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UPDATED: Joss thanks US for liking it. I’ll be seeing the film a few more times in coming weeks and may amend the review with further insights, facts and figures. My first viewing I wanted to come at it as a fan, and as a fan, I sat utterly mesmerized through the entire viewing and thoroughly LOVED every moment!!!

What more could we ask for? What do you want? Blood? No… Maybe Ant Man and the Wasp… but aside from that, The Avengers biggest fault was ending. Director Joss Whedon has done an amazing job of taking a volatile (at best) mix of characters and giving us a real silver screen experience that somehow remains true to the comics.

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After his work on Dr Horrible, Dollhouse, Firefly and Buffy, many knew Joss Whedon had a bigger role to play in entertainment. His familiar touch is readily apparent in certain quieter scenes between our heroes, and really goes a long way to both humanizing the superhuman and expressing a movie’s worth of backstory in a few snarky statements. Especially brilliant are the Black Widow’s introductory scene (where we see and FINALLY HEAR a bit more of the Natasha Romanoff we all know and fear) and Iron Man’s short but sweet date with Pepper Potts.

Since Black Widow and Hawkeye were the only characters who hadn’t starred in their own solo movie in recent years, they got a bit more history explained through a previous relationship. Natasha is starting to gel with her comics history, but Hawkeye we still don’t know much about. With six major Marvel characters to convey in a matter befitting the legacy and appealing to the general public, there is a short list of people in Hollywood who could have pulled this off as successfully. I hope Joss Wheedon like’s making Avengers Movies. Because I want at least 3 from him!

After he makes those, Joss NEEDS to make that Wonder Woman movie before he winds down a seasoned film director to do some arty sci-fi films for the Oscar gold. More SPOILERIFIC discussion on what The Avengers 2 and 3 might entail after the jump…

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With Great Power comes Straight Responsibility? Not anymore. Just remember to lock the door when kids are afoot boys. Someone needs to tell these tragic heroes that Its alright, Its OK, Superheroes CAN be gay! Villains too I suppose.

Norways answer to The Lonely Island boys, comedy sensation Kollektivet has launched a new humorously ironic musical send up of the lack of gay role models in comics. The video is pretty damned funny, but about 5 years late.

With Northstar’s impending X-Wedding, Batwoman defending Gotham while dating a lady cop, Apollo and Midnighter reromancing in Stormwatch, Bunker being his flamboyant self in Teen Titans, Stryker coming out and Lightspeed planning a lesbian rainbow date with Runaway Karolina Dean in Avengers Academy and Rictor/Shatterstar’s ongoing relationship… not to mention Wiccan and Hulkling FINALLY sharing their first on-panel kiss – comics are more inclusive and supportive than ever before! Its about time. All that aside – the video is hilarious. Someone just needs to get the kid some current American comics so he’s not so shocked.

via Queerty

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Gay X-Marriage? I still think so. Norkyle may not have the same ring as Norcules, but they really are a cute couple, so I’m rooting for them.

We’re getting closer to the impending mutant milestone that is Astonishing X-Men #50 – and the engagement that it will likely contain. We are still not seeing any significant character development besides Northstar and Kyle, so I feel safe in having their present engraved, but hope both grooms will live long enough to enjoy it. Welcome to the X-Men _______ I hope you survive the experience. I was glad to see Kyle’s Jinadu’s reckless behavior (following BF Northstar to a rumble alongside Wolverine) didn’t get him in too much trouble.

Apparently it was Karma (and not the bad guys – whew) that he ran into last issue while hot on the GPS trail of Northstar’s cell. As those involved start to figure things out, we are treated to some battle-ending hysteria from Kyle followed by the exchange below. Their conversation strikes me as one of the most honest and believable in the 4 color history of Superhuman-Human romances – and I love the bit about the laundry and cleaning. Like YOU wouldn’t want YOUR superspeed flying boyfriend to do all the chores in seconds??

