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I have a lot to read before I kick the bucket. But, I have made it to 42 of them. How about you? http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=8192263011

I really loved the Google Doodle today in support of gay rights in Russia!

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Sunday 20th April to Sunday 27th April 2014 8 days of FUN and Celebration The Biggest Pride Festival in Asia This week the Phuket Loves You club PLU have launched Phuket Pride week 2014. With events being run all over Phuket which are open to anyone, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Straight or Undecided. Phuket Loves You Club would like to invite everyone to come together and join the events. The Parade will be colorful as always and PLU would like to encourage everyone watching to join the end of the parade and follow it to Loma Park on the beach for a ‘Party in the Park’ stage event will include International DJ’s, Live shows and bands and will have many stalls which will offer great fun and will be family friendly. The final details for all the week’s events has not yet been published but will include: Official Pride week launch party – Pool Party at CC Hideaway Dance to great DJ’s and swim, enjoy a lovely buffet plus see a stunning Cabaret show. Plus the Launch of DAW (Donate And Win) 2014 and crazy fun Bingo. Beach Volleyball tournament a competition for teams of 6 people, with all teams playing each other on a point’s basis, leading to a final knockout for the final. There are bar and food facilities available on the beach and the beach chairs will be arranged around the Volleyball court for easy viewing. Gay Day out Island trip to Raya Island. A special for Phuket Pride week this Gay day cruise to Raya Island promises to be a day to remember. Sunset beach party at Iguana Beach Swim, dance, eat and party on a private beach and enjoy the beautiful Phuket sunset. Gala Dinner Evening A fantastic evening is planned for this Gala Dinner evening at a large hotel in Phuket (venue to be announced soon). The evening will include a luxury buffet dinner, shows and a Grand Charity Auction plus lots more. Grand Parade through the streets of Patong This parade will have many floats and street entertainment from gay and gay friendly venues and organizations from all over Phuket, with fantastic costumes and music. ‘Party in the Park’ at Loma Park on the beach The Stage itself will have entertainment from Live local bands, International Dj’s, shows and guest appearances from local performers. All around the park there will be booths and stalls offering food, drinks, Fun Games and sexual health information. Pride closing Tea Dance party in Soi Paradise Music from Kiss Bar, dancing and partying in the street in the daytime warmth and sunshine and a BBQ from Bistro Restaurant. Donate And Win Grand Draw will be held during the afternoon The PLU will be announcing more events soon please keep visiting their web site: www.phuket-pride.org for up-to-date information and details and on their hugely popular Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/PrideinPhuket. Many of the gay bars and venues will also be holding events during Pride week, many of which will be raising money for PLU Charities, the details of these will also be shown on the web site. Ian Philips the PLU Chairman said “This only our 3rd year of PLU organising Phuket Pride week and under the theme of this year’s Pride week ‘Celebrating who we are’ we hope that we will attract even more people than we did last year to not only have a fun week of celebrations but also help us to raise money for our charities. Over the past two years we raised over 500,000 Baht for Phuket LGBT & HIV charities and hope that this year with so many events and continued support from many of last year’s sponsors and some very exciting new ones we will achieve our target of raising 1million Baht” For more information or to get involved in Phuket Pride week or become a much valued Sponsor or volunteer please email: info@phuket-pride.org For up-to-date information about Phuket Pride week visit our web site: www.phuket-pride.org And follow them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PrideinPhuket

Scotland becomes the 17th country to legalize same sex marriage. I am happy that my first international trip was to that beautiful place.

This young man put together his experiences from his last trip to Thailand. A friend shared this with me and I thought it was very well done.

