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AfterElton Briefs: Christian and Olli vlog, Matthew feels the pressure and more!

The cast of Eating Out 3

Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.

  • Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat (pictured above) will have a special screening Sunday July 19th at Outfest. Interestingly, the movie will feature six out gay men — apparently all white. Hmm, don't men of color eat out, too?
Matthew at this year's Mardi Gras celebration in Sydney
  • We're still several months from the debut of Glee, but fans have already set up a forum for non-stop obsessing
  • Gay fave Ronnie Kroell is currently in sixth place to be Urban Decay's Pocket Rocket Lip Gloss model. Ronnie would love your help in winning the vote
  • Good news Forbidden Love fans. Christian and Olli are going to be vlogging! And they smooch in it! Check out the GOOL for details!

And today's Briefs are brought to you by...

This guy! That's actually Scott Herman from The Real World: Brooklyn (image from Queerty).

Kitty's picture

Ronnie for the WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Literally only 256 votes separate Ronnie from the first place guy in that contest, so I voted for him!!! I hope AfterElton mentions the contest again cuz 1,513 votes have already been cast for Ronnie, so he could definitely win this thing if we pulled together (you don't have to register or anything to vote, you just click the vote button, and verify your unique vote by typing some randomly generated number, to avoid spamming).

Also Michael, its weird you mentioned the lack of color in the new Eating Out movie cuz the Urban Decay's Pocket Rocket Lip Gloss contest doesn't have any men of color for the Top 10 in the contest either :( What's up with the visibility of African American gay men? SEXY black gay people do exist, otherwise I wouldn't be here!!

Kitty

dback's picture

"Eating Out" has always been a rather white series

I remember one Asian guy, but that's pretty much it for diversity.  In fairness, the movies are shot and set in Arizona IIRC, which is a pretty white state aside from Latinos & Native Americans--very few African-Americans or Asian-Americans.

If folks are looking for portrayals of gays of color, check out the forthcoming films "Misconceptions" "Rivers Wash Over Me" & "Two Spirits", all of which I saw at the SF Gay and Lesbian film fest, the first two of which had plum roles for African-American actors, and the third of which explored GLBTQ issues in a Native American cultural context.  Also, "Ander" was set in the Basque region of Spain, and had a main character from South America as a love interest.  (Those were just the ones I saw; there were another 10 or more films with non-white protagonists as well.)

pmac_xer's picture

Eating Out 3..

No Brett Chukerman from Eating Out 2??!!!! Nooooo!!!!!

That man needs more exposure. He's good in my book. :D

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octobercountry's picture

Argh

Hmmm, couldn't you have linked to a more positive write-up of the pro-gay Potter fans?  The article was more than a little snarky and condescending; I have a pretty low opinion of these sorts of conservative web sites and don't even want to give them any traffic.

I'm like a superhero, with no powers or motivation...

Dave Doty's picture

Heroes

Is that still on?  If a lesbian appears on the show and no one is there to watch, does the show still suck?
Aloe's picture

Typical hollywood homophobic crap.

So a major character like Clair can turn into a lesbian but a minor barely there male character can't be gay because gay guys are gross and lebians are hot correct?

 

Now I hate this show even more. I'm glad I stopped watching last year. We gays are not fooled by this hollywood. This has nothing to do with us and everything to do with straight male bs fantasies.

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jjose712's picture

Probably

she won't be a proper lesbian, just a fantasy of what  straight guy think a lesbian is
Cylon's picture

No, they made Zach straight

No, they made Zach straight because Dekker's management threw a hissy fit over him playing a gay guy.
VK's picture

Believe...

I'll beleive Claire turns lesbian on Heroes when I see it.  It smells of a desperation ploy to bring back viewers, especially those of the straight male ilk.  I don't buy it that this will turn out to be true.  Or if it is, it is some story beat for one episode.

Once upon a time I died.  And like my namesake I got better.

Dave Doty's picture

Are We Still Talking About Heroes? Sigh.

No one is harder on the festering, omnipresent corpse of this briefly great show than me.  But in this one instance, I think people are being overly harsh on it.  This was almost certainly developed during Bryan Fuller's brief, only very recently ended second stint on the series.  Considering that he's openly gay, and was basically being put at the head of the ship to keep it from floundering on the rocks, I don't believe any such thing would have gotten through under his watch.

Nor does it ever appear, whatever its other many faults, to have been a show pandering to a brainless fratboy mentality.  If anything, it's too far up its own ass in intellectual bravura. 

Wheeler's picture

Eating Out 3

I'm surprised the Eating Out franchise is still going, but I'll take it over the vile Gay Movie franchise any day, and I'll be forever grateful for the great gift that is Marco Dapper. Of the new cast, that boy on the far left, with the jug ears, looks adorable.
AddisonDewitt's picture

Scott Herman

It's nice that Scott lighted candles for us before we came by...
Lior's picture

Am I remembering wrong?

Didn't Scott come across as quite homophobic/transphobic on the Real world?  I may be mixing him up with another cast mate from another season.  Over 20 years and they're all pretty much interchangeable with each other.  Except the one I dated - you know who you are - so don't be mad at me regarding my previous comment.. ;-)

dback's picture

Lior, you tease!

Dish the dirt--or at least give us a region of the US to guess from!  (Or London.)  :)

Lior's picture

Sorry

I really just put that in there for the someone because I know he reads this blog.  Not trying to be a tease about it, really! 
AddisonDewitt's picture

Scott

He actually was a good guy and had no homophobia about him... He actually loaned the transexual on the show money.
Lior's picture

Good to know

I didn't really watch much of that season.  He seemed like a good guy in the few bits I saw; but I think I was mixing him up with someone else (like I said earlier).

 

AddisonDewitt's picture

No big whoop

I didn't watch that season that much either... it was my stereotypical gay voyeur inner dark side that made me watch his segments really... like alternate universe Spock. ;-)

How singularly innocent I look this morning.

katemonster's picture

Chrolli Vlogging

Thore and Jo are just so cute together.

Is that part of offical show publicity or are the guys just giving us Great Fanservice :)

I wonder what they are saying?

 

Madeleine's picture

Always knew us Potter fans

Always knew us Potter fans were the coolest ;)

Loved the first Eating Out, only watched part of the second, but I'll be honest, I'm gonna watch this one too. guilty pleasure!

and Ollian vlogging?! have I died and gone to heaven?

You too can be saved by the blog! www.savedbytheblog14.blogspot.com 

I may be straight, but I'm not narrow.

nordic balance's picture

Christian & Olli (CHROLLI) Video Blog with Eng Subs - Week 1

http://www.chrolli.de/?page_id=60

 

"That's our job today: to control the extent to which people can publicly manifest antigay sentiment." (Bayard Rustin)  **   "Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common" (Dorothy Parker)