tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8145494198384953242024-03-18T17:44:29.583-04:00NYSocBoy's Beefcake and BondingBeefcake, gay subtexts, and queer representation in mass media from the 1950s to the presentNYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.comBlogger3309125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-73469423924169637322024-03-18T06:54:00.002-04:002024-03-18T17:43:56.840-04:00"Cruising": Homophobic classic about sin, degradation, and dicks in a doomed gay world. With a nude Mr. Big<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ-6uXJIVqgTGh4I1a10181ImX6Enbbsmdna3S8_0VQKNP24sCUFYwdt4irgmZPkYMznYAs4kFRFseqHHRXA3u2ja0LgL0RMQ_4s3up4R2ihJUmAUYn9gIuGqUpU25LfPSfcxi9lWDbGve/s1600/cruising2.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ-6uXJIVqgTGh4I1a10181ImX6Enbbsmdna3S8_0VQKNP24sCUFYwdt4irgmZPkYMznYAs4kFRFseqHHRXA3u2ja0LgL0RMQ_4s3up4R2ihJUmAUYn9gIuGqUpU25LfPSfcxi9lWDbGve/s1600/cruising2.jpg" /></a> </p><div><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/cruising-homophobic-classic-about-sin.html" target="_blank"><b>Link to NSFW version</b></a></div><div><br /></div>During the 1970s and 1980s, gay men appeared in movies almost exclusively as limp-wristed hairdressers and drag queens with murderous split personalities. <i>Cruising,</i> 1980, promised something different: gay men with apartments, jobs, and hangouts; and who were masculine, actually super-macho, with muscles, club bulges, and leather chaps.<div><br /></div><div>Sounds like fun, right? Wrong.<br /><br />The tv promo said only that Al Pacino would play a cop who "disappears into the darkness," and the theatrical trail showed him putting on makeup, plus men dancing together, and brief flashes of the words "homosexual," "violence," "murder," "fear," and "sex"). <br />The movie wasn't playing in Rock Island, so one cold Saturday my boyfriend Fred and I drove an hour west to the college town of Iowa City to see our first gay movie, ever.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh68WC6Y_a7kVcj2APQ9Iw6hxlHuTw6FEtxDxyHra2X8wSGpYFS6s4FBojCghEMHI6NOuYO-wTskuRsj7EZMMcyYTpDJscSkSbvyYhKIBNgjsTXvQkeAebb9WS18LHvuMpijRb90ntFAKN4D7T7rstbxsPJlhpxMOqmODcdQwBEKtyFA-Vw9xX1TR_HU7M/s573/arnoldosantana.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="383" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh68WC6Y_a7kVcj2APQ9Iw6hxlHuTw6FEtxDxyHra2X8wSGpYFS6s4FBojCghEMHI6NOuYO-wTskuRsj7EZMMcyYTpDJscSkSbvyYhKIBNgjsTXvQkeAebb9WS18LHvuMpijRb90ntFAKN4D7T7rstbxsPJlhpxMOqmODcdQwBEKtyFA-Vw9xX1TR_HU7M/s320/arnoldosantana.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><br />The plot: in sleazy, decadent gay bar, a "homosexual" played by Arnaldo Santana cruises a mysterious stranger. After discussing what turned them gay, they go home together, where the stranger politely asks the "homosexual," to lie still while he stabs him to death. Santana complies!</div><div><br /></div><div>During the 1970s, criminologists often theorized about why gay men would pick up total strangers for sex. Some said that they were unable to control their "deviant" sexual desires, and others, that they were looking for a quick, easy way to destroy society by "wasting their seed" instead of making a baby. But most said that they felt so guilty over being gay that they wanted to be murdered.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC258ZURYY8qy3dCdglIHOXH_V802W2JKSOZBC4q83JFyQN3_1lWpGADkM0hta2hSAu1MpHgg_Wkcg-L1Le0FW8wkipCvO9on53UxIrQ_zg2jPu_yUzW9zCT_voINpXCDY6cNt4h6ioJoz/s1600/Cruising3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC258ZURYY8qy3dCdglIHOXH_V802W2JKSOZBC4q83JFyQN3_1lWpGADkM0hta2hSAu1MpHgg_Wkcg-L1Le0FW8wkipCvO9on53UxIrQ_zg2jPu_yUzW9zCT_voINpXCDY6cNt4h6ioJoz/w400-h216/Cruising3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>More bar pickups, more murders. There's a gay serial killer out there "targeting his own!" Police detective Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is asked to go undercover and catch him. </div><div><br /></div><div>So he moves into a sleazy apartment in the bad part of town, puts on a leather vest, applies makeup, and goes cruising.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkEONWcDIqFZ6q3QZ6BIjkfxjmvhn2b7RB3fz9bZ11sjXzXUxZAoI5z2Hkll48r4cPb8XjO-WmwHEQoVoMiEP4IXxW5bVnpku_TxUw76P-2KZG-16gjuncpILd9UVMD4WRUg7F5f8r8Hty/s1600/jamesRemar.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkEONWcDIqFZ6q3QZ6BIjkfxjmvhn2b7RB3fz9bZ11sjXzXUxZAoI5z2Hkll48r4cPb8XjO-WmwHEQoVoMiEP4IXxW5bVnpku_TxUw76P-2KZG-16gjuncpILd9UVMD4WRUg7F5f8r8Hty/s1600/jamesRemar.jpg" /></a></div>He befriends his next door neighbor (Don Scardino), but runs afoul of Ted's effeminate, histrionic dancer-boyfriend (James Remar).<br /><br />Occasionally Steve sees his girlfriend, but he becomes less and less interested in her as he is infected by the "gay lifestyle."</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>More sin, degradation, and dicks after the break</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_lErL9N-wEbaXV6B75vWjyfJPVVaK9q8WHthk7c9CIVtiic9wrmNfqJK4tgnCQMlb4hBOrTOZ_qcmrEyA-OgUvDTAjR3Ma3NniNxJQw3EIsE3FRg28t6ETBLmatIccl491LTDZXolW90w/s1600/Cruising1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_lErL9N-wEbaXV6B75vWjyfJPVVaK9q8WHthk7c9CIVtiic9wrmNfqJK4tgnCQMlb4hBOrTOZ_qcmrEyA-OgUvDTAjR3Ma3NniNxJQw3EIsE3FRg28t6ETBLmatIccl491LTDZXolW90w/s320/Cruising1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Eventually he finds the man he thinks is the killer, a disgruntled gay music student. But after they take him into custody, the Next-Door Neighbor's body is found, so they arrest the Histrionic Boyfriend. Is it just one of the usual gay lovers' quarrel-homicides, or is Gregory the real serial killer? Since all gay men are violent, it's hard to tell.<br /><br />Steve moves back in with his girlfriend. But it's too late, he's turned gay. He puts on his makeup and leather and heads out to the bars. Maybe he's a killer now, too.<br /><br />Brr. What have we learned about gay men? They all live in horrible neighborhoods, with artistic or creative jobs. In spite of their leather jackets and muscles, they're all makeup-wearing queens. They have no culture, no organizations, nothing but bars. </div><div><br /></div><div>They're obsessed with what "turned" them gay, desperate for a cure. hey're shallow, histrionic, and violent, with a strong death wish.</div><div><br /></div><div>Director William Friedkin was surprised when gay men picketed <i>Cruising.</i> He thought they would thank him for drawing attention to the small, "deviant" segment of their community who hooked up with strangers. Modern audiences can watch it as irony or even camp, but to a gay kid just starting to come out, it was more depressing than offense. A future with an apartment, a job, friends, and moments of happiness was apparently impossible. Gay meant desolation and despair in a criminal demimonde.</div><div><b><br />Bonus</b>: James Remar moved on from the histrionic, violent dancer Boyfriend to 181 acting roles listed on the IMBD. You may have seen him in T<i>he X-Files, North Shore, Grey's Anatomy, Animal Kingdom</i>, and <i>Oppenheimer. </i>He may be most famous for playing Mr. Big, aka Richard Wright, who dates Samantha on <i>Sex and the City.</i> </div><div><br /></div><div>Nude photos on <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/cruising-homophobic-classic-about-sin.html" target="_blank"><b>RG Beefcake and Boyfriends</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>See also:<b> <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/01/matthew-williams-bishop-leatherman.html" target="_blank">Matthew William Bishop: leatherman, muscleman, LGBTQ advocate.</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/10/hank-strongjericho-bodybuilder.html" target="_blank"><b>Hank Strong: Bodybuilder, firefighter, leather daddy</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-61287008694665306232024-03-18T06:54:00.000-04:002024-03-18T06:54:26.813-04:00The 9 Worst TV Series Finales in HistoryIf you watch every episode of a 100-episode sitcom, you've spend 2300 minutes or nearly 40 hours, not including reruns. That's the equivalent of 19 feature-length movies or 11 novels. A suzeable chunk of your life.<br />
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If it was a 60-minute dramatic series, make that 38 feature length movies and 22 novels. <br />
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Then comes the series finale. There will be no more episodes. <br />
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You know the characters better than many of your real-life friends. Saying goodbye is going to be painful. <br />
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For years you've set aside a special part of your week for the program. You rarely missed it, and when you did, you taped it to watch later. You watched all of the summer reruns.There will be a hole in your life for quite some time.<br />
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So you sit down for the series finale, hoping for a warm, funny, memorable sendoff. But instead, you get garbage. Mind-destroying, depressing, confusing, WTF garbage.<br />
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<b>May 10, 1983: </b><i>Laverne and Shirley </i>(1976-1983). A sitcom about two bromantic "girlfriends" sharing an apartment in 1950s Milwaukee, right? Except by 1983, there was just Laverne, it was Los Angeles, and the heart of the 1960s (Laverne's boyfriend is a <i>Star Trek </i>fan). Way to destroy your premise. <br />
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But the series finale isn't even about that; it's about Laverne's singer/dancer/male prostitute friend Carmine going to New York to audition for <i>Hair. </i><br />
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We don't find out if he got the role or not. And we don't see his nude scene.<br />
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<b>May 21, 1990: </b><i>Newhart </i>(1982-1990): For eight years, Bob Newhart played the owner of a bed and breakfast in a small New England town full of quirky residents, whom you grew fond of over the years. Who can forget "I'm Larry, and this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl?" <br />
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But on May 21st, 1990, Bob wakes up in bed as Dr. Bob Hartley, the psychologist in his old series, and tells his old wife, Emily, "What a dream I had!" Way to destroy beloved characters, Bob!<br />
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<b>July 20, 1994: <i>Dinosaurs </i>(1991-1994)</b>. A nuclear family spoof starring cute, cuddly dinosaurs in ABC's kid-friendly Friday night lineup. Remember "I'm the baby, gotta love me"? <br />
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How best to end the hearwarming series: how about with a eco-catastrophe that kills every dinosaur on the planet? Including the entire Sinclair family? Including the baby?<br />
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<b>May 20, 1997: </b>Roseanne (1988-1997). The queen of lower-middle class urban blight and her ragtag family spent eight seasons being the anti-Cosbys, not affluent, or educated, or elegant. It featured Johnny Galecki as a teenager with a terrible hairdo. Then Roseanne wins the lottery, and spends the last season hob-nobbing with the rich and famous.<br />
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That's not the worst of it, though -- in the last episode, we are told that this has all been a story that Roseanne has written. The real people are all different. Dan is dead. Jackie is a lesbian, so her husband and child don't exist. But Mom isn't a lesbian. The daughters switch husbands. Everything we thought we knew about the show is wrong.<div><br /></div><div>More terrible finales after the break</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br />
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<b>May 14, 1998: </b><i>Seinfeld </i>(1989-1998<i>). </i>In this execrable finale for what critics termed the best series in the history of television, the Fab Four are facing jail time for violating a "good Samaritan" law that, if it existed, would get them a fine, at most. <br />
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And everyone they've interacted with comes rushing to town to complain. Their honest attempts to help are recast as diabolical plots. Mistakes and accidents are recast as deliberate malice. Everything we thought we knew about the show is wrong. Oh, and they go to prison.<b><br /></b>
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<b>August 9, 1999: </b><i>Mystery Science Theater 3000</i> (1985-1999). For 12 years, Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank tortured the hapless heroes on the Satellite of Love, Joel/Mike and the bots, with "cheesy movies, the worst that we can find." The only way they could keep their sanity was to riff on the cheesy plots. In the series finale, Mike and the bots finally escape. <br />
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Do they change the world? Reveal the diabolical plot in a tell-all book? At least find a life far removed from their 12-year imprisonment? No -- they are shown living in a small apartment, eating pizza and riffing on bad movies.<br />
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At least they don't meet girls.<br />
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<b>September 8, 2004: </b><i>The Drew Carey Show </i>(1995-2004). This program was all about setting: the sprawling Winfred-Lauder Department Store in downtown Cleveland, where Drew worked as a middle-management drudge, Mr. Wick as head of personnel, and Mimi as his secretary. <br />
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So how to handle the last season: end the department store, drop some of the characters, and give the others nonsensical new jobs at a new store. Oh, and have Drew and Mimi live together, raising a 10-year old boy who was a baby last season.<br />
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<b>May 18, 2006:</b> <i>Will and Grace </i>(1998-2006). After endless seasons of proclaiming that gay men are really women, that gay men all have sex with women, that gay people simply do not exist, <i>Will and Grace </i>went out with a bang: Will and his cop beau adopt a daughter, Grace and her husband gave birth to a son, and twenty years later, the son and daughter marry. <br />
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Whatever momentary glitch being gay caused in the cosmic order, it has been resolved with a man and a woman gazing into each other's eyes forever.<br /><br />
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<b>May 20, 2010: </b><i>Lost </i>(2004-2010). For five seasons, we were told that the crash survivors facing paranormal peril on a crazy island weren't in Purgatory. Well, guess what -- they are. Well, actually, in an alternate world where they forget that they were ever on the island, until they are reminded. Then they get back together and go into the light. <br />
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And Vincent the Dog dies.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>See also: <a href="https://everydayheterosexism.blogspot.com/2013/02/10-things-i-love-and-hate-about-seinfeld.html" target="_blank">12 Things I Love and Hate about<i> Seinfeld</i></a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-deep-reading-of-season-2-finale.html" target="_blank">Gemstones Season 2 Finale: The Godfather, Butch and Sundance, nude dudes, and "My love for you will never die.</a>"</b> Not the series finale, but an example of a season finale that's well done.</div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-31602724750965364282024-03-17T19:59:00.001-04:002024-03-18T07:50:13.588-04:00Erin go Feirc: Nine Kilkenny cocks and Dublin dicks, plus a dolmen, a castle, and the Londonderry wall<p><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/erin-go-bragh-nine-kilkenney-cocks-and.html" target="_blank"><b><br /> Link to NSFW version </b></a></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5EwGNjMrrM-y8DJarLQu2nAKRwue27Pk9_-yRxIvmURfIgTvnvE9sc2m6DIg5dvkyrTY5dTPJgFUSAeAVjD2HqbjFjSOLUbRZN0j1b9BD-7fBMt0jJaqBErpenRcBCsrrBrzEcpsszDU28IPH52nDgQcyl178MOEVjsv7oDTOKMwUo5RHey3TTCdLFbw/s531/Pair%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="522" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5EwGNjMrrM-y8DJarLQu2nAKRwue27Pk9_-yRxIvmURfIgTvnvE9sc2m6DIg5dvkyrTY5dTPJgFUSAeAVjD2HqbjFjSOLUbRZN0j1b9BD-7fBMt0jJaqBErpenRcBCsrrBrzEcpsszDU28IPH52nDgQcyl178MOEVjsv7oDTOKMwUo5RHey3TTCdLFbw/s320/Pair%20(1).jpg" width="315" /></a></div><br />I visited Ireland several years ago to research language education. First stop: Glenstal Abbey School, near Limerick, about 2 hours southwest of Dublin.<p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1q7VMUzQTlovv7RX4Bc1v0SGaZPDuE4qGdCxsKquhxJ2JYiqcivD7gpx_48rj6Ccvm0DLkYfLKnuxvUJcV2_RD_GfarMnV58N0oqMJAyFlZPfwFMlOLvJq5Cw2kzq4qdJkY22quE69VlYq858zpTmce0Kd8e-kDhRP81Jv2f2NbIDN75ekKDsliz5kVU/s628/glenstal2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="628" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1q7VMUzQTlovv7RX4Bc1v0SGaZPDuE4qGdCxsKquhxJ2JYiqcivD7gpx_48rj6Ccvm0DLkYfLKnuxvUJcV2_RD_GfarMnV58N0oqMJAyFlZPfwFMlOLvJq5Cw2kzq4qdJkY22quE69VlYq858zpTmce0Kd8e-kDhRP81Jv2f2NbIDN75ekKDsliz5kVU/w400-h225/glenstal2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The abbey entrance<p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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There are still some tensions between Roman Catholics, who generally favor uniting with Ireland, and Protestants, who want to stay British.<p></p><p>Londonderry, about an hour's drive from Belfast, can also be called Derry, depending on who you want to argue with.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzFVwVPVoRhTxb4YPNjoGdqQIFWR738qjJk_AQYF1xOlmwcg-t5OPR2DmXrFVItXUjVl7q_I-7Xl7FdP-iuEGwQy6DBkV_X9lo_0gjfcTbzXcdJW-vCf-XyhA9XdyTdq0Xjz7pKzRWY8IBd0Zi7Itjx8ht3urOEAvE52ojoZ84QaYP7DF9AN7LxcXAUEM/s460/LondonderryDanceAcademy.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="350" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzFVwVPVoRhTxb4YPNjoGdqQIFWR738qjJk_AQYF1xOlmwcg-t5OPR2DmXrFVItXUjVl7q_I-7Xl7FdP-iuEGwQy6DBkV_X9lo_0gjfcTbzXcdJW-vCf-XyhA9XdyTdq0Xjz7pKzRWY8IBd0Zi7Itjx8ht3urOEAvE52ojoZ84QaYP7DF9AN7LxcXAUEM/w304-h400/LondonderryDanceAcademy.jpg" width="304" /></a></div>Londonderry pirate dancer<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVn2O-qM4yaL4EQhRDse_JdITVr8C_kgMNxds6Xdl8Hy5EUEmlwgeb5BbCMtZFMiiLAr86gFPSh6i__90LVhHZv9d1cpFK5y8poUxuflruRJmZzkS1pb8X7BnklZEMRgEQipigAW28a8SHDwkMWGt4dH7yT-Z8OpOMgDjYlJh_HcFb2NVSc-bhTCk4X7k/s492/0001armagh.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="492" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVn2O-qM4yaL4EQhRDse_JdITVr8C_kgMNxds6Xdl8Hy5EUEmlwgeb5BbCMtZFMiiLAr86gFPSh6i__90LVhHZv9d1cpFK5y8poUxuflruRJmZzkS1pb8X7BnklZEMRgEQipigAW28a8SHDwkMWGt4dH7yT-Z8OpOMgDjYlJh_HcFb2NVSc-bhTCk4X7k/s320/0001armagh.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><i>Feirc, </i>meaning "dagger hilt," is one of over 50 old Irish words for "penis."</div><div><br /></div><div>The nude photos are on <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/erin-go-bragh-nine-kilkenney-cocks-and.html" target="_blank"><b>RG Beefcake and Boyfriends</b></a><p></p></div><div><b>See also: <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/10/ten-magnificent-muscle-munns.html" target="_blank">Ten hot/hung Gavins and magnificent muscle Munns.</a></b></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-60133009945279364322024-03-17T19:58:00.000-04:002024-03-17T19:58:43.116-04:00Gemstones Season 2 Finale: The Godfather, Butch and Sundance, random nude dudes, and "My love for you will never die."<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK4vPbsrIbCxOdZY5squDgDrv4Fc8ufSS6byuS_LfNFBimbnTKXvhT1Tl-IhKJSFteWvxtvxk0VOm0CAFAjA6XYx3zD_OZTxuQzez7Bc6MILzsZ_Iz78NSNDY81bUfvBgeSh8v0bU3dghGiNhUw1z0sol3Ira92PHwMge3POifJ5HhhpHp4Pgt09Nevkc/s376/paulnewman.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="301" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK4vPbsrIbCxOdZY5squDgDrv4Fc8ufSS6byuS_LfNFBimbnTKXvhT1Tl-IhKJSFteWvxtvxk0VOm0CAFAjA6XYx3zD_OZTxuQzez7Bc6MILzsZ_Iz78NSNDY81bUfvBgeSh8v0bU3dghGiNhUw1z0sol3Ira92PHwMge3POifJ5HhhpHp4Pgt09Nevkc/w320-h400/paulnewman.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>This is the G-rated version of the review, with no nudity or explicit sexual discussions. <div><br /></div><div><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-deep-reading-of-season-2-finale.html" target="_blank"><b>Link to the NSFW version</b></a><br /><br /><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Previous: <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-kelvin-x-keefe-reading-of-episode-29_19.html" target="_blank">Episode 2.9, Continued: A perfect Christian, the Lion King, naked twinks, and lovers in old photographs</a></b><br /><p></p><p>The series finales on T<i>he Righteous Gemstones </i>are meant to tie up any remaining loose ends and say goodbye to the characters, so we should expect little or no plot development, just a lot of hugging: everyone who has had lost, frayed, or troubled relationships during the season, lovers, friends, parents and children, siblings, will be reconciled.</p><p><b>Hold on tight to the one you love the most</b>: A blackened stage. Suddenly a spotlight on Jesse. He begins the country-western song "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend," by Don Williams. Then Kelvin, lying on a platform, raising a finger to Heaven. Then Judy and the choir, as she walks up stage. Then all three siblings together. </p><p><i> Coffee black, cigarettes. Start the day like all the rest. </i></p><p><i>First thing every moning that I do, is start missing you.</i></p><p><i>Some broken hearts never mend. Some memories never end. </i></p><p><i>Some tears will never dry. My love for you will never die. </i></p><p>Except this song is not about lost love, it's about mended hearts. You're supposed to look at or point to a loved one. Kelvin starts out by pointing at audience stage left, obviously at Keefe, who points to himself and then back. <i>My love for you will never die,</i></p><p>BJ waves, presumably at Judy. Cut to Amber and the kids; then Baby Billy, Tiffany, and the baby; he looks back at Harmon, his no-longer estranged son; and finally Eli looks out at the audience. </p><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitv-MZb68u27hU_UTQzK3S_UxmDzkSO29Ua0zGinPmrLJWmIrmaUPGRmwhEM7cGG9xdFnBDBGSMN-tvmqaUlpCH8T8XSCZbow_uQ677EdPrvGHH8xGN9NmHz9GDxDivoCffjD0EnKJHLqBNOuvdR6hVSyJWOD1RBmy5dYDYAsI5RJmeVI7Mu8_3mPQ7Vw/s620/Butch2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="620" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitv-MZb68u27hU_UTQzK3S_UxmDzkSO29Ua0zGinPmrLJWmIrmaUPGRmwhEM7cGG9xdFnBDBGSMN-tvmqaUlpCH8T8XSCZbow_uQ677EdPrvGHH8xGN9NmHz9GDxDivoCffjD0EnKJHLqBNOuvdR6hVSyJWOD1RBmy5dYDYAsI5RJmeVI7Mu8_3mPQ7Vw/w400-h240/Butch2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />In the middle of love's embrace</b>: Flashback to the Alaska Commercial Company, a grocery store chain with 33 locations in Alaska, mostly in rural areas. The Lissons, in hiding after their murders and attempts, are buying -- <i>coffee to go? </i>Martin has them under surveillance.<p></p><p>Back in church, Eli looks at the band as the siblings sing the second verse together. Then Jesse and Kelvin, looking up to heaven.</p><p> <i>Rendezvous in the night.</i></p><p><i>In the middle of love's embrace, I see your face</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Wait -- they see God while their partners Amber and Keefe are going downtown? Makes sense.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieoPJcOjh3ZxuzEn1k0Fa-OrKM-Y55VudicyibY0LgsDobxhKfy6prK8GBO-OXTtR_ZEJtTg9aLBH2TlhuGyH2Q_X2sWxKNvaDM0cUr3BRSnM-YgKo1erlR0yalCDdpbkNvnIGC9bg4qUbPfa5SxPUX1dqO1Y3ITT9PtMESsKmjavQ3y6xwIw9wUYqVC8/s699/01paul2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieoPJcOjh3ZxuzEn1k0Fa-OrKM-Y55VudicyibY0LgsDobxhKfy6prK8GBO-OXTtR_ZEJtTg9aLBH2TlhuGyH2Q_X2sWxKNvaDM0cUr3BRSnM-YgKo1erlR0yalCDdpbkNvnIGC9bg4qUbPfa5SxPUX1dqO1Y3ITT9PtMESsKmjavQ3y6xwIw9wUYqVC8/w286-h400/01paul2.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><br />Cut to the Lissons in their cabin, watching <i>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</i>, where the gay-subtext bank robbers, played by Robert Redford, top photo, and Paul Newman, left, are trapped, with no escape, so they go out shooting. <p></p><p> <i>Some broken hearts never mend. </i><i> Some memories never end.</i></p><p><i>Some tears will never dry. </i><i>My love for you will never die.</i></p><b>The Cycle Ninjas</b>: Cycle Ninjas on glittering metallic snowmobiles zoom through the woods. <div><br /><div>Lyle looks out the window and yells "Get the guns!"</div><div><br /></div><div>Back at the church, the siblings point at each other. Eli smiles. <p><b>The First Chorus:</b> The congregation rises to sing the chorus.