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Start your engines! We've been holding on to this spectacular video for awhile now. As many of you dedicated fans know Season 2 of RuPaul's Drag Race has begun! And if you are a bad homo and missed it last week, you can check out the season premiere right here!

But that's not why we are here. Oh no sir. While you all were frolicking around this past summer, we at HOMOPOP were sniffing out where the fabulous gay celebrities are. And on such a sweltering weekend in August, Mike and I climbed into his un-airconditioned car and headed to Washington DC to spend 24 hours with the illustrious and beautiful ,Shannel and Jade from Season 1! I caught wind that they were going to be performing at one of the hottest gay hotspots in DC called EFN Lounge. (Good thing I know the owner.) We basically got to ride around DC with Jade and Shannel in a giant SUV and record their every move! Sounds creepy, huh? On the contrary. We had the loveliest time filled with touristy attractions, 5 Guys hamburgers and shopping for supplies. The day went by so fast because of our absolutely wonderful conversation filled topics like coming out, putting our HOMOPOP hunk in drag and political satire. Then later that night we were givent he exclusive privilege to film them performing our our site... but not without catching them out back in the porta-john. (I'll leave your minds run wild on this one.)

And on a final note... I know what you might be thinking because TV doesn't lie and we all remember how bitchy these ladies can be, but I want to say don't judge a book by the cover! Jade and Shannel, you are two very classy ladies and thank you so much for our fun little adventure!

Whether you love football or not, the Super Bowl is an annual event that gathers people from all walks of life just for the mere fact of watching the commericals. Hell, my mom even sits down to watch football once a year. Ok, she really reads during the game and then puts the book down during the commercials. It boggles my mind that corporate America spends gazillions of dollars (where they get this money is beyond me) for a 30 second or 60 second commercial, but then again when this viewing even draw so many eyeballs it must be worth it right? There has been some incredible commercials over the years. One of my favorite was last year's Thrillalicious when Naomi Campbell dances to Michael Jackson's Thriller with sassy lizzards in toe. I don't remember what product it was for, but it was a damn fine commercial.

The advertising for this year's Super Bowl is swarming with controversy and is actually getting more attention then the teams playing the big game—Indianapolis Colts lead by Mr. All-American quarterback Peyton Manning vs. the New Orleans Saints who will be hoisted on the shoulders of fast and furious running back Reggie Bush. First there is the debate over the commercial featuring Florida University's hunky quarterback Tim Tebow and his mom as they star in a Focus on the Family ad touting their pro-life sentiments. But apparently there is another ad sparking nervousness at CBS. The owners of gay male dating site called ManCrunch.com submitted their ad for approval on Jan. 18th and when they checked back a few days later they were told that all spots were sold out. Aw-shucks, right? But why did CBS then tell conservative news organization Fox News—of all places—that they are considering the ad yesterday (Jan. 28th)?

I can't wait to see how this all plays out on Super Bowl Sunday—and the game actually—but until then we have included the actually commercial in question. And if you are hot and bothered about football players or athletes in general; feel free to check out our selection that might help you blow off some steam.

Do you believe this? Our little blog got bamboozled by YouTube—Google actually—when they just suspended our account saying that HOMOPOP violated some "google terms or service". Ok, so we might have once in the beginning but we rectified the situation with covering up some naughty bits for our Sex Skins review featuring Mike and Marcus. At some point in the last month with hit 30,000 views and I guess that was some cause for alarm, but really?

In my opinion this is some form of censorship of gay content like we show here. Type in "gay porn" (I am purposely not linking to youtube) in their search engine and there are thousands of videos to be had—naked wrestlers, porn stars, etc.... You know content we aren't afraid to hide from. Some videos are more risque than others, but seriously YouTube WTF?

Yes, American Idol started up again last night. As they announced the changes (goodbye Simon!) I completely forgot about it until I read everyone's posts on twitter. Some folks were widly excited and others called the show "tired and old". In 2009 I spewed the snark at Idol (me and The Huffington Post), but its a new year, and I have vowed to not be so harsh towards fellow gays like Adam Lambert. For me personally, as you know, I don't care about this show, but many of you do. I should really watch it for it's pop culture glam and glitter, but I ended up watching the emotionally-charged and fabulously fucked-up film Savage Grace starring the absolutely stunning—even for a woman—Juliannne Moore and her brooding homosexual son Stephen Dilliane.

Anyway, I realized that HOMOPOP sponsored its very own "Idol"-like show back in the summer called Queer Idol where all of the usual suspects: Mike, Dwayne, Al and Nick Starr all got up in front of the audience and belted out their favorite tune.

(I know they are all going to kill me for posting this, but oh well. We hide no footage. It make take us 7 months to put it out though!)

I could write a verbose article about all of the antics and chaos that ensued in 2009, but that would just deter us all from watching the MASH-UP Video.

