Van Doren at 80, Photo by Alan Mercer

February 6, 1931– Mamie Van Doren:

“I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow‘s footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.”

It is unfair to lump Van Doren into a convenient little group along with Marilyn Monroe & Jayne Mansfield. She has a kind of Rock N’ Roll sensibility that the other girls lacked, plus her story is not tragic. And, most important, she is still with us and looking like a million bucks.

She was born in South Dakota as Joan Lucille Olinder.  Her family moved to LA when Van Doren was 11 years old. She was named Miss Palm Springs 1949, which brought her to the attention of Howard Hughes, at the time, in the film business.  They enjoyed an affair that lasted for the next half decade, even when she was married to Jack Newman, the owner of a men’s clothing company. That marriage was over after he tried to throw her from a hotel balcony while on their honeymoon. Around the same time, Van Doren was working at the El Rancho Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas where she dated a gangster in Al Capone’s mob. She was also briefly engaged to champion boxer Jack Dempsey in 1951, but according to Van Doren he was a “lousy lover”, something that she took rather seriously.

Van Doren became a contract player with Universal Pictures in 1953, with the studio giving her the new moniker Mamie Van Doren,  named after the new First Lady on the very same day that President Dwight Eisenhower was inaugurated, and for Charles Van Doren who was embroiled in a scandal after being given all the answers to questions on the most popular television quiz show.

Van Doren says that she had her way with Rock Hudson after they went on a studio arranged date to the 1953 Photoplay Awards. While filming Yankee Pasha (1953) she enjoyed the special company of director Joe Pevney and its star, the yummy Jeff Chandler. She had a liaison with fellow actor Jack Palance, and prolific songwriter Jimmy McHugh (Let’s Get Lost), at the time columnist Louella Parson’s boyfriend, making a lifetime enemy of the notorious gossip writer.

Van Doren had a string of affairs in the 1950s, including Dragnet’s Jack Webb, Denmark’s Prince Alex, abusive millionaire drunk Nicky Hilton (Elizabeth Taylor’s ex), before she became engaged to big band leader Ray Anthony. Confidential Magazine threatened to run a story claiming that Van Doren and her mother had a side business as call girls, but her lawyer had the story stopped.

She had a son with Anthony, before they split up after Van Doren had a fling with Elvis Presley in 1957. The next year she had her best screen role yet with the Clark Gable/ Doris Day comedy Teacher’s Pet. During filming Van Doren enjoyed the special company of the aging Gable, before moving on to actors George Hamilton, Yves Montand and Laurence Harvey. She even dropped LSD with Cary Grant.

I am not just coming up with the list of men in Van Doren’s life out of my imagination. In her terrific memoir Playing The Field: Sex, Stardom, Love, And Life In Hollywood (2013) and on her candid blog, Van Doren is very forthcoming about the men in her long life. She happily gives details about her affair with actor Steve Cochran:

“Steve and I launched into an affair that had the cast and crew of The Beat Generation (1959) whispering behind their hands. No sooner would we finish a scene than we would disappear into my dressing-room for a quick fuck while they set up the next shot.”

She tells about how, when she was married to Anthony, he was in for a surprise while he was snooping in her dressing-room:

“When he opened the door without knocking, he found me sitting astride Steve having sex in a chair. Location never mattered much to me. If I had the urge to do someone in an elevator or a taxi or a swimming pool, that’s where it happened.”

In 1960, she hooked-up with Tony Curtis while he was filming Spartacus on a neighboring sound-stage, bedded Johnny Carson, Eddie Fisher, and producer Robert Evans, and still found time to divorce her husband. In 1963 she became engaged to baseball player Bo Belinski, but the wedding was eventually called off after she agreed to pose for Playboy Magazine.

Those swingin’ 1960s showed Van Doren more fun with men, including a longish affair with Rock N’ Roll singer Johnny Rivers and Steve McQueen. She made headlines in 1965 as the latest plaything of NY Jets quarterback Joe Namath, and then briefly, with singer Tom Jones. In 1966, she shocked fans by suddenly marrying California Angels pitcher Lee Meyers, who was 19 years old. The couple divorced the next year.

