Will Clark World

LICK THE RECESSION AT JACKPOT P*RNO BINGO TONIGHT, PIECES 8PM

So you spent too much dough at the Hookies and at the Expos (both the GLBT and the Black Party) and your trick from the Black Party stole your wallet and then you went to Night of a Thousand Gowns and dumped out even more dough and now you’re glum and broke!

 

Well, no worries, we’ve got six rounds of JACKPOT P*RNO BINGO to help you recover some of what you lost (although we cannot restore your dignity!).

 

Join hosts WILL CLARK and his monthly visitor AMANDA TAKEHOMETOMOTHER as they spin the bingo cage and raise funds for.. YOU!!

 

Plus!  One lucky winner will get two tickets to the new show, CONFESSIONS OF A HOT PAPI CHULO written and performed by Mario Golden, directed by Andreas Robertz at Teatro LaTEA at the Clement Soto Velez Cultural and Educational Center (107 Suffolk Street, NYC) performances April 5, 8, 14, 17. http://www.teatrolatea.com for more details.

MODEL SURVIVOR

It's Wednesday morning and I'm racing around getting myself together for my Montreal trip..mmm chicken.

This week I was asked to be a judge on the Model Survivor site and hey, I can get behind (or maybe that's in front of) being asked to rate hot guys on a website because who wouldn't like that??

Anyway, check out the site... it's really a good excuse just to get a gander of super smokin guys so give it a whirl. :)

SPUNKNIK TONIGHT AT EASTERN BLOC

I get emails from the website Antiwink.com every week and they always feature the most fabulous ads/posters for their Tuesday night event at Eastern Bloc,... but this is one of the best .. totally nutty and fabulous. Whoever makes these things is seriously twisted!! Fabulous.

POP CULTURE TUESDAY: EVEN SUE CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHO'S GAY ANYMORE

Brilliance, they name is GLEE.... in what appears to be a promo for the last batch of GLEE episodes this spring, Sue Sylvester 'C's it like this: "gays butch it up!".. Thanks to Jane Lynch for her incandescent portrayal and thanks to The Smoking Cocktail for posting this!

UPDATE: whoa.. that's hilarious.. a reader just pointed out that Sue doesn't say 'butch' she says "Swish it up".... my fingers typed butch even when my head heard Swish. I'm sure you could make something out of that but I'm not sure what! :)

RICKY MARTIN COMES OUT. WHATEVER?

Sean and now Ricky .. they say these things come in threes so who's next? I don't forsee Tom, Tom or John coming out anytime soon so who do you think will or SHOULD be the next one to bust down the closet door?

But this brings up an interesting point - granted, I can live in my own pink bubble so I don't know for sure, but I don't think that civilization ended because a bunch of famous gay men and lesbians have come out over the past fifteen years. Gay marriage has existed in several states now and frogs and locusts seem to be held at bay (although I AM sick of the 40 days and nights of RAIN). Adam Lambert did the naughty gay thing on an awards show and that not only vanished but provided him a platform to push a very humanist agenda pointing out the hypocrisy of allowing women to do that but not a man. Wow, that sure shut people up, didn't it?

So what's the big deal anymore about coming out? 

Neil Patrick Harris still has quite a career as does David Hyde Pierce. Out One Life to Live actor Scott Evans is doing quite nicely even in the face of ABC cutting the gay storylines this April and hey Michael Feinstein has teamed up with Dame Edna for what sounds like a successful Broadway run.

What does all this mean?

It means that coming out isn't the toxic career-killer it used to be and that unless your talent rests solely on the perception that you're straight, you will continue to work.

I have to admit, if the Toms and John are gay, I feel really sorry for them. All three of them have had great success (critically, financially) and yet what price did they have to pay for that? I used to be angry with them ('why don't they come out and make it easier for the rest of us?" my friends and I used to shout) and now... we don't need them anymore. In fact, I would say that the world has moved on and although their admission would be shocking, it would only be so because of their heated denials of it in the past (but then, didn't Sean and Ricky deny it too with even less at stake?).

Can you imagine if the Toms and John decided to come out now., how humiliating that would be? Even if they wanted to, they now probably can't without worrying just how bad that backlash would be. They've forever trapped themselves. I don't think all the money in the world can free one from that feeling.

So, I applaud Ricky for coming out - reading his statement on his website, it's clear that he's gone through a lot of struggle to get to this point. He's also had some bad (but probably well meaning) advice from loved ones. Fair enough.

He probably sees (as many people do at some point in their lives) that the pain of continuing on with the Mess is worse than the pain of actually dealing with the Mess and that it becomes time to simply address it. And the Mess isn't being gay, the Mess is just stuff that you haven't dealt with yet, stuff that blocks you from going forward.

So congrats on Ricky for addressing his Mess. 

And congratulations to us - for getting to the point in our history where we're like, yeah he came out, so what? That's a good place to be. :)

BREAKING NEWS: ADVOCATE TO SUPPLY NEWS TO NBC

In what is surely the first of it's kind deal, The Advocate announced this morning that it will begin supplying stories of LGBT interest to NBC and in an interesting reciprocal part of the agreement, Advocate.com will host daily video news reports using footage from NBC News and its local affiliates. 

I'm on the fence about this - I'm all for a major news conglomerate seeing the potential in being able to view news stories through the LGBT lens, but I wonder (as I always do about such corporate deals) at what cost? Is our sexuality to be further diminished by editors who want to please a corporate machine that they're attached to?

