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Kurt Marshall’s Short Career And Lasting Legacy

What makes someone into a porn star? Why are there still men dreaming of Kip Noll while most other “stars” from the seventies have long since disappeared from our collective memory? I’ve focused on porn productions journalistically for a while now and I still haven’t worked out what makes a porn actor into a porn star.

‘Confidential,’ The Magazine Which Showed Hollywood’s True Face

Nowadays, with Perez Hilton and others blogging faster than celebrities can create scandals and amateur paparazzi publishing slip-ups and shameless behavior of the jet set on the worldwide web as soon as they happen, it’s hard to imagine that there once was a time that news on, for example, movie stars could be tightly directed and controlled by the publicity departments of movie studios.

Porn Review - The CockyBoys Are ‘Born to Fuck’

Some people claim that the porn industry is in trouble because everyone is said to download porn nowadays instead of buying it. I can’t assess whether that’s true or not. I’d think it more pleasurable to watch a porn movie from a comfortable sofa or in bed on a television instead of at your desk, so downloaders would have to burn the films onto DVDs as well.

Comics - Maltreated, but Forever Young (2)

The Adventures of Alix and Enak (II)

“They have become a kind of couple, which is a bit embarrassing.” Jacques Martin gives the impression that the homo-erotic image of Alix and Enak bothers him. If so, it would be logical henceforth to avoid all reference to homosexuality. But whoever reads the albums with attention cannot fail to remark that they contain ever more allusions, sometimes veiled, to this passion. And not just in the historical series we are scrutinizing here.

Porn DVD Review - Cody Kyler And Pals Spoil Black Men In ‘Mixxxed Nuts’

When I spotted the cover of “Mixxxed Nuts” on the internet, depicting a charming Caucasian young man being embraced by a black gentleman, I was intrigued. The back of the DVD aroused my curiosity even further, noticing that this young man has a very nice butt on which the other gentleman eagerly rests his hand. Which excesses will those two indulge in? It would be easy to get an answer to this question. Some days later, the postal services delivered “Mixxxed Nuts.”

Short Story - In the Night Sauna

Recently AristoScorpio published Louis de Blot’s “Verdwenen brieven” (Vanished Letters). The main character of this 318-page novel is called Orlandino, who undertakes a discovery tour from his hometown The Hague through a varied spectrum of gay relations and activities. Most of these together with Muslim Mediterranean guys, for whom he feels a natural attraction but who are also elusive because of their connection to their families, their group loyalties and the demands of their religion.

Comics - Maltreated, but Forever Young

The Adventures of Alix and Enak (Part I)

A cat has got nine lives, Alix Gracchus at least a hundred. In the story in which the comic hero makes his debut he escapes death exactly eighteen times. His enemies (and their name is legion) go for him with pointed weapons and sticks, a collapsing building threatens to pulverize him, wolves and crocodiles wish to devour him and ferocious mountaineers try to blind him using a red-hot poker.

Porn DVD Review - Dripping Wet, And Horny As Bitches In Heat

Falcon Studios has been at the top of the porn industry for about forty years by now and it owes much of its success to the men appearing in front of the Falcon cameras. Founder Chuck Holmes declared in an interview in 1996 that he admired “clean-cut men”: “We try to show someone who is universally accepted - nice body, nice face, nice teeth and, hopefully, nice everything else.” It’s obvious that a reasonably big dick also belongs to the “everything else.”

Porn DVD Review - Sean Storm’s Insatiable Anal Cravings

While roaming the internet you sometimes come across photos which strike you as special. This happened to me with a photo of a young man lying very invitingly on bed. Fortunately the caption mentioned the name of the gentleman exposing his gorgeous behind: Sean Storm. When I also came across a beautifully vulgar shot of Storm copping it through a glory hole I realized this was not just a prickteaser but someone who delivers what he’s got on offer, and I was fascinated.

The Rebirth Of Photo Comics

Photo comics were never that big in Holland, perhaps because they were seen as too slow and too explanatory. We’ve gotten used to the fast images of YouTube and other digital highways. Indeed, compared with these communication techniques a photo comic seems old-fashioned, like a dust-track with potholes. It reminds us of the slow stripteases of girls in “naughty” magazines of the seventies. A classic cartoon with drawings is fine, but pages with photos and text balloons?

Porn DVD Review

Horny Street Lads Prefer Rough, Uncomplicated Sex In ‘Stoßzeit’

When Jean Daniel Cadinot started to make porn movies around 1980, after having worked successfully as a photographer of men for some years, it was the start of a career that made him the best of the industry In Europe for over fifteen years. Of course there were sex entrepreneurs who shot flicks with uninspired rentboys in dirty backrooms, but it wasn’t until Cazzo was created by Jörg Andreas and Jürgen Brüning in 1996 that another European porn business delivered comparable quality, even though Cazzo was aiming at a totally different segment of the market.

Porn DVD - The Lascivious Splurges Of Prisoners According To Alexander

“Prison Breakers” came out in spring already but it was only after I’d read on Alexander’s website that, indeed, there are a lot of jail inspired porn movies but, “the prison cells seem to have been done by Martha Stewart and it’s less than hot,” I thought it’d be interesting to check out how Alexander had tackled this. He is a master in finding the right locations.

Paul Freeman’s Men Hunt In Australia’s Outback

In the past we’ve put the spotlight on to Australian photographer Paul Freeman’s “Bondi” series several times already. After four books of celebration of the unpolished gorgeous man, no standard models to be seen, in the cityscape of Sydney, he thought it was time for a change of scenery. He turned to the deserted heart of the continent. How he does it boggles me, but again there were mouth-watering men just waiting in groups to be photographed.

Porn DVD Review - Michael Lucas Celebrates The Hot Men of Israel

Porn is fantasy. The remarkable thing is, however, that many porn consumers behave like sheep as well when it comes to the direction of their fantasies. After the Iron Curtain fell, (so called) Eastern European boys became immensely popular, with their boy-next-door charisma, their natural looking bodies and their uncut dicks, which especially stirred the many American fans. Meanwhile we’re by now rather accustomed to these Eastern European lads and we’re ready for some new fantasy.

Pulp Fiction - A Serial Killer In Amsterdam

This summer the pulp novella “Het Beest van Amsterdam” (The Beast of Amsterdam) was published. It’s a story about a serial killer strangling his way through the Amsterdam gay scene while potential victims happily keep screwing around.

Author GJ Wielinga: “I’ve been fascinated by serial killers for a while and by Jeffrey Dahmer in particular, who killed seventeen men in the eighties.

The Lure of the Near East - Couperus in the Maghreb

According to data from the Foundation for Authors’ Literary Rights, one in fifteen Dutchmen dreams of a writer’s career. You may smile about this - only one percent of the manuscripts publishers receive appear in print -, but you can also rejoice in the fact that the love of literature has not been extinguished in this our super-swift and shallow time. José Buschman from The Hague belongs to the happy few who did not find a standard rejection letter on her doormat when she asked Bas Lubberhuizen Ltd. to issue “Een dandy in de Oriënt. Louis Couperus in Afrika” (A Dandy in the Orient.

Pirate’s Booty

The introduction of the video recorder and later of the DVD player, as well as the scrapping of many censorship regulations over the last three to four decades, has made porn into an easily and cheaply available product. Many of us never today experienced the thrill gays must have felt once the opportunities one had to watch an explicit movie were rare. Nowadays most gays watch porn for a little while and then toss it aside as boring.

Hot Pink

Missed Amsterdam Gay Pride? Don’t worry, “Hot Pink” has just been released!

“Hot Pink” – an intensely colorful photo book about Amsterdam’s annual Gay Parade (the only one in the world that is held on canals) – has just been published by American expatriate and photojournalist Shirley Agudo, a long-time resident of the Netherlands.

Jacob Israël de Haan - A Stubborn Zaankanter Lost In The Holy Land

On the 4th January 1919 the first Dutch Zionist left on a one-way trip to the holy land, went for an “aliyah” as they say. It was Jacob Israël de Haan, the infamous novelist and in the meantime also famous poet. The son of a hard-working rabbi-gazzen (the cantor in the synagogue) in the Zaanstreek (area just North of Amsterdam) spent his youth in “het huisje aan de sloot” (the little house next to the ditch), the title of an early novel by his sister Carry van Bruggen.

Photographer James Bidgood, Master Of Eroticism In Pastel

Sometimes what seems like progress is actually a step backward as well. In 1986 and 1991 there were two extensive Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals in Amsterdam. Nowadays the big Hollywood studios are making gay movies and these are taken up in the regular cinema programming and are even shown on tv, so you’d think these festivals would have become obsolete. But this is of course not the case at all.

How Adrian Loses His Virginity And Finds Love In Julius’ ‘Go South’

We’ve repeatedly paid attention to the work of Julius, but it is now some two years ago that we announced his graphic novel “Gangsta Daddy” in “Gay News.” So it’s time for a review of Julius’ latest production, “Go South.”

Record Price For First Edition Of Early American Gay Novel

Abebooks.com, a website for antiquarian books, sends users monthly updates on the ten most expensive books that were sold via the site. “Gay books” seldom or never made it to that list but last month showed a surprise. The most expensive book sold in April 2009 was a rare first edition of Xavier Mayne’s novel “Imre: A Memorandum,” which appeared in 1906, 500 copies only, funded by the author himself and published by English Book Press in Naples.

Porn Review - The Spokes Trilogy

Opwindende blik op ruim twee decennia Falcon-ontwikkeling

In het hoofdstuk over Falcon Studios in het geweldige The Big Penis Book schrijft Dian Hanson dat de in 2000 overleden oprichter Charles Holmes het archief van zijn bedrijf wel eens omschreef als zijn “goud,” dat op een dag van grote waarde zou zijn. Hanson voegde daaraan echter toe dat “slechts een klein percentage van dit historische archief beschikbaar is op falconstudios.com, aangezien de nadruk van het bedrijf ligt bij het creëren van nieuwe video’s voor de [diverse] labels.”

Porn Review - The Spokes Trilogy

In the chapter on Falcon Studios in the fantastic “The Big Penis Book” Dian Hanson writes that the founder of the company, Charles Holmes, often described the archives as his “gold” that one day would turn out a huge profit. Hanson added that at the time “only a tiny percentage of this historic archive is available on falconstudios.com, as the company’s emphasis is on creating new video content for its [...] lines.”

Murats Traum

Child Porn Hysteria In Germany About Erotic Novel

In 1966 the law educated, homosexual bibliophile John Sparrow wrote in the preface to his collection of “Controversial Essays” that he “find[s] it difficult to decide at what point the censor should be allowed to interfere, whatever grounds the case for censorship is based on.” Sparrow wrote these words with reference to the British publication in 1960 of D.H. Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” (after having been published in Italy in 1928).

Oil Wrestlers - Nicolaas Biegman

Oil wrestling, performed by ‘Pehlivans’, originated in Iran. It spread to Northern India, Pakistan, Turkey, and in the Balkans especially to Macedonia and adjoining areas. In Iran and Turkey it is a national sport. In the Balkan the tournaments mostly happen in remote villages at irregular times.

‘The Pehlivans’, who wear heavy leather breeches gathered in at the knee, smear themselves with oil. The champions are models of male virtues like strength, stamina and honour within their communities. Their ideal diet is four kilos of meat and half a kilo of honey a day.

Encyclopedia of Perversions - Pony Sex

During a festive gathering on Sunday, April 25, Willem Melchior, author of “De roeping van het vlees” (The Calling of the Flesh) and the s/m internet novel “24/7,” received the first copy of “ABC van perversies,” a unique collection of descriptions of the extreme aspects of human sexuality. Gert Hekma, lecturer at the University of Amsterdam since 1984 and highly valued contributor to Gay News, wrote this ABC in a playful and personal style.

Raging Stallion’s ‘To the Last Man’ Big Winner At GayVN Awards

“And the winner is...” These words were heard many times during the ceremony of the GayVN Awards on Saturday March 28 in the legendary Castro Theater in San Francisco. The biggest winner was Raging Stallion’s two-part epic (on four DVDs) “To the Last Man.”

Porn Icon Jack Wrangler Dies At 62

On the 7th of April Jack Wrangler died in New York from emphysema. He was one of the very first superstars of gay porn in the seventies. Wrangler was born on July 11, 1946 as John Robert Stillman, son of Robert Stillman, the director of several Hollywood movies and producer of tv-series like “Bonanza,” the famous western series from the sixties. In one of his last interviews in “The Advocate” last year November, Wrangler admitted he was aware of his attraction to other men from his tenth year or thereabout.

Porno-icoon Jack Wrangler op 62-jarige leeftijd overleden

Op 7 april overleed Jack Wrangler in New York aan de gevolgen van longemfyseem. Wrangler was in de jaren zeventig één van de allereerste supersterren in homoporno. Wrangler werd op 11 juli 1946 als John Robert Stillman geboren als zoon van Robert Stillman, regisseur van verschillende Hollywood-films en producent van ondermeer Bonanza, de befaamde Western-televisieserie uit de jaren zestig.

DVD News - Keep on Laughing In Your Home Cinema

While we’re constantly being reminded of how bad the economic situation is, we figured comic relief through funny movies would be very welcome. Here are a few tips!

Chuecatown - Big Bear Comedy

“Chuecatown” is a great comedy / thriller that takes place in the gay quarter of Madrid called “Chueca.” Victor (Pablo Puyol, “20 centimeters”) is a real-estate agent who wants to turn the neighborhood into a funky, happening area and he thinks the elderly do not fit that strategy. He urges old people to agree to sell their places to him, even threatens them with death.

Portfolio - Sexual Splurges On Fire Island

Ever since halfway the twentieth century Fire Island has been the holiday playground for gays from New York, boys on the verge of overheating in summer and therefore melting with lust. Therefore it’s not such a big surprise that the first large-scale porn production that was made after a 1970 senate committee had decided that all regulations on the availability of sexually tinted material for adults should be lifted, turned out to be a tribute to “the boys of Fire Island”: “Boys in the Sand” (1971; now available on “The Wakefield Poole Collection, 1971-86" from Mercury Releasing).

Presentation first LESBIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA

The first lesbian encyclopedia was presented on the 6th of March - just before International Women’s Day. The so-called Lesbo-Encyclopedie is the first in its kind, mapping lesbian life in Holland. Did you know that the word pot (dyke in Dutch) comes from lollepot, which was a little stove with glowing embers women put under their skirts to warm their feet and legs in the 16th, 17th and 18th century? Did you know that the only female collaborator, who was executed after the second world war, was a dyke?