During the Vietnam War, Van Doren entertained the troops, doing tours with Bob Hope in 1968 and 1970. She worked hard and gave a great deal of her time visiting injured soldiers at hospitals. Of Hope she bluntly writes:

“That son of a bitch flew into Vietnam during the day to do his shows and spent his nights in safety in Thailand, and made millions off the shows by selling them to television when he returned”.

Her affair with Burt Reynolds in 1972 ended when Van Doren married Fluor Corporation executive Ross McClintock, a man she says she never really loved. This one was annulled in 1973. The next year she met actor Thomas Dixon when they toured with the stage production Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? which rival Jayne Mansfield had done on Broadway after Van Doren turned it down. Five years later, she married Dixon and this marriage stuck. They are still together.

In the memoir, Van Doren insists that she never cheated on her husbands, but she does mention affairs with actors Donald O’Conner, her costar along with Francis The Talking Mule in Francis Joins The WACS (1954), plus Van Johnson and Warren Beatty. She had her way with NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin, commenting in the book:

“After all, a man who could make it to the moon, could make it with me anytime.”

And he did.

I love her a bunch. I am a fan because Van Doren is a real survivor. She represents the stereotype of Blonde Hollywood Bimbo, while tossing away that cliché by being in charge of her own life, loves and career. She likes men, and she had her pick of boyfriends and five times she married them.

Unlike most of her contemporaries, she is forthright in talking and writing about her sex life. I admire that.

Van Doren is a good friend of World Of Wonder and insiders that know her have told me that she is a delicious delight of a human being. She has given solid performances, often with a deft sly comic touch, in all sorts of films, including titles like: Born Reckless (1958), High School Confidential (1958), Beautiful Legs Of Sabrina (1959), Sex Kittens Go To College (1960) and Vice Raid (1960). She was in prison in Girls Town (1959), provoking the censors with a shower scene. She played the original woman in The Private Lives Of Adam And Eve (1960), wearing just well-placed fig leaves.

Van Doren is a Buddhist, an author, recording artist, business woman, animal rights activist, and humanitarian. She has always been outspoken about Women’s Rights and Equal Rights for Gay people. For her 85^th birthday, she posted a nude photograph taken by her husband.  She gives good Tweets and has an active page on The Facebook. My kind of girl. Visit Mamie Van Doren at her web site www.mamievandoren.com

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I was planning this post already but I decided to put it up today in honor of Mamie Van Doren‘s 85th birthday. She’s featured on two great examples in this small sampling from a private collection of over 200 rare, vintage posters printed for drive-in movie theaters. Haute Campe‘s collection of posters from the 40s-70s, originally went through a one distributor called National Screen Service, hence the “property of N.S.S.” at the bottom of 99% of the movie posters printed. The graphics, typography, colors and lurid glam here are still inspiring designers, photographers and even drag queens today. (The promos for Season 8 of RuPaul’s Drag Race feature a vintage, “time-gone-by” glamour/camp.) There are bad girls, good-time girls, lesbians, “gay deceivers” and every sort of politically incorrect innuendo you can think of, so lighten up and let your inner freak loose. You can see even more here. The bidding starts at just $100 in many cases and the auction ends February 8.

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Check out this deleted scene from the World of Wonder & Blue Oyster Films co-produced documentary Dressed as a Girl, which the Huffington Post named one of it’s five favorite gay movies of the year!

The scene that was cut is from the LoveBox Festival founded by Groove Armada and held annually in Victoria Park in East London.

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Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is in intensive care with pneumonia in New York City. Moore, who has has taken an active role in protesting the Flint water crisis, is asking fans to help get the word out about his latest film, Where to Invade Next?. He wrote on Facebook Friday,

“Between bustin’ it 4 my movie opening next wk, plus in & out of Flint, plus Election work, I find myself today in an ICU w/pneumonia. I’m now worried about my film’s release. I can’t fly, I have to recover, and in one week (February 12th) this great movie I’ve put so much of my life into is going to open in theaters — with little or no assistance from me.

So, would it be OK to enlist your help in a sort of quickly cobbled-together “army” of grassroots foot soldiers, wherein you could pitch in where you live (and on social media) to let people know about my movie? I could post some ideas tomorrow of things you and your friends could do.”