HAPPY HOMO NEW YEAR from HOMOPOP! Peace on Earth ya'll. Thank you to all of our loyal supporters for following us throughout the year. 2010 is already shaping up to be balls-out fabulous. Here's a sneak preview: Queer Idol (Dwayne and Al think they are on the show of American Idol with Adam Lambert), MORE of Matthew Montgomery and an exclusive interview with............... JANE LYNCH! And that's just in January.

Love ya. Mean it!

It's no lie that one of our favorite celebs is Lady Gaga. Say what you will about her crazy antics and outlandish costumes, the little Italian girl from NY has talent. She recently met the Queen of jolly ol' England (where our illustrious Cam Buckingham resides), has been nominated for a few Grammys® and MTV named her Woman of the Year. Hell, I am bestowing her Queen of Homopop for 2009 right now!

Ss you know, our new Queen (Madge will forever be the Queen of the Universe for us) is currently hitting the road on her Monster Ball Tour... As a side note, if you can get me a couple of tickets, I will hook you up with something from Homopop. But I digress. If you are lucky to to see her wild show; you might possible get to see the fantabulous emerging band Semi Precious Weapons. We got a sneak peak of with a free download and let me tell you, this gender-bending quartet kicks ass. It's like listening to the Scissor Sisters fused glam rock of Ziggy Stardust and toss in a little edge-rock like The Kills. All of this pretty much equal awesome in our book. Front man Justin Tranter is ruggedly glam, which doesn't seem possible to be rugged AND glam at the same time, but trust me he is. So why should you care about Semi Precious Weapons?

A.) They are fabulous homos.
B.) They are the first band under the Haus of Gaga label where Madame Gaga and Vince Herbert (who produced some amazing R&B artists including Lady Gaga, New Kids on the Block, Toni Braxton, Debra Cox and Babyface) are Executive Producers.
C.) Opening act on Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball tour worldwide through 2010
D.) Um, hello... we said so.

Lastly, because you have all being such wonderful followers, here's a little gift for you... FREE DOWNLOAD from SWP!!

NO WHALES IN WALES…

I recently had the honor of attending the Iris Prize Film Festival in Cardiff, Wales. And by recently I mean two months ago. To call me a procrastinator would not only be a sad understatement of truth, but a welcomed compliment as far as I’m concerned. As the old saying goes - It’s not easy being me. Who said that? Rodney Dangerfield I think. Listen, being an actor is HARD (We are keeping it clean since it's the holidays and all.) Constantly having to look pretty, spending endless hours in front of the mirror practicing my winning smile, checking my star meter rank on IMdb on a daily basis to make sure I haven’t dipped below the 20,000 mark. HARD, I tell you. (Ok, I couldn't resist the second time around.)

Where was I?… right - Wales. So I get this call from overseas one day—actually it was an email, but getting a phone call from overseas sounds much more important, so phone call it is. So I get this "phone call" from some guy with a funny accent who asks if I want to skip over the pond (that’s what they call it), and take a trip over to Cardiff, Wales as part of the Jury of the Short Film Selection, an award and prize that is actually pretty incredible and is one of the few these days whose primary agenda is promoting up and coming short filmmakers. Incidentally, one of the films I’m in this year, Redwoods, (directed by David Lewis) was part of their Feature Film Selection, competing for the feature film award alongside some other great works including, Hollywood je t’aime (directed by Jason Bushman), The Big Gay Musical (directed by Casper Andreas and Fred Caruso), Highly Strung (directed by Sophie Laloy), Give Me Your Hand (directed by Pascal-Alex Vincent), and Fiona’s Script (directed by Florencia Manovil).

So I went. No shit, right? Free trip to Wales. All the attention and alcohol I want for a week? Count me in.

When I arrived, I was a bit stunned at the false advertisement of the city’s name. There wasn’t ONE whale is ALLLLLL of Wales, and trust me, I looked. Also, EVERYONE was driving on the wrong side of the road! And somehow, they’ve managed to get away with roping everyone in on it. Someone really needs to tell them. Looks pretty dangerous to me. I thought by my not driving, I’d escape this crazy, backwards road insanity. Nope. Being a pedestrian isn’t any better. In fact it might even be worse. I almost got run over by a honking car driving on the wrong side of the road at least twice a day. I counted. By day two, I was beginning to feel like I was playing a reality show version of Frogger.

Other than the crazy drivers, and mediocre plumbing, (and the lack of whales in Wales), the rest of the trip was pretty spectacular. Redwoods even won BEST FEATURE - and I only had to blow one person to get it!

If you want to track this self-proclaimed movie star besides Homopop, check out Matthew's website Matt-Montgomery.com.

Remember when GAY was the new BLACK? Well now, it's turquoise. Seems very gay to me. This soothing blue/greenish tint is the color of the year according to Pantone, LLC who is apparently the world authority on color and decides such things.

