#TBT: When The Blue Power Ranger Came Out

David Yost came out as gay in an 2010 interview, sharing how his treatment on the set led to his leaving the show.
From: NewNowNext

 The new Power Rangers movie is well underway, but this week we want to step back in time to an incident from the beloved original series.

In 1995, David Yost, who played the Blue Ranger, left the show. It wasn’t until 2010, though, that he revealed publicly he was gay—and that harassment on the set led to his departure.

 “I walked off set one day, during the middle of lunch, halfway through the day,” he recalls in the interview below.

“I had made a decision I had been thinking about for a good week, and the reason I walked off is because I had been called ’faggot’ one too many times.”

Yost says he’d been subject to slurs numerous times—from writers, directors, producers and creators. His co-stars had even been called in the producers office and questioned about his sexuality. In the interview, David recounts those harrowing days, as well as his heartbreaking efforts to “pray the gay away.”

Since leaving acting, he’s had a successful career behind the camera as a producer on shows like Temptation Island, You Are What You Eat and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. He’s also active in HIV/AIDS advocacy—appearing in a benefit performance of Fallen Guardian Angels and posing for Adam Bouska’s “No H8” campaign.

Having made peace with his past, Yost also makes appearances at Mighty Morphin Power Rangers conventions around the country. Hopefully producers will let him make an appearance in the new movie, too.

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A Vintage Vantage: Omar Sharif

From: Favorite Hunks & Other Things

 'Hey, Mister Arnstein, Here I am!'

Funny Girl (1968)

 I have never seen Lawrence of Arabia, nor Doctor Zhivago.  The only think I really knew about Omar Sharif was that he was a well known and respected actor.  Last weekend though, I was finally introduced officially to his beautiful face, his sexy voice and... his talent.

With Julie Andrews in The Tamarind Seed (1974)

 Funny Girl airs all the time, once or twice a year on TCM, but I was never really that interested.  I like Barbra Streisand and I think I even DVR'd it once, but never got beyond the first 10 minutes. I finally watched last weekend, and although I didn't love it, it was far too long, I did enjoy it, in particular my introduction to the sexy Sharif. 

 From the first time he walked into Fanny's life, I too was in lust in Mr. Arstein.  Even when he began treating her badly, I still wanted them together.  I of course googled Mr. Sharif and have some others I want to watch but started, with his one and only 'sort of' nude scene in Mackenna's Gold (1969). Sharif was a lot of fun, and a lot of sexy, in Gold with a nude scene that although tame today, seems like it might have been pushing the boundaries in 1969.

Mackenna's Gold (1969)

And the good looks have been passed on down to his openly gay grandson Omar Sharif Jr.

YouTuber Joey Salads Recruits “Manly Transgenders” To Repeat Obnoxious “Social Experiment”

In his first "experiment," Salads dressed in drag and followed women into restrooms.
From: NewNowNext

 Joey Salads, the popular YouTuber who enraged trans advocates by cross-dressing to conduct a “social experiment” on transgender issues, doubles down on his offensive rhetoric in a brand new video.

Last month, Salads attempted to find out if women “felt comfortable using the restroom with a transgender” by wearing a dress and wig and aggressively following women into restrooms in an intentionally creepy way.

 As expected, most of the women he exploited had a huge problem with him following them into the restroom, so he concluded through his “research” that women were, in general, uncomfortable using the restroom with trans women.

 Salads was rightfully raked over the coals for his flawed experiment and accused of perpetuating the myth that transgender women are sexual predators trying to gain access to the “wrong” restroom. So in a new video uploaded Monday, he employs three “real transgenders” to carry out the “experiment” again.

Salads begins the experiment by introducing two trans women, calling them “manly,” and inquiring about their genitals.

Salads chases down women who used the restroom while the women above were inside. After talking to a handful of people, he concludes that women are uncomfortable using the restroom with these women because — wait for it — “these transgenders specifically look very masculine.”

Next, Salads sends someone he identifies as a “feminine transgender” into the restroom, and talks to exactly two people who said they didn’t have a problem using the restroom with her.

This, according to Salads, means that women prefer not to use the restroom with “masculine transgenders.”

Check it out below, and feel free to tweet him your thoughts at @JoeySalads. He’s obviously listening.

Tony Ward Is Forever Our Hustler In New GQ Pictorial

Still smokin' after all these years.
From: NewNowNext

Model/actor Tony Ward was Madonna’s boyfriend in the early ’90s, appearing in videos for “Cherish,” “Justify My Love” and “Erotica.” But he earned a place in our hearts starring in Bruce LaBruce’s Hustler White, as the object of a gay filmmaker’s desire.

