If the idea of twins Marcio and Marcos Patriota feeling each other up, grinding and staring meaningfully at you as they do it is disgusting, don't click here (NSFW).
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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
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.
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.
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.
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...
DJ Sergio Cardoso and muay thai fighter Bruno Araujo, a real-life couple of two years, grace the cover of the new issue of Brazilian mag Trip. This issue of the mainstream lifestyle mag is "dedicated to sexual diversity and the fight against homophobia."
Maybe the (biggest but not only) reason it seems so impossible to ever look like one of these models I see all the time is that they're secretly all 18:
I really like the illustrations of Brazilian artist Joapa—they simply capture the appeal and sexual draw of the male form but with humor and irony:
More here. He's Brazilian, it's gay, it's sexual...do I need to tell you it's NSFW?
The government of the state of Rio de Janeiro officially promoted a mass gay wedding ceremony for 44 couples today—check out more news here.
A Brazilian take on "It Gets Better" has launched—the first of its kind in the Portuguese language...
Model Renato Ferreira is probably a bit too young for me, and probably would be a bit too young for the 1995 me. But he's fun to look at more of him here.
The swimsuit portion of this year's Mr. Brazil pageant was, as always, its saving grace.
How on earth could Brazil be the place on earth with the highest rate of homophobic killings? A gay person is murdered every 36 hours there.
"In 2010, 260 gay men, transvestites and lesbians were murdered in Brazil. According to a report by the Grupo Gay da Bahia (GGB) released on Monday, every day and a half a Brazilian homosexual is killed. In the past five years, there has been an increase of 113 percent in the number of murders of homosexuals. In the first three months of 2011 alone, there were 65 murders."
