Happy Pride 2014

A Beautiful Fun and Safe Weekend To You All Celebrating Gay Pride

in your Necknof the Rainbow!!!  Be Proud!!!

Suddenly, it's June!!!

My, My, My How Time Flies....    already my Birthday month....  already we are nearing the end of the first half of 2014!   Seems like am always on the go....  to this am not complaining... I welcome more travel this month and the next half of the year.....   As for the ups and downs of life....  heck, bring it on... will deal with it and go with the flow as I always have done so....  for I do agree and believe, that everything in life works out in the end and that "It Gets Better!"

Have A Great Month of June All!!!

Black, Gray & White... And Hot all over!

In honor of World AIDS Day, this past December 1st - Element Magazine unveiled their Visual AIDS Awareness Campaign.  The magazine brings the message across with sexy photos of naked, very fit, toned bodies with their sensitive parts covered by tapes boasting important messages.  Ingenious and Hot!!

The campaign is spotlights a total of 9 athletic models, both straight and gay men - not to sure who os who.. But who cares!  Some of the notable personalities who bared all for the campaign are  popular fitness model, Jason Chee; Mandopop singer, Hagen Troy; and Singapore's Manhunt International winner for 2013, Jason Tan.

Popular Asian Fitness Model, Jason Chee.

Mandopop Singer & Songwriter, Hagen Troy.

Singapore's 2013 Manhunt International Winner, Jason Tan

Come Out! Come Out!

Am sure no longer Breaking News for most, Fave Olympic Diver's Coming Out story has been dominating my FB newsfeed - with SEXY photos to boot..  So it is just fitting to have him on our HUMP DAY entry, right?

Really though, did this come as a total surprise???  Not so much for me..  Have been a fan since the last two Olympics he has been in..  The last one he truly made a Splash... Coming of age and being soooo comfortable in his own skin...  Literally,  as he wears minuscule speedos at every meet... No Objection here!!!  And call it "gaydar" or what not - there was just something about his posts that suggests it will be just a matter if tome till he comes out..  And here you go...

Honestly though, it matters not to me if he is Gay or Not..  He is a Talented Diver with a sparkling smile to boot ..  So am already, and will always be, a Fan!

Am sure the news just doubled the number of fans

who would love to kiss him under the mistletoe this XMas!!!

Read More about Tom Daley's Coming Out Here!

 

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The one that came more of a surprise for me is the news of Maria Bello coming out this week, too!

I have been a fan of hers for quite some time now too..  Always thought that she is one of the best out there..  Underused and soooo underrated...  This woman can play Soft and Tough..,  sexy or strong...  Sophisticated or Trashy.. All with so much GUSTO!  So, this is another case where one's sexual orientation does not matter much...  Am A Fan Already!!!

Maria Bello's Coming Out Story!

 

World AIDS Day!!!

December 1st is delegated as World AIDS Day....  

Let us all stand with Leaders and Advocates around the World

 in Taking Actions for an AIDS Free Generation!

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Now, if all the artwork / adverts above did not get your attention, I give you this below:

That's Singaporean Fitness / Underwear Model Jason Chee..  

Same one I had the chance taking a photo with in last month's Taiwan Pride

- though I did not know who he was then, you can be certain I know him now!!!

NO H8

The NOH8 Campaign is a photo project and protest created by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and his partner Jeff Parshley in response to the passage of Prop 8, the ban on gay marriage. Celebrities and everyday people alike have joined this GREAT CAUSE and been photographed for the project.   The campaign was created on February 1, 2009 - and since it's inception over 20,000 people all around the world have participated.

 

Here's a few samplings of some of the famous, not so famous, soon to be famous, and ordinary people who lent their MUGS to SUPPORT the cause... Photos feature subjects with "NOH8" painted in one cheek and duct tape over their mouths - this symbolizes their voices being silenced by Proposition 8 and similar legislation all around the world. 

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...it's just plain WICKED not to say "NO H8"!!!

For More NO H8 Info - PLS CLICK HERE

you can FOLLOW & LIKE it on FACEBOOK by CLICKING HERE

 

FABULOUS FRIDAY ALL!!!

Mabuhay Philippines!!!

Yesterday, June 30th, 2010 - the Philippines Inaugurated the country's 15th President, Noy Noy Aquino. He is the son of much beloved former President, Cory Aquino & the country's slain martyr that became the symbol for People Power, Ninoy Aquino. Here's hoping that the apple really does not fall far from the tree... and that he can actually do some good for the country - especially curtailing all the corruptions that runs rampantly in all aspects of the government and the nation in all levels...

Of course none of this can be attained without the help, the voice of the people, the Pilipinos... so let's all do our share.... LESS TALK, MORE ACTIONS.... this reminds me of the famous line spoken by a much loved/admired former President of the United States, the late great, John F Kennedy:

"...ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

President Aquino's Full Speech:

Internationally known Filipina Singer singing the Philippine's National Anthem:

Blood Is Thicker Than Water, Indeed...

