Adventures of Gay Boys

Over a million marchers in London Pride

Over a million people marching through central London yesterday made this year's Pride London event the biggest ever.

With the theme 'Come out and play', marchers included a wide variety of LGBT groups from around the UK and Europe, sports groups, bright and fluffy drag divas, gay political groups, and gym-goer marching boys.

The parade wound its way through the city, ending in a huge free concert in Trafalgar Square, featuring M People singer Heather Small, several openly gay TV presenters, gay comedian Stephen K Amos, and the cast of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert performing live.

ES Collection 09/10

We Gay Boys love sexy Underwear and Barcelona based ES Collection offers quality Spanish swimwear and underwear. ES offers designs for those who dare to be different,these images are for their their new Fall/Winter 2009-2010 collection.

Photographer Joan Crisol shot these amazing pics.

Senitif - July

This month French online magazine features some beautiful boys in sexy trunks, photographed by Olivier Rieu.

Cool Down Calendar by John Gress

Is it too early to talk about Calendars for 2010, photographer John Gress  doesn't think so, below are the sexy men featuring in his Cool Down Wall Calendar.

Shame on the United States Military! Shame!

ON PAPER, Dan Choi is everything the US military could hope for: a graduate of West Point academy, he has served in Iraq and is fluent in Arabic and Korean.

Despite his talents and experience, the army is seeking to get rid of Lieutenant Choi because of a personal quality it considers incompatible with military life: he is openly gay.

In one of the last instances of government-sanctioned discrimination, the military allows gay men and lesbians to serve in the military only if they keep quiet about their sexuality. For more than a year after meeting his boyfriend and falling in love, Lieutenant Choi was forced to lie or risk joining a list of almost 13,000 gay and lesbian personnel discharged in the past 16 years under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

"What if I deploy and he can't come to the tarmac to wish me goodbye," he asked himself, "or kiss me when I come back?" If he were to fall in combat, to whom would the army present the flag that draped his coffin?

"I started my first relationship ever in life at age 27," Lieutenant Choi said. "I'm understanding finally what love is. I have to make the decision: am I going to continue lying?"

He decided the answer was no. In March he announced on television he was a gay soldier. The military responded with a letter saying he would be charged with violating army regulations. Lieutenant Choi faces a disciplinary panel.

"You admitted publicly that you are a homosexual," the letter read. "Your actions negatively affected the good order and discipline of the New York Army National Guard."

"It's an insult to their professionalism," Lieutenant Choi said of the insinuation that fellow soldiers cannot abide a gay comrade. "They care about what a person can do for the team. We're in a time of war. We have bigger things to worry about than people being gay."

The discharge of thousands of people because of their sexuality over the past 16 years has generated strong criticism that the military is diminishing its strength when the country cannot afford it.

The Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns make onerous demands on manpower and relations remain tense with Iran and North Korea. But lawyers say the army has discharged 59 gay Arabic linguists and nine gay Farsi linguists in the past five years.

Lieutenant Choi will probably be offered an honourable discharge. But he intends to fight. If he loses, he risks forfeiting his military pension and health benefits.

Bruno bonds with high school football team

L.A. Times reports that Los Angeles Unified School District officials are upset that members of the Birmingham High football team participated in a photo shoot with “Bruno,” the flamboyantly gay character played by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen for the latest GQ magazine spread.

Philip Fusco for M Mensuel Issue N°14

The latest issue of French gay lifestyle magazine M Mensuel, Issue N°14, is now on sale and features cover boy Philip Fusco. Twenty one year old Phillip is from New York City.

Photography is by Thomas Synnamon

Bruno in Sydney

The gay Austrian fashionista stopped traffic and caused mob scenes in Sydney's CBD, dressed as a knight in shining armor leading a white horse dressed in bondage gear.

 

"Vassup Sydney! Do you like my helmet?" he asked the hundreds of screaming fans who packed into Market Street.

Bruno, played by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, has spruiked his movie in seven countries over the past 18 days - "more than any Austrian since 1941".

Sydney was the last stop on his world tour, and he was going out with a party.

"Ich really hope my movie realises its full global potential and doesn't peter out after a promising start like swine flu," said Bruno, posing with silver-painted models in red bikinis.

"Let's hope, like herpes, this film continues to infect audiences for the next 1000 years."

Bruno added that of all the places he'd visited "Sydney is the best", but there was no sign of the man who had won his heart on his trip Down Under: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

At a press conference on Monday morning, he raved about the man he called Ruddy.

"The reason I'm late is I just had breakfast in bed with Kevin Rudd. That guy is like, uber cute," Bruno said.

"I thought Obama was like the hottest guy in the world until I met Kevin.

"I did to him last night what Malcolm Turnbull has been trying to do to him for the last couple of weeks."

"I want to be the gay stereotype, I want to be the gay role model," he said.

"My first words to my mother were: 'I'm gay, get over it'."

He was also keen to discuss his "fashion philosophy".

"Fashion can solve most of the world's problems," Bruno said.

"Israel and Palestine, the whole of the middle earth, the fact is not one suicide bomber has even blown themselves up while wearing Marc Jacobs. That's a fact.

"If you go the middle earth you see when those guys open their wardrobe all they've got is like a black smock and sandals. I'd blow myself up too."

Tribute to Michael Jackson

The Filipino prisoners, most famous for their YouTube video of “Thriller”, paid tribute to their idol, Michael Jackson, on Saturday.

The 1,500 dancing inmates at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) practiced for nine consecutive hours Friday night/Saturday morning and only took breaks only to eat or when it rained. What dedication!!!

Check out the Michael Jackson tribute video below!

Recreation of Stonewall Riots

Yesterday in Times Square on the TKTS stairs some folks did a photo "recreation" of the Stonewall Riots, this weekend being the 40th Anniversary.

Participants included Gavin Creel and other cast members from HAIR, sexy chorus boys dressed as sailors, and dancers/voguers from the Federation of Ballroom Houses, who will be featured in this Saturday's LOVE BALL – the official opening night party of NYC’s Gay Pride – at the Nokia Theater, Times Square (www.saintatlarge.com).

Hippies, drag queens and white boys were all present at the Stonewall Bar the night of the police raid, which ignited the riots.

Remembering the continued need to fight for equal civil rights and marriage equality, performers re-staged this protest in Times Square in an effort to draw attention to this ongoing battle.