Gays, its summer 2010 so... EVERYBODY TAKE OFF YOUR SHIRTS

I am in the Deep South Aug. 3-9, and probably visiting the family in CT on 13th & 14th.

also, free Aretha Franklin show on 12th near Coney Island if anyone wants to join me.

Bolt Bus doesn't go from Chi either. Are you looking at the NJ buses?

elmo, i take it you made a good recovery then? looks fun!

definitely not recovered yet. apparently eating 6 (or more? i do not remember) pieces of thc-enhanced baklava does something to inhibit brain function for multiple days. that, and i must be getting older. ooh lawdy.

in short -- it was a lovely party, with lots of people in costume and plenty of shirtless men. 2 cases champagne were consumed. there will be more pictures later when i figure out my fine motor functions again.

i'll be in NYC from August 15-19 or something like that.

Stevie, i still have things that i got at the punk rock flea market 13 years ago.

that said, if i were to tell you that i would PAY YOU for the "Everyone Loves a Polish Girl" keychain, would you accept?

Wow! If times line up are we really going to have everyone but j0rdan, The Lex and Rev in NYC all at once? Crazy.

xp Yes but I am totally not accepting any money for it. I was hoping I'd find someone that wanted it rly bad (that was also ideally not actually a Polish girl).

I don't think I'm going to be in town the 15th to 19th!! (unless you wanted to come down here for a day)

Goddmanit c I keep thinking you're in Boston

i'll be in the 'environs' for most of august i reckon

Dear gay bwoyz,

Have a Jean Nate day!

xokjb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAMnjq2m7Nc

doesn't seem to be very cost effective, she used most of the bottle.

stevie, i'll be in philly from the 11th-15th or so. let's meet up? i will buy you a beer in exchange for that keychain. (you see, i am 50% polish.)

rewatching that jean nate commercial, i'm now convinced is 100% about watersports

that's a great commercial, i got inspired

hey gays -- never heard of this guy before. That's quite a Stud File.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/books/26secret.html

When the author Justin Spring finally tracked down the executor of Samuel Steward’s estate, he had no idea what this sexual outlaw and little-known literary figure had left behind after his death in 1993.

So he was taken unawares by the 80 boxes full of drawings, letters, photographs, sexual paraphernalia, manuscripts and other items, including an autograph and reliquary with pubic hair from Rudolph Valentino, a thousand-page confessional journal Steward created at the request of the sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, and a green metal card catalog labeled “Stud File,” which contained a meticulously documented record on index cards of every sexual experience and partner — Rock Hudson, Thornton Wilder, “One-eyed Sadist” — that Steward said he had had over 50 years.

An attic full of items contained a secret history of a little-documented strand of gay life in the middle decades of the 20th century. Steward’s experience stands in stark contrast to the familiar story of furtive concealment and persecution in the period before gay liberation. As new biographies of artists and writers like E.M. Forster detail the effects of sexual repression on their work, Steward’s history shows what a life of openness, when embraced, entailed day to day....

“It was an Aladdin’s cave of gay paraphernalia and record keeping that was covered with dust and smelled like dog,” said Mr. Spring, whose biography “Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade” is due out next month. (At the moment Mr. Spring is storing the collection.)

coolest pre-dr3w d4ni3l English professor?

surm are you still really skinny? i have a pair of pale pink'ish marc jacobs collection jean-cut pants that i bought in like 2005 and was WAY skinnier... obvs cant fit into them anymore but was gonna take them to like tokyo7 or beacons or something, unless you wanted to save me the trouble....

that guy sounds awesome, a+ will attempt purchase.

john waters spoke very highly of that book iirc

another reason to buy it.

i highly recommend Dennis C00per's new book, too. A great breadth of critical writings and interviews (with River Phoenix, Brad Renfro, Courtney Love, Leonardo Dicaprio, Keanu Reeves, Bob Mould, Stephen Malkmus, and JOHN WATERS himself). Really great read.

also, right now i am making italo-themed mix for my man.

a side:
1. vangelis- islands of the orient
2. amin peck- anxiety
3. azoto- anytime or place
4. doctor's cat- gee wiz
5. scotch- disco band
6. boney m- nightflight to venus
7. lindstrom- i feel space

b side:
1. doctor's cat- feel the drive
2. azoto- exalt exalt
3. baby's gang- challenger
4. major swellings- swingjende bjeller
5. black devil disco club- constantly no respect
6. lindstrom & prins thomas- turkish delight
7. daniele baldelli- pluton

<3 doctor's cat <3

doctor's cat might be the best italo group ever. just the two songs on this mix justify me saying so.

