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Featuring model Joshua Fox Torney — and some serious bicep veins — the teamm8 Lone Rider campaign showcases looks from the Australian brand’s latest collections. And given that Joshua is one of teamm8’s most muscular models yet, it makes sense for him to wear their more masculine colorways.

Staying true to the brand’s aesthetic, the new teamm8 Medal Collection of underwear plays two-hand touch with colorblocking: cute in coral and gunmetal, and sporty in black and brilliant blue. Even the white Medal Brief registers as a dark pair thanks to its blue pouch and black trimming.

Ever better at amplifying all that Joshua has to offer are the shots featuring the brand’s new sportswear. Joshua models the fittted Rider Sweat Pant in both black and brilliant blue. He matches the black pair to the grey marle Track Hoodie Tee for a full-coverage outfit. The slim-fitting top would pair just as well with jeans, and features blue contrasts on the inner hood, hood cords, and double hem at the waist.

He pairs the teamm8 Hang Shorts with the Medal Tank for a look more concerned with feeling summer breezes — or is he showing off those aforementioned muscles? The Hang Shorts are similar to the Rider Sweat Pant, but stop at the knee for a looser fit. The Medal Tank is more casual than sporty, and could be paired with just about anything. It’s also part of teamm8’s first-ever sleepwear collection, coming soon.

You can see more of teamm8’s Lone Rider campaign on The Underwear Expert.

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It’s never too late to make amends or to forgive those who’ve wronged us, as demonstrated by a gay man in West Hollywood who received an apology from the bully who tormented him when they were both in junior high school.

ChadMichael Morrisette, a successful Los Angeles-based brand consultant and visual designer, says he was surprised to receive a message on Facebook earlier this week from the man (name withheld) who helped make his teen years miserable. The man explained he’d been inspired to apologize after his young daughter asked if he’d ever bullied anyone.

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Morrisette posted the apology on his Facebook page today after a note that provided some background:

During junior high and high school I was bullied for being who I am. I was bullied for being gay. I was bullied for being little. I was bullied for every reason someone is bullied. It was awful. I couldn’t even walk to classes without an adult escort or friends with me.

Morrisette also offered thanks to his brother, whom he called his defender, and  a teacher, described as his savior, before posting the apology:

Morrisette revealed to Queerty that it took him a couple of days to process what he’d read and now he can’t stop crying over it. He also shared with Queerty the following private exchange between the two men.

Morrisette commented on his Facebook post that he didn’t remember the specific bully in question and now wondered how much of the pain he felt as a teenager he’d blocked out. Perhaps in a message to any young people struggling with bullying who might read his story, he added that it really does get better and better.

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The famed Wine Country region of northern California should already be on the must-see list of every adult, but if you need more incentive to visit this beautiful part of our country besides enjoying a primo Shiraz while gazing at the spectacular pastoral landscape get ready for a big one. This Memorial Day weekend internet celeb Davey Wavey will cohost ((along with Traver Rains and Richie Rich) Revue, a massive event with an unbelievable roster of talent that includes such premiere drag performers Jackie Beat, Lady Bunny, Jimmy James and Joey Arias, as well as Tony Award-winning out performer Levi Kreis and one of the truly great divas Martha Wash. It’s as if someone cranked up the volume knob on gay pride to eleven.

The weekend long party (May 23-24) is produced by luxury travel expert Duane Wells, who tells Queerty he thinks of Revue as “a mini-West Coast Wigstock 2.0.” He adds, “It is absolutely going to be one of the gayest nights of the year in Sonoma County. Trust.”

Besides, here’s your chance to finally meet Davey Wavey in person and tell him how much you love his videos. For tickets and more information, go here.

This just in: Andy Cohen and Lance Bass once had sex with one another.

That’s right, the former boy band member and the Bravo TV personality once took off all their clothes, got into bed, and achieved orgasms together. And since it’s already been confirmed by Anderson Cooper that Cohen is a total top, we can pretty much imagine precisely how the whole thing played out.

Related: Andy Cohen Is Definitely A Top, According To Anderson Cooper

In a special one-on-one interview with Real Housewives of New York City cast member Sonja Morgan, Cohen dishes on all sorts of stuff, including his hookup with Bass, as well as his favorite celebrity crush (Zac Efron), the craziest place he ever had sex (under the stands at Hollywood High School), and the last time he had sex (Sunday morning).

Watch the interview below.

