Hey everyone! California needs your help. In case you haven’t heard, Proposition 8 is a ballot measure in California that will ban gay marriage even though it’s currently legal. There are a million and one reasons to vote against Proposition 8 (including the fact that it’s good for business and that the effects of legalized gay marriage would spread across the world). We need your help right now! Support for proposition 8 is growing and gay activists are being outspent by almost $10 million, mostly because of the deep pockets of the Mormon Church. If you can, please donate to Equality California or No On 8—it’s easy, it’s simple, and it’ll make a world of difference. Please give. Even a modest donation can help swing the remaining undecided voters to cast a vote that will change the lives of gay couples around the world. More “No on 8” videos after the jump…
If you like beefy, bearish, daddy types, wrestling heels, and skilled technical wrestlers, Arn Anderson will turn you on. He used to be part of the Minnesota Wrecking Crew and The Four Horsemen and is reknowned for his relentless attacks, really working over an opponent’s weak spot, and taking every opportunity to dish out the punishment with head butts, chokes, eye injury, you name it. To honor this sexy roughian, we feature 4 matches.
1) Arn Anderson vs. Erik Watts: Erik’s one hell of a handsome competitor in his red shorts, but Arn has the upperhand throughout most of the match. Watch how thoroughly Arn works over the Erik’s arm. The match ends with a surprise!
2) Arn Anderson vs. Robert Gibson: Young scrapper Gibson takes on Arn with a quickness. Arn usually plays tough, not cheap and you can tell he’s not sure how to handle Robert at first. Soon, Arn works the fish hook and the eye rake, and elbow drop to his advantage, but has Arn met his match? Arn faces off against Lord Steven Regal and jobber Tommy Angel, after the jump!
Leonardo DiCaprio, will i. am, Tobey Maguire, and Forest Whitaker have created public service announcements to encourage American youth to register to vote. The non-partisan PSAs, produced by DiCaprios Appian Way, were created to engage and inspire young people to register and vote and participate in the upcoming election. Attention all Americans!!! Register to vote! DO IT NOW!!! Some state deadlines are merely days away and this election will literally effect the entire world. Every eligible person should vote in the upcoming presidential election and not just because Amy Adams, will.i.am, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Halle Berry, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Connolly, Courteney Cox, Ellen DeGeneres, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Jonah Hill, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Kiedis, Ashton Kutcher, Adam Levine, Laura Linney, Eva Longoria, Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Ethan Suplee, Kyra Sedgwick, Michelle Trachtenberg, Usher, and Forest Whitaker tell you to. If you still need to register, this handy website makes registering to vote easy as pie (We’re not shitting you, even if you’re voting absentee, it’s so incredibly easy… we’re talking kindergartner easy). Yes, it’s an Obama website, but the site doesn’t ask for party affiliation and it gets the job done. If you have a non-partisan website that’s just as easy, please let everyone know in the comments section. Thanks. Please encourage others to do the same!
The film, Tarnation both ends and starts with a Max Ehrmann poem entitled, Desiderata. Read it. It’s chock full of good advice. Tarnation, is an autobiographical documentary created by Jonathan Caouette that focuses on his adolescent and young adult relationship with his beautiful, but mentally-damaged mother, Renee LeBlanc. The most extraordinary thing 88-minute long film is that it’s composed of over 20 years from hundreds of hours of old Super 8 footage, VHS videotape, photographs and answering machine messages. From a very early age, Caouette until today, the actor/director basically set to recording himself and everyone around him at all times. And the movie incorporates a great deal of that footage in a rapid-edit breakneck speed that is both overwhelming, amazing, and illustrative of the constant onslaught of trauma and mental breakdown facing Caouette’s family throughout his life. The film was initially made for a total budget of $218.32, using free iMovie software on a Macintosh computer. As an early supporter, film critic Roger Ebert notes, $400,000 more was eventually spent by the distributor on sound, print, score and music/clip clearances to bring the film to theaters. The film went on to win awards including Best Documentary from the National Society of Film Critics, the Independent Spirits, the Gotham Awards, and the LA and London International Film Festivals. Read more about Caouette and see a brief clip of the film, after the jump!
Spiders’ legs brushing against naked skin…
Unexplainable noises heard at night in a dark bedroom…
A big empty house where you feel a presence…
A hypodermic needle getting closer and closer…
A dead thing trapped in a bottle of formaldehyde…
A huge growling dog, baring its teeth and staring…
So many scary moments we have experienced at some point in our lives – like the creators of this journey straight to the land of fear. Six of the worlds hottest graphic artists and cartoonists have breathed life into their nightmares, bleeding away color to retain the starkness of light and the pitch black of shadows. Their intertwined stories make up an unprecedented epic where phobias, disgust and nightmares come to life and reveal Fear at its most naked and intense.
Check out the official website.
Attention wrestling fans! You like lucha libre? You like musclestuds? You like “extreme” wrestling? Well, today’s your lucky day because we’re giving you a little of all three in some very hot matches that will keep your eyes and pants bulging.
