One of the highlights of our year was the ‘BUTT IN ASS’ exhibition in June, a BUTT-themed video installation in a NYC gallery transformed into a temporary porno store with working glory hole booths. If you weren’t in New York and didn’t get a chance to cruise the video booths then you should definitely head over to artist Michael Magnan’s new tumblr blog The Complete BUTT IN ASS and take a gander at the whole series of hilarious mock porno DVD covers that he created to aid the gallery’s transformation into a porno shop. Random passersby were routinely bummed to find out that titles like ‘Aborigine Cock Knockers,’ ‘Proposition Ate’ and ‘Daddy Day Care’ didn’t actually exist!
Posted by Adam on Monday, November 30, 2009 | No Comments » | Email a Friend
Two lovely rumpsteaks in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, photographed by a young man named Bradley Schurman.
Posted by Adam on Thursday, November 26, 2009 | 24 Comments » | Email a Friend
Twenty years after Keith Haring wrote in his journal that AIDS had marked the end of street pick-ups and seven years after Manhunt began, cruising is making a comeback in New York. A new breed of young gays I spoke to last week say they’re learning about the look-back, the stop, the double-look back, and the approach all over again. On the heels of this news comes word that the hanky code, the popular 70’s phenomenon where gay men placed one or more colored handkerchiefs in their left or right back pockets to indicate sexual preference, has been having a resurgence on the West Coast. Now Jonathan Leach and Karl Burkart, two entrepreneurs from California, have created an application for your iPhone that creates a virtual hanky that you can stick in your back pocket. I spoke to Jonathan last week to find out if this is the next wave in technological gay sex advancements, or a step in the wrong direction.
BUTT: How did you first get interested in the Hanky Code?
Jonathan: When I moved to Atlanta in 2004 there was a gay bay there called Mary’s. I knew the owners and we had this fantastic group of friends that would go there Thursday and Friday nights. We got together and decided we were going to take back the hanky code. So we made posters with a graph of the hanky code explaining what all the colors meant and bought a ton of hankies and handed them out. The idea was that you would grab a person and mix and match your hankies and have fun. We ended up having hanky code night almost every Thursday for quite a while. They were just a lot of fun. (more…)
Posted by Adam on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 | 21 Comments » | Email a Friend
When we got our huge donation of vintage gay porn a few weeks ago, the first thing we did was start to go through the pages of Drummer Magazine, the ultra-classic gay S&M publication that taught a generation of gay men how to make their slaves happy. Above, an image from Drummer’s ‘Tough Shit’ humor page from Volume Four, Issue 35, 1980, which featured unintentional scat-themed advertisements. Are you ready to make the switch?
Posted by Adam on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 | 1 Comment » | Email a Friend
Our new intern Richard flies through the air with the greatest of ease in this video of his performance this Friday at the Trapeze School in New York City. We’ve always had super-talented interns, but never one with this particular talent. Bravo!
Posted by Adam on Monday, November 23, 2009 | 3 Comments » | Email a Friend
His name is Cesar Padilla and he’s one of our favorite roving reporters. He speaks fluent Spanish, loves getting into trouble, and lands in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Tuesday for vacation. Cesar’s promised to bring back plenty of great stories like this one for the BUTT Blog, so if you live in Buenos Aires and would like to get some one-on-one time, email him to set something up at cesar.
Posted by Adam on Monday, November 23, 2009 | 4 Comments » | Email a Friend
At BUTT we have always depended on our loyal and talented readers to send us news, interviews, story ideas, and super sexy photos. Now the BUTT Blog is seeking correspondents from all over the globe to report on local issues of interest to the BUTT community – sex, music, art, strange and unusual homos, and more. Are you a writer in Berlin who’s dying to write for BUTT? An aspiring photographer in Bosnia who shoots the fit guys you have sex with? The only gay in your village? Please email office with your name, a short paragraph about yourself and what you do and are interested in, as well as 3 potential ideas for submissions. Reporters will be asked to contribute one or two stories per month, and a small stipend will be provided per entry. We’re looking for new ideas, unique points of view, and new people interested in growing and developing into regular magazine contributors.
Posted by Adam on Friday, November 20, 2009 | 2 Comments » | Email a Friend
Thursday night if you’re in London, be sure to make your way to the aptly named Swallow Street gallery for the opening of Tearoom, an exhibition of found footage of men having sex with other men in a public restroom in a Mansfield, Ohio restroom in 1962. It was created by policemen eager to catch and prosecute gay men under the harsh Ohio sodomy laws. Police set up a two way mirror and filmed men having public sex. Many of these men went to jail for terms ranging from one to twelve years. This footage was discovered by the artist, filmmaker, and BUTT contributor William E. Jones, and was included in the BUTT video show we presented at the Tate Modern a few years back.
The exhibition also accompanies the launch of the 2nd printing of Tearoom, a book of photographs taken from the film, historical texts which give more background on the men involved, and two essays by William E. Jones. Jones will be joined by Tate Modern Film Curator Stuart Comer for a conversation about the work at 6PM. The Tearoom will be open until December 19th.
For more info click here.
Posted by Adam on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | 4 Comments » | Email a Friend
SUPER STRAIGHT
Issue No. 27 is BUTT’s first ever ‘Straight’ issue, and it’s packed with all kinds of incredible heterosexualists and the amazing lives they lead. There is Miss Laci, a straight cross-dresser and grandfather of six from Kentucky, hot and steamy supermodel Tony Ward, Almodóvar-actress and certified fag hag Rossy de Palma, Lard, the handsome Dutch guy-next-door who loves the pussy, and of course sexy cover boy, Dominican carpenter Angel – and that’s just to name a few.