DVD News

So That Their Stories Will Not Be Forgotten: ‘El Olvido’

This month Heddy Honigmann’s documentary “El Olvido” will be released on DVD. This documentary is about the lost stories / history of Peru; they are brought back to life when Honigmann asks ordinary Peruvians about the history of their country or their city. Stories about corruption, poverty, and sadness come to the surface. The scenes are connected with images of children trying to make some money on the street by entertaining people in cars waiting for the lights to change.

Wilhelm von Gloeden’s Frankly Hedonistic Photography

Whoever likes to be guillotined? The royalist painter Élisabeth Vigée Lebrun didn’t relish the prospect which is why she precipitately left Paris after the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. She remained abroad for a long time, where she was received with open arms. In her memoirs she described a summery boat trip she made with some friends near Saint Petersburgh shortly before the turn of the century.

Film News - Superb Acting in ‘Milk’

Two years ago we reported that Matt Damon and Sean Penn were going to star in the new Gus van Sant movie. As Matt Damon had other obligations Josh Brolin took his place playing Dan White. Both Brolin and Penn give a superb performance, and many reviewers agree that Sean Penn has reached unrivaled quality in this role and should be nominated for an Oscar (he has indeed won a Oscar as Best Actor).

The Rediscovery of Achille Essebac

‘Trembling With Fear, Elated With Joy’

On 2 February 1905 a drama was enacted in Bonn which hit the headlines. Jules-Marie Malbranche, an eighteen-year-old student from Paris, shot himself through the head, not once, but twice, in broad daylight in a park. Miraculously, he survived this act of despair, which he had previously explained in a letter to his parents: he could not come to terms with his homosexuality, was unhappily in love, and had been strengthened in his resolution to end his life by the perusal of Dédé, a novel by Achille Essebac in which he had seen the reflection of his own conflict.

The Life And Murder Of Gay Rights Activist Harvey Milk

Dianne Feinstein (Senior Senator of California) hosted the inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama on the 20th of January and seeing her brought me back to the documentary “The Times of Harvey Milk.” Because this movie also starts with Dianne Feinstein speaking to the press: “As president of the board of supervisors, it’s my duty to make this announcement: both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed.” (She took Mayor Moscone’s position and was mayor of San Francisco from 1978 till 1988.)

Portfolio - Workmen Love Doing Each Other @Work

We’ve all had our fantasies about hunky window cleaners stepping into our bedroom to wash us instead of the stupid windows, or let us wash their butts if that’s more your taste. Or that when you go inspect the renovation of your house you find the workers filling each other’s holes instead of the walls’? We all know the cliché that workers whistle after every woman, but who’s to say if that’s not just a decoy to quickly go inside and get off together for the rest of the afternoon.

Trouble and Sweat

Suppose you’re gay and you hold your lover’s hand while you’re cycling home. Somebody in a car yells out: “Fucking Poofs!” What would you do? Exactly, you’d write a book about gay people in professional sports! At least, that’s what Huub ter Haar from Nijmegen did. He portrayed ten, mostly former, top sportsmen and asked a few sports celebs to write a column. He bundled it all in 127 pages of trouble and sweat with the title “Gelijkspel” (Draw).

Robert Stern’s Conversations With Philip Johnson

Many know him by his trademark round glasses with the heavy dark frame, or by the portrait Robert Mapplethorpe made of him in 1978: Philip Johnson (1906-2005), the most influential American architect of the twentieth century. His career as not only an architect but also curator, collector and much more, covers the long period from the from the early 1920s to his death in 2005.

Higher Sex Education In ‘The Initiation’

Students are popular lust objects and that’s not very surprising because they’re young and, as John Butler writes in his preface to “Teacher is the Best Experience” (2007), “most are probably horny.” As the title of Butler’s novel indicates, there are also the teachers, who are “hiding their libido behind textbooks and reading glasses, and asking the kids to stay behind for ‘extra credit,’” according to the blurb of the anthology “Dorm Porn 2" (2007).

Short Story - Gang Banging A Blond Bottom

I’ve finished university three years ago now, but every time I walk near the student sports field I get a flashback to the hottest night of my life, when three of my soccer buddies and I fucked this one little guy. I’m 25 now and I like to bar-hop and get my share of tricks, but I doubt I’ll ever have an orgy like that again. You think about it: four hunky soccer players and one cute nerd who couldn’t get enough jock dick. The nerd loved it but so did we - the queer soccer players. To me, it was our reward for having the guts to join the student soccer team. We were two sets of friends and at the team recruitment day we recognized each other right away.

Masters & Servants Taking Care Of Each Other

If you take a look around in a porn shop, and whom of us doesn’t, every now and then, you’ll notice that a lot of different groups and professions have been sexualized, from scouts, students, and skinheads to police officers, inmates and soldiers. Most of these groups have some sort of uniform, they’re recognizable. Lately the porn market seems to have found another niche: the businessman. The British website Menatplay.com has completely dedicated itself to this theme and its popularity has already resulted in photo books, calendars and DVDs, including the first three installments of “Executive Pleasures.”

Alexander pictures: Tommy Lima’s Sexcapades

In the previous issue of Gay News we quoted a New Zealand man, who discovered the Ward Baths in Rotorua and described them as a “Gay Heaven,” in which he experienced “four years of utter sexual pleasure with hundreds of randy men.” Most of us have experienced the horny pleasures a gay sauna sometimes offers, but for the those unfamiliar with this universe, and the ones who want to take the sultry steamy atmosphere home, we recommend the Alexander production “Bathhouse Exxxtasy.”

Portfolio - Black Meat White Heat

Blond Guys Lusting After Black Meat

For a long time it was considered not beneficial for the career of an upcoming All-American Porn Star to have sex with black men in front of the cameras. Therefore many porn actors concerned themselves with interracial productions only in the twilight of their career. As in the case of Jeff Palmer, who - as wanted he to show his middle finger to the major porn companies for blackballing him for his participation in bareback films - gets double-fucked by two black dicks in “Barebacking With Jeff Palmer, Volume 3: Gang Fucked.”

Book Review - Mates & Lovers

An Impressive History Of Male Love In New Zealand

Two years ago a “world history of homosexuality’ appeared in an international co-production. The Dutch version is called “Van Alle Tijden, in alle culturen” (Of all times, in all cultures). This may be so, but it is not said we know as much about the different times and the different cultures, not even if we stick to the Western ones. In Holland we have two historic works.

The Big Penis Book

Big, Bigger, Best!
Notes On The Attraction of ‘A Little Bit More...’

Who, where or when I can’t remember, but somebody once said that there are two kinds of faggots: size queens and liars. Both now have “The Big Penis Book,” edited by Dian Hanson. Hanson writes in her preface “Size Matters...” that many people she showed the selected photos to, spontaneously cried out: “I wouldn’t let that near me!” I’ve heard a couple of those responses in my own circle as well - clearly from the second category, sorry.

Jean Daniel Cadinot (1944-2008)

Amsterdam, second half of the 1980s. Together with the publisher of the gay magazine “GA-Magazine” I leave his house above a boy’s club. There’s a man in the doorstep looking at the photos in the display. The publisher looks, and looks again: “Mister Cadinot?” Indeed, we’d run into the world famous French pornographer, although Cadinot himself, like many of his generation, didn’t like the word pornography because it has a negative connotation.

New Travel Guides and Photo books

SPARTACUS INTERNATIONAL GAY GUIDE 2008
37th edition the gay travellers bible offers rapid orientation to all the most important locations for the gay tourist addresses, tips and information for more than 160 countries worldwide. With over 22 000 addresses the Spartacus covers all the highlights for the gay man. Whether you are looking for an extraordinary hotel, the hottest clubs the most exciting gay beaches or the most populair bars, you will find all this and much more.

Portfolio - A Hot Winter With Chi Chi LaRue’s ‘Link’ and ‘Smut’

Exactly ten years ago, in 1997, porn director Chi Chi LaRue released his perverse epic “Link,” with an, at the time, huge cast of eighteen horny studs. “Link” is an evocation of a sex club where bears, bodybuilders, daddies, as well as college freshmen give the beast in themselves free rein and have their fling in the pleasures of glory holes, golden showers, bondage, dildos (and not the smallest ones), threesomes, and several other expressions of kinky lust.

DVD News - Johan: Gay Life In The 1970s

The gay scene of Paris in the middle of the seventies. Black and white images are contrasted with color. Film maker Philippe Vallois decides to make a film about a beautiful boy named Johan. Just before filming however, Johan is arrested and it seems he’s going to be in jail for a while. The Film maker interviews people who know the boy (including his landlady) to make some sort of portrait anyway, and looks around the gay scene for someone who can replace him.

DVD News - Un Amour à Taire

“Un Amour à Taire” (A Love to Hide) is an impressive war drama, taking place in Paris 1942. Jean (Jérémie Renier - known from “Criminal Lovers”) and Paul (Bruno Todeschini - known from “Son frère”) have a secret relationship. Secret indeed, because aside from the Jews and political opponents of the Nazi regime, also gypsies, gays and anyone not considered Aryan risked deportation. There have been many movies made about the Second World War, but “Un Amour à Taire” focuses on the often forgotten history of the pink triangle.

DVD News

Broken Sky (El Cielo Dividido)

The students Gerardo and Jonás meet each other at university and fall hopelessly in love. They spend every waking moment together, have sex constantly and can’t keep their hands off one another. Still Jonás misses something. He falls for another guy and pushes heartbroken Gerardo in the direction of Sérgio, who’s had his eye on him for a while. Yet Gerardo and Jonás can’t really let go of each other...

Film News

Cronica De Una Fuga

Director Israel Adrian Caetano was born in 1969 in Montevideo (Uruguay) and moved to Argentina when he was sixteen. Now he’s a famous Argentinean film maker. His latest movie is called “Cronica De Una Fuga” and is now playing in cinemas in Holland. It’s based on the true story of Claudio during the military regime of general Fidela in Argentina.

DVD News - Noah's Arc

Noah’s Arc – Black Gay Drama For The Black And Latin Lover!

Don’t be mislead by the title “Noah’s Arc,” no... this is no religious TV show or safe haven, but an American TV series on a group of gay friends with a certain Noah as its main character. Pay attention because there are several DVDs on the market with the same title!! They started off with a pilot show that was so enthusiastically received at festivals, the gay American television station Logo took interest in a series.

Short Story - Oh, Those Sweet Bottoms

I always enjoy the erotic tales in your magazine, but I’ve noticed that the modern day sexcapades are always written by bottoms. Of course I’m glad there are so many buttboys, because I’m a one hundred percent masculine man. I get sick by the idea somebody would fuck me, but I love to give guys’ assholes a powerful taste of my big dick. Especially when these guys are themselves well-hung, because then you know you’re fucking a guy and not a girl, who don’t interest me.

Porn DVD Review - Bananas from Brazil 2

Two South American hot young studs walk around the streets of Brazil looking for a place to have sex. Rafael leads them to an unoccupied courtyard that he knows of, and they dont waste any time. When Gaspar whips out his eager cock, we are treated to another gigantic cock. It would seem from this entire video that all Brazilian boys are extremely well-endowed and have no problem sharing their sexual energy with other boys. The dick sucking continues until Rafael turns around so that his eager hole could be filled with Gaspars dark, uncut man-shaft. His innocent face moans with pleasure as he takes it harder and harder.

Short Story - Encounter With A Black Adonis

Being the inhibited type and living in a village which made it scary to be gay, I was a ripe candidate to move to the big city. One who is gay can feel more at ease in the big city. My third day there had me out of sorts. I couldn’t sit still long. Nothing seemed to satisfy me. A television program lighted a spark of daring within me. One of the actors was a beautiful, black Adonis. I needed to be with someone. My decision was to trip down to the heart of the city and walk around to tire myself out.

Edward van de Vendel: Ons derde lichaam (Our Third Body)

This book is sort of a sequel to Edward’s first childhood novel De Dagen van de Bleugrassliefde (The Days of the Bluegrass Love) but it is definitely worth reading even if you’re not aware of that. Tycho (19-years old now) and Vonda are living in small rooms in Rotterdam. After a while Moritz, a dance student, moves in with them. Via Vonda Tycho is introduced into a new world: music. The story of Ons Derde Lichaam contains Tycho’s viewpoint (about his experiences with Vonda and Moritz) as well as mails and song texts.

vintage queer porn serial - Crash in the Ocean (5)

The novel “Bail Out!” was first released in 1969 in the porn series ‘Black Knight Classics of the homosexual Underground,’ published by the Guild Press in Washington D.C. Air Force captain Larry and corporal Rick are the only survivors from a plane crash and are drifting in a life raft on the ocean. During their days at sea they’ve dispelled the weariness by indulging in a splurge of sexual activities.

Portfolio - Karim Konrad’s Berlin Gay Mates

When I come across something really surprising amidst the hundredth Bel Ami book, Howard Roffman’s fiftieth twink collection and the umpteenth issue of “XYfoto” with photographs by Sean Bentz in the male photography section of the bookshop, that’s truly a joy. I was given such a joy when I noticed Karim Konrad’s “Berlin Gay Mates.” It’s not a large book, but with 368 pages it’s a fat book. And then to realize that there are even more photographs in it!

‘Danse Macabre,’ A Novel About Men, Love And Death: A Conversation With Author M

On December the first last year, World AIDS Day, Maurits van Friesland’s novel “Danse Macabre” was published. The story is about Bo and Peter and starts in the spring of 1985. They witness the rise of AIDS and are, like many gays, confronted with the death of many of their friends. Bo volunteers to help people living with AIDS and Peter writes about it as a journalist for the newspaper.

Comics - Gino the Gangster Moll

Julius’ new graphic novel, “Gangsta Daddy,” was published a few months ago. After drawing in “Vikings: Irish Annals” the sexual experiences of the mediaeval shepherd Liam, he returned to the here and now, sort of. It doesn’t matter for the stories really. Whether set in the future or the past, young heroes are being deflowered by a mature, hairy guy, get hooked on a dick in their butt and become play toy for several other hairy big guys.

vintage queer porn serial - Crash in the Ocean (4)

The Third Day

It was mid-morning when Rick awoke. He was laying on his side facing Larry, and Larry’s body was tightly pressed against his. Hot, stiff and solid, Larry’s prick was pressed insistently against Rick’s flat stomach, and Rick’s reaction was an immediate erection. “It doesn’t take you too long to get a hardon, Rick.”

Portfolio - Paul Freeman’s Virile Man’s World

It’s not customary that we draw attention twice in one year to a book by the same photographer, but in the case of Paul Freeman I’m happy to make an exception to this rule. This Australian photographer is taking the male nude by storm. The male nude photo book genre, that is. And that’s completely understandable, since Freeman offers something which most “male” photographers don’t offer, namely men, not boys.

