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Gay Porn With Polish: Q & A With Michael Lucas

By Mark Adnum / Thursday, May 16th, 2013

Michael Lucas is the founder of Lucas Entertainment. Born in Russia and based in New York City he directs, produces and performs in superlative gay porn films, many set in gorgeous locations all over the world. Also a passionate critic and activist, Michael Lucas isn’t guided by dogma and is equally forthright about the things some gay men choose to do, as well as some of the things they have done to them.

Cruising With Travis Mathews: The Nightcharm Interview

By Mark Adnum / Saturday, March 9th, 2013 / (1) Comment

Travis Mathews is an award-winning filmmaker whose movies focus on gay men and intimacy. Informed with a Masters in Counseling Psychology and a background in documentary, Travis crafts thoughtful and naturalistic films that maintain their sense of humour.
Travis started an ongoing documentary series in 2009 called In Their Room about gay men and bedrooms. During the making of this series Travis began his first feature film, I Want Your Love, which was recently banned in Australia, despite playing to sold out audiences at film festivals worldwide.

Can We Talk? The Nightcharm Interviews.

By Mark Adnum / Tuesday, February 26th, 2013

Obviously, the most important thing in the world is cock, but conversation has its place too. Nightcharm’s famous interviews ask the interesting questions and usually, get some pretty interesting answers. Here’s a quick guide:

Retirement Homo: A Quick Q & A With Marcel Schlutt

By Mark Adnum / Tuesday, January 29th, 2013

A renaissance man if ever there was one, Marcel Schlutt has been a prize-winning equestrian, a television presenter, fashion model, hardcore gay porn performer and now, the founding editor of an arts & culture magazine, the popular KALTBLUT. He even photographed himself for the smoky pictures used in this interview.
What’s especially charming about Marcel’s versatility is that the star of productions out of Cazzo, Men at Play and UK Naked Men has never really made any fuss out of his nimble shifts from one of his lives to the next – it just all seems to Schlutt together, with no retirement announcements or dramas along the way.

Saving Safe Sex: The Nightcharm Interview With Richard Berkowitz

By Mark Adnum / Friday, January 11th, 2013 / (4) Comments

How to Have Sex in an Epidemic is, for me, the gay Magna Carta. A sex positive manifesto written in 1983, it established the specific risks of bottoming and the need for condom use before HIV had been identified. It encouraged gay men to continue having sex despite what was then an emerging health crisis and by doing so promised to break the assumed link between gay sex and disease once and for all.

Manuel Deboxer: Clears Up Gay Porn Retirement/Unretirement Controversy; Gives Christmas Wishes

By Mark Adnum / Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Manuel Deboxer may be the best looking man in the world. Certainly, he’s the pride of Montreal. He gave many of his fans, me included, a total heart attack when he announced last week with no warning that he was retiring from gay porn, effective immediately. Less than 24 hours later, Manuel announced his comeback.
Now, he’s talking exclusively to Nightcharm about just what the hell was/is going on.

What A Nailbiter: Colby Keller Chews the Fat About His Worst Vice

By Mark Adnum / Friday, December 7th, 2012 / (2) Comments

Turmoil resulted the last time we spoke with Colby Keller. He’d just finished his first scene with Treasure Island Media and everyone wanted to know why. He spoke with Nightcharm first, and the next thing you know a small group of barebackers over on the Treasure Island blog had gone into an indignant sulk, as is their way. The interview was picked up far and wide.

Real Men Wear Fur: Lachlan Philpott Talks To Anthro Legend, Rukis

By Lachlan Philpott / Wednesday, November 14th, 2012

The artist Rukis works from home — a farm in Orange County, NY — with two lovers and friends, among them dozens of animals. Rukis has been working with animals since a very young age, and has been drawing since about the same time. Rukis started drawing furry/anthro art about four years ago and has since become a highly-regarded recorder of furry inspirations.