Just watched a great movie: 4th Man Out

 Was looking for something to watch on Netflix and came across this movie. I remembered hearing about it and have always like Chord Overstreet, so I decided to watch it and glad I did.  Made me and maybe even cry a little. Bonus, all four leading men are secy in their own ways. I guess I would call it a chick flick for gays, clearly about bromance and would recommend if you are looking for something for a Netflix and Chill night.

Fourth Man Out is a 2016 American comedy film written by Aaron Danick and directed by Andrew Nackman. The film stars Evan Todd as Adam, a young man living in New York state who, on his 24th birthday, comes out as gay to his best friends Chris (Parker Young), Nick (Chord Overstreet), and Ortu (Jon Gabrus).

The film premiered on May 30th, 2015 at the Seattle International Film Festival, and had a limited release in the United States on February 5th, 2016. The film received the audience award for Best Dramatic Feature Film at Outfest, along with the audience award for Best Narrative Feature at the InsideOut LGBT Film Festival in 2015.

Plot

On his 24th birthday, Adam (Evan Todd) struggles to come out as gay to his three best friends, Chris (Parker Young), Nick (Chord Overstreet), and Ortu (Jon Gabrus). Unable to reveal his secret, Adam goes with his friends to a failed night out at a bar, where Chris drunkenly flirts with a girl before the four friends make a quick exit to avoid a bar fight. The next morning, Adam manages to come out before quickly leaving to avoid any awkwardness. Comedy ensues as Adam's three best friends struggle to come to terms with their friend's sexuality, worried that his coming out might somehow change the nature of their relationships.

“THE VIEW UPSTAIRS” IS A NEW MUSICAL ABOUT “ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ATTACKS AGAINST THE LGBT COMMUNITY”

From: Wicked

 A new musical entitled The Room Upstairs, written by Max Vernon and directed by Scott Ebersold, focuses on the fire that broke out at the UpStairs Lounge in New Orleans back in 1973 which killed 32 people. The show has been in development for four and a half years, and after countless rewrites and changes it is finally being brought to life.

“The View UpStairs pulls you inside the UpStairs Lounge, a vibrant ‘70s gay bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans,” reports Towleroad.

 “This forgotten community comes to life in all its gritty, glam rock glory when a young fashion designer from 2017 buys the abandoned space, setting off an exhilarating journey of seduction and self-exploration that spans two generations of queer history. Inspired by one of the most significant yet all-but-ignored attacks against the LGBTQ community, The View UpStairs examines what has been gained and lost in the fight for equality, and how the past can help guide all of us through an uncertain future.”  

“The View UpStairs is about the queer community and what’s changed over the last 40 years in our march towards equality; what’s better or worse and it also tells the story of the UpStairs lounge which was a gay bar in 1973 in New Orleans,” says Vernon, who also wrote the show’s music and the lyrics.

The show will feature  Jeremy Pope, Taylor Frey, Frenchie Davis, Benjamin Howes, Michael Longoria, Ben Mayne, Doreen Montalvo, Randy Redd, Richard E. Waits, and Anthony Alfaro. Beginning on with an Off-Broadway run on February 26 with the production running until May 21.

“The questions of ‘Are we better? Are we worse?’ I think are more pressing than ever,” concludes Vernon.

You can buy tickets here.

“Is that IT?!” Fans Fury at Teasing Tom Daley’s Sex Tape ‘Stunt’

From: Cocktails and Cocktalk

 Over the weekend, Tom Daley came forward and confessed that he had cybersex during a 7-month break with fiancé Dustin Lance Black. Naturally, the gays were looking in every nook and cranny of the internet trying to find the video, but when all they could find was a short clip of the British diver rubbing his stomach and posing in black underwear, gay Twitter called him out for a “bad PR stunt”.

With the huge increase of celebrity nude leaks, it’s no surprise that many of them are actually leaking videos/pics themselves in a bid to snatch headlines. One Twitter user writes: “If you’re going to leak your own sex tape, at least take off your underwear”. Though, other users are claiming it’s just a ‘teaser’ and that the full video will leak in the upcoming weeks…

Would they really go through all the trouble of divulging their split details and admitting a ‘cyber-cheat’ (sort of), just for a PG 9 second video? Either way it had us all talking.

