Tattooed Love Boy

While tattoos are not everyone’s cup of tea, sometimes the appeal simply boils down to the guy sporting the ink. Enter Maximillian Silberman, an Angeleno who recently began modeling and has more body art than one might encounter at the average construction site. But Max wears his decorated skin well, especially the phrase tattooed across his collarbone that reads “Tolerance Is Key.”

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Watch: Burberry's Spring 2012 Show Live-Stream

Iconic English brand Burberry is live-streaming its runway show for the seventh time (creative director Christopher Bailey is so web savvy!). Watch the entire Spring 2012 show live from Milan (11 AM Eastern Standard Time) on Out.com by clicking here.

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Suspended in Time

We readily admit that this sublime shot of Jason Morgan wearing suspenders gave us an easy excuse use a song from Xanadu for a post title. Yep, we’re geeks. Still, these stunning photos of the Pennsylvania-born blond will forever document him at the peak of his beauty. In 50 years time, Jason can look back on these photos and think, I was quite a dish, wasn’t I?

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Photos: Bruno Rand

Stand Out Cocktail: Midori MelonAid

See our Stand Out bartender? He's so hot that even Kim Kardashian has a tough time making eye contact with him.
Seriously, this is one of the cutest Stand Out recipe videos we've found yet. Hot bartender has a new cocktail recipe that will cool Kim off at the pool, but since she can't handle complicated mixing she flirts with him to see if he'll make the drink for her...
He won't, but the recipe itself ends up being the simplest thing on Earth so Kim rises to the challenge.
And, once again, girl pours heavy! She may not think she's much of a bartender, but she mixes a drink the same way gay men like their bartenders: tall, strong, and sweet on the inside. This is definitely a fun, frilly beverage your friends may initially mock but end up loving once they taste the deliciousness.
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My Two Dads

Father’s Day gives many of us the opportunity to celebrate one of the most important men in our lives, but for Zach, a 7-year-old boy from San Francisco, it means many reasons to celebrate.
Zach dads, Paul and Neil didn’t know they were going to meet the love of their lives when they logged on to Gay.com in the summer of 2004. The two Boston boys connected with each other on a Thursday night in October of that year and immediately hit it off. They’d been chatting for only a short while when they realized they both lived in the same city. As they each took turns asking and answering questions, Neil eventually asked Paul for his address and was surprised to find that he was chatting with his next-door neighbor. Paul had moved into the same apartment complex only three weeks prior to their chat.

“Not only were we neighbors, we actually shared a wall between us,” Neil said. “It was exciting, but it also freaked us out a bit that we were so close.” The two said goodnight and didn’t speak again until they ran into each other in the halls of their apartment a few weeks later. On an impulse Paul invited Neil over to his apartment to watch a baseball game and Neil accepted.
“We didn’t spend much time watching the game that first night,” Neil said. “We talked for several hours and discovered we had a lot in common. Before I left that night I knew Paul was the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.” During their conversation Paul revealed that he had a son from a previous marriage and shortly after that night Paul invited Neil over once more to meet his son. “I was nervous about meeting him even though Zach was only 10 months old when we were introduced. However, I instantly fell in love with him and knew I wanted to be a part of his life,” Neil said.
Shortly thereafter, Paul and Neil decided to begin a relationship together and seven years later they are still going strong as a close-knit family. “I was always told I would never have children because I was gay,” Neil said. “But even though Zach is not my biological child he is still my son in every way. I’ve seen him take his first step and say his first word, I can’t imagine not being there for any big moment in his life. I think it’s crazy sometimes because if it wasn’t for Gay.com I wouldn’t have met my family.”
Zach’s mother, who shares joint custody with Paul, eventually remarried— giving Zach a third reason to celebrate Father’s Day— and when her new husband accepted a job in San Francisco, Neil and Paul decided to move as well. “We wanted Zach to remain close with all four of his parents,” Paul said. “I think he’s a lucky boy to have so much love in his life from so many people. We’re just one big happy nontraditional family.”
Today, Zach attends elementary school in San Francisco and spends alternating weeks with Neil and Paul, and his mother and stepfather. “Thankfully we all get along pretty well,” Paul said. “Zach has a lot of positive energy in his life.”
When asked if Zach ever asks questions about his family Paul replied, “For Zach, his family is all he’s ever known, so it’s normal to him. He also attends school with a few other students who have nontraditional families as well, so he doesn’t see it as anything but normal—and he’s right."
Zach’s family is proof that “traditional” families aren’t the only way to grow up in a loving and positive environment. For those who feel that nontraditional families are damaging to children, Paul wants people to know that Zach is just like any other all-American boy. “He’s an excellent student and he’s really gotten into sports, especially baseball.” Paul said. “He even loves coming to my softball games.”

