I was warned by someone (who probably doesn't want his name mentioned) that Paul Barresi might be concerned about something I wrote the other day. The email in italics below is signed by Victor Luchesse, but I have a sneaky suspicion it came from Paul Barresi himself. Please read what I wrote about Paul Barresi and judge for yourself. There is nothing derogatory in it at all. I do not have "a hair up my ass for Mr. Barresi". I actually appreciate his contributions to the industry, and give him credit as a long-term survivor in this business. He is a "tough guy" that I don't want to mess with, I'm just repeating an item that was submitted to the NY Post by Barresi himself. If he didn't want publicity, why did he submit the story? From: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Date: Thu Dec 29, 2005 10:52:55 PM US/Pacific To: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Subject: hey, Queen About PAUL BARRESI...What's your point, Mr. Kliem. Barresi outed Travolta over 15 years ago, not 10, so you are dating yourself. It was sometime in 1990. Most of us in our early 30's (which is what I am) were too young to care. If the circumstances of Travolta's outing are so sketchy to you, why even bring it up? As for Schwarzenegger-- Again, what are you trying to say Barresi did? You start to make a point and then dismiss it in the same breath, thereby, making no sense at all and certainly making no point. On the New York Post-Page Six item, you shy away from the possibility that gay porn guy Schaffel, aka Fredrics may very well be a scam artist (ripping off charities) and rather go out of our way to attack Mr. Barresi. All I can say is Missy, it is obvious to this reader that you got a hair up your ass for Mr. Barresi. Stop behaving like a little old Queen, or you will not have to many hits on your sites. Barresi has a big following. I mean, who the hell are you anyway? I think you should address your upset with Barresi, himself, and not drag your readers into your personal vendettas. You really do sound like an Old Queen Ms. Kliem. Get a grip. Sorry, but that's just my take. Victor Luchesse I don't make my email address easy to find, so it would probably take a super-sleuth private detective to find it. If Private Detective Paul Barresi is reading this, he should use his investigative skills to search out his Number One fan, Victor Luchesse, and inform him that Paul Barresi and I are friends, collegues, and members of a mutual admiration society. As for "who the hell am I anyway?", well, I am planning to be a GayVN Judge for the fifth time. I'm one of the people who decide if Paul Barresi's movies will receive any awards this year. Plus, Mr. Barresi may have already forgotten this, but a long time ago, around 1997 or 1998, I got a phone call from Paul Barresi asking ME for a job! My business was still in it's infancy at the time, but he must have thought I was important enough to want to work for ME! One of the last times I saw Paul Barresi was when I interviewed him on video at the Bad Boys Pool Party a couple years ago. Afterward, he told me it was the best interview he had ever done! And just for the record, I AM an old queen. So shoot me. Or click the boxcover on the right to watch a movie about old queens. Paul Barresi movies at: Gay Video Cafe | MaleFlixxx.tv | Naked Sword

Ricky Martin (r) has yet to officially come out of the closet, but how much more proof do you need? He's been photographed with a boyfriend, and it's pretty common knowledge around South Florida that he's gay. Now these pictures come out of Ricky Martin frollicking on the beach in St. Bart's, and looking absolutely de-lish in a Speedo. But who does he choose to spend his holiday beach time with? A couple of chubby girls and an incredibly handsome Ricky Martin clone. Tell me, what good-looking, rich, famous, straight guy goes to the beach with a group of fat girls? And what good-looking, rich, famous, straight guy goes to the beach with a group of fat girls and does jazzercise with and equally good-looking buffed guy? Rumors have been flying about the identity of Ricky Martin's beach escort. Some say it's his personal trainer, others say it's Ricky Martin's half brother Eric Martin, who also happens to be a personal trainer. But, if a guy looks that good in a Speedo, he doesn't need a name, does he? If winter storms are getting to you, and you are longing for a way to see more buffed guys frollicking on a beach, Falcon has a new gay porn movie called "Beefcake" featuring even more Ricky Martin clones: "Watching Falcon Exclusive Ethan Kage in an alfresco shower are Arpad and Falcon Exclusive Erik Rhodes. They take his lathering as an open invitation for an unforgettable three-way. Insatiable Tyler Hill (l) offers his ass to Falcon Exclusive Derrick Vinyard and Tony Cecelli to round things out in the explosive finale. Also starring Falcon Exclusives Erik Rhodes, Ethan Kage, Derrick Vinyard, and Roman Heart. Also starring Arpad Miklos, Tony Mecelli, Jed Willcox and Robert Van Damme." Oh, if only we could include Ricky Martin and his unidentified beach escort/personal trainer in one of those scenes from "Beefcake"... now THAT would be La Vida Loca.