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“I am not a monster,” Thomas Guerra told the courtroom before receiving his sentencing this week.

Back in August of last year we reported on an unsettling story out of San Diego involving then-29-year-old Guerra knowingly infecting his boyfriend with HIV.

The boyfriend was contacted by a former lover of Guerra via Facebook Messenger, who warned him that Thomas was a liar and HIV-positive.

“Texts where he’s stating he’s negative to people then bragging to others about giving people his ‘positive load.’ It’s crude, it’s… I don’t know how someone could treat another individual like that,” Guerra’s accuser, who chooses to remain anonymous, said at the time.

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Guerra was charged by the San Diego City Attorney’s Office for willfully exposing himself to another person with HIV, a misdemeanor with a maximum sentence of six months and $1,000 fine.

Judge Lewis, who sentenced him, called the six-month jail time in the case a “travesty.”

“I think that’s a tremendous oversight in the law if this is just a misdemeanor,” she said. “If any good comes out of it, that this law would change” and become a felony.

Guerra pleaded no contest, and throughout sentencing showed no signs of wrongdoing or remorse.

In fact, he blamed the victim — in this case, his former lover of a year.

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“I did not rape this person,” he told the visibly frustrated judge. “I did not take him against his will. Within 5 minutes of Grindr text messaging, he was there. So if you’re that reckless with your life, how can you blame anyone else for your actions?”

Evidence included 11,000 text messages he sent and 36 audio clips showing he was deceitful with sexual partners about being HIV positive.

“I don’t think in my 25-plus years in a law, I’ve ever seen somebody be so lacking of insight, blame or responsibility that you have demonstrated,” Judge Lewis told Guerra.

On nearly one acre of hilltop in Encino sits this 2,655-square-foot Mid-Century Modern packed with classic features like clerestory windows, walls of glass, beamed ceilings, stone floors, and teak built-ins; outside, there's a pool and a generous lawn. The dwelling's vantage point offers "panoramic, unobstructed views" of the surrounding valleys, the listing boasts, and the spot has a nice bit of architectural backstory too: "In 1959 award winning builder/contractor Stanley Martson and young Ed Fickett created this stunning see through glass house. Situated on a private, gated street of only 10 Martson built houses, 4552 was the premier model of Martson's development." (It was supposedly even photographed for LIFE magazine.) Last sold for $1.12 million in 2013, according to PropertyShark, it's now listed for $1.595 million.

· 4552 Martson Dr., Encino, CA 91316 [Redfin]

This weekend, Heyday Books will launch LAtitudes: An Angeleno's Atlas, with 19 "maps" of Los Angeles (some literal, some impressionistic) accompanied by 19 essays on topics ranging from street grids to fish to missiles to radio DJs. We're exploring one map from the book every day this week.

[Image via GJ Winterboer]

In some places, Los Angeles's street grid is neat and orderly, pointing to the four cardinal directions. In other places, it's neat and orderly, with a 45 degree tilt. Other places, it's doing god knows what. In his LAtitudes essay "Gridding the City," Nathan Masters travels the length of Wilshire Boulevard, from Downtown to Santa Monica, and through the history of Los Angeles's many layouts. Approaches changed as the city sprawled west from Downtown, giving Wilshire its unpredictable course through the basin, and meanwhile dividing up the wild land and turning it into private property.

Wilshire Boulevard was first born a long time ago:

Pounded into the landscape by the feet of mammoths and other migratory grazers … primitive highways descended from mountain passes toward watering holes on the coastal plain. One of these early highways led many a Pleistocene beast to its death in the asphalt pits near Wilshire and La Brea. …

[One] trail with prehistoric origins extended west of present-day Los Angeles, connecting the large Tongva village of Yaangna with coastal settlements. Under the Spanish, the trail became a well-used highway, rutted with the tracks of wagons transporting asphalt pitch from the La Brea Tar Pits for the pueblos' adobe structures. And though the exact route is lost, Wilshire Boulevard today approximates the path of this ancient highway.

Modern-day Wilshire began after the arrival of the Spanish in 1769, when the city was given its first street grid according to the 1573 Laws of the Indies, which "mandated the creation of a central plaza—'the starting point for the town'—and specified its size, shape, and orientation. Streets would extend at right angles from the plaza's four corners, each of which would point toward the four principal points of the compass. The resulting 45-degree skew in the streets' orientation was meant to prevent the prevailing winds from surging through the streets."

