‘Milk’ Movie Shoot Photo Roundup
We know, these shots are a tease. But still sort of hot, right? This is Sean Penn and James Franco pretending it’s June in the middle of January, traipsing about during a recreation of the first Castro Street Fair, shot during one of our only sunny hours last week. And also, one of Franco by himself, shirtless. (photos care of TroublePup on Flickr)
Scenes shot this past Monday night included two historic marches that occurred after Anita Bryant-led voting defeats for gay rights in Florida and Wichita. We were especially fans of the recreated protest signage, such as “I’d Rather Fight Than Switch” and “Anita Bryant’s is a BITCH!” Emile Hirsch–who bared all in Into the Wild and is pictured below right with Sean Penn–plays Cleve Jones leading one particular rally. (photos care of The Sword and Flickr)
Jennifer of NakedSword snapped this photo of porn hunk Jack Ryan (center) with the real live Cleve Jones (left), who is serving as Historical Consultant on the film and also has a bit part as a bitter queen (he gave background to the assorted extras and imparted some Anita Bryant-vitriol before leading some chants of “Gay Rights Now” and “We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Not Going Shopping”–we don’t actually understand that last one.) And then Carrie Fisher showed up, possibly to promote her one-woman show “Wishful Drinking” (premiering this week at Berkeley Rep) to the assembled gay extras. Maybe she was just there for kicks, and we know she’s a friend and neighbor of Courtney Love and therefore must be pals with Gus too. (photos care of Jennifer Simpson, click to enlarge)
And lastly, we leave you with James Franco in costume as Scott Smith, yawning, and a shot of a Penn-as-Milk campaign poster.
Milk Film Shoot in Castro Tonight, Lady Jeans Discouraged
OMG They’re Making a Movie in the Castro (Photos of Milk Shoot by TroublePup on Flickr)
Milk: The Transformation of Castro Street (Towleroad)
Factory Videos Abandons Fake Vagina Mart
“the show seemed to have poor performance overall, but the gay section was a ghost town.”
While last year, studios like Hot House, Titan, COLT and Channel 1 all
had booths, this year Factory found itself one of the lone survivors.
Morris suggested that many of the larger companies had decided amongst
themselves that it wasn’t worth going and had more or less decided to
abandon the show en masse without telling him. We don’t know about that—Jet Set showed, Channel 1 held court and web-based outfits seemed to
find it valuable—but we do know that with declining DVD sales
industry-wide, selling hard product direct to the consumer isn’t as
lucrative as it once was. Most companies—like Falcon, Titan and
Raging Stallion—pared down costs by partnering with sites like
NakedSword for model signings and promotional events.
Morris, however, thinks the show may be indicative of a sea change for smaller producers.
Homophobia, anti-porn
conservatives, recession, and the technological upheaval in the way our product
is delivered, puts every single adult video producer in exactly the same peril.
We can lose our business, our customers, our freedom. The recent 2257 crisis
indicates how far people outside will go to try and close our whole industry
down.
Adding insult to industry, the Factory Videos booth was robbed at
the show and the stolen merchandise turned up, natch, online.
Don’t look at us, though. Our finger was in the vagina the whole time.
American Apparel’s Big Gay Model Search
Forget humiliating pay-cable pageants! We’re starting our modeling
careers with an impromptu photo session in the office men’s room RIGHT
NOW.
For guidelines and info: www.buttmagazine.com
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Rhodes, Jacobs, Preston: Three’s Company Too!
Page Six reported on the designer’s coupling with Falcon contract star Erik Rhodes on Monday, suggesting that Jacob’s had been cheating on barebacking boytoy Preston
with Rhodes behind his back. According to the source, the truth is closer to ‘Big Love’ than ‘Unfaithful.’ While Preston and Jacobs have had strain in their relationship
before, Rhodes is evidently no secret. What began as a one-time threesome is now
a full-fledged throuple!
Rhodes has denied that he’s involved in a secret relationship-but
confirmed that he’ll be at the show on Friday, though he still insists
that he and Jacobs are just friends. The designer responded to Page
Six’s comments with the same pat “friends” answer. But while Rhodes
excoriated the Post for its poorly researched coverage, he did joke
that there might be even more to see at the show than the clothes:
“I guess it will be an even better story when i show up for his show
this Friday. Drama drama drama. Jason Preston and i will just have to
get into a cat fight while Marc’s Fall collection comes down the runway.”
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Marc Jacobs and Erik Rhodes Wrestle for Bottom
Erik Rhodes Kicks Drugs, Boyfriend
Caleb Carter as “Ben” on MTV’s Parental Control
Watch Mom squirm as an applicant refers to his “stick shift” and Ben/Caleb says, about her son, “I rode him last night!”
