ABOVE: I secreted a picture of Sting in his Dune scanties under my bed as a teen.
BELOW: Keep reading for a hot calendar, COVID kills 700,000, secession talk heats up and more ...
ABOVE: Beverly's center — Leslie Jordan reflects on the abs he had in 1980.
BELOW: Keep reading for the death of Richard Buckley, Biden on Trump, Jonathan Tucker's hot crotch and more ...
ABOVE: He's one of the filthiest people alive, and yet — a Town & Country cover boy!
ABOVE: And it's for a good cause.
ABOVE: Buddy forever!
Bonus image — '70s Yianni ad. Gay men LOVE their jewels. (Image via Yianni)
BELOW: Keep reading for Trump's 9/11 snub and 2024 wink, remembering gay heroes Mark Bingham and Father Mychal Judge, how the end of Flash spelled the end of a wealth of 9/11 information, a gay teacher fired and more ...
“Lunch hour was typically out of control ...” (Images via Trade Center)
Adam Baran's Trade Center is a new short about what a bustling tearoom practically all of the World Trade Center was right up until the towers ceased to exist.
The film is an intensely stylish eight-plus (nice size!) minutes, consisting of audio recordings of men recalling the wild, gay goings-on at the Trade Center. Some of the participants sound amazed to this day by how much of a free-for-all the Center was — the largest men's room, stairwells, hidden nooks and crannies.
One interviewee asserts he's even spoken to a guy who was in one of the tea rooms when the planes hit, and wonders about how possible it is that every man in there made it out alive.
Trade Center lives up to the cleverness of its title — it's a great oral history of our oral and anal history, and while there are more serious aspects of the history of 9/11, the sexual past of the iconic buildings is vital, too. Just great.
From the film — a security camera that looks, to me, more like a urinal cake spying on a fuck fest.
Keep reading to watch — you should have no trouble taking in the whole thing in one try:
