Lets Get Something Straight

I must apologize for being absent for a few days. I have had some friends form out of town I have been entertaining not to mention dealing with getting back in school and all that good stuff. It seems though that in the few days I have been gone, my blog has stirred up quite a bit of commotion. I woke up this morning to an inbox full of emails abouut one of most recent entries about a certain transsexual model. I won't mention any names.

(face it, Kyle’s blog is NOT fleshbot, gaypornblog, gayporntimes, etc.)

This is a quote I pulled form one of the emails I received from the model's agent. Now I never claimed to be anyone of those named sites. My blog is strictly MY experiences and MY opinions that I share with my readers and friends. Although I do want to take this chance to go ahead and clear up any confusion about there being lies in my posts, my life is plenty interesting and exciting with being an escort and model in the gay industry that I would never need to lie to make content.

I will share a little bit of truth with you on this however...

The same agent that has been bitching about my post and sending me hateful messages all morning had called me several times last summer asking me to come over and play with him. I believe he called himself a "dirty old man" but don't quote me on that because I could be wrong. I remember the phone calls quite well because I had to call around to my friends and find out just who this person was. NOW THERE IS SOME TRUTH FOR YOU!

Good Ol Fashioned Gossip

Now I'm Not Usually One To Call Someone Out......
However in this case I will make an exception. Now I am going to have to take you back a few post to my recap about HustlaBall. Remember Angel Benton was hosting the red carpet and doing interviews with all the VIP guests to the party. Well Angel had interviewed Ricky Cruz for a brief moment and had mentioned that Ricky Cruz was an Helix Studios exclusive, to which Ricky quickly stated was false. Then Angel had asked if he had at least worked for them (as if Angel Benton's knowledge of the porn industry has ever been wrong, but I know Angel was just fishing for the lie) and Ricky had replied "No, I have never worked for them!"

Now correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that this advertisement clearly has Ricky Cruz's name on it. Far be it for me to question anyones reason for their actions but I have always believed that if your going to lie about something at least make it something you might be able to get away with, and for gods sake don't do it on camera dude! It's humorous though because when you stop to think about it, Ricky Cruz is plastered all over their twink line on both box covers and advertisements. It's not like he is shy about his work so why in hell would he diss them on camera? Raises my eyebrow that's for sure.
Tsk Tsk Ricky

Rainy Day Blues

Gloomy Showers Plague Los Angeles

That's what the headlines should read here lately. It seems that sunshine is a thing of the past because all I have seen in the last few days is rain and harsh winds. You know it sucks for me because I don't like being stuck in the house and that's just what I am since I hate the rain just as much. You know back home I use to love storms but they just don't seem to be the same without thunder and lightning. There is just something soothing about the sound of thunder and the flash of bright light and without that it's just falling water and brisk winds. The bad side about it though is that Buster LOVES the rain so when I take him out to pee it's almost impossible to get him back inside.

Paying The Ultimate Price

Iranian Official Confirms Gay Executions
Posted: November 13, 2007 - 11:00 am

(London) In a meeting between Iranian and British parliamentarians a high ranking Iranian politician has for the first time acknowledged that the Islamic state upholds the death penalty for homosexuality according to minutes of the meeting obtained by The Times newspaper.

The disclosure came during a peace conference - the Inter-Parliamentary Union - in May.

The Times obtained the minutes of the meeting under Britain's freedom of information law.

LGBT rights groups have reported for more than a year that gays were being executed but the government in Tehran has repeatedly denied the public hangings were for homosexuality.

In 2005 two young men hanged in a public square in northern Iran after were alleged to have been found guilty of homosexuality. (story) The government claimed they had been convicted of kidnapping and raping a male teen.

In May a western LGBT organization for gay Iranians says it has learned police have arrested as many as 87 gays at a private house party. (story)

Some international gay rights groups believe that more than 4,000 lesbians and gay men have been executed since the Ayatollahs seized power in 1979.

During the May meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union British MPs questioned Mohsen Yahyavi a member of his parliament’s energy committee about the reports.

The minutes, The Times reports, show that Yahyavi responded that gays deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both,

"[He]explained that according to Islam gays and lesbianism were not permitted," the record states.