doctor's cat also = moon ray, who are responsible for this thing of wonder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=110k5hsSTjo

true. but i would also like to point to how awesome this is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNjjOI8tG1k

1996 IN RUSSIA. HOW GAY CAN WE GET.

Are there any collections of stuff from Italo groups who were consistently great? I have Kano's Greatest Hits (mostly awesome) and the Scotch compilation (okay).

italo's definitely more a singles genre than an albums one, although i'm pretty fond of valerie dore's arthurian concept album 'the legend' (her greatest hits contains most of that + other singles as well)

Yeah, I don't really follow DJ stuff so singles are hard for me to keep up with. I've known the I-Robots and the Disco Not Disco (even if this isn't all italo) comps but I guess those are pretty obvious. What else is there?

That Raggio Di Luna track is so so great. Love that 12, the instrumental is just as great.

Anyone ever listened to Razormaid's collections of Italo and related stuff?

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Razormaid-The-Epilogue-Back-To-Basics/release/339767

Like that one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mplTBpvCiac

Sound quality is crap, but that Scalla track is top 10 material for me.

btw I took off my shirt when I was dancing at the cafe next door to my work where J-Rocc from the Beat Junkies was djing a free show. he was totally pandering to my tastes. he played the Machine record!

hey, surm, just for you:

Many people are obsessed—and Franco has given them ample reason to be—with the question of whether he’s gay or straight. For a Hollywood heartthrob, he’s been unusually drawn to gay or bisexual roles: Allen Ginsberg, James Dean, Harvey Milk’s long-term boyfriend Scott Smith. Even seemingly straight roles—e.g., the pot dealer in Pineapple Express—end up bursting, in Franco’s hands, with homoerotic energy.

Although Franco has been silent on this subject, he seems to enjoy stoking the controversy. His art, across the spectrum, revels in gay culture. His student film The Feast of Stephen involves an extended fantasy scene in which a group of teenage boys gang-rape another boy—who then smiles meaningfully at the camera as the screen goes dark. (An intimate screening of the film was sponsored, last summer, by Butt magazine.) The narrator of Franco’s Esquire short story asks a friend: “Don’t you ever get jealous of those girls in pornos that get to be on their knees in the middle of all those dicks?” Franco researched his role for the 2002 film Sonny by hanging out at gay strip clubs in New Orleans, and even tagged along with a stripper as he serviced a male client in a hotel room. In a guest spot on 30 Rock, he played a version of himself whose sexual obsession with a Japanese body pillow is an open public secret—a perfect allegory for his alleged homosexuality.

When Franco mentioned to me, via e-mail, that he was leaning toward going to Yale for his Ph.D., the faculty member he singled out was Michael Warner. Warner happens to be one of the pioneers of queer theory, a school of thought born in the early nineties (just as Franco was hitting adolescence) that argues that sexuality is not a trivial, personal matter but fundamental to how we all experience the world. “Queer,” in this sense, transcends the simplistic binary of gay versus straight. As Warner puts it in his canonical anthology Fear of a Queer Planet, queer defines itself “against the normal rather than the heterosexual.” Thinking about sexuality—particularly exposing the assumptions embedded in heteronormative culture—is a form of radical social critique, a way to challenge arbitrary boundaries and institutions.

man i would just about die if he's gay

my NYU sources say he is

what, do you run with the nyu glory hole crew or something?

^^^ yet another autumn gay thread idear

phil, i am thin, but i too have gained a lot of weight. if your pants are less than a 30"w i will not fit into them at this point :/ i'm working on it

rev that's so cool that you abandoned all dancing inhibition

alfred that's quite a resume! i had no idea he was THAT queer-focused. very fun. lol his film and short story! too good

all time classic post from J0rdan there ^

+ phil thank u so much for thinking of me btw!!

no J0rd, my source is a regular on this thread. :)

jord, i had to do it.

I'd do Franco too.

end up bursting, in Franco’s hands

if only

the thing with that franco is that, unusually and shamefully, he's like the one celebrity that i get all mushy-eyed over and start thinking things like "we'd be perfect for each other", not just the usual "i want to do him". (that too though.)

*keeps shtum*

watched an ep of freaks and geeks recently and forgot how unreal dreamy he was on that show - not feeling this new 'omg marina abramovic is my bff' direction he's taken of late tho

phil, i am thin, but i too have gained a lot of weight. if your pants are less than a 30"w i will not fit into them at this point :/ i'm working on it

omfg at you

"gained a lot of weight"

"less than a 30"w"

I'm a 32". I'm so fat.

J, if you've gained weight I'm Kim Cattrall.

31-30 here.