By the 1840s, when the US wrested California from the Mexicans, LA had only about 1,500 residents and still "only the rudimentary beginnings of a street grid. In fact, only a few well-defined streets existed, intersecting with various highways leading to the mission, the harbor in San Pedro, and the tar pits."

The Americans knew they'd have to divvy up the land they'd just seized so that it could be bought and sold, and so Edward Otho Cresap Ord was hired in 1849 to survey the city ("he insisted on using his own compass even after it showed signs of trouble"):

When [apprentice William Rich] Hutton sketched the resulting map, filed with the city in September 1849, a pair of regularly patterned gridirons—one north of the plaza and one south—accompanied the city's existing footprint. ...

North of the plaza, the grid was skewed 22 degrees off the cardinal directions. South of the plaza, the grid tilted 38 degrees. In both cases, Main Street approximated existing pathways."

North of the plaza, Ord and Hutton sketched a grid that still anchors Chinatown today. They gave many of the streets, projected onto what was then open countryside, colorful, bilingual names. Calle del Toro, or Bull Street, dead-ended at a bullfighting ring. Calle de Eternidad, or Eternity Street, led to the town cemetery. Most of these names are forgotten; Bull Street is today North Hill, and Eternity is North Broadway. Meanwhile, another of Ord's creations, High Street, now honors its creator as Ord Street.

Southwest of the plaza, the surveyors drew an even larger grid that today forms the core of downtown Los Angeles. A series of numbered streets, from First to Twelfth, extended far into the open countryside. Paralleling Main Street were Calle Primavera, or Spring Street; Fortín, or Fort (now Broadway); Loma, or Hill; Accytuna, or Olive; Caridad, or Charity (now Grand); Esperanzas, or Hope; Flores, or Flower; and Chapules, or Grasshopper (now Figueroa).

The city at the time extended as far as the present-day site of City Hall, at First and Spring, and Ord's blocks were marked out beyond that in fields of mustard and wildflowers. But there was still even more space beyond and lots of money to be made:

Heavily in debt, the newly American city of Los Angeles by 1853 found itself needing to convert more of its public lands into private real estate that could be auctioned off and taxed. The city would sell some parcels outright; prices started at a dollar per acre. Others it would give away on the condition that the new owners make certain improvements, like building an irrigation ditch or planting crops; the city would reap increased tax revenue from these so-called donation lots.

Ord was back east by then, so a man named George Hansen ended up "creat[ing] a new grid that diverged from Ord's in both scale and orientation," with huge lots and a tilt of only 28 degrees. (MacArthur Park takes up one of the lots he created.) The switch, which begins at Twelfth and Figueroa, "accounts for Figueroa's subtle jog at Pico Boulevard and Wilshire's slight bend as it crosses the Harbor Freeway, whose concrete footprint hides the seam between the two grids." Hansen and his partner Henry Hancock named the east-west streets for US presidents and the north'south streets "for the governors of Alta California: Micheltorena, Alvarado, Figueroa, and Echandia."

These streets weren't developed for decades, though. It wasn't until 1895 that "eccentric millionaire" Gaylord Wilshire created a residential tract between Sixth and Seventh Streets, cut through with a gravel path he named for himself.

As Wilshire hits Hoover Street, the grid takes a sharp turn to cardinal orientation—this is where LA really became American, adopting the rigid layout of Thomas Jefferson's Land Ordinance of 1785, which "recommended a vast, rectangular grid of townships, each thirty-six square miles and divided into thirty-six smaller sections. Survey lines rather than rivers and mountains would govern the shape of property parcels and placement of roads."

The Public Land Survey System, as the national grid is known today, came to Southern California in the 1850s. Civil land grants like ranchos and Los Angeles's four square leagues of pueblo lands were excluded, but government surveyors gridded all the unclaimed land in between into townships and sections, which then promptly passed into private hands. On our trek down Wilshire, the busy transit hubs at Vermont and Western avenues, spaced one mile apart, mark our entry and departure from one such section. Both streets trace lines first drawn more than 150 years ago by U.S. Army surveyor Henry Washington.