Chair Of Parliament Will Receive First Copy Of Biography J.A. Schorer

Theo van der Meer’s book on Esquire Jacob Anton Schorer LL.M. (1866-1957) will appear on the 30th of March. Schorer was Holland’s prewar pioneer and personification of gay liberation. In 1917 parliament followed chairman Dirck Fock’s decision to return a shipment of books from Schorer, which had been sent to the parliamentary library. The books were all about homosexuality and they thought them unfit to include in such a prestigious collection.

vintage queer porn serial - Crash in the Ocean (3)

The Satisfying Finale Of The Second Day The serial “Bail Out!” was first published in 1969 in the porn series ‘Black Knight Classics of the homosexual Underground,’ published by the Guild Press in Washington D.C. Air Force captain Larry and corporal Rick are the only survivors from a plane crash and are drifting in a life raft on the ocean. For some time already, Rick had the hots for the sexy captain, and his desires only grow when he finds out Larry is hung like a stallion. After some initial titillating activities it is, to their mutual surprise, Rick who buries his cock in the virginal asshole of the tough captain.

Film News - François Ozon’s ‘Real Life of Angel Deverell’

We were very curious as to what kind of movie François Ozon was going to produce this time. He usually makes a movie a year and every one is totally different from the other. “Sitcom” was an absurd and dark comedy, “8 Femmes” just filled with French diva actresses, “Les Amants Criminels” a sort of a thriller/horror movie and “Le Temps Qui Reste” a drama on sickness and death (a film he couldn’t have made without the existence of AIDS, François admitted in an interview. Because AIDS nowadays doesn’t necessarily equal to a death sentence anymore, he changed it into some lethal form of cancer for the movie.) And indeed, his new movie “Angel” is again completely different: a costume drama set early last century.

Portfolio - Joe Oppedisano’s Testosterone

I have been clamoring for years: Where have all the real men gone?! It seems like the whole world is taken over by sissies! Recently my desperation was officially authorized when the Dutch weekly “HP/De Tijd” published a cover story about “the end of the macho.” Right at the start the author states that “in our culturally correct society equality between male and female counts as the highest ideal and typically male virtues are oppressed by the authorities.”

Vintage Queer Porn Story (2) Crash in the Ocean

Bail Out!
The Second Day

This story is the second chapter of “Bail Out!,” a porn novel which was released in 1969 in the series ‘Black Knight Classics of the homosexual Underground,’ published by the Guild Press in Washington D.C. In the first chapter, Air Force captain Larry and corporal Rick are the only survivors from a plane that exploded in mid-air. Rick had for some time already the hots for the sexy captain, and his desires only grow when he finds out Larry is hung like a stallion.

Hot-blooded Scouts Love Exploring Each Other

As the title indicates, the DVD “Scout’s Honor” is a variation on the Boy Scout / explorer theme, and in this case quite a special one! The cast has been selected from regular boys next door, exactly as you’d expect them to be in real life. Many movies with this theme try to make the actors look younger through make up and styling than they obviously are. Not in this one though. The boys are natural and just clad in their scout’s uniform.

vintage queer porn serial (1) - Bail Out! The First Day

This story is the fifth chapter of “Bail Out!,” a porn novel which was released in 1969 in the series ‘Black Knight Classics of the homosexual Underground,’ published by the Guild Press in Washington D.C.

Gasping for breath, the corporal pulled the rip cord of his parachute. Nothing happened, and he was scared shitless. He wondered how long it would be before his body hit the ocean below, and whether or not he’d live to recall the harrowing experience. Seconds seemed like minutes as the nerve-tingling sensation of falling continued to spiral through his body.

Portfolio - Lascivious Highway Adventures In ‘Big Rig’

The rough guys driving their big trucks over long distances are a popular image of virile masculinity in American porn. These truckers are a modern version of cowboys and both groups have the reputation, at least in queer fantasies, of not being all that picky when it comes to achieving sexual relief after a long and lonely trip through barren landscapes.

The Vicissitudes Of Dutch Comedian André van Duin

André van Duin is one of Holland’s most famous comedians and theater personalities. Het starred in his own revues and in radio and television programs. Apart from his qualities as a showman, he also gained some fame as one of Holland’s out and relatively proud gay men. He belongs to a long line of, mostly male, entertainment personalities who have never made a secret of their sexual orientation, but are at the same seen as perfect son-in-laws by the public.

Hellbent, The First Gay Slasher Movie

A couple of years ago I was chatting to a friend of mine in an Amsterdam gay bookshop, when a customer asked him what a certain DVD was about. He answered: “About two guys who fall in love with each other during a holiday.” The customer picked up another DVD, asked him the same question and my friend said: “About two guys who fall in love... while on holiday.” At the third DVD he giggled: “Same,” and at the fourth: “That one as well.”

Vintage queer porn story - The Orgy

This story is an abbreviated version of the fifth chapter of “Off-Duty Studs,” a porn novel which was released in 1969 in the series ‘Black Knight Classics of the homosexual Underground,’ published by the Guild Press in Washington D.C.

None of the men slept. Tony climbed from his bed, wrapped his robe about him and walked out to the recreation room and poured another drink. He relaxed, his cock was still stiffly erect and he knew that he still had to have satisfaction. Turning on the hi-fi, he let the records that were stacked on the machine begin to play and was satisfied that they were the same records he had placed on it before. Turning the “play” button, he could hear the music as it filled the room.

Comics - Josman’s Horny Lads And Their Mature Sex Studs

The market for erotic magazines has shrunk considerably in the last decade. Some regular publications remain but it seems that the smaller, specialized ones have a more solid base. Like “Handjobs,” listed as a magazine for “Daddy-Boy” erotica, which focuses on young gays, all of legal age of course, who are not interested in fooling around with boys their own age, but who prefer to have sex with mature and experienced men: Daddies - a popular species in the gay universe - who introduce the boys to the world of men’s sex.

Portfolio - The Well-Hung Brazilian Studs Of Alexander Pictures

It’s probably a secret fantasy of many a queen: to innocently wander through a park and all of a sudden spot a very large endowed gentleman seductively playing with his swollen member. This is what happens to the young Pero Coresma in “Jungle Cruisers” when he wanders around Rio de Janeiro’s Tijucia National Park. After hesitating for a moment Pero decides to approach the dark hunk and soon his lips enclose the impressive tool. Of course soon after it’s his ass’ turn. Pero doesn’t mind it at all when Denis Torres decides to get involved.

BUTT Magazine Celebrates Fifth Anniversary With BUTT Book

In the August issue of Gay News we published an article by Michiel Bollinger about BUTT magazine. Although this undiluted love declaration was mainly inspired by the author’s enthusiasm for the magazine, it came at an excellent time since BUTT celebrates its fifth anniversary this year, which is also celebrated with the publication of the “BUTT Book” (Taschen). The editors of BUTT intend with their magazine to put the sex back into homosexuality and they have certainly succeeded.

Vintage Queer Porn Story - Initation

This story is an abbreviated version of the fourth chapter of “Off Duty Studs,” a porn novel which was released in 1969 in the series ‘Black Knight Classics of the Homosexual Underground’ published by the Guild Press in Washington D.C.

The Marine Corps officer who stayed with the other men had drunk two gin and tonics and had no sooner finished before he eyed Bob Brooking, the young soldier. He liked the esthetic look of the youth. In fact the boy was almost effeminate, and held a strange fascination for the rough looking Parker Lavery. He moved over beside the youth and began a conversation with him. “You say you’re in the army?" he inquired politely.

Kingdome 19’s Universal Wicked Dreams

Most photographers of men make rather straightforward pictures, whether it’s in color or black-and-white. Sometimes I’m even overtaken by the nasty thought that they spend more time finding models than with actually making the photographs. In this respect the Berlin photographer Kingdome 19 is an odd man out in the world of male photography. With this, I don’t mean to imply that he doesn’t pay attention to his models, but that he’s also committed to traditional dark room work and that he manipulates his negatives in a very personal way.

vintage queer porn story - The Hitchhiker and the Sailer

This story is an abbreviated version of the second chapter of “The Hitchhiker,” a porn novel which was released in 1969 in the series ‘Black Knight Classics of the Homosexual Underground’ published by the Guild Press in Washington D.C.

At the edge of the highway Mickie Burcel wandered about wondering what kind of person would give him the first ride. As he stood there in the sun, car after car whizzed by him, but none stopped. He unbuttoned the one button on his shirt and let it flutter in the breeze. Still no luck!

DVD News - Four More Queer Classics In A Box

A-Film recently surprised us with the DVD-box “Modern Gay Classics” and now there’s even a second box “More Gay Classics” with again four feature movies. What a fantastic initiative. Let’s hope that many more boxes will follow.

Hedwich and the Angry Inch - Hedwich, born in East Berlin as “Hansel,” was once in love with an American soldier. In order to be able to marry him and flee to the free West, he underwent a sex change operation. The operation failed and she was left with an “angry inch.”

Book Review - The Secret Love Affair Of Two Beautiful Teenagers

“Wicked Angels” is an astonishing novel - romantic and violent. Beautifully written and very erotic, the book first appeared in 1955 (or was it 1956, like it says in my recent French edition?), when books were still being banned in France, which happened also to this novel by Eric Jourdan, who was just seventeen at the time. It took until 1985 for the book to finally appear uncensored. Jourdan was a brilliant young talent who was not heard of for long after.

Short Story - A Severe Lesson In Discipline

Some months ago I wrote about my first night with Robert, a hunk from my native village who showed me in practice that a hot fantasy can intensify even a good fuck. That summer I spend a lot of time with Robert and I could write a porn novel about everything we did. Maybe I’ll put some of our escapades to paper at a later date, now I’m thinking about something else. Although Robert certainly didn’t deflower me, he was the first man with whom I had a somewhat longer and very horny affair.

Porn DVD Review - Sommerhitze

In a little over ten years the German company Cazzo has become known for the high quality of their porn productions and has grown out to one of the most prominent German porn producers. Cazzo surprises again and again with unusual ideas and locations but first and foremost by the natural style of the actors, because all of their movies show them being really horny and having lots of pleasure. For a while now Cazzo breathes new energy into the porn industry and sets new international standards other producers are jealous of.

Erotic Art - Roger’s Graphic Paradise With Virile And Hairy Hunks

A couple of years ago Terry Sanderson published “The Gay Man’s Kama Sutra.” This beautifully produced book contains a lot of historic illustrations but also a large number of drawings by the British artist Roger Payne, both in color and in black and white. If they hadn’t put his name so small in the credits a lot more gays would have been familiar with him. Now, he’s only popular with the readers of “Handjobs Magazine,” to which he is an avid contributor, using just his first name.

DVD News - Modern Gay Classics Box

Four highlights from the history of cinema and gay culture together in one box: Fassbinder’s erotic final aria “Querelle,” Almodóvar’s masterpiece “La Mala Educación,” as well as icons Stephen Fry in “Wilde” and Harvey Fierstein in “Torch Song Trilogy.”

BUTT - Magazine For Anti-Esthetic Connoisseurs

The magazine BUTT celebrates its fifth anniversary in October 2006. Taschen Verlag publishes a fat book with highlights of five years of BUTT this autumn. Michiel Bollinger thought it was time for a love declaration to this obstinate men’s magazine which not everybody knows yet.

BUTT looks kinda casual, especially when you compare it with the larger full color glossies like ‘Gay News.’ It appears only a couple of times per year and is only available at the more specialized bookshops and gay shops.

Porn DVD Review

Lukas Ridgeston’s First Performance In Boytropolis, Part 1

We all know the saying “you get what you pay for,” but that’s not always true. The consumers’ organization regularly reports that a certain product you get from a discount store is performing better than some A-brands and for a much better price. The situation is much the same in the world of pornography, although it’ll still cost you a small fortune to research this for yourself. We thought to do you a favor and do it for you this time.

Portfolio - Paul Freeman’s Delicious Hunks

When a while ago the magazine “Adam Gay Video XXX Showcase” used a series of action shots from the Raging Stallion production “Arabesque,” with Huessein, a hairy Arab taking center stage, it received many enthusiastic responses. Ron G. from New York raved: “Where the fuck did you find Huessein? He’s goddamned perfect! Thank you for publishing hot pictures of a mature man with a hairy chest. Now that’s my idea of a real man.” And Todd H. from LA gushed: “Finally, a porn star with more than a few strands of hair on his chest. Huessein is perfect!”

Vintage queer porn story - The Stranger in the Mirror

This story is an abbreviated version of the first chapter of “The Hitchhiker,” a porn novel which was released in 1969 in the series ‘Black Knight Classics of the Homosexual Underground’ published by the Guild Press in Washington D.C.

Mickie Burcel might have spelled his name like a sissy, but he was perhaps one of the butchiest bastards any street-walking or bar-patronaging fairy could care to come in contact with. As he was in his apartment tossing things into his suitcase, Mickie caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror. He always did have a streak of egotism that flashed through his butch facade where ever he went, and he would constantly flex his muscles for all the queens to stare at and appreciate.

Comics - The Secret Lives Of Vikings According To Julius

Julius recently published a new graphic novel: “Vikings: Irish Annals.” As the title reveals the story takes place in the dark ages when Vikings rampaged Europe. But with Julius it doesn’t really matter when something takes place. Whether it’s the present, or the Victorian Age, or in this case much longer ago, it’s always about the same thing: a young guy discovers men’s sex with a more mature guy and more or less willingly turns into the sex toy of a range of other men.

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Theo van Gogh’s ‘Interview’ Also In German Version
Theo van Gogh’s movie “Interview” will soon have a German version. Not a dubbed version with German voice-overs but a whole new production. The German production company Berg Film has acquired the rights to “Interview.” Shooting will start sometime next year and the movie will hit the cinemas late 2007. It will be the third international remake of “Interview.” The American remake, with Steve Buscemi as the director and leading actor, has just finished shooting the material and also plans it’s release in 2007.

Portfolio - Falcon’s Bootstrap

They say good wine doesn’t need crystal, but: Will good wine be good forever? And what is good wine? Falcon is one of the few studios that’s been putting out gay porn for over thirty years. Way before video reached our living rooms and bedrooms we knew of Falcon from the projections in bars. Argos has shown them for a long time. Falcon’s production is enormous with a catalogue featuring over four hundred titles. Unfortunately not all of them are of the highest standards, but there were good ones and those were really good.

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Behind the Scenes

Positive ‘Counter Action’ Da Vinci Code

It is obvious that there is a lot of discussion about “The Da Vinci Code” and whether it breaches religious sensitivities or not. There’s a lot of squabbling going on but not every Christian group thinks that’s a bad thing. On the contrary: right before the release of the much talked about motion picture on the 17th of May, a 10 DVD edition of the New Testament will be presented to fuel the arguments even more.

