother's L.A. rooming house, where his strict ethical code prevented him from fully expressing his fantasies. For 24 years he worked in black and white and never showed a completely naked man, but following his mother's death in 1964 Mizer built a kingdom dedicated to the pleasures of male flesh, and photographed fully nude men in explicit poses and psychedelically saturated colours.

In the 1970s and '80s Bob Mizer's compound, centered around the old rooming house, became home to dozens of his young models, who lived outdoors on couches and porch gliders among the chickens, geese, goats and monkeys, Roman statuary, cast off Christmas trees and other sundry props that featured in his increasingly quirky films and photography.

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Aqua at G-A-Y


Aqua at G-A-Y

G-A-Y is legendary when it comes to getting pop acts to London for performances. Madonna, Mariah, Britney, Christina, Kylie etc. but nonetheless, Aqua were an impressive bag

Just in case you are too butch for such things, Aqua is a Danish dance-pop group, best known for their 1997 breakthrough single "Barbie Girl".

The massive crowd of fans were rewarded too, with a fifteen track set! We weren’t really sure what to expect from the Aqua show – we assumed that it’d be a five song affair. Vocals varying between live and mimed, and performed to a backing CD. And we were actually really looking forward to that as it was! So obviously we, and a lot of other fans, left the show very happy indeed. They brought along a full band with them; backing singers, drums, keyboards, guitars, bass – far more than you’d have expected them to need. And they performed a whole concert’s worth of material completely live.


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Why Are 4 Poofs And A Piano Holding Hands?


4 Poofs And A Piano Endorse A Day In Hand, For The First International ‘Same-Sex Hand Holding (Sshh) Saturday’

A Day In Hand, the internationally successful campaign that has started a silent, same-sex hand holding revolution, gathers more momentum as the hit UK band, 4 Poofs And A Piano show their support in public. 

Ian from the Poofs (who are best known as the House Band on BBC 1’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross) said, “Same-sex couples should feel absolutely able to declare their love in public, and hand holding is a simple, yet powerful way to do this. I believe that seeing a same-sex couple holding hands in public challenges homophobia and raises awareness of the realities of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender lives. We encourage everyone to do the same.”

The Beatles, who made famous the crossing on Abbey Road, knew hand holding was important when they recorded “I Want To Hold Your Hand” in 1963. 46 years later, A Day In Hand believes that hand holding is important for all couples, gay and straight. The first ever international same-sex hand holding Saturday will be held on Saturday September 26th 2009. On this day, same-sex couples and friends all over the world are encouraged to hold hands in public to support the visibility of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgendered (LGBT) people.

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Matt Damon Goes Gay for Liberace


Matt DamonMatt Damon is set to play Liberaces gay lover, Scott Thorson, in a new big budget movie. 

Damon, famous for his action roles in the Bourne series, has agreed to take up the demanding role. Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas will play Librace. Director Steven Soderbergh is confident, "Matt accepted the challenge." 

"I'm sure Michael can teach me a few things, I'm pleased it's Michael," Matt said.

Asked if Matt thought he could live up to Michael's Basic Instinct co-star Sharon Stone, Matt joked, "Well I'm not doing that thing with my legs! I haven't actually thought about that stuff seriously. I'm sure it will be a bit awkward but the roles are great and the story is great and the script it great so we'll work out way through."

The as-yet-untitled film has been in the pipeline for seven years. It's due to start filming next summer. In 1982, Scott Thorson, Liberace's 24 year old bodyguard, driver, and live-in boyfriend of five years, sued the pianist for $113 million in palimony after an acrimonious split-up. 

   

Facebook Application Predicts Gay Men


Facebook Application Predicts Gay Men  Ever wanted to locate unidentified gay men on Facebook? Now there's an application for that. It was created by two students at MIT in America. They discovered that gay men tend to have more male Facebook friends of their own orientation.

The students, Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree, ran the program on 10 men who were gay, but didn't reveal that information on their profiles. The software predicted that all ten were gay.

The survey indicates that people who believe they are discreet online may still be making personal information about themselves public.

In total the MIT students ran the software on 947 people who did not disclose their sexual orientation on their profiles, but it failed to accurately identify lesbians or bisexuals of either gender.

Jernigan and Mistree say they are attempting to get their study, titled Gaydar, published in a scientific journal.

   

Absolut Vodka Goes Naked


Absolut Goes NakedIt's fashion week in London and a truly naked design will be unveiled. In honor of its 25th anniversary, Absolut Vodka will unveil No Label, a limited-edition, label-less and logo-less bottle.

No Label is part of “In an Absolut World, There Are No Labels,” an ambitious initiative by the vodka manufacturer to question prejudice and established norms of sexual identity.

Absolut was one of the first consumer brands to embrace the gay community, it ran ads featuring openly gay artists like Keith Haring as early as 1981. Absolut has consistently provided ideological and financial support to the LGBT equal-rights movement. As part of the project, Absolut is producing a 24-page booklet, in collaboration with Fantastic Man magazine, that will feature personal interviews on the subject of labels and prejudice with London-based creative types like the hairstylist Guido, the P.i.X editor Hanna Hanra, and the restaurateur David Waddington, with photographs by Alasdair McLellan.

The bottle itself has a sticker with a campaign manifesto that encourages consumers to discard their labels as a sign of solidarity with sexual minorities.

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