Other Blogs: Hot Guys reading Books!

This cool tumblr blog solicits photos of hot guys reading books. Readers send in their favorite photos. Lots of surveillance! Including this one. Quick…look…no, don’t. Snap. Gotcha! For more Hot Guys Reading Books, click here. For random archived homotextuality, click here and here.

Happy Sexy Cinco de Mayo!

Other Blogs: Other Sheep go on a Caribbean Cruise.

Left to right: Jose Ortiz, Jonathan Chavez, and Steve Parelli West coast of St. Lucia, Thursday, April 21, 2011.

Other Sheep is an organizational blog about “faith and LGBT concerns worldwide.” Run by long-time partners Rev. Steven Parelli and Mr. Jose Ortiz, Other Sheep recently returned from a nine-day cruise through the Caribbean. Rev. Parelli reflects on what has changed (and what has not) since he was a closeted Baptist teenager on Martinique in 1970. To read the Other Sheep travelogue, click here. For a big evangelical coming-out party, unrelated to Other Sheep, click here.

Hot Inked Long Beach Thug…

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…glares, poses, flips us off two-fisted, grabs his crotch off-frame. Point. And. Shoot! Ah, the perils and pleasures of surveillance.  Now, Papi?

Jewish Moscow: Chabad sanctuary, a queer man’s view from the women’s balcony

In Orthodox Judaism, the men are separated from the women during prayer. They sit behind a mechitza (partition) or, in this case, in a balcony…which may actually be the best seat in the house. This custom is, at least in part, because of the idea that the sight of a woman would arouse a man and take his mind away from prayers.

So where does that leave a frum faygeleh (religious gay man)? I’m not quite sure…many possibilities. I snuck up into the balcony during a non-service time, and snapped this shot of what would normally be the women’s view.

-AidanAbroad

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Jewish Moscow: staircase at Chabad shul

Staircase, spiraling across the 4-floor complex that serves as a community center for ultra-orthodox Jews in Moscow. Lots of men with great beards here, though it would be rude to snap a picture…

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Jewish Moscow dispatch #3: Chabad shul

Disco star of David? No, this is the ceiling of the sanctuary of the Chabad synagogue in Moscow. More pix to follow…
-AidanAbroad

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May the 4th STILL be with you! Great Gay Portugese Androids. #maythe4thbewithyou

Gay Androids! From the Portugese comics/cosplay site Cinemaxunga. Worth a visit!

May the 4th be with you…Star Wars is so Gay. #maythe4thbewithyou

The end of the San Francisco Eagle…or is it? Pics and rumors.

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The San Francisco Eagle Tavern closed its doors this last weekend. Rumors that it would stay open another month proved unfounded. Is this the end of The Eagle? Self-styled San Francisco “Master of Real Estate” Seth Munter thinks it isn’t. He writes on Facebook: “The Eagle will rise again. John and Joe have no choice but to make sure the Eagle re-opens. They can and they will. Why? Because they cannot AFFORD to do anything else but see that the Eagle reopens. Otherwise, they will lose The Hole In The Wall…” Interesting political logic. For the entire post, click here. For pictures of condos that have been proposed for the site, click here. For a list of all the gay Leather bars called The Eagle, here.