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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

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The Big Gay Picture Show general blog where we assault your eyes with with we've got to say, from fun film finds and gay shorts to homo silliness and general sexiness

Fight AIDS By Buying Pics Of Naked Celebs!

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Although charity shouldn’t be about what you get out of it, if you can get something nice and help others at the some time, why not? And if that something nice is a signed picture of a naked man, even better!

You can do just that at the moment, as Gay Times is auctioning off photos of undressed men from its recent Naked Issue, many of which are signed by the clothing-challenged people themselves. Best of all, all proceeds go to the Elton John AIDS Foundation (I have a feeling it was the charity angle that convinced a lot of these guys to strip off in the first place).

Bidding on the likes of a nude pic of hottie Andrew Hayden Smith are already up over £100, but there are plenty that are still fairly reasonable. Men up for grabs include rugby star Sacha Harding and Big Brother’s Rodrigo Lopes, as well as The X Factor’s Marlon McKenzie, Emmett Scanlan from Hollyoaks and singer Gareth Gates.

So if you fancy one of the pics and want to help fight AIDS, CLICK HERE to head on over to the eBay auction. Bidding closes on February 28th, 2012.

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Daniel Radcliffe Talks Manscaping (And His Lack Thereof)

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Daniel Radcliffe in Equus

Thanks to Equus, the Internet is full of blurry pics of what Daniel Radcliffe’s got going on below the waist, but if you’ve ever wondered what he does in terms of manscaping, he’s decided to enlighten us. He is an oddly open young man, after all!

In an interview with Heat, he spoke about his role as gay poet Allen Ginsberg in the upcoming movie Kill Your Darlings and what that means for his body hair. He says, “I’m comfortable with my body. I’ve just been having a discussion with the guy who’s directing my new project (John Krokidas).

“It might have a bit of nudity and he said, ‘Just to let you know, if you’re getting naked, no landscaping of any kind. This is the 1940s.’

“I’m pretty much there anyway, mate! Not a huge amount of maintenance going on.” He did add though, “I mean, there’s a little bit, obviously, for courtesy.”

That just makes me wonder though – what counts as courtesy maintenance and what doesn’t?

He’s not a big fan of women completely removing the carpeting either. He added, “This is way too much information, but I don’t like girls with nothing down there either. It kind of freaks me out. You have to have something, otherwise it’s f—ing creepy.”

Well guys, just remember to keep your pubes, in case Dan ever turns!

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Shame – Q&A with Michael Fassbender

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Just before the release of Shame, Michael Fassbender took part in a special post-screening Q&A, filmed at the Hackney Picturehouse and beamed to cinemas around the UK. If you missed out on the live broadcast, it’s now been posted online, with Fassbender talking for half an hour about the film and his role in it. As he’s been much praised and admired for playing a sex addict in the film, he’s got some interesting things to say, so the Q&A is well worth a watch.

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Watch The First Seven Minutes Of Drive

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Earlier this week we gave Drive four stars in our review of the DVD release. It more than deserved it as it’s a great movie, managing to be both quiet and contemplative, and full of moments of shocking action and violence. Now the first seven minutes of the Ryan Gosling film have been released online, so everyone can get a taste of Nicolas Winding Refn’s movie. We’ve embedded it here, so take a look and then hurry off and get yourself a copy of the DVD or Blu-ray.

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Armie Hammer Goes Shirtless In Mirror Mirror

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As the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network and Clyde Tolson in J. Edgar, the impossibly handsome Armie Hammer has gained quite a few fans. Next up for him is playing Prince Alcott in Mirror Mirror, the new family friendly take on the classic Snow White tale.

A new featurette for the film has just popped up online, which is basically just a glorified trailer, but does give us a delectable glimpse of Armie with his shirt off. It’s pleasing to see that he’s resisted Hollywood’s obsession with trimming the chest fur. You can see the full featurette below. The film’s out at the end of March.

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Crush Of The Day: Like Crazy’s Anton Yelchin

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Anton Yelchin has been around since he was a little kid, but in the last few years he’s matured into quite a hot young man! He’s hitting UK cinemas this Friday (January 26th) in the romantic movie Like Crazy, so we thought we’d celebrate with a retrospective of pictures where he’s looking paricularly cute.

Yelchin has appeared in everything from Star Trek to Terminator: Salvation and in Like Crazy he’s Jacob. who falls in love with Anna (Felicty Jones) when they meet as students at an LA university. But Anna is British and ends up outstaying her student visa. After a visit home, she is unable to return to the United States. While fighting customs and immigration battles, Anna and Jacob must decide if their relationship is worth the distance and the hardship.

Click on the pics of Anton below to enlarge. [Read more…]

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Was Cythia Nixon Right To Say Being Gay Was A Choice For Her?

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Sex & The City star Cynthia Nixon is getting it in the neck at the moment for saying that for her, being gay was choice. Many have pilloried her, saying she’s fallen into a right-wing trap, as anti-gay nutters want to believe being gay is a choice, because if it is, it’s changeable and not an immutable part of individual human nature. They say she should have just said she’s bisexual rather than asserting she had an either/or choice to be gay or straight with nothing in between.

Nixon, who became involved with Christine Marinoni in 2004 not long after ending a 15-year relationship with a man, made the comment in an interview with the New York Times, saying “I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line ‘I’ve been straight and I’ve been gay, and gay is better.’ And they tried to get me to change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be a choice. And for me, it is a choice.

