What Hillary Clinton Did Before Her Campaign
In February 2013, Hillary Clinton became a private citizen for the first time in two decades. The former First Lady, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State said she was retiring from public view to spend more time at home with Bill to “watch stupid movies” and “laugh at our dogs.” But her foray into private…
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Dan Savage On How To Make A Crowd-Pleasing NSFW Video
Dan Savage On How To Make A Crowd-Pleasing NSFW Video
When Dan Savage is not busy tempting Republicans with oral sex offers, he is watching the best–and worst–of amateur porn, sometimes for 10 straight hours. That’s because for the last 12 years, Savage and his team at Seattle’s The Stranger newspaper have been curating Hump!, an indie film festival showcasing sexy and quirky short movies that are most definitely NSFW.
Starting this month, Savage is bringing the best of Hump! submissions on tour to sex-positive cinemas all over the country. The films are only shown in theaters and are never made available online to ensure that filmmakers and actors are able to fully express every inch of themselves, without the stigma of having “done porn.”
The featured selections run the gamut. While a few of the films go the traditional porn-erotica route and include explicit acts of non-simulated intercourse, others are more jovial and light-hearted. Animated movies about how silly our genitals look, musicals about kinky fetishes and faux documentaries about being sexually attracted to centaurs have been crowd-pleasers in Hump! festival past.
This year, “Glory Hole,” a documentary about an elderly couple who met at a cruising spot and one of Savage’s favorite submissions, was an unexpected emotional hit when it was originally screened in Seattle and Portland about how lasting relationship can surface in even the most unlikely places.
We spoke to Savage and got him to dish out a few tips on how we can make our best Hump!-worthy porn debuts…
Follow you fetish: “The best films are made by people doing what they love and are really personal,” Savage said. “We want the festival to be diverse in gender expression and representation. Queer and straight and trans and cis and kinky and vanilla.”
No 50 Shades of Grey parodies: “We have this strange thing happen every year, like something is in the water and we’ll get lots of film that are very similar,” Savage said. “One year we got five different James Bond parodies. And they were all really good, but we can’t put five James Bond parodies in the show. Two years after that we got all these films with lesbian and bi women all of which incorporated fruits and vegetables. We had a lot of zombie porn the first few years.”
Don’t imitate commercial pornography: “What sets us apart from mainstream porn is that the people making the films are sharing their turn-ons and they’re doing something they’re passionate about,” Savage said. “People who hate to watch commercial porn because they think it’s dehumanizing, love Hump.”
Don’t worry about production value: “You don’t have to be a filmmaker, you don’t have to have a professional crew you just have to have something interesting and beautiful and funny and hot that really speaks to you and that you want to share with people. There are films that have been literally shot on people’s iPhones and they are grainy without much lighting or much sound quality but they’re great.”
Be open to straight folks watching your movie: At the Hump screenings we have straight guys watching hardcore gay porn and you have gay boys watching lesbian cunnilingus on the giant silver screen. At first all anybody can see are the differences: what’s not their turn-on, what’s not the plumbing they want in their own beds. After 15 minutes in, everyone is cheering and laughing and people start to see what’s the same: the passion, the lust, the sense of humor, the vulnerability, the desire. Everything that’s going on underneath the different plumbing.
The Hump! film festival is currently on tour in select cities across the country.
Oscar Raymundo is the creator of Confessions of a Boy Toy.
Oscar Raymundo
LR bakery in spotlight for April
LR bakery in spotlight for April
RECIPE FOR SUCCESS: Joe Fox, who has owned Community Bakery in Little Rock for 30 years, is receiving national exposure. He and his business are featured on Office Depot’s website as the “Small Business Spotlight” for April.
www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/apr/12/lr-bakery-in-spotlight-for-april-201504/
Olympics provide golden opportunity for change
Olympics provide golden opportunity for change
While there are many reasons why a city would want to host the Olympic Games, most have to do with money and prestige: The Olympics bring international attention to the host city for two weeks.
New York Cab Driver Ordered To Pay Lesbian Couple $10K For Telling Them To Stop Kissing
New York Cab Driver Ordered To Pay Lesbian Couple $10K For Telling Them To Stop Kissing
CHELSEA — A taxi driver must pay a lesbian couple $10,000 for telling them to either stop smooching in the backseat of his cab or kiss their ride goodbye, a city administrative judge ruled last month.
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Will NCAA move headquarters and the tournament from Indiana?
Will NCAA move headquarters and the tournament from Indiana?
With the Final Four a week away from shining a spotlight on Indianapolis, NCAA President Mark Emmert said Thursday that the governing body for college sports is concerned about an Indiana law that could allow businesses to discriminate against gay people.
www.moberlymonitor.com/article/ZZ/20150327/SHAREABLE/150329871/-1/News
Wendell Rodricks picks KASHISH 2015 International poster contest winner
Wendell Rodricks picks KASHISH 2015 International poster contest winner
Fashion designer Wendell Rodricks has picked the poster submitted by Delhi-based art director Niharika Rastogi as the winner of the KASHISH 2015 International Poster contest.
Religious freedom debate
Religious freedom debate
State laws addressing religious freedom sparked a national uproar and backlash from advocates and supporters of gay rights in recent weeks.
www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/apr/11/religious-freedom-debate/
Teacher Who Fought 'Gay Agenda' Gets Reinstated
Teacher Who Fought 'Gay Agenda' Gets Reinstated
The high school religion teacher argues gays and lesbians don’t deserve equal protection.
Lucas Grindley
www.advocate.com/politics/religion/2015/04/11/teacher-who-fought-gay-agenda-gets-reinstated
Could Nationwide Gay Nuptials Be Judgment for Cowardly Church Leadership?
Could Nationwide Gay Nuptials Be Judgment for Cowardly Church Leadership?
For the record, deception can be humorous, humane or harmful. Guess which one has been given a “full-court press” by Gay activists to dupe the masses in America?