He goes on to say the grueling schedule to promote the film led to him ending up in the I.C.U.

“Let’s just say things didn’t look good Sunday night. But thanks to a combination of good doctors, decent hospital food and 2nd term Obamacare, I’m doing much better.”

Moore, among others like Bowling for Columbine, made the brilliant Fahrenheit 9/11, which remains the highest grossing documentary in history. He himself remains a political force with his latest, Where To Invade Next? focusing on what America can learn from other countries as he “invades” the countries to see what they have to offer.

(Photo, Pacific Coast News; via The Daily News)

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New York photographers Tony Craig and Idris Rheubottom, known as Idris + Tony, have been combining their technical and creative skills to celeb portraits and fashion for over a decade. (They shot the bulk of the amazing portraits in WOW’s anniversary compendium, The World According To Wonder) Rheubottom has always been intrigued by the power of the camera while his partner in life and image-making, focus has been on documentary filmmaking. Together, their work has been featured in film, TV and publications worldwide. But now they have a new baby! Craig says,

“A little over 9 months ago it was announced that Idris and I were having a ‘bastard’ child. Needless to say, the pregnancy was not without major struggles… as we cradle our newborn we realize that we didn’t just give birth to a publication that has heart and soul to it but we’ve started a movement of Being Accomplished at Selfless Tasks And Righteous Deeds in the hopes that the world will be better tomorrow…”

Yes, it’s a sexy, slick fanzine filled with amazing images, that calls attention to things they love and causes of they and their subjects care about,

“In BASTARD volume one, we present a collection of portfolios that profile seven individuals whose stories might seem drastically different, but are unanimously heartfelt and inspiring. By donating the profits earned from the sale of these fanzines, we can make a difference by giving back to help ease the struggles of those we hold dear to our hearts.”

To find out more and see a preview of the first issue, Struggle and Emerge you can go here and follow them on Instagram. Bravo, gentlemen. You created one good-looking, do-gooding BASTARD!

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BOW DOWN. Beyoncé just dropped a brand-new single, music video, and apparel collection(!) for her new song “Formation” and pretty much set everyone’s souls on fire at exactly the same moment in time. In true King Bey fashion, the video is full of Black Girl Magic, as well as Big Freedia, New Orleans, afros, Black Lives Matter, Red Lobster, Blue Ivy, Gucci leotards, braids, furs, drowning a police car, and like, the most flawless unapologetic southern black girl slayage EVER.

(By the way, Big Freedia proclaiming: “I did not come to play with you hoes. I came to SLAY, bitch.” is everything I’ll ever need to hear in my life ever from now on.)

WATCH:

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As you already know, Queen Bey unexpectedly dropped a new music video and apparel collection for her new song “Formation” today, and the jam features none other than the Queen Diva herself, Big Freedia.

Naturally, we had to find out what the Queen Diva thought about working with Queen Bey. Freedia said:

It’s was amazing to slay on the Queen Bey track! I love her energy, and I love her—you best to believer!! 

Freedia also explained to Fuse:

It was a total shocker when I got a call from Beyonce’s publicist and she said Beyoncé wanted me to get on this track. When I heard the track and the concept behind it, which was Beyoncé paying homage to her roots (New Iberia, La.), I was even more excited! It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life and I was beyond honored to work with the original Queen B. I think it turned out amazing too!

The Queen Diva also tweeted:

I'm so honored 2b on the new @Beyonce song Formation https://t.co/9IJ34kWwQD #ualreadyknow #cornbread #collardgreens pic.twitter.com/7DdacvCRM7

— Big Freedia (@bigfreedia) February 7, 2016

Watch the video:

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Ashton Kutcher
Chris Rock
Deborah Ann Woll
Eddie Izzard
Emo Philips
Essence Atkins
Garth Brooks
James Spader
Jason Gedrick
Kelly Choi
Kerli
Miguel Ferrer
Robyn Lively
Stephen Colletti
Tina Majorino

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February 7, 1968– Mark Tewksbury:

“Keeping up the image of Canada’s boy next door, while feeling a lot like the girl next door wasn’t very easy.”

