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Sunday, April 23, 2017

‘Broadway Bares’ Features the Big Men on Campus at ‘Strip U’

Broadway Bares announced the theme for its 27th annual burlesque benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and they’re heading to campus this year with Strip U.

Some more info:

Broadway Bares: Strip U (#BroadwayBares) will feature more than 150 of the hottest male and female dancers in New York City sharing their hearts and well-toned bodies with an energetic crowd of thousands. The 90-minute show features Broadway’s most talented movers and shakers in a highly choreographed, highly produced spectacular.
Using the collegiate theme as a jumping off point, Broadway Bares: Strip U combines the winking humor of classic burlesque with today’s pop music to create a truly unparalleled show. Imagine the Broadway Bares take on a science lab exploding with sizzling chemistry or sculpted studs exhibiting model behavior in art class. You could wait to watch highlights online, but there’s nothing like experiencing the live show where anything can happen.
The 27th annual edition of Broadway Bares will take place at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom (311 West 34th Street, NYC) at 9:30 pm and midnight on Sunday, June 18.
The theme was created and will be directed by Nick Kenkel (Half Time, Celebrity Cruises, Saturday Night Live, Peepshow). Special guests for the evening will be announced later this spring.
Tickets for Broadway Bares range from $50 to $3,000. VIP tickets include unlimited specialty cocktails and exclusive seating. The fabulous “Stripper Spectacular” package includes a premium reserved table seat at either show with specialty cocktails, admission to a private cocktail party at Broadway Bares creator and executive producer Jerry Mitchell’s penthouse apartment and a backstage tour. The “Barest Backstage Insider Experience” includes a premium reserved table seat at the midnight show with specialty cocktails, a pre-show, behind-the-scenes backstage tour and access to the final “undressed” rehearsal the evening of the show. Ticket details are at broadwaycares.org. For other information and merchandise, visit broadwaybares.com.

Michael Lucas Falsely Claims That Logan Moore Assaulted Josh Moore

From: Str8Up Gay Porn

Michael Lucas’s obsession with performer Josh Moore has sunk to a disgusting new low today, even by Michael Lucas standards. After months of harassing voice mails, empty threats, and allegedly putting his life at risk, Michael Lucas is now willing to “forgive” Josh Moore (who did nothing wrong in the first place when he escaped Lucas Entertainment last year).

News of Lucas’s latest stalking incident came out Friday morning, via Josh Moore’s ex-fiancé Logan Moore:

Michael Lucas—replying to the tweet, on the right, from Josh’s ex-fiancé Logan Moore—posted a screenshot of a text he sent Josh Moore this morning, in which he congratulates Josh for leaving the “monster” Logan:

Lucas’s creepiness and deranged obsession with Josh Moore aside, it takes a bizarre level of stupidity to admit publicly that you’re attempting to rig an awards show where your content is nominated, which your company is paying for. (And, uhh, good luck to everyone at the Prowler Awards, sponsored by Michael Lucas.)

More disturbing, however, is what came next. Michael Lucas’s follow-up tweet accused Logan Moore of “beating” Josh Moore on a Lucas Entertainment set, which Lucas and others on set allegedly “all witnessed”:

No one else employed by Lucas Entertainment has come forward to acknowledge the attack on set. And, if such an attack did occur on a Lucas Entertainment film set—and Michael Lucas witnessed it, as he’s claiming above—that would then mean that Lucas Entertainment permits violence against its performers on set, and they do not report these assaults to authorities.

Instead of reporting the crimes taking place at his business, Michael Lucas waits until months later to casually tweet about them, when it’s convenient. Given that Lucas has been sued in federal court for destroying homes, and his past hiring of convicted murderers to perform in scenes, ignoring assaults on sets is, unfortunately, not a surprise. Just a typical day on the set of Lucas Entertainment.

UPDATE

Josh Moore has just confirmed to Str8UpGayPorn that Michael Lucas is in fact lying about the alleged assault. In a statement to Str8UpGayPorn, Josh Moore explains:

Logan did some awful things in our relationship, but I can honestly say he never touched a hair on my head.