Vintage Hunk: Aldo Ray

Aldo Ray is pretty much forgotten today but in the 1950s he was one of the hunkiest, most masculine actors working in films. With his raspy voice and hairy, barrel chest, Ray was the prototype of the American male during the Eisenhower years.

Originally named Aldo DaRe, the future actor was born in Pennsylvania to an Italian family of five brothers and one sister. In 1944, at the age of 18, he entered the Navy serving as a frogman until 1946. Afterwards, DaRe entered the University of California, Berkeley. He quickly married, left school, and relocated to the Northern California town of Crockett. The couple had a daughter and DaRe was elected the Constable of Crockett.
Life changed when DaRe drove his brother to an audition for the baseball film Saturday's Hero. Director David Miller (Sudden Fear and Back Street) spotted and hired him for a small role in the film. It was DaRe's deep raspy voice that got him the job. Columbia Pictures, under the tyrannical Harry Cohn, signed him to a contract and simplified his name to Aldo Ray.
Ray's first starring role was opposite Judy Holliday in George Cukor's masterpiece The Marrying Kind.  Ray never gave a better performance or appeared in a finer film. This comedy/drama written by longtime Cukor friends Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin was the bittersweet story of a married couple who appear before a divorce judge as their relationship— including their courtship and loss of their child— is told in flashbacks. Holliday was brilliant and Ray was both sexy and touching as the husband.
This film was followed by another Cukor gem Pat and Mike with Hepburn and Tracy. Ray played a boxer and he was never sexier on screen. He received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Newcomer. At this point Cohn wanted Ray to play the doomed soldier in From Here to Eternity, but director Fred Zinnemann insisted that Montgomery Clift be cast. As Ray was the polar opposite physically and spiritually of Clift, it is interesting to speculate what he would have done with the role.
The next few years were great for Ray. He co-starred with Rita Hayworth in Miss Sadie Thompson, appeared in the smash hit Battle Cry and did a wonderful change-of-pace comedy We're No Angels with Humphrey Bogart and Joan Bennett. But 1958 was the best year in Ray's career as he starred in both The Naked and the Dead and God's Little Acre. Based on Erskine Caldwell famously sexy novel, God's Little Acre introduced Tina Louise (who later played Ginger on Gilligan's Island) and she and Ray had some torrid scenes together.
Unfortunately, the following decade saw Ray's career decline considerably. His brand of masculinity was past and he was getting heavier and older. His best role of the '60s was in the atrocious John Wayne pro-Vietnam War film The Green Berets. This rotten 3-hour epic was Wayne's answer to those protesting the war at home, but the film ends with one of the most grotesque scenes in movie history. When the the little war orphan Ham Chuck (I kid you not) asks, "What will happen to me now?" Wayne puts a green beret on him and says, "You let me worry about that, Green Beret. You're what this thing's all about." Wayne and the little tyke then walk away, holding hands, into the sunset. This scene in probably one of the Right Wing's most hilariously bad movie scenes. In spite of this, Ray gave a good performance, but he looked older and it was clear that his leading man days were over.
Ray's last years were unkind. His three marriages ended in divorce and he was diagnosed with throat cancer. Returning to Crockett, he died in 1991 at the age of 64.
Aldo Ray is still Crockett's favorite son, and for moviegoers of a certain age he was a sexy, masculine stud whose movie career would always be highlighted by the divine The Marrying Kind.