Short Story - Helpless At The Mercy Of An Exciting Stranger

In the episodes from my sexual life I’ve described till now, the action was sometimes a bit rough, but in the end they consisted of rather straightforward vanilla sex. And it can’t be denied, being fucked thoroughly is a real joy. But over the years I’ve learned that some of the more kinky variations can also be exciting. Years ago, on my way home from a holiday in Italy I had my first experience with bondage, and some discipline. Due to circumstances the plane couldn’t depart on time. In the waiting area of the airport I met Luca and at the moment I saw him I’d forgotten all the mishaps of that evening.

DVD News - Deep Throat & Inside Deep Throat

Pubic hair and moustaches, but mainly a lot of pubic hair! That’s what you get to see in the classic “Deep Throat” (1972). “Deep Throat” premiered on the 12th of June on Times Square New York and long cues lined up in front of the cinema. Even the famous Dr. Ruth was enthusiastic about the release. After Jackie Kennedy went to see the film it got even busier at the entrance. Until then nobody discussed sexual morality but the movie changed all that and divided society. “Deep Throat” turned porn into an industry and gay porn still profits from that.

Portfolio - Dolphin: Young and Innocent, Vol. 5

The times that American porn actors grew out to real superstars are far behind us. The last to reach this status was Jeff Stryker, hated by some, idolized by others. His acting might have been poor: “You like it... huh? Don’t you?,” but could he fuck! We’ve moved away from the American actors since then. Also induced by the market releasing too many movies with a popular guy, milking it too much, too fast. Opening up the East European borders has changed the porn industry completely. Yugoslavia and Russia are teeming with gorgeous boys dreaming of a porn acting career.

Short Story - My First Night As Sheik Omar’s Sex Slave

The first few years after I had moved to the big city, I usually spend some weeks of the summer in my native village. My parents were away on holiday, and they expected from me to look after their house. However, I didn’t consider this to be a punishment, because I could recover from my studies and from the many sexual adventures I indulged in in those days. An additional plus-point of this yearly stay in the countryside was that I could give Robert a helping hand. Robert was a friend of my parents and a few years older than me. He owned a farm at the other side of the village, which he had inherited from his grandparents.

Film News

Baantjer Not On The Big Screen The planned big screen version of the popular television series “Baantjer” has been canceled. One year ago Endemol and RTL announced that in the spring of 2007 they would finish the entire series with a one off motion picture. Producer Peter Römer declared that the movie had not been canceled because of financial reasons but that Endemol doubted whether a motion picture had anything new to add. It was also the success of series like “Gooische Vrouwen” and “Evelien” that made Endemol decide to stick to television.

Portfolio - Giovanni’s close-ups

At least once in his life every healthy queen has descended a staircase and, while moving his hands languidly around his face, proclaimed: “I'm ready for my close-up, Mister DeMille.” A lot less gentlemen will have dared to tell the Italian photographer Giovanni just as light-hearted that they’re ready for their close-up. This is because Giovanni is specialized, not in portraits of faces, but in pictures of a, just as important, but much more intimate part of the male physique.

Porn dvd Portfolio - Gay Boy Gang Bang

This is a film from the Euroboy Hard series. It is filmed in Grand Canaria, and that means beautiful weather and of course sex outside. On the DVD, which is of good quality, are five scenes, three of which are group sex, two duo’s and a group orgy with at least seven guys. The guys seem very natural, which is to say no or little make-up or sharp polished filming. Everything is fairly natural. The actors aren’t “over-directed,” and that comes across with the spontaneous sex. They have the sex which they find horny and the camera just records it without getting in the way. The guys are around 25 years old or a little younger.

Gerard Reve, Dutch Author And Gay Emancipation Pioneer, Dies At 82

On Saturday March 8, just after sunset, Dutch author Gerard Reve died at the age of 82. The last few years, he was hospitalized because dementia had obfuscated his once so sparkling mind. The man who could once conjure with words and language like no other, couldn’t utter more than: “Schrum..., brum...” This is tragic, because Reve was undoubtedly the most virtuoso stylist of contemporary Dutch literature. Love played a major part in his oeuvre, just as did death.

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Don’t mess with Michael Douglas
Actor Michael Douglas is prosecuting two American media businesses. The two companies, Family Television Studios and Paradigm Media Group, used his name and image for commercial purposes without permission. The “Basic Instinct” actor had agreed to present a non-commercial educational program. His agreement was then used by the companies to raise money for the series, which was never shown. The actor is asking for both the companies to cease using his image.

DVD News

Summerstorm

Marco Kruezpainter (1977), a young German director, made his first full length feature “Ganz und Gar” in 2003. A year later his second, more autobiographical film “Summerstorm” was released, which was also well received in Holland. Toby and Achim are members of a rowing team and have been close friends for years. Under their leadership the team managed to win a pile of trophies and they look forward to the approaching summer camp where another competition will be held. When Achim gets a girlfriend, Sandra, and has less and less time for his friend, a split slowly develops between the boys.

A Boarding School Romance In The Nineteenth Century

In a recent gay encyclopedia of The Netherlands (2005) the authors Thijs Bartels and Jos Versteegen claim that Jacob Israel de Haan’s Pijpelijntjes (1904) is the first Dutch gay novel. Unfortunately they don’t explain how they came to this conclusion, although there are other books which might be thus named. On a global level there are many more contestants for the honor of being the first gay novel: “The Picture of Dorian Gray” from 1890 by Oscar Wilde, “Moby-Dick” from 1851 by Herman Melville or “Phaeton,” an obscure collection of letters from 1823 by the German author Friedrich Wilhelm Waiblinger, which was recently republished.

vintage queer porn story - Biker Boys in the Night

This story is an abbreviated version of the first chapter of “Gang Bang,” a porn novel which was released in 1969 in the series ‘Black Knight Classics of the Homosexual Underground’ published by the Guild Press in Washington D.C.

Nineteen-year-old Mark Denny looked resplendent as he sat upon his motorcycle. Mark was just so damn beautiful that no matter where he was he attracted attention. He wore tight clothing which outlined the perfect torso, accenting the thick thighs and the broad expanse of chest, and when he moved about his body just seemed to have a mysterious magnetism about it.

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Behind the Scenes

Dreams can Come True
Actress Reese Witherspoon almost slept through the momentous announcement of her Oscar nomination. But that didn’t stand in the way of her victory, receiving a nomination for her interpretation of June Carter Cash in the Johnny Cash biopic “Walk the Line.” While other contenders most likely wet themselves waiting with excitement to hear of their Oscar nominations, the “Sweet Home Alabama” star was snugly tucked away in bed, dreaming of an Oscar nomination.

Portfolio - Male Nudes Indexx

Small is beautiful. This is an expression which doesn’t figure in the vocabulary of most queer men. Nonetheless it forms an excellent description of the “Male Nudes Indexx,” recently published by Feierabend Verlag. The book measures 13x13 centimeters, but since it’s five centimeters thick and comprises 700 pages (according to the publisher) it contains hundreds of photographs of the male nude. In contrast with Taschen’s “The Male Nude,” which was reprinted last year and gives an overview of the history of male photography, “Male Nudes Indexx” is dedicated to contemporary photographers only and includes works by seventy artists.

A Comic Book Of Robert Long’s Songs

During the seventies several Dutch singers and cabaret artists came out of the closets and made (their) homosexuality an important topic in their shows. One of these “Out & Proud” singers was Robert Long, who started his solo career in 1974 and loved to tear down wayside shrines in these early years. In the eighties he made some very controversial shows with the late actor, Leen Jongewaard, which centered mainly on gay issues. Recently twenty-three of Long’s songs have been transformed into comic strips by one Charles van den Broek. Sometimes comics can be fun even if you don’t read the language, but reading these comics one ambiguous, discouraging thought about being gay follows the other quickly. Talking about bad taste.

Brad Pitt Searches For Ultimate Gay Love Story

According to the British newspaper “The Sun” Brad Pitt has told his agent to find him the “ultimate gay love story.” The newspaper based this story on an unnamed Hollywood source, who’s quoted as saying: “He wants it to be a story that appeals to both men and women and he wants it to be the edgiest work he’s done.

Billy Crystal And Chris Rock Say No To Oscars - ‘Brokeback Mountain’ Big Favorit

Billy Crystal will not host this year’s Oscar ceremony. He’s hosted the ceremony eight times already and he thinks that’s enough. Crystal is much too busy. He’s working on his very popular one-man-show “700 Sundays” and so is not able to free himself for this event. Comedian Chris Rock, who presented the spectacle last year, has also said he will not host this year’s ceremony. Other favorites for presentation were Whoopi Goldberg and Steve Martin, who have both done the job before, but the final choice fell on Jon Stewart this year.

Beau’s virile studs

Jeb’s “A Metropolitan slave Anthology”, a compilation of rather heavy SM stories, illustrated by Beau, was published in 1993. The artist depicts men who are willingly abused, chained, flogged, branded and fisted in eleven sketchy back and white line drawings. For a second volume, which appeared three years later, the subject matter basically remained the same - with the addition of scat, but Beau had however chosen for a different style, dominated by large grey and black patches.

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Paris Hilton Sued

The infamous Paris Hilton (“House of Wax”) is connected to a scandal again. The most surprising thing this time is, that Paris is not the victim but the cause. The heiress has admitted to have spread lies about Zeta Graff, a model and actress who also had an affair with Hilton’s ex fiancé Paris Latsis.

Portfolio - Sean Bentz’s Summer Cuties

Outside it’s cold and grey, and even though the heater provides a comfortable warmth inside, is was a true pleasure when the mailman delivered the fifth issue of “XYfoto” recently. This issue is in its entirety devoted to guys in summer, since “It’s always summer in San Diego!,” as the cover screams. And San Diego is the hometown of both the editorial staff of “XYfoto” and photographer Sean Bentz. The editors again selected works by Bentz, which makes this the third issue to pay attention to his photographs.

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Production Of Pirate Movies Halted

The shooting of two sequels to “Pirates of the Caribbean” has come to a halt because of thieves. So many things got stolen that they decided they could not continue shooting the movies. The robberies got so out of control that two members of the cast decided to leave because they didn’t feel safe anymore. One source reports that members of the cast have been robbed at least four times in the last month.

Portfolio - Glamourous Pictures of Chi Chi LaRue’s Porn Stars

Correctly or not, many people see the porn industry aa a rather sleazy business, where the actors are treated as just pieces of meat. This is of course the result of the rather sniggering atmosphere which still surrounds all aspects of sex. A beautiful example of this was given by Johnny Hazzard in an interview with “Blue” magazine. During the New York Fashion Week Boy George asked the attractive porn star to make an appearance during the presentation of his B Rude fashion line. To get press attention Boy George wanted to send Johnny Hazzard down the runway naked.

Queer Down Under - They Shoot Homos Don’t They?

Ask any random, reasonably cultured queen what they associate with Australia... and chances are that they will immediately come up with the young but majestic and inaccessible Mel Gibson from the film “Mad Max.” Mel was still quite timid at the time, but very cold blooded Australian and straight as hell, which made him all the more attractive to faggots all over the world. Thanks to heartthrob Mel, Down Under became a gay concept to reckon with: photo books with young muscular beach guards saving a skimpily dressed would-be drowning person sold by the thousands. Boxing kangaroos could apparently knock off their homosexual urges; Crocodile Dundee with that hard-boiled stranger; Elton John celebrated his coke sniffing heyday over there; another pop star strangled himself on a doorknob [singer INXS, editor] and they had the Gay Games there too.

Short Story - An Exciting Summer Afternoon

I don’t think I will ever forget the first time I had sex with another guy. It was the most beautiful experience I have ever had. It happened during the summer of 1977. I had just finished high school and I had realized I was gay. I’d often jerked-off while fantasizing about some class mates and after gym I had to take great pains not to gaze at the butts and dicks of some of the jocks, while they took a shower without any feelings of shame. I had occasionally purchased gay porn magazines and the photos and especially the stories had made me extremely horny.

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Karina Smulders Plays Nina Hagen

Actress Karina Smulders will play the part of the German punk singer Nina Hagen in “Wild Romance,” director Jean van de Velde’s new biographical movie about Herman Brood. Most people will know Smulders as Lotje from the Dutch soap opera “Onderweg naar morgen,” but she’s also been part of Toneelgroep Amsterdam for a while already. You can also see her in “Ik omhels je met duizend armen,” Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen’s last movie, based on the novel by Ronald Giphart.

Portfolio - French Locker Room Hunks

By now they have become unassailable icons of male virility, the Parisian rugby players, these Stadium Gods. It all started a few years ago with beautiful calendars, next came the “making of...” DVDs, and finally a large number of these sensual portraits were collected in a sumptuous photo book last year, which in the meanwhile can be found on many queer coffee tables and bedside stands. The German edition sold out within a year, but fortunately some months ago an American edition was released.

Leather Bound - An Ordinary Day In A Leather Shop

When I saw the cover of “LeatherBound,” the fifth edition of picture magazine “Buckshot” in a catalogue, I was sold immediately. Jason Crew is the most gorgeous man! He looks at you with seemingly innocent but also smoldering eyes. When somebody has that look you know that behind that innocence there’s a deep sexual desire. And fortunately, that’s exactly what he’s going to get.

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House For Sale
The former “golden couple” Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt are selling their house, so there’s no chance of them getting back together, folks. The love nest should fetch about 24 million euros, a bargain! They bought the house for 13.5 million dollars, half of what they’re asking now. But, you are getting an ample swimming pool, a tennis court and a beauty salon.

Portfolio - The Romantic Eroticism Of Life At Sea

If my information is correct, “Dieux du Stade” has been one of the best-selling gay photo books of the past months. But even if this isn’t true, this book with photographs of the beautifully rugged French rugby players and their companions is definitely one of my own favorites. François Rousseau was able to let these handsome athletes pose for his camera in an esthetic but also very erotic way.

Short Movie - How Johnny The Village Whore Found True Love

Johnny was the village whore. He was a fair haired youth of some eighteen summers. His jet blue eyes shone out of their sockets sharp and clear. The skin of his face was clean and bright. Every night he went to the village square where a large patch of grassland with a clump of trees provided the rendez-vous for his followers. He had many. So many lovers in fact that he had lost count. Sometimes new ones came along who had been told of his prowess, but he couldn't place them or remember all their features even if he saw them in daylight.

Film News - The Short Pink Film Days

The Pink Film Days present smaller and larger editions of the festival alternating every year. This year it’s the smaller version’s turn from the 14th till the 18th of December in Cinema de Balie and Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam. Two years ago the theme “Pink Film Days go NordiQ”, completely dedicated to Scandinavian films, was a huge success. The event always pays special attention to short movies and this special edition presents short movies only!