</p><p>We see Chad and his wife, who have been having marital problems since Season 1; Martin and his often seen, never-named wife; Judy and BJ; Junior and Tan Man, Baby Billy and Tiffany, Amber and the kids. Then the siblings again. <i>Wait, I thought the Tan Man was just Junior's assistant. Is there a gay relationship going on back in Memphis? </i></p><p>In the flashback, the Lissons get out their guns and tell each other that God believes in them: "God will see us through, for we are the Chosen." <i>Where on Earth did Lyle get that idea? </i></p><p>More broken hearts after the break</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p><b>The Second Chorus: </b>Imitating a scene in <i>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</i>, Lyle throws a chest from the second floor. It contains Lindsey, who opens fire. The Cycle Ninjas shoot her. </p><p>Panicking, Lyle runs from the cabin in his underwear. The Cycle Ninjas aim at him, but then think, why waste bullets? He'll freeze to death if the wolves don't get him first. Eli grins at the camera. </p><p> <i>Some broken hearts never mend. Some memories never end.</i></p><p><i>Some tears will never dry. My love for you will never die.</i></p><p>Kelvin points off camera at Keefe again.</p><p><b>Who killed the Lissons?</b> It looks like Eli hired the Cycle Ninjas to kill the Lissons, but that would go against his entire plot arc of the season: rejecting the violence in his past and trying to be a better person. Earlier he was suspected of murdering Thaniel, the other men at his house, and Glendon. He was innocent. </p><p>So who hired them? The Cycle Ninjas wanted revenge on Lyle for not paying them for their assassination attempt. Does it make more sense that Martin told them where the Lissons were and bankrolled their new snowmobiles? </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Xn0dv2wg96py1zpxOByY8dOzCWzZaqtE5VNJYMGnRUesI0DHq18IWIi4ipTtCjv3SsS1CMKCqji7A5Y87JOeJ_kEZH2ObuPxtRdc9aMshz7s71JkdR2LNIoLw0mp7mOQYaNVZgc0pTinK1P0ZyIp0WPY6VTevSavPsqAN_CPtHtVOzOGqsxDXkAYIyc/s540/01al.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="540" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Xn0dv2wg96py1zpxOByY8dOzCWzZaqtE5VNJYMGnRUesI0DHq18IWIi4ipTtCjv3SsS1CMKCqji7A5Y87JOeJ_kEZH2ObuPxtRdc9aMshz7s71JkdR2LNIoLw0mp7mOQYaNVZgc0pTinK1P0ZyIp0WPY6VTevSavPsqAN_CPtHtVOzOGqsxDXkAYIyc/s320/01al.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Maybe not. This scene is an homage to a scene in <i>The Godfather</i> (1972) where Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), the new head of the Corleone crime family, orders the murders of his rivals while he is attending the baptism of his sister's kid. Shots of the baptism and the murders are juxtaposed, like shots of the Lissons' murders and the church service are juxtaposed here. <p></p><p>Next question: The Big Bads of the other seasons are redeemed; why aren't the Lissons? Because their sins are greater? Threatening Eli's children is an unforgiveable sin -- until next season. Or maybe it is related to what Minister Mike told Lyle at the orphanage: you get mean when no one loves you.</p><p> </p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnL8-Z8_-PvyYjOakD6kcOrUzsfeASFgA8jupo-Gq7dpc-R4Nfy_V8e8kQPAq3gEjbtkVU2dW9E1E5i18ruvV_RaMRzB-8nu_P7U7TL5tk6ZTL3p5Y_gIbVoDekw2WrzHevykTJPHF_2uDJvvCFH8PQmfeANqfkAoEfY5vEyS_G41iBggapGntDvd0dK4/s399/finale.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="399" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnL8-Z8_-PvyYjOakD6kcOrUzsfeASFgA8jupo-Gq7dpc-R4Nfy_V8e8kQPAq3gEjbtkVU2dW9E1E5i18ruvV_RaMRzB-8nu_P7U7TL5tk6ZTL3p5Y_gIbVoDekw2WrzHevykTJPHF_2uDJvvCFH8PQmfeANqfkAoEfY5vEyS_G41iBggapGntDvd0dK4/w400-h346/finale.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br />The Third Chorus</b>: Another run-through of the congregation, except this time Junior and the Tan Man grin at each other, Chad puts his arm around his wife, BJ's parents warm up to the service, and Keefe points to himself and then to Kelvin. <i>They get two opportunities to sing "My love for you will never die."</i><p></p><p>Zion's Landing will now be a Gemstone resort. The siblings hug. Eli sings. Lyle has frozen to death as wolves approach. The end.</p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeAu7BhOwguwlGKJlh1Fc48kZ4TRGS3NHgA0sJUEL5DvUkXpzlNG3lvFbtct5fVNc_X9_4C9J2FeAO4z10l3nokJ0oqXkmaSBFOJd0e6R9faTrlsXoNS0YceXzNIej_sa4_KRsXiAn26G8yFC4uReJPaqzRaIGlDKgeawQTcV3KQLaKx9iAerkdZfCs8k/s426/kelvinkeefe2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="426" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeAu7BhOwguwlGKJlh1Fc48kZ4TRGS3NHgA0sJUEL5DvUkXpzlNG3lvFbtct5fVNc_X9_4C9J2FeAO4z10l3nokJ0oqXkmaSBFOJd0e6R9faTrlsXoNS0YceXzNIej_sa4_KRsXiAn26G8yFC4uReJPaqzRaIGlDKgeawQTcV3KQLaKx9iAerkdZfCs8k/w320-h280/kelvinkeefe2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />McBride didn't know, at this point, if the series would be renewed for a third season, so he wrote as if this was the last we would ever see of the Gemstones. And he wrote of relationships being mended and affirmations of love. The end.</div><div><p></p><p>Whoops, I accidentally posted a photo of Kelvin and Keefe from Season 3. Oh, well, now you know what's coming up.</p><p>A random naked guy to tide you over. </p></div><div>Eric Andre, Al Pacino, Robert Redford, and Paul Newman on <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-deep-reading-of-season-2-finale.html" target="_blank"><b>RG Beefcake and Boyfriends</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>See</b>: <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/12/season-2-memes-hugging-cooking-swishing.html"><b>Season 2 memes: Kelvin swishes, the God Squad eats, Kelvin asks about sex, and I don't get that Easy Bake Oven</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/12/nude-photos-of-eric-andre-horny-best.html" target="_blank"><b>Eric Andre: Penis pics of demonic best buddy, trickster, and Gemstones Big Bad</b></a></div></div></div></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-30433834303273538982024-03-17T06:12:00.003-04:002024-03-17T11:16:57.054-04:00Two questions about Paul Mescal: Does he appear in anything good? And is it ok to post dick pics?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcMBvqogHXx2l-dloS1-WPckyqXCjp0OxmKp_2ffOILRi-RvFqAh0xe5gmQXhcSSixBd0ETB-WxBC4mdDVvz06P9kwPMxcRbK3u2fH7-UT8g9O8o3ta8VvXVYoqibk03WQpip_tz_BL9nD5uwqSbYZY_4PkuA_s2JCzYKVKB4GFTOwfoU4bCWva32UUxQ/s558/paul01.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcMBvqogHXx2l-dloS1-WPckyqXCjp0OxmKp_2ffOILRi-RvFqAh0xe5gmQXhcSSixBd0ETB-WxBC4mdDVvz06P9kwPMxcRbK3u2fH7-UT8g9O8o3ta8VvXVYoqibk03WQpip_tz_BL9nD5uwqSbYZY_4PkuA_s2JCzYKVKB4GFTOwfoU4bCWva32UUxQ/w321-h400/paul01.jpg" width="321" /></a></div><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/two-questions-about-paul-mescal-does-he.html" target="_blank"><b>Link to NSFW version</b></a><br /><br /><div>Paul Mescal was born in Maynooth, Ireland, about 30 minutes west of Dublin. He graduated from Trinity College in 2017, and went to work in the theater, getting roles in <i>The Great Gatsby, The Plough and the Stars, A Midsummer Night's Dream</i>, <i>A Streetcar Named Desire</i> and <i>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</i>. </div><div><p></p><p> In 2020 he broke into television with a starring role in <i>Normal People</i>, about two Trinity College undergrads in love.</p><p>Wait -- why are they "normal people"? Do they have some marginalized trait, like being autistic? Reading the description, it doesn't sound like it. Marianne is rich and outspoken, Paul an A-list athlete. <i>Sounds like "Love Story." </i>The only conflict I can see is that they both have friends who would oppose the match, so they have to keep it a secret. I guess "normal" just means being heterosexual, as opposed to gay.</p><p>Apparently the two have a lot of sex, with long scenes of them being languid in each other's arms afterwards, so if you can find some way to crop the girl out, you can get a lot of dick pics. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj927vCCtPJ93ZKKm6cP9Mo6KjRWL1fFnMnjrNfcVG6l1lB7fvNZvDBvlIlhq9jlRhcZ0h1bmgLXQerVYWGKCXlOZo6GggjMLNqseu3q6R7nrB38GhASJMPmh0AnNKbt10WEz0Z5qPEbdcaBh1FgeG1T4TwHpo8NsReSm4W7LJ8aHVFF8tuWfY3C9bpw-k/s603/PaulCarmen.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="556" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj927vCCtPJ93ZKKm6cP9Mo6KjRWL1fFnMnjrNfcVG6l1lB7fvNZvDBvlIlhq9jlRhcZ0h1bmgLXQerVYWGKCXlOZo6GggjMLNqseu3q6R7nrB38GhASJMPmh0AnNKbt10WEz0Z5qPEbdcaBh1FgeG1T4TwHpo8NsReSm4W7LJ8aHVFF8tuWfY3C9bpw-k/w369-h400/PaulCarmen.jpg" width="369" /></a></div><br />But wait -- Buzzfeed News tells us that "Paul Mescal just called out a woman who made him "really angry" by telling him she'd seen him naked and saved a nude screenshot." <p></p><p>The woman approached him in a bar and said: "<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">I didn’t think the show was any good, but I saw your willy and I have a photo!”</span></p><p>His response: “Truly gross. What is a person supposed to reply to something like that? That's fucking rude!"</p><p>I can understand his reaction: you haven't seen the actor naked, you've seen the character he is portraying. Besides, even if you did see someone's dick without an invitation, like in the urinals or the locker room, why would you brag to them about it? It would be like saying "I'm stalking you."</p><p>But he brings up a question: is seeing an actor's penis on screen substantially different from seeing his face, or his bare chest? The aesthetic appeal of the actor's face and physique adds to our enjoyment of the movie, in some cases quite a lot. But does the penis move the scene away from the aesthetic into the erotic? And is that inappropriate?</p>I don't think so. An actor's work can be enjoyed on many levels. Faces and physiques can be quite erotic, and a penis has aesthetic appeal. Viewers can enjoy an image in many ways, for what it reveals about the character, for its placement in the narrative, for its symbolic value, because it is beautiful, or because it is hot. <i>Especially with the girl cropped out.</i><p></p><p>Next question: Does Paul star in anything good? That is, with gay characters, gay subtexts, or an intriguing premise, and minimal red flags like terminal illness.</p><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSU099KmT_OlpY4dHv5P6PdNSfr35NieVnuCJZ_DMY4mUneYOBz2xhd9huCoz4J-QxgI3qdhgEZoawA44f65ycMD-xgjMioBcu3kWrvAw22PLmsdfQrwi9eV7G2VjrudoufbZL7R2xAdc9WPuO3Pxc2PG8pDSiGEYP3FIab9DHQ-ZW_JC8YwV61uFL49w/s435/PaulDick.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="435" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSU099KmT_OlpY4dHv5P6PdNSfr35NieVnuCJZ_DMY4mUneYOBz2xhd9huCoz4J-QxgI3qdhgEZoawA44f65ycMD-xgjMioBcu3kWrvAw22PLmsdfQrwi9eV7G2VjrudoufbZL7R2xAdc9WPuO3Pxc2PG8pDSiGEYP3FIab9DHQ-ZW_JC8YwV61uFL49w/s320/PaulDick.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Normal People </i>is out. I'm turned off by the implication that being heterosexual is "normal," so being gay is "abnormal." Besides, it's just a collegiate romance. We've seen hundreds of them. <p></p><p>According to the IMDB, Paul next appeared in four episodes of <i>The Deceived</i>, 2020: A university student falls in love with her prof, who may have killed his wife. Paul's character is in love with her. Looking for gay content, I found a reference to a subplot on a discussion board, but nothing about it appears in reviews. Nope.</p><i>The Lost Daughter</i>, 2021: A university professor on holiday in Greece remembers being a "selfish and unnatural" mother who had an affair and abandoned her family. Yuck.<div><br /></div><div>More after the break</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /><p></p><p><i>God's Creatures</i>, 2022. "In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong" I'm looking for something<i> interesting</i>, innit?</p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqwepA3MGwVxH3UOyVLrggjCKTwgPAoGTFKxrSLhqmOGxPG2ys4Y-NA7q7IYdA9DUsWChz1kblU9gOUvuEjEkxUPfBQ7PwQfyB-cnYHDT8TIYhapOtc5GbUTqJswkO1NI4p0jUseMHqrGJEixg8S6WhQN0S3Arrp4rxQYURdnw35zEuLgVyENLndfi-tI/s438/01paul4.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="438" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqwepA3MGwVxH3UOyVLrggjCKTwgPAoGTFKxrSLhqmOGxPG2ys4Y-NA7q7IYdA9DUsWChz1kblU9gOUvuEjEkxUPfBQ7PwQfyB-cnYHDT8TIYhapOtc5GbUTqJswkO1NI4p0jUseMHqrGJEixg8S6WhQN0S3Arrp4rxQYURdnw35zEuLgVyENLndfi-tI/s320/01paul4.jpg" width="320" /></a><i></i></div><i><br />Aftersun</i>, 2022: "Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier, Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between..." <div><br /></div><div>I watched the trailer. It was mostly the father and daughter swimming toward each other in a pool, holding hands,k issing elbows, and getting jealous over each other's romantic partners. </div><div><br />They're in love, I get it. You don't have to be so blatant about it.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Carmen,</i> 2022; the story told "through an experimental dreamscape." It's the story of a dying prostitute. Nope.</div><div><br /></div><div><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJStNVSLsFhPU0EPDeK3CgpJFVQ_rQEkfcMIwOMmWfB4cQCZoY1yQvJQk5688B01IiEJQXsA_H8Ewbvwr2-UwhjLhzr44AJJoJPX5josTmKo0v64OBQvRptxYZnc_vmOCEWv_o6ztJJx3fPY65CnIgFT11MOYL3QGEn3VibLQTTdkkOVicPoxWzfW9-8A/s564/01paul06a.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="564" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJStNVSLsFhPU0EPDeK3CgpJFVQ_rQEkfcMIwOMmWfB4cQCZoY1yQvJQk5688B01IiEJQXsA_H8Ewbvwr2-UwhjLhzr44AJJoJPX5josTmKo0v64OBQvRptxYZnc_vmOCEWv_o6ztJJx3fPY65CnIgFT11MOYL3QGEn3VibLQTTdkkOVicPoxWzfW9-8A/w400-h193/01paul06a.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />All of Us Strangers</i>, 2023. A guy grieving over his dead parents -- who died when he was 12 -- falls in love with his downstairs neighbor, who happens to be -- spoiler alert -- a ghost. Hey, a gay romance! </div><div><br /></div><div>But the ghost gets a girlfriend, and there's a lot about death, dying, grieving, saying goodbye, letting go. <i>Geez, f*k the Sadness</i>! And kissing elbows. Is that, like, Paul's fetish? </div><div><i><br />Foe</i>, 2023: Hen and Junior have been living a quiet life as farmers for many years, but it all changes when a stranger knocks on the door. Wait -- Paul Mescal is 28 years old. How is he being cast as a middle-aged farmer? </div><div><br /></div><div>The plot synopsis sneakily avoids telling you that this is a post-Apocalyptic sci-fi story, and the stranger represents Big Brother as well as competition for Hen. Next!</div><div><p>That's all to date, but let's look at his upcoming movies, just in case.</p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju1zkqikNNI7C2A3Sjtpj3uSrUS4ioV9tDeeCplcBXXPAprmxF-lef0uQpX0BVdvZo8hIhTF0639D_uC2JVDgqcPyyQBv7bmk1fL39F5olvb2jrQ_gc-MyYaLr6VhxRK2zbfnOnwGWUDvUaWaIEvbQE1u8SfiunOetjPESkqLXZxds_E4q0hyifw9X4eU/s525/pualmescal.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="402" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju1zkqikNNI7C2A3Sjtpj3uSrUS4ioV9tDeeCplcBXXPAprmxF-lef0uQpX0BVdvZo8hIhTF0639D_uC2JVDgqcPyyQBv7bmk1fL39F5olvb2jrQ_gc-MyYaLr6VhxRK2zbfnOnwGWUDvUaWaIEvbQE1u8SfiunOetjPESkqLXZxds_E4q0hyifw9X4eU/s320/pualmescal.jpg" width="245" /></a></i></div><i><br />Hamnet</i>: Agnes Shakespeare grieves over her dead son, Hamnet, which Billy uses as the inspiration for <i>Hamlet.</i> I thought he married Anne Hathaway, and the theory that Hamnet's death inspirted <i>Hamlet</i> -- a man ordered by the ghost of his father to kill his uncle -- has been completely discredited. Anyway, death, dying, grieving, loss...nope.<p></p><p><b>The answers</b>: No, and yes.</p><p>The dick pics are on <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/two-questions-about-paul-mescal-does-he.html" target="_blank"><b>RG Beefcake and Boyfriends</b></a></p><p><br /></p></div></div></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-48993282057327750902024-03-16T18:02:00.000-04:002024-03-16T18:02:49.361-04:00"Solar Opposites": Skyler Gisondo and Kieran Culkin as a human and an alien bat-monster in love<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy7bRgHMnPwg7Be5MtlwL1DbqyhtHq7HFmstHOC62TLuFci7KpR4TxLjbUAPtYBoBqF8mP3rKz2U2B1DE-vYO6RUMX-hj3seTS2ANp3_J5_XCByPleXIXFkjjIQ9iuGjEU38hNrBN3gsh4XVmqwrZxyDCCI2atrNIPc11ahU3NOfqX7gFOQB-1zX-C_fM/s610/SkyZy.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="610" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy7bRgHMnPwg7Be5MtlwL1DbqyhtHq7HFmstHOC62TLuFci7KpR4TxLjbUAPtYBoBqF8mP3rKz2U2B1DE-vYO6RUMX-hj3seTS2ANp3_J5_XCByPleXIXFkjjIQ9iuGjEU38hNrBN3gsh4XVmqwrZxyDCCI2atrNIPc11ahU3NOfqX7gFOQB-1zX-C_fM/w400-h295/SkyZy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><i>Solar Opposites</i> is an animated sitcom about a family of sentient slugs that crash-landed on Earth and must look for a way home while adapting to bizarre human customs like gender polarization.<div><br /></div><div>Link to the <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/10/solar-opposites-skyler-gisondo-plays.html" target="_blank"><b>NSFW version</b></a><br /><div><br /></div><div> Korvo (Justin Roilland/Dan Stevens) is the "man of the house," resistant to assimilation; Terry (Thomas Middleditch) is the childcare expert, who eagerly adopts human culture; Yumyulak (Sean Giambone), the teenage boy, a rebel who hates humans; and a teenage girl and pupa (infant). <div><br />But this is a review of an episode where no one in the family appears except in flashbacks. I<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-12eMjCsESA9AFazLdd9TiEU6F61P-bAGbSO-WBN6sLl4P1kGnWsDCk_dyqljckeE3ceqD0qVQpzkPJxw8n7OEvePM6nsEfj1vdQRZVjb8I_YTMxbzTSr8WX5z7fP95eySeo01IW18tI6a0ASggUb9FATwRyZ5N2v0YDgmQPvgHdElJBJdQ5ZCskPoCM/s548/01Kieran.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="548" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-12eMjCsESA9AFazLdd9TiEU6F61P-bAGbSO-WBN6sLl4P1kGnWsDCk_dyqljckeE3ceqD0qVQpzkPJxw8n7OEvePM6nsEfj1vdQRZVjb8I_YTMxbzTSr8WX5z7fP95eySeo01IW18tI6a0ASggUb9FATwRyZ5N2v0YDgmQPvgHdElJBJdQ5ZCskPoCM/s320/01Kieran.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Episode 4.9, "Down and Out on Planet X-Non," stars Glenn (Kieran Culkin, left), the family's snoopy neighbor, who got blasted into space. He joined the SilverCops Space Force, but they framed him for murder. He had to flee into the wilderness of an alien planet, fighting monsters and nearly dying many times. And now his story continues in what seems to be the pilot for a spin-off.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlY8R2M0bC0VLWJ2SVM_dhcufItF45r6yEMdntKCR8HPVWTP81QlExI6kWLQ3HkPbofOK8-MOTmm1NrPZLGXl3LpY2G7Ij4caur8QmgErstO36NmX_2mVwE-rN34ZlLJWcAVzcIdoEQR1qtHTjMXFmCkYbszbJ_AoZcKBeWWfVn4LWiCKHjbZsjQ54oWM/s444/Screenshot%20(4906).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="387" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlY8R2M0bC0VLWJ2SVM_dhcufItF45r6yEMdntKCR8HPVWTP81QlExI6kWLQ3HkPbofOK8-MOTmm1NrPZLGXl3LpY2G7Ij4caur8QmgErstO36NmX_2mVwE-rN34ZlLJWcAVzcIdoEQR1qtHTjMXFmCkYbszbJ_AoZcKBeWWfVn4LWiCKHjbZsjQ54oWM/w349-h400/Screenshot%20(4906).jpg" width="349" /></a></div><p><b>Scene 1</b>: After having an "expositional dream," Glenn awakens in a run-down office, naked. Zy (Skyler Gisondo, top photo), a muscular being with a bat-head, found him in the wilderness, half-dead. "What were you doing all alone in the woods?"</p><p>"I go there to jerk off," Glenn jokes. "I got a thing for trees. Why am I naked?"</p><p>"Your clothes were soaked with piss and shit." </p><p>Zy infers that he has a "secred, fucked-up past," so he'll be perfect for their group of multi-species thieves and con-men. </p><p>Glen tries to leave, but outside the door, beings are robbing and killing each other, so he decides to stay. <i> First queer code; Zy puts his hand on Glenn's shoulder and leaves it there.</i></p><p><b>Scene 2</b>: The tour. Most of the group has holograms on their chest, which means "they need extra help." </p><p>"But I don't have a hologram on my chest," Glenn complains.</p><p>"I'm sure you have a hologram in your heart." <i> Awww..getting a little crush on this human, Zy?</i></p><p><i>Second queer code: Hand on shoulder again. Third queer code: Again. Gee, Zy can't keep his hands off Glenn.</i></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDIHnbsYWoI1yVF0cnvGBcUGT9D5via5Sbf30Tb30ABah0up5fGifxZ2Blciq3-NAAt6u8qZdg6tZNKp4i4iPhAJ3xHFnqy9vGq9zhuRVHdV8lp79pTPXj0kmTwExLBLZpTXoWk_hQKnRxJ2W785LVU_7tMW5v5EpLbzR0UeiEZqakYw0LgI4KU_84vfk/s440/zy05.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="440" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDIHnbsYWoI1yVF0cnvGBcUGT9D5via5Sbf30Tb30ABah0up5fGifxZ2Blciq3-NAAt6u8qZdg6tZNKp4i4iPhAJ3xHFnqy9vGq9zhuRVHdV8lp79pTPXj0kmTwExLBLZpTXoWk_hQKnRxJ2W785LVU_7tMW5v5EpLbzR0UeiEZqakYw0LgI4KU_84vfk/w400-h381/zy05.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br />Scene 3: </b> Interview with the group leader, Skeletom, a hippie dude with a glowing green skeleton. <i>Played by Daveed Diggs.</i></div><div><br /></div><div> He explains: "This place is for people who don't fit in." <i> Island of Misfit Toys, huh? Queer code #3. </i>"No one else has our backs, so we have to be family to each other."<p></p><p><b>Scene 4:</b> Glenn, Zy, a cat-being, and a Cthulhu-being on a scam run. Zy explains that the 'Raffs (sentient giraffes) took over and pushed the indigenous population into slums, using SilverCops to break heads: "They claim they're keeping the peace, but they're racist as hell, and they play the natives against each other." <i> Cthulhu Lives Matter. </i></p><p>Uh-oh, their last victim called the SilverCops. Run! Hiding in an alley, they discuss how much they hate the Sils. And Glenn is one! If they find out, he'll lose their friendship -- or worse.</p><p>More after the break</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p><b>Scene 5:</b> They visit a carnival. Zy and Glenn eat unicorn-on-a-stick while the others bounce in a bouncy house. <i> Queer Code 5: Zy and Glenn act like they are on a date. </i>Zy explains that because they were pushed onto the street so early, they didn't get to have regular lives. Groger (the Cthulhu-being) used to be a baker.</p><p>Two Silvercops show up and punch Zy. He collapses. "What the fuck! He didn't do anything!" Glenn exclaims. The Silvercops advance. "If you want him, you'll have to go through me!" <i>Queer Code 6</i>. They get a call and zoom off, and Glenn kneels and tenderly hugs Zy. <i>Queer Code 7</i>. Zy exclaims that he demonstrated so much courage, he deserves a holo.</p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSfNUv09SWXoixNdUagdM6oZ27sQMXS1otJSqSb5k-tB3DgCX3cgxDshhHy9LRM0KENs1u2gXBx2tKu-al6_COLyAoKG7zuA9GAPXqlny7Z_707YovvtgOpYlliDHfs6fKsGRYwLp2HlJ7xdfoaQtwcA0wwADQp4rUC8QmrctM7MFmUnDauNNI4i0KKjQ/s595/zy04.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="595" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSfNUv09SWXoixNdUagdM6oZ27sQMXS1otJSqSb5k-tB3DgCX3cgxDshhHy9LRM0KENs1u2gXBx2tKu-al6_COLyAoKG7zuA9GAPXqlny7Z_707YovvtgOpYlliDHfs6fKsGRYwLp2HlJ7xdfoaQtwcA0wwADQp4rUC8QmrctM7MFmUnDauNNI4i0KKjQ/w400-h325/zy04.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br />Scene 6:</b> The extremely painful procedure for attaching a holo to your chest. Zy holds Glenn's hand, and <i>keeps holding it</i> after the pain is over. <i>Queer Code 8: They are literally holding hands.</i><p></p><p><b>Scene 7</b>: The team on a scam run. They see a member of another team being beat up because he talked to the SilverCops. Ulp..Glenn must keep his old life secret.</p><p>At dinner that night, Zy shows them a packet of salt that he found in a wall panel. Only SilverCops have salt. "Somebody here is working with them." To find out who, he uses a device that detects trace amounts of silver in the bloodstream like you would get with sustained interaction with SilverCops, or wearing their suits.</p><p>They line up, and scream -- the device "hurts like a bitch." But before it's Glenn's turn, they hear a scream from the next room. Skeletom, their leader, was zapped by a person in a mask -- no doubt the spy.</p><p><b>Scene 8</b>: At the medical center, with Skeletom on life support. They need extra money to pay, and decide on trying "the Big Score" -- a house owned by one of the invaders, with a big safe and almost no security. The owners are on vacation, so it will be empty.</p><p><b>Scene 9: </b>They enter the house through an unlocked door, and begin looking for the safe. But the house isn't empty! The 'Raff family cancelled their trip, and comes out with guns drawn! "Please put on some pants," Glenn asks. "I can see your entire giraffe dick." <i>Is it as long as his giraffe neck? </i></p><p>The 'Raff dad trips over his own gun, splattering his head all over the kitchen. The gang runs away, knowing that they will be accused of murdering him. The SilverCops give chase, and injure Gragger.<i> Just as they make it home, she dies. She was hit in the leg! Maybe that's where her species keeps their hearts.</i></p><p>Then Skeletom emerges and shoots them all!