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Drei Stunden zu spät komme ich in Ralf Königs Dachwohnung im sogenannten Belgischen Viertel in Köln an. Atemlos, weil ich Verspätungen hasse und nervös, weil mich seine Geschichten begleitet haben, seit ich schwul bin. Oder vielleicht sogar noch länger. Der Mann tut angemessen überrascht, dass ich mir den weiten Weg gemacht habe und serviert Ananas-Mango-Saft aus sehr großen Gläsern. Ralf König ist so bescheiden, wie man es als Weltstar des Schwulencomics nur sein kann.

Every now and then, we hope to tempt Buttheads away from their computer screens and provoke them into shaking their buns on the dancefloor. This time, we pitch our flag of fagdom in Berlin on Friday night, 21 June 2013 (which just so happens to be on the eve of Christopher Street Day). Over the course of ten hours, eight connoisseurs of house music are on hand for our four-to-the-floor tanzparty.

Fans of homoerotic drawings will want to check out the 'Keep Your Timber Limber' exhibition which opens at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London this week. The free exhibition, which features works by Tom of Finland, Mike Kuchar and Cary Kwok among others, was curated by Sarah McCrory.

When 26-year-old menswear designer Craig Green sent models down the runway with planks of broken wood jutting out from their faces at last year's London Collections, he stole the show. Since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2012, he's collaborated with big name fashion, but he's always done so without compromise. I dropped by his East London studio to discuss his love of DIY aesthetics, and how that's translated in his new teen-inspired, tie-dyed collection which will be shown this weekend.

Iñigo from Barcelona is comfortably 'kept in place' with the Manbound jockstrap slash wrist binder. Who knew? Not simply just another piece of sexy fetish gear for men, this bondage jock has two elasticated cuffs built right into the waistband above each butt cheek to keep your man secure. One size fits all!

Nicklas Hultman of Gothenburg, Sweden spotted this cock-shaped cloud on the first of the month. Nicklas also loves flowers, crystals, dogs and the color pink.

adjust the antenna
badger the witness
bash the bishop
beat off
beat your meat
bop the baloney
bust a nut
burp the baby
butter the corn
change gears
charm the snake
chase the weasel
choke the chicken
cuddle the kielbasa
dance with the one-eyed sailor

Cleaning out the shed this weekend, I came across this rim chair — which is technically a rim stool, but maybe those two words are not meant to be placed in the same sentence?

I like it freaky,
But that two-liter bottle
Won't enter my ass.

Tony from Belfast can drink spirits like a fish, but if he goes anywhere near a glass of wine, he's basically dying the next day. That's when his boyfriend comes to the rescue with a handful of pills including ibuprofen, paracetamol, multi-vitamins, fish oil capsules and 'whatever else my he slaps down in front of me'.

Jamie Crewe, who records music as Poisonous Relationship, first appeared on the BUTT radar when he lent us this excellent track 'Small Dark Objects Forever' for our cassette-only BUTT BIAS Mixtape back in 2010. Three years later, I caught up with the 26-year-old Sheffield native again at his friend's council flat near Elephant & Castle in London. Over a couple of beers, he told me about trying poppers for the first time, his obsession with bongo drums, and his post break-up record 'Garden of Problems', which as far as we're concerned, is the record of the summer. Jamie was kind enough to let us stream it in its entirety.

Butthead Graham sent in this lovely portrait of himself sunbathing at his secret spot at Hunters Bay, not far from his home in Sydney, Australia.

b-boy
butt peddler
call boy
cheap date
cinderfella
commercial queer
dial-a-dick
escort
fanny boy
fourty-four
gay-for-pay
gigolo
he-ho
hooker
hot dog

Just the sound of those two words 'bubble butt' are enough to make us perk up at BUTT HQ. When we got a tip from our buddy Paul Mpagi Sepuya about Antoine Catala's installation of mechanized butts at UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund) in Oslo, Norway we had to get to the bottom of it.

23-year-old Chico from Rio de Janeiro was looking for buried treasure near Stonehenge when he came upon this rather pretty meadow. Naturally, his first thought was to strip down and immediately start doing yoga. Here he's demonstrating the cobra pose.

That bonus image of Jonah by David Benjamin Sherry was taken in his New York studio for BUTT's 2012 weekly calendar. Such a pity to leave that particular one out. This year, we're going daily so no hot shot will be left unpublished. Printed in black and white on several tons of BUTT's signature pink paper, the new calendar will be over one inch thick. That's a whole kilo of BUTT to look forward to in 2014. The deadline for submissions, Monday 3 June, is just over one month away...

Dear BUTT,

I hit it off with a gorgeous and inspiring guy, however, we live in different countries. We meet up about every three months and it's great, but impossible to judge how well we'd actually get on in a relationship.

He has no plans of moving to London, but I am interested in job prospects where he's based. I'm not interested in living together or even seeing each other on a daily basis — it's primarily about furthering my career.

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — Living in New England has its perks, especially during Boston Navy Week, an annual homecoming giving locals a 'first-hand' opportunity to meet sailors. With Don't Ask Don't Tell repealed, men in uniform were packing the bars all along the Eastern seaboard. The steamy heat of summer made me want to fuck, so I decided to take my chances at the local gay bar, Dirty Dice.

Antonio Benítez
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan
Bruno Antony
Buffalo Bill
Dr. Frank-N-Furter
Hilly Blue
Joel Cairo, Kasper Gutman and Wilmer Cook
Kirill
Leonard
Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd
Prince Edward
Raoul Silva
Satan
Scar
Xerxes

Being well aware of BUTT's preoccupation with life drawing, Casey Spooner brought that life drawing group in Fire Island to our attention back in June 2011. Bound by their love of the male form, and looking to revive the art colony vibe of The Pines, founder Carlos Pisco and friends hang out, drink wine from a box and sketch their brains out.