Understandably, Ann and Nancy Wilson of the rock duo Heart told Entertainment Weekly they felt "completely fucked over" by the Republicans' use of their song "Barracuda" during their convention this week, presumably in reference lipsticked Alaskan pitbull Sarah Palin.  To wit, after Universal Music Publishing and Sony BMG issued a...read more

Normally, we only pay to watch porn stars when they're actually, you know, doing it. But Johnny Hazzard? We'd pay to watch him grope a stuffed chihuahua. The handsome, handsome, HANDSOME star makes his mainstream debut tonight on Here! TV's The Lair wherein he falls under the spell of a...read more

An archive of historical gay video footage belonging to Gay Cable Network pioneer and sex club entrepreneur Lou Maletta--much of it in VHS format--sits uncatalogued and quickly deteriorating in a Manhattan storage room, the Boston Edge reports. Maletta began the "Gay Cable News" show, hosted by Andy Humm and Anne...read more

Each month we strive to bring you a selection of parties, exhibits and events of note so that all you globetrotting gays can plan your calendars accordingly. This month, we'd like to point you to a Gay Ski Week in New Zealand (it's still winter down there, you see); your...read more

Summer's basically over, gents, but there is still much drinking to be done. Care of the Sword's tireless editors we bring you this roundup (by no means complete, or even-handed) of stuff going on for those of the homo persuasion this weekend in not just two meccas, but now three!...read more

Hold the sauce on that 12-inch! The manager of a Subway in Missouri fired employee Kurt Wild's after his gay porn past was discovered. Wild was working a Subway restaurant outside of St. Louis when the customer recognized him and threatened to boycott if the 22-year-old sandwich artist be fired....read more

John Maus may be inaccessible to some, but once you get past the lo-fi recording and manic tempos, Mr. Maus is pure pop. His 2007 album Love Is Real was one of the unsung triumphs of the year, featuring spangly power anthems with positive lyrics and surreal ( and creepy)...read more

Because it's still like 1950 over there, a "cutting edge" talk show in Kenya broached the topic of homosexuality for the first time ever on national television. The show, Hatua, is supported by foundation and grant money aimed at liberal causes in East Africa, and the intent of the episode...read more

Ever suspect that Michael Lucas was secretly a conservative Muslim? We neither, but the first issue from his new fashion blog, "Michael Lucas Style" features the star-director-shopper modeling designer Rick Owens, including an inventive Lucas-of-Arabia take on a scarf. But expect more than edgy dress-up pics from Lucas, who promises...read more

Suspicious screen-grabs of someone resembling DeAndre Cortez Way getting head from another man have hit the internet this morning. You may know him better as rapper Soulja Boy, the one single-handedly responsible for bringing us one of the most annoying songs-and-dance combos of all time, "Crank That"....read more

As you may recall, we and many of the SF gays put on our 70s best and showed up to be extras on the set of Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk biopic Milk. It looks like the film is on schedule for release in November, and the trailer just arrived...read more

A new study by Swedish researchers suggests that there may be a genetic marker for monogamous tendencies in men, and its name is RS3 334. Long story short, the gene affects receptors for a hormone called vasopressin which is directly linked to commitment phobia, and its converse, cuddle mania. The...read more

Oh, San Francisco: you've really got a fair for everything. The 5th Annual Hairrison Street Fair took place this weekend and the hirsute and rotund flocked to it like a free buffet. We've been banned from the fair ever since the year they found out we drink diet soda, but...read more

You probably recognize Request model Cole Mohr from the latest cross-dressing Marc Jacobs ads, where he dons dresses and shades in a nod to the dreamy days of Kurt Cobain, and gets stomped on in the process (see image). When his modeling agency blogged his arrival to NYC with...read more

For the second season of gay-to-the-max snooze-fest Top Design (which premieres tonight on Bravo at 10PM) the ersatz fag network once again did not disappoint with the gay casting quotient, with 6 out of the 7 male contestants (and 2 out of 2 male host/judges) being big 'mos. While we...read more

We were hoping it wouldn't last because, well, we're bitter bitches. But it appears that Damien Crosse and Franceso D'Macho are well on their way towards marital bliss. Not only did Damien move to Madrid to live with his little "Bunny Raper" last month, but the two are headed to...read more

If Fred Phelps didn't exist, we'd probably have to invent him just to keep ourselves entertained.  This week, the Westboro Baptist Church Minister used his increasingly nonsensical video pulpit to "thank God for Gustav" for ruining the week-long Southern Decadence event in New Orleans, where "the filthy fags of America...read more

