Gay Commercial: Homosexual Initiative Vienna

A very nice commercial, a pity that the quality is not high for the small screen, probably it was wonderful on a theatre big screen.

Commercial Closet Association

Company: Homosexual Initiative Vienna
Brand: Homosexual Initiative Vienna
Ad Title: Do Let Us Have Our Pleasures
Business Category: Nonprofit/NGO (gay)
Media Outlets: Television
Country: Austria
Region: Europe
Agency: in-house
Year: 2005
Target: Gays

Gay Commercial: Homosexual Initiative Vienna

A very nice commercial, a pity that the quality is not high for the small screen, probably it was wonderful on a theatre big screen.

Commercial Closet Association

Company: Homosexual Initiative Vienna
Brand: Homosexual Initiative Vienna
Ad Title: Do Let Us Have Our Pleasures
Business Category: Nonprofit/NGO (gay)
Media Outlets: Television
Country: Austria
Region: Europe
Agency: in-house
Year: 2005
Target: Gays

Starting Over by Annmarie McKenna

This novella mixes two elements that usually are not my cup of tea, a D/s relationship and a ménages. And already you have probably understood that both elements are not dealt in an usual way, since probably it’s the first time that I found this mix, I think it’s embedded in a D/s relationship to not be a ménages, the relationship between a Dominant and a submissive is so tight and particular that it’s not easy to add a third party.

Here it’s possible since, even if without doubt Dane, a doctor, has a Dominant attitude towards his partner Garrett, a patrol officer, for them it’s more a game, in the light version of the word, than a real 24/7 bond. Dane likes to order around Garrett when they are at home, and probably Garrett likes to be a bottom and doesn’t mind to “play” with Dane. Garrett is a gentle soul, it’s not wonder that he is a patrol officer, I wouldn’t be able to see him like a tough cop; he is more like a neighbourhood cop, the one who responds to the call of a nanny to save her kitty or something similar. On Dane’s side there is probably also an element of relaxing, to let it out all the tension gathered after a day as ER doctor. So no, Garrett and Dane don’t have an usual D/s relationship and for this reason there is space between them for a third man, they even say it aloud, that probably they need Aaron to fill up the void that sometime they have working different shifts: it’s not exactly a romantic explanation, but it’s one that probably works.

Aaron is still mourning the loss of his partner David two years before, but he is probably on the rising slope, he is ready to move on, and Garrett and Dane stumble upon him in the right moment. Being incapacitate after an accident to which Garrett was a witness, help the couple to convince Aaron to go home with them to recover. The near proximity with a committed couple put Aaron in a continuous horny state, and since Garrett and Dane are quite clear in their offer to include him, Aaron has not even the “cheating” factor to help him. And since his mourning period was always at the end, neither that prevents him. It’s an easy victory for Garrett and Dane and Aaron doesn’t oppose much resistance. The only doubt that I had at the end of the story was what role Aaron will take in the relationship: even if Dane and Garrett play at D/s between them, it doesn’t seem to me that Dane did the same with Aaron, if not for being maybe a little more forceful than a normal partner. It’s possible for Aaron to have an ordinary ménages with them, while Garrett and Dane continue to play at Dominant and submissive?

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Starting Over by Annmarie McKenna

This novella mixes two elements that usually are not my cup of tea, a D/s relationship and a ménages. And already you have probably understood that both elements are not dealt in an usual way, since probably it’s the first time that I found this mix, I think it’s embedded in a D/s relationship to not be a ménages, the relationship between a Dominant and a submissive is so tight and particular that it’s not easy to add a third party.

Here it’s possible since, even if without doubt Dane, a doctor, has a Dominant attitude towards his partner Garrett, a patrol officer, for them it’s more a game, in the light version of the word, than a real 24/7 bond. Dane likes to order around Garrett when they are at home, and probably Garrett likes to be a bottom and doesn’t mind to “play” with Dane. Garrett is a gentle soul, it’s not wonder that he is a patrol officer, I wouldn’t be able to see him like a tough cop; he is more like a neighbourhood cop, the one who responds to the call of a nanny to save her kitty or something similar. On Dane’s side there is probably also an element of relaxing, to let it out all the tension gathered after a day as ER doctor. So no, Garrett and Dane don’t have an usual D/s relationship and for this reason there is space between them for a third man, they even say it aloud, that probably they need Aaron to fill up the void that sometime they have working different shifts: it’s not exactly a romantic explanation, but it’s one that probably works.

Aaron is still mourning the loss of his partner David two years before, but he is probably on the rising slope, he is ready to move on, and Garrett and Dane stumble upon him in the right moment. Being incapacitate after an accident to which Garrett was a witness, help the couple to convince Aaron to go home with them to recover. The near proximity with a committed couple put Aaron in a continuous horny state, and since Garrett and Dane are quite clear in their offer to include him, Aaron has not even the “cheating” factor to help him. And since his mourning period was always at the end, neither that prevents him. It’s an easy victory for Garrett and Dane and Aaron doesn’t oppose much resistance. The only doubt that I had at the end of the story was what role Aaron will take in the relationship: even if Dane and Garrett play at D/s between them, it doesn’t seem to me that Dane did the same with Aaron, if not for being maybe a little more forceful than a normal partner. It’s possible for Aaron to have an ordinary ménages with them, while Garrett and Dane continue to play at Dominant and submissive?

http://www.loose-id.com/Starting-Over.aspx

Amazon Kindle: Starting Over

Reading List:

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Best Gay Mystery / Thriller (2° place): L.A. Boneyard by P.A. Brown

Sometime author and readers wonder what could happen “after” an happily ever after, when the passion maybe becomes routine, or when maybe you realize that what probably you thought was something without future, could well be your forever and ever, and well, it scares you.

