Favorite Pic of the Day for August 9th

Above:

Kevlar

~Check out today's BIRTHDAYS HERE:~

Water Conservation:

 Bent: Altered from an originally straight or even condition

Ear Buds

Picture a place where it all doesn't hurt
Where everything's safe and it doesn't get worse

There is nothing hotter than talent, and performance artist and acrobat Yoann Bourgeois has talent for days.  I know this performance is a few years old, but I've been going down the rabbit hole of The Graham Norton Show on Youtube and just discovered this performance.  Pink and Yoann performed her hit Trust Fall on a 2023 episode of the British Talk show with an all-star line-up. 

Pink joined guests Paul Rudd, Michael Douglass, Hugh Jackman, Dame Judi Dench, Michael B Jordan and Eugene Levy.  I love how Norton has all of his guests together on the stage, which really encourages some great interactions.  Pink and Yoann didn't join the others for much chit chat, but their performance was the highlight of the hour.

Danny Celaya: Beyond Playgirl

Earlier this year I featured the sexy studs from the California Dream Men. (HERE:)  It was then that I learned that model and softcore performer Danny Celaya was also apart of the stripping troupe.  Many know Celaya from his spread in the December 1991 issue of Playgirl Magazine. (HERE:)

I was always a sucker for long haired male beauties, and remember seeing Celaya's Playgirl issue when I was younger.  This shoot just screams 1990's.  I'm not sure if it was taken before or after the Playgirl shoot, but Celaya's time in the limelight had a short window from the late 80's into the early 90's.

I guess the long hair is the biggest give away that it's a 90's shoot, but there is a glamour element to the poses, background and lighting that also scream blast from the past.

As part of the California Dream Men, Celaya not only stripped and modeled, but also took part in a series of softcore videos.  Below is a small clip from the video, 'The Photoshoot.'

El Príncipe 2019

'A '70s-set homoerotic prison drama based on a low-circulated pulp novel, tracking the sexual, often-violent and eventually murderous experiences of 20-something narcissist Jaime.'

Set in a Santiago prison in 1970, the film introduces us to Jaime, (Juan Carlos Maldonado) a young prisoner convicted of the violent and inexplicable murder of his best friend. It doesn't take long for Jamie to catch the eye of The Stallion, ( Alfredo Castro) an older and powerful inmate who commands respect among the prisoners. Seeking protection, Jaime develops a relationship of affection and tenderness with the man, discovering love and the need for recognition. Later, as The Prince, Jamie rethinks his sexual identity and the reason for his incarceration.

The brutality of prison life is contrasted by intensely emotional relationships between the prisoners. The ensemble cast gives sometimes surprisingly sensitive performances conveying the paradoxical acceptance of gay attachments in prison at a time when it was not socially acceptable.

Sebastián Muñoz’s directorial debut is a bold and erotically charged exploration of recent history which reveals an unexpected tenderness at its heart;

The Queer Lion

Given the prison setting and frequent nude scenes, El Príncipe could have easily been just another homo-exploitative flick where the main draw were the naked bodies and sexual situations.  The film's focus on character and relationships however, draws you and has you caring and invested.  

The film is based on the sole novel by  author Mario Cruz. Cruz's homoerotic novel had its heyday in the 70s, when it talked about, but hard to find, making it in many ways, a cult novel. at the time.   The book was never available in bookstores and could only be acquired in the newsstands of San Diego Street, in Santiago,  Director Sebastián Muñoz found the novel by chance and, along with playwright Luis Barrales refined the script to its final form.