Just past Western, Wilshire starts hitting those old ranchos that were exempt from the rigid gridding: "Between here and the Pacific Ocean, Wilshire will pass through five separate ranchos," including Rancho La Brea and Rancho Las Cienegas, and meanwhile cross "an occasional errant street like San Vicente or Venice," that was laid out according to the old streetcar lines. Eventually it hits Santa Monica, and

the road corrects its course to enter a grid that town founders Robert S. Baker and John P. Jones patterned after the Pacific shore. Santa Monica's numbered streets reflect the southeastern direction of the shoreline. Wilshire Boulevard and other intersecting streets, meanwhile, proceed toward the ocean, their bearings directly perpendicular to the cliffs of Palisades Park.

· Finding Yaangna, the Ancestral Village of LA's Native People [Curbed LA]
· Mapping LA's Long Tradition of State-Sanctioned Racial Violence, 1771-Present [Curbed LA]
· LAtitudes: An Angeleno's Atlas [Heyday]

The South Florida chapter of The Impulse Group, a non-profit that “focuses on the sexual and overall health of the gay community” by throwing swanky shindigs, stands accused of age discrimination after requiring anyone over the age of 40 to pay a $50 age tax “donation” for entry into a pool party in Miami.

Related: Gay Party Group Accused Of Age Discrimination For Only Charging The Over-40 Crowd

This week, the group issued a defense saying ageism “played absolutely no role” in its decision to charge anyone over 40 a fee to attend the event, then said promoters were “deeply saddened and stunned” by the amount of hatred and vitriol they received, calling attacks against them and their volunteers “unacceptable.”

That’s right. The club promoters, not the people they discriminated against, are the real victims here. And shame on you for accusing them, a non-profit organization, of being ageist when all they’re trying to do is help raise awareness to HIV prevention!

Related: If You’re Over 40 You Should Stay Out Of Gay Bars, Says Ageist Blogger

Unfortunately for The Impulse Group, its plan to shut people up seemed to backfire.

“Why can you not adopt the simplest solution: charge all or charge no one?” one person commented in response. “You have already stated on your website and other places on this very page you are ‘funded by AHF and private donors.’ Therefore, you don’t need an over-40 surcharge.”

“In the long term, you cannot alienate the community at large even if it gets you what you want for now,” another person wrote.” Later on you might need us oldies, and you will [have] lost us.”

“There is no real apology, for they continue to state they did nothing wrong,” someone else commented. “Too bad, for any hope they could have had for healing this rift is over. Maybe they should have someone over 40 make the responses.”

Here’s the defense in full:

Singer Steve Grand is on the publicity trail to promote his recently-released album All-American Boy so naturally he paid a visit to influential music tastemaker Davey Wavey. The weblebrity offers Grand a very sincere apology for the way he’s been exploited and sexualized by the gay media. Um, we’ll pause for a moment while you process that. This is followed by their shirts coming off, the two getting covered in baby oil and then…well, watch the rest of the shenanigans between Davey and Stevie below.

 

Sure, any Queerty reader who’s been paying attention can probably identify every inch of Chris Evans or Chris Hemsworth, but can the actors identify their own biceps? Can their Avengers: Age of Ultron costars Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johannson and Coby Smulders help? MTV’s Josh Horowitz is in charge of this hard-hitting investigation. Note to Mark Ruffalo: Maybe you’re not as sculpted as your castmembers, but you have the sexiest speaking voice in show biz. Call us if you need an ego boost.

Let the guessing begin below.

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Note: Per GLAAD, this article uses the name and pronouns Jenner prefers at time of publication. Actually, this article uses no gendered pronouns to demonstrate how easy it is.

This needs to be said first: Anyone who discussed Jenner’s possible transition in the media for any reason before April 24, 2015 is part of the problem. That includes trans people. The “teaching moment” could wait, the scolding of the press could wait. The mocking or slamming of Jenner for how this transition is unfolding on TV could wait. That was all just feeding the trolls, and the trans people doing it were essentially engaging in self-promotion. But now that we have an announcement, let the games begin!

This needs to be said second: Coming out as gay, lesbian, or bi can certainly be stressful and challenging, but transgender people face an extra layer of challenges because we often change our appearance, name and other fundamental ways we interact with others. If a trans person enjoyed any amount of pre-transition notability, the process is even more difficult. Arguably, no one as famous as Jenner has ever announced a gender transition, so there’s intense scrutiny not only from the press, but from the trans community concerned about what effects the announcement and upcoming reality show might have. Any trans people who think they can second-guess what Jenner should or shouldn’t do based on their own transitions under far less famous circumstances don’t know what they’re talking about.

