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It’s always nice to hear of a success story. Or a story of someone making a radical career transition. Or someone getthing them out of a bad news job into something a bit more uplifting…

A former gay porn actor/director, who was fired for violating the Miami-Dade School Board’s code of ethics, has reportedly been cleared to pursue his teaching certificate again.

Shawn Loftis, 36, spent six years in gay pornography and owned his own company, World of Men, until he quit the industry in 2010. He then got a job as a substitute teacher at Nautilus Middle School in Miami Beach.  Loftis was drummed out of school though when later targeted in a “moral crusade” by a principal, eventually fired for violating the School Board’s code of ethics and for gross immorality.

In November, the Florida Department of Education banned Loftis from obtaining a teaching certificate for five years, but that decision was reversed last week by the state’s Education Practices Commission. Since he has already passed the exam, Loftis just needs a job to resume teaching.

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Some gurls just don’t shut up…

Ricky Martin has become one gabby queer.

He came out of the closet, and now he spends all his media time chatting away about LGBTQ issues, his personal life with his domestic partner Carlos Gonzalez Abella of four years and being a same-sex set of parents to his three-year-old twin boys.

His career meanwhile – well, it has certainly changed since his “Living La Vida Loca” days… He has returned to Broadway (after last appearing in “Les Miserables” at eight-years-old in 1996) playing Che Guevara in a new production of “Evita” , opening this month.

The child star, a former member of Menudo, has been performing in front of audiences all his life, delighting his countless female and male, mostly gay, fans.

Now, Martin has that Hollywood leading man quality (just look at his photo shot by Bruno Staub for Details (March 2012)) and confidence being comfortable with who he really is today. In an interview with journalist Mickey Rapkin, Martin, who practices Buddhism, and has met the Dalai Lama, spoke about his fame, his views on same-sex marriage, sex life and his loves:

“I think there’s a stolen faith-an interpretation of what God ‘says.’ That’s your God-I have my god. It’s about civil rights. I’m not telling you what to believe. I wish people understood that love manifests in different ways. Allow me to have my life and I won’t mess with yours. That’s when I struggle and get angry and punch the table. And then I talk. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

 Taylor Lautner has revealed that he is wiling to go shirtless in movies only if it “makes sense.”

TO WHO?  It makes sense to us Tay-Tay!

The 20-year-old actor, beloved by billions as  wolfboy Jacob Black in the ‘Twilight’ movies, has used skin to win in the past. But know that his money-making franchise is ending, is he trying to become a more serious commodity?

He was adamant that he wouldn’t strip off too much in his movie ‘Abduction’.

“In the original script there were six or seven shirtless scenes and I said, ‘No, my character can’t just walk outside and say, ‘Oh, I feel warm today, let me take off my shirt.’ It had to make sense,” Stuff.co.nz quoted him from Company mag.

Proving that he isn’t just obsessed with his body…Lautner is also pleased with his new diet. (Are you seeing a pattern here?) He used to eat a great deal to stay in shape while portraying Jacob but now he is more relaxed about what he puts into his body.

“I’m enjoying that I don’t have to be in the gym six days a week now, or force-feeding myself every two hours to stay bulky. 

That is nice Tay. Just do us a favor. Stop thinking so much and keep the shirt off.  We can take you seriously when your older. Let’s just stare at those abs for right now.

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Check out today’s sweet birthday boy. (Well, yesterday actually but I was in bed all day so I didn’t get around to it…)

MALE SUPERMODEL & MY CURRENT MASTURBATION FANTASTY: David Gandy!

David Gandy began modeling in 2002, modeling mostly for catalog work in the UK market before making top model status for Dolce & Gabbana.  With D & G, bitch took OFF!  His career skyrocketed an he quickly appeared in numerous campaigns and catwalk shows for the luxury brand and has worked with supermodels such as notorious cellphone thrower Naomi Campbell.

Gandy is probably best known for his advert with Dolce & Gabbana’s fragrance “Light Blue” which had 11million online hits and saw a 50 ft poster of him grace Times Square. Remember? Oh, so hot….

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A 300-pound man was arrested after he was caught strolling around a Pennsylvania Walmart wearing nothing but socks. Later, authorities discovered that he had actually walked in naked, and stolen the socks!