MATCH 1: The beautiful Matt Burns takes on tasty Travis Lee. Between all the body slams, high flying flips, camel clutches, suplexes and groin abuse, you’ll be erect watching these two musclestuds the whole way through. A good view of Travis Lee’s wedgie starts at 2:35—it stays firmly wedged between his amazing ass through most of the match. Also, Travis gets a nice firm pole between his cheeks at 4:08! Matt sure does give Travis’ groin a lot of attention. Lucky us!
MATCH 2: Mike Elias is a handsome, muscular heel with a beautifully ripped body in a hot pair of red trunks with a white racing stripe. El Vicote Dos has a great body too, but the warrior’s face is hidden behind a green mask with a handlebar moustache. The announcer says, “I’m looking forward to seeing these two lock up.” We agree. Both men really dish out the punishment. If you wanna get straight to the action, skip to 2:04.
One last, very hot match in three parts… after the jump. We promise, you won’t want to miss it.
The above is a trailer for an excellent film about gay musician Arthur Russell entitled, Wild Combinations – A Portrait of Arthur Russell. Wild Combination is a film about gay American cellist, composer, singer, and disco artist, Charles Arthur Russell Jr. Russell’s use of unlikely pairings of sounds helped establish himself as a forerunner of modern music. He also dabbled in disco, for which he is perhaps best known, but also combined orchestral instruments with pop-stylings following in the vein of the Beatles, punk rock, and even some Indian and African music (incorporating drums, mantras, and refrains into his tunes). His vocals reveal a gentle, graceful folk quality both transcendent and painful that fall somewhere between lullabies and art songs. In his latter days, he eventually pioneered “echo music,” songs whose instrumentation and distorted vocals evoke the acoustics of large spaces, caverns, and skies, surely influenced by his rural upbringing and Buddhist spirituality. Russell was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa in 1952. Before moving to New York in 1973 at the age of 22, he had lived in a Buddhist commune and studied Indian music in California. His early years in the city included a stay with Allen Ginsberg, an East Village address shared by punk maestro Richard Hell, and collaborations with Philip Glass and John Cage. He ran with filmmakers, painters, performance artists. During his own lifetime, Russell somewhat avoided the limelight, releasing his albums under different pseudonyms and sabotaging his creative collaborations by being unable to relinquish control. Russell died of AIDS on April 4, 1992, at the age of 40. In an April 28 column, Kyle Gann of The Village Voice wrote: “His recent performances had been so infrequent due to illness, his songs were so personal, that it seems as though he simply vanished into his music.” His estate rests in the hands of his then-boyfriend. Russell was prolific, but was also notorious for leaving songs unfinished and continually revising his music. Musician and producer Ernie Brooks said that Russell “never arrived at a completed version of anything,” while Peter Gordon stated, “his quest wasn’t really to do a finished product but more to do with exploring his different ways of working musically.” He left behind more than 1,000 tapes when he died, 40 of them different mixes of one song. The film is really worth seeing, and if you’ve never heard him, do yourself the favor of listening to a few of his songs right after the jump…
File this under “queer, but not gay.” If you haven’t seen this hilarious video yet, it’s an advertisement for a party thrown by Diesel which quickly went viral because of its wild hilarity. Some of the animated covers for the sex act involving ice cream cones and corn are kinda obvious. But the brief musical section and scenes turning fingering and jerking into everyday actions send this video into the comic stratosphere. It’s called “SFW” (safe for work), but if you’re looking at this site, you’re probably not all too concerned with that.
Last week, The QC Pop Five irked some readers by posting a naked picture of Brad Pitt next to a news item about his $100K contribution to fight Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban set for voting in California this November. One commenter said, “Brad is a good friend to the glbt community. How stupid of QC to use a nude photo of him in connection with another of his generous acts. Grow up guys.” Another quipped, “Using this picture is like throwing sh@t in Brad Pitts’ face. The man does an act of kindness and respect for gays and Queerclick does this. Why?” Well, this is a gay porn site. We thought our readers would appreciate a naked picture of Brad Pitt (as they probably would any other day of the year) alongside a mention of his generous support. However, the commenter gripes highlight the importance of the California battle. So we’ve decided to cover the issue in this installment of the QC Weekender, complete with analysis, recent developments, links to groups on both sides of the issue, and a discussion of how it effects the international LGBT community at large. Brad Pitt’s not the only big name fighting against Proposition 8. Just this week, director Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw contributed $100K, the California public utility company, Pacific Gas & Electric and the Levi Strauss jeans company, donated $250K and $10K, respectively. And the giant of internet search engines, Google, came out against the measure. Also, not all religious groups are opposed to gay civil marriage either, including the Episcopal Church. Those worried that Proposition 8’s opponents have less money than its supporters should keep in mind that such publicity generated by the above endorsements may well be worth more than any sum of money.