How famous is Jenner? Since we live in a society where our collective memory ends at page two of TMZ, and because I was nine years old in 1976, let me try to explain the significance of Jenner for those who aren’t sports fans or ladies of a certain age. America’s bicentennial was an orgiastic celebration of all things America, and it felt needed. We’d just come out of Vietnam. Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon for Watergate and was bumbling through the rest of Nixon’s term. Inflation was spiraling out of control, and gay rights was in that hedonistic sweet spot between being de-listed as a mental illness and the onset of the AIDS epidemic.

Jenner became America personified after winning the decathlon at the 1976 Olympics. It’s hard to overstate how that win restored pride in our country that everyone could rally around. Here’s this clean-cut, charismatic, yet humble superstar athlete who embodied everything we wanted to be as a nation.

Jenner’s ascent as a media celebrity came quickly after. Perhaps my favorite was this fabulous turn in the Village People schlockfest Can’t Stop the Music:

However, the late 1970s also ushered in a massive political backlash against transgender people, driven in no small part by the transition of ophthalmologist-turned professional tennis player Reneé Richards. By the time Ronald Reagan’s 1980s were underway, the gay community was in crisis mode, and trans people found it harder and harder to get health services.

Jenner is part of what I call the Lost Trans Generation: those who had to endure regressive “gender clinics” that tried to control access to trans health services. These clinics turned away most applicants; the most regressive of these was in Toronto, now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. They turned away up to 90 percent of all applicants, allowing them to select for the types they wanted to serve. An entire generation suffered in silence because they lacked the acceptance and resources. Most people who transitioned in the 60s through the 80s disappeared after transition, going “stealth” rather than dealing with the nonsense that out trans people had to endure.

It wasn’t until the dawn of USENET and later the world wide web that trans people were able to regroup and begin the arduous road toward the level of acceptance we enjoy today. We currently live in an internet bubble of transitions which will not happen again. It’s very similar to the coming out bubble that happened with gays and lesbians earlier. Gay, lesbian, and bi people now routinely come out in middle school or high school, where the median age for transition is still probably somewhere around age 40. That will drop precipitously from here out, but for now we will see more and more folks who put off transition and coming out until it was a little more safe and acceptable.

Trans people have every reason to worry about safety and acceptance, especially famous trans people. The media has a terrible track record with speculating on the transition status of notable figures, and then putting them through the wringer once they transition. They gleefully speculated on Chelsea Manning as the legal case moved to trial, and they continue to use Manning’s transition to score political points. Other lowlights include when Vanity Fair contributor Steve Garbarino badgered The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino about transition rumors in 2000:

I tell him I have heard that many transsexuals regret it or simply go mad… I say to Cimino, “So you aren’t a pre-op transsexual?” He puts his hands up in disbelief and smiles a rare smile, as if to say, “What did I just tell you?”

Then came the disgraceful 2006 Rolling Stone piece by contributor Peter Wilkinson, speculating on The Matrix co-director Lana Wachowski and publishing rumors so lurid and defamatory that Rolling Stone has sent the piece down the internet memory hole, unavailable on their site.

It’s a pattern familiar to anyone who followed the Jenner speculation this year. The feeding frenzy in the Jenner case was just as repugnant. Everyone was waiting for the one publication willing to cross the line, and when In Touch obliged with their PhotoShopped cover, that was the flimsy excuse everyone else needed to start openly speculating about Jenner. They could claim they were writing about the cover, but they were in fact using that as an excuse to badger everyone who knows Jenner, and even those who don’t, with questions about the rumors behind the cover. All those scumbags should give In Touch a cut of their ad revenue, since they’re all part of the same parasitic swarm.

Each trans person who was a public figure before transition has chipped away at the monolithic idea of what it means to be trans. Entertainers and authors like Chaz Bono, actors like Alexis Arquette, and musicians like Wendy Carlos or Laura Jane Grace have each done a remarkable job of transitioning in the public eye. It’s Jenner’s transition, and we need to respect that. Many people who recently transition and find themselves in the spotlight quickly run afoul of the community because they say or do the “wrong” thing. While it’s true that a public transition carries a certain weight and responsibility, no one is obligated to toe the trans community’s company line on what they can or cannot say. Jenner is in an interesting situation where money and fans are not really an issue, so I imagine we are going to hear some refreshingly candid things that many of us wouldn’t dare to say because of the possible political or financial consequences.

