Yesterday we reported the death of 33-year-old Irish Boyzone band member, Stephen Gately. Today we revealed that he apparently died from choking to death on his own vomit. Those details have been corroborated by The Sun who told this heartbreaking tale of love as Stephen Gately’s husband, Andy Cowles struggled to revive him during their last moments together:
Stephen Gately’s frantic partner tried desperately to revive the lifeless singer at their Majorca holiday home.
Hysterical Andy Cowles screamed: “Wake up! Wake up!” before giving the stricken Boyzone star the kiss of life.
But he was unable to save tragic Stephen – whom he found in a “praying” position, squatting on the floor with his face resting on a sofa pillow.
Police who sped to the scene concluded the 33-year-old Irishman had choked on his vomit in the night.
Officers on the sunshine island are now piecing together the gay pop idol’s movements in his final hours.
And they are keen to speak to a 25-year-old Bulgarian named as Georgi Dochev – said to have met Andy and Stephen at a bar and partied at their home near Port d’Anratx before the singer’s sudden death.
The trio are thought to have returned to the £1million flat at about 4.30am on Saturday. An hour later Andy went to bed – but Stephen, who had been drinking EIGHT HOURS, said he would stay up a while longer.
Andy, 32, awoke and discovered the body some time after midday.
Friends told how he battled for 30 minutes to revive Stephen – his civil partner since 2006.
One pal said: “Andy said he’d screamed, ‘Wake up! Wake up!’ at him. He also tried mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. When everything failed he even slapped him across the face.
“But doctors later confirmed Stephen’s lungs had filled with fluid. There was nothing Andy could have done. He had drowned and asphyxiated.”
When Andy found no sign of life he rushed to a neighbour for help.
Cops were alerted and arrived at 1pm. A police source said: “Stephen was discovered in a strange position – squatting down by the sofa in almost a praying position.
“His partner was beside himself with grief and was being comforted in their bedroom by a neighbour who he’d called on to help.”
Police sources said the star’s death appeared to be natural. One said: “At the moment all we know is that Stephen Gately is dead and he was found dead on a sofa at an apartment near Port d’Anratx on Saturday.
“The rest is a mystery. There were no signs of violence or evidence of suicide or any obvious evidence pointing to another probable cause of death, like drugs use. But we’re unlikely to be able to shed any further light on what’s happened until after a post-mortem.”…
Yesterday the star’s family invited Irish solicitor and family friend Gerald Kean to speak on their behalf.
He said: “There’s no foul play involved and it’s not suicide. It’s just a tragic accident is what we’ve been told – and we’re happy that that is correct information.
“There is nothing untoward. It’s not drugs, we don’t believe, it’s not suicide, it’s not murder, it’s not a fight. That’s what we’ve been told.”
Mr Kean said the family were shattered by their loss. He added: “They are devastated and they asked me to take calls for the moment. They’re just trying to come to terms with it.
He said a post mortem was expected to take place tomorrow.
Stephen’s relatives, who have not travelled to Majorca, hope to have his remains returned to Dublin by the end of the week for the funeral.
A police source said: “We will wait until the autopsy, but we don’t believe there are any suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.”
The Telegraph has additionally heartbreaking details in an article entitled “Stephen Gately’s partner ‘will never forgive himself for Boyzone member’s death’.” It says that Cowles feels deeply responsible for not checking on Gately during the night, and it goes onto to suggest a potentially sexual twist as Gately and Cowles spent the night with a 25-year-old they met at a gay bar:
“I will never forgive myself for this. He died and I couldn’t help him. I feel like my life is over,” he said to have told the band members, according to the Daily Mirror.
A close friend also told the newspaper: “They kept telling Andy that he shouldn’t blame himself – but he just kept crying his eyes out.
“The guy is in a deep state of shock and he hasn’t slept for a minute since this tragedy unfolded. He is a total mess and everyone is worried about him.”
The friend added: “They told him that there is nothing he could have done and that he has to stop blaming himself.”…
Georgi Petrov Dochev, 25, told how he spent the night in the apartment the pop star shared with his partner and discovered his dead body at 1.30pm on Saturday.
