"Sun in My Mouth": A depressed twink rides the subway, has explicit sex. And what he's been up to lately.


While looking at random cocks on AZ Nude Men, I came across Sun in My Mouth, with Artem Shcherbakov as a skinny, dissolute-looking twink who takes off his clothes on the beach while looking depressed, and then returns to his empty apartment to j/o on the phone while looking depressed.  Photos after the break



Black and white, extremely washed out, amateurish, with random close-ups of body parts and nonsequiter images.  It looked like one of those 1960s "stag films," or one of the early Gay Liberation movies like A Very Natural Thing.  But it is dated 2010.

Extremely mysterious.  Russia is a puritanical country.  How was it even permitted? And what is the meaning of "sun in my mouth?"  A Russian proverb?




 According to the IMDB, "It's a film about how we attempt to connect and understand other people by understanding ourselves."

I couldn't find the film itself, but the trailer is very artistic/experimental, black and white.  Artem rides a subway -- wait, those signs are in English -- walks on the beach, takes off his clothes, broods, goes home to an empty apartment, and beats off with a phone sex operator.

Is it even Russian?  Jessica Yatrovsky has nothing else listed on the IMDB.  The phone sex operator is played by Andrew Yang -- not a Russian name.

A man. So this is a gay film?  So Artem is depressed because he's struggling to come out?  


Artem has only one other acting role listed on the IMDB,  A Four Letter Word, 2007: "hook-up artist Luke considers becoming monogamous" for the "smug and handsome" Stephen (Jesse Archer, Charlie David).  He is listed as Vlad.

His Linkedin says that he is the founder of ROAR Games and Zheeshee in Brooklyn.  


His Facebook says that he was born in Minsk, Belorussia. He attended Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn and Touro College, where he majored in psychology.  He married Brian in 2021 and now lives in Washington DC.

More after the break. Caution: Explicit.

Gemstones Season 3 Finale: Kelvin and Keefe married? Pontius a Dark Lord? Peter redeemed through the Redeemer? With bonus Kelvin cock

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Fifty million Frenchmen can't be straight: Eight Bayeux boyfriends, Aix amis, and Parisian cocombres

 


You've probably heard the song "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong":

They say the French are naughty
They say the French are bad
They all declare that over there
The French are going mad.
They have a reputation of being very gay
I just got back from Paris, and I just want to say:

It's true.

I spent a summer in Paris in grad school, and visited regularly until COVID squashed international travel, so I have quite a lot of memories of Parisian cocombres.

Images of people I know are posted with their permission

1. The Ballet School at the Opera National.



Go in the winter -- no crowds.  On Christmas Eve, the Louvre is deserted.








2. A Turkish musician









3.  On the train











Shakespeare and Company on the Left Bank, my favorite place in Paris.  Well, aside from that bar near the Centre Pompidou...





4. Garz dans le placard -- guy in the closet

More après la pause -- after the break.  Caution: explicit.

John Amos: Kunta Kinte, Gordy the Weatherman, James Evans, a gay husband, and my gym buddy


Former footballer and coast guardsman John Amos was everywhere on television in the 1970s and 1980s.

The adult Kunta Kinte in Roots (1977).









Left: Levar Burton played the young Kunta Kinte.

Gordy the Weatherman on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-77).






The longsuffering dad James Evans on Good Times (1974-79)
















The sword-and-sorcery fighter Seth in Beastmaster (1982)

Plus guest shots on Sanford and Son, Maude, Police Story, Love Boat, The A-Team...you name it, he was in it.







I didn't see much of him during the 80s and 90s -- not on screen, anyway.  We went to the same gym in West Hollywood.  

John was always gracious to his flirtatious gay fans, leading us to speculate that he was gay in real life -- he's been married to women twice, and has two children, but you never know.  

We never became friends, but we developed a nodding acquaintance.  And I saw him naked in the locker room once or twice.



Naked after the break