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Richard Phibbs’ latest editorial “Boot Camp” featured in the French publication L’Équipe, is a brilliant throwback to 1940’s propaganda. The feature includes favorites Chad White, Kerry Degman and Oraine Barrett and up and coming stars Mike Derr and Ryan Bertroche in an aesthetic similar to that of Frank Capra’s Army recruitment films during World War II. It captures a classic masculine ideal and hails to a disciplinary theme that we’ve seen reoccurring in recent editorials. (story by Gary Mazrek from models.com)

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Richard Phibbs’ latest editorial “Boot Camp” featured in the French publication L’Équipe, is a brilliant throwback to 1940’s propaganda. The feature includes favorites Chad White, Kerry Degman and Oraine Barrett and up and coming stars Mike Derr and Ryan Bertroche in an aesthetic similar to that of Frank Capra’s Army recruitment films during World War [...]

Nate Gill – One of the brightest new stars on the men’s show circuit the past 2 seasons, this handsome American water polo player stands as the sole male in the current DKNY Jeans campaign for Fall/Winter 09.

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Nate Gill – One of the brightest new stars on the men’s show circuit the past 2 seasons, this handsome American water polo player stands as the sole male in the current DKNY Jeans campaign for Fall/Winter 09.

taken from Advocate.com

Wishing her fans a very happy holiday and promoting the second season of her reality series RuPaul’s Drag Race, RuPaul sent out a little holiday greeting this week — and dressed herself up as Sarah Palin for the occasion.

taken from Advocate.com Wishing her fans a very happy holiday and promoting the second season of her reality series RuPaul’s Drag Race, RuPaul sent out a little holiday greeting this week — and dressed herself up as Sarah Palin for the occasion.

Note to producers worried about the tough economics of Broadway: If you can’t get a big-name movie star to anchor your show, consider enlisting a groundbreaking choreographer to liven things up.

Featuring a book by Jones and Jim Lewis and the pulsating rhythms and radical lyrics of Fela’s music, the show, which had its world premiere off-Broadway last year, teaches the American musical new moves. And I’m not just referring to what happens onstage. Like the current Broadway revival of “Hair,” directed by Diane Paulus and choreographed by the cutting-edge Karole Armitage, “Fela!” doesn’t permit theatergoers to sit by passively.

Fela 2 A rousing, always in motion Sahr Ngaujah, who alternates in the title role with Kevin Mambo, enjoins the audience to sing and shake their derrieres along with him. A skimpily clad ensemble streams up and down the aisle to bring the musical’s energy directly to us. Differences in age and size are no obstacles as spectators learn to get down West African style: For 2 1/2 bouncy hours, self-consciousness is magically held in abeyance.

This dissident journey isn’t related with anything resembling documentary thoroughness (Fela’s run-ins with the authorities are fuzzily presented and there’s oddly no mention of his death from AIDS-related causes). But the spirit of his fight for justice is made universally resonant, and the fusion of his sound is rapturously celebrated with a pinwheel parade of pelvises.

by Charles McNulty

Credit: Monique Carboni (latimesblogs.latimes.com)

Note to producers worried about the tough economics of Broadway: If you can’t get a big-name movie star to anchor your show, consider enlisting a groundbreaking choreographer to liven things up. Featuring a book by Jones and Jim Lewis and the pulsating rhythms and radical lyrics of Fela’s music, the show, which had its world [...]

Negative vote comes down after emotional speeches by several

Following one of the most dramatic and emotional discourses thus far in the gay marriage debate, the New York Senate voted 24 to 38 Dec. 2 to reject a bill guaranteeing equal marriage rights to same-sex couples.

The bill, which Democratic Gov. David Paterson was expected to sign right away, would have made New York – the third largest populated state in the country – the sixth state to provide equal marriage rights to gay couples.

Opponents of the measure – with one exception – sat silently throughout more than two hours of discourse about the bill, while 18 Democrats – many of them African Americans and Jews – stood to urge support for the bill.

The bill’s sponsor, openly gay Sen. Tom Duane, in closing debate on the measure, sighed heavily and acknowledged the outcome of the vote was still uncertain. The bill needed 32 votes to pass and, while the Senate generally takes up bills only after the leadership knows it has the votes to pass, the marriage bill was an exception. No one – given 32 Democrats and 30 Republicans in the chamber – knew what the result would be.

“We have work to do in New York, and elsewhere,” said Marty Rouse, national field director for the Human Rights Campaign, which operated phone banks for constituents to call their senators on the issue. “We’re getting closer to equality, but we’re not there yet.”

The chamber was silent when the vote was announced just before 3 p.m. Wednesday.

The debate preceding the vote included numerous African-American senators emphasizing how similar arguments against gay marriage parallel arguments made decades ago against interracial marriage. It included many vigorous statements that the law would not affect religious freedoms.

And it included many tips of the proverbial hat to Sen. Duane and his partner in life Louis Webre.

“In my family and culture, especially as it relates to my religion, it has always been considered that, if you were living together and not officially married, you were considered living in sin,” said Sen. Velmanette Montgomery, an African-American Democrat from Brooklyn. “So, for those of us who believe in that religious tenet, the reason why to support same-sex marriage is that we do not want them to live in sin.”

By Lisa Keen
From www.pridesource.com

Negative vote comes down after emotional speeches by several Following one of the most dramatic and emotional discourses thus far in the gay marriage debate, the New York Senate voted 24 to 38 Dec. 2 to reject a bill guaranteeing equal marriage rights to same-sex couples. The bill, which Democratic Gov. David Paterson was expected [...]

Got wood? Tiger Woods’ British lawyers have secured a court order barring publications from printing nude pictures and/or videos of the superstar golfer. The order issued by the High Court of London has been circulated by Woods’ lawyers to British publications and blogs, according TMZ. However, the letter claims, the order is not an “admission that any such photographs exist.”

2009_12_10_tiger_woods The court order, which covers any possible videos or cell phone videos, blocks the publicationof any “images taken or obtained of the claimant [Tiger] naked or any naked parts of the claimant’s [Tiger's] body or of him involved in any sexual activity.”

by rodonline.typepad.com

Got wood? Tiger Woods’ British lawyers have secured a court order barring publications from printing nude pictures and/or videos of the superstar golfer. The order issued by the High Court of London has been circulated by Woods’ lawyers to British publications and blogs, according TMZ. However, the letter claims, the order is not an “admission [...]

Nigeria’s Kevin was the big winner of M-Net’s Big Brother Revolution. After evicting Nigerian Nkenna, Malawian Mzamo and Namibian Edward, Angola’s Emma and Nigeria’s Kevin were the final two housemates left in the REVOLUTION.

From www.jamati.com

Nigeria’s Kevin was the big winner of M-Net’s Big Brother Revolution. After evicting Nigerian Nkenna, Malawian Mzamo and Namibian Edward, Angola’s Emma and Nigeria’s Kevin were the final two housemates left in the REVOLUTION. From www.jamati.com

K’naan was Q’s special ‘Wednesday Live’ guest recently. He was promoting his new LP ‘Troubadour’. He sat down for an interview and performed three songs, this is ‘Waving Flag’ from the album.

Somalian-born Mr International hip-hop superstar K’naan’s song ,’Waving Flag‘ from his album “Troubadour” has been selected as the official 2010 FIFA World Cup anthem.

Written by Prudence Chauke

From www.jamati.com

K’naan was Q’s special ‘Wednesday Live’ guest recently. He was promoting his new LP ‘Troubadour’. He sat down for an interview and performed three songs, this is ‘Waving Flag’ from the album. Somalian-born Mr International hip-hop superstar K’naan’s song ,’Waving Flag‘ from his album “Troubadour” has been selected as the official 2010 FIFA World Cup [...]

On Dec 1, 2009 at the Nokio theatre in NYC, Alicia Keys hosted a ‘One Night Only’ concert to benefit her non-profit organization ‘Keep a Child Alive’. Watch the rebroadcast of Alicia Key’s performance from NYC’s Nokia Theatre on World AIDS Day 12.01.09.

Keep a Child Alive is a non profit organization founded by Leigh Blake and Alicia Keys herself, that is dedicated to providing providing life-saving anti-retrovirus treatment, care and support services to children and families whose live has been affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India, by directly engaging the global public in the fight against AIDS.

Written by Prudence Chauke (www.jamati.com)

On Dec 1, 2009 at the Nokio theatre in NYC, Alicia Keys hosted a ‘One Night Only’ concert to benefit her non-profit organization ‘Keep a Child Alive’. Watch the rebroadcast of Alicia Key’s performance from NYC’s Nokia Theatre on World AIDS Day 12.01.09. Keep a Child Alive is a non profit organization founded by Leigh [...]