Travel is probably my biggest interest. I'd like to travel all across Europe, probably starting with London, Paris, and Rome. I want to see Greece. I want to journey throughout Latin America. I want to see all the rich beauty that Brazil has to offer. I'd like to see the major sights of the Pacific Rim: Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, etc. I want to travel to exotic lands like Morroco, and Istanbul, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and India. There are many other places I want to see. I'm filled with wanderlust, and travel is my biggest interest.
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I love music with a passion, and I listen to music everyday. I really do listen to everything: rock, country, hip hop, r&b, oldies, disco, electronica, techno, house, new age, classical, standards, calypso, reggae, pop, and just about everything else. I can separate music into two main categories: classical, and non-classical. Classical music draws me in with it's unparalelled intensity, depth, and sophistication. I listen to classical when I feel prepared for it. I find that classical can be overwhelming. When I listen to non-classical music what I care about most is the singer, if the singer interests me then I want to listen to the song. When a popular song comes out I tend to enjoy the remix of it that's played at gay bars more than the origional. One of my favorite classic rock stars is Little Richard. He is one of the origional rock and roll greats. Little Richard also admitted to being gay, even though he says he no longer practices homosexuality. For classical music, I listen to everybody. But for most other kinds of music I usually only listen to women and gay men. I don't even talk to most straight men, so why would I listen to their music? I love listening to gay icons, and I don't care if you question their authenticity. Despite the stereotype, I'm not a big fan of show tunes.
Brokeback Mountain (I saw this on Christmas Eve 2005. People who made fun of this movie gave it publicity, which actually made the movie even more successful.); Philidelphia Capote (Finally a movie that treats homosexuality as a non-issue. Here the main character is gay, but the movie is not about homosexuality, it's about an author interviewing two men accused of murder); (I only caught the last 45 minutes or so of this movie and it was heartwrenching. Before Night Falls is the Oscar-nominated film based on the true story about the life and times of openly gay Cuban refugee, poet, and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas, who died of AIDS in 1990); Interview with a Vampire Don't Tell Anyone (A foreign film by Picture This Studios based on the autobiography of Jaime Bailey about a sexy, young, androgynous Peruvian in Lima who empowers himself and rages out of the closet); Up the Sandbox (Streisand's ultra-controversial comedy-drama about a married mother of two, who is considering having an abortion. Very artistic, great cinematography of NYC); The Owl and the Pussycay; Nuts; The Rose; Down and Out in Beverly Hills; Silkwood; The Witches of Eastwick; Batman Returns (I've always been a huge Catwoman fan, and a huge Michelle Pfifer fan, so likewise I love this movie); The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; James Bond's A View to a Kill (my favorite James Bond movie. Filmed in San Francisco. Grace Jones picks up a man, holds him over her head, and then throws him across the room for messing with her man whose played by Christopher Walken!); Conan the Destroyer (an inferior sequel to Conan the Barbarian, but a must for fans of Grace Jones); Vamp; The Closet; Midnight Cowboy; Lola and Billy the Kid; The Adventures of Felix; Querelle; and many more
I confess that I watch alot of tv. While I don't have a "favorite" tv show, I have to say I like "Will and Grace". It has it flaws, but all in all it shows an improvement in how gay men are being shown in pop culture. And it's funny!
I suggest reading the origional short story "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx as well as seeing the movie. The short story explains the ending more than the movie did. I reccomend reading "Gay Sex: A Guide for Men who Love Men" by Jack Hart, and "Men Loving Men" by Mitch Walker. If you're a gay man, there's some things you should read about so you can protect yourself, and your partner from disease and pain. These books will teach you how to protect yourself and your partner, and increase the pleasure. I know that was explicit of me to say, but I had to say it.