• The Marauders Are Back! • Something From Northstar’s Past Has Resurfaced And Is Looking For Revenge. • Kyle Goes Missing – How Is He Connected To The Person Behind Everything?

Part of the solicit was a tease – Kyle isn’t missing – YET. Here’s what we know… Something is definitely up. A telepath is involved and Northstar AND Kyle appear to be the focus of the mastermind behind events. The flashes of the very near future (guessing present will catch up with these by next ish or the Wedding) we saw last issue of Northstar running slowly for his like from mind-controlled Wolvie and Gambit are nothing compared to what he has to deal with this issue. Is Jean Paul Beaubier faster than a speeding bullet? I’ll say yes. Because if he’s not…

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SMASH‘s starring ingenue Karen Cartwright (American Idol Season 5 runner up Katherine McPhee) and boyfriend Dev (Raza Jaffrey) brought a bit of Bollywood to Broadway this week. Karen fades off into a musical daydream and the two treat us to One Thousand and One Nights – daring Dev’s first musical number! The man has some nice pipes. Who knew?

Unfortunately I can’t find a Youtube clip of the scene so you’ll have to settle for a Hulu clip (which only last a few weeks – so watch sooner than later).

I’m far from a connoisseur of the genre (my first exposure was when Buffy, Xander and Willow mused while watching a Bollywood musical) but I REALLY love the song. I’ve been enjoying the show since the beginning. Their choice of songs to cover is great but I also love most of the original music too. I’m definitely a bigger fan of Karen than Ivy (Megan Hilty). I prefer the sweet small-town starlet to the backstabbing Broadway bitch. I like Karen’s songs better too. I can see why Derek imagines her as Marilyn.

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Is the Gay community irresponsible for encouraging LGBT Youth to come out come out wherever they are? Sure it makes us feel good to see LGBT kids coming out and being accepted on GLEE, but are we lying to kids out there in small town America?

Does the sense of empowerment these kids get from being themselves offset the potential dangers they face? I’d like to think one outweighs the other, but every small town teen suicide adds more weight to the argument. Unfortunately 14 year old Kenneth James Weishuhn of Primghar, Iowa has become yet another sad statistic shifting the balance. After coming out on Facebook in March, Kenneth was the target of relentless bullying at school, received voice-mail containing death threats and was the focus of an anti-gay Facebook hate page. Local authorities are investigating. Kenneth was a sweet sensitive kid with a heartbreaking page dedicated to the “dream wedding” he’ll never have and will be missed deeply by his family and friends. Iowa paper The Sioux City Journal published a full front page editorial on bullying. I sincerely hope the children who drove him to this are haunted by guilt the rest of their lives.

Telling them It Gets Better isn’t enough. Before we can responsibly encourage LGBT kids to come out, we need to foster a more tolerant and accepting environment for those in the sort of unenlightened communities that use their “Holy Bible” as a cudgel. How many more children have to die before the so-called “Christian Communities” realize they are NOT doing what Jesus would do.

Anyone who doesn’t see that this kind of EVIL behavior (death threats and psychological torment) is simply unacceptable in civilized human beings was likely a child who learned to hate from a parent. Bigots with children will continue to encourage such actions from their lemming-like offspring UNTIL/UNLESS there are real ramifications – and NOT just for the bad kids – parents who teach their children to commit hate crimes should be punished as well. The only way to reach small-town minds is with the long arm of the law. Al Franken’s Obama endorsed Student Non-Discrimination Act and the Safe Schools Improvement Act sound like a good start, but until I learn more about punishments I won’t know if they go far enough.

We can’t arrest someone for every instance of teasing, but extreme ongoing bullying (online or face-to-face) needs to be illegal with punishments such as fines, tolerance education and forced community service (for both child and parent), but bullying someone to the point of a suicide attempt should carry a harsher punishment… MUCH higher punitive fines, longer and more in-depth education, plus an additional 3-6 months Mandatory detention in a Juvenile detention facility for the children responsible AND a ruling that may help with a civil judgement should the victim’s family decide to sue the parents (for allowing their children to commit hate crimes) OR school (for not adequately protecting the students).

