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Thank you for the excellent photos; it looks like a very interesting, enjoyable, and important exhibit. The Met has prepared a 29 min. video tour of the exhibit which is very good. The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism - The Metropolitan Museum of Art WWW.METMUSEUM.ORG Exhibition now on view at The Met

Yes.

Steve Osrow, the founder of the Continental Baths on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, has died in Australia. The Baths established Bette Midler and Barry Manilow and other entertainers and was a major center of gay activity in the early 1970s. The NYT has a nice, long obituary today with details about the Baths.

Of course. The Dirksen Federal Building is in downtown Chicago and has the Calder stabile titled "Flamingo" out in front. International style, all steel and glass and not very attractive otherwise.

Once upon a time, in the good old days, there were agencies that specialized in these young men. You could call and order, and a beautiful young man fitting your desires would be at your door at the requested time. In Montreal, for many years, Bels Hommes provided, it was said, 95% of the male escorts in Montreal. They provided all ages and sizes, but their specialty was beautiful twinks and twunks. Unfortunately the owner had legal problems, and the agency has not existed for years. In Washington, D.C. there were two agencies which specialized in these young men for years, and they were reliable and always had someone at very reasonable rates. But Washington has lost all of these. I had many happy afternoons and evenings in both cities with neighbors' sons. In Montreal, the exchange rate was highly favorable to the U.S. dollar, and you could easily afford one young man in the afternoon and another in the evening. And Taboo had 25-35 beautiful sons every night. But times have changed.

Thank you. I shall look it up and hopefully one day enjoy being there.

Wonderful photos of the High Line. Thank you. What is the fourth last picture (for those of us out-of-towners)?

Not sure which forums works best here. The NYT Magazine today has a long interesting article on the gay cowboy in history. Out West, the Gay Cowboy Roams Free The frontier has long been a symbol of American masculinity. Now a rising generation of artists are creating a new queer mythology.

Galatzine is actually a dark haired man. They dyed/bleached his hair to make him look more "British." Taylor is the sixth of eight kids in a Mexican-American family from Chicago and speaks Spanish fluently. He has five sisters and two brothers. The sisters all look like him, and the younger brother, Grant, does also. The older brother (must be quite older) is going bald and so appears different. His father, from Mexico, is handsome, and his mother (American born) is a pretty woman.

There are far more cute twink escorts advertising on RM in Istanbul than there are in either Montreal or Fort Lauderdale. Charming twinks, nicely developing twunks, then slim muscular soccer players. Wow! Talk about Turkish delights!

Today's NYT is so filled with interesting stories, I wanted to encourage anyone who does not yet have a digital subscription, to start. The digital edition offers so much more than the print edition. The digital edition offers unlimited large color photographs. Whereas the print edition may have a single b&w photo with a story, there is no limit to the number of color photos you can have in digital. This morning that means you can see all the draft NBA players in their designer outfits close-up. On a 36 hour stroll of Paris, you can see loads of color photos of the spots you could visit, the museums you could enter, and the food you could eat. On a tour of Singapore's most famous eatery street, there are dozens of pictures of exteriors, interiors, dishes close-up. There are loads of pictures of various stops and shops along the Shikoko Pilgrimage Road in Japan. There is an article about the growing evangelical Christian tours of Saudi Arabia, and you can see lots of pictures of what is seen on the tour. For the Met Gala there were 170 pictures of the attendees. In Real Estate, you can see many pictures of various apartments in New York and elsewhere. I enjoy this section; I get to see what apartments and houses in NYC actually have to offer. (I do not live in NYC.) There are links to house hunting in other cities as well - Minneapolis, Milan, San Francisco, Paris, Santa Fe, etc. All articles have lots of large recent pictures. (Past articles in the NYT are all available with a simple click.) Another great advantage is that every article also has links to previous and other articles in the NYT or elsewhere about the topic. All you have to do is click, and you can read more articles, no hunting around. There is a major article today on the changing American attitudes toward abortion, and lots of links to other articles where you can read more about specific aspects or authors. In the Arts section, there are reviews of concerts and ballets in NYC and articles about music and dance in general. There are then more links to Youtube (or similar) performances of the music or dance being discussed. An article about the best flute concertos ever will have links to a dozen excerpts from the flute works. Reviews of ballet performances will often have short clips of parts of the performance. And there will be more links to older, complete performances if available. You get lots of audio links in the digital edition. And for the LGBTQ community, there are good articles on the current problems with the Pride Parade in Tennessee, the issue of funding for transgender youth, and many pictures of same sex couples and their wedding ceremonies. Yesterday there was an article about the 25 most influential works of Postwar Queer Literature. You can still read the article, with links to earlier articles about queer literature. Each of these articles is accompanied by links to other, previous articles in the Times about these topics. Just a click gets you there.

