The Sword’s Exclusive Interview With Adam Killian And Cavin Knight
Here’s a very special interview I did on the set of Lucas Entertainment’s “Men In Suits.”
Here’s a very special interview I did on the set of Lucas Entertainment’s “Men In Suits.”
Jay Barmann here. I’m going to break into an un-customary first person here to give a belated goodbye to you, dear readers. As one or two of you may have noticed, I haven’t been around so much the last couple months. I’m sorry I stopped calling or responding to your texts.
Well we’ve had a good time – sorry to see you go!
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Falcon exclusive power couple Aden and Jordan Jaric — who, for those who don’t know, are monogamously coupled and only shoot scenes with each other — are in Palm Springs shooting Dripping Wet 2: Electric Boogaloo [subtitle courtesy of The Sword].
We do our best here at The Sword to bring you content you don’t see on Logo, or Bravo or even on public access.
It doesn’t get much gayer than this, folks! Or more 80s! Backed by a couple of heavily eyelined man-dancers and some synthesizers, British porn star Dean Monroe performs his new single, "Closer to You."
It’s a rag-tag, come-as-you-are kind of town that’s short on huge dance-y madness and big on small-scale hipness. What it lacks in glamour it definitely makes up for in great music, unstressful scenes and trendsetting gaiety. Below is a basic overview of the parties that go down in this pretty city on a regular basis.
ALSO: See our guides to New York and LA.
photo by Brandon Norris
You may have heard some of the noise we’ve been making about the 2009 GayVN Awards, which this year are returning to the Castro with celebrity hosts Janice Dickinson, Margaret Cho and Alec Mapa.
Tiara Sensation @ The Stud
9th and Harrison
Mondays, 10PM – 1AM, $5
Come on. No one goes out on weekends anymore. And Mondays are hard with nothing to look forward to, so check out this recently relocated DIY drag fest, featuring a craft table, good music and many a drunken cool kid in a borrowed wig.
Manic Mondays @ Bar on Church
Church & 14th
Mondays, 8PM – 2AM, $2
When you offer 80-cent well drinks, expect the kids to show up in droves, even if it is a Monday night.
Show & Tell @ Kimo’s
Polk & Pine
Tuesdays 9PM
Sister Roma and Bebe Sweetbriar bring you this weekly funfest in the heart of the TenderPolk.
Pink Slip @ The Stud
9th & Harrison
Tuesdays 9PM
It may not be Trannyshack, but the trannies are trying keep a toehold on Tuesdays at the Stud.
Booty Call @ The Bar on Castro
456 Castro Street
Wednesdays, 9PM – 2AM, $3
Juanita MORE! and the MOREboys can always be counted on to bring out the cuties and cool kids at this mid-week dance party, while beloved Sword portrait photographer Brandon Norris shoots your new Facebook photo in the back room.
Brain Farts @ The Lookout
Market Street @ Noe
Wednesdays 7:30 – 10:30
Dork out on some way gay trivia with co-hostesses Pollo Del Mar and Bebe Sweetbriar at this weekly pub trivia night in the Castro. Drunk fags and their hags in attendence tend to take their trivia pretty seriously, so come armed with at least one friend who hasn’t melted their memories with crack.
Frat House @ 440
440 Castro Street
Wednesdays, 9PM – 2AM, $2
The name says it all. Oh, and they sometimes have a midget selling beer bongs and usually a skinny go-go twink who looks like he could use a sandwich, and tox screen.
Tubesteak Connection @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge
133 Turk Street
10PM, $4
Aunt Charlie’s is one of our favorite bars of all time. The carpet probably hasn’t been replaced since the mid-70s… read more
Buck Wild @ Buck Tavern
1655 Market St (at Gough)
7PM
Miss Nixx and Lady Bear bring you a pool party. As in billiards, not water. And they’ve got $6 Long Island Iced Teas. Made with Soju, not Vodka. (No liquor license.) But that’s cool! $4 Jumbo Tavern Dogs and $2 Miller Lite drafts are all you’ll need.
Ghetto Disco @ The Endup
6th and Harrison
11PM – 11AM
The unofficial after-party for those jittery, sex-crazed alcoholics we love to cuddlefuck.
Charlie Horse @ The Cinch
1723 Polk Street (bet. Clay & Washington)
10 PM, show at 12.
It’s a hike if you don’t live in the Russian Hill/Nob Hill/’Loin vicinity, and with hostess Anna Conda and a bevy of part-time trannies this is the most rock-n-roll that drag gets. Free, with half-price drinks before 11.
Black Friday @ Cat Club
1190 Folsom Street
Third Fridays – 10PM
DJs Pee Play, Sex Wax and Randy bring this new monthly, every 3rd Friday, featuring electro, 80s, and indie-type stuff.
