Where Would We Be Without Bottoms?

guest blogger - kit lambert

I think the reason American top gays dis bottoms is for many reasons.

I don't know what it's like for Europeans and maybe because they don't incarcerate the majority of their minorities like we do here, and then subject the incarcerated to unwanted anal sex like it is here in America, they don't understand us for better reasons.

The majority of imprisoned tops rape a man not as an act of heterosexual love but as a means of asserting power over them in order to feel a very slight elevation of esteem and power in an otherwise demeaning and powerless position of imprisonment.

Another thing is still true - it is hard to come out and if you come out and face dissing it makes you feel better if you can at least say "I am not being fucked I am fucking you" so again bottoms get the lower end of the totem pole.

Some of my heterosexual male friends have the same attitude about women. They say "I am not being fucked - I am fucking you."

The comedian Lenny Bruce once did a whole act about "Fuck You" and how come we use the word "Fuck" like it's a curse? "Fuck You" - I want to give you sexual pleasure. "Sexual Pleasure You!" That's kinda of fucked up and I guess I just begged the question.

Malcolm X used to say "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth rock landed on us black Americans."

I think the American Puritan ethic against the pleasure of sex from any position is still pounding all of us, top, bottom, male, female, gay, straight into the ground.

Shoah For Homosexuals Persecuted

Guest blogger: Kit Lambert

Yes, the final solution, the Nazi extermination of European Jews is tragic but probably one of the most documented historical facts of modern civilization and if you doubt it, please visit any of the great websites on Shoah, the Hebrew word which means disambigulation or plain English, get the truth out.

However a further tragedy surrounding Shoah is the scant attention paid to the Nazi extermination of European homosexuals - most college educated people can rattle off the names of concentration camps, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, yet how many can utter Paragraph 175 (the German law against homosexuals) and the numerous homosexuals routinely put to death in the same camps?

Worldwide, the continuing blatant disregard of the persecution of homosexuals knows no boundaries and goes virtually unexamined by the mainstream.

Regardless of the country, its culture or its economic inclination, the one undeniable and commonly shared trait among almost every country is its simple and deplorable persecution of homosexuals - and the litany of nations calmly undergoing this atrocity is lengthy and utterly painful.

In China, the Communist regime persecuted homosexuals, especially during the Cultural Revolution, when many homosexuals were punished with long prison terms and sometimes execution.

During the time of the Soviet Union there were decisive repressive measures of the State against homosexuals, notably article 121.1 which punished myzhelozhestvo (a man lying with another man) with up to five years of imprisonment, and psychiatry which made it possible to forcibly confine lesbian women in a psychiatric clinic.

And for those of you who think Castro was more tolerant of indigent homosexuals, think again - prior to Castro, homosexuals in Cuba led normal lives, but after Castro, they were routinely rounded up and imprisioned with the many political dissidents incarcerated.

As for the rest of Latin America repression goes hand in hand with the Holy Roman Catholic Church which hates the sin of homosexuality.

In Africa, homosexuality is illegal for gay men in 29 out of 54 countries (and for lesbian women in 20 countries.)

Tolerance of homosexuality in Australia? No dice. In the capital city of Sydney, police research shows gay men and lesbians are up to six times more likely to be assaulted than other residents.

Perhaps it becomes more clear why I link Shoah with Homosexual persecution, when the Iranian president's words at Columbia Univeristy sums up its reasonable conflation - after a rambling denial of the Jewish Holocaust, Ahmadinejad stated.

"In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country. We don't have that in our country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I do not know who has told you that we have it."

The rest of the Middle East and Muslem hatred is apparent but the increased persecution of homosexuals in Iraq since the U.S. occupation goes unreported, even though homophobic murders have intensified.

Every homosexual in America like every marginalized minority is aware of a stigmatized and second-class status as citizens and the situation for American homosexuals and every homosexual worldwide save perhaps modern European homosexuals will not improve until we begin a Gay Shoah, a disambigulation of the truth about homosexual persecution.

