In the Golden Age Of Denial as the colleagues at advocate.com call it, the army was everything but supporting the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell rule. When you look at the military art used for recruitment and advertising, you can clearly see that soldiers kissed and told and gossiped over afternoon tea back then. Sweaty, shirtless men in intimate situations with other sweaty muscular
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On this day, 3 years ago, I met someone truly special. Here’s how it went down: It was Nov 4, 2009, a typically gloomy Berlin Thursday when I saw something on Twitter about a “Fall Of The Wall” celebration at the Brandenburg Gate and a free U2 concert. Neither did I have the idea that MTV was involved and that
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Justin messaged me yesterday on GChat, letting me know that he’s shooting a bearded guy. Knowing me too well, he surely got my attention. I said I want the images asap and here it is – a first look at Justin Violini’s shoot with Levi visiting from Oklahoma. Grateful Grapefruit has the exclusive on the first images from the shoot
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When Facebook blocks you for the second time and removes your content because it “violates the Zuckerberg constitution” and warns you that the third time will be followed by a spanky, you start rethinking your online behavior. Or you simply show them the finger and move away. Since I’m not that dumb of a businessman to do the latter, I
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You’re never alone in Berlin. Some can say the city is your date, but actually the city is full of so many dates that most times you get confused or simply overbooked. Tall, short, ripped or bearish; blond, dark or ginger; Mediterranean, American or Eastern European – because everyone is so convinced that Berlin is the new place to be,
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Justin Violini isn’t famous for shooting furry boys, but guess what? There was an exception. And this exception comes right at ya. Meet Simon.
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… we like to get dirty while playing with our bikes. An uncensored feature photo shoot by Matthias Vriens-McGrath, published in its censured version in Tetu magazine.
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It must be really hard (in all possible senses) to have Adrian Lourie’s job. Here’s another reason why. photographed by: Adrian Lourie
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Berlin is a city full of aspiring designers and innovators. Some of them find a stage to express themselves during Berlin Fashion Week – right under the spotlight, in the tent at Brandenburger Gate. Others end up at a studio in a warehouse in Kreuzberg. These photos are the full series of shots of the type of behavior that has
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photographed by: Adrian Lourie Adrian Lourie online
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You know the drill – you go to Möbel Olfe (Maybe one of Berlin’s most popular gay bars on a Thursday night) and you get the feeling that you just walked in one of those new naked scanners you find at airport security. You get so many looks that you start to wonder if you turned into a QR
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Mark has one of the most amazing beards and moustaches I’ve seen. I asked him how he’s taking care of it, but this you can read yourself in the interview below. He is 33, studied at LSU, born in Lutcher, Louisiana. Mr. Louque is also a DJ and much more based in P-Town, Massachusetts. We sat and had a
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