</p><p><b>Scene 10: </b>Skeleton was the mole all along, working with the SilverCops so he could afford to leave their "cold, bare warehouse." Holos aren't allowed to live with the invaders, but he's going to get a DNA rewrite -- that's why he needed the money from the Big Score. "But they're monsters!" Zy points out. "I deserve to be a monster!" </p><p>Former SilverCop Glenn has the DNA graft to break open their silver handcuffs. He can save them,but to do it he must out himself. Of course he does it, explaining that he used to be a SilverCop, but now he realizes how evil they are. </p><p>Of course, they accept him without question. Glenn and Zy rush to stop Skeletom's evil scheme. It involves fisticuffs, a hanging-over-the-ledge scene, and Zy saving Glenn's life. <i>Queer Code #9.</i></p><p><b>Scene 11</b>: Zy gives a speech about improving the neighborhood instead of scamming the 'Raffs. The open the Gragger House, a sort of soup kitchen for the down-and-out, and discuss other projects, like starting a bakery. Zy and Glenn get oozy with gratitude for each other: "You don't have to dedicate your life to getting revenge." <i>Queer Code #10.</i></p><p>But Glenn vanishes. Zy sighs, thinking that maybe he's going to get revenge after all.</p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWdDbbg6n-6K6GetuIJE_oIb8-RmDQDjnk4RNMjFWqGfaOyi_jWlKuBQJri5ZE36qSRT76gwD7CgaKhs4yFRgxBc2dBpb30hDE1n7uTakjtZeko5iHyc5gqsw21fNUmGZe2MeDMiNzsAIma4C2FNscSLTWX4Bz86mz0TxIxIorOPMkkg-YZad5u3ej5bI/s703/dodgejpg.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="623" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWdDbbg6n-6K6GetuIJE_oIb8-RmDQDjnk4RNMjFWqGfaOyi_jWlKuBQJri5ZE36qSRT76gwD7CgaKhs4yFRgxBc2dBpb30hDE1n7uTakjtZeko5iHyc5gqsw21fNUmGZe2MeDMiNzsAIma4C2FNscSLTWX4Bz86mz0TxIxIorOPMkkg-YZad5u3ej5bI/s320/dodgejpg.jpg" width="284" /></a></b></div><b><br />Scene 12:</b> At a sleazy chop-shop, Glenn gets a DNA reset. He becomes a muscular dog-being with an undersized head, renames himself Dodge Charger, and signs up for the SilverCops with revenge in mind. <i>Boo! He should have stayed with his boyfriend!</i><p></p><p><b>Beefcake: </b> Some very muscular alien beings around.</p><p><b>Heterosexism:</b> None.</p><p><b>Gay Characters</b>: 10 queer codes, including a lot of physicality, domesticity, and a nick-of-time rescue, but no permanence: the guys do not stay together at the end of the story. Probably Glenn and Zy are meant to be read as battle-comrades, not boyfriends, but you never know: there are a lot of gay characters in the series. </p><p><b>My Grade: </b>A for world-building, B for the depiction of the same-sex romance. No permanence, no deal. </p><div><p>Beefcake and frontal nudity on <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/10/solar-opposites-skyler-gisondo-plays.html" target="_blank"><b>RG Beefcake and Boyfriends</b></a></p></div></div></div></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-56981401939977582752024-03-16T05:59:00.006-04:002024-03-18T07:34:10.870-04:00"Fortitude": A Norwegian glacier, a mammoth tooth, a dying child, and four cocks. So much depends upon a Coffee Cup<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiugyInDY0Kpx1eY8DNLvvPq4PvSZ1W_XzqQHUEzzPA_b-f4GQbuGSMOH9qCj7QkG7yKdr6PbGPPLk9sKhSb4l-W0Ti-0sAOmYpa0xY4d-6XbK8NThsiifZazkynFdaHO7lW_DTZPzGO87vYhU9jBVIj88yuCK39dc7vYFaPUkluEr8yQZoWRh9v2bRjBU/s606/01dormer.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="341" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiugyInDY0Kpx1eY8DNLvvPq4PvSZ1W_XzqQHUEzzPA_b-f4GQbuGSMOH9qCj7QkG7yKdr6PbGPPLk9sKhSb4l-W0Ti-0sAOmYpa0xY4d-6XbK8NThsiifZazkynFdaHO7lW_DTZPzGO87vYhU9jBVIj88yuCK39dc7vYFaPUkluEr8yQZoWRh9v2bRjBU/w225-h400/01dormer.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br />Looking for more of Aaron McCusker, I decided to do a test review of <i>Fortitude</i>, the British series about weird paranormal events on an icy island in the Norwegian Artic. Critics said that it was influenced by <i>Twin Peaks </i>and <i>Lost</i>. Sounds interesting. I reviewed Episode 1.1.<div><br /></div><div><p><b>Scene 1</b>: An elderly, sick, senile man wanders the icy waste. Suddenly he sees a man being mauled by a polar bear, pulls out his gun, and shoots -- the man. The sheriff, or whatever they have in Norway, rushes up and tells him to mind his own business. <i>We are not told the location, but according to the fan wiki, it's Svalbard.</i></p><p><b>Scene 2</b>: Three months later. Two kids find a frozen blob on the beach, grab part of it, and walk home -- nice shot of the town of Fortitude from the hill above. The boy goes home, opens the door -- and collapses! <i>Whatever virus he got from the blob, it worked fast.</i></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyaFxPlnKbIF3IwdidUQ4gFR85gCrQdh42domNXUV0O4TqCvpcEiDc085kTJjtCm2nGlvALx0JghG96E2scuOdefEIoRjLCnkMUcY6b41_j8C3J08PwGc6F0Z4WBFiG_aherIVaLZqqbbJ0B16y2lSj5rYJo0YvQjAG5kMmqovDaCHSVs6TB0M5D6nge4/s666/01nick.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="444" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyaFxPlnKbIF3IwdidUQ4gFR85gCrQdh42domNXUV0O4TqCvpcEiDc085kTJjtCm2nGlvALx0JghG96E2scuOdefEIoRjLCnkMUcY6b41_j8C3J08PwGc6F0Z4WBFiG_aherIVaLZqqbbJ0B16y2lSj5rYJo0YvQjAG5kMmqovDaCHSVs6TB0M5D6nge4/s320/01nick.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br />Scene 3:</b> Police station, rather large for a town with 711 people. Cops Frank (Nicholas Pennock, left) and Dan (Richard Dormer, above) announce that they have found "them." I assumed that they meant the kids, which would make structural sense, but after watching this scene several times, it looks like they have found camping equipment that some tourists lost. W<i>hy not say that instead of misleading everyone?</i><p></p><p>Next, we get a close-up of a coffee cup -- apparently it will be very important later. </p><p> Cop Dan gets a letter addressed to Henry from the Governor's Office. His medical adjudication has come in, so now the Governor has no choice. We are not told what all of this means, or its connection to the Extremely Significant Coffee Cup.</p><b>Scene 4</b>: I'll skip the five minutes of parents comforting the dying boy. Next: the airport, where Professor Stottart (Christopher Eggleston, left) is introduing himself to government biologist Vince Rattrey (Luke Treadaway, below). Or the other way around -- using subtitles, I can't tell which is the new arrival. They drive through the icy slopes, discussing industrial perfluoroalkyl compounds, which break down the brain/body barrier and cause polar bears to eat each other. <span></span><p></p><p>Ok, Biologist Vince is the newcomer. The Professor drops him off at his new house, offers to have his wife make dinner later, and leaves.</p><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1i0g0Sxim3X-HoyLEu6NZVv906r5gJUV05aGCYFxVlDqo5nQjk6pn9dRzGc-68IpX3hKuhClSYNTkA58PQGJlm8kury0ll6mtEq5YigNEzT4oPd9f7ce1Q4WmHzD0uHmPmpUHAtQWGzQcg_UMnwYUEZNS5SBj6R5Qg5N9jqpfo36Pvsem9e2eXnPMlko/s570/01johnny.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="570" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1i0g0Sxim3X-HoyLEu6NZVv906r5gJUV05aGCYFxVlDqo5nQjk6pn9dRzGc-68IpX3hKuhClSYNTkA58PQGJlm8kury0ll6mtEq5YigNEzT4oPd9f7ce1Q4WmHzD0uHmPmpUHAtQWGzQcg_UMnwYUEZNS5SBj6R5Qg5N9jqpfo36Pvsem9e2eXnPMlko/s320/01johnny.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Scene 5</b>: Meanwhile, we see the other kid who found the blob -- watching tv. <i>How long until she's dying, too? </i>Her Dad comes in with a package that he says gets good reviews -- or does he mean the tv show -- sucks on the top of her head, asks about her boyfriend --<i> dying</i> -- and finds the thing she retrieved from the blob -- now it looks like a striated stone. <p></p><p>More dying little boy stuff, and then Dad (Johnny Harris, left) and his friend Jason -- Aaron McCusker, finally! investigate the blob. It's a woolly mammoth, thawed out of the permafrost due to global warming, now decaying, buzzing with flies, and crawling with 13,000 year old viruses. They discuss how much money they can make with this find.</p><p><b>Scene 6</b>: Cop Dan and a lady are discussing his differences with Henry, whoever that is: "He's old, he's lonely, he's dying, and he can't die here. It's the law." <i>Really? How do they enforce it? "You just died, so you're under arrest." </i></p><p>A medical person comes in to announce that the dying boy has polio, which has an incubation period of a bazillion months, so the whole town has to be quarantined.<i> Wait -- it's not related to the blob? That would make structural sense.</i></p><p>Cut to Cop Frank and a girl in a parked car, doing something that looks like a bizarre parody of kissing. They break; Cop Frank tells her that she is the most incredibly gorgeous woman in the universe. <i>Aha! They're aliens trying to fit into human society, but not sure how to kiss.</i></p><p>More cops and alien kissing after the break</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><b style="text-align: left;">Scene 7:</b><span style="text-align: left;"> Biologist Vince goes to his new lab and encounters his Love Interest dissecting a deformed reindeer.</span><i style="text-align: left;">Very disgusting scene.</i><span style="text-align: left;"> He's written a paper on reindeer anomalies, so she's -- arrogant and dismissive? He asks if this is a specimen. "No, it's dinnner." </span><i style="text-align: left;">Wait -- I hope she's being sarcastic.</i></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi88HlIKMaM8U5F9hWdiCY6Mzuv_Xo3JBA0Jo8FIrEtFYy2t4opFjTaJ7jryMlPQDN1fvQQocbq9PqxDoBvz3lnhf4lOgE2mrdNzK5qjzN0dBI8JcpDR-T8LGB-XR-E1tx2x43zmAeupMBy6UBenZZW3gNBBAvpIc4_TNCfM4bNiOyiUCG4XBaeUcRYF3U/s429/FortJason.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="284" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi88HlIKMaM8U5F9hWdiCY6Mzuv_Xo3JBA0Jo8FIrEtFYy2t4opFjTaJ7jryMlPQDN1fvQQocbq9PqxDoBvz3lnhf4lOgE2mrdNzK5qjzN0dBI8JcpDR-T8LGB-XR-E1tx2x43zmAeupMBy6UBenZZW3gNBBAvpIc4_TNCfM4bNiOyiUCG4XBaeUcRYF3U/s320/FortJason.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><br />Meanwhile, Jason-- <i>the friend of the Dad of the girlfriend of the dying boy, remember?</i> -- shows the Professor the striated rock -- actually a mammoth tooth. "This is an amazing discovery!" he gushes. "Priceless! <p></p><p>But when he discovers that Jason wants to be paid, the Professor gets bitchy: "The law on finding specimens of this nature is perfectly clear." Jason clobbers him with the tooth and runs away.</p><p>Meanwhile, the lady who was swallowing Cop Frank's tongue is interrogated by Cop Dan: "Has anyone talked about the incident or given you reason to believe that they know about the incident?"No. "Do you feel safe in Fortitude?" Yes. "Are you seeing anybody?" <i>Say what? That's inapprop, dude! Looks like we got a competition between Cop Frank and Cop Dan for the fair Lady. </i>She storms out.</p><b>Scene 8</b>: Hildy, the Governor of the province, is in the hospital, yelling at her husband Eric, played by Bjorn Hylnur Haraldsson, about standing in a bear trap -- "you could have lost your leg!" <i>Well, it wasn't on purpose. </i>They discuss an ice drill arriving from Oslo. Then Hildy tries to kiss Eric, but in her species you swallow your partner's whole head, and she's surprised that she can't get her mouth all the way around in human form. It takes two or three tries before she gives up. <i>Seriously, even if you've never kissed anyone in real life, you could watch a video to see how it's done.</i><p></p><p><b>Scene 9:</b> Hildy is giving a speech to an empty room about a hotel they have built into the ice, so lovers of the wilderness can sleep in an icy room.</p><p>Then two cops land a helicopter. get angry with two tourists for looking for polar bears without the proper equipment. One of the tourists yells "Fuck this!", whereupon the cop disables his snowmobile. Then he pulls out a small handgun, whereupon the cop disarms him, gives him a rifle, and tells them to walk down to town.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgriDOev1WGxnqlrfUqXS5podwh-9HvZkmmWfa8IPVQJMfcPRPSwLamiZBFUSIxR1dNDhsCmheD1DmECyR13xDspBYbMa3VwUIWl-J4wZiC9FK8cnQMeKyvko-9SdYTvZhMf868pwEnqdqAXNAxg5YbxUORir7YNUxRo1eOP03CGz1NL6DFtQr7Wyt8s0Y/s584/01luke.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="570" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgriDOev1WGxnqlrfUqXS5podwh-9HvZkmmWfa8IPVQJMfcPRPSwLamiZBFUSIxR1dNDhsCmheD1DmECyR13xDspBYbMa3VwUIWl-J4wZiC9FK8cnQMeKyvko-9SdYTvZhMf868pwEnqdqAXNAxg5YbxUORir7YNUxRo1eOP03CGz1NL6DFtQr7Wyt8s0Y/w390-h400/01luke.jpg" width="390" /></a></div><br />Cut to Biologist Vince getting naked to go into the sauna -- no dick. A burly guy leaves just as he enters. Whew, Biologist Vince is relieved. <div><br /></div><div>Then his Love Interest joins him -- full frontal, boob and lady part shot. Why does she get a full frontal, but he doesn't? Heterosexist male gaze garbage. I'm out<p></p><p><b>Beefcake:</b> Only Biologist Vince and the burly guy, just before the vagina.</p><p><b>Heterosexism:</b> I think everybody is divided into boy-girl dyads. But for God's sake, when you cast Martians, give them some instructions on how humans kiss!</p><p><b>Male Gaze</b>: Shooting scenes as if 100% of viewers are straight men. That naked lady is really intrusive. I wouldn't mind if we saw some dick, too, but sleazoid director Sam Miller obviously doesn't care about his viewers as long as he gets his titilation.</p><b>Gay Subtexts: </b>Dad and his friend Jake might have one, but they both have wives and kids at home, so it will have to be subtle.<p></p><p><b>Paranormal</b>: I didn't see anything</p><p><b>Dying</b>: Lots</p><p><b>The Goal of Viewer Confusion: </b> Too many conversations that give the viewer no clue about what is happening: "You should talk to him about it!" "Did you bring it?" "Did you tell anyone what happened that night?" And a lot of long closeups of things to make them look important, but they're not. </p><p>It reminds me of that darn wheelbarrow poem that my college profs gushed over: "So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the white chickens." Do you have any idea what it means? Hint: it's a toy wheelbarrow abandoned in the rain because the child is....</p><p>See also: <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/aaron-mccusker-serial-killer-busker.html" target="_blank"><b>Aaron McCusker: serial killer, busker, astronaut, and hairdresser.</b></a></p><p><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/12/season-1-memes-kelvin-bottoms-and.html" target="_blank"><b>Gemstones Season 1 Memes: Kelvin bottoms, Gideon falls in love, and Keefe checks for semen loads. </b></a> When you need to f*k the Sadness.</p></div></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-8385363935939222482024-03-15T06:39:00.000-04:002024-03-15T06:39:32.990-04:00Aaron Taylor-Johnson: Varying levels of handsomeness and homophobia. His cock stays the same.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy_EEcboA_BaoR63rq8WnFyMpAgDN7MkQo6oxp2YV9HGxbXUTl94aeAiEIBTuLuz_peRKxG5Fo_ldssCP_6M49y6WBrhgXWZFRZfHcZtLQ0BiHnwSg7KypUCEi514bO0xLSVvnrkcL6wzv_wcy_k8O4A7z2LTeV5wxvSZbAqu3-LGJtCec4SmMVG4egnI/s300/TaylorJohnson06.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="291" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy_EEcboA_BaoR63rq8WnFyMpAgDN7MkQo6oxp2YV9HGxbXUTl94aeAiEIBTuLuz_peRKxG5Fo_ldssCP_6M49y6WBrhgXWZFRZfHcZtLQ0BiHnwSg7KypUCEi514bO0xLSVvnrkcL6wzv_wcy_k8O4A7z2LTeV5wxvSZbAqu3-LGJtCec4SmMVG4egnI/s1600/TaylorJohnson06.png" width="291" /></a></div>Link to <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/aaron-taylor-johnson-varying-levels-of.html" target="_blank"><b>NSFW version</b></a><br /><br /><div>I seem to be collecting Aarons. This is Aaron Taylor-Johnson, born in 1990 in the quaintly named High Wycombe, 29 miles west of Charing Cross. <i>You can't get more English than that</i>. He began acting at the age of six, did local theater and broke into film with a string of gay-subtext relationships:<div><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhLTHqczYB-bvlMDLWRm66sCVliNkHWVNK6X_ZaEjf0YAeySkwWqJdMIWOkd5ss47KpA5McNWTKlYQaO97dGXYjshhSaR7FdruaPbg-I2rABvIAlDN3lRMuu6Ap66qZXSEQ9J9CFwyyZG3VPz2QxuEp-P6krTs7rj9ji8wNWX9BYgDK29InlHEUHrU8bQ" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="155" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhLTHqczYB-bvlMDLWRm66sCVliNkHWVNK6X_ZaEjf0YAeySkwWqJdMIWOkd5ss47KpA5McNWTKlYQaO97dGXYjshhSaR7FdruaPbg-I2rABvIAlDN3lRMuu6Ap66qZXSEQ9J9CFwyyZG3VPz2QxuEp-P6krTs7rj9ji8wNWX9BYgDK29InlHEUHrU8bQ=w193-h400" width="193" /></a></div><br />Tom and Thomas (2002), a</i>bout two brothers (both played by Aaron) who find each other after many years apart and embark on an adventure in order to stay together.<br /><br /><i>The Thief Lord (2006), </i>an adaption of the German novel about two outcasts who find each other on the mean streets of Venice.<br /><br /><i>The Magic Door (2007), </i>a heroic fantasy with a rather buffed elf helping a human boy defeat a troll.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then things get very heterosexist very fast.</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>N<i>owhere Bo</i>y, 2009, a biopic of the teen years of future Beatle John Lennon. I suppose they couldn't help making the young John hetero-horny, but having a girl give him a blow job to seal the deal?<div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgL9qwwc9w9IAqFvd43CmEjr_uQd_fPZ7ioOJImzp0im6gef2jP5V1tV_N6Pmfq9SjExip2TnBbmbsm6s-NwaEtzNgpY4YzPiJEpAAZySUDCOTab6_VlHb4iSEyzRfyPLA4iaVcBhXv31_skhZtlYMm9MD7QhUBHGdTi_-viJ0uNw0nnyGhIWSM3m5UO80" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="244" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgL9qwwc9w9IAqFvd43CmEjr_uQd_fPZ7ioOJImzp0im6gef2jP5V1tV_N6Pmfq9SjExip2TnBbmbsm6s-NwaEtzNgpY4YzPiJEpAAZySUDCOTab6_VlHb4iSEyzRfyPLA4iaVcBhXv31_skhZtlYMm9MD7QhUBHGdTi_-viJ0uNw0nnyGhIWSM3m5UO80=w307-h400" width="307" /></a></div><i>Kick-Ass</i> (2010) is about a teen nerd who becomes a superhero. <i>Funny that high school A-list jocks never get superpowers. </i> When his bulgeworthy spandex costume is discovered, he's assumed to be a gay hustler, to the constant teasing of his classmates. However, the assumption of gayness allows him to win The Girl of His Dreams.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Chatroom (2010) </i>is a rather homophobic drama about a sociopathic teen using social media to encourage bad behavior. He convinces his friend Jim to commit suicide, and kisses him to "seal the deal."</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirsrXiAtKQC8qzXzviFOOuUC8K-6Of8uU-pwdumyQ1NJ-nlecuj6b7ExEHdSwJgSn-vy-N9sYsAS872rZnJtGPCzep-cBb0Q8jqAjBWayuCBlUwyLXTpgec0gZIV6nEQMaTMqSb_dwqD_X1JogkxaIiya0PVS6kAW_B-dC9C5KTPRAoxhdTjgos2x6p70" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="245" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirsrXiAtKQC8qzXzviFOOuUC8K-6Of8uU-pwdumyQ1NJ-nlecuj6b7ExEHdSwJgSn-vy-N9sYsAS872rZnJtGPCzep-cBb0Q8jqAjBWayuCBlUwyLXTpgec0gZIV6nEQMaTMqSb_dwqD_X1JogkxaIiya0PVS6kAW_B-dC9C5KTPRAoxhdTjgos2x6p70=w307-h400" width="307" /></a></div><br />Next Aaron starred in <i>Savages (2012) </i>as pot grower Ben, who is in a triadic relationship with Chon (Taylor Kitsch) and their shared girlfriend. It's all subtext -- but sometimes subtext is enough.</div><div><br />At least we get a more explicit butt shot -- while he is sexing the girl.</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Nocturnal Animals,</i> 201<i>6, </i>is a neo-noir about a woman in an unhappy marriage who gets trapped in a novel about marauding thugs, the "nocturnal animals," who kidnap her and her daughter. Aaron plays one of the animals, </div><div><br /></div><div>More homophobia and dicks after the break</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrG3DCubq2OAqsuQxgoOODks6wCNh5x0GvRkCsFTB4qCGvYXm3Lo6qxeUk7j8qVVAutKAY1kEdIL6hvZ7_D4fDATpOFbm7sAHWTEmPox7ILGaR9gBKeif2Q4ZEP0YKU8W0T6t8cw3AOF2DVmXOPPHWW2yPwMYyozuI8SrscpJSCCaJWjaSMF52rZ7t1yQ/s368/pietro2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="368" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrG3DCubq2OAqsuQxgoOODks6wCNh5x0GvRkCsFTB4qCGvYXm3Lo6qxeUk7j8qVVAutKAY1kEdIL6hvZ7_D4fDATpOFbm7sAHWTEmPox7ILGaR9gBKeif2Q4ZEP0YKU8W0T6t8cw3AOF2DVmXOPPHWW2yPwMYyozuI8SrscpJSCCaJWjaSMF52rZ7t1yQ/s320/pietro2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Aaron plays superhero Pietro Maximoff in two Marvel Comic Universe movies. He doesn't display any heterosexual interest, but his character in the comics gets a wife.</div><div><br /></div><div>In March 2017, Aaron tweets that "being a feminist is jusst believing in equal rights. Man, woman, gay, straight, black, white...we're all in it together." But he goes on to star in <i>A Million Little Piece</i>s, 2019, about a young man battling drug addiction, or a young man who has lost his memory of the last few weeks, depending on which premise you believe. No plot synopsis available, but it got a 23% Rotten Tomatos score, so I didn't search very hard. I was mostly interested in the cock shot in the shower.<div><br />Giovanni Ribisi plays a mincing, lisping, limp-wristed gay stereotype from the 1950s, who tries to seduce every man in sight. It looks like Aaron is inviting Giovanni to give him a blow job, but he's actually pulverizing him. <br /><p>A role in the homophobic <i>King's Man</i>, 2021, a queer villain in <i>Bullet Train</i>, 2022, and a movie star yearning for his lost love in the upcoming <i>Fall Guy</i>, 2024, and we can head out the door.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC9nC3wGrUWDWczmPu_0pQDmvyHz-AAeeWjIjMSlCW_e5nYnGcAme-vFD8r4lizFqbtcMDiBZ-6BYysyhqWPG1FYYKfdf1OYT14wfzbig1Qnzb2n_68fZgpvA8ocHWeQJkKCTo2QcWHwHf1D94WWyPM5mZlreV276_C9ZRBIciGiiJEpuwR9aAlpT7T-Q/s701/TaylorJohnson05.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="701" data-original-width="548" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC9nC3wGrUWDWczmPu_0pQDmvyHz-AAeeWjIjMSlCW_e5nYnGcAme-vFD8r4lizFqbtcMDiBZ-6BYysyhqWPG1FYYKfdf1OYT14wfzbig1Qnzb2n_68fZgpvA8ocHWeQJkKCTo2QcWHwHf1D94WWyPM5mZlreV276_C9ZRBIciGiiJEpuwR9aAlpT7T-Q/w313-h400/TaylorJohnson05.jpg" width="313" /></a></div><br />Except for this Calvin Klein ad from 2023. He's still got the bulge and the bod, but his face -- getting a little scary. I wish we could turn back time.<p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvt9jDUNkxCrF2JcE4gSHj8kmIx1D7z4FAJvBO4tg4eWmMZtiBUYUf0ejCDLEMTo8X3K0AWEPzPSlHtMNtI9ZSyYKKbzvMkZB5jE4hbIcJ1jgMTNL5ySG9KfVrOMTof_X3mpxcK9eLOmSlC6oxPKBUwAkkrX65K83t72ber90AnamkHzSQ7588Gz20nO4/s718/aaronmuscle.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="691" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvt9jDUNkxCrF2JcE4gSHj8kmIx1D7z4FAJvBO4tg4eWmMZtiBUYUf0ejCDLEMTo8X3K0AWEPzPSlHtMNtI9ZSyYKKbzvMkZB5jE4hbIcJ1jgMTNL5ySG9KfVrOMTof_X3mpxcK9eLOmSlC6oxPKBUwAkkrX65K83t72ber90AnamkHzSQ7588Gz20nO4/s320/aaronmuscle.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><br />Wait -- we can. His gay-subtext movies are still available.</div></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Lots of Aaron nude shots on <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/aaron-taylor-johnson-varying-levels-of.html" target="_blank"><b>RG Beefcake and Boyfriends</b></a></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-49118638716192548662024-03-15T06:22:00.004-04:002024-03-18T07:52:21.540-04:00"Pixie": Gay subtext couple, Irish scenery, priest gangsters, and a bunch of butts, but no pixies<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsefNnpuAPHgYw0OdZyRw6Dfvz5t1hflPhs0uujkgy2yLvMKFMv4EifdyWmeH5LZYreSg3PHmlGDmNUct17pydKW6N4-E78i05hyphenhyphenRYlycBy9LjwsPkYM5qNBtb5vpTv4SyK7hSdruDq9M/s546/01FraFee.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="546" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsefNnpuAPHgYw0OdZyRw6Dfvz5t1hflPhs0uujkgy2yLvMKFMv4EifdyWmeH5LZYreSg3PHmlGDmNUct17pydKW6N4-E78i05hyphenhyphenRYlycBy9LjwsPkYM5qNBtb5vpTv4SyK7hSdruDq9M/w400-h340/01FraFee.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />For movie night this week, we saw <i>Pixie (</i>2021). The title makes you think of a children's fantasy about pixies, but it's actually an Irish gangster comedy. <div><br /></div><div><p>Pixie (Olivia Cook), the free-spirited, conniving stepdaughter of gangster Dermot O'Brien (Colm Meaney), sends two of Da's goons to steal a million euros of Ecstasy from a rival gang of drug-running priests.</p><p>The goons happen to be her Ex-Boyfriend Colin (Rory Fleck Byrne), who isn't over her yet, and her Secret Boyfriend Fergus (Fra Fee, right).</p><p>Her plan is to sell the Ecstasy, dump the Secret Boyfriend, and move to San Francisco, where she will study photography. (<i>You can't do that in Dublin</i>?). </p><p>You see where things might go wrong?</p><p>Things go wrong: </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNjEzKEZXXAhS8qLa5XjDebS6cTtD63FfpWOzN4jomZihFchM8GZx6kcHh8VHQuqjU4T7K-r08_zGXN2NhDlDQq0QL9ZyTcPrS8o-rC_VvXqdoJ5Km-TjhSEDiIrScuw-SK48hYWKFcaU/s672/01BenHardy.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="672" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNjEzKEZXXAhS8qLa5XjDebS6cTtD63FfpWOzN4jomZihFchM8GZx6kcHh8VHQuqjU4T7K-r08_zGXN2NhDlDQq0QL9ZyTcPrS8o-rC_VvXqdoJ5Km-TjhSEDiIrScuw-SK48hYWKFcaU/w400-h400/01BenHardy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Ten minutes into the movie, both goons and her Dad are dead (with Dad's corpse in the trunk), both the priest gang and Dad's Enforcer are on her tail.<div><br /></div><div>Then two clueless doofuses knock on her door: Frank (Ben Hardy, left) and Harland (Daryl McCormack). Let's just call them Laurel and Hardy.