Hard to wrap your head around which is worse: The fact that Michael Lucas publicly admitted to ignoring an alleged assault on his set, or the fact that that assault never actually happened in the first place? Either way, Lucas deliberately making false public statements about Logan Moore in order to harm his reputation—when Lucas knows for a fact that he witnessed no such assault on his set—is literally the textbook definition of libel, and in an ideal world he’d be facing yet another civil lawsuit for his abhorrent behavior.

Michael Lucas isn’t just the most disgusting person in gay porn, he’s also the stupidest.

Gay Porn Star Mario Romo’s Murder Trial Underway In San Diego

From: Str8Up Gay Porn

Gay porn star and prostitute David Enrique Meza’s aka Mario Romo murder trial started this week in San Diego, and if the jury finds him guilty, the former Sean Cody model will face life in prison.

Meza (a.k.a. Sean Cody’s Francisco) was arrested in late 2015 after his wealthy, older gay lover Jake Merendino was found dead in a Mexican ravine with his throat slashed, and over 20 stab wounds in his chest and stomach. Meza is charged with Foreign Domestic Violence Resulting In Murder and Conspiracy To Obstruct Justice. Images of Merendino’s body were presented at trial this week:

Prosecutors allege that Meza “murdered his lover, because [he] believed he stood to gain millions of dollars and a beautiful condominium on the beach in Rosarito,” and they’re presenting multiple forms of evidence, including Meza’s prostitution ads and gay porn videos, handwritten letters from Meza to Merendino, DNA samples, and photos of the couple in Mexico:

It’s unclear what Meza’s defense team has planned as they begin to argue their side to the jury, but his lawyers did have a bizarre order granted yesterday, with the court allowing them to present 30 bamboo skewers and a full size mannequin for demonstrative evidence:

Meza’s girlfriend and mother of his child, Taylor Marie Langston (seen below, right, with Meza), had originally faced a conspiracy charge in connection to the murder as well, but Str8UpGayPorn can now report that Langston has taken a plea deal and pleaded guilty, so she’s not part of this week’s trial. Langston is scheduled to be sentenced in June.

If found guilty, Meza will be the second gay-for-pay Sean Cody model convicted of a brutal murder, following Jason Andrews (Sean Cody’s Addison). Andrews was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for stabbing a Florida man with whom he and his wife had an orgy.

UPDATE 4/21/17

Judge Miller has granted defense’s request to bring in a large piece of wood for use (for some sort of demonstration) during closing argument.

Earlier this month, at the beginning of the trial, Meza’s defense was allowed to present bamboo skewers and a mannequin as demonstrative evidence.

Closing arguments in the murder and obstruction of justice case—for which the Sean Cody model faces life in prison if convicted—could conclude as early as Monday, at which point jury deliberations will begin.

Speedo Sunday

From: kenneth in the (212)

You might recognize HIS ASS from here ...

History's 125 Hottest Gay-Porn Stars

From: Boy Culture

Hard Ryder

Lee Ryder
(Darras Robert Pryon)

1959—1991
AIDS

This early-'80s stunner was already retired by the time I saw my first adult movie, but whenever I caught a glimpse of him in one of his amazing appearances—Huge (1982), A Few Good Men (1982), Spokes (1983), The Biggest One I Ever Saw (1984)—he definitely made his mark. It's incredible to think he only made a dozen or so appearances.

Top Ten Sexiest Drag Race Stars Out Of Drag

From: Fleshbot

Sharon Needles

Season Four

Total artsy babe. Cleans up nicely.

36 Fetishes Every Gay Man Should Know

From: The Advocate

Mannequins

Also called agalmatophilia, this fetish applies to dolls, mannequins, statues and anything that resembles a human without actually being one. Note: while sex dolls and inflatables with with porn star faces may appeal to people who enjoy this fetish, I would not immediately consider these objects fetish objects, since they are specifically designed for sexual arousal.

