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STRAIGHT STREETWORK BUSINESS THRIVING The LA Times reports that heterosexual street walkers are out in full force despite the epidemic, and johns want more for less! https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-15/los-angeles-sex-trade-coronavirus-fears It seems as if the gay escort business is way down as a result. But hookers on LA streets like Santa Monica Boulevard left long ago. Perhaps JKane can advise better on this. Street workers in Vietnam...undated photo

But wait! There's more! FOX wants you to know he's not homophobic! https://www.towleroad.com/2020/04/franklin-graham-not-homophobic/

CIRCUS of BOOKS Movie on Netflix Out on April 22d...the bookstore itself closed in 2017. This LA bookstore closed in 2017. It was very popular. I was once a big fan...but a movie about it? I guess I'd like to see it! Here's an article about the closing: https://www.boyculture.com/boy_culture/2017/06/circus-of-books-the-final-chapter.html There was an art exhibit devoted to it: https://www.boyculture.com/boy_culture/2019/03/the-circus-is-coming-to-town-a-review-of-circus-of-books-at-fierman.html

I thought I would post together some suggestions rather than create separate threads for them. I love to surf the internet, and find many things I like to share here. But it's not "The Lucky Pub" so I don't want to have too many threads with my name on them. (Someone will no doubt tell me when there are too many!) My first one I will title BUZZ AND TOMMY- What's The True Story? It comes from the several websites. A picture of two very handsome guys, perhaps taken around 1949... So, what's the story? Were they lovers? Is it a good-bye note, perhaps at the end of summer? Your guess is as good as mine. Blogger Andy Towle posts some suggestions and invites yours: https://www.towleroad.com/2020/04/life-guards-buzz-tommy/

Schock continues to shock. The latest is a photo of him with other fit men partying in Mexico. Some consider it tone deaf given the coronavirus. But those guys sure are fit, even if one of them can't spell quarantine! https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-aaron-schock-mexico-resort-quarantining-instagays-20200415-k7s42zrvjfdezdtxfwasxfrmne-story.html

That was very diligent of you! Plus we got to remember the once prolific poster EXPAT.

Did anyone notice this thread started six years ago? No one responded until now!

They are requiring workers to sign a "statement of faith" which disqualifies those who they don't like: https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-samaitans-purse-lgbt-reclaim-pride-coalition-20200414-ps4dsyg6ovdadeuivtcut4prqy-story.html

A sphincter-themed movie is available today on itunes and Amazon. Butt Boy sounds like it will be a national hit...or maybe not. "Detective Fox loves work and alcohol. After going to AA, his sponsor, Chip, becomes the main suspect in his investigation of a missing kid. Fox also starts to believe that people are disappearing up Chip's butt." See the review in today's LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2020-04-13/butt-boy-review

Can you tell me how you use it? What situations is it best for? Thanks.

This is so sad. I was worried about the dogs, but they are done for as people obviously come first. This situation will repeat around the world. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/opinion/coronavirus-cases.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

A photo in today's NY Times grabbed my attention as I immediately sought to identify the guys in the picture whom I thought were cute. You might do the same... How many did you find? If you read the accompanying article, you will get a hint: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/13/t-magazine/butch-stud-lesbian.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=T Magazine Yup, butch lesbians are getting their due or at least a start for it. None of those pictured are male. Right?

My guys will have to wear condoms, face masks, and socks!

Here's another amusing story from the Gay Star News site: A straight guy writes a Yelp review of a gay club... https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/straight-guy-berghain-review/

An Australian gay sauna is taking patrons temperature before allowing them entry. And it joked it is now ‘the first sauna in Australia to not allow you entry if you’re too hot’.

Many of the posters on this page alone have not continued posting. I wonder why that is. You sign up, you join a conversation, and then go dark. Mysterious forces? Trump? I dunno.

I don't feel it necessary to justify my beliefs, but engaging in a discussion of them does not put me down a "rabbit hole." Many of us enjoy exchanging ideas, but I do agree that some of the posters on Daddy's politics forum are simply obnoxious. Once you know that about them, you simply disengage. You know, you can sometimes learn from others:

The aforementioned pic:

Here is another good column on the topic, about how we are "unlucky!" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-04-12/we-got-unlucky-the-wrong-man-is-in-charge-during-a-once-in-a-lifetime-crisis

But wait! Or should I say Butt, wait! If you don't share this space because someone to the right is also using it, then you deprive ME of your opinions and wisdom. Granted, I can look at your butt, but...again!...I'd like that to be the restful conclusion of my online experience with you and your mind! (Not me!)

Congrats, Adam, on passing a milestone!

All in good fun, Buddy2. Dr. Fauci deserves all of the praise we can give him.

Funny, but my eyes are playing tricks on me this morning. I think I saw this same link posted twice already in the Pub. Dr. Fauci sure has good fans! On the other hand, there is hardly anything else new on the board this morning, so good work Adam!

Adam, Dr. Fauci certainly deserves credit for his leadership in the pandemic, but two threads with the same link? Won't they compete against each other? His legacy will be great, so maybe I should start a third thread...

An animal shelter in Bangkok reports hundreds of starving dogs with little food for them. Donations to Auntie Ju's have declined, even as the need has risen. Can you help save a dog? https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/thai-dog-shelter-blames-covid-19-coronavirus-drop-in-donations-12615084