5 Tips Towards Better Kissing

Kissing is one of the most intimate activities couples share and no matter how cute your date thinks you are, if you can’t seal the deal with a great kiss you may not land a second date. So here are five tips that will help your kisses leave a lasting impression and keep your date daydreaming about you until that second, third and fourth get together.
Keep Your Mouth in Check
If you’re going on a date you want to make sure you’re prepped for the inevitable first kiss. LISTERINE® WHITENING® VIBRANT WHITE® mouthwash is your best asset. It whitens teeth, freshens breath, fights plaque, and gives you the healthy smile that will make your mouth supremely kissable.
Moisten Your Lips
There’s a fine line here. You don’t want to go overboard and leave your date feeling like he just puckered up with a slobbery puppy, but a little bit of lip balm can go a long way towards keeping your lips smoochable. After all, nobody wants to feel like they’ve lip-locked with a sheet of sandpaper.

Touch
Believe it or not, moving around a bit during a kiss can be a good thing. You don’t have to perform a choreographed routine, but lightly running a hand down your date’s back or caressing the sides of his face with your hands can turn a great kiss into a memorable moment.
Relax and Breathe
Fluidity is the key to making a kiss feel natural, and the best way to keep things smooth is to R-E-L-A-X. If you’re uptight and nervous your date will definitely feel it on your tense lips. So before you move in for that magic moment take a deep breath, let go of the tension and offer up your bright, white smile. It will put yourself at ease and your date as well.
Talk Sexy
No, you don’t have to deliver a monologue worthy of an extended run on Broadway, but a sweet compliment whispered in his ear is the perfect way to follow up a hot kiss and hook that hunk for a repeat performance. Keep it simple: compliment the way he smells or the way he looks when you first see him. At the end of the night, let him know you had a great time and how much you’d like to see him again.
Above all, make sure your last impression leaves him wanting more.

Hosting the Perfect Game Night

You've heard the story or maybe said it yourself: "I'm so tired of going out to the bars! We should host some kind of game night instead."
But then when it comes to actually putting a night together it never seems to work out. Game nights inevitably seem like too much work.
Never fear, because we've simplified the situation with 10 tips that will make planning and execution easy, and the results a solid success.
1. Decide the game and make sure guests know in advance what they’re getting themselves into. (Don’t spring a stripping or drinking game on them without some warning.) Classics like poker, Monopoly or Trivial Pursuit are great, but know your audience. If they find these games intimidating or tend to be highly competitive, find one that will keep the evening light.
2. Invite new people. Get your core group of friends—the ones whose opinion you trust— to bring one other newbie to the crowd. It expands your crowd and creates conversation.

3. Make sure you’re stocked up with cups, napkins, chairs, etc. Game nights get derailed when someone suddenly needs to rush to the store, and it's tough to get people focused again after a break.
4. Refreshments are tricky. Avoid sticky food or items that can crumble everywhere. Pizza is practically synonymous with “game night,” but it might not be on everyone's diets. Suggest a potluck if you want to mix the mood and save some cash.
5. Turn the TV off. It's distracting and will work against your original goal of meeting new people and enjoying their company.
6. Know the game inside and out. As the host of the party, you’re ostensibly the referee, and may be called upon to make difficult decisions.
7. Serving cocktails? Okay, that was a dumb question... But here's a great suggestion: Use pitchers. It reduces players’ time away from the game, and it’s far more convenient for everyone involved (and less mess for you.)
8. Avoid drama. The night is supposed to be fun, so go with the flow. If someone makes a mistake, laugh it off and set that tone for the other guests. This shouldn't be about creating competition, but instead creating community.
9. Lead by example. Offer everyone a drink or food when they arrive. Start conversations and make sure everyone is introduced and engaged in the evening before the games begin, and you have a great foundation to build upon.
10. Have a back up plan. If the initial game doesn't work out you may have to scrap it and find a second one. The party may simply evolve into a cocktail or house party instead. That's fine. The whole point is to hang out and have fun with your friends, so don't try to force the game night. Let it be the basis for starting the night, and allow everything else to unfold organically.