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I haven’t been mentioning GLEE as much this season because it just hasn’t been as gay.

Sure we have Kurt and Blaine as an adorable couple every episode now and of course there was Dave Karofsky’s attempted suicide, but other than that the LGBT aspect hasn’t been quite as front and center during Season 3… until Saturday Night GLEEver that is.

During GLEE’s deliecious Disco flashback episode, GLEE puts the T in LGBT when a member of Vocal Adrenaline (a shy transgender-identifying teen named Wade) comes to Kurt and Mercedes for advice on whether he should don wig, dress and heels to debut his confident female persona (named “Unique”) for Regionals. The pair run it past Sue (of all adults to ask?!?!) and she offers up a pair of Janet Reno’s old Boogie Shoes in an effort to sabotage the enemy camp with controversy.

Controversy aside, I don’t see how this number would have worked without Unique in drag. By the way, Wade/Unique is portrayed by Alex Newell who was one of the winners of The GLEE Project. Alex enjoys it when people refer to him as “Kurtcede” and has high hopes that Wade/Unique might catch Dave Karofsky’s eye (tho that may be unlikely as Max Adler has been signed for the ABC submarine drama, “Last Resort.”

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Joe Phillips’ "Beefcake Heroes" gallery showing at Alexander Salazar Fine Art during SDCC 2011 made quite a splash both with the attending fanboys and with the internet media. Soon after his supersexy shots of well-known superheroes in various states of undress were burning up the web. At the time I saved them for a rainy day, meaning to significantly expand my original Joe Phillips post and split it into two galleries. Luckily, it rained over the weekend. I left his Joeboys in the first post and have combined the "Beefcake Heroes" images with his superhero work and convention sketches.

Joe Phillips began his career as a traditional comic book artist. His first professional job was cover artist for Mister Miracle #7 in 1989 and he continued on the title until its end in 1991. He then went on to create visuals for such popular titles as “Justice League of America”, “Silver Surfer”, “X-Men”, “Legion of Super-Heroes”, “The Incredible Hulk”, “Lobo”, Captain America”, “Wolverine”, “Green Lantern” and “Superboy.” He was also a regular contributor to the Marvel Illustrated Swimsuit Specials, so these kinds of Beefcake Heroes are right up his alley.

It wasn’t until his work on "Superboy & Risk: Double Shot" (Feb 1998) that Joe sexualized his hero a bit more than was the norm and dropped "a few gay hints in the background." These "hints" were picked up by a number of gay fanboys at the time and actually led to Joe creating a regular homoerotic cartoon strip for XY magazine called… Joeboys. The wild succcess of his Joeboys led him to mainly leave his traditional comics background and focus on creating art for the gay community.

In 1999 Joe Phillips co-founded Xodus USA which sold clothing and gay-themed accessories. Joe released his first annual Boys Will Be Boys calendar in 2001 and by 2003 Bruno Gmunder had published a collection of the calendar images that was so popular the publisher re-released it in 2007 with double the content.

Joe Phillips has also created a number of homoerotic animated films. His first, Cumquest was a Star Trek spoof. His second film, The House of Morecock was released in 2001 and nominated for a GayVN award in 2002. He released his first CGI film, Stonewall and Riot in 2006.

He launched Xodus magazine in 2003 and has since created artwork for ID Lube, Elbow Grease, Inside Pride, Jocko Underwear, Odyssey Magazine, Gloss Magazine, Gay and Lesbian Times San Diego, Freshmen, All Boy, Cyber Socket, and Prism Comics plus singers Ari Gold, Justus Boys, Alan Gnuo and Levi Kreis. He also created the art for the comic book character “Rage”, which featured in the second season of the Showtime series Queer as Folk.