He awoke to find Gately “white and cold” slumped on the sofa at the couple’s £1million apartment near Puerto Andratx on the south west of the Balearic Island and raised the alarm.
“I found Stephen dead and I woke his husband. He was white and cold when I found him,” he said.
He refused to discuss reports that he had spent the night in the couple’s bedroom while Gately remained on the sofa after the three men returned together from a gay nightclub on Saturday morning.
Mr Dochev, who lives in a modest flat on the outskirts of Palma, said he has now given police a full account of event leading up to Gately’s death.
He said Mr Cowles, 32, had also spoken fully to detectives.
“You will have to ask the husband what has happened,” said Mr Dochev, who is originally from Sofia, Bulgaria.
“It has been very traumatic. I don’t want to say anything more. I am still nervous and really upset. I have barely slept since this happened.”
Our hearts and thoughts go out to Stephen’s family, friends, and fans and to his beautiful husband, Andy. We’re usually all about deep-dicking and cum-gurgling here at QueerClick, but beyond our smutty porn fantasies lies the hearts of men longing for actual love (no, really). Andy and Stephen were lucky enough to find that in their lives and that their time together has been cut tragically short has mitigated our usual cheekiness and left us somewhat heartbroken ourselves.
In our last post on the death of openly gay Irish boybander, Stephen Gately, authorities still did not know the cause of death, though they didn’t suspect foul play. Now it seems that Gately’s end may have been inauspicious indeed. Pink News reports:
Stephen Gately, the gay Boyzone singer who was found dead this weekend, had been drinking heavily on the night he died.
According to reports, the star and his civil partner Andy Cowles, 31, had been drinking at the Black Cat, the biggest gay club in Palma, Majorca, where they were on holiday.
He is said to have been drinking heavily for eight hours and may have choked on his own vomit after going to sleep on a sofa at his apartment.
Gately was found kneeling against the sofa with his head in a pillow on Saturday at lunchtime. Cowles and a family member tried to revive him but were unsuccessful.
A family friend told the Daily Mirror: “The family have been told the most likely scenario is Stephen had a bit too much to drink, vomited in his sleep and choked. It was a terrible accident.”
….Spanish police are currently trying to trace another man who returned to the flat with the couple. Police said that the Bulgarian man, known as Giorgio, is not a suspect but could prove vital in helping them discover what happened.
Apparently Gately had a bit of a reputation for being a boozer. First off, he’s Irish. Second off, he was born on St. Patrick’s Day (the booziest day of the year). Third off, he once famously drank an English rugby star under the table. So maybe he overdid it while on holiday. It sucks when musically talented people die by choking to death on food, especially regurgitated food. Somewhere in heaven, Mama Cass is shedding a tear.
More details as they come to light.
In a sad bit of news, Stephen Gately, the 33-year-old openly gay member of Irish boyband, Boyzone, was found dead Friday in his Majorca hotel room where he’d been vacationing with his husband, Andy Cowles. According to reports, Gately went to sleep in his hotel room after a night of drinking with friends and never woke up. No official cause of death has been released.
It saddens us especially since the last time QC caught up with Gately, it was to celebrate his marriage. News of the World has more details about Gately’s rise to fame and the impact of his death on Boyzone’s other members:
Gately joined Boyzone in 1993 after answering an advertisement in Dublin to audition for Ireland’s first boyband. Gately hit the head lines in June 1999 when he admitted he was gay in our sister paper the Sun disappointing hundreds of his girl fans. His manager Louis Walsh was unaware of Gately’s sexuality when he selected him for the band and has said that, had he known, he would have thought twice before picking him, citing that “It wasn’t cool then to have a gay guy in a band.”
He and Ronan Keating shared lead vocals and band had huge success with six singles reaching reaching number one, including “Stay” in 2001. Ronan Keating, who is in Chicago, has been left devastated. A pal revealed: “Ronan is completely distraught. No-one saw this coming. He loved Stephen like a brother, they were so close, it’s absolutely floored him. “It’s a massive shock to everyone and no one can take it in yet. He was a man in the prime of his life, and this is a huge tragedy.”