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Marc Jacobs and Erik Rhodes Wrestle For Bottom
Jacobs’ quote to Page Six is also suspect: “He’s a really nice guy and
we are just friends.” While we adore Rentboy Porn Star of the Year Erik Rhodes and are addicted to Marc by
Marc Jacobs Tees, we can’t imagine the two getting together and having
more to discuss than whether to use silicone or water-based lube. We
hope Erik gets some great custom-made couture out of this deal-the
behemoth sure as hell isn’t going to be able to squeeze his big
business into anything “off the rack” from the Marc Jacobs boutique.
Erik, just please promise us you won’t get his logo tattooed on your
forearm like Marc’s last porn boyfriend, the overeager, barebacking
Jason Preston.
Of course, all this star-trading leads us to our final question: Could the Creative Director for Louis Vuitton be… gasp… a top? The only thing Erik has in common with Marc’s waifish ex is
a horse cock, but Erik is known for doing repetitive squats, if you
catch our drift. Good thing there’s no hard feelings between Jason and
Erik-they both have each other listed in their Top Friends on
MySpace and both are listed as Marc Jacobs’ Top Friends as well (on his
Official Myspace Profile, which looks suspiciously like Jason’s).
RELATED:
Erik Rhodes Kicks Drugs, Boyfriend
Marc Jacobs Way Too Proud of Skinniness, Tattoos
Designer Has Guy on the Side (PageSix.com)
Page Six Gossip (ErikRhodes.blogspot.com)
Blogger Battle Of The Bulge: Perez Hilton Caught With His Pants Down (GayPornBlog.com)
The Worst in Gay Marketing: Miller Lite
1994: This ad dates from the zeitgeist of 90s Chelsea faggotry and it’s the earliest available from The Commercial Closet. You might not catch the gay subtext at first glance-that is if you weren’t already reading OUT and sucking on a raspberry penis-pop when you came across it. There’s a neon-rainbow beer sign in the background, and a cabana waiter in a bow-tie with a Flock-of-Seagulls haircut. Oh, and there’s a bunch of “straight-acting” fags chuckling to each other about what jocks they are. (Click image for slightly larger version.)
1996: Miller got a little racier with this ad, though the unexpected twist they’re referring to could mean a lot of things. If we had to guess: herpes.
1997: This particular campaign, dreamed up by some geniuses at Fallon Worldwide (Miller’s ad agency that year), imagines that gay magazine readers might want to cut out some racially diverse paper dolls and dress them in a few stereotypical outfits. We especially love that a) all three dolls have the requisite 90s pole-climber boot option; b) the white guy in the bathing suit has Average, Buff, and Hairy torso options; c) Asian camper-man comes complete with a hairdryer for his camping trip because, of course, he’s gay… and retarded; and d) is that black guy supposed to carry that enormous disco ball around like some sort of gay Sisyphus? (click images to enlarge)
1997: This ad, entitled “Always Brewed With Pride,” made us think of this drink we learned about in bartending school called the Rainbow Pousse Cafe, which is the kind of thing that if you ever ordered it you should be gay bashed. And then shot.
2001: Connect A to B and celebrate what? You’re 40 and alone and he’s probably not going to call you back. Oh, sorry. It’s our future calling. We’re not picking up.
2001: This one is another subtle, almost-straight-acting sort of menagerie like the one from 1994, except by 2001 they were proud enough to sport faggy hats. We’re guessing this ad was meant to pander to San Diego gays and all those who ever dreamed of rooftops and a few glorious, ethnically diverse pals to chuckle it up with on a Friday night.
2001: Welcome to the gay-is-the-new-straight Early Aughts. Rounding out Miller’s ’01 gay ad blitz was this national commercial that originally aired during an episode of ER and subsequently aired during Will & Grace and the NBA playoffs. Two randy ladies unwittingly send a beer over to a gay man in a bar, quickly seeing he already has a boyfriend with him. “At least he’s not married,” one of them quips. Cue personal laugh track.
2002: This one may be the true winner. Who hasn’t fantasized about being raped with a beer bottle in some Fatty Arbuckle role play? Welcome to Castro Babylon.
2007:
“When you know, you know.” Are they talking about love here, or HIV status? Hard to say. In any case, we’re glad they’re cute and they’ve found each other and they’ve both managed to keep their shirts on this long. We’ve come a long way, girls.
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Ad Fab – Gay Consumer-Oriented Advertising on Television (Bnet)
Miller Lite Ads (The Commercial Closet)