</div><div><br /></div><div>They mistakenly believe that she will have sex with any man in exchange for letting her photograph them (she actually photographs Frank in drag). Then they are attacked, and flee together.<br /><p></p><p>Did I mention that Pixie's Stepbrother (Turlough Convery) hates her and is looking for an opportunity to take her down?</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEictgRZh6NMDxhd1_eMahK_DNGp4JJhbRap4xd1B9PfoeXhugVKGmRgD17mezWbS4FrIYGW4KCrA87UceIgpb3xUBywSSrCp5_E-y25_SIm02Mhxrv8siK1-_6T23a5jwB34teHCKjfUeE/s714/01SebastianDeSouza.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="344" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEictgRZh6NMDxhd1_eMahK_DNGp4JJhbRap4xd1B9PfoeXhugVKGmRgD17mezWbS4FrIYGW4KCrA87UceIgpb3xUBywSSrCp5_E-y25_SIm02Mhxrv8siK1-_6T23a5jwB34teHCKjfUeE/w193-h400/01SebastianDeSouza.jpg" width="193" /></a></div><br />And that she has another ex-boyfriend, Gareth (Sebastian de Souza), who happens to be the nephew of the head gangster priest?<p></p><p>Laurel and Hardy want to have sex with Pixie. They discuss women's body parts. They try to convince an altar boy that God wants all men to have sex with ladies. And they discuss same-sex activity only in terms of prison rape and priestly pedophilia. </p><p>But they kiss during the beginning of a three-way (cut short by the arrival of the Enforcer). Later, when they escape being killed, Pixie points out that it was almost their last kiss: "Isn't it romantic?" They look embarrassed.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj43glybNi1mw_GbJWCWJIBUR0cOnNpIcFyIJk7ZCBYzIHSQrRG-GfIj0rBCgDxTLY6V9n1OC_r44q8t8UZ0b-Zf8mzeRZAuQiS3MKuZ43TnzxdErHYSpeNF6jAXxKhM_1icZ7UOdRoqAFtAt0k4evOacz9HzoNGWycRHQN1vqxDZ8uCGWPMfA5bGxZHI/s510/01gay.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="510" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj43glybNi1mw_GbJWCWJIBUR0cOnNpIcFyIJk7ZCBYzIHSQrRG-GfIj0rBCgDxTLY6V9n1OC_r44q8t8UZ0b-Zf8mzeRZAuQiS3MKuZ43TnzxdErHYSpeNF6jAXxKhM_1icZ7UOdRoqAFtAt0k4evOacz9HzoNGWycRHQN1vqxDZ8uCGWPMfA5bGxZHI/w400-h275/01gay.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />And at the end of the movie, Pixie leaves for San Francisco by herself, and Frank and Harland ask "Where shall we go now?" and walk off into the sunset together. Have they become romantic partners? Or were they always romantic partners and in denial? Either way, ending up with each other instead of the girl gives them a remarkable gay subtext. <br /><b><br />Beefcake:</b> The boys strip down to go skinny-dipping, but in a long shot, too far away to see much.<p></p><p><b>Other Sights:</b> Beautiful Irish countryside, establishing shots of Sligo.</p><p><b>Heterosexism:</b> Pixie tilts her head and smiles, and every men gapes in slack-jawed lust and does whatever she wants. Her teenage stepsister hooks up with the altar boy.</p><p><b>Gay Subtext: </b>Laurel and Hardy.</p><p><b>My Grade:</b> A-.</p></div></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-79909309937487971092024-03-14T05:36:00.000-04:002024-03-14T05:36:13.998-04:00Aaron McCusker: Serial killer, busker, astronaut, and hairdresser, with no qualms about playing gay or showing his cock<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9fYwWZyahH-HlZjkM4Vrf5MT3RaAbZNv6hDlv6fEabXIvyz0PrZP5WxgeVr0tDaqcHsZobOsSPwUDi34Hgubfksya7FRShOzEGW2i3YN6yhPApERQmj9v62ayELQxMEn0u757W31z3hhitEe9klzg1N4Q7DaLEfKwgjHg6GxsuC3NP6d07wFNYLwmny4/s640/aaronMcusker.jpg" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9fYwWZyahH-HlZjkM4Vrf5MT3RaAbZNv6hDlv6fEabXIvyz0PrZP5WxgeVr0tDaqcHsZobOsSPwUDi34Hgubfksya7FRShOzEGW2i3YN6yhPApERQmj9v62ayELQxMEn0u757W31z3hhitEe9klzg1N4Q7DaLEfKwgjHg6GxsuC3NP6d07wFNYLwmny4/w400-h268/aaronMcusker.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/aaron-mccusker-serial-killer-busker.html" target="_blank"><b>Link to NSFW version</b></a></p> I was drawn to this photo on the IMDB, thinking that it was a gay couple cuddling. Turns out that it's Aaron McCusker and Charlotte Ramping, who is dressed as a man, in a 2016 episode of <i>Dexter</i>. So, maybe they're not a romantic couple, but lesbian and gay male platonic pals?<p></p><div>No, Aaron is playing AJ Yates, a serial killer who specializes in women's feet because as a kid he hid under the bed to escape his abusive mother, and could see her feet coming toward him. <i>Yuck</i>. Charlotte is his psychotherapist, Evelyn Vogel. Probably straight, since she has a husband and two sons, one a serial killer, and the other his victim. <i> Sounds like a cheery show.</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Ok, dead end, but that gay vibe has to come from somewhere. Maybe McCusker is gay in real life? </div><div><br /></div><div>Doubtful. According to Wikipedia, he is married to Jennie Sutton, and supports both Liverpool and Celtic. Presumably those are sports teams.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_wTJwpTFW2MTYC63ysgW9cs5fEYm5yQdxMU4N1HrkMxp9W-F3KYMSbulzYT26ytSXbPj0nYqIbb4f1KmN_LzMLUxXpQTrHXJ9-sUsGdiE8iHIZ53LfnJRWXTUcVuyIv9GCvFZVMafaIZhmXVBxUbg0DpVQLJ8btjbeoY5S0BvundxyYrDsx2ABihjcT8/s700/aaron2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_wTJwpTFW2MTYC63ysgW9cs5fEYm5yQdxMU4N1HrkMxp9W-F3KYMSbulzYT26ytSXbPj0nYqIbb4f1KmN_LzMLUxXpQTrHXJ9-sUsGdiE8iHIZ53LfnJRWXTUcVuyIv9GCvFZVMafaIZhmXVBxUbg0DpVQLJ8btjbeoY5S0BvundxyYrDsx2ABihjcT8/w251-h400/aaron2.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><br />What about gay characters? His most significant role appears to be Jaimie Maguire, head of the Maguire crime family in 109 episodes of <i>Shameless </i>(2007-13).<i> </i>The fan wiki gives Jaimie a wife and two girlfriends, so straight. But <i>Shameless</i> gives us some other gay characters, plus a cock shot.</div><div><br /></div><div>Plus a bulge, when the entire cast posed in underwear with guns.</div><div><br /></div><div>And a butt shot.</div><div><br /></div><div>Aaron also appeared in eight episodes of <i>Fortitude (2015), </i>a British thriller set on an island in the Norwegian Artic, where there are a lot of weird murders and nothing is what it seems. The fan wiki doesn't give a lot of information, only that he is the victim of one of the weird murders, and he has a wife and two daughters. So straight.</div><div><br />But at least he gives us another cock shot.</div><div><br /></div><div>Ten episodes of <i>The Astronaut Wives Club (2015). </i>a drama about the wives of the Mercury Seven Astronauts, who piloted the first manned space flights in the early 1960s. Aaron played astronaut Wally Schirra: a wife and two kids. Straight, but playing a real person, he could hardly help it. Lots of gay people from history are turned straight for the big screen.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDFahY81XyphJytBgGbmgTEbs1BWQp53l3H0jtzw6W0XkER-_vfEKEGhifuIUePN_uGI9nDtJfEP1UO1fOYjkmTXVoADO7eWM7af-SbYE9a1pvrruSCpHVKqjjFx90rg8t8ixGAvrvFInnQvt5ZHMmRkivnTYtyuwiWgrtKLEPikkayNLDQuLun4F9YrQ/s480/aaronmuscle.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="325" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDFahY81XyphJytBgGbmgTEbs1BWQp53l3H0jtzw6W0XkER-_vfEKEGhifuIUePN_uGI9nDtJfEP1UO1fOYjkmTXVoADO7eWM7af-SbYE9a1pvrruSCpHVKqjjFx90rg8t8ixGAvrvFInnQvt5ZHMmRkivnTYtyuwiWgrtKLEPikkayNLDQuLun4F9YrQ/w271-h400/aaronmuscle.jpg" width="271" /></a></div><br />Google says that this is a shirtless Aaron McCusker. I doubt it: the muscles and hair are all wrong.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Maybe more McCusker cock after the break</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG8f8nHvOvoFNmQAYZonKGk1osMuIyYRey-MaCRRIAZxWXaf1GJg0AAurNEGHUgtGy6vl4MU-r-5kKRzjhlKBNsRJWnmDyZ5B1xAvXY5qU4G0P4KkgtDsDK7q8vkILugPTdUQXJjbmtuSc68xRUSu7cPdV0utk7mgiA05GREWiScIw4CoH1DjjsGIhBBA/s290/aaronshameless3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="268" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG8f8nHvOvoFNmQAYZonKGk1osMuIyYRey-MaCRRIAZxWXaf1GJg0AAurNEGHUgtGy6vl4MU-r-5kKRzjhlKBNsRJWnmDyZ5B1xAvXY5qU4G0P4KkgtDsDK7q8vkILugPTdUQXJjbmtuSc68xRUSu7cPdV0utk7mgiA05GREWiScIw4CoH1DjjsGIhBBA/w370-h400/aaronshameless3.jpg" width="370" /></a></div><br />I don't believe that this is really his cock, either. The size is all wrong, and that is not the body of a 40 year old. Maybe it is from early in his career, when he was a struggling theatrical actor with a semi.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMdUkAWn5TIA7dd5a4OPY-DnHO9l-GPCvI0E2PJBh16e2Cd-clhTdPKy1OetdGjYRUy3r9RFJg6z-06NIwtJOfGUlbX-HpmrR27P_lIvkppSQw9dyuK7DscHKzL-yo56Xolnk42xJJtXvLZqajstiLOoIwDy23zSdMrCS_GZ-KQlqgLpyY2Ya5VW3zFQ/s640/01hutton.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="640" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzMdUkAWn5TIA7dd5a4OPY-DnHO9l-GPCvI0E2PJBh16e2Cd-clhTdPKy1OetdGjYRUy3r9RFJg6z-06NIwtJOfGUlbX-HpmrR27P_lIvkppSQw9dyuK7DscHKzL-yo56Xolnk42xJJtXvLZqajstiLOoIwDy23zSdMrCS_GZ-KQlqgLpyY2Ya5VW3zFQ/w400-h250/01hutton.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />I found a gay role: In <i>Bohemian Rhapsody (2016)</i>, a biopic of the rock group Queen. Aaron plays Jim Hutton, boyfriend of guitarist Freddy Mercury. They even get a kiss!</div><div><br /></div><div>An interview in <i>The Belfast Times,</i> tried to get Aaron to complain that playing one of those sort was terrible. But he wouldn't take the bait: "I had no qualms about doing it, and I would be happy to play a gay character again."</div><div><br /></div><div>But what about having to kiss another bloke? Surely that must have been horrifying! "It was different...so this was a challenge, but when we came to do those scenes, it was like water flowing down a duck's back." </div></div><div><br /></div><div>These are the sorts of questions that actors playing gay roles were asked in the 1990s, not in 2015. But I guess Northern Ireland is old fashioned. It didn't get same-sex marriage until 2020 -- 45% of Protestants still oppose it -- and gay men weren't allowed to donate blood until 2021. (They still can't in the U.S., unless they haven't had gay sex for a year or more)</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6wQJcaY0ZBieg5fHlNWMQGnMxDHxq3qw3gOURFY3-6F0YNWTGWIEvtFqGbhIJB_TRaKkyw1lc8eOeTqz6NzDjy3XEj-AT_szGZSf8rzXn0lW6GQKBjbwe836kU_u8SmcysHn-ZzCVwXPaHgzQ4W69xWp8BsbO0uYOWlZJGPGtmGMog_8y9yoGRa4Tu0Y/s466/martin.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="466" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6wQJcaY0ZBieg5fHlNWMQGnMxDHxq3qw3gOURFY3-6F0YNWTGWIEvtFqGbhIJB_TRaKkyw1lc8eOeTqz6NzDjy3XEj-AT_szGZSf8rzXn0lW6GQKBjbwe836kU_u8SmcysHn-ZzCVwXPaHgzQ4W69xWp8BsbO0uYOWlZJGPGtmGMog_8y9yoGRa4Tu0Y/s320/martin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Back to Aaron's tv and movie roles: six episodes of <i>Women on the Verge,</i> an Irish drama about three female friends whose lives are spiraling out of control. McCusker plays Martin, the ex-boyfriend of one of the friends, who agrees to get back together because "he's madly in love with her." Nope.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrIQ06OtO5vYRs5HM4rXGvYfOS_QKfeXDbYb7Nun0Y8fwUVcGXjlBAbphRpfeD4o7nhfIl_ZJrbRr_SPyV6eNgBdrR18TeDDQ7WV8XMgC24-d2q9bKrfN3nl5DqJqb8iKH_tPINS2Yo1bqSWxqUv-1hTwaC5RkE7R7lVjV6hDVSzYHEKKT5p3RfDGsWCI/s627/aaronbulge.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="425" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrIQ06OtO5vYRs5HM4rXGvYfOS_QKfeXDbYb7Nun0Y8fwUVcGXjlBAbphRpfeD4o7nhfIl_ZJrbRr_SPyV6eNgBdrR18TeDDQ7WV8XMgC24-d2q9bKrfN3nl5DqJqb8iKH_tPINS2Yo1bqSWxqUv-1hTwaC5RkE7R7lVjV6hDVSzYHEKKT5p3RfDGsWCI/w271-h400/aaronbulge.jpg" width="271" /></a></div><br />Eight episodes of <i>Marcella,</i> a British noir about a detective named Marcella. In Season 3, she goes undercover to infiltrate the Maguire crime family. McCusker plays Finn, the middle child and CEO, who hasn't produced a son yet, to the consternation of his Mum. <i>So, is he averse to the idea of sexing with women to make that baby? </i></div><div><br /></div><div>Nope. He's got a girlfriend. There's a lesbian couple, but no gay men in the series.</div><div><br /></div><div>No cock shot, either, just an underwear bulge while Finn smooches with his sweetie.</div><div><br /></div><div>25 episodes of <i>Hope Street</i>, a Northern Irish crime drama. McCusker plays Clint Dunwoody-Devine, "a local busker," who is married to the owner of the local pub. A lady. </div><div><br />It looks like <i>Bohemian Rhapsody</i> is all for McCusker, but it's such an iconic role, and he's from conservative Northern Ireland, so it's more than enough. </div><div><br /></div><div>More than enough cocks, too. We don't even need this shot of someone who is probably not McCusker, getting busy.</div><div><br /></div><div>The McCusker cock shots are on <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/aaron-mccusker-serial-killer-busker.html" target="_blank"><b>RG Beefcake and Boyfriends</b></a></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-89354447003579871942024-03-14T05:18:00.001-04:002024-03-14T05:18:32.217-04:00Ten hot/hung Gavins and magnificent muscle Munns from around the world<p> </p><div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimeqLt2wT1zjDn7cnw2i758_g5c8hHUFKr3B_5li5nl64dr5qKsSebIpTyhuE0aNEViESMrT6p9GdMarPZGjRAfTp_Vb4Kytc3ecqQlSm2gH967Rao2dJxXlDAqV7zrnriIBfT7aKAZ0DK8fYYAfl1n3UsFQTCqsirNW3x1sRmyflDnIOlvsWxYqT-Vag/s400/gavinNorthernIreland%20(1).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="264" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimeqLt2wT1zjDn7cnw2i758_g5c8hHUFKr3B_5li5nl64dr5qKsSebIpTyhuE0aNEViESMrT6p9GdMarPZGjRAfTp_Vb4Kytc3ecqQlSm2gH967Rao2dJxXlDAqV7zrnriIBfT7aKAZ0DK8fYYAfl1n3UsFQTCqsirNW3x1sRmyflDnIOlvsWxYqT-Vag/w264-h400/gavinNorthernIreland%20(1).jpg" width="264" /></a></div><br />Several months ago, running low on content, I compiled a collection of people named Gavin or Munn from public Facebook photos. Like these guys from Belfast, Northern Ireland. </div><br />To produce a photo collection of general interest, I'm keeping the hunkiest of the lot, augmented by cock shots of actors named Gavin or Munn. Not a bad theme.</div><div><br /></div><div>The non-actors first. <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/10/ten-magnificent-muscle-munns.html" target="_blank"><b>Link to the cock shots</b></a></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXAocKAv_KyYfFQQf5x-pWT9YTJUH7l8ZhKbOPXbknomqCZowXl11p79fJ-j4AYtQ5pe9gz-slL2sB0Zw5r-U6TlpRk_LBzwNPG6jtUXfgP1-9dZCRnQqX__DjsWIMw5hytLhxOVkRfN2qaKCxHpOo7XWyGUWCvYsCSQfr5eb68vRLwWRfHPecgqP_47w/s725/05CountyDownIreland.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="630" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXAocKAv_KyYfFQQf5x-pWT9YTJUH7l8ZhKbOPXbknomqCZowXl11p79fJ-j4AYtQ5pe9gz-slL2sB0Zw5r-U6TlpRk_LBzwNPG6jtUXfgP1-9dZCRnQqX__DjsWIMw5hytLhxOVkRfN2qaKCxHpOo7XWyGUWCvYsCSQfr5eb68vRLwWRfHPecgqP_47w/w348-h400/05CountyDownIreland.jpg" width="348" /></a></div><br />Two hunks from County Down, Ireland. Both are named Gavin. </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMr2m3lDjCJhXZy50CWvd_Mrob5pF7l2TmkszwEg-ph43e-VJOcPQvSezgLpsTO2raVxslQBV0iog88vucv73m_EPXZLeynlDv11yDdxXXnkYHvRK2CRLR65aLbWJFZ2J2Mt6B6uJudlGr-jDKGgD3hUvRGaS2ZHVWG7P29AeE2sFvMG33v0P_pa2Px6M/s514/GavinScotland.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="514" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMr2m3lDjCJhXZy50CWvd_Mrob5pF7l2TmkszwEg-ph43e-VJOcPQvSezgLpsTO2raVxslQBV0iog88vucv73m_EPXZLeynlDv11yDdxXXnkYHvRK2CRLR65aLbWJFZ2J2Mt6B6uJudlGr-jDKGgD3hUvRGaS2ZHVWG7P29AeE2sFvMG33v0P_pa2Px6M/s320/GavinScotland.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div> A muscle Munn from Scotland</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnkCk8ZD0yrUSYxb8FxZRWa6LmG7cjRYbAEbr8WkP-1Fb8-xC4d8m2ynoMrsZsHhX5a0YQWvmZybNkJvpZerjmdGuFTA0kQ1f_9oj9TskjazMy44Pc_YiAURRXne9KiSf-mvjmVmrMbsk6hAFt1BpNOG9iGQtSihMCDuUfF_1nyaG-kcFNry2iY_eSL80/s750/08IrishGavin.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnkCk8ZD0yrUSYxb8FxZRWa6LmG7cjRYbAEbr8WkP-1Fb8-xC4d8m2ynoMrsZsHhX5a0YQWvmZybNkJvpZerjmdGuFTA0kQ1f_9oj9TskjazMy44Pc_YiAURRXne9KiSf-mvjmVmrMbsk6hAFt1BpNOG9iGQtSihMCDuUfF_1nyaG-kcFNry2iY_eSL80/s320/08IrishGavin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />A Irish Munn and his mates.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjorJjt9ot6dB9QXLde3iOMnfQa-mub46K6pH6lFV6dkajQxJxNE2uRd01wQJ1PIYfqXU846IL8cQ0Sz3aB3cZlgLstZ3mS7DouDIxrUtccHgh4hIZJslVgJIGm3u_bIgZw8ywN9MBqy3cS3EVIxfuM6ulH-MZWqGxmI0wohdTTfurMJtnYKGaQvJetBJY/s611/GavinNZealand2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="611" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjorJjt9ot6dB9QXLde3iOMnfQa-mub46K6pH6lFV6dkajQxJxNE2uRd01wQJ1PIYfqXU846IL8cQ0Sz3aB3cZlgLstZ3mS7DouDIxrUtccHgh4hIZJslVgJIGm3u_bIgZw8ywN9MBqy3cS3EVIxfuM6ulH-MZWqGxmI0wohdTTfurMJtnYKGaQvJetBJY/s320/GavinNZealand2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Surfing in New Zealand.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUl469V5tRQHUV2E2_2D7JEwYdn4j5Er2lghzCDsZoCnh18l55yAAbrpBVm4OKjfq8P3Q6dO9LPBFpehL79-988-HQNle9fRMyMbzCn-SIMVBhJd_FmvbyGgq3UVJ83lYkQPOR1TVQoDtjFwH4eGU5gNmmcdujsuslzAfz9j3JPYNV7NWueLsWy0eD2rU/s611/GavinLeatherwoodsexlivesofcollegegirls.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="611" data-original-width="529" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUl469V5tRQHUV2E2_2D7JEwYdn4j5Er2lghzCDsZoCnh18l55yAAbrpBVm4OKjfq8P3Q6dO9LPBFpehL79-988-HQNle9fRMyMbzCn-SIMVBhJd_FmvbyGgq3UVJ83lYkQPOR1TVQoDtjFwH4eGU5gNmmcdujsuslzAfz9j3JPYNV7NWueLsWy0eD2rU/w346-h400/GavinLeatherwoodsexlivesofcollegegirls.jpg" width="346" /></a></div><br />Now the actors, beginning with Gavin Leatherwood, who you may recall as Sabrina's witch-boyfriend on <i>The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina</i>. Here he investigates <i>The Sex Lives of College Girls</i></div><div><br /></div><div>Gavin cocks and Munn butts on<a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/10/ten-magnificent-muscle-munns.html" target="_blank"><b> RG Beefcake and Boyfriends</b></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-40793970905186471122024-03-13T07:32:00.000-04:002024-03-13T07:32:43.775-04:00Gemstones Episode 2.9, Continued: A Perfect Christian, the Lion King, naked twinks, and lovers in old photographs<p><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1kCQHC8wqVODM-f4FbFUW9MiaR1uS30kysU-6na8NSs7wglS35r8ghoDNN2hRU2L0fx7b3cLUn-weAfoNsZ3PD2VNcBb7e3EVFPeSemj7epqHs0xWeC9ueXatS1wG4kBohVVYf8IdDqGEcRl5WOD-YH4BXEXy6GYnPYVdWNj_7LGPgJhEJcQGvyVm1UM/s600/joe01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1kCQHC8wqVODM-f4FbFUW9MiaR1uS30kysU-6na8NSs7wglS35r8ghoDNN2hRU2L0fx7b3cLUn-weAfoNsZ3PD2VNcBb7e3EVFPeSemj7epqHs0xWeC9ueXatS1wG4kBohVVYf8IdDqGEcRl5WOD-YH4BXEXy6GYnPYVdWNj_7LGPgJhEJcQGvyVm1UM/w266-h400/joe01.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br />This is the G-rated version of the review. <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-kelvin-x-keefe-reading-of-episode-29_19.html" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"> L<b>ink to the version with the nude photos</b></a><p></p><div><b>Previous</b>: <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-kelvin-x-keefe-reading-of-episode-29.html" target="_blank"><b>Episode 2.9: Who killed Thaniel? Will Keefe ever get a place at the table? Can we see some Gemstone alums naked?</b></a></div><div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Keefe stands alone: </b>Keefe sits next to Kelvin on the way to the Zion's Landing ground-breaking party. He stands next to BJ while the siblings perform. But afterwards, he goes off to make new friends: he tries to impress them by doing the Worm, and is upset when he fails. </div><div><p>Why doesn't he interact with Kelvin, or anyone in the family? It's as if they told him "You can come, but don't be seen with us. We don't want people thinking that you and Kelvin are together." </p><b>Baby Billy Returns</b>: As Tiffany sits in a cabana, Baby Billy appears! He tells her "I'm back for good," Judy isn't having it "You've got a lot of nerve coming here after what you did!" <div><br /></div><div>He ignores Judy and asks Tiffany to take him back. She refuses to answer, saying that she has to go to the bathroom.<div><p></p><p><b>Keefe and the Perfect Christian</b>: Meanwhile, Keefe and Joe Jonas, the world's most perfect Christian, head to the same porta-potty. They are so busy gazing at the guy who just exited that they both reach for the handle at the same time, and clasp hands. It is accidental, but still a strangely erotic moment. </p><p>Tiffany pushes them aside and rushes into the porta-potty. Joe Jonas and Keefe continue to flirt as she goes into labor. <i>Don't they, like, have to go?</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYNvWx_MDzY1Dw3Y4QhkpS0yKRlLAJb7gVY7Azh3JDYQGqP7xGXHnuS_1mr2SCxz6jdZHdEa6CQdQRlWhS8fG5RrNWnM_kyVs4zGDahbsmlA_ayUwH9iDYKOlfb-0G81VsZ01qjM1aKQ2uKISq7PsWnArh6HcA1ECJBqc8r3DKH5y0g0JbXFGd6qBZiU/s390/babybilly.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="344" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYNvWx_MDzY1Dw3Y4QhkpS0yKRlLAJb7gVY7Azh3JDYQGqP7xGXHnuS_1mr2SCxz6jdZHdEa6CQdQRlWhS8fG5RrNWnM_kyVs4zGDahbsmlA_ayUwH9iDYKOlfb-0G81VsZ01qjM1aKQ2uKISq7PsWnArh6HcA1ECJBqc8r3DKH5y0g0JbXFGd6qBZiU/w353-h400/babybilly.jpg" width="353" /></a></b></div><b><br />The Lion King: </b>Later, a crowd has gathered around the porta-potty. <i>Didn't anyone fetch a doctor? </i></div><div><br /></div><div>Baby Billy rushes up and asks Keefe, Pontius, and Abraham if they've seen Tiffany. They point. <i>She said she was going to the bathroom, you dolt! Why did it take you so long to figure it out?</i><p></p><p>Tiffany emerges, stating that she had her baby: it fell into the toilet.<i>Gross callback to the "toilet baby" discussion. </i>Baby Billy reaches down and pulls the baby out. Then, in a scene reflecting Simba's birth in <i>The Lion King, </i>he holds it over his head for the crowd to see. Everyone applauds. </p><p><b>Lyle's Revenge</b>: Eli gets a phone call: Junior has used his underworld connections to trace the origin of the weapons the Cycle Ninjas used. They were sold to some boys in a gang in Texas -- where Lyle Lissons is from! <i>Don't jump to conclusions, Eli -- Texas is a big state.</i></p><p>On the beach, Jesse, still unaware of Lyle's involvement, is handing over the investment money. Suddenly a woman appears, yelling at Lyle about the disappearance of her husband: "He was working with you, to get information on the Butterfields! He told me all about it!" </p><p>Finally Jesse starts to figure it out. He confronts Lyle, who admits to sending the Cycle Ninjas to kill Eli -- he thought he was "doing you a solid," freeing up some money so Jesse could invest. Besides, hasn't he often wished that his father would hurry up and die? <i>No, of course not.</i> But, now, worried that he might tell, Lyle attacks. They fight, and Jesse hits and kills him with a rock from the David and Goliath slingshot he used to threaten Junior. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGx7b2d_1x6BBAuu55W3UqJxKWckmrtd17jhm1waMHe795NjCvF9bBYy6j1Xo3FtPDm1vxQOhSqreApvApeqpweEeq6cOHNEAW-hIBAwYdGIH-Pkicund8_Fe4GW7J05H4AQflOVBGxDbAqinBbFU77Cc96TRPDQy4wOajQUwldnz4FGh9q8VYnwvCjm4/s413/kelvin2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="413" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGx7b2d_1x6BBAuu55W3UqJxKWckmrtd17jhm1waMHe795NjCvF9bBYy6j1Xo3FtPDm1vxQOhSqreApvApeqpweEeq6cOHNEAW-hIBAwYdGIH-Pkicund8_Fe4GW7J05H4AQflOVBGxDbAqinBbFU77Cc96TRPDQy4wOajQUwldnz4FGh9q8VYnwvCjm4/w400-h304/kelvin2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />He rushes to his family -- um, hang on for a moment. Check out Kelvin's ultra-femme outfit and mannerisms. He's really come out loud and proud. He was the macho Messiah of the Musclemen an episode ago, and now he's my Aunt Sadie. </div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>And why isn't Keefe there? He's at the porta-potties, of course, but there isn't even a chair that he vacated.<p></p><p>Jesse announces that he's murdered someone. The family follows him to the beach, but Lyle is alive, and Lindsey is armed! She shoots BJ in the femoral artery, and forces the others to swim out into the ocean. <i>BJ will bleed out in 2-4 minutes unless he gets first aid. He's doomed!</i></p><p><i>More after the break</i></p><p><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><i><br /></i><p></p><p><b>Lots of Reconciliations: </b>One month later, we see Chad and his wife reconciling at Amber's marital group. <i>I didn't even know that was a plot arc. </i> </p><p>Then Judy and BJ, who has miraculously recovered, say goodbye to Baby Billy, Tiffany, and baby Lionel as they head home. </p><b>Nobody ain't inviting no kids to the steam showers: </b> Kelvin and Keefe have started a Youth Squad for 12-15 year olds. "The whole time we've been searching for our calling," Kelvin says, "It's been right under our noses: these beautiful, innocent children."