2016: Leap Year, Republican and Democratic National Conventions, a Presidential Election, The End Of The World, and the Rio De Janeiro  Summer Olympic Games!

Johnny Weissmuller, Ian Thorpe, Matt Biondi, Michael Phelpes, and of course Mark Spitz… I am zany for Olympic swimmers! In 2013, lovely, lithe Tom Daley beat the tabloids at their own game: he came out, entirely on his own terms. Not that unusual in the 21^st century, but still a rarity in sports. On his own YouTube channel, Daley announced he had something to say: he had fallen in love, and it just so happened to be with a guy. I like the new matter-of-fact method of opening the closet door. When Mark Tewksbury won Olympic gold in 1992, there were no gay characters on television and talking about his sexuality was considered taboo. There were no positive gay role models in sports.

Olympic medalist Tewksbury was closeted throughout his competitive swimming career, but since coming out of the closet, he has become a strong advocate for LGBTQ rights. Going into 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Tewksbury was ranked 4th in the world, and most experts picked him as one of the powerful American swimmers to win the gold medal. Tewksbury’s winning gold was Canada’s first at the Barcelona games and the first Canadian gold medal in swimming since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, which Russia had boycotted. Tewksbury also won a bronze medal in the relay event in Barcelona. He made the cover of Time Magazine. He was inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall Of Fame, the Canadian Sports Hall Of Fame, & the International Swimming Hall Of Fame, and he was named Canada’s Male Athlete Of The Year for 1992.

In December 1998, Tewksbury told the world that he was gay. He was the first Canadian athlete to voluntarily state his gayness and his announcement drew a lot of public attention. In 1998, he lost a very lucrative contract as a motivational speaker because he was “too openly gay.”

Like most athletes that happen to be gay, Tewksbury competed for years while in the closet, winning medals and making money doing endorsements.  Tewksbury:

 “The only gay swimmer I knew of was Greg Louganis and he was spoken of terribly behind the scenes because of his sexuality. So in that regard, it pushed me further back into the closet.”

In 2006, Tewksbury published a book, Inside Out: Straight Talk From A Gay Jock, where he writes of the infighting among organizers of the Olympic Games, as well as the International Gay Games, newly formed Out Games. He resigned from the International Olympic Committee over the lack of accountability, accusing the International Olympic Committee of rampant corruption. He was also part of a group of former Olympic athletes who pushed for the resignation of IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch. Only months after the scandal surrounding the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games broke, Tewksbury became known as an outspoken critic of the IOC and he demanded reforms to the system. Part of what Tewksbury stood for was integrity in sports, and he “had a complete crisis of faith in the leadership of amateur sport,” including the IOC, from which he resigned. With a number of others jocks, he founded Olympic Athletes Together Honorably (OATH), a group dedicated to reforming the IOC to eliminate cronyism and lack of real accountability.

Tewksbury:

“I gazed around the room slowly. The best swimmers from Russia, Cuba, the United States, Spain, Germany and France were in front of me. & I was different. I was the fag. And in that moment I owned my truth completely. I thought: ‘If these guys knew how hard it was for me to get here, they wouldn’t believe it. They have no bloody clue what I have been through. Or how strong I am.’ ”

Tewksbury is candid about embarrassing, humorous and unflattering things about his personal life, including his involvement in a serious 3-way relationship with a gay couple and his persistent pursuit of a professional male escort.

In December 2008 Tewksbury was invited by the government of France to speak at the United Nations in NYC on the day that a declaration was introduced that affirms International Gay Rights and seeking to decriminalize homosexuality around the globe. Tewksbury remains a spokesman for The International Day of Sport For Development And Peace which highlights the role sport can play in achieving sustainable progress and change. This year’s celebration is on Wednesday, April 6th.

In 2009 Tewksbury was inducted into Canada’s LGBT Human Rights Hall Of Fame in honor of his outstanding achievements and his efforts to end discrimination in the world of sports. He was named the Chef de Mission (a sort of team manager) of the 2012 Canadian Summer Olympic team.