Snap A Licious @ Deco
510 Larkin St
Third Fridays – 10PM
Join Ginger Snap and her army of hos for performances and binging. Freakshow begins at 10. $5
Boy Bar @ The Cafe
2367 Market Street
Every Friday 9PM – 2AM
If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to feel old before your time, washed up by age 28…
Who would have guessed that Federico Fellini and Falcon’s casting department had such similar taste in men?
Cock Fight @ Underground SF
424 Haight St
2nd Saturdays – 10PM – 3AM
It’s finally here! A new party we can really get behind, featuring a locker room theme, slutty go-gos and the musical stylings of DJ Earworm. Brought to you by the brilliant mind behind 2004/5’s Faggot.
Manquake @ The Gangway
841 Larkin Street
4th Saturday – 9PM, $5
DJ Bus Station John hosts this monthly party in the TenderPolk, where the alterna-gays nudge aside the colorful cast of elderly regulars to order cheap drinks and nod to the 70s and 80s beats. The dancefloor at the back always reminds of a suburban basement family room, minus Dad’s golf trophies.
Social Club @ The Lookout
16th & Noe (at Market)
9PM, $4
They call it “Sophisticated Saturdays” and they encourage ties and such, but let’s just say there are a lot of polo shirts and t-shirts and while it’s definitely a cute crowd, it’s also turning into a very Cafe-ish, twentysomething crowd indistinguishable from Boy Bar or Frat House. That said, it’s way more tolerable than most of the shitshow that is the Castro on a Saturday. $4.
The Hot Boxxx Girls @ Aunt Charlie’s Lounge
133 Turk Street
10 PM
Get your dollar bills ready and get there early (they’ve been turning folks away lately) as the girls pull out all the stops–and at least five costume changes apiece–at this old-school dragztravaganza. Tips are a definite must and Gina LaDivina is sure to blow you away. $5 …read more
Okay. This scares us a little, and not just because of the weird lightbulb-looking end on it and the oddly positioned female hand holding it in the photo.
Hunky Canadian Jeremy Hall’s a definite Sword fave and remains, as far as we know, one of the higher priced rentboys out there. In honor of the kid’s birthday, we give you this interview courtesy of Just Us Boys–featuring a slightly grating Angel Benton and a hilarious cameo by a female ‘fan’ on the street outside the studio.
Oh my stars, will we never get enough gay minstrelsy? The gay/celeb webs are abuzz! today with the news that Jack and Karen (Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally) are shooting a pilot for a long-awaited spinoff to the semi-groundbreaking 90s sitcom Will & Grace.
In addition to Sarah Palin and a host of assorted colorful pervs and freaks, porn legends and newbies alike came out to Folsom Street Fair this past weekend.
It’s the the porn version of walking and chewing gum at the same time: tell us how much you love having sex with girls while you’re getting your ass pounded by a guy. Rick Garcia, star of AMG Brazil’s RIO accomplishes the task with flying colors.
We’re not crazy about organized sports, but considering the fact that NFL players look like neck-less ogres and soccer players look like Greek statues, it baffles us that the sport isn’t more popular in North America. The rise of the great underwear-model-slash-soccer-titan David Beckham has had every fag and his sister drooling for eons, but the gays have had their sites set on 23-year-old Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo for some time as well.
Christopher Owens and JR White, along with a cast of rotating backup players, make up Girls: San Francisco’s hottest new export. Their first-ever show at Cafe DuNord sold out and had rabid MySpace fans screaming along all of their lyrics, and they’ve since attracted the attention of everyone from the SF Bay Guardian to Pitchfork to SPIN Magazine without even going on a national tour
We remember 9/11 like it was yesterday, primarily because everyone in New York was chanting “USA! USA! USA!” like it was a Nuremburg rally, and because our friend’s father ran away with a younger woman that very night. It will also, evidently, make you make weird drag videos about Muslim women, set to the incomparable music of L’Trimm. Granted, these people were probably in a squat in Portland on that fateful day, but it doesn’t make their laughter-through-tears any less funny.
Legendary porn director William Higgins made us a little uncomfortable describing the odd task of tricking a model with the patented “ambush massage,” but we’ll take pointers where we can get ’em.
First: “Hey! A gay porn musical. Why didn’t we think of that?”
Then: “Oh, maybe that’s why.”
Chi Chi LaRue’s brilliant “Songs” was, sadly, the first (and last) gay porn musical. It’s more Rentboy than “Rent,” but with guest star Sharon Kane camping it up, it’s much better than either.
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It looks like i-D, Britain’s brattiest fashion glossy, brought in the blond guns for their August Artisan Issue. In a lengthy questionnaire entitled “EVERYTHING STARTS WITH A B: 89 sentences about actor, model, poet, playwright, and artist, Boyd Holdbrook,” i-D scribe James Anderson drives the increasingly ubiquitous blue-eyed Brooklyn boy “mad” with questions, so much so that he declines to answer ten in a row before question number 41, which reveals “Boyd’s eyes are blue.” Despite how closed off the brooding model/poet insists on being, we do learn that “Boyd just replies ‘nope’, when asked who his lover is,” and then, disappointingly, “‘She knows who she is’, [he says] when asked who he would like his lover to be.” We can still fantasize, can’t we? On the topic of porno, our intrepid inquisitor discovers, “Boyd’s take on pornography is simply, ‘Whatever makes you better, pal.’