Joe Phillips "Beefcake Heroes" series does nothing more than put iconic male heroes in the provocative poses traditionally found more in erotic pin ups than comic strips.

"Comic art is finally coming out of the closet," he said. "The heroes and their fans can’t ignore they are sexy."

Comic artists have been doing that to female heroes (and villainesses) for years and Joe Phillips is a firm believer that what is good for the goose is good for the gander. THANKS JOE! In the Huffington Post interview Phillips mentions a possible follow up to the series with Beefcake Villains!!!

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After 10 years in the closet and another 10 years out, is it finally time for Marvel’s original gay superhero – Northstar and his boyfriend of 3 years Kyle Jinadu to walk down the aisle?

After Marvel released the White X Save the Date teaser image, it was speculated that Jean-Paul and Kyle will wed in the 51st issue of Astonishing X-Men (on shelves June 20th). What do we know? Astonishing X-Men 51 will contain “something that has never been seen inside the pages of a Marvel comic.” The White X image has been used before (to tease the marriage of Scott and Jean), so a wedding is definitely inferred. Combine that with the fact that Northstar is the only team member close to that point in a relationship, and he’s the obvious answer (unless manwhore Gambit goes to extremes to get a jealous rise out of Rogue). A media blitz is planned to coincide with the May release of Astonishing X-Men #50, which rumor has it contains the proposal. Marvel will also be celebrating the event with John Cassaday variants for Astonishing X-Men #50 and a Djurdjevic variant cover for #51.

He may have been beaten to the title of first gay wedding in comics by the Wildstorm incarnations of Apollo and The Midnighter (whose DCNu counterparts are following their footsteps and may have some invitations of their own to send out soon enough) and Kevin Keller’s interracial military nuptials were more of a “shock” to those shocked by such things, but marrying off Northstar would be a HUGE milestone in the Marvel Universe which despite having a number of LGBT characters… up until now hasn’t broached the topic of marriage equality. Though there WAS a semi-proposal in Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #9… Keep and eye on X-Factor. Maybe it will be a triple gay wedding?

The only bad news is since Marvel plans a media frenzy around the event, this gives the Few Thousand Women Who Can’t Count enough time to notice and get riled up. Lets hope they drop the ball again.

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Happy Easter 2012! Here’s a collection of images and videos that are entirely inappropriate for such a somber Holiday. At this point you really should expect no less from a HnH Holiday post.

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If you are a gay geek and you are NOT reading Stormwatch… SHAME ON YOU! In its first 8 issues not only do we get to see the relationship of comics first gay married couple (Apollo and The Midnighter) unfold all over again in DC continuity, we’ve also seen open, frank and matter of fact flirtation between the pair and now we get to see acknowledgement, encouragement and support from youngest teammate (and potential future adopted daughter – if events unfold similarly to the original Authority) Jenny Quantum. The Midnighter really should brush up on his etiquette, he didn’t offer Jenny much of a thanks for her gesture. Wait until you see what he DOES do! I get his motivations, but it seems out of character after his paternal behavior towards her. All that plus action and intrigue on a scale that makes a JLA mission feel like an early issue of Young Justice marks Stormwatch MUST read.

Out of the mouths of babes. I just can’t imagine an exchange like this in the comics I read growing up. “Boys can like boys. It doesn’t matter.” They are two short simple sentences, but one can imagine the sense of empowerment that those 7 words could instill in a young gay or lesbian reader. Or in straight readers for that matter. As overjoyed as I am about new LGBT characters and the commercial success of books starring gay characters like Kevin Keller, these small moments in mainstream titles are just as if not more powerful.

Which makes me wonder why the usual crop of Bigoted Bible Thumpers (BBTs) aren’t raising a Holy stink about it. Has no one told them yet? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, their furor over Kevin Keller’s gay interracial military wedding in Life with Archie #16 was so late that the books sold out before they could organize a boycott.

