Sunday, April 30, 2006
Sunday Afternoon In the Park
It was a great Spring afternoon today in London, nice and sunny. So Joe organized a softball game, followed by drinks at TJ's Roof top patio. - Good Times~!
Aussie Gay Cowboy Bashed & Left for Dead
MORE details from Big Brother Australia.The early favourite to take out this year's Big Brother reality TV series has revealed he was the victim of an anti-gay gang, who bashed him and left him for dead.
Organic farmer and former model David Graham hit the headlines last week after telling his housemates on the Network Ten show he was homosexual.
Betting agency Centrebet has rated the 26-year-old housemate as favourite to win the $1 million prize.
But today's Sunday Mail newspaper said Graham had been brutally beaten by five men and left in a pool of blood after leaving The Wickham nightclub in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley on January 22 this year.
He had been making his way to his ute parked in a side street when he was set upon by a gang throwing rocks and bottles.
Mr Graham said he unsuccessfully tried to placate his attackers.
"But before I knew it there were guys behind me and they were just beating into the back of my head," the paper quoted him as saying.
"All I can remember after that is the pain.
"They absolutely beat the shit out of me.
"My mate said they just kicked me while I was on the ground until they thought I'd had enough or they were scared they had killed me.
"My whole face was a mess of blood."
Mr Graham was taken to Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital with severe bruising across his face and body which was still noticeable.
The Sunday Mail said the attack was believed to be part of a wave of anti-gay violence that swept through Fortitude Valley earlier this year.
(source:AAP)
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Boxer Magazine - Hungary
Hungary has launched its first gay magazine. The website is OK but it doesn't have alot of details or articles from the first issue. Hopefully, that will change but for now, here are a few pictures from the first ISSUE. 
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Montreal - Gay Village Club Goes Up in Flames
Stock Bar & UnityMontreal's largest gay bar went up in smoke yesterday when its rooftop terrace caught fire.
It took 150 firefighters nearly four hours to get the blaze at Club Unity on Ste. Catherine E. and Montcalm Sts. under control.
The fire was probably an accident, said Michel Denis, fire department chief of operations.
Because the blaze began just before noon when the three-storey club was closed, no one was inside the building.
Losses could very well reach $1 million because valuable electronic equipment inside the nightclub was destroyed by water, Denis said.
A group of the club's employees stood on the street yesterday afternoon, watching the smoke billow from their workplace.
"I was woken up today by a call from my manager telling me not to come to work tonight, so I came to see if it was really true," said Mathieu Montpetit, a performer at Unity.
Also yesterday, a 47-year-old woman died from smoke inhalation in an apartment fire that broke out at 1 a.m. on Lalonde Ave. in the city's east end.
The woman was the 11th person to die this year in a fire on the island of Montreal, police Sgt. Ian Lafreniere said.
Friday, April 28, 2006
Eric and Jeremy of Amazing Race - in Perth
The drop their pants, slip on the speedos and hit the ocean - here are a few pics - for more pics go to JustJared
First Gay Hotel Goes Iinternational
Axel Hotel Barcelona, the first urban designer hotel aimed at the gay community, is about to go from being a one of a kind hotel to become part of a chain.
Following the huge success of Axel Hotel Barcelona, which opened in July of 2003, the Axel Hotels team is now embarking on an ambitious expansion throughout Europe and America, beginning with the construction of the chain’s second hotel, Axel Hotel Buenos Aires, which will make it the first chain of gay hotels in the world.
Currently under construction, Axel Hotel Buenos Aires will have 48 rooms, a restaurant, cocktail bar, chill out area, spa, garden with a pool and a solarium, outdoor bar, wi-fi connection throughout the entire hotel, it will open its doors to the public in April 2007.
Following the example of Barcelona and Buenos Aires, all the establishments of Axel Hotels will be designer hotels and will be located in cosmopolitan cities and neighbourhoods, with a wide range of offerings directed toward the gay community.
The hotel aims to create an atmosphere of respect and to be hetero friendly.
The Reader’s Choice Awards, an annual survey in the Out Traveler magazine, described the Axel Hotel Barcelona as the Best Gay Hotel in the World. The construction of the Axel Hotel Buenos Aires broadens the horizons of the Axel Group, which aspires to become the best chain of gay hotels in the world.
Juan Juliá Blanch, chief executive of Axel Corporation said: “It all began with a dream…to open a hotel geared toward the gay world, my world. A cosmopolitan and tolerant space where atmosphere, diversity, and respect are valued. I feel very proud to have been the first to open a hotel of this type in Barcelona, focusing on the gay community, and to be working to expand Axel Hotels, with a new opening coming very soon in Buenos Aires.
“Until now, the guests at Axel Hotel Barcelona, once they have experienced the Axel atmosphere, have been our best reference, recommending us to their friends and acquaintances. “
Hotel Axel [Official Site]
(Source:PinknewsUk)
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Army Paratrooper Pleads Guilty to Gay Porn Role
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Cheyenne Jackson Takes on United 93
Actor Cheyenne Jackson on his role as Mark Bingham in United 93: "I slept probably two hours a night while I was filming it. I couldn't stop thinking about Mark and these people.
It broke my heart every day. We would do these long, incredibly exhausting takes, covered in fake blood and some real blood, our voices were gone from screaming, so exhausted emotionally.
But then at the end of the day we could walk off the plane, wash off our makeup, get some coffee and try to let it all go, and these people [the real passengers] couldn't.
That is what will stay with me forever. That's why this movie was made. I'm not the same, I don't think I'll ever be the same."
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