Prince Redhead

Don't normally go for redheads, but I could make a royal exception. (Hat tip: Jimbo).

Mormons Exposed

Shirtless priests are so last year -- the new thing is shirtless Mormon Boys. Like J.D. here.

It's from a calendar (of course!) the proceeds of which will benefit various charities.

Hat Tip: Jokohomo.

No Bull

In advance of the Friday Fashionista, and courtesy of our friends at Casual, I thought these photos were a trifecta (colorful clothes, shirtless man, hot).

I'm Ready for Beach Weather

This cold, wimpy spring has got me down. But this helps. (via Homo Superior [not work-friendly])

UPDATE: Snow flurries in the forecast (again!) for this weekend. Tell me again why I moved back here from Florida?

Random Male Call

Red Shorts.

Friday Hottie of the Week

A random boy and his horse.

I chose this one because it's a masculine guy (on a horse) and he looks like a real person. Hot. There's more of this here, but they all tend to look more overdone. Still hot, though, expecially for the levi-cowboy set.

Friday Hottie of the Week

Actor Adam Brody

Green Lantern -- the Old Krazy Kat

The LTR has organized one of his occasional jaunts to the DC gay bar the Green Lantern (called the Green Latrine by locals) for shirtless night. On shirtless night between 10-11 pm all shirtless men drink free. As you can imagine this draws quite a crowd. Two years ago I wouldn't be caught dead in public sans shirt but recently I've been feeling better about myself so I've gone with the LTR and am going tonight (though I still have qualms about this whole shirtless thing).

Anyway, the point of this wasn't to go on about my self-conscious body image, but to bring to light this historical fact.

The Green Lantern is in a building that was once used as a carriage house, a place where they kept horse-drawn carriages and sometimes the horses too. Most carriage houses in DC -- as I imagine is true in most cities -- were converted into livable dwellings for people when people no longer needed carriages and cities grew.

The carriage house that is now the Green Lantern was converted into a watering hole at least as early as 1920. It was called the Krazy Kat. A gay diarist at the time (Jeb Alexander) makes this entry about it on July 23, 1920:

Tonight he tried to get me to persuade me to go with him to the Krazy Kat, a 'Bohemian" joint in an old stable up near Thomas Circle. He told me about the conversation in there, of artists, musicians, atheists, professors.

In short -- queers! I just think it's cool to be going to a gay bar in 2006 that was a gathering place for gays nearly 100 years ago. The Krazy Kat figures several times in Jeb's diary. I know he'd get a kick out of what it has become.