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If ever any adult film actor qualified as a Legendary Stud of Yore, it is 5’10" musclebound and vocal topman Brock Masters. With the well-defined body of a young greek god, beautiful green eyes, a heroic jaw and gorgeous smile, a worshipworthy 10.5 × 9 inch coke can sized cock, a fine meaty ass AND a masterful yet playful demeanor, Brock Masters (born Aaron James Fisher in Alton IL on April 22, 1973) is the total Taurus gay porn package.

Brock Masters grew up in Sarasota, FL, but moved to New Orleans, LA to attend Tulane University where he already has a degree in Radio / TV – Media Arts with a minor in Philosophy and an AA in Psychology / CS Science and once planned to translate his education and personal knowledge gained dating and during his sexual exposure as an erotic dancer/pornstar to become a sex therapist like Dr. Ruth.

Brock prefers no label on his personality or if he is even Gay, Straight or Gay for pay. He claims himself as a free spirit.

Free spirit or not, Brock Masters was married for 6 years, from the age of 21 until he turned 27 and has two children (a son and daughter now in their teens). He serving in the Army as Pvt. 1st Class from 1992-1994. In 1994 (near the time of his marriage) Brock switched branches of the Armed Services and enlisted in the US Marines as a Corp MCRD – US Marine Corps and served through 1999 stationed at the Pentagon, Okinawa and San Diego, CA. Then it was time for another "switch."

Brock Masters was "discovered" in San Diego back in 1998 (near the end of his career in uniform) when his friend Barry introduced him to adult film actor turned producer Chip Daniels. Brock’s debut film, the 1998 Centaur Films release “Off Limits” was followed by “Time Cops” which was nominated for 1999 Best Video of the Year.

Other droolworthy scenes include him teaching a troublemaking newcomer Brent Everett a lesson before throwing him in the brig (to join the orgy) in Navy Blues (2003), pitching a tent with (and for) Blu Kennedy in Wild Rangers.

In addition to his all-too-short but oh-so-sweet filmography, Brock Masters is also a veteran of the national male dancing circuit. Brock has shaken his stuff in and around Dallas, Texas, Chicago, Illinois, Atlanta, Georgia and his birth state of Florida and was a featured entertainer at Southern Decadence (Oz Nightclub Labor Day Weekend 2002) – where he is apparently a popular attraction.

His recent comeback (unfortunately bareback – I disapprove) has daddy Brock catching theiving twink Micah Andrews in the act and then taking it out in unprotected trade in Hole RoBBers (2011). His return to the fold coincided with 2 run-ins with the law that brough Brock attention (is there really no such thing as bad publicity?). Brock Masters added his name to the list of pornstarts in trouble with the law when he was arrested and detained in March 2011 for a probation violation that involved leaving the scene of an accident. He was bailed out by his then-pregnant girlfrien, only be be arrested again in November 2011 on two counts of domestic battery.

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Northstar and his long-term business manger turned love interest Kyle Jinadu are 2 of the new additions to the Astonishing X-Men family. Marvel must have gotten wind of my recently downscaled buy list and the criteria to get on it (have a LGBT character) – cuz it’s always about me… right? Delusions aside, I’m happy Marvel found a home for Jean-Paul and Kyle. BTW – BEWARE SPOILERS.

BUT, where is the dog they rescued at the end of the Alpha Flight mini-series (a Fear Itself tie-in)? I see no sign of the pooch in their new apartment, and Kyle is NOT walking the dog later in the book when he decides to take a stroll. Which is too bad as that would be a WAY less stupid reason (than following his BF to see what WOLVERINE wanted) for him to be out in the night. If Kyle is to survive the X-Men, he needs to learn to stay home and read his damned book when Wolverine calls Jean-Paul. Otherwise he’ll find himself nabbed in the darkness by strange silhouetted figures and, oh wait, never mind, too late.