<div><br /></div><div>He continues, evoking a Judean retreat: "We could groom these kids into the next generation of muscle men." Keefe suddenly realizes that people could get the wrong idea, and suggests getting chaperones and permission slips.But Kelvin isn't ready to start planning yet; he's just brainstorming, thinking of the possibilities. </div><div><br /></div><div>I read fan responses to this scene before actually watching it: anger, disgust, and dismay: "Please don't let them be creeps. Please don't let them be creeps. Please don't let them be creeps." The "They're straight buddies" camp was ecstatic, because who would give gay characters lines like that? When I watched, I was upset by the structure: everyone else gets a heartfelt scene, and the guys get pedophile jokes. But one fan who grew up a queer kid in an Evangelical church set me straight, so to speak. I paraphrase a bit:</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91Ex74DDUSMxGz1bJTVbiAKfus7iw338wKyIgYq25YFRqgaYa17qfPeTQypQzekZpazPlR9UKRZ30PSFjWXUMEH-ZSZVvW1BwpvGbXAq3n64seqGXnFX2P-qD1cIJa9dRuNuh6AmUXHawVAWslgkzaNJlXDlslUIgwXVYva_XTytHeeOfofBpVunAqsk/s553/Kelvin3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="553" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91Ex74DDUSMxGz1bJTVbiAKfus7iw338wKyIgYq25YFRqgaYa17qfPeTQypQzekZpazPlR9UKRZ30PSFjWXUMEH-ZSZVvW1BwpvGbXAq3n64seqGXnFX2P-qD1cIJa9dRuNuh6AmUXHawVAWslgkzaNJlXDlslUIgwXVYva_XTytHeeOfofBpVunAqsk/w400-h256/Kelvin3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><i>This IS a touching scene! Friggin' homophobe, thinking that because the guys are gay, they must like little boys</i>! </div><div><br /></div><div>The kids are not dressed in revealing outfits, and at least one of them is a girl! Kelvin and Keefe do not say one single thing that suggest an erotic interest in the "little angels." Keefe notes that a particularly muscular boy is popular <i>with other boys</i>, and Kelvin fiddles with his "wedding ring," to let you know that he and Keefe are partners. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Youth Squad is a perfectly legitimate way for them to combine their interests in youth ministry and physical fitness. <i>Note that the kids are not training for bodybuilding, which is not permitted for anyone under age 15. They are doing strength training exercises, which are recommended for children aged seven and up. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Plus it makes structural sense. The heterosexist trajectory includes job, house, wife, <i>and kids. </i> Baby Billy does not become a man until he holds his infant son. BJ and Judy have no children of their own, so they adopt Tiffany. Nurturing children is the final step in Kelvin's movement into manhood</div><div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtmjwgSBHtzZhAjccukYFcfqrDKLAtABliYrv2jeo8HyhhoTg1wwLyTmFCnV5T1YZib7FXn4JqgAP_Z2bAnZLAFVZZrM-UTr5v5CWsBCFjn5BRsh_0gawz_N9dAn9gH6MxkQZGx7R6j8Gfyv8_8_wOye-DhbqCsWoA1hWHA1jbZesWFTzL7TIdv6gpag8/s573/juniorEliLove.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="573" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtmjwgSBHtzZhAjccukYFcfqrDKLAtABliYrv2jeo8HyhhoTg1wwLyTmFCnV5T1YZib7FXn4JqgAP_Z2bAnZLAFVZZrM-UTr5v5CWsBCFjn5BRsh_0gawz_N9dAn9gH6MxkQZGx7R6j8Gfyv8_8_wOye-DhbqCsWoA1hWHA1jbZesWFTzL7TIdv6gpag8/w400-h251/juniorEliLove.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><b>Lovers in old photographs: </b> Eli returns to Memphis, where he is funding Junior's new wrestling studio. Arm on Eli's back, Junior shows him around: "Stadium seating...just need some asses to fill 'em." </p><p>They pause before an old black-and-white photo of Glendon Marsh and his wrestling crew. Young Eli, the Marauder Kid, stands masked in the back row, next to Young Junior. The camera closes in on the two. Eli smiles. The end.<i> </i></p><div><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcRn3hzF9qyaV4byMajQrZ3EHI3fi1xZ3ns0v0v6LCMxrVvUYbMN21YXmgQQqf-Jo_SmaoOC6Ix0xU2i71MgHMji8O78SjO3xh5GTh8RUuUNZHE39GRc50rzTqTwQBpfEbCFdg0bbVNKNwnNAnIh2p_3PPJ4P5kqDIXu_j-uAU-eWCvytyQEB7ZlOcVQg/s679/JuniorEli3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="679" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcRn3hzF9qyaV4byMajQrZ3EHI3fi1xZ3ns0v0v6LCMxrVvUYbMN21YXmgQQqf-Jo_SmaoOC6Ix0xU2i71MgHMji8O78SjO3xh5GTh8RUuUNZHE39GRc50rzTqTwQBpfEbCFdg0bbVNKNwnNAnIh2p_3PPJ4P5kqDIXu_j-uAU-eWCvytyQEB7ZlOcVQg/s320/JuniorEli3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><b>The Songs the Sirens Sang</b></p><i>What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture,</i><p></p><p><i>--</i>Thomas Browne, <i>Urn Burial.</i></p>Like most people, I read that line for the first time in junior high, in the introduction to the Edgar Allen Poe story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." It was fascinating in its obscurity -- and hint of gender transgression. Most of what we know, in the social sciences, in history, and especially in literary analysis, is based not upon fact but upon conjecture. So we come to the end of the Eli/Junior story with more questions than answers.<div><br /></div><div>Were Eli and Junior lovers, back in the day? The writers, director, and actors may have an idea, but the text exists outside of their creative acts, so they cannot know for sure. In the absence of videos and diary entries, we can't know for sure about most real-life people in the the past. All we can do is look at the photograph of the two men gazing out at us, and wonder what they meant to each other. The end.<p></p></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><b>Bonus:</b> Naked twinks, in case you're having trouble figuring out the difference between being gay and that other thing. </div><div><br /></div><div>The naked twinks are on<b> <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-kelvin-x-keefe-reading-of-episode-29_19.html" target="_blank">RG Beefcake and Boyfriends</a></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold;">See: <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/10/joe-jonas-worlds-most-famous-christian.html" target="_blank">Joe Jonas, the World's Most Famous Christian, flirting with Keefe and showing a bulge</a></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-61837416140768938772024-03-13T07:31:00.001-04:002024-03-13T07:32:28.141-04:00"American Gigolo," 1980 and 2022: Frontal nudity and homophobia or underwear shots and gay erasure. Which do you prefer?<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxVLEnan_WaFCrtrxIp3YWTYn9QPvJYz86oPnSKP5sU_ZPAxkjPdrTJHAtGdjZUNuzeFYvBaX3zTCxPqAsNGIARAyumIRB65AUcPl6O2s-O2QdA4PJcUN-OV_wcKBh-755553z84pi0fwKwgkxOHMUvp8ahBba62eZRXyEJtjc7OlqmTJ6Db_t3Fqq=s400" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxVLEnan_WaFCrtrxIp3YWTYn9QPvJYz86oPnSKP5sU_ZPAxkjPdrTJHAtGdjZUNuzeFYvBaX3zTCxPqAsNGIARAyumIRB65AUcPl6O2s-O2QdA4PJcUN-OV_wcKBh-755553z84pi0fwKwgkxOHMUvp8ahBba62eZRXyEJtjc7OlqmTJ6Db_t3Fqq=w400-h300" width="400" /></a>Link to <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/american-gigolo-1980-and-2022-frontal.html" target="_blank"><b>NSFW version </b></a></p>In 1980, <i>American Gigolo </i>became famous for Richard Gere's biceps, chest, abs, and penis -- the first full frontal shot in any mainstream movie! <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-gCLXEo8mf_Jgrc4LTi3IoyXy3CLWiFo4PbcW19IOFeXCIsV3w7r_HDGqvomDSZZkX5LT1_eRJpPvKAQOtrzB-YmbF4IlFo1fK5045fkmM97vHvTGRsEPsGA9hvEfbIaJBE4IFvV3g9uMrYLqiQLybO2eO4g9YFMYQMBbzgij3DWlzkJo0TUoPyCVWdw/s507/01gere.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="416" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-gCLXEo8mf_Jgrc4LTi3IoyXy3CLWiFo4PbcW19IOFeXCIsV3w7r_HDGqvomDSZZkX5LT1_eRJpPvKAQOtrzB-YmbF4IlFo1fK5045fkmM97vHvTGRsEPsGA9hvEfbIaJBE4IFvV3g9uMrYLqiQLybO2eO4g9YFMYQMBbzgij3DWlzkJo0TUoPyCVWdw/w329-h400/01gere.jpg" width="329" /></a></div><br />Every gay magazine had an article on The Nude Scene, with a screen shot. This was before you could buy a DVD or stream the movie, so every gay guy in the country, probably in the world, marched down to the Cineplexto see it. Gere plays Julian, a hustler who specializes in women, and in fact rejects any assignment involving "fag tricks." The plot involves Julian falling in love with one of his clients (of course), and being framed for murder. (He was with a client that night, but she refuses to come forward.)<p></p><p>Gay men of the era didn't mind that the hustlers have 100% female clients, while in real life 97% of their clients are closeted gay/bi men. They were used to being erased.</p><p>They didn't consider homophobic slurs a problem. You weren't allowed to mention gay people, even in slurs, before the 1960s, so in the 1970s and 1980s, most movie characters threw in a few "fags" and "fruits" to demonstrate that they were cool.</p><p></p><p>Nor did they get upset when the villain turned out to be gay: Julian's pimp (Bill Duke), whom he pushes out a window to his death. Straight people hated us; it was a given, a simple fact of life. You couldn't escape it, unless you managed to live and work in a gay neighborhood and avoid mainstream media altogether. The rest of us would hear homophobic jibes, slurs, scandals and jokes from family and friends, from coworkers, from random strangers on the bus, so what difference did a movie make? You got to see a dick on screen!</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilHsrt6ZEf41FE69lg1tDdpjutxcwbcKow6EpZEGEWRvEFHkkbbgg0YynAKd1VvNze7hokRelqlpuHAd5AYDnQApaSngtCiZRvdU7nMeNmYNexR3ClADSFeySP3lv3CkyEYRmHbOtpKvUXkUSEameOgH49D1An7JPUy5_zz5zyDIZoYVbKVr-G5gKg=s400" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="392" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilHsrt6ZEf41FE69lg1tDdpjutxcwbcKow6EpZEGEWRvEFHkkbbgg0YynAKd1VvNze7hokRelqlpuHAd5AYDnQApaSngtCiZRvdU7nMeNmYNexR3ClADSFeySP3lv3CkyEYRmHbOtpKvUXkUSEameOgH49D1An7JPUy5_zz5zyDIZoYVbKVr-G5gKg=s320" width="314" /></a></div><br />Writer/director Paul Schrader has been involved with a number of other homophobic projects, such as <i>Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, </i>about the gay writer who developed a fixation with bodybuilders. Again, being gay is all about darkness, destruction, death. Being gay is evil.<div><br /></div><div>But not Richard Gere. A year before <i>American Gigolo</i>,he starred in the gay-themed (and not homophobic) <i>Bent </i>on Broadway, about gay men who are sent to a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. In 1993 he appeared in <i>And the Band Played On</i>, about the first years of the AIDS crisis.</div><div><br /></div><div>How did he manage all three? Does he hate gay people, or not? <p>In an interview in <i>Entertainment Weekly.</i> Gere reveals that he took the part because Julian was so different from himself, into fashion and languages (which Gere was not), and with "a gay thing flirting through it," and he knew nothing about "that community." Good enough explanation, I guess.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpLtrJr5I3UIYkH9t7yh62W-QdMLMOh5NLTU-xELgD2sHnr4wDq5RB2lnxu31VJe2OIyLv1yQ1dx6sb_mt4kvuyCVNXrDRIIcvpZg4kCBop_sZzTFX8RQcOcc9Z_dJ1LuTmXf94oGVvDmlIywYqHv_SimigkAJAX5SytMrPneoWVeBoglWKqxwTLaQ=s428" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="352" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpLtrJr5I3UIYkH9t7yh62W-QdMLMOh5NLTU-xELgD2sHnr4wDq5RB2lnxu31VJe2OIyLv1yQ1dx6sb_mt4kvuyCVNXrDRIIcvpZg4kCBop_sZzTFX8RQcOcc9Z_dJ1LuTmXf94oGVvDmlIywYqHv_SimigkAJAX5SytMrPneoWVeBoglWKqxwTLaQ=w329-h400" width="329" /></a></div><br />In 2022, an <i>American Gigolo</i> tv series appeared. 15 years after the events in the movie, the middle-aged Julian (Jon Bernthal) tries to find out who framed him (I thought Leon confessed?) and to reconnect with The Girl of His Dreams. </div><div><br /></div><div>Paul Schrader was not involved, so no homophobic slurs and no gay villain. But gay men are still erased; 100% of the hustlers' clients are women. There's a lesbian cop, which is not nearly adequate representation.</div><div><br /></div><div>And no frontal nudity, just a butt shot.</div><div>Is that progress?</div><div><br /></div><div>Berenthal's butt and Richard Gere's dick are on <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/american-gigolo-1980-and-2022-frontal.html" target="_blank"><b>RG Beefcake and Boyfriends</b></a></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-81014792814220996972024-03-12T11:37:00.002-04:002024-03-12T18:55:41.357-04:00"Empire": Which son should rule the hiphop empire, the finance major, the big dick, or the gay one? With some bulges and butts<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh94bbZNiDe2WBiAveO7rgt47JNEJYE6uVTrpifmuW0IldE7CeAdCMVE1wnsKB6TNx0iueVX-V71DpiTYiVI0G15lf-hxt0Fr2ihlwIggK7-PKg4CSbc65lNZWHOTHRM95gbWzvtQu2_NiupbyLGgUwjAzhwZxTkqW8LsuGZVUXyhWxW4DcPfiFQFJEupA/s479/01terrence.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="320" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh94bbZNiDe2WBiAveO7rgt47JNEJYE6uVTrpifmuW0IldE7CeAdCMVE1wnsKB6TNx0iueVX-V71DpiTYiVI0G15lf-hxt0Fr2ihlwIggK7-PKg4CSbc65lNZWHOTHRM95gbWzvtQu2_NiupbyLGgUwjAzhwZxTkqW8LsuGZVUXyhWxW4DcPfiFQFJEupA/w268-h400/01terrence.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><br /><div><i>Empire</i> (2015-2020) is a long-running soap opera about a hiphop mogul trying to decide which of his children should get his multimillion dollar recording business after he dies. I reviewed the first episode.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/empire-which-son-should-run-hiphop.html" target="_blank"><b>Link to NSFW version</b></a><br /><p></p><p><b>Scene 1:</b> A woman in a recording booth, singing a R&B song, while Terrence Howard's Lucious, head of the recording empire, listens: "I got time on my side...why you leaving so soon?"<i> Uh-oh, Lucey is doomed! </i> </p><p>He tells her to "sing like it's your last day on Earth." <i>Ok, enough foreshadowing. Let's get on with the terminal diagnosis. </i>He flashes back to it, then tells her to sing like she just had to identify her brother's body after he was murdered. Ok, now she's singing in an agonizing shriek. Lucey is satisfied, kisses the hand of a masculine-presenting woman, and wakes up the fat guy on the couch. </p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjINy3M97j5_TT6-8Gezb_q93d6Zh8VURSCd82uiH3w7ILik6-QB0ecKRdN1EjWcU2bAvThovXYkNiAQNO54Hk1ULezRuuU9J4Zaa3G1PLua4U9bq3-7UoKQeqx6s9-vVD2Z6-LT7cwYiPYCVzn70lOzuZtyA8A9cNYQAn7w4JHlc2ipMHIv6Pp4XN3sVc/s615/01bryshere.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="428" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjINy3M97j5_TT6-8Gezb_q93d6Zh8VURSCd82uiH3w7ILik6-QB0ecKRdN1EjWcU2bAvThovXYkNiAQNO54Hk1ULezRuuU9J4Zaa3G1PLua4U9bq3-7UoKQeqx6s9-vVD2Z6-LT7cwYiPYCVzn70lOzuZtyA8A9cNYQAn7w4JHlc2ipMHIv6Pp4XN3sVc/w279-h400/01bryshere.jpg" width="279" /></a></div><br />Scene 2:</b> Party on the deck of his platinum-album-strewn office. <i> Ugh, close-up of a bikini babe</i>. I counted ten bikini babes, four fully-clothed men. So far, so heterosexist.<p></p><p><i>Gross, a woman is feeding a man! That's a major trigger, causing immediate disgust. Get your own damn food! </i>In-universe, it's meant to designate that he has such a big penis that women would do anything to get him in bed. Another gives him a whiff of a cigarette. Big Penis appears to be Lucey's youngest son, Hakeem, played by Bryshere Y. Gray.</p><p>Cut to another guy composing music on the piano. Big Penis jumps in. They sing about being ready to hit the top, go to the limit, get money and girls. <i>Why, are you going to get 30 women instead of your usual 15?</i></p><p>A slightly older man in a suit and his wife look down from above, disapproving of his brothers' rambunctiousness, wondering why Hakeem is singing when Dad's not around. </p><p><b>Scene 3: </b>Luscious and the masculine-presenting woman in the back of a limo, talking about his big announcement. They arrive, get mobbed by reporters and fans, and go into a gigantic office, where he kisses her. <i> Must be his wife Porsha, played by Ta'Rhonda Jones, who is an LGBT ally but doesn't usually have a masculine gender presentation. </i></p><p>Lucy's secretary gives him a rundown of the day's requests. He says no to <i>The Tonight Show</i> and grudgingly ok to President Obama -- "but this is the last timee." </p><p>In a board room, twirling a basketball, Looney waxes nostalgic about the music that kept him alive when he was growing up on the streets. But now people download music for free, so kids growing up in the projects can't escape by composing and singing songs. <i>Well, to be fair, less than one in a million wannabes makes a living as a singer/songwriter, but it's a nice hobby. </i>Empire Music is going to change all that by being a commodity on the New York Stock Exchange. </p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg91flV85I42uVvUGNsTxprBZa7GxWHPmXhvSw1yLBmGpMrXueHr_TKhrtm3HbTOizfHfmxqh2B9P-GNWQw5trOvq6DecSZ3aC69rZaOgPuFTZlnavua3OigJE8P2Uxw-8JJxoy8Msvd4Es4-ux4InN1c4vTGOvT0I2dWJWtXH82L8xlUhc6r_Nfqdu_ec/s335/suitguy.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="332" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg91flV85I42uVvUGNsTxprBZa7GxWHPmXhvSw1yLBmGpMrXueHr_TKhrtm3HbTOizfHfmxqh2B9P-GNWQw5trOvq6DecSZ3aC69rZaOgPuFTZlnavua3OigJE8P2Uxw-8JJxoy8Msvd4Es4-ux4InN1c4vTGOvT0I2dWJWtXH82L8xlUhc6r_Nfqdu_ec/s320/suitguy.jpg" width="317" /></a></b></div><b><br />Scene 4</b>: Dining room, with a painting of a hot guy on the wall, although yellow pants against a yellow background might not be the best choice.<p></p><p>The guys who did the "I'm ready to be rich and famous" song are sitting at the table. There's no food. </p><p>The Suit Guy enters and asks Jamal, the one who was playing the piano, about "that friend of yours." <i>Euphemism for a gay partner? </i>Jamal is upset because Suit Guy didn't show up for dinner; they cooked and everything. "I forgot." </p><p>Lucey enters and lambasts them for not being prepared to take over his music empire. He's going to die soon, and "I need one of you to man up and lead it." He'll be deciding who during the next few episodes. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZSFLwz3lkyZkWr4zSIshA3qEyOqBh2LG71hICkKo-fm-66mPOVvGSByaqLavOufFXutjQ2a_IezWyBuezeq3532aezGSC_L5bsWG1de9a3NTsCGgisW9Y_IMhlCHZP2sY5J2XbXpahgEB_nbBC60x2k7JXZSuyJXN12CeUaoprFkLWiVqj-7KX0CGlMA/s396/01traeByers.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="354" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZSFLwz3lkyZkWr4zSIshA3qEyOqBh2LG71hICkKo-fm-66mPOVvGSByaqLavOufFXutjQ2a_IezWyBuezeq3532aezGSC_L5bsWG1de9a3NTsCGgisW9Y_IMhlCHZP2sY5J2XbXpahgEB_nbBC60x2k7JXZSuyJXN12CeUaoprFkLWiVqj-7KX0CGlMA/s320/01traeByers.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><br /><b>Scene 5:</b> Cookie, a woman with big hair and a very short skirt, is leaving prison. <p></p><p> Meanwhile, Lucey and Suit Guy observe a wrestling match and congratulate each other on how much money they're going to make on the kid. <i>He must be Luminous's eldest son Andre, played by Trae Byers</i></p><p>Suit Guy suggests that since he has a degree in finance, he's best qualified to run the company, but Lucey disagrees: it should be a celebrity, like Big Dick.</p><p>Later, Lucey's assistant reveals that Cookie has been released from prison. Lingam wants round-the-clock surveillance. </p><p>More after the break</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVhC4cTwwg8d00AQFpekfEZA6AU3F7G_ZWzuCLl0LXAsJZDdZ3lpnpVDpO4R0VyJ7t5Ab4zDrrKZbuRxKO-Y_19j_BwhrYxW2jeIt2B42cxiSzFozucbhKhMLATm-jeSZnY4zMMN0y5rSCeUrWpNidr7hkRNiZ6jOTOzdxrU1EKi2xgv4rkQvvlhk1Ta4/s795/01jussie2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="795" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVhC4cTwwg8d00AQFpekfEZA6AU3F7G_ZWzuCLl0LXAsJZDdZ3lpnpVDpO4R0VyJ7t5Ab4zDrrKZbuRxKO-Y_19j_BwhrYxW2jeIt2B42cxiSzFozucbhKhMLATm-jeSZnY4zMMN0y5rSCeUrWpNidr7hkRNiZ6jOTOzdxrU1EKi2xgv4rkQvvlhk1Ta4/w400-h336/01jussie2.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br />Scene 6:</b> Jamal, played by Jussie Smollett, complains to his boyfriend that Dad would never choose him to run the empire, because he's a card-carrying, slur-slinging homophobe. <i> He's out at Minute 11 of the first episode!</i><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_srHDpsxct68cU899kpmuZY_8uc1eQ8V9aLJhwU8m7HQayWOBqv7j6Y9T9Q2KV0EImTP6QE0C5vOD3Fv4qBcax7xw9JUx0P8BpHhudca7t_nVHoP01vwmi2KJLWA4TG_TdT02-_CUchxKnreaNsz1zgorOuf9KP6v769eTsE78XYcota8OKl6vAoC6lA/s651/01rafael.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="466" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_srHDpsxct68cU899kpmuZY_8uc1eQ8V9aLJhwU8m7HQayWOBqv7j6Y9T9Q2KV0EImTP6QE0C5vOD3Fv4qBcax7xw9JUx0P8BpHhudca7t_nVHoP01vwmi2KJLWA4TG_TdT02-_CUchxKnreaNsz1zgorOuf9KP6v769eTsE78XYcota8OKl6vAoC6lA/w286-h400/01rafael.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><br />Boyfriend, played by Rafael de la Fuente, criticizes him for not releasing an album, or touring, or anything but sitting on his butt eating soup. <i>He also plays a gay guy on the new version of "Dynasty:</i><p></p><p>Ulp, they kiss! <i>No waiting around four years for these guys</i>. </p><p>Door buzzer rings: It's Cookie! Jamal is not happy. Flashback to the young Jamal being forced to visit Mom Cookie in prison: "And don't come back crying, either." <i> Is Mom Cookie abusive?</i></p><p>Young Jamal complains that bullies are harassing me. Mom Cookie understands: "You different. It's gonna make life hard for you sometimes, but I got you." <i>She sounds supportive. Why would he leave a visit crying?</i></p><p>Uh-oh, she's on the way up, and their loft is a mess! They grab and chuck the clothes and fast-food wrappers lying around. "Did you tell her about us?" Boyfriend asks. "Um...er..." </p><p>She's here! Hugs. "For a queen, you got a messy apartment. And you didn't tell me you was dating a little Mexican. She's adorable." <i>Got you gender roles confused, but at least you're supportive.</i></p><p></p><p>Then: going dark, she exclaims "I'm here to get what's mine." </p><p>Left: Jussie Smollett's butt</p><p><b>Scene 7</b>: Cookie bursts past the secretary into Lovey's huge office, feels up his Grammies and Golden Globes, and grimaces of a photo of him cuddling with the new wife. Lovey enters and notes that she is still beautiful after 17 years. </p><p>Down to business: Lovey used her $400,000 to start the business, so now "I want what's mine": half of the multimillion dollar empire.</p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj97rzkcv8aCnRrZxCzrnqBikfPW5IG-9Kv9yjdUO1e3vVPh8U66uuQd9XBk1UrF_zRepBrHIiawQDUlZWAptzHH75LYT184fjrOFMeE0gPAey-QTx67Ne2cSUKFBe66483iV5K3IX2MmlUbPMfpLEDHJYuW_gU4COcfgfMbg0SMiJJpIdlcdy7eOgzQjA/s495/01terrell2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="495" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj97rzkcv8aCnRrZxCzrnqBikfPW5IG-9Kv9yjdUO1e3vVPh8U66uuQd9XBk1UrF_zRepBrHIiawQDUlZWAptzHH75LYT184fjrOFMeE0gPAey-QTx67Ne2cSUKFBe66483iV5K3IX2MmlUbPMfpLEDHJYuW_gU4COcfgfMbg0SMiJJpIdlcdy7eOgzQjA/s320/01terrell2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Scene 8</b>: Big Penis is getting his hair styled and singing about girls, when Cookie appears! He is not happy: he never visited her in prison because he hates her, and she, in turn, hates him. She assaults him with a broom multiple times. <i> Ok, now we know why you were in prison.</i><p></p><p>Left: The pilot is a little beefcake-light, so here's Terrell Carter, who joins the cast in Season 4.</p><p>Big Penis rushes to Lucey's new nightclub and complains that Cookie is "a psychotic animal!" Back story: she went to prison when Big Penis was less than a year old, so he never knew her. Lucey's next girlfriend mothered him, until she was "shot on 42nd and Walnut." <i>Where does this show take place? I thought it was New York.</i></p><p><b>Scene 9</b>: Lucey's assistant Bunkie complains to Cookie that Lucey be keeping him down, treating him like a servant. They used to be like brothers. "I'll take care of that, since I'm going to be head of the empire after I destroy Lucey and his sons, except for the gay one."</p><p></p><p><b>Scene 10</b>: Lucey meets with Jamal, the gay one, and tells him that being gay is a choice: "I'm saying this to help you, in case you release another album" <i>Making an idiotic homophobic comment to help him? How. </i>He explains: if your fans find out that he decided to turn gay and betray the black community, he won't get any sales: "A sissy can't sell records to black people...or the white kids." </p><p>So Jamal should probably choose to be straight. Besides, if he's straight, Lucey might choose him to run the empire.</p><p>I'm out.</p><p><b>Beefcake:</b> Not as much as I would like.</p><p><b>Heterosexism:</b> After the bikini babes and Big Penis being fed by his worshippers, not much.</p><p><b>Homophobia:</b> A lot. Lucey's speech made me nauseous. Even Cookie, who is "supportive," throws around the stereotype that gay men are really women.</p><p><b>Will I Keep Watching</b>: Heck, no.</p><p>Some bulges and butts on <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/empire-which-son-should-run-hiphop.html" target="_blank"><b>RG Beefcake and Boyfriends</b></a></p><p><b>See also: <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/11/episode-28-junioreli-how-many-dads-will.html" target="_blank">Gemstones Episode 3.8: Macaulay Culkin grows up, the Cycle Ninjas break out, and Jussie Smollett shows his stuff</a> </b>Lucey and Jamal dicks.</p><p><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/08/marcus-adair-ex-football-player-ex.html" target="_blank"><b>Marcus Adair: Stuntman, finance major, Jabari warrir, nude model</b></a></p></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-29160476205018715752024-03-12T11:37:00.000-04:002024-03-12T11:37:21.053-04:00Nhut Le: Gay activist, model, potter, superhero. With a Thai dick bonus<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYXzWdi6kQOPjrvu1Bp4XPv807g2N2X82UDPD7uudbmNYZ5f-Z6J8uSu_kV7VjNwA0dSSrqmNDJ18bO0UJMyBTi78K2XGpAIQ7NRNAVF6lJzX-x5aIfx1X2WNbZ3yyANO_F6d6d1tY8zBp_30zq4_yMNvUEXsHypsDCqVwaz6ZmfHpbaGm-_Q3JkQqwEc/s609/NhutPhilippines.