 At 52, Ward is still an in-demand model, having most recently appeared in a photo spread shot at Chateau Marmont by Todd Barry for GQ Australia

Titled “The Stopover,” it really has us hoping he’s on the room service menu.

 

This Is How You Make A Straight Guy Jealous

Serving glistening torso.
From: NewNowNext

 Comedian Michael Henry is back with another hilarious video, this time he shows what it’s like when a straight man has to fight for his gay co-worker’s attention when a HOT new straight guy shows up at the office.

You have our attention. Watch the video below:

The Boob Tube:

From: Favorite Hunks & Other Things

 Ike Barinholtz

Morgan Tookers, The Mindy Project

Bernardo & Anita: May 2016

I have always loved Ike Barinholtz on The Mindy Project, but I never really saw him as a 'hunk' until his turn in last years Sisters. Ike's sex appeal was without a doubt a highlight of an otherwise lackluster film. With The Mindy Project now on Hulu we get a peek... of Barinholtz's behind. Although we saw a bit more in Disaster Movie (seen in my previous piece on Ike HERE:) Ike didn't disappoint.

Popular YouTuber Wears Dress, Follows Women Into Bathroom For “Transgender Experiment”

Some people aren't intellectually equipped to understand that a trans woman is not a man in a dress.

From: NewNowNext

 Joey Salads, a popular YouTube personality who makes millions exploiting strangers in public by subjecting them to his humiliating and sometimes offensive “social experiments,” weighs in on North Carolina’s new anti-LGBT ’bathroom bill’ in a disgusting new video uploaded this week.

In it, Salads attempts to discover whether women “are comfortable using the restroom with a transgender person” by dressing up in a wig and dress and aggressively following them into the bathroom like a madman demanding their approval.

Naturally, most of the women are immediately terrified because Salads seems more like he’s tailing them than he is trying to use the restroom.

Each time, he directly follows a woman into the ladies room before the door even closes behind them, and simply stands there in order to provoke a reaction.

 All the women featured in the video but one take issue with Salads being in the restroom, and order him to leave. “What are you doing? You can’t be in here!” one yells as Salads claims he’s transgender and “can stay with [his] regular voice.”

“What? That doesn’t even make sense!” the woman screams back.

As Salads exits the restroom, he’s seen grabbing at his crotch and trying to emphasize the fact that he has a penis.

As expected, he concludes after his “experiment” that “most women are not comfortable sharing a bathroom with a trans person” and that “there needs to be a better solution.”

A disclaimer Salads put up on the video reads: “This was a Non-Bias Experiment, I am simply telling 2 sides of a debate, and then doing an experiment based on that, No reason for me to get any hate on this.”

He also claims a “transgender friend” helped him pull together the outfit and idea — a complete lie, we know, based on the fact that literally no transgender person anywhere would approve any part of this mess.

But what Salads fails to realize about his deeply flawed “experiment” is that it’s completely irrelevant because he is not a trans woman. A trans woman is a woman, not a man in a dress. The women featured in his video were not reacting to a trans woman, they were reacting to a man in a dress who followed them into the bathroom acting suspiciously.

The only thing Salads’ “experiment” does is reaffirm the tired and debunked myth that transgender people are just sexual predators wielding their gender identity as a tool to gain access to a restroom where they can sexually assault children.

That, according to critics of the new ’bathroom bill’ in North Carolina, simply isn’t a problem that’s happening. There is no epidemic of sexual predators trying to use gender identity to get to children.

Also, we’ve had laws protecting ALL people from sexual assault for centuries.

Nyle DiMarco Made “Dancing With The Stars” History With First Same-Sex Dance

It's time for him to win the whole competition!
From: NewNowNext

We’ve been telling you about how Nyle DiMarco is destroying the competition on this season of Dancing With The Stars, but the sexually fluid model just made headlines again by being the first male star to perform a same-sex dance on the show.

As part of Monday night’s Judge’s Team-Up Challenge, in which two stars are paired together and then coached by one of the show’s three judges, DiMarco was paired with Fuller House actress Jodie Sweetin.

The challenge began as a typical classic dance to the “Habanera” by Georges Bizet, but eventually transitioned into a steamy same-sex dance number that wowed the crowd.

“This is a Dancing With The Stars first, having same-sex dancing,” DiMarco proudly stated, before being asked what it was like to be the one lifted in a routine this time around.

““Well, it’s a different experience,” he replied. “Usually I’m lifting Peta but…should it only be for a woman? Maybe Peeta can lift me at some stage?”

The episode also featured DiMarco dancing in complete silence at one point, to illustrate to the judges and audience what it sounds like for the deaf model when he’s competing.

Check out the steamy same-sex dance routine below.

Matthew