The other members of Boyzone, Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Ronan Keating and Shane Lynch, have issued this joint statement on their website:
“We are completely devastated by the loss of our friend and brother, Stephen. We have shared such wonderful times together over the years and were all looking forward to sharing many more. Stephen was a beautiful person in both body and spirit. He lit up our lives and those of the many friends he had all over the world. Our love and sympathy go out to Andrew and Stephen’s family. We love you and will miss you forever, Steo.”
Most of America has already seen Sarah Palin’s almost son-in-law, Levi Johnston, contemplating suicide. And yesterday, we all got a taste of his nuts. So the only thing left is for us to finally see the 19-year-old’s hockey stick in the pages of Playgirl. They’re still working out the deets but his lawyer says that his appearance in the mag is “a forgeone conclusion.” Lucky us.
So to prepare, Johnston’s been hitting the gym. The AP explains his plan:
Johnston also has been marketing himself for a possible modeling or acting career, spending time in New York and Los Angeles. His first TV commercial, hawking Wonderful brand pistachios, debuted this week. No date has been set for the Playgirl photo shoot, but Butler expects the world will get a gander of the finished product by the end of the year. Playgirl approached Johnston about posing in the buff, Butler said. Playgirl spokesman Vincent Stevens couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. ‘We told him he would have to do what actors and actresses do,’ Butler said. ‘They get in the gym.’ Johnston has been working out with Marvin Jones, a former Mr. Alaska competitor who has put the teenager on a low-carb, high-protein diet.
Playgirl managed to make another political flunkie look pretty damned fuckable, so even if Johnston’s still sporting the double-chin and love handles by the time of the shoot—a few well-placed lights, some mirrors, a little smoke, a body double, and Photoshop and he’ll look awesome! The real question is whether he’ll prominently feature his package like a top or stick out his healthy butt like a bottom. We already know that he likes to fuck bareback, so here’s hoping Johnston’s Chaos Men appearance isn’t far off (fingers crossed).
His 15-minutes of gay fandom rapidly diminishing before his possible Playgirl debut, Alaskan hockey flunkie Levi Johnston has gone from doing a Vanity Fair fashion shoot to hawking pistachios with his bodyguard, Tank. We don’t mind if Tank watches while Levi gets his nut out. Levi can even keep on that sexy Alaska t-shirt. Just as long as we can taste the sweet, salty goodness under his hardened shell, we’ll be satisfied. But you know what they say about nuts… you can never have just one.
“I’m honored, and more than a little surprised, to receive this prestigious award,” Vivas said. “It never occurred to me that Newt Gingrich, one of the principal architects of the conservative Contract With America in the 1990s, would be willing to brave criticism from the far right of his party in order to recognize good work done on the part of an adult entertainment professional.”
The notice from ASWF also informed Vivas that Gingrich is “looking forward to finally meeting you (Vivas) face to face — and get your thoughts on Cap and Trade and Obama’s Tax Policy.”
“I’m honored, and more than a little surprised, to receive this prestigious award,” Vivas said today in a cheeky press release. “Rest assured, I’ll take the opportunity to inform Mr. Gingrich of some of the major challenges facing the adult entertainment industry in the current market .., from obscenity prosecutions to content piracy, I’ll make sure he walks away from that dinner educated about the realities of the online porn market.”
It may seem odd that Gingrich’s organization chose to honor the president of a company once taken to federal court for spamming e-mailers by the millions. But, Gingrich cleared the whole thing up when he rescinded the invitation. A representative of ASWF informed her that there had been a mistake and that the fax was “inadvertently sent to her.”
Awww, darn! Just when we thought Gingrich was becoming cool. The award would have included a signed replica of Gingrich’s gavel he used as Speaker of the House. Vivas said the gavel would “make for a pretty cool prop for a ‘Couples Seduce Teens’ episode.” Oh well, he’ll have to use the gavel to “honor” some fusty old white entrepreneur at their intimate private dinner instead.
You can view the actual award letter, after the jump!
It’s a slippery slope from reality TV to gay porn as we’ve shown time and time and time and time and timeagain. For Sandro “Rico” Padron his slide into the clutches of Jake Cruise has been filled with many humiliating bumps.