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="609" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYXzWdi6kQOPjrvu1Bp4XPv807g2N2X82UDPD7uudbmNYZ5f-Z6J8uSu_kV7VjNwA0dSSrqmNDJ18bO0UJMyBTi78K2XGpAIQ7NRNAVF6lJzX-x5aIfx1X2WNbZ3yyANO_F6d6d1tY8zBp_30zq4_yMNvUEXsHypsDCqVwaz6ZmfHpbaGm-_Q3JkQqwEc/s320/NhutPhilippines.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/10/nhut-le-gay-activist-potter-model.html" target="_blank"><b>Link to the NSFW version</b></a><div><br /><div>1. Vietnamese-American actor Nhut Le (pronounced "Nuh Lee") studied drama at the University of the Arts and honed his comedic skills in the Groundling. </div><div><br /></div><div>2, He has 15 credits on the IMDB, including several gay roles, such as Gay #2 on <i>Los Feliz 90027. </i> </div><div><br /></div><div>3. He wrote, produced, and starred in <i>Gey Gardens</i> (2018), a gay parody of the tv soap <i>Gray Gardens</i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz3atXfnSgZ0obW7oSZY5LIxBSwo9znqQpMqnhJLDbtY7t28dJCl20Dpp98ELD7aidkoIbQtnlEsBH-9ld1HMx5ph1hpdT5X0fUWsv1og5uENEPzTuj5Zwax0of8idAqYflaD7fL88P3weEhmzK9ahkdFjURXeDSZA87erAx8ujUUbrnolvqsBjYVSGRE/s510/Nhut3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="497" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz3atXfnSgZ0obW7oSZY5LIxBSwo9znqQpMqnhJLDbtY7t28dJCl20Dpp98ELD7aidkoIbQtnlEsBH-9ld1HMx5ph1hpdT5X0fUWsv1og5uENEPzTuj5Zwax0of8idAqYflaD7fL88P3weEhmzK9ahkdFjURXeDSZA87erAx8ujUUbrnolvqsBjYVSGRE/s320/Nhut3.jpg" width="312" /></a></div><br />4. He played the Judomaster in 4 episodes of the Superhero comedy <i>Peacemaker</i>. Judomaster is a mean-tempered, spiteful supervillain who is trounced by John Cena's Peacemaker. <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnu9hQVTvd-t0GvMXf-jcIbF6EmZdGYPhI7oza-wj_fO3KtflDZKDEg2Pw1EED6AsnOarT_UhyphenhyphenQIgpETryWxF0e8GzD5I_I-BjSDn82u1uQo_7p2UAXPtGSowKPeNibNuVuBtNe0J09Iy_9fOcmBCZGGgPtoHCEzJKlcm5EGlBUHvBNYXhDoLjiQ3rGsE/s671/NhutBook.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="671" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnu9hQVTvd-t0GvMXf-jcIbF6EmZdGYPhI7oza-wj_fO3KtflDZKDEg2Pw1EED6AsnOarT_UhyphenhyphenQIgpETryWxF0e8GzD5I_I-BjSDn82u1uQo_7p2UAXPtGSowKPeNibNuVuBtNe0J09Iy_9fOcmBCZGGgPtoHCEzJKlcm5EGlBUHvBNYXhDoLjiQ3rGsE/s320/NhutBook.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />5. Nhu is also a writer, a gamer, and a potter. </div><div><br /></div><div>6. The bestsellers on 3CirclePotter, on Etsy, are a sweetheart mug and a ghost face mug.<br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw92cGoS_2EKWbOyK5J69l3tjeMJoz4UI4ngoIgV1CHRrz0waDCsOrb8ZesQeSbDGYKrlcclwM25PdslwGNuF8zKeAtMWMb2AbZ7KxC4sllhLclxWbJNc9W-mLhDjXLo2w2zn3M6Du_7ZnG7v5PQrQY0Zte6KcNSWUrW5Abpsyt4uzPH9wK-RxMTOCvYQ/s668/NhutIceman.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="668" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw92cGoS_2EKWbOyK5J69l3tjeMJoz4UI4ngoIgV1CHRrz0waDCsOrb8ZesQeSbDGYKrlcclwM25PdslwGNuF8zKeAtMWMb2AbZ7KxC4sllhLclxWbJNc9W-mLhDjXLo2w2zn3M6Du_7ZnG7v5PQrQY0Zte6KcNSWUrW5Abpsyt4uzPH9wK-RxMTOCvYQ/s320/NhutIceman.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>7. He came to the 2017 San Diego Comics Con as Iceman.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1hsEFSuGQsY0pVfCbWRFR5ivtnDpo2kfgV88m_txBTUhjgQQRwWos2cNAMqJsAuPbbAubT1C759dp9K0Lki18ORasp1GNsY7gpZNZAH3kWsOttVfS2GQS6Y98VuJ0LSwe_TKpyn_k551vDbqe-D10WTCF9GXwpgGwvV3xUnBV9snquSCRi1yXgD8KqJk/s389/NhutField.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="389" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1hsEFSuGQsY0pVfCbWRFR5ivtnDpo2kfgV88m_txBTUhjgQQRwWos2cNAMqJsAuPbbAubT1C759dp9K0Lki18ORasp1GNsY7gpZNZAH3kWsOttVfS2GQS6Y98VuJ0LSwe_TKpyn_k551vDbqe-D10WTCF9GXwpgGwvV3xUnBV9snquSCRi1yXgD8KqJk/s320/NhutField.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />8. Nhut is deeply involved in gay and Asian activism. In 2022, he presented on Diversity in Comics, TV, Film, and Games at Wondercon.</div><div><br /></div><div>9. He is gay in real life, and currently single. </div><div><br /></div><div>10. He has never been naked on screen. But don't worry, I put some nude photos of other Asian guys<a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/10/nhut-le-gay-activist-potter-model.html" target="_blank"> <b>on the NSFW version of this article</b></a></div></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-8149050709934246872024-03-12T09:56:00.000-04:002024-03-12T09:56:43.223-04:00Derek Yates: The Smiley-Emoji Guy shows us what's behind the eggplant<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga415239H66kIr8boSUqnOK5A0V52rRMVHwSgQky5_zgt0RMoJtZJVEEhUNbwNg27N-WMz5-s4I5OPCebhyphenhyphenYveiTwSIV1ssoQMJyAUJVhaubfyK1IA9n7xPtm-XYOxUv7faf7vzQN-lfq6LvhTA_kgh9pNH1BKmzEkytgLQqTuSlgygobdM2FY-6uJNyM/s430/DerekYates9.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="367" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga415239H66kIr8boSUqnOK5A0V52rRMVHwSgQky5_zgt0RMoJtZJVEEhUNbwNg27N-WMz5-s4I5OPCebhyphenhyphenYveiTwSIV1ssoQMJyAUJVhaubfyK1IA9n7xPtm-XYOxUv7faf7vzQN-lfq6LvhTA_kgh9pNH1BKmzEkytgLQqTuSlgygobdM2FY-6uJNyM/w341-h400/DerekYates9.jpg" width="341" /></a></div><br />In <i>How I Met Your Father</i>, the middle-aged Sophie tells her son stories about her life in New York 23 years ago, presumably culminating in meeting his father. In Episode 2.3, she doesn't remember the name of her friend's date, or what he looks like, so she calls him Rando. He appears with a smiley-emoji head and an eggplant over his penis.<div><br /></div><div>The epicode credits list him as actor/model Derek Yates, originally from Chattanooga, Tennesse, "Bradley Cooper's younger bro." <i>I think he's kidding.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_WoeSMBHwCBXspFkeHWdKI-VXsqyTYw3tTe-ujfKpkO01Hz-6MEy29FoAGz7E_BlMsz-woz7VgATsFWHlh4SkiMZTgKfNuDOjrow773XYAVfOE5BrR9ukfQOzxJccunusclaYn38KaX85Gd2vASfmR5Ktamf80O-DEVBG1WOr3_tJNwuTRwMce8saCa4/s225/derekellen.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_WoeSMBHwCBXspFkeHWdKI-VXsqyTYw3tTe-ujfKpkO01Hz-6MEy29FoAGz7E_BlMsz-woz7VgATsFWHlh4SkiMZTgKfNuDOjrow773XYAVfOE5BrR9ukfQOzxJccunusclaYn38KaX85Gd2vASfmR5Ktamf80O-DEVBG1WOr3_tJNwuTRwMce8saCa4/w400-h400/derekellen.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Nick got his start on the Chattanooga stage, with roles including <i>Hairspray, Sound of Music</i>, and A <i>Night to Remember.</i> In 2016, he moved to L.A., where he won the "Ellen's New Gardner" contest on Ellen Degeneres's talk show.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO91hwAL2pnu1B8VbED19HMLTI2YNpgOo0ZqU1_jEoYI2UQPconIQsUSKhYwSVAmHI09Xs1Z6TFxkpsnhlkYa9cxSE_k1igbE3nu4JxtQznSwHwKYjIQx7_rTNw0zqXR73JzqjmvnUaj48B7X5JRuma-A3U4NQ9y8kufrd9yj77VkHKYDjuDjqae1DMuY/s501/DerekMaximo.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="437" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO91hwAL2pnu1B8VbED19HMLTI2YNpgOo0ZqU1_jEoYI2UQPconIQsUSKhYwSVAmHI09Xs1Z6TFxkpsnhlkYa9cxSE_k1igbE3nu4JxtQznSwHwKYjIQx7_rTNw0zqXR73JzqjmvnUaj48B7X5JRuma-A3U4NQ9y8kufrd9yj77VkHKYDjuDjqae1DMuY/w349-h400/DerekMaximo.jpg" width="349" /></a></div><br />Since then he has racked up 21 acting credits on IMDB, including cops, paralegals, nurses, a sleazoid, a passenger on the doomed Titanic 666, and Rando the Smiley Emoji guy on<i> How I Met Your Father.</i> He claims to have played the Best Friend alongside Adam Devine in <i>Isn't It Romantic,</i> but I don't remember seeing him there.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/12/derek-yates-nude-photos-of-smiley-emoji.html" target="_blank">Link to nude photos</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Derek has also modeled for Caribou Coffee, Volkswagon, Underwear Nation, CSX, and Hooters.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDkIO6yTu_Bo6FnUqmj8JFy9U28DAxjpbPJ2vGTf0eTsCI-mH5utH1qmkXQkJBSrh7D5RI-XaTFtqTtmzNt2Ssm0zslpiPdgjwC3eFoczsuCOgG7MLjFom8VqIlRkIXiGP4iOEJU8dY_uYzR0sYj9nNqMMOoKRYw1YPIwLbbsu5igBa_Q9b4xXdeHQS8s/s420/DerekSelfie.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="350" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDkIO6yTu_Bo6FnUqmj8JFy9U28DAxjpbPJ2vGTf0eTsCI-mH5utH1qmkXQkJBSrh7D5RI-XaTFtqTtmzNt2Ssm0zslpiPdgjwC3eFoczsuCOgG7MLjFom8VqIlRkIXiGP4iOEJU8dY_uYzR0sYj9nNqMMOoKRYw1YPIwLbbsu5igBa_Q9b4xXdeHQS8s/w334-h400/DerekSelfie.jpg" width="334" /></a></div><br />But doubtless his 840,000 social media followers are also interested in his beefcake photos. Thousands of them, so many that I actually got tired of looking. Selfies, candids, and professional photos. Always shirtless, usually bulging, sometimes nude.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>More bulges after the break</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglt38gx9o0Cbpu9og3Qwsb8atE8K_ogvcLNcpkuBIl2ncTD09w9sr-pXyjr1SpdOsGKNn51JDhvQ-85jc3tzCAHEqs3OKsAqi0gGoXMIkbUBclYGCZwT4R7j1XwCwxx5iC8fJ-etl8SN-PMyijKGIz05W8bvjy-RIcAYHk3_CrSvUpu5bdO4LwlnbEipY/s424/DerekCrab.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="424" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglt38gx9o0Cbpu9og3Qwsb8atE8K_ogvcLNcpkuBIl2ncTD09w9sr-pXyjr1SpdOsGKNn51JDhvQ-85jc3tzCAHEqs3OKsAqi0gGoXMIkbUBclYGCZwT4R7j1XwCwxx5iC8fJ-etl8SN-PMyijKGIz05W8bvjy-RIcAYHk3_CrSvUpu5bdO4LwlnbEipY/w400-h325/DerekCrab.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Usually serious. Only a few humorous photos, and even those tend to draw attention to his cock. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhARfxd9vEUrG0tSBs4lJzN48fDnCLipNlqY96Y6v2-AYNO2X1w_0iGoTwscqsFZZFqDh_ZIHrr-x8Mfyvd-9k8gxNCI2QfQDRfJ9uMQovSaiF6U_dhNfmw7h1ZgKdj9QY4jPz0am4fxCqRWpotzR8aCKA6pvDGUt97sKx1Z3lUjerEAw5Z0mBUUJTWUIA/s514/DerkValentines.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="377" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhARfxd9vEUrG0tSBs4lJzN48fDnCLipNlqY96Y6v2-AYNO2X1w_0iGoTwscqsFZZFqDh_ZIHrr-x8Mfyvd-9k8gxNCI2QfQDRfJ9uMQovSaiF6U_dhNfmw7h1ZgKdj9QY4jPz0am4fxCqRWpotzR8aCKA6pvDGUt97sKx1Z3lUjerEAw5Z0mBUUJTWUIA/w294-h400/DerkValentines.jpg" width="294" /></a></div><br />Hot outfits for Christmas, Valentine's Day, and St. Patrick's Day.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyR7NfEUCI0OvNm1eTnMfLf9WaUxUOdR9eMcs3by8Vk9wWQgyspQohzlt1u_Q9H7ftnOMr-5H9A0vroMxOYESiCkVimgRw1xkUr0zEWPCl1Z9b4ZTkt8e8nxRyr5cymTMfuYJ4V-KhMsX7R9OJfz2s7flxLcLwoVETG-SMxODJpgSxyWOY0cN2zDPl3O8/s367/DerekLAPride.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="244" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyR7NfEUCI0OvNm1eTnMfLf9WaUxUOdR9eMcs3by8Vk9wWQgyspQohzlt1u_Q9H7ftnOMr-5H9A0vroMxOYESiCkVimgRw1xkUr0zEWPCl1Z9b4ZTkt8e8nxRyr5cymTMfuYJ4V-KhMsX7R9OJfz2s7flxLcLwoVETG-SMxODJpgSxyWOY0cN2zDPl3O8/w266-h400/DerekLAPride.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br />Few photos of family or friends. Two of his dog. I assume that he's gay, since he has a photo from L.A. Pride, and another where he's in drag.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQneAdzQA7JoaYYOqJC0fn1AMs_d3j2kkPGHkOZV7A2LWHQZkzLokwjIuWwBdqRtnj5_gaPK8ep3R1V-pCTLAcx7wfUKsX1Vx7RIKvdZFNH9QKN4UjnVzruZ8yB4WD8iYIett7-I9g1OxQ8ghcKAekpfLB0YOMSDf7AJpmqFXkSDQEB2iHJkEOaA8lCag/s579/DerekFred.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="469" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQneAdzQA7JoaYYOqJC0fn1AMs_d3j2kkPGHkOZV7A2LWHQZkzLokwjIuWwBdqRtnj5_gaPK8ep3R1V-pCTLAcx7wfUKsX1Vx7RIKvdZFNH9QKN4UjnVzruZ8yB4WD8iYIett7-I9g1OxQ8ghcKAekpfLB0YOMSDf7AJpmqFXkSDQEB2iHJkEOaA8lCag/w324-h400/DerekFred.jpg" width="324" /></a></div><br />And in 2021 Derek appeared at Impulse Los Angeles' Pool Watch -- Gay Edition, a fundraiser for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. </div><div><br /></div><div>But it seems that he wants to keep his beefcake separate from his personal life. </div><div><br /></div><div>There are frontal and rear nude photos on<a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/12/derek-yates-nude-photos-of-smiley-emoji.html" target="_blank"> RG Beefcake and Boyfriends</a></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-66226386229533120782024-03-12T05:49:00.000-04:002024-03-12T05:49:36.007-04:00John Terlesky: 1980s Hunk Who Starred in Everything You Didn't See<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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John Terlesky has 43 acting credits on IMDB, but I can't see any theme or pattern; in his salad days in the1980s and early 1990s, he went everywhere., hitting all the major genres of the era. And taking his shirt off in most of them.<br />
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<b>1. Buddy Detectives. </b> <i>Legmen</i> (1984). Two college student bros moonlight as bail bondsmen. This premise would be revisited 30 years later in T<i>eenage Bounty Hunters</i> on Netflix.<br />
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<b>2. Gay Angst. </b><i>Consenting Adult </i>(1985), with Marlo Thomas and Martin Sheen as the concerned parents. John doesn't play the Consenting Adult.<br />
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<b>3. Teenkill. </b> Put a group of teenagers in an isolated location and have a psycho-killer slice and dice them, leaving only the Girl Who Didn't Have Sex. <i>Chopping Mall</i> (1987). John plays one of the sliced-and-diced teens.<br />
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<b>4. Sword and Sorcery.</b> Put a man-mountain in a loincloth and have him fight sorcerers and rescue naked babes. <i>Deathstalker II (1987)</i><br />
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<b>5. Late Night Porn. </b>Display a lot of naked ladies, with a man-mountain in the background somewhere. <i>All Nighter (1988).</i><br />
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<b>6. Famous-Face-Filled Adaptions of Agatha Christie Novels</b>: Appointment with Death (1988), starring John Gielgud, Carrie Fisher, Peter Ustinov, and even Lauren Bacall. And John.<br />
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<b>7. Vacation From Hell.</b> <i>Damned River</i> (1989). John's tour guide turns out to be a psycho-killer.<br />
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<b>8. Corrupt Southern Sheriffs</b>. <i>Nashville Bea</i>t (1989), with the <i>Adam-12 </i>guys as Bo and Luke Duke and John as Boss Hogg.<br />
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<b>9. No One Believes That She Was Raped. </b><i>When He's Not a Stranger</i> (1989), with John as the college boy who rapes his girlfriend's roommate.<br />
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<b>10.Comedies Starring Dudley Moore</b>. <i>Crazy People</i> (1990)<br />
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<b>11. Female Buddy Comedy</b>. <i>Battling for Baby</i> (1991), with Suzanne Pleshette and Debbie Reynolds as the buddies.<br />
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I've never seen any of these movies and tv series, so bear with me if some of these photos are of different guys. I have no idea what John Terlesky looks like.<br />
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In the 1990s,when acting roles began to dry up, John moved into directing. His 45 credits on IMDB are equally eclectic.everything from <i>Ugly Betty</i> to <i>Criminal Minds. </i>He's also produced some tv series, like <i>Bluff City Law</i> (Jimmy Smits as a lawyer specializing in civil rights cases). and written some movies, like <i>Guardian</i> (buddy cops fight drugs and a demonic force).<br />
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Appearing in <i>Consenting Adul</i>t took a lot of guts in 1985, even if he didn't play the gay guy. Other than that, not a lot of gay representation in John's work, and no evidence that he is gay in real life. He has a nice physique, though.<br />
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But why does his hair color keep changing?<br />NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-38177157494932987892024-03-12T02:00:00.000-04:002024-03-12T11:37:54.463-04:00Gemstones Episode 2.9: Who killed Thaniel? Will Keefe ever get a place at the table? Can we see some Gemstone alums naked?<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduyOr15E9vhqwnhgKzmJAwwHsXTaExNH7mGm0z4qNk1z-NQIiTKz87QeAZiygvg6f2NlTcDi7g4xALQ4KoBeuFtPowprp2S0JhUw_Xc3M-2F3RqWmO7dmflsZPe283B_V6rnCTwwWyOhrilRo6e8_kqw8ShGUnbZORQ6EqjUUCn0mZouJYeX8VSoBvDo/s356/JasonJPG.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="306" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduyOr15E9vhqwnhgKzmJAwwHsXTaExNH7mGm0z4qNk1z-NQIiTKz87QeAZiygvg6f2NlTcDi7g4xALQ4KoBeuFtPowprp2S0JhUw_Xc3M-2F3RqWmO7dmflsZPe283B_V6rnCTwwWyOhrilRo6e8_kqw8ShGUnbZORQ6EqjUUCn0mZouJYeX8VSoBvDo/w344-h400/JasonJPG.jpg" width="344" /></a></div>This is the G-rated version of The Righteous Gemstones Episode 2.9. without the dicks and explicit sexual references. <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-kelvin-x-keefe-reading-of-episode-29.html" target="_blank"><b>Link to the dicks</b></a><br /><p></p><div>It's the last episode, time for answers to the big questions of the season: Who killed Thaniel? Who is trying to kill Eli? Will Keefe ever be admitted to that family dinner? </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Title</b>: "I Will Tell of All Your Deeds." Psalms 9.1, NIV: "I will give thanks to you, Lord, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonderful deeds." Hopefully we'll hear about some of the Lord's deeds.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Thaniel Answer: </b>A flashback: Thaniel Block (Jason Schwartzman), the snoopy reporter who was murdered in Episode 2.2, is yelling at Lyle Lissons, the megachurch pastor who wants Jesse to invest in his Christian resort! How do those two know each other?</div><div><br /></div><div>Ulp, Thaniel is forcing Lyle to dig up dirt on the Gemstones, but all he has provided so far is satellite church pastor Butterfield having a three-way in the dance club restroom (See Episode 2.1)<br /><br /></div><div>Not good enough. Thaniel wants Eli Gemstone, the most famous televangelist and megachurch pastor in the world. Bringing down the Gemstones will win him a Pulitzer! </div><div><br /></div><div>But Lyle needs their money for his resort. How about if he frames some of his own satellite church pastors for embezzlement? </div><div><br /></div><div>No, Eli Gemstone, "Or I'll do a story on your strange relationship with some of the boys at your orphanage." <i>Uh-oh, Lyle is a pedophile! </i></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDYDtW5RaWi3NSlFPrsEQeXT5LRnNFMdDRpGW1QBoVgFHM2Z3afUpa7JgwR-PJVcychdeoUUkQ7-oVwvL2jG87Y2jZy1_6tENwhldPvpGmik-_mroOMeim-1SFicQoE_4vHhPcIl7xf_6mBtZ1nMW5hUrRM1SJZZC7DgN7hqONVrJbD3PcBVnhX3J0Xvk/s569/chad2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="569" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDYDtW5RaWi3NSlFPrsEQeXT5LRnNFMdDRpGW1QBoVgFHM2Z3afUpa7JgwR-PJVcychdeoUUkQ7-oVwvL2jG87Y2jZy1_6tENwhldPvpGmik-_mroOMeim-1SFicQoE_4vHhPcIl7xf_6mBtZ1nMW5hUrRM1SJZZC7DgN7hqONVrJbD3PcBVnhX3J0Xvk/w400-h359/chad2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Lyle goes out to his car, where the ministers he offered to betray are waiting. One is played by Chad Mountain, linked below. </div><div><br /></div><div>They brought hand grenades to kill Thaniel with. But one of the idiots pulls the pin, and is exploded! Thaniel investigates the noise and shoots another, then runs back into his house, where he accidentally shoots himself!</div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div>Lyle and the two surviving ministers hide when a car approaches. It's the Gemstone siblings, coming to tell Thaniel to back off. <i>So this is all happening during Episode 2.2</i>. They see Thaniel's corpse and the other dead guys and run away. To avoid discovery, Lyle tells his ministers to burn down the house. Then, worried that the siblings may have seen them, he burns them to death, too. <i>OMG, this guy makes Eli breaking thumbs look like a church ladies' tea. I'd call him a psycho, but I don't want to insult Freddy Krueger.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><div> So now we know who killed Thaniel and the other men, and I'm guessing that Lyle sent the Cycle Ninjas, too. We just need the answer to the Keefe question.</div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmWPBynp4aCwlekw18N9_7XHaRepp_pmmKSCwpvhR49hfsdFfBDUnxQUH3rCMVaLN7BEAi5lkoDdXb3j8Gf3IGZwGrINDihIc-1c55B5YjztMEPmzBtMmRi6sJ33J1869PRQ9Mvmr3Y14S8hbelfQo0B323i5WS-P7a76CuO1JS-4bIZ6RaWmJEr8gLKU/s400/Skyle04.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="261" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmWPBynp4aCwlekw18N9_7XHaRepp_pmmKSCwpvhR49hfsdFfBDUnxQUH3rCMVaLN7BEAi5lkoDdXb3j8Gf3IGZwGrINDihIc-1c55B5YjztMEPmzBtMmRi6sJ33J1869PRQ9Mvmr3Y14S8hbelfQo0B323i5WS-P7a76CuO1JS-4bIZ6RaWmJEr8gLKU/s320/Skyle04.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><br />Gideon jumps out a window</b>: Cut to Gideon running through an office, chased by the police. He jumps through a window and falls three stories. He's dead!</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Psych! It was a stunt job! Everyone loves it, including his visiting parents, who conclude that maybe doing stunt work in California isn't so bad after all. <i>Don't worry, he'll be back with the Gemstones soon.</i></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Toxic father, toxic son</b>: Then back to the Psycho: Lyle and Lindsey Lissons are visiting his elderly Dad Roddy (John Amos), who is not happy to see him: "You took everything I cared about, locked me up in this....prison." "You mean an expensive care facility?" Whoa, Lindsey actually slaps him and threatens him. <i>Murder and elder abuse! </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>They have come to give Roddy a permanent room at the Christian resort they are building -- with some of the money the've stolen from him. But since he's acting so snippy, they rescind the offer</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Toxic father-son relationships this season: Roy Gemstone-Eli, Glendon Marsh-Junior, Lyle Lissons-Roddy, Baby Billy Freeman-Harmon, Eli-Kelvin, Jesse-Pontius. </div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Personal note:</i> John Amos and I used to go to the same gym in West Hollywood. We never became friends, but we had a sort of nodding acquaintanceship. I did manage to see him in the shower.</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>More answers after the break</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /><p></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJXdmLz_rqXKLq9bcAdrR6EJ8EmHwjtd1dMIyXs9hFKSLVO-iLmYl3HzFRNNm852RGxZsuKWG1OPGDXbX-K8uHA2UvnecGd3MS41i9H0V6fyCsxej0pwr-kdLD1kfqdLmuPNvjdhVQKA3oANIdkCOefX2k0IH-9cAUCG06vF03NAFHpzL4wmCY12a97g/s400/dinner02.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="400" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJXdmLz_rqXKLq9bcAdrR6EJ8EmHwjtd1dMIyXs9hFKSLVO-iLmYl3HzFRNNm852RGxZsuKWG1OPGDXbX-K8uHA2UvnecGd3MS41i9H0V6fyCsxej0pwr-kdLD1kfqdLmuPNvjdhVQKA3oANIdkCOefX2k0IH-9cAUCG06vF03NAFHpzL4wmCY12a97g/w400-h258/dinner02.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />The hand-holding fist bump: </b> In a reprise of the first Sunday dinner in Episode 2.1, identical SUVs pull up, and the family walks in slow motion toward Jason's Steakhouse, reveling in their heteronormative nuclear family success: first Eli, then Jesse/Amber and their kids; then BJ/Judy and their "daughter" Tiffany; and finally -- <i>Kelvin and Keefe</i>? <p></p><p>Kelvin holds out his fist, a call-back to their “bro” fist-bump in their first scene together, but instead of returning the bump, Keefe cups his hand over Kelvin’s: a romantic gesture reminiscent of how married couples show affection in formal photographs. <i>Jesse and Amber are holding hands the same way. </i>Kelvin looks defiant, daring someone to comment; Keefe looks decidedly nervous. The romantic has superseded the friendly. No more hiding, no more dissimulation: they are “out” as romantic partners. </p><p>The song playing in the background is Daniel Boone’s “Beautiful Sunday”: “ When you said you loved me, oh my, it’s a beautiful day.”</p><p>The hand-holding fist-bump received a huge amount of attention from fans, with statements like "True love!" and "I wish I had a love like that." Tony Cavalero posted it on his Instagram with the caption "Hold on tight to the one you love the most for the Season finale." </p><p><i>Personal note: </i> This is the first scene of <i>The Righteous Gemstones</i> that I watched. My partner was a fan, but I was worried that it would bring up painful memories of growing up Nazarene. That night I was crossing the living room on the way to the kitchen for a snack, and I glanced at the tv set: a gay couple walking toward Jason's Steakhouse with the rest of the conservative evangelical family! They were completely nonchalant about it: no angst, no hiding, no homophobia! I was instantly hooked. </p><p>Upon arriving at the restaurant, Kelvin holds the door open for Keefe, and as he enters, slaps him on the butt, a “goose” that is commonly used to express a casual, playful sexual intent. In the first dinner scene, Kelvin’s homoerotic desire barred Keefe from entry. Now it pushes him in, and symbolically into the family.