I personally feel the most interesting thing about Jenner’s announcement is that it confirmed the longstanding speculation that our newest trans celebrity is a conservative Republican. Kim Kardashian had outed both parents as such at the 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but we’d never heard it directly from Jenner until the Diane Sawyer interview.

When gay and lesbian people began coming out as Republicans or conservatives, it was a sign that we had reached a new level of mainstream acceptance. I am delighted that we now have more and more out conservative transgender politicians and celebrities, even if I don’t agree with many of their positions. Pretty much any extended family has a mix of political beliefs and parties, and we need to learn to find common ground regardless of our differences.

Is this media frenzy a good thing or a bad thing? Mostly good, I think. No one person is going to make or break a movement this big. Whatever happens, I didn’t think I could ever be more proud of Jenner than I was when I was nine. I was wrong.

Andrea James is a writer, director, producer and activist based in Los Angeles.

Images courtesy Manica Architecture

Haters who criticized Carson's proposed NFL stadium on purely aesthetic terms will be happy to hear that as the plan moves forward (it was just approved by Carson's City Council), it's upping its style game. The two-team football venue intended to house the Chargers and the Raiders is getting a slick and very exciting new redesign that includes a more airy, open layout and a tower over 100 feet tall that, on occasion, will shoot lightning bolts, reports the LA Times.

The latest renderings for the joint football venue come from Manica Architecture. Their version of the stadium is intended to recall the LA Coliseum, but was also inspired by the fluid movement of sports cars (that rendering with a Porsche in the foreground really drives this connection home). The updated plans show that the oval-shaped, roofless stadium will have a "contiguous exterior" with a large opening at its base. The seating would be arranged in a U around that gap, which the architects believe will "help surround the field with noise." Seating colors are still being decided, but it's possible that they'll be clear so they can "reflect the color of lights shining on them."

The most exciting feature of the updated Carson design is obviously its 115 to 120-foot-tall tower, which will be encased in glass, topped with a cauldron, and transformed depending on which team is playing. When the Chargers are on the field, lightning bolts will zap around inside the tower's glass enclosure. When the Chargers score a touchdown, lightning will shoot out of the top of the tower. When the Raiders are having a home game, the plan is for the cauldron to fill with fire, like the Olympic flame, as a nod to the late Raiders owner/manager Al Davis. (Unfortunately, "The plan would not call for the flame to burst up from the tower in the event of a Raiders touchdown," which just seems unfair.) If the Carson stadium ever hosted a Super Bowl, the plan is to turn the tower into an enormous Lombardi Trophy.

The designs should be shown to team owners at NFL meetings next month; the competing Inglewood stadium should be making a presentation at those same meetings. Parties involved in the Carson plan (Carson, the Chargers, the owners of the stadium site) are still negotiating many of the details of the stadium, like where to find 16,000 more parking spaces.

· Chargers and Raiders overhaul design for potential L.A. stadium [LAT]
· Carson Greenlights Its Still-Forming, Joint NFL Stadium Plan [Curbed LA]
· The Raiders and Chargers Just Proposed a Joint NFL Stadium in the Los Angeles Suburbs [Curbed LA]

— Former child star Freddie Highmore, who is straight and now plays future psycho Norman Bates in Bates Motel, discussing how the show’s significant gay fan base has led to his becoming an ally in a cover profile for Attitude magazine

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There are plenty of examples of different age brackets paying less for goods and services — senior discounts at movie theaters and grocery stores, student discounts for theater or train tickets. Nobody seems to mind.

But the South Florida chapter of The Impulse Group, a non-profit that “focuses on the sexual and overall health of the gay community” by hosting and promoting swanky parties, has been accused of age discrimination following a pool party in Miami.

Party-goers under the age of 40 were welcomed free of charge to frolic poolside at the retro-chic Vagabond Hotel, while those over 40 were required to pay a $50 “donation.” It’s hard to spin that as a ‘discount,’ and many feel it more closely resembles an ‘age tax.’

“I’m amazed at the invite I just received – free admission up to 40 years of age and $50 over 40,” wrote Ed Stevens in an email to South Florida Gay News. “In addition to whether this is even legal, it’s a shocking and blatant attempt to exclude mature people and another instance of how people in our community should know better, given the discrimination and judgements we face in the mainstream world. And I was looking forward to going back to this beautifully restored landmark.”