Tewksbury lives in Ottawa with his longtime partner Benjamin Kiss, a former Swiss figure skater and now working as an actor.

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If you love the 70s, then this far North Side apartment in Chicago three bedroom has your name on it. It’s a roomy 1,877-square-foot, colorful, and SUPER far out. This pad is SO super-funky that all you need to add is a disco soundtrack, Shaft on the tube TV and vintage bell-bottoms. You know the best part? It can be had for just less than $200,000. Alllriiigght!

(T/Y Tad; via Curbed)

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Outside, this home is like any other in Newport, Oregon. Inside, it’s a Renaissance-era castle with hand-carved doors, stained-glass windows from old English churches. (It might seem more like a crazy ex-royal lives here…) Close, it is owned by the Right and Honorable Dowager Countess of Shannon, Almine Barton. She’s also a seer, spiritual master and Mystic-Visionary, according to her website… OK.

The home has undergone major additions since Barton moved in and her reasoning is that she didn’t want her tax bill to go up, which is nutty. But she claims she left the exterior unchanged and never “let the tax man through the door”. Barton bought the property in 1979 for very little and now she has put it on the market for $399,000, which seems a bargain, if it comes furnished and at the same time, she’s not likely to get that amount.

“It was an ordinary suburban house. The owner built it with just basic materials in a very, very sturdy way. But when I went in and saw the small little space, it just didn’t feel right to me.

One of the first things you might notice is that the house looks reasonably dark inside. Normally American houses aim for light. But there’s a reason for that. We have 18th-century stained glass in many of the windows, and just like in a cathedral, the darker interior makes these windows light up like gems throughout the day. As the light changes, the windows change.

It’s like living inside a Rembrandt painting.”

Before Barton had a stroke two years ago, she traveled around the world — sometimes twice in a year but now she’s looking to downsize to a smaller home that’s a little more manageable. But it’s hard to say goodbye to the house it took her 40 years to carefully design, curate and craft. Take a look. It goes on for days. Her buyers pool is small if you use the whole U.S. but in the small town of Newport, Oregon, it must be a handful, if that.

(T/Y, Tad; via Curbed)

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The original fall… that spawned a million memes

It’s an awkward photo, no doubt, but INSPIRING? Apparently, YES! The internet has been burning up Photoshop software putting Scarlett Johansson in even more compromising positions ever since it happened in ’13. By now she’s giving Confused John Travolta a run for his money in sheer number of memes. What’s YOUR fave?

(via Sad and Useless)

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Solange Knowles and husband Alan Ferguson in NOLA before their wedding day

Solange, Beyoncé’s chic younger sister, was celebrating Mardi Gras in her adopted hometown of New Orleans by participating in the kick-off. Riding in the Krewe of Muses parade on a float, she tossed out plastic beads to revelers. In the process she accidentally threw her wedding ring into the crowd, along with the beads. The ring was designed by Solange and jewelry designer, Lorraine Schwartz. A reward has yet to be announced, but the super-unique ring can easily be spotted if someone tried to pretend it was theirs. As far as Mardi Gras throws, that’s a good as it gets, but hopefully whoever finds it will do the right thing.

Cc: hand queen @armina.mussa

A photo posted by Solange (@saintrecords) on Jan 9, 2016 at 12:47pm PST

(via Observer)

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Awesome fly-on-the-wall footage from 1970, featuring TOUT LE Warhol crowd in the back room of the legendary Max’s Kansas City (which was across the street from the Union Square Factory). In it, we see a clearly-out-of-her-mind Brigid Polk toddling around with her shirt off, titties waving in the wind, lipstick smeared, yelling at the camera – before she plants the most unwanted kiss EVER on a random socialite. Then the camera pans the room and we see factory regulars/underground celebrities Gerard Malanga (at the :40 mark), Taylor Mead (at 1:34), Candy Darling (1:35), and Robert Mapplethorpe with his bestie Patti Smith. It’s literally like taking a time machine back to a more fabulous era. I could watch this all day.

From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. Watch it below.

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Yesterday’s halftime performance at Super Bowl 50 featuring Coldplay, Bruno Mars, and Beyonce was pretty amazing, but was it your favorite performance of the past 26 years? Check out this list of every Super Bowl halftime performance since 1990 to jog your memory.