</p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht6eEfS9AnIg7oeuDZphk5f3DMpM2KM1qzqsRqjMfCCMOwD6NzpB2k9T6Iywp4lzQmf4mptL2g1swOQF1bcOxUPcnX9WRhpS7SyAXY1Rca7SpNUMLPm2fQ0fdtE-o2xpB6X0D_-LHDBZ1L5TFg1KC4ZOtNACaxn0SmEZLvFtAWHAKravQ5PWf78eZJ-Ac/s398/dinner01.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="231" data-original-width="398" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht6eEfS9AnIg7oeuDZphk5f3DMpM2KM1qzqsRqjMfCCMOwD6NzpB2k9T6Iywp4lzQmf4mptL2g1swOQF1bcOxUPcnX9WRhpS7SyAXY1Rca7SpNUMLPm2fQ0fdtE-o2xpB6X0D_-LHDBZ1L5TFg1KC4ZOtNACaxn0SmEZLvFtAWHAKravQ5PWf78eZJ-Ac/w400-h233/dinner01.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br />Keefe's place at the table: </b> At the dinner, Kelvin can’t stop grinning. His joy is infectious, a welcome relief after his near-constant physical pain and emotional turmoil through the season, but perhaps unnecessary: everyone has been so thoroughly prepared that they could hardly have a reaction other than complete nonchalance. </div><div><br /></div><div>Eli announces the groundbreaking party for Zion's Landing: “I think we should all attend this important event as a family.” Kelvin turns to Keefe, but not to ask him to come, since no separate invitation is necessary: all family members are invited. He is asking if it’s ok, giving Keefe the power to veto the idea (he might not want to spend several days with people who pretended that he didn’t exist before last week). Keefe nods his consent: they can go. He is no longer a kept boy, an assistant, or a good buddy: they are equal partners, both invited to the table.<p></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ41EJTVD0B_44fSNhq-TsTaCvnYi-uXQdvdIfarBQPVJzpD4IvPWmvIf5BZNxSez1_nVpsALmMOZR9PX2LovQMN___Vpm9HEFnPEpstmM4fhFlcs9n_m16uDR-xENTSjRH2QfklLLYpE6r3AqReOKsIJHT9Of6_BYEKRbBt5GRfbGt8LE9ZNOIsqV7Ow/s624/dinner03.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="624" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ41EJTVD0B_44fSNhq-TsTaCvnYi-uXQdvdIfarBQPVJzpD4IvPWmvIf5BZNxSez1_nVpsALmMOZR9PX2LovQMN___Vpm9HEFnPEpstmM4fhFlcs9n_m16uDR-xENTSjRH2QfklLLYpE6r3AqReOKsIJHT9Of6_BYEKRbBt5GRfbGt8LE9ZNOIsqV7Ow/w400-h285/dinner03.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br />The Kiddo Ranch: </b>At the Lissons' Kiddo Ranch, the orphanage Thaniel mentioned, Lyle walks through roomsful of little kids, tousing boys' hair. <i>Uh-oh, does he have a "special relationship" with them?</i></div><div><br /></div><div>His manager, Minister Mike, tells him that "They're back. Some of them are pretty banged up." </div><div><br /></div><div>Whoa, teenage or young adult motorcyclists doing crazy stunts. Big reveal: Lyle sent the Cycle Ninjas to kill Eli! So the "strange relationship" was a misdirection. He isn't a pedophile, he's training professional assassins.<p> "Some of them can be pretty nasty," Minister Mike adds. "That's what happens when nobody loves you." <br /></p><p>The Cycle Ninjas want the $100,000 Lyle promised them to kill Eli, but he notes that they failed, so they get nothing. They draw guns on him, and he changes his mind, but they have to wait until after this weekend. He has some money coming in at the Ground-breaking Party. Whew, the big questions have been answered. But we still need some reconciliations to complete the plot arcs. And a bonus cyclist cock.</p><p></p><p><b>See: <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/11/chad-mountainchet-gemstone-alum-and.html" target="_blank">Chad Mountain: Gemstone alum and Matthew McConaughey's "long-time associate." </a> </b></p><p><b> <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/08/lyle-lissons-dad-is-legendary-john-amos.html" target="_blank">John Amos:The guy from <i>Roots</i> and <i>Good Times</i> naked in the locker room.</a></b></p><p><b>Nex</b>t: <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-kelvin-x-keefe-reading-of-episode-29_19.html" target="_blank"><b>Episode 2.9 Continued: A perfect Christian, the Lion King, naked twinks, and lovers in old photographs</b></a></p></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-83140637783887846012024-03-11T11:45:00.006-04:002024-03-11T11:55:04.531-04:00"Littlekenny": A kid-sized version of "Letterkenney," with a gay kid, less homophobia, and some grown-up butts<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgihaq6l1Gb7ufSbfScmlmPFAWBgiUqrNB_64oqhw7cG4pFxyZ8XQNPYacplcgs72PSkcO5x8ENO2v9vhQyPumwCgJKUCWOejvXvnWieGtZdcvuDqlyAZqHIfYSVIk646HJaWFC03z1MTBsRK5wpB7WpduKjjG8EfQhwDhhsurCy-4C8qNFln6E34XIPmQ/s433/LetterKennyNude.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="409" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgihaq6l1Gb7ufSbfScmlmPFAWBgiUqrNB_64oqhw7cG4pFxyZ8XQNPYacplcgs72PSkcO5x8ENO2v9vhQyPumwCgJKUCWOejvXvnWieGtZdcvuDqlyAZqHIfYSVIk646HJaWFC03z1MTBsRK5wpB7WpduKjjG8EfQhwDhhsurCy-4C8qNFln6E34XIPmQ/w378-h400/LetterKennyNude.jpg" width="378" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/littlekenny-kid-sized-version-of.html" target="_blank"><b>Link to NSFW version</b></a><br /><div><br /></div><div>Someone told me that <i>Letterkenne</i>y, one of the numerous comedies about quirky small towns in Canada, was "quietly queer-friendly." So I watched the first episode. Umm...it was about trying to get the central character Wayne to fight by saying that he was like a woman, or that he was gay, with more homophobic slurs per minute than a high school locker room after gym class. Interestingly, one of the homophobes told his chums that he was, in fact, gay. <div><br /></div><div>The head homophobe said "We know, and we support you. Now let's get back to implying that Wayne is gay to get him angry enough to fight." <i>That is way homophobic. Imagine if, instead of gay, they figured that the best way to get Wayne angry was to imply that he was Jewish. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>Other guys in the episode get gay or woman accusations for dating a "good Christian girl," for having his girlfriend stolen by another guy, and for using the Tindr heterosexual dating app. <i>Definitely not "quietly queer."</i><p>So when Hulu dropped a kid's version, <i>Littlekenney</i>, I streamed it out of curiosity: kids are usually much more homophobic than adults, but six homophobic slurs per minute would be a tough record to break. How low could they go?</p><p>It's not actually for kids, it just features child-versions of the characters. There are only six episodes, each about two minutes long, and about a third is taken up by a "Mature" proviso and Hulu displaying the name Hulu over and over -- you don't notice how annoying it is until you see it every two minutes. Half of the episodes don't have a plot: they consist of the boys reciting the problems of other kids at Letterkenny School, like getting in trouble for farting or eating paste.</p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5tT83cHT0FraPMZgPYGd-C1zNUP7nVsiDr_brie4OhS3AerBu5jgP9-Sa8SEbfBDLO1qyIg7KB8jN-ByGo1m_eaWYsHCs2ppTUXb1DRDe_stI0z4uj3UNroFuKTtmZRMo9osmb_hYIX1HfzPxC823-1hIm2zlrMFtY_psTVpTO1elWlVbdURM-bpnucI/s1401/littlekenney.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1401" data-original-width="1133" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5tT83cHT0FraPMZgPYGd-C1zNUP7nVsiDr_brie4OhS3AerBu5jgP9-Sa8SEbfBDLO1qyIg7KB8jN-ByGo1m_eaWYsHCs2ppTUXb1DRDe_stI0z4uj3UNroFuKTtmZRMo9osmb_hYIX1HfzPxC823-1hIm2zlrMFtY_psTVpTO1elWlVbdURM-bpnucI/s320/littlekenney.jpg" width="259" /></a></b></div><b><br />Episode 1:</b> Two boys recite some of the problems. They promise that with 500 kids, there will be 500 problems, but we only hear eight or so. No homophobic content.<p></p><p><b>Episode 2:</b> The teacher tries to mentor the mentally disabled Darryl. Then two bullies harass him. Next, she tries to mentor the surly outcast Wayne. After school, the bullies harass Katy. Wayne intervenes, and they all become friends. </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoDcxs7MpQ27SbGfYkllKgEvtYwNSyCfp5Lj6u3uyyWqFYX8SJ0E1HwHoSO1dGMpinrrs7uS1Dt2BeuNesA_uoVu_dXUWgBa6NBbuLRD6nuEzZii8biPBBieFW0Ixj0Te72RbmxX08kKj5F_nHcWq7i5ZKnIqEUrje9uDngC0hRHDY6V7KEnpBoMSzrQY/s459/01jaredlady.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="459" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoDcxs7MpQ27SbGfYkllKgEvtYwNSyCfp5Lj6u3uyyWqFYX8SJ0E1HwHoSO1dGMpinrrs7uS1Dt2BeuNesA_uoVu_dXUWgBa6NBbuLRD6nuEzZii8biPBBieFW0Ixj0Te72RbmxX08kKj5F_nHcWq7i5ZKnIqEUrje9uDngC0hRHDY6V7KEnpBoMSzrQY/s320/01jaredlady.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />I think Wayne grows up to be the central character, played by Jared Keeso, who everyone is trying to force into fighting by calling him gay and a woman.</div><div><br /></div><div>Bonus: Jared Keeso's butt.</div><div><p></p><p><b>Episode 3</b>. More problems. Three involve being gay, or Dad trying to prevent you from "turning" gay:</p><p>"Your friend showed you his dick and said it was a mouse, and you said that was the only one-eyed mouse you ever saw."</p><p>"You and your friend touched tubes, and your Dad got real cross, but he got even meaner when Mom said he probably did that as a boy, too."</p><p>"You got campiest camper award at the Cub Scouts, and now Dad wants you to play football instead,"</p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoF98gJVXkPJCgcAZZc7ZtRGFwF0U8SRgiORQj4_sEhB7j_N0avKN3wrvT22FXtXiDXhNyeTMEb9eU0486N33CFmxm-JJsvqv4RtvvaJe8etg8uSs-YG3OO2t1h_srMUXyWnoqZYHcOvaYwcokPwkfo9x7AE8wFUzxDalpFwHvtN2Dj88Z_tTbZrb3vyU/s640/dylanandrew.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoF98gJVXkPJCgcAZZc7ZtRGFwF0U8SRgiORQj4_sEhB7j_N0avKN3wrvT22FXtXiDXhNyeTMEb9eU0486N33CFmxm-JJsvqv4RtvvaJe8etg8uSs-YG3OO2t1h_srMUXyWnoqZYHcOvaYwcokPwkfo9x7AE8wFUzxDalpFwHvtN2Dj88Z_tTbZrb3vyU/w320-h400/dylanandrew.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><br />Episode 4:</b> Daryl invites his friend to a "super soft" birthday party, with a unicorn and boas to wear. The bullies make fun of him, so Wayne douses them with mud and then invites them to the party. They come. No homophobic slurs.<p></p><p>Here Daryl seems to be presented as gay, but I think he grows up to be Wayne's heterosexual life partner, who has an unrequited crush on one lady and starts dating another</p><p>I think the bullies grow up to be Reilly and Jonesy, played by Dylan Playfair and Andrew Herr, the main antagonists in the "Wayne is gay/a woman" slurs. They are heterosexual-ish life partners who often have three-ways with women, and befriend a gay couple at the gym. Maybe they were homophobic for just that one episode.</p>Bonus: Dylan Playfair butt. It's on a hookup app screen. <p></p><p><b>Episode 5:</b> The problems. One involves the implication of gayness.</p><p>"You want to sing in the all-boy's choir, but Dad says singing is for fairies."</p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-_X3HbuM2xZXejMkX9-1yUfox7aAEPVM3kz5SBV5rHhp7bekmRhO2r_1qQoWFP9Js6XQSbF8eturYgIDWlQdVtGqc3MXkc0lTIQTjTa-0PKtjpFSUJZENQl29y16eA8yHz2GDMSaUCxY8JCfj5svdaI_q5UuDoWmsWPwkVfnmDOdNgn5vf2ueJ0NG8E/s359/01ktrevor.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="359" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-_X3HbuM2xZXejMkX9-1yUfox7aAEPVM3kz5SBV5rHhp7bekmRhO2r_1qQoWFP9Js6XQSbF8eturYgIDWlQdVtGqc3MXkc0lTIQTjTa-0PKtjpFSUJZENQl29y16eA8yHz2GDMSaUCxY8JCfj5svdaI_q5UuDoWmsWPwkVfnmDOdNgn5vf2ueJ0NG8E/s320/01ktrevor.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><br />Episode 6:</b> A new boy arrives, Daniel. He has a crush on Katy. The bullies harass him, but Wayne intervenes, and they become friends. <p></p><p>Daniel grows up to be a main character, Squirrelly Dan, played by K, Trevor Wilson. His crush on Katy continues, and he also dates other women.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq9njA8zhSEumzlKDCYWjZfmR48rmvw0CWTWlxgtROrM_IWSoeiXLg0U-eaY9a9_s4p77hJX7RIlELj7OC85Zf67WULO-57tS9mH4OXdR-lG7ibJ0icQJPtLrd8Z-RXATYkA9N9ezAN6KiCF6qP0lmspw2gePiWHLCsNhVhm9o0GF6zIKxpXnbvX9JnNU/s711/01Jacob.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="505" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq9njA8zhSEumzlKDCYWjZfmR48rmvw0CWTWlxgtROrM_IWSoeiXLg0U-eaY9a9_s4p77hJX7RIlELj7OC85Zf67WULO-57tS9mH4OXdR-lG7ibJ0icQJPtLrd8Z-RXATYkA9N9ezAN6KiCF6qP0lmspw2gePiWHLCsNhVhm9o0GF6zIKxpXnbvX9JnNU/w284-h400/01Jacob.jpg" width="284" /></a></div>Left: Jacob Tierney doesn't appear in the cartoon, but in the regular series he plays Glen, an evangelical Christian minister who gets vulgar gay hints, like fellating a popsicle.<p></p><p><b>My Grade: </b> It's hard to tell with less than ten minutes of text, but it looks like we have a gay kid, plus the problems gay and feminine boys have growing up with unsupportive fathers. I remember being pushed into sports a lot, plus excessive jubilation when I mentioned a girl, however casually. So it resonates. B-.</p><p>The butts and a partial dick are on <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/littlekenny-kid-sized-version-of.html" target="_blank"><b>RG Beefcake and Boyfriends</b></a></p><p>See also: <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/12/schitts-creek-quirky-small-town-in.html" target="_blank"><b>Schitt's Creek: Quirky small town in Canada with gay characters.</b></a></p><p><br /></p></div></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-32253037899618586172024-03-11T05:13:00.003-04:002024-03-11T05:34:21.085-04:00The twelve scruffy hunks of "Animal Kingdom." WIth a lot of bare butts<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_g_rudy7LiIEf0aZ0eD0zdchS0kpjFXYnPLKpRw-7888LKOtIWcPlOmMUlM9UR3Xc0AGzn9Uk-Zj7TJAAm8qGsilX7FywBwMp74U3-7qJXkWKWMauQsq2_rtzF_GkfkotWfgx-leReA2ELkhx4nxwLBwq_jyoTlvdLtxruVWTGDIow2m0m5eIZvgGdkQ/s563/animal001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="563" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_g_rudy7LiIEf0aZ0eD0zdchS0kpjFXYnPLKpRw-7888LKOtIWcPlOmMUlM9UR3Xc0AGzn9Uk-Zj7TJAAm8qGsilX7FywBwMp74U3-7qJXkWKWMauQsq2_rtzF_GkfkotWfgx-leReA2ELkhx4nxwLBwq_jyoTlvdLtxruVWTGDIow2m0m5eIZvgGdkQ/w400-h253/animal001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Someone recommended Animal Kingdom, not to be confused with the Animal Kingdom at Disney World, the Animal Planet network, or a tv show entitled Animal Control. This one is a drama TNT featuring the struggle for succession in a crime family led by...<i>Smurf?</i> "Ok, boys, I want you to go smurf out those rival smurfs and bury their smurfs in the smurf."<div><br /></div><div>Link to <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-twelve-bare-butts-of-animal-kingdom.html" target="_blank"><b>The 12 bare butts of "Animal Kingdom"</b></a><br /><div><div><br /></div><div>There are a lot of sons, grandsons, and boy toys, even a gay one. Most are sleazy, scruffy, and tattooed, not my cup of tea. But most get bare butt scenes, so you don't have to look at their face.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-avBH7BhEaMGsQ7KuL3JHNQDXRs7U076QV9m4YdlUH85tQ2l9z1qNLzIMjC_4WRz2BVGJmTSKQxjkV6tabYtzjuwjqvd4mPp4ba-RLPZqUez5EGBKlnHFbh4YBi6K0CO9P-6aMB9oXvoHIMlYeN8aKqUYpBt69tRZvLfcDliozCqVzewoUuPTI2EeLfU/s500/01darren.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="500" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-avBH7BhEaMGsQ7KuL3JHNQDXRs7U076QV9m4YdlUH85tQ2l9z1qNLzIMjC_4WRz2BVGJmTSKQxjkV6tabYtzjuwjqvd4mPp4ba-RLPZqUez5EGBKlnHFbh4YBi6K0CO9P-6aMB9oXvoHIMlYeN8aKqUYpBt69tRZvLfcDliozCqVzewoUuPTI2EeLfU/s320/01darren.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />1. Scott Speedman as Baz, adopted Smurf, who wants to try new crime techniques instead of Mama Smurf's old fashioned smurfing. <p></p><p>2. In flashbacks to 1992 and 1996, Baz is smurfed by Darren Mann, left</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQs1MItVGddD_63nJ2ZgA_Zo2GDzjre4nl1NhgrKefpAxpjWIykN5MPE3H9whohhRC0SPtv5dphL6nxcn8nx8BpjpWdSzWVE5t7sGBCVkiw6gb-_pM3DHtaGWdnuWkrQJSJnk3OfTd2i7XOxTk27lO1rO96GRiGCABdipzXgAQDHZwSK_namcl-NS6yuQ/s495/animalshawn2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="373" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQs1MItVGddD_63nJ2ZgA_Zo2GDzjre4nl1NhgrKefpAxpjWIykN5MPE3H9whohhRC0SPtv5dphL6nxcn8nx8BpjpWdSzWVE5t7sGBCVkiw6gb-_pM3DHtaGWdnuWkrQJSJnk3OfTd2i7XOxTk27lO1rO96GRiGCABdipzXgAQDHZwSK_namcl-NS6yuQ/s320/animalshawn2.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br />3. Shawn Hatosy as Pope, eldest Smurf, who suffers from mental illness and does a lot of risky smurf. Plus he's smurfed in prison.<p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNM5XcHgBFnhxBuFE339PvPFSoq87rWE1y1VFvNugZCVbTdAiPKGUIii9PwypSZP6boBjozyA5_BLt-9hMj7R6nnaNezfa4tsLhWGhAqxHEIM4RovBeqyWshRMsTev-7wUc-Ao65Wo2nzePB6200p66hO2CWCT5GrJYjJe2kGRTiQQ9rMOeMTnk9AjjxM/s439/AnimalKevin2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="439" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNM5XcHgBFnhxBuFE339PvPFSoq87rWE1y1VFvNugZCVbTdAiPKGUIii9PwypSZP6boBjozyA5_BLt-9hMj7R6nnaNezfa4tsLhWGhAqxHEIM4RovBeqyWshRMsTev-7wUc-Ao65Wo2nzePB6200p66hO2CWCT5GrJYjJe2kGRTiQQ9rMOeMTnk9AjjxM/s320/AnimalKevin2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />4. Kevin Csolak smurfs as Pope in the flashbacks.<p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCv_MJiHPL9Bqd3lhKmiiQVvA5ISQWJLJ3m09Vo1PhDk8JbcXXLyxKvGUfrTyAnZfRVvNmFXOLCFlJfJs9U6BzKgB_F03hio0gNdSfSy5M1XQFp1hUTWEYobmI4880M0uO9XrHS4tfj8TPWBs2pl8oNPC1dgJ1dXizaEilxoSfcwef376vkQuRsmnwo0M/s454/animalben2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="452" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCv_MJiHPL9Bqd3lhKmiiQVvA5ISQWJLJ3m09Vo1PhDk8JbcXXLyxKvGUfrTyAnZfRVvNmFXOLCFlJfJs9U6BzKgB_F03hio0gNdSfSy5M1XQFp1hUTWEYobmI4880M0uO9XrHS4tfj8TPWBs2pl8oNPC1dgJ1dXizaEilxoSfcwef376vkQuRsmnwo0M/s320/animalben2.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><br />5. Ben Robson as Craig, middle Smurf, who parties and does drug instead of paying attention to the smurfing. <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1ZI7XVVVQzzGxUYfs2nXIro21gsoOdh-nGkcJIHKCJYc1bUL-VAS7wLLCkydbhYdeepaZ0N1TmpQzvir7KyihsnwPcZYPpff00WXr9fJIvZxvfkv0-E_Qfbv9KmG7MO9OiXSwxhXohayuwOdN45xcCJ9bu95IRS7tZ8oOWIoYUFGdXBs-BWfFWpduUCA/s608/AnimalJake2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="494" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1ZI7XVVVQzzGxUYfs2nXIro21gsoOdh-nGkcJIHKCJYc1bUL-VAS7wLLCkydbhYdeepaZ0N1TmpQzvir7KyihsnwPcZYPpff00WXr9fJIvZxvfkv0-E_Qfbv9KmG7MO9OiXSwxhXohayuwOdN45xcCJ9bu95IRS7tZ8oOWIoYUFGdXBs-BWfFWpduUCA/w325-h400/AnimalJake2.jpg" width="325" /></a></div><br />6. Jake Weary as Deran, youngest Smurf, the moral smurf who is trying to distance himself from the family, running a surfing shop instead of smurfing crime. He is closeted for a long time, but when he finally comes out they are fine with it. <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>More butts after the break</p><a name='more'></a><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH_NP2GJXbPIhQW3782zUc5S2WRHEwLrM7Aiemn1XfyaP7A6UpHYtW9KVNxs0FZzZRz32LIq5InijlppzV06FwzxUCMjn-EnXIIpUxv74ycNH5CqfAbBpVteX2q9nhZXsNWGcpjU0fRx-5amFnybiJnmRMXYiVFNKeozEZE3AojgaUb4anuoFDtK9-fpA/s612/animalFinn2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="471" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH_NP2GJXbPIhQW3782zUc5S2WRHEwLrM7Aiemn1XfyaP7A6UpHYtW9KVNxs0FZzZRz32LIq5InijlppzV06FwzxUCMjn-EnXIIpUxv74ycNH5CqfAbBpVteX2q9nhZXsNWGcpjU0fRx-5amFnybiJnmRMXYiVFNKeozEZE3AojgaUb4anuoFDtK9-fpA/w308-h400/animalFinn2.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><br />7. Spencer Treat Clark as his on-off boyfriend, Adrian.<br /><br />8. Finn Cole, left, as J, Mama Smurf's grandson and the nephew of the other Smurf boys. He runs a bowling alley.<p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9KGZFjzjoirWzCXxZti7gYctMKPJwsXGQ7idFTjJseFRfEhE00WMJS6pg1Bxi7LBoN3uhpIzMQTjn311unmui3oHviZC34_WmOaOjLJtvEZ5dcmO_DluNGwgeJ7_kT45Ac6QsZmUlDQwyIGEhF6RnRktNejwuxF4-0cZeHsQ46crShtYF8GVPIqw4Ujw/s558/AnimalDamon2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="558" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9KGZFjzjoirWzCXxZti7gYctMKPJwsXGQ7idFTjJseFRfEhE00WMJS6pg1Bxi7LBoN3uhpIzMQTjn311unmui3oHviZC34_WmOaOjLJtvEZ5dcmO_DluNGwgeJ7_kT45Ac6QsZmUlDQwyIGEhF6RnRktNejwuxF4-0cZeHsQ46crShtYF8GVPIqw4Ujw/s320/AnimalDamon2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />9. Damon Williams as Linc Lincoln, one of Deran's boyfriends when he and Adrian are on the outs.<div><br /></div><div>10. Grant Wilson as Cody, Smurf's boyfriend back in 1977 and the father of her two oldest kids, Julia and Pope. <br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdozCCezn1z0hKJX7hK-gozaVonu0jXcODiwUzZjx0hI1GpbUGjo2QnNmAtCC2kYlhXwebrcCDGr-oI3z_BfV0hYaOT_Ntk5Tj6G2So7l48tD59ZFz7V9yPy83Dw1ewxZz7aOP0GOX2k_KoOOQUbCJwoNMBj9P8Li7XavlIB2TwnEHQ7MwAHhIa-lMF-s/s629/eddie.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="407" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdozCCezn1z0hKJX7hK-gozaVonu0jXcODiwUzZjx0hI1GpbUGjo2QnNmAtCC2kYlhXwebrcCDGr-oI3z_BfV0hYaOT_Ntk5Tj6G2So7l48tD59ZFz7V9yPy83Dw1ewxZz7aOP0GOX2k_KoOOQUbCJwoNMBj9P8Li7XavlIB2TwnEHQ7MwAHhIa-lMF-s/w259-h400/eddie.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br />11. Eddie Ramos as Tupi, a gang smurf who dates J's girlfriend Mia, and is smurfed.</div><div><br /></div><div>12. Jeremy Glaser as Blake in Episode 5.3, "Free Ride."</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Will I watch</b>: Probably not. 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Is the rival family the Care Bears? Or Scrooge McDuck and his nephews? <i>Life is like a hurricane here in Duckburg....</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>The bare butts of the scruffy hunks are smurfed on <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-twelve-bare-butts-of-animal-kingdom.html" target="_blank"><b>RG Beefcake and Smurfs</b></a></div><div><div><p></p></div></div></div></div></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-76444500341303340732024-03-10T06:01:00.015-04:002024-03-10T06:11:14.532-04:0010 Gay Surprises of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasss Song<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I expected an angry Black Power movie, with lots of violence and heterosexual sex. But I was not expecting so much gay content. Here are the 10 Gay Surprises of <i>Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song:</i><br />
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1. In the first scene, a group of prostitutes gaze lustfully at a young boy (Melvin's son, Mario Van Peebles). One takes him to her room, strips him, and initiates sex. We see a glimpse of his penis and a lot of his bare butt as he thrusts71, thrusts, thrusts. (Don't worry, this photo shows neither.)<br />
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2. The boy grows up to be Sweetback, after a slang term for a gigantic penis, and we see it, gigantic and aroused, on camera, as Melvin Van Peebles prepares for sex with a woman. We see it again several times, and quite a lot of his bare butt as he thrusts, thrusts, thrusts in unsimulated sex scenes. Yes, it's all heterosexual, but frontal nudity was unheard-of.<br />
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3. Sweetback works as a performance artist in a gender-bending sex show: a woman is seduced by an elderly man who becomes a woman, and then becomes the naked, aroused Sweetback, all thanks to the efforts of a drag queen Fairy Godmother.<br />
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5. Now the cops want him dead. Sweetback hopes to take refuge in the home of Beetle (Simon Chuckster), the owner of the brothel, an extremely feminine, gay-coded man, naked except for a towel and a shower cap. Beetle sympathizes with Sweetback, but he can't stay there; it's too risky. Later, still shirtless, Beetle is beaten, deafened, and killed by the police.<br />
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6. Sweetback tries to take refuge in a church, but the pastor tells him that Mu-Mu has been captured again, so he rushes out. More gay-coded emotional intensity. The "damsel in distress" is a guy.<br />
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7. Sweetback rescues Mu-Mu, and they seek refuge in a deserted house. Presumably they're about to have sex when the police break in.<br />
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8. Mu-Mu is injured in the ensuing fight. A black biker (John Amos) offers to take Sweetback to Mexico and escape, but instead he insists that Mu-Mu be taken into town for medical care. Sacrificing his safety for Mu-Mu.<br />
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9. By now Sweetback is a folk hero, so as he runs toward Mexico, dozens of random people, presumably being interrogated by the police, claim that "I ain't seen Sweetback."<br />
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Including three lisping, mincing gay stereotypes. Who nevertheless participate in the struggle, try to discomfort the police officers by flirting with them, and key into the Gay Liberation movement by identifying themselves as "militant queens."<br />