For more information on Nazi holocaust of homosexuals consider visiting this website: http://gay.web.ca/node/49


Porn Dogs


I want to fuck you like an animal.
Guest blogger: Paul Krassner

Andrea Nemerson, who writes an alternative sex column for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, publised this letter from a reader. "I know this woman and she has a fetish with bringing dead animals into the bedroom. She likes to dress up in a pink bunny suit and hop around. Then, with the dead animals, she tries to insert them anally. She tickels her cooch with the animals' tails an then cuts them open and feeds on the spider and liver."

OK, that particular letter turned out to be a hoax. Nevertheless, bestiality fetishes have become quite chic these days. There are websites that feature "slutyy chicks" fondling, fuck and cucking horses, snakes, cow, dogs, monkeys, sheep, donkeys, goests, pigs and occasionally necking with a giraffe or humping a camel.

Unlike regular commerical moves show in theater, Internet porn doesn't include any "No animals were hared during the making of this film" disclaimers. There is not oversight from the American Humane Society, nor are there any complaints from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

However in Japn, where it comes to professional pron animals, it's a differnet sotry - rather, let's say it's a horse of another color. In fact, many Japanese porn actresses have been complainging they only make half the wages of their canine co-stars, which acquire an average of 200,000 yen per move. In America, an owner may recieve copensation, but the animals themsleves earn nothg except maybe a few extra doggie treats.

In Japan, the so-called Batter Dogs are very popular. That name derives from the act of spreading butter on the labia of women before the great licking scenes. One porn flick, Better Dog Story DX featured a dog performing oral sex on eight women. Labrador retrievors are a favorite because of their obedient nature, popularity throughout Japan and because they are just so damn hot -- sorry, i added that - editor

"It is not like we breed them to be Batter Dogs," explained a spokesperson for Alpha International, the company that produced Batter Dog Story DX. "We mostly use dogs from canine talent agencies. We have to have dogs that are used to being around humans, as well as movie studios. By the way, it is not butter that we later over the women anymore, either; we use non-sugar yogurt. When we used butter, the dogs ended up getting too fat, and we were worried about their health." (Take that PETA)

Actually, few canine talent agencies want to have their clients appear in bestiality movies, so producers have to exploit persoanl contacts in order to get the dog trainers to cooperatire. According to an official at one Japanese canine talent agency, "There is not real special training for the Batter Dogs. The most important thing is their nature. Basically, we want the dogs that are friednly toward humans and that are obedient. It's important that they don't bark. We do train them not to bark unneccessarily. We also teach them not to bark if they're touched by somebody other than their trainer. These condidtions do not apply just for the adult movie world, but for any dog that's going to appear on screen."

Japan's most prolific director of bestiality movies, Sukeo Yamane, points out that Batter Dogs pose certain production problems. "It's only natural that everyone is a bit worried about diseases when it comes to dogs, even if they're pets." he said. "But I've never experienced any sort of illnesses related problems. Trainers would make sure they never deliverd us an infected dog. In fact, trainers are more likely to be worried if the actress have got a venereal disease. You hear stories of actors being infected by actresses. That's why we always make sure we only choose girls who are clean. Unlike humans, you can't put a condom on the dogs because they hate them."

It has been determined - and believe me, I have no idea how it was determined - that dogs' lives are shortened if they ejaculate too many times. Labrador retrievers usually live as long as 10 years, but if they've appeared in porn flicks (in which dogs legally are allowed to be under 18 years old), their life span generally is cut in half.

That's why responsible canine talent agencies insist their gods be permitted to ejaculate only once per day while shooting a porn flick.

"Sometimes, it takes a full day to do a shoot," admitted one director. "Just like humans, dogs aren't always able to rise when they want to, so we can be stuck [waiting around] for hours at a time until the pooch is properly aroused. It's hard to arouse a dog when it's not in heat. That is why we sometimes start a shoot early in the morning and do not finish it until the middle of the night."

But, hey, wouldn't you think they'd have a fluffer for Fluffy available on the set?

Paul Krassner has a book called One Hand Jerking available at Amazon.com

Mayor's Office Denies PRIDEFest Permit, Relocation: Public Safety vs. Homophobia?

