Event: Jay Brannan Live

Jay Brannan (born March 29, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He was born in Texas, briefly studied in Ohio, and moved to California to become an actor. Brannan appeared in the 2006 movie Shortbus, which included one of his songs in its soundtrack, and began to build a fan base by performing on YouTube. He released an EP and acted in Holding Trevor in 2007 and has since toured and released two albums.

http://www.facebook.com/JayBrannan?v=app_2344061033#!/JayBrannan?v=app_2344061033

Place: Harper's Ferry, Boston
Date: friday 20 August from 21.30 to 1.00

Place: World Cafe Live Upstairs, Philadelphia
Date: tuesday 24 August from 20.00 to 22.00

Place: Rock & Roll Hotel, Washington, DC
Date: thursday 26 August from 20.00 to 23.00

Place: Eddie's Attic, Atlanta
Date: tuesday 7 September from 20.00 to 22.00

Place: 3rd & Lindsley, Nashville
Date: wednesday 8 September from 19.00 to 21.00

Place: The Social, Orlando
Date: friday 10 September from 21.00 to 0.00

Place: Sweat Records, Miami
Date: saturday 11 September from 19.00 to 21.00

Place: Doug Fir, Portland
Date: monday 13 September from 20.00 to 23.30

Place: The Crocodile, Seattle
Date: tuesday 14 September from 20.00 to 23.00

Place: Larimer Lounge, Denver
Date: thursday 16 September from 19.00 to 22.00

Place: Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis
Date: saturday 18 September from 21.00 to 0.30

Place: The Basement, Columbus
Date: monday 20 September from 20.00 to 23.00

Place: Crawdaddy, Dublin, Ireland
Date: saturday 16 October from 20.00 to 23.30

Place: The Hope, Brighton, UK
Date: tuesday 19 October from 20.00 to 23.00

Place: Barfly Camden, London, UK
Date: wednesday 20 October from 20.00 to 23.00

Place: Night & Day Café, Manchester, UK
Date: thursday 21 October from 20.00 to 23.00

Place: The Arches (studio theatre), Glasgow, UK
Date: friday 22 October from 21.00 to 23.30

Event: Jay Brannan Live

Jay Brannan (born March 29, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He was born in Texas, briefly studied in Ohio, and moved to California to become an actor. Brannan appeared in the 2006 movie Shortbus, which included one of his songs in its soundtrack, and began to build a fan base by performing on YouTube. He released an EP and acted in Holding Trevor in 2007 and has since toured and released two albums.

http://www.facebook.com/JayBrannan?v=app_2344061033#!/JayBrannan?v=app_2344061033

Place: Harper's Ferry, Boston
Date: friday 20 August from 21.30 to 1.00

Place: World Cafe Live Upstairs, Philadelphia
Date: tuesday 24 August from 20.00 to 22.00

Place: Rock & Roll Hotel, Washington, DC
Date: thursday 26 August from 20.00 to 23.00

Place: Eddie's Attic, Atlanta
Date: tuesday 7 September from 20.00 to 22.00

Place: 3rd & Lindsley, Nashville
Date: wednesday 8 September from 19.00 to 21.00

Place: The Social, Orlando
Date: friday 10 September from 21.00 to 0.00

Place: Sweat Records, Miami
Date: saturday 11 September from 19.00 to 21.00

Place: Doug Fir, Portland
Date: monday 13 September from 20.00 to 23.30

Place: The Crocodile, Seattle
Date: tuesday 14 September from 20.00 to 23.00

Place: Larimer Lounge, Denver
Date: thursday 16 September from 19.00 to 22.00

Place: Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis
Date: saturday 18 September from 21.00 to 0.30

Place: The Basement, Columbus
Date: monday 20 September from 20.00 to 23.00

Place: Crawdaddy, Dublin, Ireland
Date: saturday 16 October from 20.00 to 23.30

Place: The Hope, Brighton, UK
Date: tuesday 19 October from 20.00 to 23.00

Place: Barfly Camden, London, UK
Date: wednesday 20 October from 20.00 to 23.00

Place: Night & Day Café, Manchester, UK
Date: thursday 21 October from 20.00 to 23.00

Place: The Arches (studio theatre), Glasgow, UK
Date: friday 22 October from 21.00 to 23.30

Luke by Jan Irving

Luke is almost an “innocent” novella, it has the feeling of an old fashioned serial romance with the added bonus of the modern gay romance twist.

If not for the heroes being two men, the plot would have been almost classic: single father in dear need of a help find it in the house of a welcoming doctor. In an heterosexual plot, the wandering cowboy would arrive at the doorstep of the recent widow offering his help; with the added novelty of both cowboy than doctor being men, you can also have the variant on the theme, it’s the doctor who offers help to the cowboy and not viceversa.

There is a fragile balance between Morgan, the doctor, and Luke, the cowboy; in a way no one of them is totally independent and no one is totally submissive. Morgan, with his love for blue collar men or cowboys, looses a bit the aloof attitude of an high cultured man; plus he is basically a bottom, as he said, and so he likes to be wooed and even manhandle a bit. When he offers help to Luke, even if he is true in his feelings, he is not searching to take advantage of him, he is for sure attracted by the handsome young man.

On the other hand I think that Luke is attracted by more than simply a man; he is not a gold diggers, but for sure it’s more than a physical desire that draws him to Morgan. Morgan represents stability, shelter, and atop of that, also love and desire. Luke can not afford to “only” love, he needs to choose sagely who will be his partner, since now he has to take care of his daughter Jessica, and Luke well knows that him alone is not able to do that.

So yes, Morgan and Luke’s relationship is based on a mutual exchange, but not for this reason is without real love. Only that love maybe comes after.

