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I met a guy last night from these sites. He was adorable. I met him at Numbers and thought he was a very sexy young twink. He works for the above sites. I have heard of BoyCrush but not the other one. Anyone spend time on these? Anyone from the party at Numbers last night remember him? I think his name was Jaden?

In the wake of the murder of Craigslist-advertising masseuse Julissa Brisman, and the arrest of Philip Markoff, Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist gave interviews Friday to Martin Bashir of ABC's Nightline. Their attitude was both defiant and a little uncomfortable. Bashir asked Newmark whether he was a law-abiding citizen of America, to which the Craigslist founder said he was "very consistent" about that. As the interviewer read out a few Craigslist ads and asked him if he thought they were ads for prostitution, Newmark replied: "Probably." He said that if there are ads of a criminal nature on the site, he wants help to get rid of them immediately. Asked if Craigslist facilitates prostitution, Newmark said: "I wouldn't put it that way, no." Which did seem a little like the answer of a politician. But when asked about whether, in the light of crime associated with Craigslist, he intended to make any changes to the site, perhaps closing down the Erotic Services section, Newmark leaned heavily on Craigslist's roots. "The decisions we make on our site are consistently based on feedback from the entirety of the community," he said. However, he did seem to leave the smallest of crack open for a change of heart: "That feedback changes over time." Bashir then wondered whether the idea of donating proceeds from the Erotic Services section to charity might seem a little strange. "Do you think," he asked Buckmaster, "that charities will welcome donations from adverts where people promise to beat each others' backsides till they bleed?" Buckmaster replied, somewhat nervously: "We'll be making public the donations that are available to charities and they can contact us if they want to take advantage of that." In this fascinating interview sequence, one could easily conclude that Craigslist wishes that the few in society would just stop behaving in a way that can affect so many so that Craiglist can just carry on with its business. Unfortunately, the few in society aren't so easily persuaded. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10227621...ag=2547-1_3-0-5

Looking forward to seeing you there as well. Here is the guy at the end with the photos. At least, this is the one I think you are referring to. And, he is not only adorable but great in bed! http://rentboy.com/listing.aspx?lid=188256...;sp=1&pos=0

I had a great time. Thank you Townie for organizing all this. The group was great and it was nice to put faces to many guys I had not met. The boys there were a great deal of fun. I can't quite remember all the names of the boys but they were fun and it was a nice time!

We were at Numbers tonight in Los Angeles and had a drawing. Adam was the drawn as the winner by a cute young escort named Dominic. We had all the names in a hat and Dominic picked one name out and Adam's name was called Congratulations Adam! BTW: Dominic went home with me so I guess Adam and I were both winners tonight. Thanks to Townie for organizing this and putting everything together. I had a great time and met about 4 really cute boys I wanted to take home with me.

I saw the preview at theaters and am VERY excited to see this. It looks wonderful.

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2hard2tame, if you really think some of your comments are not the epitome of racism, you need to reread them or better yet, have a friend read them who will be honest with you. I find the statements sad and indicative of the racial tensions I grew up in when I was in Alabama as a child. I fled from that intolerance then and I won't allow it on here. Thread closed! As you can see from my years on this board the number of threads I have closed can be counted on one hand. Therefore, you can certainly be assured yours struck a nerve with me.

Come to Townie's dinner on Friday night and find the answer to your question.

I totally agree and the guys there are so fucking hot.

Do you think we will finally be able to get in? How soon? Can't wait to do that legally!

From May 31-June 6, 2009, I'm bicycling in AIDS/LifeCycle. It's a 7-day, 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles to make a world of difference in the lives of people living with HIV and AIDS. I hope to raise at least 10k dollars this year and I hope that you are able to help. The LA Gay and Lesbian Community Center does a great deal of wonderful work in the area and for those with HIV. Please help them to continue their task. Help me support the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center by giving what you can. Totally Oz http://www.tofighthiv.org/goto/papabear

Top 10 beaches in Brazil With more beaches than you can shake your bikini at, we enrolled some expert help to cherry pick Brazil's best, for golden sands, azure seas and that extra wow factor ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/apr/...h-brazil-top-10

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Thaskin is a ass and a crook. But, like GW he was elected by majority and should have been voted out of office as opposed to ousted in a coup. That is IMHO. The new guy doesn't stand much of a chance unless things turn around fast. When things get violent, it is going to get worst over there. I hope that does not happen.

Agree. Also, the Bangkok Post is the paper to read there. The Nation paper is one sided with the Bangkok elite.

Loved this video. Thanks a lot!

Sorry, been a bit busy lately. The contest is over. It was a great deal of fun for me and I hope for others. The tallies are being counted and a winner will be announced. I am hoping that they will have a LA event at the end of this month where the winner can be announced. ps FourAces, I wish I was in Brazil right now. and, you are most welcome for a visit next time I am there. I'd even play a few hands of poker with you. (not at your usual stakes but smaller limits.) I had a bit of an injury with my foot and have been in and out of rehab and trying to get back on track for marathon I am getting ready for an the AIDS Lifecycle. However, I need to loose 30 pounds just to do either event. Wish me luck!

If you have not been reading the papers or watching the news, Thailand is once again in a mess. The "red shirts" who are loyal to the ex prime minister are rioting and trying out oust the current Prime Minister. In my old home of Pattaya, they blocked off streets and closed the a major summit. They have promised not to close the airports again but I am glad I am not there with all this mess going on. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7995065.stm http://www.pattayadailynews.com/shownews.p...NEWS=0000008883

Will this ever be over?