But publicity stunt or not – get naked or it doesn’t count.

Tom Daley Leaked Video - First Part has surfaced and here it is! #tomdaley #leaked #celebritybusted #TDObsessed pic.twitter.com/S1DUsh4EN3

— Totally Gay (@sototallygay) January 21, 2017

He’s Naked: The Originals, Vampire Diaries, and Pretty Little Liars Actor Nathaniel Buzzolic

From: OMG

 The Originals, Vampire Diaries, and Pretty Little Liars actor Nathaniel Buzzolic is one of the latest male hunks to have their junk hit the internet lately. It’s sure to cause a lot a buzz! Check him out!

48 GUYS YOU MIGHT POSSIBLY WANT TO FUCK

From: Manhunt Daily

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23 Unintentionally Gay Comic Book Scenes

From: NewNowNext

36 Fetishes Every Gay Man Should Know

From: The Advocate

9. 

Razors

Shaving the body is typically seen as a nonsexual activity and part of a mundane, un-erotic self-maintenance regimen. But for some, shaving (themselves and others) is extremely arousing. As a sexual activity, shaving would probably be considered a kink rather than a fetish. But trimmers, razors, and other modes of shaving and cutting body hair are fetishized objects, so they deserve a mention. Guys I’ve met that are into this fetish get aroused from the sensation of electric buzzers running against their skin — and have had more than a few uncomfortable erections in barber chairs. 

“La La Land”, “Moonlight” Score Major Nominations For 2017 Academy Awards

"La La Land" made Hollywood history with a record 14 nominations.
From: NewNowNext

 It’s official: the Academy is in love with La La Land.The modern day musical starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling scored a record-tying 14 Oscar nominations this morning. (The only other movies to earn that many nods were Titanic and All About Eve.)

 Moonlight received eight nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, for Barry Jenkins. The film, adapted by Jenkins from a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, follows the troubled life of Chiron, a sexually confused black youth in Miami in the 1980s.

 Moonlight’s Mahershala Ali was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for playing Juan, a sympathetic dealer who serves as a surrogate father for Chiron. Naomie Harris also scored a nod for her role as Chiron’s abusive mother.

In addition to La La Land, Moonlight, the other Best Picture nominees were Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, Lion and Manchester by the Sea.

And Meryl Streep was nominated once again for Best Actress, for Florence Foster Jenkins, meaning we could be in store for another bravura acceptance speech/call to arms.

After last year’s controversial #OscarsSoWhite campaign, this year’s nominations offered more diversity—including multiple nominations for Fences, Hidden Figures and Moonlight, and a Best Supporting Actor nom for Dev Patel in Lion.

Queer poet James Baldwin is back with us (and do we ever need him) in the acclaimed documentary I Am Not Your Negro, which earned a Best Documentary Feature nomination for director-producer Raoul Peck and co-producers Hébert Peck and Rémi Grellety.

Below, check out the full list of nominees for the 89th annual Academy Awards, airing February 26 on ABC.

BEST PICTURE

Arrival

Fences

Hacksaw Ridge

Hell or High Water

Hidden Figures

La La Land

Lion

Manchester by the Sea

Moonlight

BEST DIRECTOR

Denis Villeneuve, Arrival 

Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge 

Damien Chazelle, La La Land

Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea 

Barry Jenkins, Moonlight

BEST ACTOR

Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea

Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge

Ryan Gosling, La La Land

Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic

Denzel Washington, Fences

BEST ACTRESS

Isabelle Huppert, Elle

Ruth Negga, Loving

Natalie Portman, Jackie

Emma Stone, La La Land

Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Mahershala Ali, Moonlight

Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water

Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals

Dev Patel, Lion

Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Viola Davis, Fences

Naomie Harris, Moonlight

Nicole Kidman, Lion

Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures

Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Hell or High Water

La La Land

The Lobster

Manchester by the Sea

20th Century Women

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Arrival

Fences

Hidden Figures

Lion

Moonlight

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Arrival

La La Land

Lion

Moonlight

Silence

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Deepwater Horizon

Doctor Strange

The Jungle Book

Kubo and the Two Strings

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Arrival

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Hail, Caesar!