For those of you who were upset with our nude picture of Brad Pitt last week, here’s a more modest pic of the gay marriage supporter. So what does the actual ballot measure facing Californian voters on November 4th say? Well, we happen to have a copy right here: ELIMINATES RIGHT OF SAME-SEX COUPLES TO MARRY. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT: Changes the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California. Provides that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. Fiscal Impact: Over next few years, potential revenue loss, mainly sales taxes, totaling in the several tens of millions of dollars, to state and local governments. In the long run, likely little fiscal impact on state and local governments. As we’ve said before, the most persuasive argument in support of gay marriage has to do with money. Married couples with children contribute more economically than unmarried individuals. Just think of all the lavish accouterments for a wedding and child rearing alone and you’ll understand the millions businesses stand to gain through the pink dollar. Furthermore, lots of businesses see partner benefits as a good way to utilize a growing gay and lesbian workforce. The Valley Industry and Commerce Association (VICA), a conservative business organization in California, supports gay marriage citing potential revenue and streamlined benefits paperwork as perks. Their outlook mirrors that of 14 U.S. states who currently extend partner benefits to state employees in same-sex relationships. Doing so ensures that qualified gay workers stay invested in a company long term rather than leaving for better equity.
Homosexuality is catching on in a quiet American suburb. Is it natural? Is it a choice? Or is it something more insidious. No one’s sure, but one guy (possibly the last straight man on Earth) is on the run. The short film above is from a comedy group FDN Films. We’re sure that some of you will find the depiction of gays as zombies and the resulting bashings offensive, but all seriousness aside, the film is a funny take on the homosexual menace and zombie films. In related news, Otto or Up With Dead People a film about a gay zombie. Otto, the titular zombie, wakes up with amnesia and an aversion to eating human flesh. He wanders aimlessly around Berlin for a while before being discovered by a director who wants his help finishing an epic political-porno-zombie movie. As Otto waits for his close-up, he finally remembers his old boyfriend and decides to seek him out, with disastrous results. The film’s directed by cinematic provocateur Bruce LaBruce and hasn’t gotten great press. But check out the trailer below—the film looks as bloody as it does hot.
For all you musical lovers, here’s a short video of committed Obama supporters singing “One Day More!” from the epic musical, Les Miserables. The singing is emphatic and there’s even a small cameo by shoddy John McCain and Sarah Palin look-alikes. Enjoy!
Republican Presidential nominee John McCain recently mocked Democratic nominee Barack Obama’s recent fundraiser (in which gay icon and chanteuse, Barbra Streisand, performed) as “another example of Obama’s out of touch celebrity.” Tsk, tsk, Mr. McCain. Have you already forgotten your love affair with Babs? Above is a Saturday Night Live sketch in which McCain sings some of Streisand’s hit. Says McCain: “I’ve been in politics for over 20 years, and for over 20 years I’ve had Barbra Streisand trying to do my job. So I’ve decided to try my hand at her job… A portion of all sales will be used to damage Alaskan Wildlife Preserves.”
This week, the crème de la crème of French wrestling… two two-part matches each with handsome competitors really putting one another through their paces. The camerawork’s awesome and the action’s pretty damned hot too. Well, without further adieu… voilà! MATCH 1: Zut alors! Our apertif to this week’s round-up has one competitor really working the arm of his opponent with some nasty throws and hair pulls, until his rival gains the upper hand and starts to work over the heel’s leg with some wicked somersaults. It’s hard to tell which one will come out on top as the domination goes back and forth. Sadly, there’s a small gap in the action between the two videos and the ref gets a little too involved, but c’est la vie!
A nice basket in a pair of briefs is great, but when a man fills out a pair of boxers nicely, you know he’s packing heat. Well, aussieBum has just released Parallel Boxer Shorts, a series of stripe-patterned underwear with a “new retro inspired, boxer posing pouch” that provide more bulge for you buck. See it in action above and then check out the other styles at aussieBum.com.
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Hot bespectacled cub wanks off in bed. He pulls a great get-off face. Hey, I want that cute pendant! More videos after the jump.
It’s been 10 years since the October 12th, 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. Four years after the murder, the Tectonic Theater Project, a New York City company, entered Laramie to conduct hundreds of interviews with inhabitants of the town. They ended up creating a play based on those interviews as well as company members’ own journal entries and published news reports. The play, The Laramie Project, premiered in February 2000 and has been performed over 2,000 times worldwide since. The three-act play details the community reaction to the murder as well as the trial of Shepard’s murderers. In it, eight actors portray more than sixty characters in a series of short scenes. Time magazine created a website in support of the project and HBO made a film by the same name in which actors portrayed the play’s interviewees. The Tectonic Theater Project is returning to Laramie this week to re-interview the play’s real-life characters. In doing so, they hope to explore whether Matthew left any sort of legacy on the high plains town, 10 years after his passing. Returning to Laramie, a town of 25,000 near the Colorado border, is far from a theatrical exercise. They plan to use the new interviews to write an epilogue to the play before the 10th anniversary of Mr. Shepard’s death; it will be added to the published version of the script and will be included in future performances of “The Laramie Project.”
The trailer for HBO’s The Laramie Project
Read more about the attack on Matthew Shepard, the fate of his attackers, and civil reaction since then, after the jump.
