Hotmen This Sunday

If you don't have any plans this Sunday (November 28), you may want to catch the 29 men vying for the top position for "The Search for the Hotmen" at Metro Bar, West Ave. Show starts at 8pm. So, who among them would you like to be on top of you?

Loving a "Bakla"

I met this hotel executive in this luxury resort about half a year ago. And we started seeing each other whenever he comes to Manila for a visit. Let me share with you some memorable statements from this guy:

During one of our earliest dates:
"You know what, It's my first time to date a...(after a very long pregnant pause)...a... palengkera like you."

A few months after:
"My most difficult adjustment will be how you carry yourself in public... baklang-bakla ka e!"

After our first vacation together, he sent me this text message:
"I love you, kahit baklang bakla ka."

Hotmen Search

29 young men will outbare each other in GRAMM Entertainment Productions’ “Search for The Hotmen” on November 28, 2010, Sunday, 8:00 PM, at Metro Bar, #47 West Avenue, Quezon City. Here are my personal favorites among the roster:

 

 

Another Honor for Juan

"Ang Laro ng Buhay ni Juan" by Joselito Altarejos is named as one of the 10 Best Filipino Independent Films of 2010 by the Young Filmmakers of the Philippines (YFMP).

Tony Lapena in a publicity photo for "Juan"

Here is the list of the group's top films (in alphabetical order)

1. Bakal Boys
2. Biyaheng Lupa
3. Ded na si Lolo
4. Dinig Sana Kita
5. Engkwentro
6. Himpapawid
7. Kinatay'
8. Laro ng Buhay ni Juan
9. Last Supper No.3
10. Wanted Borders

Congratulations to Joselito Altarejos, Rayan Dulay and the rest of our team for another citation for this small film.

Choose Your Hunk

The trailblazing Climax films together with the very popular rddantes.com has partnered together for a new concept of bikini search: Bikini TV, a video and online, interactive bikini contest where each hunk is judged by the audience. Here's the teaser of this video which is available now on legitimate video shops. Again, please buy original!

Wealthy, Gay & Lonely

Recently, I met an IT professional gay man from New York who was pressured by his parents to come back to Bicol so he can oversee their family business. The man dreads going home as he knows he will be forced by his folks to marry a woman as soon as he comes back.

His story is the same with many other Filipino gay men I have met. The wealthy parents force their 30-ish queer, bachelor son to marry a woman. Or they are threatened to lose their inheritance.

I am just glad that my parents didn't have enough wealth to threaten me with such a proposition.

An Honor for Juan

Rayan Dulay and Ace Ricafort for The Game in Juan's Life (Ang Laro ng Buhay ni Juan)

Congratulations to Joselito Altarejos and our team behind "Ang Laro ng Buhay ni Juan" (The Game of Juan's Life) for receiving an honorable mention at the Chicago's Reeling Film Festival 2010. The festival descirbed the film as a:

candid look at gay life in the squalid slums of Manila focuses on a young performer (Ray An Dulay) at a private sex club who dreams of returning to his hometown in the provinces, even though this would mean leaving his handsome, devoted lover (Jer...ico Antonio) . The direct, honest performances and Richard Gonzales 's evocative score give this downbeat but unsentimental 2009 drama an understated power, and Pao Santiago Pangan's intimate, verite-style cinematography fosters a compelling, documentary-style authenticity.