The gay for you theme is hinted but not developed: Luke is at his first homosexual experience, but in the end, he admits that he has never had problem to admit that a man, and a man’s body, can be sexy; as Luke himself says, he is very instinctual, and passionate, and for him a relationship without sex is not an option; when he starts to think at a relationship with Morgan, it’s only natural that the sex comes along.

http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=1870

Amazon Kindle: Luke

Series:
1) Sylvan
2) Luke

Reading List:

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


Cover Art by Dan Skinner

Kinu Sekigushi: Manga meets American comics

As gay young artist living in Paris Kinu Sekigushi after graduating in visual expression and communication started drawing beautiful masculine young men who exhibit homosexuality.

He started his career in the world of manga in 1997, and showed his works through several exhibitions in Toulon, Paris, Lyon, Milano and Köln. His style is a combination of manga and American comics.



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His drawings are regularly used for postcards, posters, book covers, CD cover, calendars and flyers.

Bruno Gmunder released Manga Boys in 2004

http://www.kinu-sekigushi.com/

More Artists at my website: http://www.elisarolle.com/, My Ramblings/Art

Kinu Sekigushi: Manga meets American comics

As gay young artist living in Paris Kinu Sekigushi after graduating in visual expression and communication started drawing beautiful masculine young men who exhibit homosexuality.

He started his career in the world of manga in 1997, and showed his works through several exhibitions in Toulon, Paris, Lyon, Milano and Köln. His style is a combination of manga and American comics.



( more pics )

His drawings are regularly used for postcards, posters, book covers, CD cover, calendars and flyers.

Bruno Gmunder released Manga Boys in 2004

http://www.kinu-sekigushi.com/

Hero by Jessica Freely

David is a shy librarian. He has always dreamed of love but never experienced it. He daydreams of heroes and love, and then he goes home alone.

One night he is nearly raped by some skin-heads and Seth, a drifter David helped some days before, rescues him. David can only think one thing: taking Seth home and, at least for one night, giving him a place to stay, warm and safe. But with a clean body and a full-stomach, Seth is a too great temptation to resist, and David feels so much the loneliness, that maybe they can share what little he has.

The story is really romantic, but also very sexy. David is a virgin, don’t know if for choice or lack of chances, but in any case he wants his first time to be special, and a cleaned Seth is the nearest thing to a knight in shining armour he has ever seen..

They share a night of passion and the following morning, Seth awakes to the wonderful feeling to be comfortable and in bed with a nice guy. He thinks it's only a temporary thing, that when David will awake, Seth will have to return to be a drifter without hope in his life.

I don’t know if David is really a nice guy, or a very naïve one, or maybe desperate lonely, in any case he wants for Seth to remain with him. At the beginning David will take care for both of them and at the same time Seth will adjust his life and will try to regain the self-consciousness and the strength to be again an independent man. But Seth’s story is not so simple, and maybe independency is not an easy thing for him to obtain.

This series was born as a set of short stories, and in each story we learned a little more of Seth, but even if, in the end, we arrive to fully comprehend his past, not either now their novel is complete. There is still a lot to say, a lot to discover, mystery to solve and Seth is still far away to be at ease with his new life.

And Seth is not the only one needing a change; but David is far away from him on that point, and from the shy and scared librarian of the first chapter, he improved in a short but high-tempered man. He has not yet learned how to have an equal relationship, he still treat Seth like a new toy, he is still eager and excited by the novelty. But David has a good heart, and I’m sure that, when they will set down, he will be a wonderful partner for Seth, giving him all the warm and love he desperately needs. In a way, the hero of this story is not so obvious.

http://www.loose-id.com/Hero.aspx

Reading List:

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


Cover Art by Anne Cain

Hero by Jessica Freely

David is a shy librarian. He has always dreamed of love but never experienced it. He daydreams of heroes and love, and then he goes home alone.

One night he is nearly raped by some skin-heads and Seth, a drifter David helped some days before, rescues him. David can only think one thing: taking Seth home and, at least for one night, giving him a place to stay, warm and safe. But with a clean body and a full-stomach, Seth is a too great temptation to resist, and David feels so much the loneliness, that maybe they can share what little he has.

The story is really romantic, but also very sexy. David is a virgin, don’t know if for choice or lack of chances, but in any case he wants his first time to be special, and a cleaned Seth is the nearest thing to a knight in shining armour he has ever seen..

They share a night of passion and the following morning, Seth awakes to the wonderful feeling to be comfortable and in bed with a nice guy. He thinks it's only a temporary thing, that when David will awake, Seth will have to return to be a drifter without hope in his life.

I don’t know if David is really a nice guy, or a very naïve one, or maybe desperate lonely, in any case he wants for Seth to remain with him. At the beginning David will take care for both of them and at the same time Seth will adjust his life and will try to regain the self-consciousness and the strength to be again an independent man. But Seth’s story is not so simple, and maybe independency is not an easy thing for him to obtain.

This series was born as a set of short stories, and in each story we learned a little more of Seth, but even if, in the end, we arrive to fully comprehend his past, not either now their novel is complete. There is still a lot to say, a lot to discover, mystery to solve and Seth is still far away to be at ease with his new life.

And Seth is not the only one needing a change; but David is far away from him on that point, and from the shy and scared librarian of the first chapter, he improved in a short but high-tempered man. He has not yet learned how to have an equal relationship, he still treat Seth like a new toy, he is still eager and excited by the novelty. But David has a good heart, and I’m sure that, when they will set down, he will be a wonderful partner for Seth, giving him all the warm and love he desperately needs. In a way, the hero of this story is not so obvious.

http://www.loose-id.com/Hero.aspx

Reading List:

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


Cover Art by Anne Cain