La La Land

Passengers

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Allied

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Florence Foster Jenkins

Jackie

La La Land

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

A Man Called Ove

Star Trek Beyond

Suicide Squad

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Jackie

La La Land

Lion

Moonlight

Passengers

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Audition (The Fools Who Dream),” La La Land

“Can’t Stop the Feeling,” Trolls

“City of Stars,” La La Land

“The Empty Chair,” Jim: The James Foley Story

“How Far I’ll Go,” Moana

BEST SOUND EDITING

Arrival Deepwater Horizon Hacksaw Ridge

La La Land

Sully

BEST SOUND MIXING

Arrival

Hacksaw Ridge

La La Land

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Fire at Sea

I Am Not Your Negro

Life, Animated

O.J.: Made in America

13th

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Land of Mine

A Man Called Ove

The Salesman

Tanna Toni Erdmann

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

Extremis

4.1 Miles

Joe’s Violin

Watani: My Homeland

The White Helmets

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

Ennemis Entreniers

La Femme et le TGV

Silent Nights

Sing

Timecode

Best Animated Feature Film

Kubo and the Two Strings 

Moana

My Life as a Zucchini 

The Red Turtle

Zootopia

Best Animated Short Film

Blind Vaysha – Theodore Ushev

Borrowed Time – Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj

Pear Cider and Cigarettes – Robert Valley and Cara Speller

Pearl – Patrick Osborne

Piper – Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer

Best Film Editing

Arrival – Joe Walker

Hacksaw Ridge – John Gilbert

Hell or High Water – Jake Roberts

La La Land – Tom Cross

Moonlight – Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon

Snowing

From: Brent's Auto Wall

Doctor Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison for Jerking Off in Patients' Faces

From: kenneth in the (212)

 It was jizz word against theirs ...

When David Newman, an emergency-room doctor at Mount Sinai, kept having his semen turn up on patients' faces, he tried to explain it away by telling investigators the women must have been confused by the morphine (he had given them against their will), adding: “I am embarrassed because I wacked off in the lounge," and that it was possible his ejaculate may have gone from his hands to the accusers' faces -- and eyes. The Wall Street Journal reports that prosecutors said Dr. Newman sexually abused four women, from ages 18 to 29 between August 2015 and January 2016. Their illnesses included a headache, cold, rash and shoulder pain, prosecutors said. As part of his plea agreement, he received a sentence of two years in prison followed by three years of supervision after his release.

Conway: I have Secret Service protection because of the media

From: Politico

Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said Monday that she is under the protection of a Secret Service detail and that she has received packages at her home containing “white substances.”

Conway brought up the threats against her and her family during an interview on Fox News’s “Hannity” amid an exchange about what she and other Trump administration officials consider to be unfair treatment from the media. As Trump administration officials have done regularly in recent days, Conway criticized an inaccurate press pool report from Friday that stated that a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. had been removed from the Oval Office, when in fact it had not been.

The pool report was quickly corrected and the reporter apologized, but Conway and others have suggested that motives behind it might be more nefarious, part of a strategy to portray Trump as racist. On “Hannity,” Conway said she would not name the reporter behind the pool report in order to protect him from the type of harassment she said she has become subject to.

“I don't say his name publicly because I don't want him to get attacked like I do. Because of what the press is doing now to me, I have secret service protection,” she said. “We have packages delivered to my house with white substances. That is a shame and yes I hold him to account for it.”

A Secret Service spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday afternoon that Conway is under its protection.

‘SEX POWER FREEDOM’ is the Politically Sexy Coffee Table Book from Andrew Christian

From: Cocktails and Cocktalk

 If you thought all Andrew Christian did was make undies, then you’d be wrong. The designer has been working on another project ‘SEX POWER FREEDOM’ that address the relationship between sex and political freedom. Giving you a chance to see their handsome models in their jockstraps (and frequently, less), Christian also raises a point in the relevance to sex to our society – and in particular the LGBT community.

 Andrew tells C&C: “When I first started this book eight months ago, I had no idea how important and relevant it was going to be after the recent Presidential election.” He goes on, “Creating this art and coffee table book has been an endeavor into bringing positive awareness about LGBT empowerment as it relates to political freedom in the USA and around the world.” The book seeks to celebrate our sexually, which many countries – even the USA – choose to repress.