Film News

Behind the scene's

Verhoeven Not Allowed To Blow Up Farm After All

Director Paul Verhoeven is not allowed to blow up a farm in the Biesbosch for his new movie “Zwartbook” (Black Book). A spokeswoman for the province Noord Brabant recently announced that the license has been revoked. Verhoeven was supposed to have different plans with the farm than the license would cover.

Ambivalente kijk op pedoverhoudingen in Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin

Het mooiste van Mysterious Skin is ongetwijfeld de hoofdrolspeler Joseph Gordon-Levitt, een fantastische acteur en een geile jongeman. Z'n lijpe blik zal de hoofden van heel wat homoheren op hol jagen, zoals hij in de film doet als hoerenjoch bij zijn klanten. Het verhaal gaat als volgt. Een sportcoach heeft seksuele contacten met twee van zijn pupillen die dan acht jaar zijn. Voor de ene jongen, Brian, gaat het om een eenmalig contact dat hij volstrekt verdringt. Na deze gebeurtenis komt hij thuis en weet hij niet waar hij is geweest. De spoken die hem sindsdien kwellen, wijt hij aan marsmannetjes die hem voor korte tijd zouden hebben ontvoerd.

Portfolio - The Scantily-Clad Hunks Of www.Boy.CheekyNature.com

Although many men visit the websites connected with Gay News, the primary concern of several people involved with this paper is the production of the printed version. This doesn’t cause problems because others are more interested in all the digital possibilities. And it doesn’t mean either that those printed matter buffs are just digital laymen, but sometimes it does lead to a one-sided bias towards books and magazines.

Around Town -Crowded Presentation Dutch Gay Encyclopedia

On August 25 the first edition of a Dutch gay encyclopedia was introduced. The interest was overwhelming, and La Strada would never have been able to accommodate all these people. Therefore the presentation was held at Restaurant 1870 in Amsterdam’s Spuistraat. But it was still crammed. Almost everybody who has been anybody in the Dutch gay scene during the last decades had made an appearance. Undoubtedly to see immediately if they had reached eternal fame by inclusion in the encyclopedia.

Film News

Behind the screen
‘If You Know What I Mean’ on DVD

Recently deceased cartoonist Marten Toonder’s animation film “Als Je Begrijpt Wat Ik Bedoel” (If You Know What I Mean) will be released on DVD by film distributor Indies. Marten Toonder died in his sleep at the age of 93. He was the creator of Ollie B. Bommel and Tom Poes and in 1983, together with Rob Houwer, he made “Als je begrijpt wat ik bedoel”; one of the biggest Dutch animation films.

Portfolio - Kristen Bjorn’s Lusty Latino’s (And Other Hunks)

Whoever wants to write a serious history of homo-pornography films shouldn’t ignore the geographic or ethnic aspects. Porn doesn’t come up in conversations much, but if you speak about it to any serious degree with anyone, the films of Jean Daniel Cadinot - and his use of locations in the former French Colonies of North Africa - is a popular reason for most people’s enjoyment. Certainly this is because of the erotic power of placing exotic men in beautiful natural landscapes. Many fevered fantasies arise when black meets white: that North African men are always keen to fuck with Europeans; that they don’t mind taking advantage of a sexual situation without it meaning they’re falling in love; and, when they’ve used a white ass to full satisfaction, a room mate is always happy to give it his full attention. Even in the Sahara desert a willing boy doesn’t need to fear having too many quiet moments.

Film News - Gay Movies At The New Fest Film Festival

New York yearly hosts the Film Festival “New Fest”. This year the seventeenth edition of this LGBT film festival took place from the 2nd till the 12thh of June. In eleven days the festival showed about eighty feature movies plus more than one hundred short films from many different countries. Way too many to see them all, so here’s a selection from this avalanche of films. The first movie I saw was so-so. “Good Boys” by Yair Hochner. A Dennis Cooper/Gus van Sant like movie about three boy prostitutes, an intoxicated woman who’s also a prostitute and a daughter in Tel Aviv. There’s a lot of action without a real story line. The boys aren’t really nice either; one’s an ok actor, another is sort of cute. It’s all very violent without much credibility. They do show a couple of funny sex scenes with clients and one trick in a toilet. We get to see the well-hung main character, who likes being taken from behind, completely naked, we catch another one from the back only, but his thing dangles nicely from under his crack. All in all: not great.

Portfolio - One And A Half Century Of Male Photography In One Hefty Tome

In 1980 the then eighteen-year-old Benedikt Taschen started a bookshop in Cologne. Four years later he published his first art book and since then Taschen Verlag has become a household name in the international book world. Taschen’s publishing company has specialized in sumptuous coffee table books that, unlike the largest part of the art book productions, are very friendly priced. Another remarkable characteristic of this publishing company is that they do not just stick to so-called high art, but also have room for commercial and sub cultural art expressions.

Film News

Behind the scenes

July and August are as you probably know not the most exciting months when it comes to cinemas. So we give you lots of newsflashes this month about movies that are coming to town soon, and a few tips for rainy afternoons in July.

Lindsay Lohan’s Breasts Are Obscene

Disney has digitally modified Lindsay Lohan’s breasts in “Herbie: Fully Loaded” to make them smaller. The producers were afraid the audiences might classify the family movie obscene. At the previews some parents from the test audience said they thought Lohan’s character Maggie Peyton was too obscene.

Portfolio - Steven Vaschon’s Ode To Male Buttocks

In the introduction to his recently published book “Rear View 2" the American photographer Steven Vaschon writes not only that, since the first time he opened a “nudy book” he’s glad that an embarrassed red face is much harder to see on black people, but also that most pictures of male nudes seem to focus on the front side, on the “all mighty penis.” His book however is intended for all those men who, upon seeing all those male parts, yell: “Turn around!”

The Hun’s Pornographic Universe Of Dominance And Submission

The last few years Tom of Finland has found a place in many coffee table books about male or queer art. It would be interesting to discuss why this honor was bestowed on Tom of Finland and not on other gay erotic artists. Undoubtedly the quality of his work is an important aspect, but I think that also the fact that he doesn’t indulge in excessive sexual activities in many of his drawings, has something to do with it. Although Tom looked upon his work as pornographic, it’s rather easy to compile a collection of his drawings which wouldn’t shock the general public.

Film News

Behind the scenes

Cees Geel Wins Award In New York

Cees Geel won the award for Best Actor at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York for his character Simon, in the movie Simon. Simon is a hashish dealer suffering from a terminal kind of cancer. The Tribeca Film Festival was held for the fourth time this year. Robert de Niro and others started it in 2002. It was meant as a response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2002. Whoopi Goldberg, Sheryl Crow, Michael Imperioli (“The Sopranos”) and author Tom Wolfe were a few of the jury members this year.

Portfolio - Chi Chi LaRue Presents Hot Guys in ‘Bolt’

Shortly before the turn of the year, Chi Chi LaRue’s new porn production ‘Bolt’ was released. The director evokes in this movie a time in the near future when most men have become basically sex slaves and only a few individuals control sex. The Commander of this world is none other than porn veteran Zak Spears, who has matured to a shaved-head, hairy-chested daddy. Commander Spears knows how to handle the guys who are submitted to his whims (and whips), as is experienced by willing bottom boy Johnny Hazzard.

Film News - Behind the Scenes

Eddy Terstall Calls For Boycott Of Canada

Director Eddy Terstall (‘Simon’) has asked the Dutch movie industry to install a cultural boycott of Canada because of the massacre on young seals. Terstall suggests that distributors shouldn’t buy or program any Canadian movies for cinemas or festivals anymore. He also says we shouldn’t rent any Canadian videos.

Portfolio - Eye-Catching Beauties From New York

The adorable, smiling guy who graces the cover of the recently published eighth edition of the ‘Gay Map Amsterdam’ was photographed by Adam Raphael. Some photographers are already drawn to the camera at a very early age, while others discover the fascinating world of photography much later. Adam Raphael fits into the second category. He started photographing six years ago, at the age of 39, after a successful but dull job in the construction business. He made his first photographs of young men while visiting Fort Lauderdale on winter weekends.

A Treasure-trove Of Vintage Gay Graphics

In his recently published ‘Beneath the Skin: The Collected Essays’, John Rechy makes some remarks about the importance many people assign to the Stonewall Riots for gay emancipation: “Overnight, the legend declares, gay liberation was born [...]. The truth is that the riot at Stonewall was only one event, one battle in the long war for sexual freedom. Used as the point of separation, the myth of Stonewall falsifies history.

Film Review - Bad Education According To Pedro Almodóvar

In his second last movie, “Habla con Ella,” Almodóvar showed already that apart from his more light-hearted work he’s not afraid to touch on heavier themes either, with Javier Cámara impregnating a woman in coma. His latest: “La Mala Educación,” features the same actor in a story about the abuse of power at a Catholic boarding school. But the movie is about much more than just that: sex, drugs and transvestites play an important part in the director’s fifteenth production. It is, however, only the second movie he’s made with homosexuality as it’s main topic. The last time was with “La Ley del Deso” (1986) that also featured a transsexual and a priest.

Extremely Well-Hung Heroes

In his youth every healthy queer must have wondered what those comic heroes did when they weren’t fighting crime or rescuing damsels in distress. A guy who wears his briefs over his tights must have an exciting erotic life! With guys, one presumes. But we’ll never know for sure. Everybody who likes comics with a decent dose of male eroticism can find enough to suit him nowadays. An up-and-coming star in the gay porn comic world is the Canadian Patrick Fillion (1973). Together with his life partner he has created his own publishing company, Class Comics, which by now has released quite a number of his gay comics in magazine format.

Film News

Behind the scenes
'Million Dollar Baby' Big Winner at Oscars

With four Oscars in the most important categories “Million Dollar Baby” is clearly the big winner of the seventy-seventh Academy Awards. The boxing drama won Best Actor, Best Direction, Best Actress (Hillary Swank) and Best Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman). Jamie Fox won the Best Actor Award for his phenomenal performance as Ray Charles in the movie “Ray.”

Film - Behind the scenes - At the Cinema

Erik Or The Golden Book of Insects

The Dutch family movie “Erik of het klein insectenboek” (Erik or The Little Book Of Insects) premiered on the 9th of December and was already awarded with a “Gouden Film” (Golden Movie Award). A Dutch movie gets the Golden status when it’s had over 100,000 visitors. It is issued by the Dutch Film Festival and the Dutch Fund for Movies. “Erik of het klein insectenboek” is based on a popular novel by Dutch author, Godfried Bomans. Erik is a ten-year-old boy who has to prepare a speech for his classmates. His grandfather helps him and suggests the topic of insects. Erik thinks that’s kind of boring and falls asleep.

DVD News - Cachorro: Open-hearted Big Bear Movie

Do these Spaniards make good films or what? We’ve been enjoying the work of Almodóvar for years already and now there’s also the director Miguel Albaladejo. His movie “Cachorro” will be in the cinemas soon and I dare to predict that it’s going to be a big hit in the gay scene.
Cachorro recounts the story of Pedro, a gay dentist with an active sex life. The movie starts with a straightforward (safe) fucking session. There’s no time to savour it as Pedro kindly but firmly shows the two guys the door (it was a threesome) because he expects his sister to drop off her son Bernardo any moment as she’s going to India for a couple of weeks.

Come on, Marquis, Jump!

Joris waited at the platform until all the travelers had gotten off the train and had left via the arrival hall. No trace of Zovsky. A few people lingered in the hall and there was even one ticket booth open but there was no sign of his host. Discouraged Joris took a seat, after a short glance on the sidewalk and the square in front of the station. Joris tried to imagine why Zosky hadn’t waited for him at the appointed time and place, but these thoughts didn’t bring any relieve. He had Zovsky’s telephone number, but no phonecard. He asked at the booth, but they didn’t sell any. And it wasn’t wise to walk away now and search for a bar. Zovsky could still appear. What else to do but wait?

Portfolio - Boys Uncovered

Given the large amount of photo books published each year, it’s obvious there’s a lot of rubbish available. Each month we try to sift the wheat from the chaff, which is a risky business because there is no accounting for tastes. Personally I’m rather fed up with all those slick Bel Ami kids with overdone make-up and striking an attitude. These youngster are completely interchangeable. Therefore it was a pleasure to peruse “Boys Uncovered,” by Lindsay Lozon, a Canadian photographer of international renown which is completely justified by the quality of his photographs.

The Adventures of Timmy Continue...

A little over a year ago I had the exciting pleasure to inform about the first volume dedicated to the adventures of 18-year-old Timmy, a not so innocent farm boy, who’s further initiated into the pleasures of man-to-man sex during his first day at university. The boy with the bubble butt and the horse-dick is turned into an insatiable slut in no-time. Because of his assets many men are attracted to the innocent-looking guy. As the willing victim of a lecherous conspiracy, which involves a horny old priest who gives the boy holy water mixed with LSD, Timmy becomes the center of a secretly shot porn production, produced by Slurp Studios, a company which is owned by Lou, his schoolmate Zack’s father.

Hot, Hot, Hot... Channing Tatum

The list of female models pursuing a career in the movies is long and contains the names of Bond girl Grace Jones, Cat Woman Hallie Berry, and many others. It’s striking that very few male colleagues make the same transition, although there are a lot of delicious males in the fashion world. Take for example Channing Tatum. Channing who? Well, you might not know his name, but you surely must have seen his rugged face and impressive body in Dolce & Gabbana, Nautica and A&F ad campaigns.

Portfolio - Tom Bianchi’s On the Couch

The American photographer, Tom Bianchi, rose to fame in the early nineties with stylish black-and-white glamour pictures of the well-off and well-formed queer jet set. The last few years he has changed his style considerably, as is shown in the two volumes of “On the Couch.” Nowadays he produces full color photographs with a strong sexual bent. This series of photographs started off as an internet project, but has become an omnipresent hymn to male beauty.

Film News

Behind the scenes

Brad Pitt thinks Matt Damon is sexy

Every year the American magazine “People” chooses “The Sexiest Man Alive.” The lucky winner gets a spot on the cover and of course the honor. This year actor Jude Law was the lucky winner. Brad Pitt however did not agree. If it had been up to this gorgeous man the magazine would have put buddy and colleague Matt Damon on their cover. Brad has had the title himself as well and he thinks Matt also has what it takes.

Come on , Marquis, Jump

‘Where is Paulard?’ was the first thought that came to Frank on the bed of pine needles that he fell upon. Did they get him too? In that case there was nothing left to do. Did he get away in time? If so, did he know what had happened to him and would he come to save him, or would he leave him to his own device? Paulard had probably, carelessly walked on, convinced they would meet further down the track. Unless that bastard had just deserted him.