Walmart employees called police at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, saying that there was a naked man walking around the store.  I mean, you expect to see a lot of shit at Walmart – but a naked fat man is kinda pushing it…

When police arrived, they found 32-year-old Verdon Lamont Taylor in the store wearing only sock. (I swear, I would have loved to see it.  I’d also like to know what department he was in when they found him. I picture him in housewares.) When Taylor would not comply with officers’ request to stop fucking walking around naked, the 6-feet, 4-inch tall, 300-pound man was tasered and taken into custody.

TASERED!

Isn’t any story better when you add “TASER” to it.

Taylor proceeded to spit in an officer’s face, police say.

Upon viewing surveillance video, police discovered the awful (fat and ugly) truth. Seems Taylor walked into the store completely naked and walked straight to the customer service counter, stole a pair of socks there, and put them on his feet.

Where was the dude who greets you at the door when Fat Albert here sashayed in buck naked?

Even worse, the video also shows shoppers avoiding Taylor as he proceeded to walk through the store.  C’mon people, have we no decency?  Seriously!

Taylor was arraigned on charges of indecent exposure, aggravated assault, simple assault, retail theft, receiving stolen property and disorderly conduct.

He is being held at Chester County Prison on $50,000 cash bail.

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“Harry Potter” cutie Daniel Radcliffe is now speaking at length about his passion for queer causes in a saucy new interview!

Radcliffe,  promoting his new spookfest “The Woman In Black,” discussed anti-gay bullying and marriage equality in the March issue of the British publication Attitude.

“The ultimate reason gay marriage should be legalized everywhere is because, as a kid, you look to your mum and dad and they’re married, then you look at the gay couple who’ve been together for the same amount of time, but because they can’t get married their relationship doesn’t seem the same,” said Radcliffe. “Gay people should have equality in law everywhere. If you grow up as a young gay man knowing you don’t have the same opportunities as everyone else, you’re going to feel victimized and massive prejudice towards you.”

Radcliffe also bitched about U.S. politicians, commenting how he was “disgusted, amazed, stunned” by GOP candidates like Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann’s stance on gay rights. As for Obama, he observes, “Of course he’s in favor of [same-sex marriage] but he has to be careful about saying so. I’d rather have someone like him in the White House than the alternative.”  Oh, I wish this wiezard could vote in the United States!

Though Radcliffe has had his sexuality questioned by the muckrakers (LIKE ME!), the 22-year-old actor SWEARS he is straight. But, he does open up about a bit of a man-crush: “This year I have a talent crush on Ryan Gosling. I think he’s fantastic and…(ahem) you know he’d be nice afterwards. He seems smart. If I was gay, I would go for a smart man.”

Really Harry?  I wish I could say that it is clear your gay by saying Gosling, but everyone loves Ryan.  He’s delicious.

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I wonder exactly how many pairs of Calvin Klein’s tighty whities I have been worn in my long gay life.  How many I’ve lost. how many I’ve soiled.  How many I’ve stuffed in a trick’s mouth to keep him from waking up my neighbors.

All gay men owe Calvin Klein an immense debt of gratitude. Which is why, I am (barely) tolerating the fact that this legendary fashion designer and icon has basically stolen my husband. Nick Gruber (on the right, baby!), the fashion mogul’s current boyfriend is barely 21-years-old, a native blond Floridian, a semi-pro mixed martial arts fighter, and PORN STAR!

Gruber, befriended by gay model/pornographer Blue Blake, has so far only a brief stint in the adult entertainment industry under the alias Aaron Skyline. He appeared in “Next Door Male“, playing opposite gay superstar Mason Wyler, and  in solo scenes on SeanCody.com where Gruber’s name is “Zeke.”

Rumors are that Klein discovered his boyfriend online. (Grindr is God!) But last fall the 69-year-old Klein told an audience at the 92th Street Y: “I fell in love with a wonderful young man, and we recently went paragliding off Aspen Mountain.”

Current rumors, according to the New York Daily News (January 12, 2012) are that the two love birds – who earlier vowed to “live together forever” – have reportedly split up. Village Voice queer columnist Michael Musto slapped Klein’s hand last week when he wrote: “Calvin, darling, you’re embarrassing yourself. What’s worse, you’re embarrassing the whole community.”

Oh, Michael Musto! Don’t be a hideous old troll. Let people LOVE! Love, is, well…LOVE!

