Bruce LaBruce

Anyone excited to see Bruce LaBruce's new gay zombie flick, L.A. Zombie, at the Melbourne International Film Festival is going to be pretty disappointed. Censorship fucks shit up once again. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the festival director Richard Moore was told that the film could not be screened due to the fact that the festival board could not classify it, and that it breached local taste standards.

LaBruce, known for his amazing photography, cutting edge cult films that cross the worlds of art-houseand porn, and his editorial writing ( Vice, Black Book, Nerve.com), responded maturely with "Although apparently the Australian Classification Board has no problem passing all manner of mainstream torture porn movies which feature, amongst other things, the rape and dismemberment of women, it's interesting that they have no stomach for a movie that reaffirms life."

If you're not sure what the film is about - from what I gather it seems to center around an alien zombie ( François Sagat - so hot! ) who comes to earth and fucks the undead back to life. Kind of sweet in a gory zombie sort of way, no? It's really unfortunate that, even though it was the softcore prosthetic penis non anally penetrative version of the film (say that 5 times fast), it will not show at the festival. LaBruce's work truly is art and the conservative festival board, with sticks I'm sure so far up their asses they come out their ears, are really doing festival goers a disservice.

Vapid I know, but we recently discovered a trailer for Gaze, which is this documentary being made right now! Ok we really didn't discover it but we feel its really worthy to post. Why? Here are 4 reasons:

1) It's GAY folks.
2) Rebel filmmaker Matt Riddlehover (Watch Out) sent it to us.
3) It features 20 of the hottest gay artists (photographers, fimmakers, etc...) who put their ass and work on the line for the sake of gay visibility.
4) Because it looks really fucking sexy and we want to help out our gay brethren.

Gaze profiles amazing artists like Adam Bouska (he is responsible for the photographs of the "No H8" campaign), decadent illustrator J. David McKenney and of our favorite fucked-up avant garde filmmakers Bruce La Bruce, (Otto; or, Up with Dead People, Hustler White) just to name a few.

I do think Matt is touching on something important here and that beauty is not only defined by washboard abs, even though we love our HOMOPOP boys Dwayne's and Mike's abs; rather it is define by what you think is beautiful. Hmm, insightful if I do say so myself.

This does lead me to this past weekend when Mike and I traveled to DC to hang out with Jade and Shannel from "RuPaul's Drag Race". Talk about two beautiful people - seriously. For those who thought these ladies were bitches, well there is more to them than what meets the eye. We had a blast following them around to the White House and then shopping for beauty supplies. I can't wait to get up the video of our trip. They really are two classy ladies even though later that evening we caught them hanging out in a back alley and then coming out of a port-a-john. Hey, to each there own, right?