"He said that if homosexual activity is in private there is no problem, but those in overt activity should be executed [he initially said tortured but changed it to executed]. He argued that homosexuality is against human nature and that humans are here to reproduce. Homosexuals do not reproduce."

British Members of Parliament said they were shocked by Yahyavi's attitude.

"It is of great concern that these attitudes persist and we made it clear what we felt," Ann Clwyd, a Labor MP and head of Britain’s delegation told The Times.

In September President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad drew jeers and laughter during a speech at Columbia University when he declared there were no homosexuals in Iran. (story)

"In Iran we don't have homosexuals like you do in your country. We do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have it," Ahmadinejad said.

LAPD Bans Discrimination Against Gays and Lesbians
November 02, 2007






The Los Angeles City Council agreed Wednesday to reinstate policies banning discrimination in the hiring and promoting of gays and lesbians in the Los Angeles Police Department.

According to a report in the Los Angeles Daily News, the 12–0 vote stemmed from a 14-year-old harassment suit filed by gay former police sergeant Mitch Grobeson against the LAPD. The council also agreed to pay $695,000 in attorneys fees for Grobeson, whose case in 1993 resulted in LAPD policy changes regarding discrimination.

Under the terms of the agreement, Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will reissue an executive order first issued by former mayor Richard Riordan banning discrimination in city agencies based on sexual orientation. In addition, the council agreed to improve training for officers on gay and lesbian issues, develop an outreach program to various organizations to recruit new officers, and change questions on background checks.

The LAPD under police chief William Bratton is actively recruiting gays and lesbians.

Source: The Advocate

North Carolina Gay Senate

NC Democratic Senate Candidate Comes Out




(Chapel Hill, North Carolina) Jim Neal, the only declared Democratic candidate for the US Senate from North Carolina, has officially acknowledged he is gay.
Neal, who plans to challenge Sen. Elizabeth Dole in 2008, was asked if he is gay on the weekend during an online discussion on the liberal North Carolina blog BlueNC.com

"I am indeed," he replied.

"No secret and no big deal to me - I wouldn't be running if I didn't think otherwise."

But he also said he wanted to be known as the candidate who happens to be gay not the gay candidate.

"I'm not running this race to make some social statement," Neal said. "I'm running to lead in the Senate for the voters in NC - something Sen. Dole has not done."

Neal is a North Carolina native. He was born in Greensboro in 1956.

He received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1978 and worked for Goldman Sachs as a financial analyst.

He later returned to school at the University of Chicago, earning an MBA, and has worked at a variety of Fortune 500 companies.

Neal served as a national finance committee member for Wes Clark for President and the Kerry-Edwards campaigns, as well as acting as a national fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate Erskine Bowles in 2004.

He has two sons.

His campaign Web site does not mention his sexuality. Nor does it mention LGBT issues in his section of campaign positions.

Shool House Blues

Teacher Threatened With Firing Over Disciplining Students Who Used Gay Slurs To Keep Job
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff

(West Milford, New Jersey) For teacher Cheryl Bachmann there was no question of what to do when two students in separate instances used gay slurs in her classroom.

Both, a boy and a girl, were sent to detention.

On the way out of her classroom at West Milford High School the boy hit her in the head with a rolled-up gum wrapper. Later, the girl was heard threatening to kill her.

But Bachmann, who had previously received good performance reviews suddenly found herself in danger of losing her job. She had been recommended for tenure but that was suddenly withdrawn.

School administrators accused her of poor class management skills and recommended she not be tenured. That would mean at the end of the school year she would be without a job.

With the help of Lambda Legal she appealed. Students at the school also became involved.

About 200 walked out and at a school board meeting earlier this month hundreds of people showed up to show their support. Students, parents and fellow teachers called Backmann a role model and said that the board should be supporting her and other teachers coping with disorderly students.

Several speakers referred to the Virginia Tech shootings, saying Bachmann's actions may have prevented an incident that could have escalated over time.

"More teachers should be doing what she did," said teacher Sean Cosgrove.

"Schools have a responsibility to create a harassment-free learning environment and Cheryl Bachman was trying to fulfill that responsibility by disciplining a student for using threatening language --- now she is in danger of losing her job," said Hayley Gorenberg, Deputy Legal Director at Lambda Legal.

"Denying Ms. Bachman tenure for protecting her students from harassment would be reckless example for the West Milford Board of Educations to set."

