Ben Foden gives Attitude its best basket in ages.

First mating season

Dieux du Stade 2013 is here, more nekkid than ever.

Silvio Berlusconi gets four years in prison.

Lena Dunham on voting for Obama...for the very first time.

At least 15 Senate candidates oppose abortion even in rape cases.

Another Republican business pushes workers to vote Romney.

Jeepers Creepers: Romney bald-face lies to Ohioans.

If Romney wins, we're fucked.

Tax-deductible way to support a film about bullying.

The (shirtless) bear state of the union.

Via Sticky (Work Unfriendly): One Direction's Louis plays with his balls.

Attitude names Harry Judd from McFly sexiest man; he accepts.

Mild-to-wild about Harry

 

 

Tyson Beckford covers Attitude (September 2012).

Via Towleroad: Thom Evans is definitely not ugly. GULP.

Gotta love Marcio and Marcos Patriota for Diesel from the July 2012 Attitude. The shoot, out tomorrow in the UK, pushes the Diesel Underdenim line...as well as the envelope! Keep reading for a hot video of all this happening...

Cheyenne Jackson is lickable—every inch—in the new Attitude.

Gareth Thomas is looking good, like a bad boy should, and totally naked on the cover of Attitude. Now can someone please, please tell him he needs to get over the idea of heinous Mickey Rourke playing him in a movie? Granted, Mickey Rourke used to look like this:

...but Mickey Rourke now looks more like this:

McFly's Harry Judd is named Attitude's sexiest man of the year and not only fits the bill, he also fits the underwear.

Prove it!

As of midnight last night, it was exactly six years since my first post. It's been a tough thing to keep up with a dayjob and outside activities, and just when I think I might walk away, a valuable connection or interesting opportunity or a kind word comes my way. Thank you all for reading me.

Of whom are you more jealous?

Here are my favorite 100+ posts out of nearly 11,000. Please take some time to read (or re-read!) a couple and tweet or Facebook any you like.

xoxo Matt

The pocket pool championships were intense this year

BOY CULTURE

Boy-crazy

FROM BOY TO MAN: BC B.C. (2007): The entire history of my novell and novel Boy Culture as well as the movie version; might be my ultimate post.

Jonathon Trent & Derek Magyar make an Allan Brocka sandwich

BOY ON FILM (2006): An account of the NYC launch party for Boy Culture as it played the TriBeCa Film Fest.

I was left "Reeling" by the experience

FRIENDS AND "FAMILY" (2006): The movie version of Boy Culture hits Chicago.

No one would've mistaken me for Taylor Lautner

RAPT PUPIL (2006): The final night of Outfest with Boy Culture; I was fat but on the other hand got to meet Bryan Singer.

 

MY ART

 

Construction worker (shot this week) vs. James Dean

GUYDAR (since at least January 17, 2008) & ENDS OF THE WORLD (since at least January 13, 2008): Attractive men of the world—I got your backs. Your fronts, too.

i-i-i (phone)

Not totally built

Unaltered iPhone image that still blows me away

"Your pictures suck" (2008): An art critic attacks me, but not without sustaining some hits in return.

Let's call it a draw

DRAWN TOGETHER (2008): How my desire to draw related to my secret desire. One of my absolute favorite posts.

The shirtless one

LOST ANGELES (2009): My favorite photographic travelogue of L.A.

Even then, New Yorkers feared 9/11 was the beginning of the end

ART IMITATES LIFE (2006): My 9/11 and my distaste for grief tourism.

ME

Death of the party—Jeff in high school, already halfway through his life

BURNING MAN (2007): Tribute to my late high school friend and first romance.

Signed, sealed (eventually) delivered

LOST BOY FOUND (2011): There is a book in here somewhere.

Be Italian

CIAO HOUNDS: OUR TRIP TO ITALY (2011): Finally got José to Europe.

Death becomes here

ILLINOIS DEATH TRIP (2007): Ruminations on death while revisiting a past home, and the past.

Life is short...and meaningful

PASSING BY (2008): Mourning the loss of a person I only met once.

Lots more...

Even Worse Boy Inc.

David Ross, a member of the '90s British boy band Bad Boys Inc., has been out for a while, but is coming out even further with a spread in Attitude that hits the stands in the UK the first week of May. Let's hope there's a lot of skin, because in the world of magazines, without skin, you're basically not even gay!

Maybe boy bands, like prison, lead to situational homosexuality?

More seriously, Ross is doing the layout and other interviews to help Kickstart his movie I Do, which he hopes will be a valuable addition to the marriage-equality conversation.

"For me, as an activist, it’s not about the word ‘marriage’. It’s not about holding hands and walking down the aisle. It’s about the rights of marriage. If you want to suck your cocktails at a gay bar, that’s fine; I’m not fighting for those people. I’m fighting for the ones who have kids and need protection.”

See, not all boy-banders are flighty. They're just gay. (Just kidding. Go help Ross in his endeavor.)