Who do you think will win the Oscar this year? Make your selections below by just copy and pasting the list with your answer. If you have the most right, you win the prize. If more than one has the same number right, I'll draw a winner. Winner gets one year of free Gold at boytoy.com! Good luck! THE FULL LIST OF NOMINEES: BEST PICTURE “12 Years a Slave” “American Hustle” “Captain Phillips” “Dallas Buyers Club” “Gravity” “Her” “Nebraska” “Philomena” “The Wolf of Wall Street” BEST DIRECTOR David O. Russell, “American Hustle” Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity” Alexander Payne, “Nebraska” Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave” Martin Scorsese, “The Wolf of Wall Street” BEST ACTOR Christian Bale, “American Hustle” Bruce Dern, “Nebraska” Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street” Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave” Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club” BEST ACTRESS Amy Adams, “American Hustle” Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine” Sandra Bullock, “Gravity” Judi Dench, “Philomena” Meryl Streep, “August: Osage County” BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY “American Hustle” “Blue Jasmine” “Her” “Nebraska” “Dallas Buyers Club” BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY “Before Midnight” “Captain Phillips” “Philomena” “12 Years a Slave” “The Wolf of Wall Street” BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave” Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle” June Squibb, “Nebraska” Julia Roberts, “August: Osage County” Sally Hawkins, “Blue Jasmine” BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Barkhad Abdi, “Captain Phillips” Bradley Cooper, “American Hustle” Michael Fassbender, “12 Years a Slave” Jonah Hill, “The Wolf of Wall Street” Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club” BEST ANIMATED FILM “The Croods” “Despicable Me 2” “Ernest & Celestine” “Frozen” “The Wind Rises” BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY “The Grandmaster” “Gravity” “Inside Llewyn Davis” “Nebraska” “Prisoners” BEST COSTUME DESIGN Michael Wilkinson, “American Hustle” William Chang Suk Ping, “The Grandmaster” Catherine Martin, “The Great Gatsby” Michael O’Connor, “The Invisible Woman” Patricia Norris, “12 Years a Slave” BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE “The Act of Killing”Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen “Cutie and the Boxer” Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher “Dirty Wars” Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill “The Square” Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer “20 Feet from Stardom” Nominees to be determined BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT “CaveDigger” Jeffrey Karoff “Facing Fear” Jason Cohen “Karama Has No Walls” Sara Ishaq “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life” Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed “Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall” Edgar Barens BEST FILM EDITING “American Hustle” Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten “Captain Phillips” Christopher Rouse “Dallas Buyers Club” John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa “Gravity” Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger “12 Years a Slave” Joe Walker BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM “The Broken Circle Breakdown” Belgium “The Great Beauty” Italy “The Hunt” Denmark “The Missing Picture” Cambodia “Omar” Palestine BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING “Dallas Buyers Club” Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” Stephen Prouty “The Lone Ranger” Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny BEST ORIGINAL SCORE John Williams, “The Book Thief” Steven Price, “Gravity” William Butler and Owen Pallett, “Her” Alexandre Desplat, “Philomena” Thomas Newman, “Saving Mr. Banks” BEST ORIGINAL SONG “Alone Yet Not Alone” from “Alone Yet Not Alone” Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric by Dennis Spiegel “Happy” from “Despicable Me 2” Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams “Let It Go” from “Frozen” Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez “The Moon Song” from “Her” Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze “Ordinary Love” from “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN “American Hustle” Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler “Gravity” Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard “The Great Gatsby” Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn “Her” Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena “12 Years a Slave” Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM “Feral” Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden “Get a Horse!” Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim “Mr. Hublot” Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares “Possessions” Shuhei Morita “Room on the Broom” Max Lang and Jan Lachauer BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM “Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)” Esteban Crespo “Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)” Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras “Helium” Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson “Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)” Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari “The Voorman Problem” Mark Gill and Baldwin Li BEST SOUND EDITING “All Is Lost” Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns “Captain Phillips” Oliver Tarney “Gravity” Glenn Freemantle “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Brent Burge “Lone Survivor” Wylie Stateman BEST SOUND MIXING “Captain Phillips” Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro “Gravity” Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson “Inside Llewyn Davis” Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland “Lone Survivor” Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow BEST VISUAL EFFECTS “Gravity” Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds “Iron Man 3” Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick “The Lone Ranger” Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier “Star Trek Into Darkness” Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton

I saw 12 Years a Slave yesterday and the acting was incredible. I thought a very good movie.

Cute. right? So, why did CBS pan away every time a gay couple was going to kiss?

Hitoallusa, if I were a shoe designer, I'd give you free shoes for life! How is that for free?

After the Intercontinental was sold a few years back, I thought for sure that IHG would acquire another property or two but they have not. Rio is still lacking any IHG hotel. I find this odd for a major international city. Has anyone heard of them building one there?