I loved the tender and realistic scene between Jean-Paul and Kyle in their new apartment – especially the knowing wink and Northstar’s super speed decorating. I hope we see more of this sort of domesticity. I Also hope that Kyle isn’t going to become the team’s “dude in distress.” You know… that annoyingly stupid significant other who is always getting themselves in a jam. The classic damsels – Lois Lane, Iris West, Linda Park and a number of Bat Bimbos all had an excuse for their tendency to step right in it – occupational hazard. But Kyle is not a reporter, or a cop, or even an EMT. Kyle is a business manager. He should act like it. He and Northstar have already had discussions about how Kyle shouldn’t mix too much with the dangers of the super-hero world. And after being brainwashed into heterosexuality by the Master as part of an elaborate plan to take over the world (why does he always start with Canada? Has the man never played RISK? and he calls himself the Master of the World – HA). But I digress.

The issue even has some action, including Northstar running through a sewer (at normal speed?) to escape from a homicidal Wolverine and Gambit, but alas no explanation yet as to how we get there. Maybe next issue.

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HISTORIC HOMOEROTIC HALL of FAME NOMINEE:

The next artist be be honored with a gallery within the HeroesNHunks Homoerotic Hall of Fame (as a noteworthy trailblazing international artist who had a major contribution to the advancement of homoerotic art) is… Beau.

The mysterious Californian painter and illustrator usually known as BEAU (a.k.a. Beau Bell, a.k.a. ?) was born in 1959 to a wealthy family… his mother was an independent and beautiful, southern debutante who "looked like Dietrich, smoked like Davis, and behaved like Bankhead," while his Banker father was an entitled and supremely privileged snob with an exclusive Manhattan and Boston pedigree. Either by example or lack thereof, the unhappy (according to Beau) pair certainly taught him one thing… to enjoy the finer things in life. Even his pseudonym (presumably) is French for male beauty.

Described as a sexual "maverick" and "very attractive and wealthy man in his 50s," Beau the artist and the man seems to do his best to enjoy the good life to the fullest. He once asked and answered the most important question… "Who would decline an invitation to life’s grand discothèque? I certainly didn’t. Why should you?" Famed homoerotic publisher Bruno Gmunder invited Beau up to the show with a multi-volume set collecting his works – Beaumen, Beaumen 2 and Beaumen – Beau (a collection of presumably unsendable? postcards). Link chain will lead to available copies.

Many of the lush, expressive Beau images gathered in this gallery and collected in the volumes Beaumen and Beaumen 2 were created to illustrate the wildly erotic stories of 90s gay magazines such as Advocate Men, Freshmen and Torso. The artists’ own arousal is apparent in his work – and his horny "carpe diem" themed quotes seem to infer interaction with his many muscular muses.

As young man in Manhattan, Beau soon found "The Village" a frequent and liberating refuge. He found himself accepted despite his "class, appearance, and blue blazered mind," and soon began a gateway romance with a charming rogue who played "Big Daddy" to his Protege and introduced him to a new world of literary celebrities, drugs and worldly conversation in dim smoky rooms.

Beau’s intense scenes of dominance and submission provoke and envelop the voyeuristic viewer into a world filled with dark fantasies of of power and devotion. His entirely "American, Hollywoodesque style" unleashes primal gay archetypes upon the viewer yet manages to explore beyond mere fetish and flesh and capture the yearning for love and physical contact behind the unforgiving façade of sexual desire.

His nighttime forays into The Village garnered Beau a bit TOO much attention and after some "private" photos were published in some "less than mainstream" magazines, Beau blew town and tried to lay low in Berkeley and San Francisco, even spending some time in an ashram. None of these destinations did much to placate his angry father and Beau found himself shipped off (and booked Coach no less) to "Southern California to live with the savages in disgrace."

Family connections set him up with a highly lucrative writer/producer deal at Paramount, which despite a lack of ability or sucess allowed untouchable access to the hidden rooms of Hollywood, and anywhere the family clount didn’t get him in, his "tight jeans, velvet shirts, and longish golden hair" opened doors. He arrived a "fan" but soon, his time in Hollywood helped him brush the stars out of his eyes and into his bed.