Certainly in the past few years, magazines such as The Advocate would have us believe that TEH GAYZ fixate on fashion, HRC high priced dinners and adopting babies ... while yes those are part of the community, the rest of us aren't exactly represented anymore (maybe we never were). And before you write - I have nothing against birthin no babies.. but like when I went to the LGBT Expo last weekend and saw booths for fertility clinics and surrogacy organizations, I was glad to be rid of the tacky and endless booths devoted to rainbow this and that and the porn booths always were pretty cheap, but I wondered: have we not simply traded in for a new version of worshipping sperm? And if I don't want to get have a baby or get married (although I do), where does that leave me in this community? Smoking in the oversized Camel exposition truck I suppose (but yuck).

But I digress... actually taking even a quick look at the Advocate website, I have to say I'm impressed and may have to start paying attention to it. But you know how the print version of The Advocate always was - you get a year subscription but after six months the issues start feeling repetitive. Maybe it's time to put that notion in the past ... (although don't get me started about Sean Hayes and how wow it's convenient he's coming out now just when he has a new show opening on Broadway.. where was he when his character of Jack was giving 'coming out' homilies to Will? He lost a little of my respect by avoiding the issue then and coming out for a PR stunt to boost sales for a Broadway show doesn't make up for it.. although I know I'll hate myself, I still want to see PROMISES PROMISES if only because of Kristin Chenowith!).

MUSIC MONDAY: KELIS "ACAPELLA"

It's dreary here in New York but your day will instantly brighten up with Kelis' "Acapella"  - a fantasia of sights and sounds - and be sure to stick around for the final shot, it puts an entirely new spin on everything you've just heard/seen. Goosebump time!!

GOOD MORNING NEW YORK, IT'S SEXY MONDAY

Over the past couple months I've been working on a lot of projects and this upcoming week will be the final phase of part one and then I'm off to Montreal -- so posts may be light between now and Tuesday April 6th but keep checking anyway, or better yet, just subscribe the RSS feed above so that you're not missing out on anything.The upside of not being able to find anyone to rent my extra bedroom is that I've had some time to spread out around my place to get crazy amounts of things done... so there is a silver lining to stretching my finances to their limits!

Anyway, this morning, thought you might be in the mood for a little sex romp and so for those of you who like their sex gay and their men Titan, below the fold is a pretty graphic trailer from TitanMen's newest movie, REFLEX (not in the acid kind I don't think). The flick stars TitanMen exclusives David Anthony, Dario Beck, Marco Blaze, Will Parker and Christopher Saint, as well as Dakota Rivers and Tyler Saint. That sounds like a good cast, but why not click on the 'continue' and check it out for yourself? If you don't like teh gay sex, this is one you might want to pass on...

WILL CLARK'S P*RNO BINGO RAISES $450 FOR GAY POOL LEAGUE (INSERT BAWDY BILLIARDS JOKE HERE)

Last Wednesday we closed out our winter season that started back at the top of the year with a great lineup of guests that's included Terese Genecco, Skye Woods, Jack Mackenroth, Michael Brandon, Robbyne Kaamil, Robert Van Damme, World Famous Bob, amberRose Marie, Johnny Hazzard and many of our great "regulars" Mike Dreyden, Torez, Jase, Nekked, Corey Corey, Amanda, Molly Pope and so forth. We raised another $450 for the gay pool league and we're up to having raised another $15k since our November landmark of reaching $100k so we're moving along quite well!

This upcoming Wednesday, March 31st, we're doing our semi annual Jackpot Bingo night for those of you who are looking to recoup what you lost when you spent all your dough on the Hookies or on one of the many Expos or the Black Party or or or.. well, you get the idea. The more the merrier of course because the more that play, the more fun we have (and the bigger the pot of course). My guest host Amanda Takehometomother and I will be spinning SIX games throughout the two hours - and get ready for the return of some of our more popular games of the past (by popular demand!).

Meanwhile, to keep your eyeballs busy for at least a few minutes, take a look at the gallery from last Wednesday ... and I'll see you this Weds at prrrrrrno Bingo!

FRANK, WHAT'S THE GAYEST THING ON ONE LIFE TO WEEK THIS WEEK?

BY FRANK

Sadly, what with Recent Events, One Life To Live has been... well, Not Very Good the past few weeks.  Still, despite the new network Homo Begone! campaign, the show can't totally straighten itself, even when it's engaged in heterosexual intercourse.   Let's take Mr. Ford, for instance.  He's definitely doing the (young) ladies of Llanview, but he's also Very Gay.  My rigorous and unimpeachable evidence?

1) He literally lives in a porn movie.  He did the pizza girl!

2) Ford takes pictures of his abs with his iPhone.  He'd totally done that before.  He's soooo on Grindr and/or Guys with iPhones.

3) He's hardly ever fully clothed.  He's like a circuit boy: shirtless 24/7.  As I've said before, with spring now here and the weather warmer, I anticipate nothing but Speedos from May to September.  (I ain't complainin'.) 

4) He's obviously a complete narcissist, as well as a chickenhawk.  Yes, it's not like all gay people are either of those things, or that there aren't plenty of straight guys who fall into those categories, but there is definitely a subspecies of gay men who are either or both. 

So despite all the straight sex, Ford is The Gayest Thing on OLTL. 

Oh, and BTW, Chris Evans just became Captain America. Great job, show! You could have had the gay brother of Captain America and all kinds of publicity spill-over, but EWWWWW TEH GAYZ! *golf clap*