Fashion - Maskulino

It doesn’t happen very often that a new photographer of the male nude presents himself with a beautiful photo book. Unfortunately it seems that the few publishers who are specialized in this kind of photo books, rather like to hang on to artists whose earlier work already turned out to be successful, instead of giving new talent a chance. Therefore it came as a big surprise when we recently received a copy of “Maskulino” by Páriz, a Mexican photographer who, it seems, has self-published a choice of his photographs. Páriz (1958) studied law and worked as a corporate lawyer for some years.

Come on, Marquis, Jump

Zovsky was stopping the Camionette and honked superfluously three times to get the attention of the redheaded boy. In his rear-view mirror he saw him picking up his knapsack and running towards him. His heart was beating in his throat with a vehemence that tore his dreaming into pieces. Had his hour come? ‘Hi, where are you heading to?’ Zovsky asked, while he put a smile on his face. ‘To Montélimar and you?’ answered the redheaded, also a bit out of breath. ‘Well I’m too, doesn’t that fits in neatly, just get in.’

Film News

Ben Affleck wants to get rid of action-roles

Ben Affleck has announced that he doesn’t want to play in action movies anymore. The actor no longer feels the need to play the tough guy in extremely violent movies. Once Affleck brilliantly performed in the action movies “Armageddon” (1998), “Daredevil” (2003) and “Paycheck” (2003). However, from now on he wants to concentrate on his comical qualities and would like to have parts in comedies. It’s very doubtful that Affleck has made a wise decision by this, because his last two comedies were both an enormous flop.

Come on, Marquis, jump

When the big boys were back from the swimming pool, the news about the military exercises was spreading like wildfire. At the dormitory the most fantastic stories went round, like an army of Rambo’s and Exterminators had pitched camp in the neighbourhood. ‘They’re going to launch rockets!’ hissed Paulard against his bed partner, a robust boy listening to the name of Franck. ‘And they’re going to dig tunnels underground’ this one increased the effort a bit. ‘I want to see what they’re executing,’ Paulard determinedly announced. ‘And how would you like to get there?’ ‘Walking, of course. I know a path that goes up to the top of hill. Tomorrow we’ll go, immediately after dinner. We’ll have plenty of time to be back before supper.’ ‘It gets dark early, you know?’

Portfolio - Blue’s Collection Of Lovely Lads

After I’d glanced through “Lads” for just some five minutes, I wanted to eulogize on the Boy. On his seductive eyes and his tender, kissable mouth. On his hairs and the nape of his neck. On his ears. On the jeans which covers him. On his muscles. On his chest, his stomach, his balls and his suckable dick. On his buttocks, of course. And on his vulnerability and his arrogance. On his radiant smile and his arrogance. And on his so-called innocence. On his horniness. For short: on the Boy.

Come on, Marquis, jump

Claude supervised the boys who were playing on the football field of the school, being warmed by the last rays of the winter sun. That afternoon Gothon had left with the big ones for the swimming pool in Nyons. Most of the boys were running around the lawn, like predators following their prey, some played hide and seek in the bushes. Pascal was sitting at his feet and Claude stroke with a dispersed hand through his hair. The lad was humming away, with his eyes focussed on the ground, fascinated about what was going on between the blades of grass.

Film News

While the days are drawing out, the number of new movies increases. Let's have a look what the cinemas have on offer.

Actor Danny Glover Arrested

The American actor Danny Glover was arrested in Washington D.C. at the end of August. Glover participated in a protest march against the persistent violence in western Sudan. In his speech the star made his strong criticism towards the Sudanese government very clear. Glover therefore was arrested and accused of violating the public order. The 58-year-old Glover is well-known for the four "Lethal Weapon" movies. In this very successful movie series he forms forms an unconcerned police couple with Mel Gibson. Despite the advanced ages of these two main characters, there are rumours of a fifth part.

Ohm Phanphiroj's Rough Stuff

It’s commonly known that many elderly queers make sex trips to the Far East, because the boys over there are so nice to older men and surrender with a good grace to their lusts. If these gentlemen for once put their mind at all to their little obliging sex animals, they’re sometimes so narrow minded, that they assume those guys have always been hungering for their white quivering meat. As for as these selfish fantasies are concerned "Rough Stuff" by Thai photographer Ohm Phanphiroj will certainly strike these sex tourists a horrible blow. Phanphiroj’s interests are not into fat, sweating and in money bathing Westerners of age.

Come on, Marquis, jump

Claude had definitely no mind to take that rotten prick Paulard to the bistro in the village. However, the idea of Gothon seemed right to him and he admired the ingenuous way of how the old master associated with his pupils. You had to put in tons of affection, without getting something in return. And Gothon had a special gift, a grace, to be occupied with about thirty chaps who would be a good-for-nothing elsewhere and who were able to turn this day and night relief centre into a boys hell of the first kind. Still everything went, thanks to the presence of Gothon, more or less like clockwork. And that was a little miracle.

Sean Bentz's Photographs of Hollywood's Hot Guys

The day before I had to hand in this article, I visited an exhibition of photographs by Cor Heynen at Mister B. This Dutch artist captures the world of leather and S&M in dark black and white pictures, in which he uses models who are definitely at the other side of thirty. Heynen doesn't make slick pictures, but raw images which seem to be taken from real life.

Joe Phillips’ Fantasies About Queer Boys

In the May issue of Gay News I reviewed Joe Phillips' comic book "The Adventures of a Joe Boy, Vol. 1". In this article I mentioned in passing Phillips' "For the Boys," which was published at the same time. Now it's time to take a closer look at this collection of drawings. Last year, my colleague, Rob Blauwhuis, started his review of Phillips' first book, "Boys Will Be Boys," with a reference to the hidden erotic sultriness between superheroes such as Batman and Robin.

Film News

Shall We Dance Premiere Postponed

Just as with TV, the summer is a dull season for the visitor of the cinema. Many repeats and few new films, unless you’re having a lot of kids but that sorrow won’t be gone with a visit to the cinema. Many children’s movies with only incidentally something that’s worth watching. For the fans here’s the first setback: The new movie of Jennifer Lopez wasn’t considered to be a hit during the pre-release. The producers therefore decided to move the premiere of Shall We Dance towards October.

Memoirs of a Gay Teacher

Peter van Maaren, the writer of the strongly autobiographical book Mijn meester is homo (My teacher is Gay; unfortunately a translation is not available) has worked as a teacher for a VMBO (pre vocational education) school of the Regional Educational Center (ROC as they are called in Dutch) in the neighbourhood of Amsterdam. From the beginning of the eighties he had chosen to come out as gay and didn’t want to hide the fact that he’s homosexual.

Ron Lloyd Loves Muscle Hunks

When I visit a gay porn shop occasionally, I notice mostly videos (and nowadays DVDs) containing hot fuck sessions between two or sometimes even more guys. And that's exactly what porn is all about in my opinion. Watching porn is basically a voyeuristic occupation and doing this one wants as much value for money as possible. Usually I put the initial sucking and wanking scenes on fast forward.

Come on, Marquis, jump

“It’s the Mistral that makes the children so excited,” master Gothon said after dinner to his colleague Claude Nazin, who complained about it’s-one-of-these-days, “and there is also a new moon.” “I don’t know what’s wrong with them, but this afternoon when I dictated them ‘The cat gets cream from his master’, they all spelt cunt in stead of cat. I gather that this Pulard stirs them all up.”

Wild One Marlon Brando

Anyone who remembers Marlon Brando, who passed away on July 1 at 80, primarily as Don Corleone in "The Godfather" or some other role from his later days, might not know that early on in his career he played the part of a teen rebel in "The Wild One" (1954). This movie had a tremendous impact on American youth culture.

Butt Magazine Rescues Sex Icon Peter Berlin From Oblivion

Gay men of a certain age will remember the German sex symbol Peter Berlin. Berlin (a pseudonym) made two commercially produced films, "Nights in Black Leather" and "That Boy", which "no one" has ever seen. His fame is based on his self-portraits, which were published world-wide. Berlin is now in his sixties and lives as a reclusive in Los Angeles.

Chi Chi LaRue's Live And Raw

She's larger than life and she deserves our everlasting gratitude because of her discovery of Joey Stefano, the love of her life. The beautiful Stefano was the first bottom who became a superstar in the porn business. And he never made a secret of the fact that he loved to be fucked. He didn't tell that tiresome ol' tale about "doing it only for the money". No, he was out & proud, and the audience loved him nonetheless.

Portfolio - Beautiful Beachboys

The first hot and sunny days lay behind us. The summer is coming. This means that many of us will again be concerned about their appearance on the beach. Can I show those white legs? Should I work on getting rid of those love handles? Oh, I wish I could be a young god again! These thoughts will occur in many gay minds these days.

Come on, Marquis, jump

Mme Cancoillote opened the parcel with books she had just received. She ran the minuscule stationer’s shop of Nyons and she loved this moment when the new orders from Paris were arriving. Although she already had been in the business for twelve years and wasn’t up for her first parcel, she still had the pleasant and deceptive feeling she was receiving these postal parcels as a present.

Brokeback Mountain

Later this year the filming of "Brokeback Mountain" is due to start. This film is based on Annie Proulx's short novel of the same title. Proulx traces the story of a "pair of deuces going nowhere", Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar, two ranch hands brought together in the desolate, beautiful landscape of Wyoming. Herding sheep together on Brokeback Mountain in the spring of 1963, Ennis and Jack's companionability gradually develops into an intense sexual intimacy, much to the apparent surprise of both men.

Surviving under Castro’s dark shadow

Last year the book Het verloren Paradijs (The Lost Paradise) was published, with the subtitle Op zoek naar het andere Cuba (In Search of the other Cuba). Author Dirk Koppes reports about life on Cuba after interviewing twenty youngsters. Although the book hasn’t been translated in English (yet), it is interesting enough to lift out some cases, because Cuba is becoming a very popular gay holiday destination nowadays.

Gay Summer Tour - With 5 New Movies

Starting June 24, Dutch film distributor Cinemien presents a number of five gay movies and will lump them together as Gay Summer Tour. Five gay movies will be shown in every big city of the country (varying from comedy, drama until renewing arthouse), showing another movie in every city on a weekly base during five weeks. Next to that the movie titles will tour in different programmes through different cities.

DVD News

Before Night Falls
Homescreen - Cinemien

A couple of years ago this film was already reviewed when it had its premiere. Now it has been released on DVD. The film is based on the life of writer/poet Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), born on Cuba. He was an advocate of the Cuban revolution, but very soon he found out that he wasn’t able to write everything he wanted with Castro in charge.

Portfolio - Playgirl's Athletic Hunks

2004 will be one of those rather scarce years in which three major sporting events rouse the emotions: the Soccer European Championship, the Tour de France and the Olympic Games. Even within Gay News's ranks some men are getting all excited about the prospect of watching so many athletic men.

Come on, Marquis, jump

The train from Paris hardly had any minute delay. While opening the door Joris's eyes were glancing over the platform: the few travellers who had chosen to get off here could hardly conceal his sight of Zovsky. But there wasn’t a silhouette of the artist to be seen. Had the weather in Paris been extremely soft and rainy for the time of year, here the spicy and cold, almost stinging air that was coming to meet him, didn’t leave any doubt: he was arriving in a southern and dry area.

Film & DVD News

Behind the scenes
Life of Brian as Antidote for Passion

The Monty Python movie "The Life of Brian" is back at the American cinemas. The satiric movie about a putative messiah should be the answer to Mel Gibson’s controversial movie "The Passion of the Christ". On Good Friday "The Life of Brian" went in reprise.

The Films of John Travis

Recently I noticed the album "The Films of John Travis" on the top shelves of several bookstores, although it appeared some years ago. This doesn't matter of course, since "a dick is a dick is a dick," to adapt the famous line of Ms Gertrude Stein. And why should someone not enjoy the sight of the incredible dick of Kevin Dean in 2004? Kevin Dean, the name makes you dream.

The Adventures of Joe Boy

Which young queer guy didn't dream that the heroes of his boys' books and comics would go a little further than some innocent romping or a friendly arm around a pal's shoulder? In my youth I was addicted to the series The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dickson. I always imagined these teen detectives, who were a little bit older than this avid reader of their adventures, as very handsome American boys.

Film News

Behind the scenes

Controversial Passion of the Christ

While watching the movie, a middle aged woman from Wichita (USA) died of a heart attack, watching the scene of the Jesus’ crucifixion in "The Passion of the Christ". According to the local network KAKE-TV the movie was stopped immediately and the woman was taken to a hospital, unfortunately too late. The doctors couldn’t tell if it was the emotional scene which caused the heart attack. At Ash Wednesday, Mel Gibson’s controversial movie had its premiere in America; it already attracted many visitors.

Carandiru - Touching movie by Hector Babenco

Director Hector Babenco, known for his movies Pixot and Kiss of the Spiderwoman made a movie about the most notorious prison in Brazil, Carandiru. The film became a big hit, but against expectations, it wasn’t nominated for an Academy Award. However, the movie won a lot of prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. Carandiru was the biggest prison in South America, located in São Paulo, with seven thousand inmates although it had room for only four thousand prisoners.

Portfolio - All American Jet Set Boys

When you're discussing porn, usually it will primarily be about the so-called "stars". When you're talking to real aficionados the talk might also turn to producers such as Falcon or Bel Ami, or to directors such as Jean Daniel Cadinot or Chi Chi LaRue (although I doubt anyone will be able to name some of her productions offhand, because she's more famous as a persona).

The HQ Basement (24)

Again nothing happened for three or four days. Henderson had put Martin back in his cell. Martin slept a lot, ate his meals and did his exercises. He was thinking about the commander all the time. The big, hairy man controlled his entire life. He was ready for the commander whenever he might want him. His prick was hard all day, even though he did his exercises fanatically. Proudly, he flaunted his bulging crotch for the camera in his cell. The policemen should see his lust for the commander.

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Behind the scenes

Harry Potter is looking for schoolmates

It’s only just a few more months waiting for the third part of the Harry Potter series. That doesn’t mean the producers can lay back and relax. They are already very busy with the casting of part four. At this moment they are sill looking for two kids who will play the part of students of Hogwarts School of Wizardry.

S&M Fantasies in Black & White

Las summer I had lunch with the American gay publisher Winston Leyland. Of course I asked him when a new issue of Meatmen would be published. Meatmen is a series of Anthologies of Gay Male Comics, which Leyland has edited for some decades now. He told me he was preparing a new volume and it would be a "Special SM Comics Edition", just as volume 24. It took some months before Meatmen 26 was actually published, but a few weeks in 2004 it finally landed on my desk.

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Several days went by. Martin had lost count of the days. They were all alike. Lowe or Reighly would bring him his meals three times a day. At the end of each day they came and tied his hands and legs to his cot so that he lay immobilized during the night. In the daytime he could move around freely in his cell, wearing nothing but his very tight briefs

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Behind the Scenes

The myth about the Greek hero Achilles almost became reality at the set of Troy. Achilles was immortal, except for his Achilles tendon. He died because of a stab by a spear in his well-known tendon. Brad Pitt, who’s playing the part of the brave Achilles in Troy, was injured by his ankle during the shoots; isn’t it a coincidence?!