First, he competed for the “heart” of Flava Flav’s ex, Tiffany “New York” Pollard in VH1’s I Love New York (but her heart must be hard a hard treasure to win seeing as the show’s had at least three seasons)—he got booted off in the second episode. Afterwards, he got a public flogging on Judge Joe Brown where he was forced to pay his ex-roommate $3,130 for letting him sleep on the couch of a one-bedroom apartment in Hollywood.
Then, presumably to pay back his ex-roommate, Rico popped up on Playboy’s dating show Foursome where he nailed some buxom slag and now on Straight Guys for Gay Eyes (“Where Men Cum First”*).
We got the sex pics and more about Rico’s gayness after the jump!
Maybe you’ve heard of the very handsome singer from the R&B group Day26, Willie Taylor. He starred in MTV’s Making The Band 4 and from all accounts is a hardworking dude, a devoted husband and dad, actively contributes to in the Chicago community and has a fat dick we’d like to suck on.
It’s true! When the pictures of his schlong appeared online last month (pictured above), he denied their authenticity via Twitter claiming that whoever released them had PhotoShopped his head onto a nude body:
@urgnarley the picture of me looking down is me but not the other part!!! lol
Some people got to much time on their hands!!! Damn!!! LOL Shits funny to me!!!!
Just woke up from a well needed nap!People dont believe everything people put on the net,that Picture is Photoshopped,No Pics of me!!!!
He also released a statement at the time saying, “It is very unfortunate that someone would try to degrade my name by posting a fake photoshop image of myself on the internet holding what is alleged to be my penis. The alleged picture is my face, but the holding the penis part is not. I am a man that has a family and have a tremendous amount of respect for myself, my son, my group and all of my fans across the world and I would never put them through such apredicament. So, in a nut shell, that picture is not me.”
In a stunning turn of events (not) it turns out the pics were in fact of him. Which pics, you ask? See them, after the jump!
Once when we asked a female co-worker why women liked Dirty Dancing so much, she answered succinctly, “Because it makes us horny.” Those of us who were prepubescent when Dirty Dancing came out in 1987, caught the undeniably sexy swerve of leading man Patrick Swayze’s hips, but missed the deeper message of “dance = sexual awakening” in a wash of bad oldies music and late 80’s estrogen.
But the older homos knew better. Swayze was the child of a draughtsman and a choreographer—the perfect mix of blue collar and pink lace. He knew those dance moves for a reason and it wasn’t because of Dancing‘s homely female lead and it wasn’t because he was light on his feet. The man was electric sex, mullet and all. The music moved to his hips, not the other way around, and you watched Dirty Dancing just to see what those hips would do next.
Some of us didn’t catch on to Swayze’s allure until we saw him shirtless at the potter’s wheel in Ghost. Demi Moore basically looked like a dude in her short hair and overalls; watching them kiss gave us hope for our own arts and crafts hour. Then, when we saw Road House half-drunk in a college bar, we finally understood. Road House is an 80’s action camp classic and hands down his masterpiece.
Yes, Road House is also his biggest box-office flop, but it also showcases Swayze’s every talent: his intense eyes, his muscular body, his lightning quick kung-fu moves executed with a bouncer’s grip and a ballerina’s grace. He protects the dignity of his friends in back-to-back bar brawls, he fucks a female doctor against a wall like some sort of manimal, and later he tears out a man’s throat with his bare hands.
Watching it, you get the sense that he knew just how campy and laughable it was, just like he did in the Chippendale’s sketch for Saturday Night Live—he did it with a grin and his mullet held high. Road House has since been turned into a drinking game, but everyone who watches it agrees—it is a fun movie, just as Dirty Dancing is a sexy movie, and Ghost is a heartbreaking love story. Swayze’s own life ends with a bit of a heartbreak.
He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer barely a year ago in January 2008 and died at 57, a relatively young age for one with such vitality. He met his wife, Niemi, when he was 18; she was a 14-year-old taking dance lessons from his mother. They got married in 1975 and she stayed with him through his alcoholism, his repeated changes of religion, his playing a pedophile in Donnie Darko, his painful chemotherapy treaments, and was at his bedside when he finally passed on.