Wednesday night, at a board meeting that dragged on close to midnight, the school trustees voted 5-4 to offer Bachmann tenure.

"I want to make sure students are safe in the classroom," said Board President Midge Touw.

"Our board doesn't take lightly that a teacher was threatened."

No Gay Blood

Gay Blood Ban Stays
by The Associated Press

Posted: May 23, 2007 - 3:00 pm ET

(Washington) Gay men remain banned for life from donating blood, the government said Wednesday, leaving in place - for now - a 1983 prohibition meant to prevent the spread of HIV through transfusions.

The Food and Drug Administration reiterated its long-standing policy on its Web site Wednesday, more than a year after the Red Cross and two other blood groups criticized the policy as "medically and scientifically unwarranted."

"I am disappointed, I must confess," said Dr. Celso Bianco, executive vice president of America's Blood Centers, whose members provide nearly half the nation's blood supply.

Before giving blood, all men are asked if they have had sex, even once, with another man since 1977. Those who say they have are permanently banned from donating. The FDA said those men are at increased risk of infection by HIV that can be transmitted to others by blood transfusion.

In March 2006, the Red Cross, the international blood association AABB and America's Blood Centers proposed replacing the lifetime ban with a one-year deferral following male-to-male sexual contact. New and improved tests, which can detect HIV-positive donors within just 10 to 21 days of infection, make the lifetime ban unnecessary, the blood groups told the FDA.

In a document posted Wednesday, the FDA said it would change its policy if given data that show doing so wouldn't pose a "significant and preventable" risk to blood recipients.

"It is a way of saying, 'Whatever was presented to us was not sufficient to make us change our minds,'" Bianco said.

The FDA said HIV tests currently in use are highly accurate, but still cannot detect the virus 100 percent of the time. The estimated HIV risk from a unit of blood is currently about one per 2 million in the United States, according to the agency.

Critics of the exclusionary policy said it bars potential healthy donors, despite the increasing need for donated blood, and discriminates against gays. The FDA recognized the policy defers many healthy donors but rejected the suggestion it's discriminatory.

Anyone who's used intravenous drugs or been paid for sex also is permanently barred from donating blood.

Gay Prisoner Rights

::Gay House Calls::

(Los Angeles, California)Gay and lesbian inmates in California prisons will have equal access to conjugal visits from their registered domestic partners, the state agency said last week after prodding from the American Civil Liberties Union.

The change followed an application last year from convicted burglar Vernon Foeller, 40, of Sacramento, whose partner contacted the ACLU after being denied a family visit to the state's Vacaville facility.

The state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ultimately allowed the couple an overnight family visit a week before Christmas. On Wednesday, the agency held a public hearing toward bringing its regulations in line with California's domestic-partner law.

Foeller, who was serving a 20-month term, was released last month and testified at the hearing.

"I heard from a lot of people inside the prison who thought it was a step forward," he told Gay.com on Monday. "People who are doing life terms, or even seven to life, can't get family visits, and they saw what I was doing as a step to roll that back."

In written testimony to the prison board, Foeller's partner of nearly seven years said the family visits were especially important because "the attitudes of other inmates, visitors, and staff" made him feel uncomfortable in the regular visiting room.

The change will affect all gay men and lesbians among California's more than 170,000 incarcerated residents, ACLU staff attorney Alex Cleghorn said in the statement.

Foeller, meanwhile, is getting back to work as a DJ and remix engineer. He, his partner, and Cleghorn all plan to march with the ACLU's float this year in San Francisco's pride parade. (Barbara Wilcox, The Advocate)

Totally Toxic

::BIOHAZARD::

__Now I have heard some fucked up shit in my time but I think this one about takes the cake. I was watching something on TV and the show was interrupted to report that there was a robbery at a local convenience store by a man with a syringe which he claimed was filled with HIV positive blood that he would inject into the clerk if he didn't cooperate. They are still looking for the man .....

::Industry News:: Queer Media

JasonCurious.com Presents
The Profits of Pleasure: Gay Men, Porn and Sex
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Center Stage - Renberg Theatre
2:15-3:30pm


There is no doubt about it… porn sells. And it sells BILLIONS each year. In fact, it is widely-known as the chief building block of the Internet and video industries, and its impact has been felt throughout the queer community for decades. So, while many cast this genre off as marginal or illegitimate, the truth is that there are big, big, bucks and tremendous creative coups to be made in the skin trade.