Positive Voices: A Journey Toward Acceptance

Words by W. Brandon Lacy Campos
From 2001-2003 I served as the first chair of the National Lavender Green Caucus of the Green Party of the United States. Each year, I wrote an open letter to the queer community during Pride in which I exhorted folks to engage politically and do their part to create positive social change. It was the beginning of the Bush era, 9/11 went down very shortly after I became chair (and our Caucus was the FIRST queer political organization to come out against any retaliatory war), Ralph Nader was not a joke, and no one had even heard of American Idol. I was also HIV negative.
Ten years later, Osama bin Laden is dead, there is a black man in the White House, Donald Trump was considering running for president (talk about a joke), two tsunamis have devastated large swaths of Asia, Hurricane Katrina almost killed New Orleans, cell phone signals—it turns out—are killing bees, and I have been living with HIV for the last eight years.
Oh, the times how they change.

I am a student of history, and history fascinates me. What fascinates me just as much is human psychology. Choose any ten year period of history and in that ten years the world has always radically changed, especially in the industrialized era. Imagine the world in 1960 and the world in 1970. Imagine the world in 1855 and the world in 1865. The world and everything in it is in a constant flux of social change. Yet, at least for me, I live my life day to day assuming that the world is pretty much a stable constant that changes incrementally, yet when looking back on the last ten years, the world looks nothing like it did a decade ago.
How the hell does that happen?
I should know better. My own life looks radically different every time I pass gas or wake up from a nap. But the difference that I am celebrating now, today, during this Pride season, is my own personal growth over the last eight years as an out, HIV positive individual—my pride, if you will, in who I am and who I am becoming (I should have “work in progress” tattooed someplace conspicuous on my body).
It has been a rough, sometimes lonely, and sometimes hideously paved road with big old potholes, a few U-turns, a couple of almost dead ends, and more than a few stops to ask for directions along the way. For the first three years I was driving the HIV road without a license, blindfolded, intoxicated, high, and with my hands handcuffed behind my back, in a sling, texting, and with my toes on the steering wheel. Over the last five years I have learned to drive with my hands in the 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock positions, I signal before all turns, I consult my GPS, and I pay attention to the road signs. I am not a perfect driver, I sometimes still make slight detours or find myself questioning Google maps, but despite sometimes having to combat old feelings, old habits, and old fears, I am confident that I am heading in the direction and towards the destination that was meant for me in this life. Hell if I know what that ultimate arrival point is, but I do know that when I get there, it will be with confidence and love of myself.
A work in progress, indeed.
Writing openly about my HIV status, in my personal blog or in other publications, has been the most effective vehicle in my personal journey towards acceptance of myself as an HIV positive man. Each time I write, openly, about all of my struggles with HIV—the gut-twisting fear around disclosure, the acceptance, the rejection, the awkward moments, the mistakes, and the successes—I find myself moving closer to seeing and loving myself with all of my complications, and because of my history and not in spite of it.
The sadness is that there are more than 40,000,000 people around the world who are also somewhere in their personal journey with HIV. The beautiful truth is that there are 40,000,000 people who are not alone as they walk the road.
Happy Pride.

Brandon Lacy Campos is an HIV positive writer, author and blogger living in New York City. He blogs regularly at MyFeetOnlyWalkForward.com, and he has two books out this summer, both from Rebel Satori Press: It Ain't Truth If It Doesn't Hurt and Eden Lost.

Milan Fashion Week Highlights: Dolce & Gabbana

Cool clothes and shirtless studs ruled the runways in Milan last weekend during the Spring 2012 menswear shows. Eye Candy regulars David Gandy, Noah Mills and André Ziehe were among the magnificent men modeling Dolce & Gabbana's latest collection featuring lots of netting, lattice and mesh. And though many designers indulged in the liberal use of green and blue for their color palates, D&G did not stray far from shades of black, white and gray, except for a sprinkling of dark magenta.

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