 “This book isn’t just sexy photos… it explains that SEX is more than SEX… it’s power, it’s emotion, it’s creation, it’s personal expression, it’s political freedom…it’s HAPPINESS.”

We have our copy, and we can already tell you that it only gets HOTTER from here… To get your copy – click HERE.

There are Gold and Silver editions of the book also available – those you can only get your hands on the Gold copies in person on the book tour. Check here for date updates.

Colorado Man Savagely Gay-Bashed 50 Miles From Where Matthew Shepard Was Murdered

The victim, from Fort Collins, Colorado, suffered a broken nose and orbital socket and damage to his abdominal wall.
From: NewNowNext

A gay man was brutally attacked early Saturday morning in Colorado by a man reportedly interested in the victim’s female friend.

On a GoFundMe campaign page, Shawny Marie recounted how her friend, Steven Anthony Loranger, was beaten almost to death over the weekend by a man she claims is an ex-Marine “for no other reason than being a gay man and best friends with a young woman the suspect has an affinity for.”

The attack left Loranger, 33, with a severely broken nose, a broken orbital socket and sprained abdominal wall, as well as various bruises, cuts and knots. (Scrapes on Lorangers’ midsection suggest he was dragged at one point.)

 “Steven does not have even one defensive wound,” writes Marie, “meaning he was unconscious and completely helpless.”

She believes her friend regained consciousness while his attacker went to retrieve a weapon, and escaped out the back door. He then hid until he was able to get to the hospital.

“Steven needs surgery and is missing work,” Marie explains in the appeal. “His medical expenses have already overwhelmed him and he is very concerned about paying his medical bills and regular bills during his extended recovery.”

She points out the attack occurred in Fort Collins, Colorado, only a 40-minute drive from the remote part of Laramie, Wyoming, where Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson murdered Matthew Shepard in 1998.

In the wake of Shepard’s death, Congress passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which expanded federal hate-crime statutes to include those motivated by a victim’s real or perceived orientation or gender identity.

Loranger’s attacker, who has reportedly been arrested, could very well be charged under the act.

You can contribute to Steven Loranger’s GoFundMe campaign here.

24 Times Drag Queens Perfectly Described How High You Are

From: NewNowNext

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When You Have The Green, But No Bowl

An apple a day…gives you 365 bongs a year.

Favorite Pic of the Day for January 24, 2009

From: Favorite Hunks & Other Things

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Groovy Flashback: TIME Covers 1923 - 1959

From: Deep Dish

Barbara Bel Geddes (The Moon Is Blue on Broadway) - April 9, 1951

50 BODIES THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE BANGIN’: AN INTERACTIVE TREASURE HUNT FOR FACE PICS

From: Manhunt Daily

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Fuente del Berro, Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain

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a ver si de una vez cierro esto...

Gay Scruff Through The Ages

From: Queerty

 "The mustache is the evolutionary next level to enlightenment.”

– noted gay Oscar Wilde

Wilde, however, was more a fan of a stiff, clean upper lip, but even he had a thing for the cookie duster. Though scruff may be having something of a comeback these days, gays have been growing it out and trimming it up for millennial. From the queens of Ancient Greece to gay porn stars of the 70s, facial hair has always had a bit of a queer bent. So saddle up, kids, we’re going on a mustache ride of facial hair in gay history.

Socrates

Socrates

Socrates (/ˈsɒkrətiːz/; Greek: Σωκράτης, Ancient Greek pronunciation: [sɔːkrátɛːs], Sōkrátēs; 470/469 BC – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Many would claim that Plato's dialogues are the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity.

Through his portrayal in Plato's dialogues, Socrates has become renowned for his contribution to the field of ethics, and it is this Platonic Socrates who lends his name to the concepts of Socratic irony and the Socratic method, or elenchus. The latter remains a commonly used tool in a wide range of discussions, and is a type of pedagogy in which a series of questions is asked not only to draw individual answers, but also to encourage fundamental insight into the issue at hand. Plato's Socrates also made important and lasting contributions to the field of epistemology, and the influence of his ideas and approach remains a strong foundation for much western philosophy that followed.