What does Paul Barresi have up his sleeve now? The one-time gay-for-pay model turned director will once in a while switch from his director's cap to his super sleuth "Private Detective" cap when he's got some sort of "angle". A a private dick, Paul Barresi always seems to dig up some bizarre twist to a story that doesn't necessarily have an actual crime involved. He supposedly outed John Travolta about 10 years ago, only to backtrack by interwining some other story into it. It was so convoluted, I can't remember any of the details any more, nor do I remember the details of the shit he tried to stir up about Arnold Schwarzenegger a few years back either. So now he's hot on the trail of a former gay porn director, Fred Marc Schaffel aka Marc Fredrics. As it says in today's Page Six, Barresi has contacted the California Attorney General about Schaffel's tax liabilities from a concert in New York. What? It's really just a bunch of fluff, but isn't it nice to see our little gay porn Peyton Place played out in the New York Post's Page Six??? From Page Six: December 28, 2005 -- A former gay porn director who was the executive producer of Michael Jackson's "What More Can I Give" benefit concert in 2001 may find himself being investigated by the California attorney general in 2006. Fred Marc Schaffel, a one-time smut sultan and pal of Jackson, is under the heavy scrutiny of Hollywood private investigator Paul Barresi. Just last week, Barresi sent a letter to California AG Bill Lockyer, urging him to delve into alleged shady fund-raising by Schaffel. Barresi claims he has information that Schaffel never registered or provided financial reports to the attorney general's office - a fiduciary requirement - for donations made to Jackson's D.C.-staged benefit for the families of 9/11 victims. The concert - which featured performers including James Brown, Mariah Carey, Justin Timberlake and Destiny's Child - reportedly raised $2 million for relief charities. But an accompanying "What More Can I Give" single - which Jackson boasted would raise $50 million for the charities - and an album of the same title that Schaffel was supposedly producing and had raised money for, were never released. In 2002, the Dallas Observer revealed that Schaffel was also "Marc Fredrics," the director of such gay porn flicks as "Cocktales" and "The Man with the Golden Rod." The paper further reported that Schaffel was a longtime associate of the boy-crazy Jackson, who hired him in late 2000. "He's just a con man - he's cheated everybody, keeps the proceeds [to events] and never reports them to the state," Diane Dimond - who produced a three-part expose series on Schaffel for Court TV back in 2002 - told PAGE SIX. (Dimond also authored the Jackson tell-all book, "Be Careful Who You Love.") Barresi, who was hired by Court TV to investigate Schaffel in 2001, added, "He is a career scam artist." Schaffel's lawyer, Thomas Byrne, shot back: "I have no idea what he's talking about. This Barresi guy - I don't know what kind of a private investigator he is. It's a ridiculous accusation." As for Dimond, "I'm not surprised she's backing Barresi. She's been after Schaffel before," Byrne said. Links to movies directed by Marc Fredrics: Hose Em Down by In Deep Productions / Video 10. at Naked Sword or at Gay Video Cafe Measuring Up by Hot House These are from In Deep Productions, but I don't know if Marc Fredrics directed them: Hot Stuff To The Hilt Physical Education

As Elvis crooned in his most famous Christmas song, "Blue Christmas": "I'll ha-ave a Blue Christmas without you. I'll be so blue thinking about you. Decorations of red On a green Christmas tree Won't be the same, dear If you're not here with me." Blue is beautiful and so is this cutie in blue, Andy. If only this randy "Andy" blue boy from Randy Blue was here with me, dear, I wouldn't be so blue. Get a membership to Randy Blue to see more of Andy, and you'll have a Randy Blue Christmas, too. Andy Gallery One | Andy Gallery Two

Yesterday it was raining buckets, and while I ran an errand, someone wrote some gibberish on the back window of my car. When I drove away and looked in the rear view mirror, I realized what they had spelled "Brand?", written in backwards letters you could only read in a mirror. I don't understand the meaning of "Brand?", but I assume since it's so close to Christmas, it must have been some sort of artistic statement about consumerism. They either spent a lot of time figuring out how to write that phrase backwards on just my car, or they had already practiced it at home and went around doing it on a lot of cars. Whatever. Here's my plug for consumerism. Buy more porn! Here's a good place to start, too:

Click the banner to watch two really good trailers of Chi Chi LaRue's latest, "Wrong Side of the Tracks", a "star vehicle" for Johnny Hazzard. Looks like someone is going for a Best Picture nomination. From the trailer, it looks like a big plot-driven epic road movie with lots of "acting". Check it out.

The other night we got invited to a Christmas party thrown by Good Vibrations, our local chain of dildo stores... Chain of dildo stores???! Sex toys are big business, and Good Vibrations has been at it a long time. It's a nice, clean store that looks like any other type of store you'd see in a mall - except they sell vibrators, dildos, strap-ons, and tit clamps. There are some really great people that own and run Good Vibrations, and when they throw their annual Christmas party, it's always a good time. I'd gone several times, but hadn't been to it in a long time. For some reason, "Christmas" wasn't enough of a theme for their Christmas party this year, so the theme was "School", hence the GVHS shirt and bumper stickers. There were a lot of Catholic school uniforms, which is always a favorite sexy role play outfit. Retardo has been working that Catholic schoolgirl look for months now, so it was a snap for him to throw it together. Later on in the evening, we ran into a real girl with the exact same look that he's been trying to pull off all this time! I made sure he chatted with her for some fashion tips, but she was drunker than we were. I shot 67 pictures, including plenty of a sexy little go go boy, and some somewhat scandalous shots of gay boys playing with lesbian boobs. So if you are a Lavender Lounge VIP member, go right to the Paparazzi Pics section to check them out.