Erin Moran, Who Played Joanie on ‘Happy Days’, Dead at 56

From: NBC News

In this Sept. 24, 2008 file photo,
Erin Moran is seen at the Fox Reality Channel Really Awards
in Hollywood, Calif. Frazer Harrison
Getty Images

Erin Moran, the actress who played Joanie Cunningham on the hit TV series "Happy Days," has died in Indiana at the age of 56, police said.

TMZ first reported the death. The Harrison County, Indiana, sheriff's office told NBC News that dispatchers got a 911 call for an unresponsive female at 4:07 p.m. Saturday and first responders found Moran deceased.

Moran was just 13 when the show began in January of 1974. Viewers watched her mature on the show, which Moran said in a 2008 interview with the "Today" show wasn't the easiest passage to go through.

"It was so much fun with these guys," she said. "They made it better, they made it easier. I loved it. I had such a good time."

Moran played Joanie Cunningham, the younger sister of Richie Cunningham, who was played by Ron Howard. Her character was a love interest of the character Chachi, played by Scott Baio.

The sitcom set in the 1950s in Milwaukee, which ran from 1974 to 1984, was a hit. Moran also co-starred along with Baio in the short-lived spin off "Joanie Loves Chachi," which began in 1982.

Moran and Baio returned for the "Happy Days" final season, which ended with the two characters getting married.

Marion Ross, who played the Cunningham family mom on the series, remembered Moran as a smart, talented performer who easily adapted to the demands of filming and school.

"She would go to school, and she would come back after a break and would have to fit in to all the jokes we were doing on the set and pick up fast exactly where we were — which she could," Ross said in a telephone interview with NBC Los Angeles. "She was the quickest, fastest little kid. Wonderful."

"This breaks my heart," Ross said.

Henry Winkler, who played "The Fonz" in the series, expressed his condolences on Twitter, and said the death was too soon.

OH Erin... now you will finally have the peace you wanted so badly here on earth ...Rest In It serenely now.. too soon

— Henry Winkler (@hwinkler4real) April 23, 2017

In this July 12, 2001 file photo,
Garry Marshall, from left, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Henry Winkler, and Anson Williams
of the television show "Happy Days,"
pose after Ross received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
AP

Howard said in a Tweet: "I'll always choose to remember you on our show making scenes better, getting laughs and lighting up tv screens."

Years after the show ended, Moran and three co-stars in 2011 sued CBS for $10 million over royalties they said they were owed, The Associated Press reported at the time.

The suit reportedly ended in an out-of court settlement in 2012 in which the four cast-members and the estate of another cast member received around $65,000 each.

Moran also made appearances in "Murder, She Wrote," and "The Love Boat."

An autopsy is pending and there is no indication of cause of death, the sheriff's office said.

Cosmo Centrefold Hall of Fame

From: Cosmo UK

Matt Dawson

Former Rugby Union Scrum For London Wasps

Matthew James Sutherland "Matt" Dawson, MBE (born 31 October 1972) is a retired English rugby union player who played scrum half for Northampton Saints and then London Wasps. During his international career he toured with the British and Irish Lions three times and was part of England's 2003 Rugby World Cup winning side. He won 77 caps for his country in total, including nine as captain and is England's most capped scrum half.

Dawson was best known for his trademark 'sniping runs' and played the whistle well, often scoring tries from 'tap and go' penalties. When called upon, he could also demonstrate his versatility by kicking goals.

Since retiring, Dawson has become a team captain on A Question of Sport besides appearing on various reality shows and is a commentator and presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live's rugby program. Dawson currently works as a health ambassador for Sodexo, a global food and facilities provider. In early 2014, he was appointed as director for business development at Instant, the global flexible work space specialist.

365 Groovy Books Worth Reading

From: Deep Dish

Wishful Drinking

Carrie Fisher

2008

Twenty years after the publication of her mother's memoir, Fisher wrote her own, in which she talks about her struggles with alcoholism, drug addiction and mental breakdowns - as well as having Elizabeth Taylor as a stepmother.