Male nudity, gay romance, and queer codes in movies and television, especially "The Righteous Gemstones"
Gavin's Spring Break. With a gym bud, a shower bud, a Taino guy, and the Easter Bunny
Last year Gavin Munn, star of Raising Dion and The Righteous Gemstones, spent spring break in Puerto Rico. He posted some pics to his Instagram, and I added a few of my own. The naked guys are all over 18.
Is There Sex After Death?: A Gideon and Scotty story, with heartwarming scenes and oral sex
1. Going out to dinner at the Shem Creek Restaurant in Mount Pleasant -- pizza and beer -- and Scotty calls Gideon "Little Lord Fauntleroy." They smile and joke, and hold hands under the table, and the song on the radio, or in his mind, is "You Knock Me Out.” :
2. The Old Man, Jesse Gemstone, takes them all out on his yacht, and in the glittering of the waves, while the kids sit in the wading pool -- a pool on a yacht? -- Jesse offers to become his Daddy, and they hug.
Then he laughs to himself. No way will the Old Man ever admit Scotty to the family, knowing that his cock has been down his son's throat or up his ass...sorry, Mom....the fact that Scotty has been intimate with his son every night. Evangelicals hate gay sex even more than they hate thinking for yourself. The Easter Offering plan is the only way they can walk side by side into the future.
3. Driving from California to South Carolina so they can blackmail his father, the world-famous Jesse Gemstone, with a video of his sex-and-drugs party, get even for a childhood of neglect and abuse, and fund their happily-ever-after life in Thailand. They spend the night in a Motel 6 somewhere in New Mexico. Lucy is snoring. Scotty opens his eyes and sees Gideon, propped up in the other bed, playing on his cell phone, his face illuminated, as if he is already in the plane of endless light. He must be an angel -- nothing in this shithole world -- sorry, Mom -- could be so beautiful.
Scotty retreats into himself, hating himself for hurting so many people, fearful that Gideon's grandmother has come to judge him. But all he feels from Aimee-Leigh is love. She nods -- or its equivalent -- and the memory continues.
On Easter morning, Gideon comes down the elevator alone and says "It's over." He chose the ritzy Gemstone world over the dream of Thailand, the Old Man over the love of his life. The smiles, holding hands under the table, the kissing, the orgasms that burst across the universe -- all ignored. But Gideon isn't the one who ignored it -- Scotty could have said "It's ok, I don't want the money, all I need is to be by your side." He didn't.
After that Scotty sees nothing but red rage. He retrieves his van, beats up Granddad Eli, forces Gideon and Jesse to open the vault, ties them up. He yells "You made your choice, and you broke my heart!" Then he zooms away from the estate, not sure where he is going, nowhere, anywhere, into the abyss. He doesn't care; his life is over already.
Aimee-Leigh waits patiently for his despair to wash through the others. Then she asks "Are you ready to go, darlin? We've got work to do."
Calling him "darlin'," as if she is really his grandmother! Wait -- of course she is. There are no lies in the endless light. "But how? He must hate me. There's no coming back from what I've done to him."
A Discovery of Witches: Some lesbians, a gay tease, a very important book, and Matthew Goode's goods
On to the next of the new paranormal tv series on Netflix, A Discovery of Witches.
Prologue: "It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear, It begins with..." Coffee and bagels? No, "a discovery of witches."
Scene 1: Nice establishing shots of Oxford. Matthew (Matthew Goode) complains that this was once a world of wonder, but it belongs to the humans now. Demons, vampires, and witches have all gone into the closet.
Cut to a blonde woman rowing in the Thames, then running through the university, taking a shower -- gratuitous nudity, at Minute 2, no fair! -- eating breakfast, packing up her stuff, and pausing to gaze despondently at a photograph of her and her boyfriend. Actually, the lady in the photo seems a year or two older, so maybe it's her lookalike sister or mother. Looking at her makes Rowing Lady extremely depressed, so she must be dead.
Biking across town, locking up her bike -- whoops, her papers fall out and scatter, but she uses her magic powers to retrieve them. Fortunately, no one sees her.
Scene 2: Rowing Lady, Diane, is a Visiting Research Fellow who took her D.Phil. in the History of Science from Oxford, published two prize-winning books, and got tenure at Yale. In the History of Science?
In her powerpoint presentation, she theorizes that the Renaissance alchemists were actually describing real chemical processes. She's going to research the manuscripts of Elias Ashmole , after whom they named the Ashmolean Library. A lady rushes up and offers her a position at Oxford, and wants to know if her book is ready yet. She hasn't started the research yet, nitwit.
Scene 4: Diane has coffee with an old friend from Oxford, who gazes at her -- ex-girlfriend? She was trained in classical history, where there are no jobs, so she's just an adjunct. And there are jobs in the history of science?
The friend invites her to the coven tonight, but Diane isn't comfortable around magic after what happened to her parents. Witch burning?
Scene 5: In another building, a guy -- maybe Matthew? -- is praying with his rosary. Um -- Oxford is Anglican.
Left: Matthew's butt.
And his cock. It's not much, but he's an upper-class straight white man, so he'll be in a position of power regardless.
Cut to Diane in the Ashmolean Library, ordering books from the hunky library guy, played by Ezra Idun. But the book whispers at her, and some pages have been cut out. And the Praying Guy hears a heart beat! In other news, her needy friend drops by to flirt with her some more.
As Diane types her notes, the lights flash and everybody hears the whispering. Praying Guy gets a call from a woman, who explains that their blood is reacting to something. They must be vampires. Catholic vampires who go out in the daytime. He uses his super-hearing to locate the disturbance
Meanwhile, Diane finds that touching the pages burns her! She returns the book and rushes out of the building, bumping into a passerby who looks like her dad! Praying Guy is watching her suspiciously.
More after the break