I'd love to see it as well. But, when I was growing up in the south, these guys of guys were all I saw in magazines. It made me personally feel like I could not be gay as I was nothing like that. I guess I didn't have a good sense of what gay was and how inclusive it was but I knew I wasn't the typical Tom of Finland type of guy.

I have attended this event in the past and had a great time. The hosts of the events are fun, accommodating and enjoyable to chat and talk to. There are some that go that are very protective of their "dates" and there are others that go that want their "dates" to get more business. For me, I went dateless and there were many like me that just went for the conversation of like minded individuals. And, hey I met AJ Irons there and think he is one of the hottest guys on earth. And, I assume that our friend Lucky will be there this year as well and while I think he did start the events, he has now turned them over to others and Lucky is one of the most fascinating men you can ever meet to chat with and talk to in person. When you get to meet so many truly good men to chat with and learn from, the events turn out to be really enjoyable. I find these events fun and if you are in the area and are invited, I suggest you attend one. As for me, I love escorts, hookers, clients and conversation related to all of them. I am curious if truthteller2 is the same as truthteller from the old days? Inquiring minds want to know.

Beautiful guy and great posts about your trip! Fortaleza is probably the city I have traveled to the least. Can you tell me more of your impressions about it?

I do love Jessica Lange but Angela Basset and Kathy Bates are two of my favorite people and they showed up on this show and it is the first season I have been able to watch as I normally piss in my pants at horror flicks. (except Vampires and Werewolves)

He is a great example of what peaceful protests can accomplish. Non violent resolution of issues seem to be a thing of the past. it is s shame as both King and Gandhi got great things accomplished with peaceful means. I look at my beloved Thailand right now and the bombs being thrown and the violence, it saddens me that they don't have a MLK.

One of the best shows on TV. Some of you convinced me to watch it this year and I am so glad I did! I love it. I love Angela Basset and I love Kathy Bates!

I do not think porn production should be restricted any more than nude dancing, escorts, etc. What 2 consenting adults decide to do is their own business. If they wish to tape it and someone wants to buy it, great. There will be more laws like the one in LA. And, then they will clamp down on things you enjoy. It is usually at that point that many say, "hey, wait." I am going through a process now with one site that is about water sports. It will not get processing via MC or Visa just having an article on the site. No photos are needed. Just the article itself stops the site from being approved. I assure you, the more those that wish to take away sexual freedom from one, they will eventually get to your desires and that may just be gay sex. We saw it in the past and just because some things have changed, does not mean that war is over!

Great report. I have not spent a great deal of time on Koh Samui but now I want to go back and spend more time there. I loved this: "However, note that Koh Samui is one of the most beautiful places that I have ever been to – up there with Hawaii – a must do in the land of smiles at least one time." Totally agree and it is great for a weekend getaway with a boy you care about!

I wonder how they will digitally alter the ones with cum in the ass shots?

Yes, this was very expected and talked a great deal about last year. Several companies move production to EU and South America. There are ways around things but if you wish to produce a no condom film, Cali is not the place for you. That said, still two of the biggest players in the gay market are still in Cali but not in LA.

Do not expect love when money is involved. When money is involved, it will always be about money no matter how good you are to someone. It is a fact and everyone can tell me I am naive and that they are special. We all like to think we are special but in the end, we have more money and it is part of an equation. That does not negate kindness, love, attention and etc. But, it in E=mc2 if you take out the m, you don't have the same results. My boys love me. Do I know this? Yes, without question. But, I prefer not to test this by taking the m out of the equation.

Here is what they decided: Three main places: Bangkok/ Hua Hin, Phuket We will spend first two days in Bangkok. We will see all main places. We will travel to Hua hin by best possible way train or bus or taxi whatsoever. We will spend couple of days in Hua hin to cover all nice places around Hua hin. Then we will travel to Phuket. Here we will also cover phi phi island and rest all nearby places. Anyone have any more suggestions related to the above? I'd just say that perhaps a bike ride around Hua Hin would be great!

Wait. Are you telling me this is not the case? I was told on my last trip how much they loved my belly and my balding head. Not once did they mention my wallet. Not once I tell you! I also spoke to him last night and while we did talk about his new motorbike and the new water buffalo, he never mentioned anything else about money. I do feel sorry for him right now as his grandmother is sick and might have to have surgery. I'll know more in a few days.