Walter Kundzicz' Champion Studio

It's a remarkable development that nowadays, when you can find depictions of every perversion imaginable on the world wide web, the interest in the rather innocent erotic photography of pre-emancipation days is on the rise. Frequently the pictures of almost forgotten photographers get a second life in beautiful monographs. Recently we received Champion, dedicated to the studio of Walter Kundzicz.

Kvir, A Russian Gay Magazine

While Russian gay men risked imprisonment hardly a decade ago, now they dance at nightclubs, surf Russian language websites, or celebrate their "commitment" in a church. Yet unlike in the west, they can't stop by the nearest kiosk to leaf through a rack of gay-oriented publications. But maybe this situation will change. Last August the first issue of Kvir ("Queer") was published. It is the brainchild of Ed Mishin.

Bel Ami's Summer Diary

How far can one go in the exploitation of a success formula? You only have to see the ongoing production of Bel Ami to know the answer. Very far! Let's take a look at the video (or, as they say in the 21st century, the DVD) productions of Bel Ami. Apart from the regular releases, they produce a lot of spin-offs. In the series Personal Trainers, which shows how the celebrated Bel Ami stars pass on their erotic knowledge to newcomers in the business, counts at least seven DVDs already.

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After they had taken him to his cell, Martin fell into a deep sleep. His body was still covered with wax and cum. Lowe woke him up and took him to the shower room. Martin was feeling sore all over. He was nervous and excited in anticipation of what might happen to him. But nothing happened. Lowe gave him soap and a brush and told him to clean himself thouroughly. He stood guard unmoved during Martin's shower. Even when Martin washed himself between his legs and his cock was obviously swelling, the cop did not show any emotion. He handed Martin a towel and then gave him a pair of briefs that fitted tightly around his crotch and ass.

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Mambo Italiano

Two Italian immigrants in Canada are in terror when they find out their son Angelo turns out to be gay. They're all Italian and live in Montreal, though it could have been any big western city. During the fifties Maria and Gino immigrated to "the New World" and married after their arrival. Their son Angelo, who would like to be a writer for television, is a travel agent in his late twenties, when he decides to leave home.

The Adventures of Timmy

Although many men complain about the demise of gay porn mags, are some of these magazines still going strong. Especially the ones that aim at a specific sexual appetite. I have the impression that, for example, Bound & Gagged, gets bigger and more colorful with every issue. And also Handjobs Magazine, which is dedicated to Daddy-Boy relations, seems to flourish.

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"Okay boy, come here." The commander was standing near the desk. Martin walked to the big, hairy man. The commander's muscles, covered with dark blond hair, were glistening in the light. Martin lowered his eyes and glanced at his huge balls and half hard cock. The man radiated power. Martin put his hands on his back and inhaled deep the commander's manly smell. He bowed his knees to kneel. "No, stand", the man said. He lifted his arm, exposing his sweaty armpit. "Lick."

Director Frank Mosvold

During the Roze Filmdagen (Dutch gay film festival) goes NordiQ there will be special attention for the work of Frank Mosvold. At this moment this 38 years young director, scriptwriter and producer is one of the most productive moviemakers of Scandinavia, especially in the category short gay movies.

Brighten Up Your Days With A Beautiful Boy On The Wall

It's the same problem every year: the choice of a new calendar. Because these calendar guys adorn your wall for a whole month it's something that needs serious attention. Fortunately the selection seems to get larger every year, so nowadays there's a calendar for every taste. Do you want "hard core" pornography, or do you prefer a calendar which doesn't even let your mother-in-law blush? You name it, probably it's available.

'Oh, You Pretty San Diego Boys'

Recently the mail contained the first issue of XYfoto, an off-spring of the famous, exciting gay guys glossy XY. What a pleasure! This first issue is dedicated to the pictures of Sean Bentz, a photographer who was an intern in the White House during the administration of the elder Bush. He had the sense however to leave the gray suits of the American capital behind, and exchange them for the much more colorful boys of San Diego, the home base of XY Magazine and one of the largest naval ports in the world.

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Reighly and Lowe knelt at G’s feet and untied them. Henderson untied G’s left hand. Then he moved to the other side of the desk and bent over to untie the right hand. Suddenly, G leaped up and slammed his fist against Henderson’s head. The blond cop fell. G swept his legs over the desk and smashed down on the policeman, who moaned loud. G wrapped his legs around Henderson’s waist, pressing the air out of his lungs. He rolled over so that the cop was laying between his legs, face up. G flung his arm round Henderson’s throat, while he pulled hard at his hair. The policeman gasped and clutched at G’s massive arm that was pressing down on his throat.

Dr Kildare - out of the closet - into the new age

As Dr Kildare, Richard Chamberlain wrote television history. Who wouldn’t like to have been manhandled by this young cleanshaven physician with his wholesome all-American virile charm. Later The Thorn Birds and Shogun helped to reinforce Chamberlain’s fame and appeal, bringing him world fame. Chamberlain rarely graced the front pages of the tabloids, though the rumours of his life in the closet have been going around for years. Recently Chamberlain decided it was high time he came out and in his memoirs, Shattered Love, he finally does so.

Lucas Kazan still has his Taste for Italy

When Bruno Gmünder began publishing his photobooks it was an adventure. The photography of male beauty was just freeing itself from the shackles of physique-photography and was slowly gaining recognition outside the gay scene. Gmünder photobooks were a successful marriage between quality and commercialism. In recent years the latter seems to have gotten the upper hand though.

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Phileine, a nasty bitch screws up her own movie

Months before its official release, already the Dutch press was fed lots of juicy inside stories about the latest movie of Robert Jan Westdijk, Phileine zegt sorry, based on Ronald Giphart’s best seller. This slick much-ado-about-nothing might well become the smash cinema hit all this prior media hype has been trying to turn it into. Nevertheless, Kim van Kooten and Michiel Huisman both do shine in this superficial screwball comedy full of sharp dialogue; great fun when your IQ level equals ‛they left the light on, but nobody’s in’.

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The commander took Martin by the neck and pushed him up against Reighly. “Kiss his prick and thank him”, he said. As Martin knelt in front of the sweating cop, he slid his face over the man’s hairy chest and stomach. He stuck out his tongue and lapped the sweat from the cop’s body. His mouth touched Reighly’s hot cock. “Thank you, Sir”, he said, hungrily licking the cum from the plump cockhead. Reighly picked up his briefs and walked away. “Tie G to the desk, face down”, the commander said.

Boys and their toyboys

We all know, or at least hope for something beautiful between Batman and Robin. Val Kilmer and Chris O'Donnell easily evoke such dreams, but the original Batman comics fail to inspire in like manner. In recent years the gay cartoonists drawing many of these comics aren’t as hesitant anymore to record their own erotic fantasies and a subgenre in which the heroes are clearly gay has surfaced.

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Switching genres with a twist

The career of French filmmaker François Ozon seems to be really taking off. Not long ago Ozon made his debut with the entertaining, but still shaky Sitcom. Now with each film he's growing in style and craftsmanship. Les amants criminels, Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes, Sous Le Sable, 8 Femmes; all fascinating, all out of the ordinary, provocative and above all surprising.

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It was Reighly’s turn. The redhaired cop squatted in front of Martin and unlaced his boots. Martin looked at the big bulge between Reighly’s legs. His skin prickled as he thought of the moment in his cell when the cop had made him drink his piss. Reighly took off his boots and socks. He rose. “Up”, he said. Martin stood up and looked around. All the men were watching them. The commander was slowly unbuttoning his shirt, his eyes fixed on Martin. The man’s massive cock was jutting out of his fly. Henderson was wiping his head and chest with his shirt. Lowe, dressed only in his briefs, had opened a bottle of beer and handed it to Henderson. G’s gleaming body was swinging in the chains. He was breathing agitatedly through his nose, his face was bloated.

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Surprisingly fun In-Laws

The international press prepared Andrew Fleming’s The In-Laws a lukewarm welcome, but naturally you’re entitled to your own quite different opinion. The film might not add significantly to comic film history, but does offer more than enough laughs.

The plot only serves to bring all kinds of slapstick, funny types and screwball situations to the screen, good for laugh upon laugh. So what about the plot? Undercover cop Steve Tobias (Michael Douglas) is also a family man, but likes to keep both worlds strictly apart and fails of course to do so.

Of a boy coming of age

In 1999 Bruce Weber published his beautiful Chop Suey Club covering four years in the boyhood of Peter Johnson in some 200 pictures. Weber is not the only photographer catching his fascination for a boy in a book. A few years after Chop Suey Club Reed Massengill’s Brian: A Nine-Year Photographic Diary appeared. Recently this book resurfaced again in Dutch bookstores at a much nicer price than when it first came out. In his annotations in Chop Suey Club Weber wrote that Peter at first had to overcome some shyness to appear in front of the camera in his birthday suit.

Pink Point Chit Chat

The third in a series of interviews at Pink Point, the gay information kiosk at the Homomonument. Thijs Bartels is the author of Dancing on the Homomonument, a new book that looks at this world famous monument.

Coming of age in a gay hothouse

Only recently Holland got to know the work of the Hungarian writer Sándor Márai (1900-1989) with the translation of his novel Gloed (Glow) (1938). Upon his suicide after the death of his wife and son Márai’s reputation quickly grew. The beginning of his career was at the time of Hitler’s rise to power, the chaos of that era resulting in WWII. These days the press can’t find words enough to praise his work, comparing it to that of Robert Musil, Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig.

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Henderson stepped forward. Martin looked up at the blond cop, his hands fidgeting nervously at his sides. This man could hurt him severely. Henderson planted his feet wide apart. “Kiss my boots”, he said. Martin crawled over to the policeman. He kissed the left boot first, then the right boot. “Take my boots and socks off.” When Martin pulled the cop’s heavy boots off, the strong, pungent smell of Henderson’s socks hit his nose. “Take my socks in your mouth”, the cop said. Martin swallowed. He tried to think of a way to disobey this order. Henderson slapped him on his head four or five times.

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Piedras, a classic-to-be

During the festival of contemporary Spanish cinema, this year for the first time in Amsterdam, Piedras by Ramón Salazar was on the program only a few times. Fortunately this spell-binding film can now be seen again. With this film director Salazar (1973) was a nominee for the Goya (Spanish Oscar) and the Berlin Festival Golden Bear. His directing debut is indeed remarkable, if only for the fact that the five interwining story lines all center around the footwear of five women. These five women, all in their own way struggling with their life, are introduced to the viewer by way of their shoes.

The male appeal of Thorsten Horvath

Photographing "daddies", who’ve turned the male body into a lustob-ject like Bruce Weber and Greg Gorman, have meanwhile a host of eager youngsters pressing up behind them to secure for themsel-ves their place in the limelight. One of these up and coming whip-persnappers is Thorsten Horvath, born in 1970, who recently saw his second photobook roll from the presses.

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Lowe unbuttoned his shirt and took it off. The thick mat of black hair made his broad chest look even larger. “Eyes front. Hands behind your head”, Lowe said. Martin hesitated. “Do as you are told!” the commander ordered. Martin put his hands in his neck and turned his face to G who was hanging in front of him, his body dripping with Martin's piss. A big puddle had formed under G's swinging body. “Look at your friend's balls”, Lowe said. “Look at those big, shaven balls. You'd like to chew on them, don't you?” The cop pressed his hairy chest against Martin's back.

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A family of their own choice
With Touch of Fever and Like Grains of Sand director Ryosuke Hashiguchi broke down the taboo on homosexuality in Japanese cinema for good. Also in Hush!, his latest film, homosexuality plays an important role. In the beginning, while the director is still busy introducing his main characters, it isn’t clear where he wants the story to go to. A boy wakes up in what’s clearly not his own home. He has spent the night with another boy. Without exchanging phone numbers he takes to his heels. So maybe the movie is about the hunt for (casual) gay sex? But Hashiguchi has another agenda. Next sort of by the way he introduces Naoya (Kazuya Takahashi), an egocentric young ‘fairy’ working in a dog parlour.

Playing Games

Thinking of European porn industry immediately brings to mind Jean-Daniel Cadinot, followed suit by Cazzo. But there are other pornographers in the Old World. The second edition of Euro Men Jour-nal for instance, a Polish glossy, is completely devoted to Kurt Joachim Foerster. This pornographer has already several dozens of movies to his name and Playing Games brings together the photos made during the shooting of his latest production in South America. Gays have the reputation of being softies, who in their youth did nothing more than play with dolls and later in life entertain overheated fantasies of dirty games played by tough guys under the shower after another sweaty football game. Such fantasies have obviously also inspired Playing Games.

Male nudity in the cinema

Since the earliest days of filmmaking male nudity on screen has been a topic of great interest as well as heated debate. Early XXth century mainstream opinion had it that male nudity was devoid of all eroticism.

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The commander pointed at G. “Gag him and hang him upside down.” Still dizzy from his intense orgasm, Martin looked at the commander's powerful body towering above him. He laid still and waited tensely for what was going to happen. The commander bent over and stroked Martin's chest and stomach, smearing his cum over the freshly shaven skin. Martin felt how full his bladder was with the piss Reighly had made him drink. “Please Sir, I have to piss”, he said. “You will, when I tell you to”, the commander said calmly.

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Gay romance from France

Recently, to get Le Roi Danse released in Dutch cinemas, ArtiFilm was founded. Which goes to show Holland has its own share of impassioned film lovers willing to give a film a chance when other distribution companies aren’t interested. In June the French movie Presque Rien by director Sébastien Lifshitz will be released, a gay movie released in 2001 which finally will also be playing Dutch cinemas thanks to the efforts of Hans and Piet of ArtiFilm.

Sensitive soldiers

The cover of the latest Bruno Gmünder photobook Views by Kobi Israel shows an untidy group of young guys in their undies. Legs wide, they squat seductively or drape themselves over what might be an army vehicle against a brooding dark evening sky, sipping their tea with vacant, staring eyes. Some have a dogtag gracing their sculpted hairy pecs. Here and there a tattoo is showing, lots of white tangas and cool hairdos.

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“Get up”, the commander said. Martin struggled to stand but was hampered by his pants hanging around his ankles. The commander took him under his arms and put him on his feet seemingly without effort. Martin felt small next to the big, uniformed man. The commander rubbed his hand through the bristly hair on Martin's chest. “We are going to make you as smooth as your partner”, he said, motioning to G. “No. Please”, Martin said, but the commander clamped his mouth shut. With his hand over Martin's mouth the commander and pushed him backwards to the desk.