This lively forum will feature some of the most successful and popular adult content producers and gay male porn stars in the country chatting about why porn is often at the center of the gay male experience. They’ll also discuss ways of breaking into (and, yes, out of!) the adult entertainment industry, share “pros” and “cons” of working in the skin trade and offer tips on how queer video creators, actors and newbies can cash in on this ever-growing XXX phenomena.

Panelists
Brandon Baker, Escort
Brent Corrigan, Indie Porn Star
Chad Donovan, Director
David Forest, Manager
Jason Sechrest, (moderator) Founder/Host JasonCurious.com
Eddie Stone, Contract Porn Star

Deaf Lesbian Psycho

::Chainsaw Massacre::

(Sioux Falls) A hardware cashier testified that a deaf woman accused of dismembering a rival bought a chain saw two days after the victim disappeared.

Daphne Wright, 43, the first female defendant in a South Dakota capital punishment case, is charged with kidnapping and killing her lover's friend, Darlene VanderGiesen, on Feb. 1, 2006.

Denee Daniels, a cashier at Ace Hardware store, said that Wright paid cash for a $52.99 electric chain saw the morning of Feb. 3, 2006, and came back that afternoon to buy oil for the blade.

According to prosecutors, Wright became upset when her girlfriend, Sallie Collins, befriended VanderGiesen, 42. The three women were deaf and knew each other through the deaf community.

Detective Keith Gries also took the stand, saying he saw striations, or lines, on the concrete floor of Wright's basement. Prosecutors have said those lines are similar to the type of damage a chain saw would leave.

Detective Steve Schaefer testified that when he searched Wright's basement, he spotted what turned out to be fragments of bone and tissue matching VanderGiesen's DNA on the wall of a room. He said the fragments were similar to flecks he had seen during autopsies.

"What I have seen on the saw blade after they have conducted the autopsy was very similar, I felt, to what I saw on the wall of this small room," Schaefer said.

Prosecutors said part of VanderGiesen's body was burned. Her remains were found in a Minnesota ditch and a Sioux Falls landfill.

Lt. William Fluit also testified that orange carpet found near VanderGiesen's remains in the landfill matched some carpet in Wright's basement.

An autopsy determined VanderGiesen was killed either by suffocation or a blow to the head. Wright was arrested Feb. 10 after a search of her basement yielded bone fragments, muscle and fat that matched DNA taken from VanderGiesen's toothbrush.

Death In Fashion

(Paris, France) Steven Robinson, who worked hand in hand with Dior's John Galliano, was found dead in his home in Paris on Wednesday. He was 38.

Sidney Toledano, president and chief executive of Dior, announced the news, according to the International Herald Tribune. Reports, though unconfirmed, cited cardiac arrest as the cause of death.

__Robinson joined Galliano's studio in London as an intern in 1988. He was from Norfolk, England, and dedicated his working life to Galliano during the ups and downs of their careers.

Steven Jones, who worked with Robinson last week on Dior's Cruise Collection, told the Herald Tribune that Steven "took John's kernel of an idea and made it reality—he was the huge engine and realizer at Galliano and very important at Dior." (The Advocate)

::Gay News:: Gay Fairy Tale

(Los Angeles, California) The Walt Disney Co. has changed its popular Fairy Tale Wedding program to allow for commitment ceremonies between same-sex couples.

Disney had previously limited access to the program to couples with a valid marriage license.

The company said it will now include ceremonies for gay couples at its parks and cruise line after being contacted by a gay couple that wanted to participate in the program.

"We believe this change is consistent with Disney's long-standing policy of welcoming every guest in an inclusive environment," Disney Parks and Resorts spokesman Donn Walker said Friday. "We want everyone who comes to celebrate a special occasion at Disney to feel welcome and respected."

The Fairy Tale Wedding service offers packages starting at $8,000 and running to $45,000 or more.

Ceremonies are offered at Disneyland in California and at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, as well as on Disney's cruise ships.

Packages include flowers, dining, music and other extras, depending on the location. Walt Disney World has a dedicated wedding pavilion and for an extra fee, couples can exchange vows in front of the park's iconic attractions, including Cinderella's castle.

