Return To The Blog

So I know it has been quite some time since I have updated my blog and I do give you my most sincere apologies about that. So much has happened since I last updated you. Not only did I have my birthday in which I turned 22 but the International Escort Awards was also last weekend. Then right after all the commotion I had to hurry to Las Vegas to spend some time with one of my friends and celebrate both his and my birthday together. Then rather than returning home on Tuesday as scheduled I decided to stay in Vegas and spend some time with my brother and his boyfriend. Aye so much to catch you up on but I will do it slowly but surely!

Finally Taking Care Of Business

Nothing Feels Better Than Paying Off Bills



Yes I believe that is the under statement of the century. I am sure that this isn't true to some people but to anyone who has had as many bills as I have had and has been in debt at some point, than I am sure that they could agree with me. This weekend I was finally able to pay off all my bills completely rather than just making the minimal payment and I couldn't feel better. Thanks to Angel Benton and his extraordinary skills at money management I was able to come up with a reasonable budget that will help me maintain this stature. Here's hoping that I don't go back into any kind of debt anytime soon.

HustlaBall Gains Performer

::The Gay Pimp::

It is official that Johnny McGovern has been added to the HustlaBall Las Vegas performer lineup. There has been speculation of it for sometime now but it wasn't official until just recently, he will be joining our other performers Bruce Vilanch, Cherry Peck, and many others.

Johnny is set to host the Escort Awards which is no longer being held at HustlaBall due to it's extreme growth so they will be in February or early March depending on which venue I can get in San Francisco. We are still doing a preview and announcing all the escorts that are nominated and going to be in Las Vegas in the VIP area before the main event opens.

Rentboys Night Out

Friday, December 7, 2007
7:00pm until Closing

There is a Rentboy event coming up in the beginning of December that we are having at Hamburger Mary's and I couldn't be more excited about it. Everyone who has been to Hamburger Mary's knows that it is the place to go in West Hollywood as far as drinks and dinner. It should be a good experience for us as it is not held in a nightclub or circuit venue like most other events we throw so it should be a little easier to network and meet new people *wink*

If there was ever a good time to get the escorts out to an event it would be this one. This event would be a good opportunity to meet other escorts and possibly a whole new clientele. There is sure to be some old friends at dinner and plenty of new ones to meet. If you would like to find out more about the event then shoot me a message or check it out on Brandon's blog.

Spicing Up The Holidays

ALRIGHT for Frederick's Of Hollywood using Dita Von Teese to bring in the holidays. It's about time too because that place is all about sex appeal and the whole "Pin-Up" look and there is no one who does that better than Dita herself! I absolutely adore her and everything about her. She is definitely one of the top ten sexiest women to have walked the earth in my eyes. I have yet to meet her myself in person but I hope to someday have the honor *wink*

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

May The Best Bitch Win

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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)

Gay & Proud

::Long Beach Pride::

Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transsexual

__This past weekend was gay pride in Long Beach. This is the second pride for me of the season and by far the best I have been to as of yet. There were so many fabulous people there and I got to spend time with Justin away from all the drama and shit in West Hollywood. We spent alot of time in the Hip Hop section of the festival dancing and hanging out with some of Justin's friends. Later in the evening we headed over to main stage to see the main attraction of the evening.

__Main stage featured performances by several artists and bands through out the night but all in preparation for the main event that was Jennifer Hudson. The main opening act for Jennifer was a performance from the fabulous Amber who was responsible for such songs as "Sexual" and "Above The Clouds". After many long hours of waiting we were finally able to see what we had all been waiting for. Jennifer sang a number of soul filled numbers from the movie Dreamgirls, each number touched my heart as I am a big fan of the broadway show and movie. All in all it was a wonderful night.

Fire Down Below

Bridge Collapses In Tanker Fire
April 29, 2007

(Oakland, CA) A fiery pre-dawn tanker truck accident caused the collapse of a heavily trafficked freeway overpass near downtown today, sending hundreds of feet of concrete crashing onto a highway below and hobbling a vital Bay Area interchange.

The driver of the truck, which was carrying 8,600 gallons of gasoline, was hospitalized with second-degree burns. No other injuries were reported from the accident, which occurred at 3:42 a.m.


The accident occurred in the very heart of an unruly cloverleaf known as the MacArthur Maze, where several major arteries converge at the approach to the Bay Bridge, which connects San Francisco with the cities and suburbs that line the east side of San Francisco Bay.

The highway patrol believes that Mr. Mosqueda was heading south on an interchange of Interstate 80 when he lost control in a curve, hit a guardrail and flipped his truck on its side. The tanker exploded, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air, according to witnesses, and quickly buckled a three-lane section of Interstate 580 and caused it to collapse onto Interstate 880 some thirty feet below.

Michael Brown, the commissioner of the highway patrol, said the driver was able to escape the burning truck and apparently hailed a cab in order to go to the hospital. Mr. Brown said there was “no indication of impairment of the driver” by drugs or alcohol, but that some legal issues are outstanding for both Mr. Mosqueda, and the truck’s owner, Sabek Transportation, based in San Francisco.

At a noontime press conference held at a toll plaza near the collapse, Mr. Kempton said the heat from the fireball had likely melted the steel girders and bolts that support the concrete roadway. “If you have that kind of heat, you’re going to have this kind of reaction,” he said. “We’re not surprised this happened.”
Rebuilding the collapsed section of I-880 took nearly a decade, though Mr. Kempton called that situation “a much larger issue” involving neighborhood and environmental concerns. Mr. Kempton said he had contacted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office soon after the accident, and would seek federal highway funds for repairs, something he estimated would cost tens of millions of dollars. “It’s not going to be cheap,” he said.

He also pleaded for patience, saying with this kind of complex highway system, “You’re not going to have a picnic every day.”

Afraid Of Safety

Condoms Strike Fear At Iowa College
by The Associated Press

Posted: April 28, 2007 - 8:00 am ET

(Ankeny, Iowa) Several classrooms at Des Moines Area Community College were evacuated after college officials became nervous about a suspicious package.

College officials called police and postal inspectors after the box was delivered Thursday.

What they found inside wasn't a bomb - it was a box containing 500 condoms.

The package was sent to a teacher of a human sexuality class, and was sent by a person who had been a previous speaker at the class, said Rob Denson, the college's president.

Mode Of Transportation

:: Metro Transit ::

__One thing I have grown fond of during my time here in Los Angeles is the city bus system and what not. Where I come from if you didn't drive you were pretty much screwed, at least here we have the bus and train system to fall back on. I just recently started riding the bus frequently and I must tell you that although it is effective when drunk or otherwise trashed....it can be somewhat scary with all the crazies and loony people that occupy it.

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)