She’s not the only woman left heartbroken in his wake. Many gay men and horny straight women alike wished we could have seen his hips gyrate in just one last dance. But he had a good run and we had “the time of our lives.”
See his SNL Chippendale’s sketch, his Road House fight, and final dance scene from Dirty Dancing, after the jump!
Everyone knows that Bravo’s Make Me A Supermodel is thinly-veiled soft-core porno. In almost every episode the models strip down or get completely nude. After that, they get their bodies spackled in glitter, smeared in poo, and set on fire. It’s good watchin’, then a female model will wander onscreen on we wonder “Oh god, why?!” Bravo’s gay head of programming has filled the network with the gayest shows this side of Lifetime and HGTV, and pretty we’re sure it’s only fags and their hags who’re watching. So why bother with women? Just show all the nude men writhing in ketchup for an hour each week and be done with it.
OK, excuse our misogyny. Whether you’re watching for the nudity or the modeling (liar), 26-year-old model Jonathan Waud on Make Me A Supermodel 2 may have caught your eye. He’s a blonde, wiry twink with sharp features and a killer ass. We’ve posted a bunch on his modeling pics because he apparently joined The Real World Brooklyn‘s Scott Herman in modeling for Undergear. Can he hold a candle to Scott Herman’s amazing sexiness.
We’ll let you decide after the jump!
George Clooney has had gay rumors floating around about him for some time now. In fact, Famewatcher has a somewhat convincing list of reasons he probably is—he looks that hot at 40, has throngs of female admirers, and is still a bachelor? Hmmm….
The rumors only got worse during an Esquire interview when they showed Clooney a website calling him “gay, gay, gay,” and Clooney responded humorously by saying, “No, I’m gay, gay. The third gay… that was pushing it.” Shortly after that, his pal Brad Pitt reiterated his support for same-sex marriage by saying, “[Angelina Jolie] and I will not be getting married until George and his partner can legally do so.”
So no wonder the actor has fans like the one in the video above. After evading a few questions about his not playing “queer” roles in film, a fan comes on at 1:31, strips down to his tie and says, “Kiss me… Because I’m gay George. I want you George! Come with me George!” The audience laughs and boos while the bear raises his arms in proclamation of love. George smiles and then compliments his tie. Complimenting another man’s fashion sense, Georgie?
Hmmm….
Via Sticky. Reuters and Earth Times have more. Also thanks to Towleroad.
New England native Scott Herman was only 24 when he landed a spot on The Real World: Brooklyn and spent most of his time determined to break into modeling—he got his wish and in return so did we. We’re showing you his old modeling pics before we bust out the new ones he did for Undergear’s fall collection. He also opened up Scott Herman Fitness and a YouTube page filled with helpful advice, like how to shave his crotch and chest. The chest video’s below, but his crotch and Undergear pics are after the jump. Wanna see how real this Real World guy can get? Find out…
Jump Levi, jump!We mentioned several porn outlets actively courting the would-be son-in-law of Vice Presidential train wreck, Sarah Palin. Levi Johnston, the moose hunting, hockey-playing, 19-year-old high school dropout may not have wanted kids when he stuck his dick into Bristol Palin, but when he pulled it out, he found a pot of gay gold (oh, and a stewpid baby).
In a video of him his Vanity Fair shoot, Levi briefly mulls over whether or not to accept an offer from Playgirl with his personal manager, Tank (yes, Tank). Sad thing is, the poor boy hardly knows what Playgirl is. Gawker has more:
Tank referred the matter to Levi’s lawyer Rex Butler (how many handlers does one Alaskan babydaddy need?) who emailed back: “There are people out there that want to see such a shoot of Levi and we are ready to do it if the proposal is right.” The only hitch, Levi’s not willing to do a nude shoot, only pose in his skivvies.
And since a nearly nude Levi is better than no nude Levi at all, Playgirl’s down and there’s an agreement in place to do the shoot. They’re in final negotiations to get the thing together right now.
Funny thing is that Playgirl’s biggest get in years doesn’t have a clue about who reads the male flesh mag. As he and Tank joke in the Vanity Fair video, Levi says, “I’m assuming it’s where a dude poses for women.”