David and Chris are 4 years old partners and really, everything seems perfect: they love each other, they desire each other, they even commit privately and David is wearing Chris’s ring, even if it’s not legal, it’s binding for them. So, no trouble in Paradise? Apparently, but then Jairo enters David’s life.

Jairo is a young detective and David will have to train him. Jairo is not only beautiful, but also someone who shares way more with David than Chris. I don’t know but I feel like David shelters Chris from his ugly life, and in doing so he is cutting him out. Instead with Jairo he can talk of everything, he can share everything. And when Jairo makes a move on him, at first David is tempted, who will not be? David is stronger than temptation, but he feels guilty all the same, even for a “mental” cheat.

On the other side there is Chris and his clear love for David, a love that pushes him maybe to have an irrational behaviour, like a magnet he attracts and drives back David according to his mood. He has all the right to be angry, and has all the right to question David, but after that, I don’t know, probably he should have been more willing to understand David’s reason, and not maybe the words of a jealous man.

Last Jairo, the third man, the villain in the old romances formula. At first I didn’t like him, but then I started to think, maybe he is really interested in David, it’s not only a question of sex. True Jairo is married and with sons, he is not exactly behaving like a good man, but maybe he had no choice, maybe he is only a former young boy who did what his family, all people around him, expected from him. For sure he can’t be the hero of this novel, and I didn’t expect for Chris to like him, but maybe I understood and comprehended why David likes him.

I like the intake of the author in this story, I like her courage to put in question her pair of heroes, to give us a glimpse of what reality and routing can do to a perfect romance, it made the romance more real. Even in the previous book David and Chris were not an ordinary couple, and their was not a whirlwind romance, au contraire, I think David put on stake a lot for being with Chris, and so it would have been not realistic if everything went smooth like oil between them.

A last note on the cops themed set: it’s not a big boom bam type of story, the crimes David is involved with are dirty and awful, but the author didn’t linger on the awfulness, she just gave you enough details to understand that these are not some unlikely fictional crimes, these are the day-to-day horror of metropolis chronicles.



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Amazon: LA Boneyard

L.A. Series:
1) L.A. Heat: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/604942.html
2) L.A. Mischief
3) L.A. Boneyard

Reading List:

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Best Gay Mystery / Thriller (2° place): L.A. Boneyard by P.A. Brown

Sometime author and readers wonder what could happen “after” an happily ever after, when the passion maybe becomes routine, or when maybe you realize that what probably you thought was something without future, could well be your forever and ever, and well, it scares you.

David and Chris are 4 years old partners and really, everything seems perfect: they love each other, they desire each other, they even commit privately and David is wearing Chris’s ring, even if it’s not legal, it’s binding for them. So, no trouble in Paradise? Apparently, but then Jairo enters David’s life.

Jairo is a young detective and David will have to train him. Jairo is not only beautiful, but also someone who shares way more with David than Chris. I don’t know but I feel like David shelters Chris from his ugly life, and in doing so he is cutting him out. Instead with Jairo he can talk of everything, he can share everything. And when Jairo makes a move on him, at first David is tempted, who will not be? David is stronger than temptation, but he feels guilty all the same, even for a “mental” cheat.

On the other side there is Chris and his clear love for David, a love that pushes him maybe to have an irrational behaviour, like a magnet he attracts and drives back David according to his mood. He has all the right to be angry, and has all the right to question David, but after that, I don’t know, probably he should have been more willing to understand David’s reason, and not maybe the words of a jealous man.

Last Jairo, the third man, the villain in the old romances formula. At first I didn’t like him, but then I started to think, maybe he is really interested in David, it’s not only a question of sex. True Jairo is married and with sons, he is not exactly behaving like a good man, but maybe he had no choice, maybe he is only a former young boy who did what his family, all people around him, expected from him. For sure he can’t be the hero of this novel, and I didn’t expect for Chris to like him, but maybe I understood and comprehended why David likes him.

I like the intake of the author in this story, I like her courage to put in question her pair of heroes, to give us a glimpse of what reality and routing can do to a perfect romance, it made the romance more real. Even in the previous book David and Chris were not an ordinary couple, and their was not a whirlwind romance, au contraire, I think David put on stake a lot for being with Chris, and so it would have been not realistic if everything went smooth like oil between them.

A last note on the cops themed set: it’s not a big boom bam type of story, the crimes David is involved with are dirty and awful, but the author didn’t linger on the awfulness, she just gave you enough details to understand that these are not some unlikely fictional crimes, these are the day-to-day horror of metropolis chronicles.



http://www.mlrbooks.com/ShowBook.php?book=PBLA0002

Buy Here

Amazon: LA Boneyard

L.A. Series:
1) L.A. Heat: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/604942.html
2) L.A. Mischief
3) L.A. Boneyard

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle