Tits a living

SOMETHING OFF MY CHEST: Olly Murs vs. Niall Horan.

Madame President's Super PAC launches.

Uruguay beats the U.S. to marriage equality.

Sen Mark Kirk (R-Illinois) = 2nd Rep. senator for equality.

Nicola Formichetti is out at Mugler.

Surprise! Sean Hannity still a mean A-hole.

Next gets a new editor.

Voice of Elmo officially recasted.

Now Obama is coming for your BRAIN.

Stevie Nicks doc In Your Dreams is now playing.

Tegan & Sara & other under-40 sensations.

Bradley Cooper's short-and-curlies.

Jinkx Monsoon & Alaska Thunderfvck sing "Cabaret."

Terry Richardson tries grape-flavored POPwater.

Gay center can't sponsor Boy Scouts troop.

Remember when Courtney Love was smokin'?

Madonna continues to walk the walk in Malawi.

Madonna & Child(ren)

Yeah, I really shouldn't be entering "Madonna's biggest fan" contests considering how Madonna-blessed I already am, yet I did and Next chose me as a runner-up.

"I have that!"—the mantra of the collector

UPDATE: I'm cool with being a runner-up, guys, but thanks! No complaints. Here are the winners, who were chosen in categories of memorabilia, torch-passing and world travel.

Next Magazine is inducting six people into its Nightlife Hall of Fame...see who is admitted beyond the velvet rope here.

Next Magazine is hooking up with GeeksOut to host a contest for who can come up with the best illustrated Next cover in honor of New York Comic Con. Easy to enter! Good luck.

The new Next has everything you'd ever want to know about NYC Pride parties, plus this specimen on its cover.

The hot male cast of Newsies is on and in Next (March 30, 2012).

On a side note, this image from the musical is everywhere...and am I the only one who can see it's a PhotoShop disaster? The legs really don't quite match up to the torso if you remove the title treatment.

Love this b-t-s video from a Lionel André (work-unfriendly link) shoot. I don't know the godel—I mean, model—but it was shot for Next...

Angela "Big Ang" Raiola of Mob Wives as, um, Marilyn Monroe on Next. More here. Looks like Jackie Mason?

Seth shot by Kevin Thomas Garcia for Next

Next (February 10, 2012) has a crush on Private Romeo and War Horse star Seth Numrich—and can you blame them?

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...