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After Pride Attack, Gay Groups Angry With Jerusalem Mayor
Mayor Nir Barkat stayed in the U.S. after an extremist stabbed six people, one fatally, at his city’s Pride celebration.
Neal Broverman
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Underwear for the Boy Inside You: The Birth of Nenewear</em>
In many Spanish speaking countries, “nene” is a term of endearment used to address men, even strangers.
In the latest episode of The Nicholas Snow Show, I interview Efrén Sánchez, Creative Director of Nenewear, the men’s underwear line “that celebrates the boy that exists within us.” Also joining the interview, Efrén’s partner in life and business, Brandon Boswell (They’re both pictured below, with one of their models).
Listen to the podcast below, or at this page on the BlogTalkRadio Network.
In many Spanish speaking countries, ‘nene’ is a term of endearment used for males. It is used towards each other amongst strangers and friends. When asked what nene means to him: Efren replies, ‘Everyone used to call my Cuban grandpa ‘viejo nene’ which translates to old boy. Where I come from you can be a nene your entire life. It’s all about how you feel.’
The Nenewear collaborators on location at Snapshot Palm Springs for one of their photo shoots.
The launch announcement released earlier this year explains:
After graduating from the Parsons School of Design in NYC, Efrén wanted to create an underwear line to exude the sex appeal of confident men. As a Cuban who was raised in Puerto Rico, Efrén’s Latin American heritage is palpable not only on the brand’s name but in the collection itself. The color palette is as vibrant as the colors on the streets of Old San Juan where he grew up.
Nenewear is made in the USA with the finest textiles and quality materials, including mother of pearl buttons on their boxer briefs. The company specifically prides itself on the soft velvety texture of its stretch waistband.
‘Regardless of age, we all have that nene inside us that is curious, playful and mischievous. I wanted to create a line of high quality, sexy, handmade men’s underwear to indulge that nene within me.’
Okay folks, while you listen to the interview, I’m off to take a cold shower!
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Arrest made in attack against gay couple in NYC who left their assailant covered in his own blood
A 57-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the 2 August attack against a gay couple in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood.
The suspect, Thomas Clabough, got more than he bargained for after he ‘sucker punched’ Daniel Lennox-Choate inside a deli after shouting homophobic slurs at him and husband Larry Lennox-Choate who are both graduates of West Point Military Academy.
‘He left covered in his own blood with his tail between his legs after I handled the situation and tossed him in the street like the coward loser he is,’ Larry Lennox-Choate wrote in a Facebook post.
‘We refuse to be victims and are thankful we can defend ourselves, but are saddened by the fact that idiots like this guy might not pick two guys who went through Plebe Boxing next time.’
Clabough has been charged with assault as a hate crime and attempted assault as a hate crime, according to the New York Post.
‘Good always triumphs over evil,’ Larry wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday (12 August). [It’s a good day for freedom. Justice is in the air and it smells damn good. #GotEm’
The Lennox-Choates were the first male couple to be married at West Point Military Academy. Daniel graduated in 2007 and Larry two years later. Daniel served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Greg Hernandez
First This Out High School Athlete Was Harassed, Now He’s Been Removed From The Yearbook
A gay high school basketball player who has been the victim of harassment both in and outside of school has now been dealt the blow of being omitted from the team’s yearbook spread.
Dalton Maldonado made news earlier this year after enduring a terrible ordeal of homophobia at a Kentucky basketball tournament after he’d come out as gay.
As Dalton’s team boarded the bus, the opposing team shouted “faggot,” egging him to come out and face them. Several players even followed the bus as it made its way back to the hotel — something his coach and tournament officials didn’t take lightly.
His school administration claimed the incident never happened, despite multiple eyewitness accounts saying otherwise.
Now OutSports reports that school officials have gone one step further by removing the graduating senior from the yearbook.
Below, see the two-page spread in which Dalton is the only player left out:
It seems the administration has even more to answer for now.
Luckily for Dalton, he’s off to the University of Louisville next year, where he’ll likely find a more inclusive atmosphere.
But for current and future students at Betsy Lane High School in rural Kentucky, this treatment can’t stand.
h/t: OutSports
Dan Tracer
Steve Grand is Right About Our Fixation On the Male Body, But It’s Not Going Away
The Interplay is a special biweekly column exploring the intersections of sex, pop culture, and current events.
Steve Grand is right about us, the gay press, and about us, consumers of queer-focused media, when he says that we’ve spent too much time appreciating him for his looks rather than taking him seriously as an artist.
“[I] want YOU to stop ONLY posting the handful of half naked pictures of me taken over the last 6 years to get your page clicks,” Grand wrote last week in an open letter via his Twitter feed. “I’ve taken thousands of photos fully clothed over the last years. only 1% of my posts (on Instagram) show my bare chest. There’s a time a place for that.. but EVERY time?”