By Nathan James


There comes, over this past weekend that Mayor Bloomberg's office, in conjunction with the NYPD, had denied a permit for the annual Heritage of Pride PRIDEFest. Held in Manhattan's Greenwich Village for the past 15 years, the PRIDEFest and other Pride week events, are among the largest LGBT festivals in the world. For the past decade and a half, however, the PRIDEFest has been held on Greenwich and Washington Streets, narrow, poorly-maintained roads in an industrial section of lower Manhattan. As the event has grown, it has become overcrowded and unsafe. With that in mind, Heritage Of Pride, the events' organizers, took the decision last winter to relocate the PRIDEFest to 8th Avenue in Chelsea. The HOP people worked long and hard to gain the support of the local Community Board, businesses, and service organizations in the area. HOP was proactive, with result that on March 27, Community Board 4 voted unanimously to approve a permit for PRIDEFest.

Having gained public support for the new location, Heritage of Pride felt reasonably certain that the NYPD and Mayor's office would grant the necessary permit for the event. Yet, astonishingly, not only did the Mayor's Office deny the permit, it chose to label the PRIDEFest a "new event", and deny the permit on those grounds, too. Full stop. End of story. Now, PRIDEFest, the Pride week activities, and the annual Pride March, have been hallmark events in NYC during Pride Month, drawing over 1 million people each year. When the HOP organization set out to gain support for its decision to move the PRIDEFest uptown, businesses jumped at the chance to earn millions of extra dollars, and the historically gay-friendly Chelsea community welcomed the event with open arms.

Not so the Mayor's Office, or the NYPD, which has determined to shut down an iconic New York City happening. I refuse to believe, as some have said, that the NYPD cannot adequately police the event. Cops will be jumping into their uniforms to get that lucrative overtime, which the city already has in its budget especially those poor rookies who only earn $25,100 a year. I cannot fathom that traffic will be severely disrupted by the closure of 8th Avenue on a weekend. The city closes Fifth Avenue eight to ten times a year, every year, for all manner of ("socially acceptable") parades, sometimes even on weekdays. Further, I reject the premise that holding PRIDEFest in residential Chelsea will negatively impact the community. After all, HOP went to CB 4 first, and they approved the permit, knowing full well what it meant for their neighborhood.

So what, then, is behind Mayor Bloomberg's decision to squash HOP's permit application? I strongly suspect that it has a lot to do with the proposed venue itself. 8th Avenue in Chelsea is in close proximity to the Midtown Manhattan "tourist district". I believe that the Mayor's office was fine with PRIDEFest, as long as it was held in a small, out-of-the-way place like the extreme West Village. However, 8th Avenue in Chelsea is hardly a fringe location. Six subway lines stop in or near this area, (compared to just one at the old location) plus it's just a short walk from Penn Station. Heaven forbid the tender sensibilities of Edda from Wurtsboro be offended by the sight of "gasp" gay people exercising their rights of free speech and assembly! Those fragile tourists might faint dead away in the streets.

I wonder if the city fathers have, in fact, thought this through. If HOP is forced to cancel the event completely, millions of dollars in tax revenue will be lost. Add to that the hotel bookings, subway and bus fares, airline tickets, restaurant business, and cab hails that will evaporate because of this ill-conceived decision. Can Mayor Bloomberg, and the Republican Party, really afford to alienate so many registered voters? I am quite certain the Chelsea Business Improvement District and Community Board 4 will remember their lost opportunities in November, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of gay and lesbian voters who live here.

Did homophobia play a role in City Hall's decision? Most assuredly, if not its own fear, then the perceived affront to the "normal, straight" tourist crowd definitely played a role in Bloomberg's thinking. Rather than embrace progress as evidenced by the growth and popularity of PRIDEFest, our mayor has, instead, chosen to step backwards toward divisiveness and intolerance, once again. The Heritage of Pride meeting on whether to fight City Hall or cancel the festival altogether is tomorrow. Stay tuned

Our Prejucides, Ourselves

Guest Blogger - Harvey Fierstein

AMERICA is watching Don Imus's self-immolation in a state of shock and awe. And I'm watching America with wry amusement.

Since I'm a second-class citizen - a gay man - my seats for the ballgame of American discourse are way back in the bleachers. I don't have to wait long for a shock jock or stand-up comedian to slip up with hateful epithets aimed at me and mine. Hate speak against homosexuals is as commonplace as spam. It's daily traffic for those who profess themselves to be regular Joes, men of God, public servants who live off my tax dollars, as well as any number of celebrities.