The more lavish packages also include having Mickey and Minnie Mouse in formal wear as guests.

Groups not affiliated with Disney have held annual "gay days" celebrations at Disney parks for years. Company officials have taken a tolerant attitude to the weekend, allowing party promoters to rent out parks after hours and rebuffing religious groups that condemned Disney.

Hate Crime Blues

::Justice::

(New York City) One of the man responsible for the brutal beating of gay entertainer Kevin Aviance last summer has been sent to prison for eight years. Three others who took part in the attack are awaiting sentence.

__All four pleaded guilty in a Manhattan court last month after reaching plea agreements with the district attorney's office. Akino George, 21, pleaded guilty plea to first-degree gang assault. He was sentenced Friday. When he gets out of prison the Bronx man will be subject to five years of parole supervision.

__Had he not made a deal with the DA and found guilty in a trial, George could have faced 25 years behind bars. Still awaiting sentencing are Jarell Sears, 21, of Newark, N.J.; and Gregory Archie, 19, and Gerard Johnson, 17, both of Manhattan.

__Sears also pleaded guilty to first-degree gang assault and is expected also to receive a prison term of eight years followed by five years of parole. Johnson, described as the ringleader, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault as a hate crime. He is expected to be sentenced later this month to 15 years in prison and five years parole. Archie pleaded guilty to second-degree assault as a hate crime. He is expected, under the plea agreement, to be sent to prison for six years to be followed by three years of post-release supervision.

__Avaince was attacked as he left the Phoenix bar last June. The four beat him unmercifully, breaking his jaw, doing serious damage to one leg and leaving him with cuts and bruises over most of his body. As they attacked him the four young men yelled homophobic slurs. Days later, with his jaw still wired shut and his leg in a brace, Aviance made a surprise appearance at a rally against homophobic violence.

"You can't keep a good queen down," Aviance told the crowd. But he warned against meeting violence with violence.

"We can't fight any of these people with arms and bullets and drama. We have to fight all these people with love, every single day," he said.

__Aviance's song ''Alive'' hit the top of the chart in 2002. Other popular songs by the singer have included ''Give It Up,'' released in 2004, and ''Din Da Da,'' which topped the Billboard dance chart in 1997.

Breakin The Habit

Porn Stars In Crystal Campaign



Tweaker.org, the well-known crystal meth harm reduction website, has recruited a bevy of studly porn stars for its current social marketing campaign. Among them you may recognize Mario Cruz, Michael Brandon, Parker Williams, Matthew Rush and Matt Cole.

::The Campaign::

“Hot Sex Without Crystal” ads can be seen in gay publications, on the street and in bar bathrooms throughout San Francisco. The stars will also be appearing on a series of trading cards with hot sex tips on the reverse side. Collect them all: they'll be worth something on e-Bay someday!

Hollywood Wild Fire

Hollywood Fire Erupts

__I know that I am reporting this a little but late but hey I'm a busy boy with a hectic schedule. On the way to work this afternoon I noticed a cloud of dark smoke consuming the top of the Hollywood Hills. Within the few hours it took me to finish filming the smoke had begun to settle among the city and pollute the air. The air was thick with fumes from the flames burning within the hills that was now covered with a dark cloud.

__The flames are slowly spreading and stopping for nothing that comes within it's path. Unfortunately the fire seems to be growing close to the historical Hollywood sign that has stood over our great city for many years. Hopefully our Fire Fighters can extinguish the flames before it gets to that point. Check back for more details.

Flames allegedly ignited by two teens sent smoke seeping into the Warner Bros. studios and towering high in the sky behind the famous Hollywood sign Friday before losing intensity.

The 150-acre blaze started near a corporate housing complex east of Universal City, south of the Warner Bros. studios complex in Burbank.

They have been arrested on suspicion of reckless setting of a fire and released to their parents, said Ron Myers, a fire department spokesman. They could be charged after prosecutors review the case Monday, he said.

For several hours smoke roiled into the sky behind the famous Hollywood sign that stands on the south face of the hills, but the flames made no move down the south face and by late afternoon the landmark appeared to be well out of any danger.

Nonetheless, dozens of people gathered at the foot of the hills to take pictures of the sign and smoke.

'If it burns, we would be losing an icon,' said Russ Mitchell, a Los Angeles resident.