The problem that Grand is touching on is neither new, nor particularly unique to him as a public figure but, as is often the case, it took a conventionally hot, cis, white guy to bring this issue to everyone’s attention (yet again).
When you open up the homepage to any major LGBTQ-focused blog or news site, chances are that you’re going to be presented with photos and/or videos of attractive people doing a wide variety of things. They’re dancers, they’re directors, and (surprise) they’re sometimes models. Whether or not you actually care about the ballet or race baiting or working out in your office is almost irrelevant. We find these stories, publish, and promote them for one simple and obvious reason: you read them. We all read them.
There’s an odd relationship that exists between all content creators and the audiences whose attention they need. I say odd not because it’s strange or anything, but because it’s speaks to a very basic fact about human attention.
Gay men, like all men, have intense responses to visual stimulation. Guy sees hot guy, guy clicks link promising more of hot guy, guy is rewarded with more hot guy. That instinctive response to seeing guys in bathing suits or reading in public is single-handedly responsible for maintenance and profitability of most of the websites on the internet along with traditional media like television and print. Still, though, Steve Grand has a point. There is a disrespect in determining someone’s worthiness of your attention (read: clicks) based solely on their looks.
The onus, it should be said, doesn’t rest solely on the shoulders of the people reading articles and ogling Instagram posts. The sharing of sexually-charged, if technically tame, images is a two way street. When celebrities post photos of themselves in various states of undress, the public is going to stare. We’re all complicit in maintaining that relationship, but the question is: what do we do about it?
Policing public figures like Steve Grand or Nick Jonas or Tom Daley or any of the other thousands of people flaunting their physiques is out of the question. They’re more than welcome to wear whatever they want without bracing themselves for comment from the likes of you and me. Though it may sound a bit retrograde, there’s a space and opportunity for the gay media (in particular) to zero its focus in on less prurient stories. For every openly gay legislator trying to break the internet, there’s a legislator (sometimes the same one) vocally advocating for bills designed to provide basic protections of LGBTQ people in their state.
There are people and stories behind the chiseled bodies compelling you to watch this or listen to that. We, the gay pressfolk, know that those stories are out there, and we’ll gladly write them.
But will you actually read them?
The Interplay is a special biweekly column exploring the intersections of sex, pop culture, and current events. The opinions expressed are those of the author.
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Charles Pulliam-Moore
Steve Grand is Right About Our Fixation On the Male Body, But It’s Not Going Away
Kristen Stewart on Her Sexuality: 'Google Me, I'm Not Hiding'
The American Ultra actress had been dogged by suggestive reporting that skirted her sexuality.
Daniel Reynolds
Man Auditions For Miami Heat's All-Female Dance Team, Is In It To Win It
This guy really brought the fiyah to the Miami Heat.
Or at least the team’s dance squad auditions.
Dancer and choreographer Keith Wilson showed up to the open auditions for the squad earlier this month at American Airlines Arena in Florida. And though the squad is all-female, that didn’t deter Wilson from burning up the dance floor during the first round of tryouts.
His incredible moves were, (thankfully), caught on camera and shared on YouTube. Watch as Wilson tears it down to Beyonce’s “Run The World (Girls).” His energy is infectious and just when you think he cannot possibly get any more amazing, he throws in some jaw-dropping kicks and splits.
“It was very simple and easy for me to catch the beat, catch the move and just milk it for what it was,” he told BuzzFeed of his audition.
While the dancer, who previously tried out for the squad back in 2012, didn’t make the team, he hopes that more men will be inspired to take the plunge and audition for the group.
“Go for it!” Wilson told BuzzFeed. “Even if you get cut, it only takes one ‘Yes’ to make all the difference.”
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7 ways New Orleans casts its spell
Intoxicating. That’s the word that best describes New Orleans – the famed birthplace of jazz,
capital of the occult and the most distinctive and mysterious city in America.
A multicultural melting pot resting on a curve of the Mississippi River, the Big Easy was founded in Louisiana by French colonists in 1718, and makes a big impression despite its modest population of 380,000 (to put that into perspective, New York City’s is 8.4 million).
In fact, it’s like a geographical Rubik’s Cube: impossible to get your head around, a clash of influences and ideas and a rich history that’s almost overpowering.
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We truly spent half the trip falling around in a dazed state of befuddlement, just like Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire. (FYI, the The Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, a NOLA institution, is dedicated to the iconic gay writer, and next takes place from 30 March to 3 April).