The NYT has an interesting article on queer literature today. The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM Six opinionated writers debate — and define — the state of L.G.B.T.Q. writing in order to make a list of the most... The NYT is also loaded with other great articles today - travel (Paris and Saudi Arabia and Japanese pilgrimage), food (Singapore), abortion, and more.

These are almost all old BelAmi boys. BelAmi models can fill this category for ever.

Yes, Berger made films by Americans and acted in several long running American tv series, like "Dynasty." Wiki says" In the late 1960s and 1970s, Berger was seen as the "it boy of the European jet set". According to his 1998 autobiography Ich. Die Autobiographie, the actor's affairs included flings with Rudolf Nureyev, Britt Ekland, Ursula Andress, Nathalie Delon, Tab Hunter, Florinda Bolkan, Linda Blair, Marisa Mell, Anita Pallenberg, Marilù Tolo, Jerry Hall, and both Bianca and Mick Jagger. Miguel Bosé writes about his affair with Berger in his autobiography. He had longrunning affairs with director Luchino Visconti and actress Marisa Berenson.

Four boys above are BelAmi boys of years ago: Ashton, Tommy, Jerome, and Helmut.

I remember with Luv2Play. There was a time, 1998-2010, when Campus had lots of twinks and twunks and good crowds from 4:00-9:00 when the big boys arrived. Non-stop dancers, no music fillers. Some boys danced at Campus first and then appeared later at Taboo. Taboo in those days had 25-40 beautiful twinks and twunks, fully nude, every night of the week, no exception. Not pseudo-nude like Stock, but real. One or two fem boys, but almost all really nice. No tattoos, no long hair, no body hair. They came from all over Canada and France. I remember beautiful boys from Paris and Mulhouse and Tours and Nancy. And they really danced; they practiced at home and had routines. Not like the Stock-shuffle. There were even twins for a while. Some danced to Piaf; Diego was very cute and danced to Brazilian music; they chose their music. Lap dances were not particularly private, but they were a lot of fun and at $10, you couldn't go wrong. At 10:00 p.m. on Saturdays, they introduced all the boys by name on stage, and then they each got one of the little circus platforms and spread out through the room and danced; you had gyrating nude boys all over the place.

Social media are agreed that the two hottest studs at the coronation on Saturday were Johnny Thompson and Oliver Plunkett. Johnny is equerry to Charles and accompanies him everywhere. He walked directly behind Charles at the coronation. He was first noticed during Queen Elizabeth's funeral as the chief officer. He always wears a kilt; there is no known photo of him in pants. Ollie Plunkett is Camilla's new equerry; he walked directly behind her at the coronation. He was at Westminster Abbey with Kate for Christmas carols. The British royals, whether Margaret, Anne, Charles, or Camilla seem able to find the best looking guys in the military to be their equerries. Lots of photos on TikTok and Youtube and Daily Mail, among many others.

Today by accident I came across a group of young Brazilian men in a sandy volleyball court in a park in Fort Lauderdale. They were playing some game I did not recognize. They were dressed in shorts or brief bathing suits with tee shirt, and one wore just a brief bathing suit. Then I noticed the words "Foot Volley" or "Futvoly" across the rear of their suits. I went and asked a guy about it. He said it is "Foot Volley Ball" and is very popular. It combines soccer with beach volleyball. You can't play soccer on a beach, but this game allows you to use all your soccer skills in a relatively small space, and scoring is beach volleyball style and fast. Basically, it is volleyball, except that you cannot use your hands - only feet, head, chest, shoulders. The most spectacular play is the "shark attack," where a guy runs up to the net, leaps upside down and hits the ball above the net with the sole of his foot, not the side. There are a number of shark attacks captured on Youtube, and they are fun to watch. It looks like an enjoyable new sport (technically invented in 1965 by a Brazilian), and spectators get to watch cute Brazilian guys cavorting in brief bathing suits in their local parks or at the beach.

The previous format was much better and informative. This one with all the bold face and very little information is not as good. The alternative (click above) is no better.

I'm not sure where this should go. But I am very happy to see the old format restored for the main page. All those boldfaced titles and words in one row were visually confusing. This format is much easier to understand.

Dolce & Gabbana's ads for December feature several male models. The one with the black model and brightly colored pillows takes up a full two page spread in Architectural Digest. It is dramatic and striking. https://us.dolcegabbana.com/en/dgcasa/best-home-decor-adv/

Now that is a very courteous and helpful answer. Thank you. 💯

I appreciate the idea and your effort in making these videos. But the panning and movement in these last two videos are way too fast; I get a headache very quickly. Please slow down.

Very nice video. Thanks for posting and thanks to photographer. The technology seems simple, camera on a stick, but it works very well. The panning was just the right speed. The Bourbon Street Building looks nicer than it ever has before in photos. A number of the terraces seem larger and more substantial than in previous years. They look very inviting. Good crowd and certainly lots of booths. Ste Catherine looks better than it has all year, at least in pictures. A nice sunny day always helps. Again, thank you.

Thanks very much for the detailed and practical report on the new Hyatt.