Herd that Canadian Tommy is Pretty Cute

This is Tommy Herd, a 6-foot, twenty year old hockey player and student from Canada. David Todd, head agent of Los Angeles agency Nous Model Management, spotted the strapping young Canuck while shopping at the Westside Pavilion in Los Angeles. David says to "keep an eye out for this soon-to-be-superstar model. The phone is already off the hook with calls." I can definitely see why, right down to those blue Calvin's ...

Waleed Said Joe Smirh is One Sexy Dude

This is tres sexy twenty seven year old New York model Joe Smirh, as photographed by Waleed Said.

So, Anyone Up for a Game of Strip Poker?

Mum mum mum mah
Mum mum mum mah
I wanna hold em' like they do in texas, please
Fold em' let em' hit me, raise it baby, stay with me
Luck and intuition play the cards with spades to start
And after he's been hooked i'll play the one that's on his heart

Like, OMG! Shia LaBeouf Jogging Shirtless

Twenty three year old actor and total cutie Shia LaBeouf was spotted out doing a bit of shirtless Matthew McConaughey-esque jogging recently. HAWT! Meanwhile, it also seems that his latest flick, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, is well on its way to becoming the biggest hit of the year so far at the North American box office. The Fag Hag and I went to see it at the movies last weekend, and certainly luurved it - Shia and Josh kept our interest, though can't personally see what the fuss is over Megan ...

Game On! Sydney Sleaze is Now on Sale

New Mardi Gras announced that tickets to Sleaze Ball went on sale from 9am last Thursday July 9. The party will take place at 9pm on 3rd October at the Hordern Pavilion and the Dome. Ticket prices will be staggered into four releases, rising $10 with the first release on sale on Wednesday morning at $89 for Members and $109 for non-Members. This will rise to $119 for Members and $139 for non-Members by the fourth release.

New Mardi Gras has already announced the presence at the party of Scissor Sisters Tour DJ Sammy Jo and will announce the full line-up for the party in two weeks time. The photography for this year’s poster is thanks to Same Same’s Melbourne Editor Travis de Jonk and Same Same photographer Ross Brownsdon, well known for their Bad Behaviour calendars.

Tickets will go on sale through Ticketek online

or by calling 13 2849.

Source: Same Same

Emporio Armani with Posh and Becks

David and Victoria Beckham, or as most call the glamour couple 'Posh and Becks', unveil new images from Emporio Armani's Autumn/Winter 2009-10 underwear campaign in this behind the scenes video shoot. The faabulous new advertising campaign was shot in Milan.

Out of the TV Box with Russell T Davies

Torchwood is the latest show to put gay characters front and centre. But out creator Russell T Davies says it’s no time to become complacent. When Network Ten boasted it had the first series of the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood in 2007, it was a surprise given the Doctor Who brand had always been part of the ABC. It was clearly a world away from US fantasy adventures that had been part of the Ten diet: Smallville, Supernatural and even The X Files.

Ten was coy in telling the youthful audience the hero, Captain Jack Harkness, was bisexual, instead merely referring to him as ‘sexually ambiguous’. "That sort of publicity is well beyond my control," creator Russell T. Davies tells SX. "But ultimately if you put [lead actor] John Barrowman in a room with a bunch of journalists, all sense of ambiguity is thrown out the window!" Captain Jack, who has proudly smooched his on-screen lovers and flirted with assorted dashing men, is back in his third instalment of Torchwood. The sexual themes continue with Harkness and Ianto (Gareth David-Lloyd) presented as a cosy couple.

"Not completely, cosy," notes Davies. "I think they're questioning who they are. I mean an immortal bisexual – you don't get many of them every day. A man who's going to live forever, can he ever settle down and love someone?"

While gay fans of the Torchwood brand have cheered defiantly for Davies' 'bending' of the genre, were there nerves from the BBC about taking such a detour? "Not at all, partly because I wrote Queer as Folk. So I have this invisible force field and no (BBC) commissioning editor ever dared challenge it. If there's a gay character, everyone just nods!" he laughs.

"I've had no resistance whatsoever. Not from casting, not from the highest levels of the BBC. We live in a day and age now where those old questions of censorship and inhibitions are going. And it's simply up to the writers now to have the honesty and the nerve to write what they want," he insists.

Ten years on from Queer as Folk, Davies looks to major achievements for gay visibility in television, especially in Britain. "In Britain, every single soap opera now has major gay characters, also being played by out, gay actors. That's quite extraordinary. So things are better," he says. "But we shouldn't relax, we shouldn't stop. We should always remember that there's a 13-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl hidden in the closet, terrified that they'll never be loved."

Davies also worries that gay writers could become complacent by the advances. "I remember people saying, ‘Oh, the barriers have come down now!'" he says. "But at the same time, I look around and think, ‘Ten years later, where are we?’ We're still not quite there. There's still more to be said, there's still more to be done. "When an 11-year-old boy can turn to his dad when they're watching Home and Away and Lincoln Lewis is taking his shirt off, and he can go, 'Woah, look at that', with no one blinking – that's when we can say there's true equality!"

Source: SX News

Ejected from Texas Restaurant for Kissing

Five men who were kicked out of an El Paso restaurant say they were forced out because they are gay. Shortly after ordering a meal on June 26th at Chico's Tacos restaurant, security staff allegedly ordered the group to leave after two of the men kissed. The men then called the police, but said that officers sided with the restaurant, saying it had the right to refuse service to anyone. Carlos Diaz de Leon told the El Paso Times it was "a simple kiss on the lips". He added that he overheard one of the security guards saying he didn't allow "that faggot stuff" in the restaurant.

Police arrived an hour later and de Leon said one officer told the men it was illegal for two men or two women to kiss in public. He added that the officer threatened to issue a citation for "homosexual conduct", a law ruled unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in 2003. In the same year, El Paso City Council passed a bill to discrimination based on sexual orientation by businesses open to the public. The restaurant refused to comment, although the security firm said one of its guards was taking legal advice.

Lisa Graybill, legal director for the ACLU of Texas, said patrons can be asked to leave for lewd conduct, but this standard must apply to all customers. "If a straight couple wouldn't have gotten kicked out for it," she said, "a gay couple shouldn't." Neither side has asked for a written account of the incident yet and police officers said they did not file a report as they believed the situation was under control.

Source: Pink News