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The city is also known for the yearly pop of color that is Mardi Gras, an epic street celebration coming up on 9 February. Another of New Orleans’ biggest annual events is the LGBTI extravaganza Southern Decadence, which returns next month (2-7 September). So we decided to take a little NOLA pre-tour, in an attempt to unlock the city’s secrets, from the quirkiest architecture to the best gay bars to the spiciest gumbo in town…
The sun is out and shining bright over NOLA! Who’s coming to soak up these blue skies with us? Photo: @augeepogee #followyournola A photo posted by Visit New Orleans (@visitneworleans) on
1 The French Quarter
I think I want to live here. The clearly-displayed jewel in a city full of hidden gems, the French Quarter, a Natural Historic Landmark, is the oldest district of NOLA. The colorful characters, the voodoo curiosities and the hopscotch architecture – full of Spanish, French and American influences – are all unforgettable.
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2 The cocktails
We absorbed the French Quarter through blurred vision on an informative Gray Line’s Cocktail Walking Tour. It’s no surprise that America’s first cocktail, the Sazerac, was invented here in the 19th century – and this potent, Old Fashioned whiskey drink, all smoky woods, buzzing bitters and electrifying sugar, works like a metaphor for its explosive surroundings. And by the way – it’s legal to consume alcohol on the streets in Louisiana.
Have you tried our Shrimp Bon Femme on our new $20.15 ‘Spring into Summer’ lunch special yet? It’s fresh Louisiana gulf shrimp sautéed in a white wine cream sauce baked in a casserole with cheese gratin on top! A great treat this Friday! #antoines175 #lunchspecial #frenchquarterlunch #gulfshrimp #Antoinesnola #TGIF A photo posted by Antoines Restaurant (@antoinesnola) on
3 The Creole culinary specialties
A sticky stew of onions, bell peppers, celery, garlic, tomatoes, with spiced meat and/or shellfish – sumptuous Creole gumbo is a fixture on most NOLA menus. Full of French, Spanish, Caribbean and African input, the dish is an another apt metaphor for the wider Creole culture that defines the city and state.
The gumbo at Antoine’s Restaurant, the grandaddy of the French-Creole fine dining scene, is excellent, and made with blue crabs, oysters, and gulf shrimp. It’s been open for 175 years, and Britney Spears recently joined a long line of the great and good who come here to enjoy the old-fashioned, flawless service, and the 25,000-bottle wine collection. The formal atmosphere won’t be for everyone though; for a more laid back vibe and delicious Southern stylings, try Carrollton Market.
4 The jazz music – at every turn
Jazz seduces you everywhere in New Orleans – even on school nights – as we discovered one Wednesday evening on the buzzing Frenchman Street. Passers by seemed drawn by the improv talents of a seemingly random ensemble of musicians, and it was fascinating to watch as reluctant dancers gave into their base urges, almost against their better judgement.
The night before, we caught the irresistible and Grammy Award-winning Rebirth Brass Brand at their Tuesday night slot at the Maple Leaf Bar. Speaking of which, the Maple Leaf was famously featured in Beyonce’s Deja Vu video (as well as the Oak Alley sugar plantation, more on which later).
Happy New Orleans Pride! #followyournola A photo posted by Visit New Orleans (@visitneworleans) on
5 The hedonistic nightlife
Exploring NOLA’s bustling and unpretentious gay scene, mostly centered around the amusingly-named Bourbon Street, while high on jazz and cocktails comes highly recommended. Our favorite was the (again, amusingly-named) Napoleon’s Itch, which was busy midweek. We loved the lack of cover charge, the impossibly fresh mojitos and up-to-the-minute pop soundtrack, plus the owner is totally hot.
Other bars to try include The Corner Pocket and the Bourbon Pub and Parade; gay girls aren’t so well catered for, but GrrlSpot, a pop-up lesbian party, changes location each month. Meanwhile, the best non-gay bar is the effortlessly hip and moody Cure, where mixology is treated like it should be: as a fine art.
New Orleans in sparkling form. Photo: @urbanshot_ #followyournola A photo posted by Visit New Orleans (@visitneworleans) on
6 The other side of the city
The French Quarter, in all its throwback, mishmash charm, is instantly recognizable – but for me at least, the modernity of the extended skyline came as a surprise. New Orleans actually boasts 106 high rises, and to truly immerse yourself in that ‘bright lights, big city’ feel, we recommend the Le Meridien New Orleans. This chic, contemporary, 23-floor hotel has a rooftop pool and spectacular views of the central business district, and is still sparkling after a $29 million renovation. We adored the sumptuous gumbo in the hotel’s buzzing ground floor restaurant, LMNO.
Sugar plantation near #NewOrleans A photo posted by Jamie Tabberer (@jamietabberer) on
7 The nearby Plantation Country
For an essential lesson on the history of slavery in Louisiana, head to Plantation Country, and the Oak Alley Plantation (above), built in 1837. A gorgeous Greek Revival build, the plantation is framed by a line of humongous canopied oak trees. The nearby Laura Plantation is equally fascinating.
Visit www.neworleanscvb.com for further information.
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