The practice is nothing new, though the abrupt jump from nothing to $50 seems a bit extreme. SFGN reports that it’s common for LGBT social events in South Florida to charge young people less in an effort to get them involved in the community.

Still, the pool party Facebook page lit up with angry comments:

“The distinct impression is not that they want older folks to fund the party, but that they don’t want them to attend at all. Just young, beautiful people, right? What’s next, keeping fat folks away?,” wrote Tori Bertran.

Another commentator, Scott Pluto, trolled the page by writing, “Who wants old trolls there staring at young guys. It’s a young mans group….So what if they want to charge old people.”

h/t: SFGN

His penis may be a whopping ten inches long, but Rocco Steele (pictured) says there’s more to him than than his impressive package.

Steele was just voted Mr. International 2015 at the Hookies 2015 International Escort Awards presented by Rentboy.com. He also took home the top prize for “Best Cock.” But the 5’10, 209-pound male escort doesn’t want his dong to be what defines him. And he doesn’t like being called a sex worker, either.

“No, no, no,” the tatted up, 45-year-old muscle daddy recently told German Vice. “I hate it when I’m accused of prostitution. This is humiliating. The term ‘sex workers’ is even worse.”

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Steele says he’s not a prostitute because “I do not accept money for sexual acts. I am compensated via contributions for my time only. Anything that happens during that time is a decision made between two consenting adults.”

“I am a call boy and more than just my penis,” he tells Vice. “I wear my heart on my sleeve and go to every appointment with the intent of meeting the needs of my customers to their full satisfaction.”

That’s right. Steele takes his work very seriously.

“I probably sound like a real bore,” he says, “but I don’t drink alcohol, don’t do drugs, don’t party all night. Many of my dates consist of lunching with business men who take a break from their wives, husbands, girlfriends or whatever.”

“I’m not 20 anymore,” he continues, adding that he enjoyed his “party-phase” back in the ’90s. Now, he’s all about being a daddy. “I have learned to love my Daddy role. And that’s what my clients find so great.”

Want to spend a little time with Mr. Steele? Be ready to drop $350 per hour, or $1500 if you want him for the night. But, hey, he’s worth it, right?

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Just when we thought we’d heard it all, a Hungarian man injected his penis with petroleum jelly. He wanted it to appear larger. Instead, the organ became so swollen and the pain so intense that he stopped being able to have sex.

“Every day is difficult for me,” 24-year-old Szilveszter (pictured) recently lamented in TLC’s latest freak show Extreme Beauty Disasters. “It’s very painful and bleeding. This was the worst mistake in my life!”

“I had to stop having sex,” he continued. “It’s too painful.”

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Szilveszter went on to explain that he first got the idea to inject his dong with Vaseline from a friend.

“I said to my friend I want to lose weight as I think my penis is small,” he recalled. “He said you don’t need to lose weight, I can help you. My friend injected in my penis Vaseline. Afterwards I was happy as it looked bigger.”

But that gratification was only temporary. Nine moths later, Szilveszter’s penis began to change forms, becoming swollen and misshapen. On top of that, his foreskin swelled up 15 times its regular size, cracking in several places. The pain was insurmountable.

Szilveszter went to several doctors, but none of them said they could help. So he turned to plastic surgeon Dr. Vik Vijh from Extreme Beauty Disasters.

“I have been doing plastic surgery now for 20 years,” Vijh said, “and I have never seen anything like this. Injecting petroleum jelly into the penis makes no sense on any level.”

“His penis,” the doctor added, “is a disaster.”

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An MRI scan revealed large, hard bumps had formed inside of Szilveszter’s wiener as a result of the Vaseline injections.

Vijh explained to the patient: “Your body has formed scar tissue around the Vaseline because it’s a foreign body, your body is trying to ward it off and it gives you these painful lumps, it will soon start to ulcer through the skin.”

The only way to heal Szilveszter’s frankenpenis, Vijh said, was to literally skin the thing, then surgically remove the Vaseline and scar tissue.

“I have never done this before,” he said before the surgery, “but fingers crossed we can save his penis.”

Thankfully, everything worked out in the end. After several hours on the operating table, all of the Vaseline that had been injected into Szilveszter’s penis was removed and the organ restored back to normal.

“I am much better,” he now says. “It has healed well. It’s pain-free and working. I can have sex.”

He also says he’s learned his lesson and that he won’t try anymore D.I.Y. penis experiments.

Here’s hoping.