I remember visiting this joint with Escort Ryan a few years back. What is the current type of clientele?

No shit. Me too!

I don't think I'll be able to make it this year. I had a leg injury and was out of commission for a bit and am working on a marathon and the AIDS Lifecyle. I am behind training for both. I hope you guys have a fabulous time and I hope some great times are had by all.

BAGHDAD — The relative freedom of a newly democratic Iraq and the recent improvement in security have allowed a gay subculture to flourish here. The response has been swift and deadly. In the past two months, the bodies of as many as 25 boys and men suspected of being gay have turned up in the huge Shiite enclave of Sadr City, the police and friends of the dead say. Most have been shot, some multiple times. Several have been found with the word “pervert” in Arabic on notes attached to their bodies, the police said. “Three of my closest friends have been killed during the past two weeks alone,” said Basim, 23, a hairdresser. “They had been planning to go to a cafe away from Sadr City because we don’t feel safe here, but they killed them on the way. I had planned to go with them, but fortunately I didn’t.” Basim, who preferred to be called “Basima” — the feminine version of his name — wears his hair long for Iraq. It falls to just below the ear. His ears are pierced, uncommon for Iraqi males. White makeup covers his face, a popular look for gay men in Sadr City who say they prefer light skin. Though risky, his look is one result of the overall calm here that has allowed Iraqis to enjoy freedoms unthinkable two years ago: A growing number of women walk the streets unveiled, a few even daring to wear dresses above the knee. Families gather in parks for cookouts, and more people have begun to venture out at night. But that has not changed the reality that Iraq remains religious, conservative — and still violent. The killers, the police say, are not just Shiite death squads, but also tribal and family members shamed by their gay relatives. (And the recent spate of violence has seemed aimed at more openly gay men, rather than homosexuality generally.) Clerics in Sadr City have urged followers to help root out homosexuality in Iraqi society, and the police have begun their own crackdown on gay men. “Homosexuality is against the law,” said Lt. Muthana Shaad, at a police station in the Karada district, a neighborhood that has become popular with gay men. “And it’s disgusting.” For the past four months, he said, officers have been engaged in a “campaign to clean up the streets and get the beggars and homosexuals off them.” Gay men, he said, can be arrested only if they are seen engaging in sex, but the police try to drive them away. “These people, we make sure they can’t get together in a coffee shop or walk together in the street — we make them break up,” he said. Gay men and lesbians in Iraq have long been among the targets of both Shiite and Sunni death squads, but their murders have been overshadowed by the hundreds of overall weekly casualties during the height of sectarian violence in 2006 and 2007. In 2005, the country’s most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, issued a religious decree that said gay men and lesbians should be “punished, in fact, killed.” He added, “The people should be killed in the worst, most severe way of killing.” The language has since been removed from his Web site. In recent months, groups of gay men have been taking greater chances, gathering in cafes and other public places in Baghdad, Basra, Najaf and other cities. On a recent night in Sadr City, several, their hair parted down the middle, talked as they quietly sipped tea at a garishly lighted cafe, oblivious to the stares of passers-by. Basim, who would not give his last name out of fear for his safety, said he knew at least 20 young men from Sadr City’s large but hidden gay community who had disappeared during the past two months. He said he had learned later that each was found dead. After three of his friends were killed, he stayed inside his house for a week. Recently he has begun to go out again. “I can’t stay at home all day,” he said. “I need to see my friends.” Publicly, the Iraqi police have acknowledged only the deaths of six gay men in the neighborhood. But privately, police officials say the figure is far higher. The chief of a Sadr City police station, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak to reporters, said family members had probably committed most of the Sadr City killings. He played down the role of death squads that had once been associated with the Mahdi Army, the militia that controlled Sadr City until American and Iraqi forces dislodged them last spring. “Our investigation has found that these incidents are being committed by relatives of the gays — not just because of the militias,” he said. “They are killing them because it is a shame on the family.” He said families typically refused to cooperate with the investigation or even to claim the bodies. No arrests have been made in the killings. At the same time, though, clerics associated with Moktada al-Sadr, an anti-American cleric with significant influence in Sadr City, have devoted a portion of Friday Prayer services to inveighing against homosexuality. “The community should be purified from such delinquent behavior like stealing, lying and the effeminacy phenomenon among men,” Sheik Jassem al-Mutairi said during his sermon last Friday. Homosexuality, he said, was “far from manhood and honesty.” Abu Muhaned al-Diraji, a Sadrist official in Sadr City, said the clerics were in no way encouraging people to kill gay men. “All we are doing is giving advice to people to take care of their sons,” Mr. Diraji said. He acknowledged, however, that some of the killing had been committed by members of “special groups,” or death squads. “In general, it is the families that are killing the gay son, but I know that there are gunmen involved in this, too,” he said. “But we disavow anybody committing this kind of crime and we encourage the people to follow the law.” In addition to the killings, a Sadr City cafe frequented by gay men recently burned down under mysterious circumstances. Some young gay men in Sadr City have become nihilistic about the ever present threat. “I don’t care about the militias anymore, because they’re going to kill me anyway — today, tomorrow or the day after,” said a man named Sa’ad, who has been taking estrogen and has developed small breasts. “I hate my community and my relatives. If they had their way, the result would be one gunshot.” Reporting was contributed by Sam Dagher, Rod Nordland, Steven Lee Myers, Anwar J. Ali, Riyadh Mohammed and Campbell Robertson. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/world/mi...rss&emc=rss

This was a great victory and I am thrilled for this. The first state to have the legislature legalize gay marriage. Does this mean we are on a roll?