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Far from Heaven

Splendid melodrama tribute On May 12, in the Gay Preview in Cinecenter, Amsterdam Far From Heaven by director Todd Hayes will be playing. Nominated for several Oscars, the movie unfortunately didn’t win any. In a dazzling tribute to melodrama filmmaker Douglas Sirk (amongst others All That Heaven Allows, 1955), Hayes tells the story of housewife Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore), who sees her bourgeois life collapsing all around her.

The Manga-wonderland of Kinu Sekigushi

In Holland there’s a rising interest in the Japanese manga. Not only on the tube, regularly showing manga animations, but also in a large exhibition early 2000 in the Rotterdam Kunsthal (Art Hall). Eroticism in all its many variations has always played a big part in manga. Especially the yaoi-manga tells many stories of sentimental relationships between young men.

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Madame Sata
Irritating, depressing, but good

For his first movie Madame Sata the Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz took a streetfighter and criminal who turned into a cult figure as the protagonist. Sometime in the thirties Joâo Francisco dos Santos (played by actor/dancer Lázaro Ramos) is living in the bohemian quarter Lapa in Rio de Janeiro, where life is ruled by pimps, whores, queens, artists, fighters and brothels. By day Joâo’s a cook, at night he hops the bars. A complicated bisexual ménage-à-trois with Laurita (plus child) and the ultra-feminine Tabou may demand all his attention, he still finds the time for his criminal and violent activities, which eventually will land him for a third of his life in jail.

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Henderson took a leather cock and ball harness out of his pocket. He closed the straps tightly around Martin's genitals. Martin grunted and looked down. He was surprised by the erotic sight of the black leather around his genitals. His swollen cock and balls stood out prominently from his groin. The commander nodded approvingly. “Disconnect the wires”, he said to Lowe. The cop unplugged the wires from the box and left them dangling from G's heaving body.

The body beautiful

For the Amsterdam photographer Thijs van Gils, the beauty of the human form is the essence of his work. A modest man, till recently Van Gils didn’t have the nerve to expose his work to the scrutiny of a larger audience. But now the Australian glossy Blue has changed that once and for ever. In a ten-page photospread you can now admire Van Gils’ photography in all its glory; a succesful combination of the body beautiful with emotional content.

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Reighly and Henderson took Martin's arms and marched him through the corridor. The commander followed them. Martin hobbled clumsily between the policemen, hampered by the pants around his an-kles. His shirt was scraping his burning back. He moaned in his gag and pushed his body forward. His dangling cock and balls protruded from under his shirt. Reighly opened a door and they went into a large, echo-ing room. It was the tiled room with the chains where Martin had been interrogated before.

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Spielberg Caught (with his pants down)

Catch Me If You Can tells the story of co-pilot-doctor-lawyer Frank Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio), who, forging cheques since the late sixties and making himself, at merely 21, a 4 million dollar fortune, gets caught by FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks). His preppy looks, smooth talk and sharp mind help Abagnale to pull the wool over other people’s eyes. As a runaway child from a broken home, -tax fraud dad (Christopher Walken) bankrupt and mom running off with the president of the Roraty Club-, nobody seems to think twice about this young fraudulent brat posing as a co-pilot. But back then pilots were still heroes and a uniform as cover up helps a lot.

Tom Hanks does a good job as the lonely, driven FBI agent, chasing after but unable to catch the young criminal, but a top performance it ain’t. All in all the movie is far below par. An adolescent co-pilot making it also as a doctor and lawyer...? The direction of Steven Spielberg himself doesn’t add to the soporific lack of drama, fantasy and surprise. Nice, but with Mr. Fantasy himself gracing the credits one might expect more.

David Vance outdoors

In 1970 photographer David Vance opened the doors of his Miami studio and soon found magazines like Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, Harper’s Bazaar and Rolling Stone on his doorstep, followed in their wake by Revlon, Rolex, Sony, Coca-Cola, all of them regular customers by now. Like William Baldwin, Gloria Estefan, Ricky Martin, Greg Louganis, Chris Evert, some of the celebrities wanting to be portrayed by him. But in his spare time Vance likes to have his camera capture male beauty at play, sporting or relaxing in the great outdoors.

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The red-haired policeman led Martin into a small room. Henderson was sitting behind a desk covered with papers, smoking a cigarette. The room was brightly lit. Opposite the desk was an armchair against the wall. Near the desk stood a monitor on a table on wheels. “Sit down”, Reighly said pointing to the chair facing the desk. Feeling small, Martin sat down. Henderson stared at him hard, slowly exhaling a thick cloud of smoke.

Raising the technique of adult film making to an art

The situation was about as dire as any porn producer could experience. One of the stars of his latest video—a muscular, blond Adonis had suddenly just taken off, returning to his home back east, leaving one pivotal scene in the video left to be shot

Cadinot's boys next door

Some months ago in this magazine I wrote an article on a glossy publication devoted to the men from Cazzo, the production company which since 1996 drastically raised the level of European pornflicks. Till then the European porn industry had been represented by one man only, Jean-Daniel Cadinot

Those beefy, horny guys from Cazzo

For many years Jean-Daniel Cadinot was the only serious gay porn producer in Europe. In these lowlands by the cold North Sea and also elsewhere some sleazy flicks got now and then produced, but these came with the stale smell of too much home crafts and were obviously made to make as much money with as little effort as possible

Falcon’s Young Men

Young Men is the second book of photos by Falcon Studios to be published by the Berlin based Bruno Gmünder publishing house. The book will certainly live up to the reputation of the first book entitled Legends. As the title suggests, Young Men contains portraits of the new guard of Falcon models.

The Hun book of Jocks

With the deaths of Tom of Finland and Etienne, The Hun (pseudonym of Bill Schmeling) now is one of the oldest pornographic artists in the USA. Schmeling made his debut, like his Finnish fellow artist, in Physique Pictorial, in which magazine his work appeared under his pen name Torro. Like Tom of Finland, who at a certain point collected his drawings of sailors, cops and blacks in separate albums, also The Hun has begun to compile his work according to subject

Wild californian boys

In the sex issue of Flemish gay mag Zizo collector Daniel Christiaens talks about his field of collecting interest, the physique magazines, expressing his surprise at the little gay interest in this phenomenon, since, according to him, we’re all crazy about great bods afterall

Hedwig, a gay classic already

At the Rotterdam Film Festival Hedwig And The Angry Inch premiered. This dramatic musical comedy is an adaptation of the Off-Broadway production of the same name in which director ánd lead player John Cameron Mitchell trod the boards for two years and for which he won an Obie Award.

Nijinsky according to fimmaker Paul Cox

The movieThe Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky by the Dutchman, working and living in Australia, Paul Cox, is not easy to catch in words. “It’s not a documentary and also not a feature film”, says Cox, “it simply is just a film”. Cox tries to capture the intensity and the feelings of Nijinsky’s diaries in screen images. For his guide he takes a number of expressions of the legendary androgynous dancer from the early XXth century.

Edmund White: Amsterdam is a Great Gay City

It's not every day that a gay literary legend comes to town, but that is exactly what happened last month when Amsterdam played host to Edmund White, one of the founders of the genre Gay Fiction and author of such classics as A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty and A Farewell Symphony.

Studs from Barry Gollop and Titan Media

Two books of photographs this month. 'Essentials' is a collection of Kristen Bjorn photographer Barry Gollop alias The Bear. Second a book called 'Titan men' from Titan Media.

Touching Spanish gay film true to life

Endearing, sweet, charming, touching. Fitting words to describe the Spanish film Krámpack. Four positive qualifications, strangely enough in this cold day and age loaded with negative meaning. But luckily there's more to say about the second movie by director Cesc Gay

The pornographic pleasures of the Soviet army

Since the Wall went down and communism vanished in the mists of history, many things have changed in what was once the Eastern bloc. Also where it comes to deviant tendencies

New on Homescreen: Lillies

Lilies, by John Greyson, is an emotionally intense, suspense-laden tale of love, betrayal and revenge in which one man's past comes back to haunt him...

BEEFCAKE Now on Homescreen DVD!

Behind the gleaming, well-oiled muscles and high-minded fitness advice of 1950s physique magazines, was a secret world known only to those on the inside...

Bikini.com Boys

Sun, sea and sexy men, don't we love it all? Holiday resorts offered it in plenty, even in these wet lowlands by the sea. But autumn draws near and who doesn't wanna quit the fun can surf to the surfers of Bikini.com, "The World's Biggest Beach Party" on the net.

Naked Life

Another book of nude pics? Yes and no. Though page upon page Julian Hargreavesƒ gorgeous Naked Life depicts (half)naked males, the book strays from the usual, worn-out pathways of gay soft porn.

Boy George launches his cookbook.

Boy George, known for his undiplomatic approach, just turned 40. If you think the Boy is retired, think again. A brand new cookbook, a tour in the US and as always never afraid to piss on people.

Angels in Amsterdam

Since his porn career, Holger Zill, better known as Wolff, didn't fold his idle hands in empty lap, but turned them to new creative use.

Never say never again.

Roger Moore, many people see him as the best 007 ever, is gay. His majesty secret service agent from the 70’s plays a rich gay man in the upcoming film “Boat Trip”. Well, what’s that for a ‘brown’… hmm gold finger, who brought many girls to there knees and wasn’t satisfied unless he kissed at least a dozen girls per film.

Olivia Newton-John Gay?

Rumors that Olivia Newton-John might be gay start popping up again now that she plays a lesbian in her new movie “Sordid Lives”. Olivia who has been married and has children knows how those rumors came to life but is she gay or isn’t she?

Sous le Sable completely convincing

The young and talented French director François Ozon has been doing a lot of filming lately. Sitcom showed him as a lover of the surreal, Les Amants Criminels brought a bizarre, cruel, Freudian fairy tale to the screen, and Gouttes d'Eau sur Pierres Brûlantes brought Rainer Werner Fassbinder back to life.

Together - an all out treat

The longing, joy and sorrow of love was the central theme of the film Fucking Åmål by director Lukas Moodysson. Dare to be different, seemed to be his message in this story of a fourteen year old girl, falling in love with another girl in her class. Also in Moodysson's latest movie, Together, homosexuality plays a leading role, even if that role is only a supporting one.Together is an all out treat.

Drôle de Félix, a perfect balance of substance and entertainment

Everywhere where Drôle de Félix, by directors-couple Olivier Ducastel en Jacques Martineau (also in private a couple), is shown, audiences as well as press respond with sheer enthusiasm to the scintillating and entertaining movie. Yet the film isn`t mere amusement. Ducastel and Martineau really have something to say, but have woven this almost imperceptibly into the movie as a whole.

Billy Elliot, to never, but really never forget anymore

Poignant, humorous, heartwarming and hope ful. Four words to which numerous superlatives could be added, in an attempt to describe the compelling movie Billy Elliot. The film has everything to become a major classic in film history, certainly in the gay scene. Though the movie has a `pink` touch, as a whole it certainly couldn`t be labelled `gay`.

Our work? We literally take it to bed with us

Twice already Drôle de Félix played as gay preview in an Amsterdam cinema and the movie was also part of a French film festival taking place in for instance Amsterdam and Groningen. On the occasion of this Gallophile film treat, Gay News had a talk with Olivier Ducastel, one of the movies` directors. His co-director and life partner Jacques Martineau, with whom he usually gives inteviews together, has been cruelly snatched from his side for a promotional visit to South America. From an abundant waterfall of French sentences on high-speed rail link velocity, we were able to catch the following.

A 'fun package' of international gay films

The "Roze Filmdagen" (Pink Filmdays) once again this year offer a full program with international gay and lesbian (short) films and documentaries not playing in the regular" cinemas. All together 80 productions, a "fun package" so to speak, for the lover of films centering on the theme of homosexuality.

Reinaldo Arenas or gay hedonism in Cuba

The New York painter Julian Schnabel devoted a movie to the life of Reinaldo Arenas. The film is based on his autobiographical Before Night Falls (1992/1993). A taste of the life of this horny but doomed Cuban writer.

RoB Amsterdam`s 25th anniversary

Last October RoB Amsterdam celebrated his 25th birthday. In leather/fetish circles RoB has by now become a cherished household word. Owing more than a little to the remarkable personality of Rob Meijer, who founded RoB in 1975 and gave it its international standing.

Jean Boullet (1921-1970)

In gay circles Jean Boullet was known mainly for his light-hearted gay porn in a style reminiscent of Jean Cocteau. In France he enjoys a certain reputation, not only because of those drawings, but also as a promoter of horror movies and cartoons. Already way back in the Fifties Boullet sported leather and tattoos. He was a precursor and a side-slip.

German performers and artists on the run from Nazi regime

"Despite all the poverty and misery in the wake of WWI, the Twenties were a flowering period for the German arts in general. Berlin in those days became the unequaled Mecca of the avant-garde. Artists could profit freely from the opportunities offered to them, being freed from the restrictive shackles of the conventions of the prudish, uptight Empire. This inspired renovations in literature, the visual arts and drama." Thus reads the introduction to Film and art in captivity (1933-1945)" by visual artist Adrian Stahlecker.

Edmund White: a curious union of Yankee and old-fashioned queen

Although biographies should provide the reader with a lot of background information, Stephen Barber`s recently published "Edmund White. The Burning World" fails in this respect. Barber simply does not succeed to dig deeper into White`s life than could have been expected.

The Rise Of Cazzo Films

Over the last decade the adult entertainment industry - a genteel euphemism for porn - developed into a major business, generating billions of dollars. Although still looked down upon by hordes of hypocrites and overzealous politically correct activists, porn has clearly become a business that`s here to stay.

Rosa von Praunheim:

Of his recent films some have never been released in Dutch cinemas. That`s why Rosa von Praunheim was pleased to see his latest cinematographic creation included in Rotterdam`s Film Festival. So much so that this living legend of radical film-making showed up at one of the screenings to introduce his Einstein of Sex to a sold-out cinema. And to experience again what it`s like having to give one interview after another. At the end of an exhausting day Gay News met the man whose films, often dealing with gay subjects, were from the first an inspiration for the rising gay movement in Germany.

Gay 2000 - een cultureel jaarboek voor mannen

Die na mij komen, lezen mijn kwatrijnen.
Zij zullen sidderen, als zij verstaan,
Met welk een marteling van hartepijnen
Ik zingend door het Leven ben gegaan.

dichtte Jacob Israël de Haan (1881-1924) nog aan het begin van deze eeuw. Met welk een diepe verrukking zou deze tragische, dappere, voorhistorische voorman van onze vaderlandse flikker- en lesbo-bevrijding het nieuwe GAY 2000-cultureel jaarboek voor mannen in zijn getalenteerde handen hebben gehouden.

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