When an androgynous male model named Jo Calderone appeared in Vogue Homme Japan last year, celeb watchers noted that he looked a lot like Lady Gaga might in male drag. Turns out, that is exactly who “he” was. The young diva, who dodges regular rumors that she is intersex, shows off Jo on the cover art of her next single, “You and I.” You Go, Guy Gaga!
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Going Gaga for Jo Calderone
Posted in Drag, Japan, Photography, Strange News
Tagged Art, Culture, Drag, Homme, Intersex, Japan, Jo Calderone, Lady Gaga, Music, Photography, Queer, Vogue, You and I
Some Very Useful Guys: David Blázquez Photographs of Human Furniture
Spanish Photographer David Blazquez has a series of anthropomorphic shelves, tables, and lamps called “Mobiliario Humano” – Human Furniture. Of course the humans are all MAN humans. The series premiered in 2009 at El Fotomata gallery in Seville, Spain.
Posted in Art and Artists, Leather, Photography, Spain, Strange News
Tagged Art, BDSM, Culture, David Blazquez, El Fotomata, Gay, Human Furniture, Kink, Mobiliario Humano, Photography, Seville, Sexy, Spain
Enrique Iglesias’ strange on-stage boast: “I have the smallest penis in the world!”
Ouch! Today in public self-humiliation: Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias took a twenty-minute break from a set in Melbourne, Australia during which time he invited four men on stage to compare bare chests and quiz them about their sexual experiences. His declaration that “I have the smallest penis in the world. I’m serious” was the crowning degradation of the weird interlude. The singer later attributed his odd behavior to mixing alcohol and antibiotics. Maybe not such a good idea… Carl Stroud, of the Sun UK, reports on the bizarre incident here.
Indonesian Shutter-bug Monkeys shoot Themselves!
When photographer David Slater turned his back on his photo gear while shooting wildlife in Indonesia’s Sulawesi National Park, he never expected that the local crested black macaques would take over the shoot. But they did. Or did they? Some doubt it. Slater insists that the photos are genuine, but does admit to rotating and cropping them for effect. Expect these photos to show up in a camera marketing campaign soon: “So simple a Monkey can use it” via Guardian UK. More here.
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Indonesia, Photography, Strange News, Travel
Tagged Camera, Culture, David Slater, Indonesia, Macaque, Monkey, Photography, Self-portrait, Sulawesi
Fucking Elephants! Really…
Ah, the thrills and occasional spills of exotica tourism. Animals do what they do, and DNA just wants to make more DNA. When these tourists decided to ride the elephants, they weren’t counting on the bull climbing on board!
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Asia, Photography, Strange News, Travel
Tagged Asia, Elephant, Exotic, Fucking, Sex, Tourism, Travel
Religious Homophobes Host “Purity Parade” in Belize
Purity Parade - Screenshot from Belize News video
News from Belize: A “Purity Parade” protesting LGBT activists’ legal motion to decriminalize homosexuality. (Here is a little more information on the motion, put forward by LGBT human rights group UNIBAM.)
Their arguments aren’t too interesting – the same old “marriage should be between a man and a woman,” and the same old, tired (and inaccurate) reasoning: “Why? Because Jesus said so.”
The concept of an a “Purity Parade” is kind of interesting, but the execution is rather disappointing. I must say, Pride parades are much more interesting to watch. Maybe they should ask us for lessons.
-AidanAbroad
Buy it online! 30 Years into the AIDS epidemic, HIV virus is decorative wall Art.
Doubt the death of the author? At art.com, visitors can choose images from the library and preview them framed over the couch in a choice of living rooms or stretched over canvas above the toilet in the bathoom. It’s the ‘view-in-room’ option, a database-driven, semi-automatic and very interactive shopping experience. Most of their images are drawn from the visual arts canon, but they also offer medical stock photography and other arcane scientific and historical subjects, which make for some very strange interior design possibilities. Pictured here: AIDS Virus, Black Background Photographic Print, 32′ x 24″ framed, displayed in the #2 children’s bedroom option. Get it here. Or not.
Arnie’s Little Bastard…Photo of Schwarzenegger Love Child?
Spawn of our Governator?
Tickle your Fancy at the World Beard and Mustache Championships
via Accidental Bear, who writes: “Just imagine the upkeep and maintenance on these beards. I want to give them a two-snaps-in-circle, via In Living Color days for the commitment. How many pretzels or peanut M&M’s have they lost in these beards, only for them to drop out at the most awkward of times. The back stage area must be busier that a toddler beauty pageant. I am all about a fuzzy man with a beard, but my next question I want to ask one of these ‘mountain man’ is, “During sex, do you tie it back or like a drag queen tucking the naughty bits, do you tuck it somewhere?” For more on the World Beard and Mustache Championships, click here.
Posted in Beards, Facial hair, Strange News, Subcultures
Tagged Beard, Culture, Facial Hair, Gay, Mustache
Peep Veep? Obama’s Bizarre Choice of Running Mate for 2012.
It is not like there is no precedent. President Reagan? Governor Schwarzenegger? Why not the Easter Bunny for Vice President? This country could use a little pop culture irony in the war room. No?
The Gay Highwaymen 