“My models are sort of the strongmen of my dreams,” Michael Alago told us when we first ran a piece on his hot-daddy photobook rough gods.

Now he tells us he’s working on a new book, due out next summer, called road trips. And guess what? — it will feature even more of those big, nasty, tattooed Daddies that made our heart go pitter-pat the first time around.

“Most of the men I shoot are in their 30’s and 40’s,” Michael confides, adding “I love this age group, especially when a mature man has a big hulky body and a daddy-like quality. These men exude sex. They have lived their lives and it shows in the way they carry themselves.”

Ah yes, big-titted pecs and a dirty look — always pure heaven!

And can we make a confession of our own? We can never look at Michael’s men without feeling like a character in Gaywyck, that dizzy homo retelling of Jane Eyre where the prose runs the deepest purple. (more…)

As Henry James once noted: “Summer afternoon. Summer afternoon … the two most beautiful words in the English language.”

‘Tis true: Time and light elongate, clothing slides off, the air gets lazy, breezy — and so do I.

Here are four discs guaranteed to provide the perfect soundtrack for an unwound summer. Two are new, while the others I’ve pulled from storage because summer just wouldn’t be summer without them. (more…)

Tommy Boy knows guys go a little nuts when he strips off his shirt in a locker room.

He’s worked hard at getting all those nice little indents and cobbled muscle into his torso, taking care to keep everything in proportion and not go all physique-contest crazy on us, with humongo pecs, lats and biceps.

And so it’s in the spirit of a public service that Tommy Boy has bared all for our cameras and video-cams.

Permit us to take this opportunity to thank him, on behalf of all Nightcharmers, for offering himself up so freely to our life-long study of the Body Beautiful.

You’ll find him on the Video Launch Pad in the Fratmen corner of our Inner Circle university, another excited volunteer, happy to assist us in our undergraduate studies.

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On June 10, just in time for her birthday, Judy Garland will appear on a U.S. stamp.

I always think of Judy at this time of year, as the rainbow flags unfurl and the floats come down the street with their glamor-girl boys and near-nude leathermen. Hyper-real spectaculars that would not be out of place in the Emerald City — or Munchkinland!

“Are you a friend of Dorothy?” soldiers would ask each other during World War II, using this code phrase to signal that they were gay. It was only a matter of time before the brass caught wind of it, without quite understanding its significance. In a dither that Reds and homos were sneaking into their ranks, the military spent $250,000 to find out who this diabolic den-mother of the GI homos was. Yet even the nelliest civilian could have told them (in exchange, we hope, for a little buzz-cut face action).

She was, of course, our Judy. The gal who fell from a star called Kansas. So tenderly young in The Wizard of Oz, yet already empowered by that penetrating cry in her voice. (more…)

Call him Buck. It rhymes with … oh so many interesting words to choose from:

Pluck

Luck…

Give us a moment, we’ll think of some others.

Meanwhile, what a hot, nasty mug on this guy! The kind of face that speaks a thousands words. And boy, do we get the message!

To say one word more would be …. so beside the point.

Better to just mosey over to the V.I.P Lounge in the Inner Circle and get upclose and personal with ol’ Buckaroo for ourselves.

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We love a good public ass-reaming as much as the next guy! And has there ever been a bigger jackass than Bill Bennett, so-called “Morality Czar” and professional right-wing scold?

Possessed of a mellifluous baritone, the glum-faced Bennett affects a tragic gravitas as he pumps out the bullshit. Where is the outrage, he moans. The outrage he speaks of is not over the Haditha massacre, or unauthorized wiretapping, or Congress being bought and sold by corporate lobbyists. No, our boy Bill is worried about “the assault on marriage” coming from all those lesbian commandos in Massachusetts.

Hawking a new book with the triumphalist title America — The Last Best Hope (of civilization, we assume), he is making the rounds of the news shows, gassing about the issues du jour. Yet not one of his interrogators — not Tim Russert, or Chris Matthews or Jim Lehrer, all serious journalists who pride themselves on hard-hitting interviews — has called him on the stream of non sequiturs and inanities that make up his anti-gay-marriage shtick.

No one, that is, until Jon Stewart, host of the Daily Show on Comedy Central. (Why is a comedian on a fake-news show the only really vigorous interviewer in America today? That is a question the historians will need to answer, and trust us, they won’t be kind.) Sit back, kiddies, and enjoy the show (more…)

Joe is the first to admit he’s a dirty guy.

But that’s because he’s under cars most of the time getting grease spattered all over him. He runs a small auto-parts junkyard on a backroad in Idaho and he’ll be the first to tell you it gets real tired sometimes. Some days nobody shows up and he spends a lot of time on the internet hunting down pussy sites and monster truck rallies.

Every now and then he’ll slip off to the video store and get some relief on the fly. “I poke my pecker through a hole in the wall,” he says, “and somebody’s sure to give me a lob job.” (more…)

1. The “Marriage” Amendment is Not About Marriage

The so-called “Marriage Amendment is not about “marriage,” “the family,” or “children.” The Marriage Amendment is about you!

It makes no difference that you may have no intention to ever marry, adopt children, or make children.

It makes no difference that this is (for now) a largely symbolic gesture. Symbolic, not because it would have no effect on your life — it would, should you ever wish to be covered by your partner’s health benefits, or file a joint tax return, or have immediate-family status in a medical emergency: the amendment forbids not merely same-sex marriages but all “the legal incidents thereof,” like civil unions.

This is an empty, rhetorical gesture because the amendment has no hope of passing. Even if the House and Senate managed to get the necessary two-thirds majority, 38 states would still have to ratify the change.

2. The “Marriage” Amendment is About You!

What the Marriage Amendment is really about is bringing shame back into the public square — your shame. Its most hardcore supporters imagine they can slam the closet door shut again. To them homosexuality is not a naturally occurring state, but a contrived one — a choice, and a sinful one. (more…)