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1991 *recorded from a television, but it’s the full show

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Men’s Health magazine has put a trans model on their cover… but it wasn’t Aydian Dowling (frownie face emoji). It was fitness model Ben Melzer, and the cover was for the Geman edition of the magazine, making him the first trans person to ever cover a men’s fitness magazine in Europe. He will appear on the cover of the April collectors edition, which hits newsstands in March.

From Towleroad:

Melzer’s cover came about after he entered German Men’s Health‘s cover-model contest.

Ben, who was born Yvonne, told us, “I started transitioning at the age of 23 and I always had a passion for fitness but because of the surgeries it was hard to achieve my goal.” He added, “After about 3 years everything was finally done and I started to concentrate on my training and diet.”

Melzer also recently spoke to Bild.de about his experience being raised as a girl. “I was never a typical girl. Pink was a no-go,” Melzer says in the video, pointing to a picture of him when younger, saying, “That’s why I’m crying [in] this picture. Because they made me wear pink.”

Of his life post-transition, Melzer says, “This is me and I’m very happy with the person I became. My inside and my outside finally fit and that’s why I’m not at all ashamed to talk about it.”

Melzer says he hopes he can use the publicity he’s receiving to give hope to other trans individuals.

“Many ask me: Why do you do this, why did you public and tell your story? But that’s easy to answer. When I was in that situation, I had nobody to talk to, nobody to ask all [these] questions. That’s what I want to do. I want to give the community a face, stand up and answer those questions for people. If there is one person out there I can help, I will succeed.”

Melzer told Towleroad, “I wanna show the world that we’re just normal guys. I wanna educate and give hope to others.”

Congratulations, Ben!

What an awesome and exciting day! Hard work finally pays off! No matter if I win the cover or not, this is a life goal for me! #meinCover #menshealth SO KRASS HIER LEUTE! ANSTRENGEND UND AUFREGEND ZU GLEICH! DRÜCKT MIR DOE DAUMEN ✊ much #fingerscrossed #fit #fitness #ftm #ftmmodel #model #motivation #instagood #inspiration #healthy #life #love #lifestyle #instadaily #workout #powerful #strength #transformation #training #transman #transgender #transguy #believe #focus #workhard #trainhard #germany #hamburg

A photo posted by Benjamin Melzer (@egoshooter) on Jan 16, 2016 at 7:46am PST

✖️GOOD MORNING BEAUTIFUL WORLD✖️ 8:30 am here in Germany, cardio today. I’ll go swimming for about an hour WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR TODAY? LEAVE A COMMENT #beautiful #world #workout #love #life #ftm #ftmmodel #training #transman #trans #transformation #transgender #tattoo #fit #fitness #inspiration #instagood #motivation #model #transguy #blackandwhite #picoftheday #beauty #workhard #focus #follow #eyes #abs #body #bodybuilding

A photo posted by Benjamin Melzer (@egoshooter) on Jan 9, 2016 at 11:38pm PST

Throwback! Thanks to @pgracephoto for this great shot good night Instagram #goodnight #instagood #inspiration #men #model #ftm #ftmmodel #transguy #transman #transisbeautiful #menstyle #menswear #mensfashion #me #transgender #transformation #classy #fashion #fitness #motivation #believe #workhard #picoftheday #love #life #lifestyle #london #instadaily #follow #like4like

A photo posted by Benjamin Melzer (@egoshooter) on Dec 26, 2015 at 12:12pm PST

TODAY’S WORKOUT KICKED MY ASS. ✖️ coffee break ✖️. . Heute Abend bin ich live bei WDR-Dortmund im Studio 19:30 Uhr nicht verpassen!. #ftm #ftmmodel #transguy #transman #transgender #transformation #fitguy #fitness #model #motivation #instagood #inspiration #tattoo #abs #crossfit #german #germany #believe #powerful #proud #love #life #healthy #lifestyle #coffee #break #follow #workout #workhard #training

A photo posted by Benjamin Melzer (@egoshooter) on Feb 2, 2016 at 5:29am PST

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Here are some of the hottest moments from Beyoncé’s Formation to wind up your week. Oof. Because there is no one better than the Queen B.