In fact, I get a good chuckle whenever someone refers to "the media" as an agent of "the gay agenda." There are entire channels, like Spike TV, that couldn't fill an hour of programming if required to remove their sexist and homophobic content. We've got a president and a large part of Congress willing to change the Constitution so they can deprive of us our rights because they feel we are not "normal."

So I'm used to catching foul balls up here in the cheap seats. What I am really enjoying is watching the rest of you act as if you had no idea that prejudice was alive and well in your hearts and minds.

For the past two decades political correctness has been derided as a surrender to thin-skinned, humorless, uptight oversensitive sissies. Well, you anti-politically correct people have won the battle, and we're all now feasting on the spoils of your victory. During the last few months alone we've had a few comedians spout racism, a basketball coach put forth anti-Semitism and several high-profile spoutings of anti-gay epithets.

What surprises me, I guess, is how choosy the anti-P.C. crowd is about which hate speech it will not tolerate. Sure, there were voices of protest when the TV actor Isaiah Washington called a gay colleague a "faggot." But corporate America didn't pull its advertising from "Grey's Anatomy," as it did with Mr. Imus, did it? And when Ann Coulter likewise tagged a presidential candidate last month, she paid no real price.

In fact, when Bill Maher discussed Ms. Coulter's remarks on his HBO show, he repeated the slur no fewer than four times himself; each mention, I must note, solicited a laugh from his audience. No one called for any sort of apology from him. (Well, actually, I did, so the following week he only used it once.)

Face it, if a Pentagon general, his salary paid with my tax dollars, can label homosexual acts as "immoral" without a call for his dismissal, who are the moral high and mighty kidding?

Our nation, historically bursting with generosity toward strangers, remains remarkably unkind toward its own. Just under our gleaming patina of inclusiveness, we harbor corroding guts. America, I tell you that it doesn't matter how many times you brush your teeth. If your insides are rotting your breath will stink. So, how do you people choose which hate to embrace, which to forgive with a wink and a week in rehab, and which to protest? Where's my copy of that rule book?

Let me cite a non-volatile example of how prejudice can cohabit unchecked with good intentions. I am a huge fan of David Letterman's. I watch the opening of his show a couple of times a week and have done so for decades. Without fail, in his opening monologue or skit Mr. Letterman makes a joke about someone being fat. I kid you not. Will that destroy our nation? Should he be fired or lose his sponsors? Obviously not.

But I think that there is something deeper going on at the Letterman studio than coincidence. And, as I've said, I cite this example simply to illustrate that all kinds of prejudice exist in the human heart. Some are harmless. Some not so harmless. But we need to understand who we are if we wish to change. (In the interest of full disclosure, I should confess to not only being a gay American, but also a fat one. Yes, I'm a double winner.)

I urge you to look around, or better yet, listen around and become aware of the prejudice in everyday life. We are so surrounded by expressions of intolerance that I am in shock and awe that anyone noticed all these recent high-profile instances. Still, I'm gladdened because our no longer being deaf to them may signal their eventual eradication.

The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.

Harvey Fierstein is an actor and playwright.



Guest Video Blogger
Former Republican Congressman Richard Martin (Ohio)

(first question is inaudible but Martin repeats it)


Guest Blogger - Tiger Tyson




whats really hood my peoples hopefully all is good me chillin like a villan. yesterday was watchin my new film tigers eiffle tower and lmao that shit is funny sexy and new twist on me doin films i loved it and im sure your gonna love it too also i just wanted to touch on that issue with LFC there still intent on useing my work i guess you guys feel you cant get on with out me lol i know you miss your top model but get over it im with someone new now lmao lmao lmao its over i mean its been over like some 9, 10 years lol miss me ......

any who forget em i did just make sure when your buying my new films make sure your not being dooped by watching old footage from LFC i feel like im talking bout a chicken place lmao LFC kfc get it LMAO CAN I TAKE YOUR ORDER PLEASE WOULD YOU LIKE A COKE WITH THAT lol ok ok enoughe im just up set that they would go so low to as re use footage from 10 yrs ago ......

To read more from Tiger visit TigerTysonBlog.com