Dominic Vine, who was interviewed in BUTT 11, is a member of a queer group called the Eternal Order of the Sons of Peregrine who have regular art-and-culture themed gatherings in Brooklyn. At the end of their last party, the group was laying around naked, which is when Dominic spied his friend in an alluring pose and snapped this photo.

Posted by Adam on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | No Comments » | Email a Friend

Interview by Adam Baran
Portrait by Regis Trigano

Young filmmaker Loo Zihan’s first film Solos was a frank portrayal of a gay affair between a teacher and a young student, played by Zihan himself. Unsurprisingly the film was immediately banned in Singapore upon its release in 2007 due to ‘explicit content’. Zihan and I have become friends over the years and when he recently emailed me to say he was coming to New York for a working vacation, I figured he meant writing, or directing, or working on a film in some other capacity. I was more than a little surprised when I found out that the work that brought Zihan here was a week-long stint of go-go dancing at the city’s only Asian gay bar called The Web, an underground club on 57th Street that I’d always heard about but never went to. Every night Zihan, who now lives in Chicago and studies art and film-making, dressed up in inventive costumes that most go-go boys no longer put the effort into – Olympic swimmer garb one night, Shibari Japanese rope bondage another, and a full on leather-man look with nipple clamps the next. It didn’t take me long to realize that more than likely, this experience would be more than just an easy way for Zihan to make money. It’s probably going to end up being his next film… (more…)

Posted by Adam on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 | 2 Comments » | Email a Friend

It’s Monday morning, the best time of the day to begin a brand new column, titled ‘Butthead of the Week.’ Each week we pick the butthead we fancy the most and make him answer five hopefully revealing questions, shining a little light on the person, and perhaps inspiring you to click on his picture, drop him an email, and perhaps meet up for a shag. Our first Butthead of the Week is Niall from Dublin, Ireland. Isn’t the look on his face adorable? Niall’s only been on Buttheads for a few days, so he’ll naturally be looking for someone to help show him the ropes. Any takers?   (more…)

Posted by Adam on Monday, March 8, 2010 | 12 Comments » | Email a Friend

by Owen Myers

When I went to see the Brooklyn band Vivian Girls play in London a few weeks ago, I came away more smitten with the support act than the headliners. The band in question, Veronica Falls, play perversely catchy pop songs inspired by suicide spots and haunted graveyards – but it was their adorable drummer, Patrick, that I couldn’t take my eyes off of. Last weekend I met up with fellow BUTTHEAD Patrick over pints of traditional cider to reminisce about New York and talk about our shared obsession with movies about teenage girls. Don’t you just want to put him in your pocket?
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Posted by Adam on Friday, March 5, 2010 | 6 Comments » | Email a Friend

I’ve been obsessing over this video by X-Tube user ‘DanMils’ from Tennessee, which I first noticed on Dudetube during my morning j/o session yesterday. What’s so strange about this video is that the appeal of most X-Tube videos is the simple Warholian lack of artifice in their asthetic – subjects train an unmoving camera on themselves and jack off or fuck themselves with dildos to completion. There’s no artifice, no ridiculously staged premises, and no endless ‘under the balls’ penetration shots that go on for 20 minutes. But ‘DanMils’ X-Tube video ‘watching porn’ uses standard cinematic editing. Dan, who is 23, half-Russian, and lives with his parents in real life, plays himself in the video. He watches porn at a table, and we see reverse shots of the porn he’s viewing, and then an angle underneath the table where he takes out his large cock and jacks himself off. It’s the reverse shots that I find so strange, and yet I’m drawn to them, wondering whether they enhance or detract from the titillating amateur aspect of X-Tube. (more…)

Posted by Adam on Friday, March 5, 2010 | 5 Comments » | Email a Friend

Gan Ha’Atzmaut – or Independence Park – is widely known for being Israel’s No. 1 waterfront cruising park, conveniently located near  the Tel Aviv Hilton. In recent years nighttime revelers have been increasingly frightened off by uncomfortably bright lighting fixtures installed by Tel Aviv’s municipality. However, as this photograph bears witness – taken by German tourist Jürgen during a recent trip to the Holy Land – there’s still some fun left to be had.

Posted by Felix on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments » | Email a Friend

By Ryan Chassee

Alex is a 37-year-old artist who hails from the mountains of South Carolina. He loves his awesome dog Pete, Brian Eno, bird watching, and hairy asses. He also loves ribs, but because he thinks pigs are so damn cute and smart, he only dreams about eating them. Alex measures an impressive six feet nine inches (for those that don’t understand imperial: about 210 cm) and wears a size 16 shoe (European 50). Because of his stature, shopping for clothes can be a bummer and it bores him when guys fetishize him for his height alone, but he says that that when it comes to sex, his tallness is usually a big plus. The size difference with a short guy can be just as fun for Alex as those rare times when he finds a fellow giant to get down with. But before you start swooning, or asking him to grab something off of the top shelf (that bores him too), Alex is very much in love with Philip, his shorter boyfriend (6’6’’, or 202 cm) of four years. Above it’s Alex in all his glory, photographed in the shower…by himself. (more…)

Posted by Felix on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 | 10 Comments » | Email a Friend

By Michael J. Bullock

Elijah and I were naked when we met last spring. We spent the night in an abandoned house on Governors Island just off the tip of lower Manhattan and I fell asleep in his lap. It was a strange and fantastic night. We had both been invited to participate in artist A.A. Bronson’s mysterious Queer Sprits Invocation, an all night séance he has now held three times, in three different cities.

The night was a bonding ritual with the goal of inviting queer spirits from the past into the room to guide our ‘big topics’ of conversation, allowing the spirits wisdom to effect the present. It involved fifty candles, twenty-two spices, ten bottles of rum, a circle of leaves, one ounce of Florida Water, six butt plugs (three large, three small) and a variety of flamboyant feathers. No pictures were taken and although no one was officially sworn to secrecy all attendees kept quiet about what went on and how these items were used…  A few months later Elijah sent me a link to his blog where he had posted some drawings of the night he made from memory. The drawings, which bear visual similarities to the work of David Parks and Patrick Angus, are the only visual documentation of the event. Last month Elijah had his first solo show. It’s no surprise that his work focuses on magic, rituals, the male body and the occult. Elijah tackles the darker side of life but always with a friendly approachable touch. I called him to find out more about his work and understand his process. (more…)

Posted by Adam on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | 4 Comments » | Email a Friend

BUTT’s 28th installment and it’s filled to the brim with gorgeous international males: Brazilian stunner Lorenzo Martone; video artist Ryan Trecartin; masseuse extraordinaire Corey Corey; the adorable former escort, and star of his own cockumentary, Greek Pete; a whole BUTT A LA CARTE section (yum!), and much, much more. For the dashing cover story, singer Kele Okereke of UK indie band Bloc Party was photographed in and out of the shower by Wolfgang Tillmans.