Beau suffered a tragic car accident in 2002 and has been unable to continue painting – a true loss to the future annals of homoerotic art. According to information found over at Beautiful Mag he went on to a new photography career. I’ll amend this article once I have additional info on where to find Beau’s photographic works, but thus far I am unable to find current info on him (aside from his current obsession/understanding with his "enigmatic mercurial delinquent"… Sebastian).

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Class Comics has long been recognized as the premier source for quality homoerotic comics, so many were surprised by erotica neophyte Adam E. Hoak‘s unfavorable review posted at PRISM about the 4 color fratboy fun found in Class Comics‘ The Initiation #2 (winner of the 2010 Gaybie award for Best Gay Comic)… not to mention the online drama that ensued. The reviewer admits right off that he’s new to the genre of homoerotic comics – not that he has to… his lack of knowledge on the subject shows with every point of his review. To start off he judges it with the same critical eye one would give a bestselling regular comic – which is sort of like comparing a gay porn movie to an Oscar nominated film. It simply doesn’t make sense.

Mr. Hoak spends a paragraph elucidating on silliness of the copious amounts of glistening semen flowing on each page in “beautiful arcs” and “mind-boggling volumes” as if he’s utterly unfamiliar with the phenomena of “the porn cumshot” or its illustrative counterpart. Any suspicions of the reviewer’s ignorance about “erotic comics” or homoerotic art in general are confirmed when he calls out the artist for the anatomical impossibility of the frat boys big cocks, making abundantly clear the fact he “just doesn’t get it.” Ever heard of Tom of Finland? Etienne? Oliver Frey? Harry Bush? The history of homoerotic art is littered with impossible cocks – it’s kind of the whole point of the genre.

His plot complaints could be directed any any frat-themed porn movie and are akin to someone balking at the improbability of a horny pizza-delivery boy or car mechanics exchanging sex for services. Adam just doesn’t like or even understand porn for what it is – XXX Fantasy. He even mentions how the comic contains “most of what he finds distasteful about porn.” Then why review it? just as most gay men watch porn to get off, not for Oscar-worthy entertainment – most fans of erotic comics buy them for pics of hot boys having wild sex, not to experience great literature. Hoak may or may not be better off reading romance novels, but he should stick to gay graphic novels that have some sex but focus more on story because there just isn’t that much demand for “smart porn.”

As to the his problem with the depiction of unsafe sex… I find this point ridiculous when reviewing porn delivered an illustrative medium. I find “bareback” porn distasteful at best and criminal endangerment at worst. That said, I have that reaction because if I watch it, I see real models in danger. In porn, although they use condoms, we rarely see a model stop to put one on. Why? Because it slows down the action. In a comic book medium there are a limited number of panels to tell your “story” – which doesn’t leave many to show the boys putting on condoms. As for why the huge cocks aren’t drawn with condoms on, my guess is it just doesn’t visually translate as well when drawn and its not easy to draw accurately and attractively that way. Although IMO, it wouldn’t hurt if they included some condom wrappers in background scenes to suggest their use, the pictures simply look better without condom-lines on the cocks.

PRISM’s apology centered on the fact that they USUALLY strive to post only positive reviews… “Prism reviews should be written by those familiar with the genre they’re reviewing, and never be wholly negative.” I agree and generally try and stick within similar guidelines when dealing with LGBT comics – erotic or otherwise.

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Apparently they aren’t waiting for anything. Proposee Aaron actually beat a surprised Danny Rose to the punch with his own proposal on Valentine’s Day while the video was still in post production.

Of course Danny said yes, but still wanted to finish the video project and counter-propose.

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Danny started the song in December and it took a month complete. After a few weeks of prep he shot the video in one day at Culver Studios using donated techno cranes, cameras and fx. The killer director, DP, editor and choreographers all volunteered their time and amazing talents.

The song is available on iTunes and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to marriage equality charities!

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