This 1998 biopic of Athletic Model Guild founder Bob Mizer shows us that in the days before Chi Chi La Rue and fisting and fart porn, a kinder, gentler and semi-erect empire ruled, paving the way for the multi-billion dollar gay porn industry that we know and love today.
Athletic Model Guild’s Bob Mizer found some true stars over the years, even if they never became huge names. One who we think deserves another look is Tico Patterson. He did a few star turns in Man O’ Man and Bi-Coastal. But he’s perhaps most fetching in pictures, naked but for his moustache and the occasional prop–we especially love the 70s jogger-pirate one with the pistol aimed at his pistol and the one of him as a football jock with leg cast and missing teeth.
Does your jealous lover check lube levels, too? Then you may relate to this clip from Jet Set’s masterpiece Doggie Style: Get Some Tail. It features some of the best porn b-roll dialogue we’ve heard in a while:
Tom: “It’s the 21st century, Shane, and you’re a monogamous dinosaur.”
Shane: “And you’re an alcoholic slut.”
(That would be Derek Cruz as Tom, Shane Collins as Shane and Anthony Martinez, pictured at left.)
Late last week at the Huntington Beach 2008 “Teen Vogue Fashion LIVE!” event, 18-year-old pro-skater Ryan Sheckler made the innocent choice to remove his t-shirt, unwittingly causing a din of shrill screams from approximately 35,000 eleven-year-old girls. The wall of noise was so thunderous it caused seismic plates in southern California’s coastal region to shift violently, resulting in this Los Angeles-area earthquake early yesterday. When we pressed our fourteen-year-old niece for comment, she questioned Ryan’s hotness with a dismissive hair flip: “I used to think he was hot, and then all my friends started to think he was hot and it was kind of annoying, but now he’s all buff and like…not as hot. Okay, he’s pretty hot still!!”
We’re not even sure you could call him C-list these days, but there once was a moment when Casper Van Dien’s naked torso commanded a lot of attention. Nowadays he’s starring in Starship Troopers 3: Marauders, and we don’t know anyone who even saw Starship Troopers 2 (although the first one, for realz, is a classic piece of cinema). We’ve collected some screencaps for you from the original Starship Troopers, as well as a few from this Tarzan movie he did, and a TV movie called Partners. Do with them what you will.
We came across this dude named Jr. who calls himself the “King of Gay Music.” Here’s what we know about him: he doesn’t like super femme-y guys (see the song “No Queens” to the tune of TLC’s “No Scrubs”), he makes up words (see “scandocious” and “indefagable”) and he is a proud, out-loud, black homo from Chicago who makes some pretty funny spoofs of pop songs, rewritten with gay lyrics. Please enjoy this revision of “The Boy is Mine,” featuring hag supreme Mellione.
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In honor of the opening of The Dark Knight, we give you this look back at the more notably shirtless moments in Christian Bale’s recent career. We have loved him since Empire of the Sun (we were pre-teen too at the time!), then he got all buff for his comeback in American Psycho, and then just kept on giving us ab-tastic performances in Reign of Fire and Batman Begins. After the jump, please appreciate this Brit stud’s fine body of upper body work.
Raging Stallion boys Jake Deckard and Steve Cruz along with a pile of other porn stars including the gifted Antonio Biaggi, Mike Drayden and Sword fave Wolf Hudson descended on Virgin Megastore in Union Square during New York’s Pride weekend, to take off their shirts, make out with each other and sign a few cock shots for their eager fans. Luckily for us, mr. Pam was on hand with the Tim & Roma show to get some of the circus on camera.
At first it was totally hot, then comfortably titillating, then it was kind of a bit much, then it was gay, then it was grotesque, then it was maddening and devoid of any remote attractiveness, then it was absent for a good few months and we thought it was all over. Now it’s back! Of course, we’re referring to the incessant barrage of paparazzi photographs featuring Matthew McConaughey with his shirt off-and gentlemen,
We’d be bigger liars than Clay Aiken if we pretended that we haven’t had a raging boner for Chad White since this site was erected. He’s one of the models you get almost embarrassed to have the hots for because he’s so generically good-looking, with his perfect tan, pearly white smile, all-American boy-next-door charm, and love of furry little animals. His versatility shows in his dossier, having modeled for everything from gay lifestyle skin magazines like Tetu and Attitude, to Macy’s catalogs, to Versace runways. This season he makes a splash on the beach for L’Officiel Hommes #12, shot by