I met Musto once in Manhattan. I was so excited, I’d always been such a big fan. So I sauntered up and introduced myself.  He meekly shook my hand, stared at me for a few minutes as I babbled, and slinked away.  Very shy man.  Very shy.  W

Congrats on getting that young dick Calvin! You go for it!  I hope I’m bagging hot pieces of tail when I’m in my 70′s!

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“Grandson of a Preacher Man,” by journalist Jonathan Miles in Details (February, 2012) is about Randy Roberts Potts, queer grandson of the late super-evangelist Oral Roberts. The expose reveals startling revelations and endearing moments.

Miles points out: “Randy Roberts Potts likes to say he grew up 50 feet and a million miles away from firebrand televangelist Oral Roberts.  Now openly gay and a pariah to his family, the 37-year-old is on a mission of his own, to undo his grandfather’s legacy by preaching in churches and touring the Bible belt with his new performance piece, ‘The Gay Agenda.‘”

Next month, Potts will premiere what he describes as “the willfully unentertaining show on the road in his native state in Oklahoma City. His itinerary includes midsize red-state cities, like Jackson, Mississippi, Omaha, Nebraska, and Birmingham, Alabama with the intention of reaching populations to “show a neutral, domestic side of gay couple hood . . . that’s identical to straight life.”

Part of Potts’ campaign is to break the stereo-typing of gay life centered on sex, drugs and circuit parties.  His performance piece of a gay couple sharing their lives together is a “visual that people haven’t ever really seen in conservatives towns.”

Potts realized his sexuality at the age of seven. “I was talking to my mom and made some comment to the effect that Strawberry Shortcake (the cartoon character) was really gay. She immediately took it as a teaching moment. Gay, she said, is when two men have sex with one another, and god hates it so much that he burned whole cities to the ground because of it.”

Growing up being more attracted to Bo & Luke over Daisy on “The Dukes of Hazard” confirmed that Potts was attracted to men. But having the fear of God instilled in him by his family’s teachings led him to suppress his homosexuality. Potts even married a woman and had three children, living as a deeply-closeted married man.

Potts broke at 27, finally admitting that he was gay. His admission got him a bitter divorce, and a harsh separation from his parents and family. “I felt ostracized in a way I’d never felt,” he admits.

Oddly, he didn’t have to stand alone for too long.  Brother Stephen was later outed by their own father (a minister) while serving in the Air Force. Duel gay progeny didn’t mean any quicker healing.  When their grandmother died, they were “denied entrance to the graveside funeral by an armed security guard,” being informed that they were not on the list.”

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Looking for something to do the first weekend in May? Wanna get your groove on in the City Of Brotherly Love? Hungry for a few days of homosexuality, history, hunky anchormen (left) and some hasidic jews?

Presenting then, this year’s star-studded and cock-ringed Equality Forum!

Equality Forum is a national and international LGBT civil rights organization with an educational focus. Equality Forum coordinates LGBT History Month, produces documentary films, undertakes high-impact initiatives and presents the premier annual national and international LGBT civil rights summit.   Every year this glam-fest features a big high-profile “featured nation” to really spice up the drama! This year, Israel!

“Equality Forum 2012, our 20^th anniversary celebrates the transformation from a groundbreaking conference that focused on an emerging civil rights movement into the annual Equality Forum recognized as the premier annual national and international LGBT summit,” stated Malcolm Lazin, Executive Director. “Israel as the featured nation will be represented by the Ambassador to the U.S., major Israeli LGBT leaders, and Tel Aviv DJs and entertainers.”

The annual shindig includes 25 panels (BORING!), International Equality Dinner (only exciting during the cocktail hour and great blowjobs in the bathroom during the speeches), SundayOUT! at The Piazza (super fun), six parties (last year, BAD!), 13^th Annual Gay and Lesbian Art Exhibit (think tacky!), theater, and special events.

But, there is going to be a bevy of beautiful big names for you star-fuckers to drool over too:

• Ambassador of Israel to the U.S. Dr. Michael B. Oren
• Israeli photographer David Adika
• Tel Aviv Drag Queen Osher Sabag (Seriously?)
• Israeli Pop Star Shorty (WHO?)
• Houston Mayor Annise Parker
• MSNBC Anchor Thomas Roberts (HUNKY! PICTURED!)

So, if your like me – and love the Jews!  I mean, LOVE the Jews…Then join me in Philly this May!