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My old chum Stephan Horbelt, editor in chief of Frontiers magazine, recently asked Bennett Anthony, Boomer Banks, Landon Conrad, Brent Corrigan, Steve Cruz, Jimmy Durano, and Adam Ramzi – seven of the biggest gay porn stars in the biz – the questions everyone wants to know.

From Frontiers.com:

How did you come up with your on-screen name?

Cruz: I kept my first name and gave myself a new last name. I wanted something that felt like a real person you’d want to get to know. I had this idea I didn’t want to take myself too seriously or be pretentious, which, looking back, is pretty hilarious.

Anthony: Bennett had a nice little Southern ring to it, and Anthony is my middle name. Chatted it over with my agent and put it on lock.

Ramzi: My on-screen name is close to my actual first name, and Ramzi was one of the many nicknames I was given over the years. I also liked the somewhat ethnic ambiguity of it (vaguely Middle Eastern), and if you JLo’d my porn name, it’s my real first name. So it’s rooted in truth.

Conrad: I always liked the name Landon and wanted to change my real name when I was younger. So when I decided to do porn, I was like, “Here’s my chance!” And I just so happened to be watching MTV’s The Hills at the time. [Laughs]

Do you watch a lot of porn yourself?

Cruz: Nope. I’m planning, editing or filming porn every day. When you work behind the camera you see it all as the product. You recognize hot sex, but you’re constantly looking at lighting or maintaining the pace; you’re too in your head. I did get a little hard for, like, three minutes shooting the last scene I directed, though, so maybe there’s hope for me yet!

Anthony: I watch about three to four movies per week. Mostly bareback interracial muscle worship shit.

Ramzi: I love porn, and I always have.

Banks: I watch a lot a drag. Different strokes for different folks.

Conrad: Not a lot, but I do watch my fair share. That’s actually the reason I got into it. I admired and wanted to be like these hot guys. Porn sales aren’t legal in Utah, so I drove 90 miles to the Nevada border where there was a little porn store just so I could get my hands on some. Obviously this was before you could get it online!

Read the full story on Frontiers.com.

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Love this! “Drive” – with its old-school ’90s R&B vibe – is Pretty Sister’s new release that embodies everything there is to love about Los Angeles and those sunny days driving up and down the Pacific Coast Highway with the top down blasting Tupac.

Pretty Sister was born on the northbound 405 freeway in a 1968 Buick LeSabre… “More Bounce to the Ounce” on the radio… old-school nostalgia in the smogged-up air. Defying boundaries of all kinds, the latest exploit from L.A.-bred singer/songwriter/producer Zak Waters now lives everywhere—from the back room of the party at 3 a.m. on a Friday night, to the front seat of a candy-pink low-rider on the hottest Saturday of summer. As the songs usher in the next wave of sex music, Pretty Sister slips way beyond lustful to manifest something shapeshifting and pleasure-bent, libertine and limitless.

Reaching 4.4+ Million plays on Spotify, #3 on “United Stated Viral 50”, #7 “World Viral Top 50”, #3 “Spotify’s Throwback Thursday”, #1 “Alternative R&B” and #1 “Viral Hits Playlist” with his cover of Ginuwine’s “Pony”. Pretty Sister’s new hit “Drive” is quickly getting attention and recognition from major music blogs and publications.

Condragulations! Listen to it below.

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Yes, that could be the new slogan for Michigan. For those who violate the ban on anal sex in Michigan, they are now facing up to 15 years in prison. The Michigan Senate passed the controversial bill last week. While the bill does not specifically target the gay community, the legislation outlaws anal sex completely. Sponsored by Senator Dick Face –I mean RICK Jones, the bill is linked to the prevention of bestiality,

“A person who commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature with mankind or with any animal is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for no more than 15 years.”

It reads.

If the person is found to a ‘sexually delinquent person’ or an existing sex offender, they will face a life term in prison.”

Eleven US states join Michigan to include anti-sodomy legislation, even though the US Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional in the 2003. Back to the future is NOT just a movie. (via Attitude)

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