Ummm… yeah, Levi. We’re sure your straight moose-hunting cohorts in Alaska will buy that bit of naivete. Oh and QueerClick’s just a gay porn blog for women, by the way—very hairy women with flat chests and large clitorises.
But we gotta say, Levi’s pretty smart for deciding to keep his undies on. First off, he’ll still make mad bank for just lying around in his skivvies and in the process, he’ll turn on lots of gay men who’ll pay lots just to see a little more flesh. Granted, he can only cocktease gay men so much before they get all pissy and move on. But if he shows a little ass and then does some gay events, like an AIDS benefit, he could milk his gay icon status for several years and thousands to come. Let us pause for a moment to imagine Levi milking a gay… ahhhh. Fleshbot also obtained an email from Johnston’s lawyer, Rex Butler, to Playgirl saying that he’ll need two to four weeks to “shape up and define” before the photo shoot. Looks like he wants to impress all us women.
Check out the Vanity Fair video and a CNN video with commentary from Unzipped magazine’s editor, plus more hilarity from the moose hunter after the jump!
We just had to post this. Ever since Adam Lambert’s gay kissing photos surfaced, we’ve had a crush on the stylish young rocker. He totally should’ve won American Idol instead of his dorky straight counterpart, but whatevs. Apparently, we’re not Lambert’s only sex-loving fans. In fact, fans have been throwning so many pairs of panties, handcuffs, and sex toys at him onstage, that Lambert actually had to ask them to stop, but that didn’t stop them.
In fact, poor Lambert got hit in the leg with a dildo during his show in Hamilton, Ontario. There he is singing Led Zepplin’s “Whole Lotta Love”… and WHAM! 2 minutes 10 seconds into it, he gets a dildo to the leg! He kicks it back into the audience; we hope it hit whoever threw it, but it probably hit some 12-year-old girl whose only wish was to see him—now she has a dick-shaped bruise on her face—oh Adam you beast!
But seriously, why you trying to injure our glamour boy? Let him sing the damned songs. If you don’t stop, he’s gonna have to start performing behind a dildo-proof glass bubble, like the pope. Besides, if you really wanna throw a dick at him, do it in person once the concert’s over—he’d probably appreciate it a lot more.
If you’ve learned anything from our run-in with Dustin Lance Black’s lawyers, it’s this—watch the celebrity sex tape AS SOON AS IT COMES OUT. Don’t wait to watch it after finishing your pimento loaf sandwich. That dumb sandwich will still be around in 3 minutes, this video may not be.
That being said, the sex-tape of Grey’s Anatomy hunk Eric Dane only shows him, his wife, Rebecca Gayheart, and former Miss Teen USA Kari Anne Peniche engaging in drugged up foreplay rather than actual sex. And even though you get to see their titties much longer than you get to see Dane’s cock, Eric’s deep drugged-up voice is sexy. There’s also something hot knowing that these two attractive women can’t wait to get up on his dick. What can we say? QC’s got a bisexual streak. Related QC Features: Eric Dane’s GQ Bulge QCA Art: Grey’s Anatomy star Jeffrey Dean Morgan Fake Nude by Male Ero Painter Grey’s Anatomy star T.R. Knight Confirms He’s Gay
Funny and charming gay rodeo champion Steven Daigle got unanimously voted off Big Brother 10 last year. But we could all vote in favor of him filling out a nice pair of Wranglers and riding a bucking bronco, especially with that thick lasso rope hanging between his chaps—ride ’em cowboy! He popped up on GuysWithiPhones.com apparently in a bid to get more followers on Twitter:
Last week, he asked, “I am just 39 away from a thousand.. Do I have to get naked to get more followers?” He decided the answer was yes, posting updates such as, “Oh Crap, Only 12 more followers and I gotta get naked…” Wednesday evening, he posted, Ok, so it put it on Twitpic, I am certain I am going to ‘Immediately Regret this Decsion.'”
We don’t regret your decision, Steven. And we wouldn’t regret it either if you decided to put your wiener in our mouths—everyone at the house has already voted you out and you’re desperate for Twitter followers, so you really need all the friends you can get, eh?