Los Angeles, CA - The year 2005 has been a great one for Rascal Video and Channel 1 Releasing. The newest release and biggest movie to date "Wrong Side of the Tracks" starring Rascal Video Exclusive Johnny Hazzard, is getting critical acclaim from reviewers around the globe. We are also very proud that Rascal Video Exclusive Luca DiCorso (see banner below) was just named Men Magazine's "Man of the Year". If that wasn't enough, they they have signed three new models who are changing the face of gay porn. Rascal Video Exclusive Luca DiCorso has been named Men Magazine's "Man of the Year" and is appearing on the January cover. The layout was photographed by Dean Keefer and features Luca in an elegant and sexy setting Luca was selected as Man of the Year by fans who voted online and by write-in ballot which appeared in the magazine earlier this year Fans can find the issue on newsstands now. "I am so blown away and honored to receive this award from Men Magazine I want to thank my fans who voted for me and continue to support me with this new endeavor that I have chosen and enjoy very much I also want to thank everyone I have worked with at Channel 1 including Chi Chi LaRue who gave me this opportunity less than a year ago." - Luca DiCorso Rascal Video has signed three new exclusive models to contract including Tyler Riggz (middle), Benjamin Bradley (left) and Luke Strong (right). All three models appear in the new Blockbuster "Wrong Side of the Tracks" and are appearing in several Channel 1 Releasing movies coming out in 2006. Benjamin Bradley appears in the upcoming Chi Chi LaRue's "Boot Boy" in a scene with Matt Cole that is absolutely one of the hottest boot fetish scenes captured on film. Benjamin also appears in "2nd Inning: Little Big League II" Directed by Doug Jeffries. Tyler Riggz also appears in "Boot Boy" sporting a brand new tough guy look. Tyler's clean cut image takes a back seat with a fuzzy chest and hard-edged persona, something that his fans will definitely appreciate. Also, keep your eyes peeled for Luke Strong and Tyler Riggz in Unzipped Video's "Night Callers" and be on the lookout for the hunky Luke Strong who will be filming several new scenes in early 2006.

Okay, I've been accused of sloppy reporting plenty of times, so I am apologizing ahead of time. With all these gay cowboy movies coming out, I just can't them, er, straight. "Broke Buckle Mountain Roos"? "Breaking the Mountain of Buckle Underoos"? What? Who got the Golden Globes, and who got the GayVNs? I don't know, third base? "Brokeback Mountain", Hollywood's groundbreaking gay cowboy movie, gets nominated for 7 Golden Globe Awards, including Best Drama, and COLT Studio Group releases a 3-disc Premium Collector's Edition of "Buckleroos" on the same day. Hmmm, coincidence? Two gay cowboy movies. Guess which one is porn? (HINT: It's all about the sideburns.) Or better yet, which of the two sets of stars are more fuckable - Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal or Marcus Iron and Dean Phoenix? Which pair is really gay? (Again, check the sideburns...) Read the propaganda: Were so happy that Hollywood finally is recognizing man-on-man love stories and truthfully we felt cowboy love is the most appealing and sexually stimulating storyline representation to introduce an epic to men everywhere, and that is exactly what we did!Similarly, BuckleRoos broke records by wining more awards this year at the annual GayVN Show (www.gayvnawards.com/2005winners.php) than any other man-on-man feature since its conception!We are proud of that and are very proud to see that Brokeback Mountain is also getting the kudos it deserves by its peers. We have also produced a making of documentary named eXposed that continues to appear in gay and lesbian film festivals in major cities across the globe - For more information visit www.eXposedthemovie.com We hope you run out and support Brokeback Mountain and BuckleRoos today! Buckleroos stars Dean Phoenix, Josh Hardman, Marcus Iron, Todd Maxwell, Owen Hawk, Diego De La Hoya, Brad Benton, Ricky Martinez, Arpad Miklos, Chris Wide, Mike Dasher, Edu Boxer, Jake Andrews, Sam Shadon, and Zak Spears and Carlo Masi.

It seems the newest man chosen to wear the famous blue tights in the new "Superman Returns", Brandon Routh, could possibly qualify for the Big Cock Society. Besides being well-hung, don't forget, he's the Man of Steel. (Bad puns abound!) Hollywood executives have ordered the makers of Superman Returns to cover up the rookie actor’s blockbuster bulge. An insider said last night: “It’s a major issue for the studio. Brandon is extremely well endowed and they don’t want it up on the big screen. We may be forced to erase his package with digital effects.” Parker Posey, 37, who co-stars as bad girl Kitty, told how he was constantly being messed about by costume staff. She said: “He’s got everyone touching him all the time. “He’s lying on his stomach and he’s got five people coming up and pulling his underwear down, sticking their hands up the butt of his suit.” Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348150/trailers-screenplay-E25955-14-2