I thought I had LOST this email from my brother... he sent me this email back in the SUMMER of 2007.... am sooo HAPPY to have found it filed in one of my folders.... and not LOST after all... the email included something he had written and was published a month prior to me getting the email, during the annual Asian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month...

I remember feeling back then, after reading this, how though we could be as different as Night & Day -- we still hold the same feelings for our childhood memories, family & friends, and the country we were both born in.... This feelings of longing is even more intense and rekindled now that I have been going back a lot, to look into our MOM....

We left The Philippines together at a young age and moved to the USA to be with our father... like all siblings, we had our fun times... our quarrels... our differences... and the last time we were really together, prior to our DAD's Funeral in 2006, was before he left for the US Air Force -- many, many years ago....

I am soooo PROUD of him for this article and thought I would share it with you all..
My Kuya Benjie: Taken back in late 2007 during the last weeks of his stint in Iraq.

Stranger In My Own Country

By: SMSgt Reuben P. Teruel
United States Air Force
51st Logistics Readiness Squadron

So many memories…

I miss my country, where everything is so different yet so familiar at the same time. I miss my relatives, the people who taught me never to forget where I came from, because it is a part of who I am and always will be. It is this fierce pride in my heritage, my culture, that has kept me devoted to my motherland.
I know that I do not belong in America. I do not belong in a place where I am supposed to be obsessing over superficialities while people in my country are struggling to survive. Nor can I ignore the yearning inside of me to go back home, to the people and places I love and miss so much. I cannot simply go on with my life and pretend that I am still the carefree person I once was, because nothing is the same.
It has been so many years since I left. There are some things I can still remember, having thumbed through the same old pictures many times in my attempts to hold on to days gone by, but other memories have been lost in the dark recesses of my mind. Images of what I have left behind greet me at every turn, making the wait seem even longer and the longing even stronger. Though it was only last year that I was talking and laughing and mourned with my relatives, it’s really been more than 30 years that my life is filled with tears and the sorrow of goodbye. The dull ache of homesickness still remains and it never goes away.
I want to go back. Back to the chorus of the roosters at dawn, the sound of jeepneys and tricycles rushing by on the street and the familiar ring of a vendor's bell as they pass by. All of that is gone now and there is nothing more to do but go on with my life here in America and wait for the years to pass until I can return once again.
I have already missed so much.
I wonder how different my life would have been if I had grown up in the Philippines. Sure, I would not possess most of the things that I have now, but would any of that matter? Time has passed by so quickly and going back, I felt like I was a stranger in my own country. I have been away another year but what is a single year after so many have already come and gone?

Nothing can ever replace what I have lost.
There are times when I have to remind myself how blessed I am to be here. I carelessly spend money on trivial items and proceed to whine about not having enough. I do not want to forget all that I have seen and yet it is starting to form a hazy picture in the back of my mind.
And so I sit here helplessly and watch as my country slowly deteriorates. Unlike so many others, I need not worry about where my next meal will come from or have any fears about my future, simply because I grew up in the United States. Yes, I have greater opportunity than many can ever hope to have but there is no escaping the irony and the guilt that comes with it.
People tell me that it is hopeless, that I should follow the example of the millions of others who stayed abroad and send money back home. Help the economy, they say. But if everyone were to leave, who would be left to help the others that have no choice but to stay? For the simple reason that I can, I must go back. Do I think that I as an individual can make a difference? Not only do I believe I can…but I must make a difference. I have had more than enough ease and comfort in my life and there are others who will never know what it is like.
I speak for Filipinos everywhere, whose lives and families have been torn apart by distance and time. I speak for those whose dreams have been smothered by the weight of reality and for others who have left in search of an illusion and who may never return.
I weep for my dying country, where hope itself has grown weary from hunger. I’m longing to one day return home for good in the land of my parents…the land of my birth. To live amongst my people once again. I know life maybe harder but there is no denying…home is where my heart is. After all, you can take a Filipino out of the Philippines…but you can never take the Philippines out of a Filipinos heart.
One day I shall return. Someday…I will be home…

HAPPY PRIDE MADNESS

well folks, it is that time of the year again... the time to show your pride... to raise those rainbow colored flags.... to hit all the White Parties.... and to just CELEBRATE one's sexual orientation and sexual identity!!! we all know it as Gay Pride.

I will always remember all the fun times I have experienced, in San Francisco of course -- where the event is celebrated, not just by the Gay Community but everyone one else -- Straights, Gays, Bis... young and old.... locals or tourists.... this year btw, SF GAY PRIDE celebrates on June 29th with special guests: Cyndi Lauper, Crystal Waters, Kat DeLuna & Inaya Day... am surely SAD that I will be missing those acts.... plus hanging our with friends - old and new.... and just having a really good ole time....

Unfortunately, this year I am staying put in Taipei - Darn Work!!! and ironically, 10 Years of living here and I have yet to see or experience Gay Pride here... somehow I just never know when it is or am never around.. well, no matter - just wanted to WISH you all a FUN & SAFE celebration in your parts of the PRIDE world......