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Where The Boys Are…A TV Crew Waits For Thee

Casting Call Goes out for New Gay Reality TV Show
from the Creators of RuPaul's Drag Race
Shooting This Summer
The Fire Island Summer Project

ONLY 4 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY!
Applications/Videos accepted through
FRIDAY, DEC 2!
www.fireislandcasting.com

Read the Q&A with hottie Casting Director Vinnie Potestivo

Top talent and casting agency, VPE: Vinnie Potestivo Entertainment, is currently casting The Fire Island Summer Project, a new reality series that will follow a group of young gay men, and the people who love them, living in a beach house in New York’s hottest summer destination, Fire Island. The series will film during summer of 2012.

And, yes, despite the devastating fire in The Pines, the show will go on! "Fire Island business owners are giving us the cue that their businesses will be rebuilt by the start of the season and we'll be right there to celebrate along with them!," say's VPE President and casting director, Vinne Potestivo. "We are working with event organizers hand in hand as events revolving around raising funds for Fire Island Repair are being prepared.What better time to show a community pull together than now?"

The Fire Island Summer Project is being produced by World of Wonder, the team that has produced some of the most fun, addictive reality TV shows ever including Being Chaz, Tori & Dean: Inn Love, Million Dollar Listing, Pam Anderson: Girl on the Loose and the ratings monster, RuPaul’s Drag Race.

If you are available to live on Fire Island this summer, have an amazing story to share, you have until FRIDAY, DEC 2 to apply online at www.fireislandcasting.com For more information on other casting opportunities and VPEtalent, please visit www.VPEtalent.com.

Curious to know more? We sat down with hottie casting director and VPE president, Vinne Potestivo to get the T on The Fire Island Summer Project to ask crucially important questions like: Do I have to live in NYC to be considered? Cherry Grove or The Pines? Cameras in the Meatrack? Girls allowed? [Answers after the jump.]

INTELLIGENT DESIGN is GAY! Says CREATOR...of New Gaydar Ad Campaign

You've seen the new Gaydar ads sparkling on the pages of your favorite magazines and websites promoting the recently redesigned Gaydar.net dating website. Slick and zhoozhy, the retooled website puts the funk in function and features a few surprises, which hint at greater things to come from the site that site that invented the photo+checklist+profile format now standard on dating sites across the net. One could say Gaydar.net is born again. We talked to The Creator about the divine "Rebirth" ad campaign. (The Q&A and behind the scenes photos after the jump.)

Gift GAY IN AMERICA: Bring Pride, Hope and 140 New Friends Home for the Holidays!

GAY IN AMERICA
By Scott Pasfield
Introduction by Terrence McNally & Tom Kirdahy
224 pages, 9¼ x 11½
Hardcover, $45.00 ($50.00 CAN)
100 full color photographs
ISBN: 978-1-59962-104-3
www.gayinamerica.us
Watch the trailer video here 
See the Flickr slideshow of excerpts here
Download book cover 300dpi jpeg

Photographs and Autobiographical Profiles of 140 American Men
Who Just Happen To Be Gay
Reveal Unstereotypical Lives Far From the Gay Pride Parade Route

Joan Rivers, Colin Farrell, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are among the many stars who’ve been photographed by New York City celebrity photographer Scott Pasfield, but for his moving new coffee table book Gay In America, Pasfield stepped out of the limelight and into the homes and the lives of 140 gay American men in all 50 states. A great gift for gay men and those who love them, give the book Michael Musto of the Village Voice calls, “Sprawling, moving, and lively...an inspiring cross section" and about which Lynn Evarts of the America Library Association raves, “This is one of the most important gay books a library can offer teens.” Available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound. www.gayinamerica.us

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THE SAINT AT LARGE® + BAD BOY CLUB OF MONTRÉAL present A BLACK PARTY MEET & GREET

THE SAINT AT LARGE® in association with BAD BOY CLUB OF MONTRÉAL
present
A BLACK PARTY MEET & GREET
at
FÉTICHE ARMADA
featuring Lucas Entertainment stars, a fetish fashion show,
"crotch-to-floor" raffle tickets, DJ Alberto Perez
and the world premiere of the short film, “High: A Black Party Symphony”

Saturday, October 8, 2011, 2:00 – 6:00 p.m., 1201 Ste. Catherine Est, Montréal

THE SAINT AT LARGE, producer of the world's most notorious, sexually- charged gay event, THE BLACK PARTY®, in association with BBCM's BLACK AND BLUE FESTIVAL, will be hosting a BLACK PARTY meet-and-greet at Montréal's Fétiche Armada with adult film stars from LUCAS ENTERTAINMENT's most recent Canadian Releases. Additionally, the event will serve as the world premiere for the 30-minute short film, “HIGH: A BLACK PARTY SYMPHONY,” shot entirely at Rites XXXII: The Black Party 2011.

GAY IN AMERICA Photographer Scott Pasfield Talks to GLAAD about his Extraordinary Book, Out Sep 27

Click "Show Info" (upper right in full screen mode) once to view captions throughout slideshow.

GLAAD Interviews Scott Pasfield
Creator of  GAY IN AMERICA
by Aaron McQuade, Deputy Director Of News And Field Media for GLAAD

Meet Scott in the GAY IN AMERICA video.

Aaron McQuade: Where did the idea for this book come from?

Scott Pasfield: People always tell you to shoot what you love. You have to start with yourself. The epiphany came one night at home. I was surfing the web and realized what a powerful tool it had become for connecting gay men across the country, from all over, and it just dawned on me. I decided that I would meet men from every state, and photograph them in the hopes that I could do a book that would change opinions and educate. And that started with shooting who I was and what my passions were.

AM: Why gay men?

SP: I originally thought that I would like to try and shoot men and women from every state, but like a screenwriter or novelist does with his first movie or novel, I chose to start with shooting what I am, and what I know. It was my first-born and I had to focus on men, which is my world.

That said, I also strongly believe that artists and creators must grow and move beyond the familiarity, comfort and security of their world. Those who do–who venture into exploring, documenting and recounting the experiences of those inhabiting worlds other than their own–are often rewarded by the creation of some of their best work.

I would very much love to do a book on Lesbians in America and am trying to figure out a way to make that possible. It will be a challenge, but that has not stopped me before. I think to assume I cannot do it well, because I am a man, is a bit sexist. I’m also getting a lot of encouragement from women who’ve read the book and those whom I’ve met on my book tour.