But this whole deciding the "color of the year" thing facinates me though. How does Pantone choose the lucky one is? (BTW last year it was mimosa yellow. Also resembling a whole-lotta-gay since we homos love to brunch on the weekend and love mimosas!) Anyway, why is the color of the Carribean ocean "in" for 2010? Heinz has been using turquoise as the color of their Baked Beans cans since 1901. And of course Andy Warhol used the color in his iconic pop art when he painted Turquoise Marilyn and Turquoise Liz. Incidently Hugh Grant (notice the bluish/green tint on a lot of the boxes here) owned Turquoise Liz and sold it a year or so ago for some nice chump change. You can certainly find this vibrant hue on various porn boxes too like one of our favorite titles is Trunks 3. Hell you can even buy a leotard in the 2010 color of the year.

In the realm of fashion though, this bold and beautiful shade will certainly pop. It has been said that women can wear the the color as is, but men should go with a pale tone or one that has more blue in it. I say whatever to that. Gay men can wear whatever shade they want to! Why just today when I was getting my haircut, a cute little fag boy was rockin' bright turquoise pants and put some of the same color in his hair too. And our favorite singer/songwriter Aiden James just posted a pic of himself this morning on facebook wearing a turquoise kitty with lazer eyes. (He is soooo cute!) So in celebration of the 2010 Color of the Year, we are changing our logo... just for this post.

At first it was ok. I didn’t mind. I mean, Levi Johnson is a pretty cute guy with a very sweet ass and constantly has one of those "deer caught in headlights" look, which must be really attractive to those fucking him. Hell, as a bonus he enjoys pissing all over Palin, which gives me no end of satisfaction. But now I’ve had enough. And it’s Joy Behar’s fault – apparently on a recent show she asked the dear 19-year old Alaskan how he felt about being a "Gay Icon". A Gay Icon she said. A FUCKING GAY ICON! I know some of you think this is a legitimate claim and you might even subscribe to this thought, but I would like to attest that this would, in fact, be a thought crime.

I mean what does being a Gay Icon mean anyway? I reject the seemingly newly ascribed criteria that it simply means 9 out of 10 gay men would like to fuck you. News flash: 9 out of 10 gay men will fuck anything with a pulse so it would make far too many of us gay icons. No; there has to be more to it than a perfect little 19-year-old ass, a hockey stick, and the ability to pro-create in arctic temperatures. How about some support for gay and lesbian causes (see Cyndi Lauper), being unabashedly out of the closet—Sir Ian McKellen, Neil Patrick Harris, et al—or creating art that many gay people respond to the fabulousness of Babs and Kylie. I am even happy with continuing with ascribing tragic heroine’s to this status (Judy and Liza) since many gay men identify with their struggle. But I draw the line at Levi. And so should you. You gotta be selective as to how you award titles like this after all. I mean, they don’t give an Oscar® to every two-bit actor or Orlando Bloom would have one for his role in Troy. It’s time to get some class back in to gay iconography or our iconic future will be filled with porn stars. It’ll be hot, but you might end up feeling dirty in the morning.

When did the gay or lesbian subplot become cool on daytime TV? I remember being conflicted when I was a wee lad home sick from school and had to stay at my grandmother's house because she was the only one available to take care of me. On one hand I loved being out of school, but on the other hand I dreaded it because I knew I had to watch soaps after Bob Barker wrapped up the"Showcase Showdown" on the Price Is Right. As much as I fought it, I was out of luck. I either went upstairs and took a nap or I was forced to watch sappy hetero love on shows like "The Bold & The Beautiful", "The Young & the Restless" and of course "General Hospital".

Needless to say there was nothing that interesting to me. I thought the leading men where too over-the-top for me to really be attracted them. At some point in the last decade, more and more shows are having a gay or lesbian characters. One of the most memorable ones is in the early 90s when cutie-pie Ryan Phillipe's character came out on "On Live to Live". Clearly this was the impetus for all gay men everywhere to fall in love with this future hunk. All My Children seems to be the most progressive of daytime TV. In the mid 90's Michael Delaney told his students he was gay, which split the town in an uproar. Erica Kane (Susan Lucci who is like a drag queen anyway) has a lesbian daughter and AMC also introduced the first transgendered character.

Recently though "One Life to Live" has been leading the charge with blonde-hair, blue-eyed Officer Oliver Fish (Scott Evans) who is an way-out policeman (hot!) But let's not stop at that bit of news because the double whammy is that Evans is actually an out actor! I am tickled pink with all of this gayness. Honestly though I don't think anyone else could pull this off. Scott, has a very supportive family including being the brother of Hollywood hunk Chris Evans who starred in Fantastic Four and son of actress Lisa Evans (who plays his mother on OLTL.) He recognizes the importance of being true to his character because he knows that many of the LGBT viewers do not have supportive families like he does. In my opinion, there really isn't a better character in a leading man. Why couldn't all of this homosexual tendencies were happening when I was growing up? I am certainly delighted that the networks realize that there is more to life than a heterosexual world... at least in daytime TV that is.