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9. One doesn't expect Melvin Van Peebles (who still has a physique) to be gay-friendly. After all, in the shooting script, the three militant queens are identified as "fags." Yet he has appeared in several gay-positive movies, such as <i>Love Kills (1999).</i><br />
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10. His son Mario is rumored to be gay, and played a gay character in <i>Multiple Sarcasms (2010).</i><br />
<i><br /></i><br />NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-88720745036712648622024-03-10T05:52:00.000-04:002024-03-10T05:52:38.119-04:00Grant Wood: More Than Pitchforks and Cornfields<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I was growing up in Rock Island, we had a lot of local celebrities. Grant Wood wasn't one of them, even though he was the most famous American artist before Andy Warhol, and he was local, from Anamosa, Iowa, just north of the Quad Cities. He spent his life in the area, overseeing Stone City Art Colony nearby, and teaching at the University of Iowa, about 45 minutes away.<br />
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We ignored Grant Wood because of <i>American Gothic, </i>the second most famous painting of all time, and the most parodied.<br />
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It gave the Midwest a bad name. The goggle-eyed farmer with pitchfork looks like he's about to go storming off to protest civil rights, or gay rights, or violence in comic books. The weepy woman, her beauty faded by the boredom and isolation of farm life, dreams of escape.<br />
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Even today,<b> if I admit</b> to being from the Midwest (I usually don't), I get "How awful it must have been for you! Nothing to do but watch the corn grow and fight all those redneck bigots!"<br />
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Um...no. We had more to do than watch the corn grow: we had symphonies, live musicals, operas, ballets, art galleries, and museums. And about those bigots: Iowa had the first class in Gay Studies in the world, and was one of the first states to get gay marriage.<br />
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So I didn't know much about Grant Wood until I started investigating<a href="http://everydayheterosexism.blogspot.com/2014/02/fall-1974-naked-man-for-christmas.html"> John Bloom,</a> who sculpted the statue of a naked man that I got for Christmas in junior high.<br />
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In 1926, the aspiring artist won a prize for an oil painting, "The Burial," at the Iowa State Fair. The judge, celebrity painter Grant Wood, invited him to join his new Stone City Art Colony. For the next two years, they lived together, in a converted ice wagon (rather a small space!). Together they worked on murals for libraries and post offices all over the state.<br />
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In 1934, when Grant went to the University of Iowa, he took John with him. <br />
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In 1935, Grant married Sara Sherman Maxon (the marriage ended in divorce three years later). John moved to Davenport, where he married Isabel Bloom in 1938.<br />
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Sounded a lot like a spurned lover. <br />
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Sure enough. A new biography, <i>Grant Wood: A Life, </i>by R. Tripp Evans, reveals that Grant was gay. When he got to the University of Iowa, some faculty members in the Art Department suspected, and they already looked down upon Grant for rejecting the status quo of European Impressionism -- ergo his screen marriage and giving John Bloom the boot.<br />
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After his divorce in 1938, Grant had a series of handsome male "roommates." This riled the homophobic faculty so much that, superstar or not, they wanted him out. They waited the fall of 1941, when he was on sabbatical, and invited a writer from <i>Time </i>magazine to investigate "sexual improprieties." The University President managed to put a kibosh on the story and quickly moved Wood into a new division. However, he didn't get a chance to return to the faculty that loathed him. He died of pancreatic cancer in February 1942.<br />
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But if you look carefully at his work, you can see the glimmers of homoerotic desire.<br />
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And even that stupid <i>American Gothic </i>isn't heterosexist. Everybody thinks the woman is the farmer's wife, but she's his daughter.NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-52487106977254377862024-03-10T01:30:00.000-05:002024-03-11T13:15:15.297-04:00Christopher Atkins, Gay Icon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Why is Christopher Atkins a gay icon? To the best of my knowledge, none of his characters have been gay, although he did have a part in <i>It's My Party </i>(1995), about a gay man (<a href="http://everydayheterosexism.blogspot.com/2012/10/gregory-harrison-not-for-ladies-only.html">Gregory Harrison</a>) with AIDS.<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/814549419838495324/5248710697725437786#" target="_blank"><b>Link to nude photos</b></a><br />
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And his character on <i>Dallas </i>(1983-84), Peter Richards, a psychology major who mentors Ewing heir John Ross Jr., can be read as gay-vague, even though he is bedded by an older woman.<br />
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<i>Blue Lagoon </i>(1980),<i> </i>the movie that made him a superstar, is entirely heteronormative. Boy and girl grow up on a desert island together, Adam and Eve in Paradise before the fall, with no need for anyone or anything else.<br />
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Then he played a swashbuckler (<i>The Pirate Movie), </i>a stripper (<i>A Night in Heaven), </i>a lifeguard <i>(Wet and Wild Summer), </i>a sexy vampire (<i>Dracula Rising), </i>a professional gambler <i>(Shoot), </i>and. . .well, just about every profession that has been featured in a Harlequin Romance, always with a fade-out kiss.<br />
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Is it because of his body? It was not muscular, but it was slim, toned, tanned -- and visible. During the 1980s he was more comfortable displaying himself on camera than any other actor in legitimate film, and he's still going strong. He's had so many nude scenes that it's hard to keep track of them all.<br />
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But is beefcake enough? Arnold Schwartzennegger has appeared nude a lot, also, but he's hardly a gay icon.<br />
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Maybe it's because of how his body was displayed. Men on display on screen are usually in instrumental poses -- they are fighting or having sex. We're not supposed to be desiring the bodies, we're supposed to be admiring their utility. But Christopher's poses were usually ornamental -- he was standing, or dancing, or lying on a bed, doing nothing, displaying his body for its own sake, as an object of beauty.<br />
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Christopher thinks it's his penchant for nudity (what other major star has nude pictures of himself on his own website?). In a recent interview, he stated: "The 80s was a big time for the gay movement and here came a movie (<i>Blue Lagoon) </i>where it was male nudity being prominant rather than female nudity and so [I] became sort of an iconic poster child at that time."<br />
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Maybe it's his amazing gay-friendliness. During the 1980s, most male actors refused to acknowledge that they had gay fans, or acknowledged them with a hysterical protest of their own heterosexuality, but Chris genuinely liked and supported his gay male following. When I was living in West Hollywood, he even gave me a private viewing of his famous cock.</div><div>
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And he's in even better shape now than he was in 1980.<div><br /></div><div>See also: <b><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/11/nude-photos-of-christopher-atkins.html" target="_blank">Nude Photos of Christopher Atkins</a> </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-date-with-kris-who-may-not-be-jeremy.html" target="_blank">A Date with Kris leads to Christopher Atkins' Dick</a></b></div><div><br /></div></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-42023191669038355192024-03-09T16:15:00.000-05:002024-03-09T16:15:53.252-05:00Eight hot/hung Iowa hunks: Davenport dicks, Bettendorf bulges, and Mason City muscles<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3Z4T7ofqE3v9fRM-cjM4hyfGsZMqkeTMDK0zLRkwnXBAPREvS9omVcBGubGs5LSSTzf4VpUuffGaOsku9ixJC2wKW1q14pAa2daC4sSAFFT63ZeBhuY_DKiLLN3ln6VOuBUBo6IM0P4Baj3jwu_eoZB_ZSRMmRbQX6HrrnA9Zu_kheZb2kEOg31HfeU/s386/IowaCityDylan.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="264" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3Z4T7ofqE3v9fRM-cjM4hyfGsZMqkeTMDK0zLRkwnXBAPREvS9omVcBGubGs5LSSTzf4VpUuffGaOsku9ixJC2wKW1q14pAa2daC4sSAFFT63ZeBhuY_DKiLLN3ln6VOuBUBo6IM0P4Baj3jwu_eoZB_ZSRMmRbQX6HrrnA9Zu_kheZb2kEOg31HfeU/w274-h400/IowaCityDylan.jpg" width="274" /></a></div><br />From 3rd grade through college, I lived in Rock Island, Illinois, across the Mississippi from Davenport, Iowa. It was the big city, where we went for culture: museums, art galleries, bookstores.<p></p><p>And shirtless athletes from St. Ambrose College.</p><p><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/ten-hothung-hawkeye-hunks-mason-city.html" target="_blank"><b>Link to the NSFW version</b></a></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs3LAdgcujH4TJTqQyDGIlE11zMTf9HKnLiEJRvKTUE0A6gLHQoch3mOhmFiFYHrG2T_3Qw-nP6DEvBHddOkinK0tbbNEnOrZT4QhvmjdBj6bxeMOqsBqtW4-w3fO-Uw_LkGv5pkp4BZdkTxmwcIJWkfJ2LpLKDAiXdtbcFBngvaMWAoJp6SYAYRfe89M/s704/MasonCityMuscle.JPEG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="518" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs3LAdgcujH4TJTqQyDGIlE11zMTf9HKnLiEJRvKTUE0A6gLHQoch3mOhmFiFYHrG2T_3Qw-nP6DEvBHddOkinK0tbbNEnOrZT4QhvmjdBj6bxeMOqsBqtW4-w3fO-Uw_LkGv5pkp4BZdkTxmwcIJWkfJ2LpLKDAiXdtbcFBngvaMWAoJp6SYAYRfe89M/w294-h400/MasonCityMuscle.JPEG" width="294" /></a></div><br />Bettendorf, to the east of Davenport, was the wealthy suburb, where the property values were double those of Rock Island and the high school offered Russian and Mandarin in addition to plain old Spanish and French. We hated the Betten-dorks. <p></p><p>At least the athletes had a state-of-the-art weight room.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM3fgN0rQqJQ4A__gTSclXC-arC68scON0YdERXDSMWa_30arGKZ6NQhGe1XDVQ20V6xXWbw3eC8byp2fFEkYt-5rf3qJ_nVlp-Q19skuqYXe5Qk3xrJ3mBjgPPx7dDrgvdfczVWFC8gLBBbZGHUz48jaFl4WdogiprN8Tnan3h5hyphenhyphenP6mOlr0INW-tac4/s726/22LutherCQuad.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="726" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM3fgN0rQqJQ4A__gTSclXC-arC68scON0YdERXDSMWa_30arGKZ6NQhGe1XDVQ20V6xXWbw3eC8byp2fFEkYt-5rf3qJ_nVlp-Q19skuqYXe5Qk3xrJ3mBjgPPx7dDrgvdfczVWFC8gLBBbZGHUz48jaFl4WdogiprN8Tnan3h5hyphenhyphenP6mOlr0INW-tac4/s320/22LutherCQuad.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />Decorah, in the northeast corner of the state, is known for Vikings and Lutherans. I had my first real sexual experience at a music camp at Luther College.<p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW1K-9ZBuEVZeFrgH-gHfmcycMNeIfc5XNmEnRJD9jdV0cxYknSHLdWLdOU3Wy0vxxgJ-ck9y6nr53wDAEoVuD-uHi3MkzRdbaMcbdaSvOl5oUQrocbw_nlYY3ZMQoRhY00Fr4IAhwGkpHJULyPqV_0_PCGIVCriO1lN7U60MS-g8VH878YEVNxK4XxpU/s1147/Muscle%20(13).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1147" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW1K-9ZBuEVZeFrgH-gHfmcycMNeIfc5XNmEnRJD9jdV0cxYknSHLdWLdOU3Wy0vxxgJ-ck9y6nr53wDAEoVuD-uHi3MkzRdbaMcbdaSvOl5oUQrocbw_nlYY3ZMQoRhY00Fr4IAhwGkpHJULyPqV_0_PCGIVCriO1lN7U60MS-g8VH878YEVNxK4XxpU/s320/Muscle%20(13).JPG" width="301" /></a></div><br /><p>They have a state-of-the-art weight room, too.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZpq5CN_oVlYWKDN7bCmWluVAn86NJmxDIJeDFMYM0f7VvvOBX7foDuQilPykqVLTrusCHhwKqFEOCL-dpgPiXIkI1UkF8f0m9XxdFXX_Cyj3rZZb7131mXfWiuTDTPQvTJOGturWf3wmcxXiHW1_oFcElZcjrT9DKdEo_oGrqw99THCni-xOyVMeZeWI/s528/07MasonCityMercuryStatue.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="527" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZpq5CN_oVlYWKDN7bCmWluVAn86NJmxDIJeDFMYM0f7VvvOBX7foDuQilPykqVLTrusCHhwKqFEOCL-dpgPiXIkI1UkF8f0m9XxdFXX_Cyj3rZZb7131mXfWiuTDTPQvTJOGturWf3wmcxXiHW1_oFcElZcjrT9DKdEo_oGrqw99THCni-xOyVMeZeWI/s320/07MasonCityMercuryStatue.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><br />Mason City is known for gay artist Grant Wood, who painted that <i>American Gothic</i> thing that everyone in Iowa hates, and for the Spirit of Mercury, a muscular art deco lighting fixture. You can buy souvenir versions.<p></p><p><br /></p><p>More Hawkeye Hunks after the break. Warning: explicit</p><p><br /></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrfEV2fYPlWRh8XcnqfAmip1DXDow9dbdbK7lWMBQj94540m9U0AIJ5s_Pnt12E7roQjhQM4dt8EjnpjI_NlygFdx9MULSIMougHzbyM-GbVN2bqV6vqbg9ckhj0zhq2MnlFzBiy_7Qla9KaFRxQRcjjqvIcHOFjsc8Y7mks0tbtu_mE08LB6kNskiL24/s445/MalvernMuscle.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="445" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrfEV2fYPlWRh8XcnqfAmip1DXDow9dbdbK7lWMBQj94540m9U0AIJ5s_Pnt12E7roQjhQM4dt8EjnpjI_NlygFdx9MULSIMougHzbyM-GbVN2bqV6vqbg9ckhj0zhq2MnlFzBiy_7Qla9KaFRxQRcjjqvIcHOFjsc8Y7mks0tbtu_mE08LB6kNskiL24/s320/MalvernMuscle.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Iowa isn't all flat cornfields. There are hills, ridges, and...um...bulges.<p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsURA6OKgIxnTzn0fp7urzXii2BKw12J34Oh2rBi5w04djrPUU3Qic7ILvmrohqcqxLnK9AKI_jO_J59pSZB-fwvueGY7UWhgnZBk_Z85I1yYAvGuzlYsJyKUM2yJOrxyUpQB31Tg-PDLYMmfSme8e6xJf_t68JluGCBr-WgjJMuNnn_j7M5BzcUrAvt8/s444/18IowaFallsAntiqueStore.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="388" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsURA6OKgIxnTzn0fp7urzXii2BKw12J34Oh2rBi5w04djrPUU3Qic7ILvmrohqcqxLnK9AKI_jO_J59pSZB-fwvueGY7UWhgnZBk_Z85I1yYAvGuzlYsJyKUM2yJOrxyUpQB31Tg-PDLYMmfSme8e6xJf_t68JluGCBr-WgjJMuNnn_j7M5BzcUrAvt8/s320/18IowaFallsAntiqueStore.jpeg" width="280" /></a></div><br />We always stop in Iowa Falls on the way to visit my relatives in Rock Island. It has a restored 1920's era diner -- cash only -- and some antique shops.<p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMQlAxrdvoTIMnFRcKCNSHajDiTthxX7V3uCberH9vdGBBYIzjLUF6pYMRidyMnq4zhhh9FQOO8lDARXE9L4Yh51aYu24E6QABhqgEre_uRAxt5jw5yNips2dSq7C_Zcmp2aTEelpfMVV1lzUvcyiPhG46xXa1EzC94B2SjVyIQh3-HPQ-S33WCPNB4x8/s500/01uiowa.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="500" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMQlAxrdvoTIMnFRcKCNSHajDiTthxX7V3uCberH9vdGBBYIzjLUF6pYMRidyMnq4zhhh9FQOO8lDARXE9L4Yh51aYu24E6QABhqgEre_uRAxt5jw5yNips2dSq7C_Zcmp2aTEelpfMVV1lzUvcyiPhG46xXa1EzC94B2SjVyIQh3-HPQ-S33WCPNB4x8/s320/01uiowa.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />I'm running out of space. Iowa City, 40 miles west of Davenport, is the home of the University of Iowa. On a class fieldtrip in high school, I bought a copy of <i>Os Lusiades</i>, the Portuguese epic poem, which inspired me to major in Modern Languages in college. Augustana didn't offer Portuguese, though.</div><div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW55KhdATGiM5VjakdUsF5mhN9mKGpcnu8IM0kOKxUPoFagOOggjv9auDxqgo-_VZzeygQiQprrm5pFiSt6Gn4u1MqVgzk7hqdYGkcDJxGSudELGcZt45ohpXS8EDSPXmvksoOsy6moIru1-xDFBki_gXKcdgn4IpAI7-T6irL3Ov0odgUUA3LT84a3WQ/s966/MasonCityWrestling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="966" data-original-width="697" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW55KhdATGiM5VjakdUsF5mhN9mKGpcnu8IM0kOKxUPoFagOOggjv9auDxqgo-_VZzeygQiQprrm5pFiSt6Gn4u1MqVgzk7hqdYGkcDJxGSudELGcZt45ohpXS8EDSPXmvksoOsy6moIru1-xDFBki_gXKcdgn4IpAI7-T6irL3Ov0odgUUA3LT84a3WQ/s320/MasonCityWrestling.jpg" width="231" /></a></div><br />Iowa City wrestler<p></p><p>The nude photos are on <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2024/03/ten-hothung-hawkeye-hunks-mason-city.html" target="_blank"><b>RG Beefcake and Boyfriends</b></a></p></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-814549419838495324.post-38660489841041138042024-03-09T13:35:00.001-05:002024-03-10T05:29:04.827-04:00Josh Mikel: Satanist, zombie chow, boyfriend, drummer. With two important questions answered, and maybe a cock<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKyDE5Vbum4Yf6TFBltxg51K_9AuCK6bDZJruiXabosgTdAJciWjCNH68WQow4YDf9i2pLEn6Xnb2SPP7IgtdTTeFtfQegxC5lQr0oNt4YUD4bfw-o2_tOkPanpnxA5jVifYbWzCHJhw0TYhNO6uaEELqC2c2hdBEbb0fNeEm0yDQqcFAqhNLhwwlEgMc/s482/Josh02.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="411" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKyDE5Vbum4Yf6TFBltxg51K_9AuCK6bDZJruiXabosgTdAJciWjCNH68WQow4YDf9i2pLEn6Xnb2SPP7IgtdTTeFtfQegxC5lQr0oNt4YUD4bfw-o2_tOkPanpnxA5jVifYbWzCHJhw0TYhNO6uaEELqC2c2hdBEbb0fNeEm0yDQqcFAqhNLhwwlEgMc/w341-h400/Josh02.jpg" width="341" /></a></div><br /><div><a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/09/josh-mikeldaedalus-keefes-satanist-ex.html" target="_blank"><b>Link to NSFW version</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Born in Conyers, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, Josh graduated from Florida State University's Theater and Creative Writing programs. He has written a number of award-winning plays, many for children: <i>The Monster Hunters, Pirates!, Good Good Trouble on Bad Bad Island!</i><i>. </i>I looked at some of the scripts, but didn't see anything of particular gay interest.</div><div><br />Josh has 92 acting credits on IMDB, including a lot of fantasy and horror: <i>Renfield, Mayfair Witches, Unhuman, Creepshow,</i> and<i> 50 States of Frigh</i>t. It took 17 auditions to be cast on <i>The Walking Dead, </i>as Jared, one of the "Saviours" who demand tribute from surrounding post-zombie-Apocalypse communities. </div><div><br /></div><div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizQrNPyFbtBih0AAuWOx_bfaPfe_4vzLThAX6x1Cv9_XofGHsZeVFT1qNDcmHsAVeXx4hX9OcGZut2DfcW86ddg1jh-RK_29H14ncdyPFuv2QUQNg6iliIaariAkQJKJM_6F-VjhWY7qJ9l1iR6RVM0M2yJuO2zGYTKD93OqZp0USuE77EuKhKp38CbEY/s400/Joshthelengths3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="378" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizQrNPyFbtBih0AAuWOx_bfaPfe_4vzLThAX6x1Cv9_XofGHsZeVFT1qNDcmHsAVeXx4hX9OcGZut2DfcW86ddg1jh-RK_29H14ncdyPFuv2QUQNg6iliIaariAkQJKJM_6F-VjhWY7qJ9l1iR6RVM0M2yJuO2zGYTKD93OqZp0USuE77EuKhKp38CbEY/s320/Joshthelengths3.jpg" width="302" /></a></div><br />But a lot of general dramas, too.<i> The Lengths</i> (2014) is of gay interest: Josh's character is in love with both a man and a woman. </div><div><br /></div><div>There are several bulge shots, and maybe a butt, but it's obscured and hard to see, so I substituted this fully visible butt.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimzelrFw2XJyzzgnbMvYu3IVIctXXWQ5PFM0C1cxTfTTTHa2D2XC0QA4c4lJrErwdo-pqELCxJKArDBSf7K5SPHaqToa_h2Jqo6qHsVVNzl8BEuZ2TKODKSOlRewa0EbLHHx29BoebYUahJn0R7lHG3Ao5NlL67BOSHGSWob0yv1zdM0gJDuabZCYxagU/s525/01josh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="525" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimzelrFw2XJyzzgnbMvYu3IVIctXXWQ5PFM0C1cxTfTTTHa2D2XC0QA4c4lJrErwdo-pqELCxJKArDBSf7K5SPHaqToa_h2Jqo6qHsVVNzl8BEuZ2TKODKSOlRewa0EbLHHx29BoebYUahJn0R7lHG3Ao5NlL67BOSHGSWob0yv1zdM0gJDuabZCYxagU/s320/01josh.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />In Season 1 of <i>The Righteous Gemstones, </i>the recently converted Keefe returns to the Satanist/Goth Club Sinister, Josh's Daedalus assumes that he's there for "pleasures" and caresses his body and licks his face, while his friend Cryptocore starts to go downtown. This scene establishes that Keefe is gay, and that Daedalus is an ex-lover.</div><div><br /></div><div>Josh has also done storyboard art and set design for everything from <i>Kirksville</i> to <i>The Little Mermai</i>d. </div><div><p>If he has any time leftover, he is the drummer for the indie rock band Look, Mexico. One of their songs, "It's Been a Long Time Since I Smelled Beautiful," might have a gay subtext:</p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyCtK_CenYo4jF2mis_vZh9O4sMQd8QQf5bJWbnlbmWihLDpyUDnHvGzcKTR6KbJK1PhlSxBLzn0Xafh2sHq3zSS34Urbd22O-1YevkM5eXvWRbVBGXhWGdoYTSp1K1AdVbK5VGfFAOe8Xd6sWe4MvqTaOJ-aoWTAA0PoaBp7M0O4kxAdE-uC8HPYYjlQ/s444/JoshBirthday.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="444" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyCtK_CenYo4jF2mis_vZh9O4sMQd8QQf5bJWbnlbmWihLDpyUDnHvGzcKTR6KbJK1PhlSxBLzn0Xafh2sHq3zSS34Urbd22O-1YevkM5eXvWRbVBGXhWGdoYTSp1K1AdVbK5VGfFAOe8Xd6sWe4MvqTaOJ-aoWTAA0PoaBp7M0O4kxAdE-uC8HPYYjlQ/s320/JoshBirthday.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></div><i><br />Will you compromise, or will you say what's on your mind this time?</i><p></p><p><i>Will you smile for me, or will you say what's on your mind this time?</i></p><p><i>But we're not, we're not keeping quiet.</i></p><p><i>So if you think you're ready…</i></p><p><i>It's our time now.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>More Josh after the break</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZ0-cZPEsnnpJm11-4cIyHkZ0jXh4Oczc9TwOnMSrT0tr1u1dboPLeBM0owgCHlW5T61u7m78HTFgbt-qp9iNghxwhfzWJdTtk1NYGY68HNB5s0wND6Z3WXAU6yVjNenuTfQ7xNPjREkjRq1yjTWjLZdZD9iynnw3dJbw750vZSKCzfz12GMYRPg4ogU/s571/Josh04.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="571" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIZ0-cZPEsnnpJm11-4cIyHkZ0jXh4Oczc9TwOnMSrT0tr1u1dboPLeBM0owgCHlW5T61u7m78HTFgbt-qp9iNghxwhfzWJdTtk1NYGY68HNB5s0wND6Z3WXAU6yVjNenuTfQ7xNPjREkjRq1yjTWjLZdZD9iynnw3dJbw750vZSKCzfz12GMYRPg4ogU/w400-h293/Josh04.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><b>Important Question #1: Are there any dick pics?</b></div><div><br /></div><div>All I could find in his movie/tv roles was an underwear shot and a very obscure butt shot. There's nothing on his social media.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEsQoBTi5DxjDb6Pj_tRsAkwhAsfR0Yb-VT2y87U5lbzYms1MhVWFda1RQc25qaYgchgj8B9k9EWc2FT54WwKTuY-fi8i1DE8ZvkqQGzQw4UUEdZhbXcWk4bozklBp1jf4Z-HwdqAtLoVpdUkgifxbAy5LG2bhYoGil-4Pd1GY7peazJRX-SSKE3XmBWk/s533/Joshua04nephew.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="533" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEsQoBTi5DxjDb6Pj_tRsAkwhAsfR0Yb-VT2y87U5lbzYms1MhVWFda1RQc25qaYgchgj8B9k9EWc2FT54WwKTuY-fi8i1DE8ZvkqQGzQw4UUEdZhbXcWk4bozklBp1jf4Z-HwdqAtLoVpdUkgifxbAy5LG2bhYoGil-4Pd1GY7peazJRX-SSKE3XmBWk/s320/Joshua04nephew.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> His nephew and content provider says "To make money, I can get you pictures that no one else can. Tell me what you want." But you'd better not be asking him about dick photos. The kid's aroud 13 years old.</div><div><br /></div><div>But if we look through some hookup sites for Joshuas from Atlanta,we find one that looks promising.</div><div><br /></div><div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JUfOy2B1O9fHJp-Cl6DJc_17UOfSFrec5Q05lBHBSF9Proerr3Uw_WPQsmXfgUP9IU6GWN_h5RDDwSATlEEaCjTclZ-1UpG-j_FIjc4J-6cAlsT217ZvPnlT5gAyTPEboI1aV-_ZLNYOhkcXRM_mdIzUmQRY7lf1wRPWEe8Mpo3EBj3Q7rgcXigkAqc/s565/JoshJohn.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="565" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0JUfOy2B1O9fHJp-Cl6DJc_17UOfSFrec5Q05lBHBSF9Proerr3Uw_WPQsmXfgUP9IU6GWN_h5RDDwSATlEEaCjTclZ-1UpG-j_FIjc4J-6cAlsT217ZvPnlT5gAyTPEboI1aV-_ZLNYOhkcXRM_mdIzUmQRY7lf1wRPWEe8Mpo3EBj3Q7rgcXigkAqc/w400-h338/JoshJohn.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><b>Important Question #2: Is Josh gay?</b></div><div><br />Based on the content of his work, I doubt it. There are a lot of pictures of Josh and a lady on his instagram, but some of them turn out to be his sister. He may have a wife who looks like her. </div><div><br /></div><div>On the other hand, here he poses with a guy named John and two kids. Romantic partners or buddies? </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqr5KgtRE3K5h9WEma_6dxPztjG6DEGapIiSmvp3RcNx5UYnWR-33ZfiBv1eFD5yKpxJy6LHnZH8vWrK4RmZCGMZXkJWmngos40y0VFFnnBGMr1O8T00lgJfljIAdiBO8J_JQYf6-pye91OjnhAH9v53YcAhbjND0I_YXJxIKOgfS-mgVQTglZZom3CZE/s483/joshbutts.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="410" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqr5KgtRE3K5h9WEma_6dxPztjG6DEGapIiSmvp3RcNx5UYnWR-33ZfiBv1eFD5yKpxJy6LHnZH8vWrK4RmZCGMZXkJWmngos40y0VFFnnBGMr1O8T00lgJfljIAdiBO8J_JQYf6-pye91OjnhAH9v53YcAhbjND0I_YXJxIKOgfS-mgVQTglZZom3CZE/s320/joshbutts.jpg" width="272" /></a></div><br />Also some potentially homoerotic posts. Here Josh says "Butts, babies, and besties." He doesn't mention romantic partners, but he does suggest...what turns out to be pork butts.</div><div><br /></div><div>Butt and a potential frontal on <a href="https://gemstonepride.blogspot.com/2023/09/josh-mikeldaedalus-keefes-satanist-ex.html" target="_blank"><b>RG Beefcake and Boyfriends</b></a><br /><p><br /></p></div></div>NYSocBoyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06658785942817017972noreply@blogger.com0