While porn fans come in both red and blue, it shouldn't come as a suprise (except maybe to Manhunt founder Jonathan Crutchly) that gay porn stars are rooting for Obama. Of course, when we started polling porn stars, Obama could barely get a hand-job from the boys; now, they're nearly...read more

We might not care for the party's platform, but if we had the choice of which to convention to cruise, the RNC gets our vote: Minneapolis Craigslist M4M is burning with hot, thick and hung Republicans looking for a chance to release their delegates....read more

A collective "BOIIINNNG!" ripped across the web this weekend, after male super-Zoolander Tyson Beckford decided to get naked and jump into a pool at a Marie Claire magazine party in Australia. While any chance to see Tyson nearly nude is one we'll gladly take, the real point of discussion...read more

Perhaps capitalizing on the popularity of Swingtown, a Florida start-up called YOLO (You Only Live Once) Cruises is launching the first cruise for swingers on April 26, 2009. Marlene Brustle, who may or may not be a saggy-titted polyamorist herself, is President of YOLO, and insists that this is a...read more

According to his MySpace profile, Levi Johnson, the 18-year-old impregnator of GOP VP nom Sarah Palin's daughter, is a self-described " f - - -in' redneck" ... and hot!...read more

What did you do this weekend?  "Confirmed bachelor" Kevin Spacey was spotting smoking a joint and practically fingering the bare ass of a hot twink while vacationing in Croatia. From the reddish splotch on the Croatian beauty's ass, one could surmise he was being a very bad boy (not to...read more

In a bizarre case of life imitating art, David Duchovny, who plays a sex-addicted character on Showtime's Californication, was admitted to a rehab facility for sex addiction in real life on Thursday. His wife of eleven years Tea Leoni, of Spanglish fame (we love that movie), is apparently sticking...read more

Well, jeepers Mr. Smith. Just when we thought you might be resolving to let the world know what we already have 100% established and confirmed about your sexuality* (after admitting that you and Jada are swingers), and just when you seemed like a likely candidate for the blind-item'd gay actor...read more

Gay prison romance is a subject generally best left to Dateline NBC, porn films, and the Times' Modern Love column, but when it intersects awkwardly with the California gay marriage boom, it's a hard subject to resist....read more

Kansas City's Cody Critcheloe and his band of camped-up crazies come together to form SSION, an electronic/grunge/punk music project from hell. Merging the '80s synthpop style of Marc Almond, Yaz, and Nina Hagen with an attitude decidedly brattier, SSION is sort of like riot grrl with laptops and drum...read more

It's Labor Day weekend, and we aren't at Burning Man. If you're reading this, then probably neither are you. So care of The Sword's tireless editors, we bring you this roundup (by no means complete, or even-handed) of stuff going on for those of the homo persuasion this weekend in...read more

Tranny supermodel Claudia Charriez -- who got snapped up by The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency after she was kicked off of America's Next Top Model for being a bio-male -- has surfaced again... this time in porn! Claudia's appearance brings the total number of JDMA cast members who've bared all...read more

We're skipping out on Burning Man this weekend because our fur pants are at the dry cleaners. But this won't keep us from dreaming about getting lucky with dusty straight boys who use the annual desert gathering to get so fucked up on E that they don't mind getting a...read more

If the tranny takeover of mainstream entertainment were not eminently clear to you yet, please take as evidence one Derrick Berry, the tranny Britney Spears who's made it to the semi-finals of America's Got Talent. Sharon Osbourne can't get enough of Derrick's routine--lip-syncing to a near-decade-old Britney hit in a...read more

Taking a lead from the ever-popular "scripted reality" genre, AMG Brazil announced the details of their latest project, a "documentary-style" porn called Rio, where each model is interviewed about his sexual fantasies which they later get to live out on camera (let's just pray none involve Spencer Pratt)....read more

Who said Republican politicians are the only ones trolling bathrooms for sex?  With Manhunt deserted after the McCain-Crutchley debacle, ever-horny gay delegates are flocking to Denver Craigslist M4M -- some even posting from the convention floor (!) -- looking for nearby bathroom and post-speech hotel room action. And you thought...read more

Bridge queens everywhere can rejoice: Gay Republican Hypocrite playing cards are here! Assuming you haven't spent your declining disposable income on a Sham Wow or crystal meth, you can now cue your bid with cards detailing the indiscretions of Larry Craig (King of Spades), page-hound Mark Foley (King of Hearts),...read more