“I understand that for many people it’s not, but for me it’s a choice, and you don’t get to define my gayness for me. A certain section of our community is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because if it’s a choice, then we could opt out. I say it doesn’t matter if we flew here or we swam here, it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.

“As you can tell, I am very annoyed about this issue. ‘Why can’t it be a choice? Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don’t think that they should define the terms of the debate. I also feel like people think I was walking around in a cloud and didn’t realize I was gay, which I find really offensive. I find it offensive to me, but I also find it offensive to all the men I’ve been out with.”

Although many have got red in the face at Nixon, I have to say I kind of agree with her (although not entirely). Rather than it being a right wing trap to say some people might chose to be gay, by constantly making the argument over whether being gay is a choice or not (and not whether there’d be anything wrong if it was) is basically allowing the anti-gay faction to set the terms of the debate. Essentially, even if we did all choose whether we wanted to be gay or not (and I’m not saying at all that we do), what difference would it make?

After all, while for many being gay is no more a choice than being human is, why shouldn’t people choose to be gay or straight if they could? If a straight man decided he was going to only have gay sex from now and hate every minute of it because not one inch of him was homosexual, why shouldn’t he? If one of your straight friends announced tomorrow they’d decided to be gay and started a relationship with someone of the same gender, you might think they were more bisexual than gay or that they were making a mistake, but you wouldn’t stand in the way of the choice they’d made if everyone involved knew what they were getting themselves into. After all, why shouldn’t they?

The way both pro and anti-gay factions have got hung up on whether it’s a choice or not has frustrated me for years. You can understand why it seems important, because there’s a difference between innate sexuality and the expression of it, and it can be tricky in separating those out, with gay people and anti-gay people having very different takes on where the split between them is. But at it’s core it’s besides the point. If my gayness is a choice (whether conscious or not) or innate makes no difference to that fact that if I feel a strong attraction to somebody of either sex, why should anyone else be allowed to stand in the way of it, if both sides are consenting?

Maybe I’m wrong, and I do believe those anti-gay nuts who are obsessed with it being a choice are wrong. But rather than continuing to argue with them, perhaps we should try and move the debate onto something that’s on our terms rather than theirs. I don’t think Cynthia Nixon has it 100% right, but I think she’s thought things through further than those who jumped up to condemn her have.

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Crush Of The Day: Emile Hirsch In The Darkest Hour

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While I’d always known Emile Hirsch was a good looking guy, it was only when I saw the image above that I thought, ‘Yep, I’ll have me one of them!’ The 26-year-old is looking all kinds of hot as a slightly dirty, battle-weary survivor of an alien apocalypse in The Darkest Hour.

I’ve gathered together a few more pics of the Speed Racer and Into The Wild actor below, both in Darkest Hour and other movies where he’s been looking extra good. Click on them to enlarge and enjoy! [Read more…]

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Vietnamese Gay Love Story Film Lost In Paradise Hopes To Change Attitudes

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While gay people face problems in the west, it’s easy to forget things are very different in other countries, where society is either openly hostile to homosexuality or ignores it to the point of gay people being (and feeling) invisible. However a new Vietnamese movie is hoping to change attitudes to gay people in that country.

Lost in Paradise is about the doomed love affair between a gay prostitute and a book seller and provides a rare glimpse into a usually hidden side of Vietnam. The AFP reports that the movie has proven a success, with cinemagoers flocking to watch the movie.

While some people have laughed or been squeamish about the movie’s same-sex tenderness it has changed some people’s attitudes. One 50-year-old state employee who caught a screening in Hanoi commented, “Now I think they are just like us.”

Homosexuality remains largely taboo in communist Vietnam, where traditional Confucian social mores dominate. Gay people are routinely portrayed as comical figures or as people suffering from a condition that can be treated — something the makers of Lost in Paradise hope to help change.

“We just want to contribute so that gays are better accepted in our society. They don’t need sympathy or understanding. They need equality”, said Luong Manh Hai, who stars in the movie and co-wrote the script.

The country still has a long way to go on gay acceptance, but films like this are making an impact. The movie will screen at the Berlin Film Festival in February.

However perhaps the final word should go to Nguyen Quoc Duy, an openly gay 21-year-old student who remarks, “I don’t know if the movie succeeded in telling people that being gay is normal, but for sure it helped them understand who we really are and how wrong the prejudice they have against us is.”

Take a look at the trailer below:

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Brad Pitt Reminisces About Being Hit On By Guys

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Brad Pitt c.1989 – Who wouldn’t hit on him?

The news that gay men quite like Brad Pitt isn’t, well, news, but it turns out the attraction is a long-standing one, going back to before he was famous. While on stage at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards accepting their Best Actor prize on Tuesday, he told the audience a little story about his first time in the Big Apple.

Back in 1989 he was in the city auditioning for a soap opera, but at the time he was a bit of a midwest hayseed and didn’t know how the big city worked. While wandering down the predominantly gay Christopher Street (site of the famed Stonewall Inn), all he kept thinking was, ‘My God, there’s a lot of guys in New York. But they’re so nice!’

Pitt has since become a staunch supporter of gay rights, having once said he and Angelina Jolie won’t marry until same-sex couples have the same rights. When New York gave gay couples the right to marry, the actor said ‘It is encouraging that New York has joined the movement to grant equal marriage rights to its citizens,’ he said in a statement. ‘But it is each American’s Constitutional right to marry the person they love, no matter what state they inhabit. No state should decide who can marry and who cannot. Thanks to the tireless work of so many, someday soon this discrimination will end and every American will be able to enjoy their equal right to marriage.’

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