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KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI — I was nineteen and living with my parents in a suburb a few miles south of Kansas City. Don't get me wrong: my boyfriend's cock was great and I still miss it sometimes. But it had such a big head which made it a total bitch to take. After about a year and a half of that, I wanted to try something else, see what I was missing.

On the top floor of Balfron Tower, the twenty-seven-storey housing block in East London, Peter and Paul indulge in a bit of Sunday afternoon delight. That's Peter with the blue socks on and Paul on top. Of course, they are both quite versatile, so it could go either way.

Back in 1974, Jimmy found himself teaching in the same small New York State college town with Dennis and they became pals. Jimmy asked Dennis to pose for a drawing. Being quite the exhibitionist, he stripped and stretched out on a couch as Jimmy started sketching.

Just 25-years-old, opera singer Adam Torrance is still ten years shy of his best singing. He sings a light lyric tenor repertoire, which makes him what opera enthusiasts call a tenor leggiero. Like if George Michael sang opera, he'd probably be a tenor leggiero. In the video, Adam sings 'Dein ist mein ganzes Herz!', a total heartbreaker from the German operetta 'Das Land des Lächelns'. I met Adam at bear bar, The King's Arms, in London to talk about gaynesss at the opera house and some other pressing matters... Like how people are always asking him if he dyes his beard because it’s a distinctly brighter shade of red than his auburn hair.

Representing the full spectrum, from left to right: Jean, Theodore, Pavlos, Vagelis, Kyriacos and Stefanos. Our dear brothers in the Northern Greek city of Thessaloniki were not even phased by eggings that took place over the weekend at their local gay pride festivities. The twenty or so Christians and right-wingers 'were quite amusing' says Pavlos.

When I meet Mike Hadreas, AKA Perfume Genius, he is wearing a single white pearl earring in his right ear and his red painted nails clutch a can of Diet Coke. This year, he got every known homosexual's attention with that 'Hood' video featuring pornstar Arpad Miklos, and his second album, ‘Put Your Back N 2 It’, has been on permanent loop at more friend's places than I can count. The unassuming Seattle-based musician is, for the most part, the complex individual his lyrics lend him to be. But during our interview, it’s his laugh — restrained, yet convivial — that I’m most taken by.

Don't you just love summer? Ice cubes on your nipples, sand in your buttcrack, finger-lickin' BBQ... BUTT is on the lookout for your best summer photos. So go ahead, ask really nice and get your pool boy, DILF next door or ice cream man to drop his pants and be one of BUTT's spicy summertime pin-ups in our ever-expanding pink universe.

Sebastian's cock is so meaty, so thick that he can not only fuck you like a champ, but hold your toilet roll for you when it's time to clean up. Felipe, 24-year-old artist from Santiago, Chile says his BF Sebastian cannot resist bragging about his 'biggish-meat'.

Last Sunday, I dropped in on American architect Fritz Haeg who's spending the week in a dome-shaped tent on the roof of the brutalist Hayward Gallery. He's been invited to set up 'a rogue school within a school' as part of the gallery's Wide Open School program. The so-called Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics is a kind of mobile classroom, and a continuation of the popular salons he hosted in his geodesic dome in L.A., California between 2001 and 2006. These days, most of his interventions happen abroad. He just planted his twelfth Edible Estate in Budapest, for instance, where he hopes to endow the modest vegetable garden with the cultural significance it deserves. Here in London, he's zooming in on a new vision of domesticity.

Fabrizo from Bari, Italy was shot by Alessandro di Giampietro for a a little project he's been working on called 'Boy-friends'. When he's not posing for photos, Fabrizo works 'in the nightlife' of Milan. You know, discos, parties, that sort of thing. Avid BUTT readers will remember bi-curious Alessandro's series of handsome 'Italiani' from BUTT number 22.

It was my good buddy Shannon who alerted me to the existence of 'Casual Encounters'. Not the personals section on Craigslist, but rather the well-crafted zine by 39-year-old photographer Michael Max McLeod who currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona. 'Casual Encounters' grew out of a series of 'photographic hook-ups' with guys who, like Mike, found themselves bypassing the mainstream gay scene in their search for male companionship. He met them online mostly, like on Craigslist, and photographed them against a backdrop of dusty Southwestern interiors. Quite unlike most cut-and-paste, xeroxed zines, 'Casual Encounters' is minimal, precise — downright anal.

Greetings from Viña del Mar — Chile's fourth largest city and unofficial nude sunbathing capital! We received this springtime surprise from sun worshipper Juan Pablo who loves letting it all hang out and getting back to nature whenever he can.

Mike, 39, is sort of a late bloomer when it comes to photography. The self-taught web designer — whose previous job was at Playboy — only completed his bachelor's degree in photography last year... And why not? Through his DIY publishing arm, Goodbye Ranch, he's been putting out the stripped-down eight-page 'Casual Encounters' zine for almost a year now from his Phoenix, Arizona headquarters.

I wonder if Dennis Cooper had any idea in 1986, when he began writing his first novel 'Closer' in Amsterdam, that his words — and the diaries, snapshots, love letters, scrapbooks that went into fleshing it out — might resurface in the Dutch city as an exhibition twenty-six years later. Since March, Kunstverein, with the Fales Library and Special Collections of New York University, has been exhibiting a selection of primary source documents related to the cycle of books inspired by his first love, George Miles.

Filmmaker Patrick from NYC noticed his moustache was getting a little bit out-of-hand. That's where Andrew from Chicago comes in. Andrew is pretty handy with the clippers and scissors. According to his CLUB BUTT profile, he's also 'really good at roasting meat'.

27-year-old Liverpudlian singer Alexander Geist has already been compared to Marc Almond in a short but startling career that has made him a cult hit in much of Europe’s underground. He launches his first 7-inch single, 'Bad Language', on the Haute Areal label tonight in his new home Berlin. We got our dirty fingers on the track which is streaming in the BUTT player. A quick scroll down past our little chat reveals another treat: fellow Berliner TUSK's remix of said track for your exclusive downloading pleasure.

A few weeks ago, Michael and Colin set off with a flask of coffee and a whole lot of chocolate (Snickers, Daim and Ritter Sport bars) on an early morning National Express coach from Manchester to Glasgow. It was a five-hour journey and Colin gets particularly anxious on coaches. They had been planning their visit to the Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at The Common Guild for weeks.

When 40-year-old Günther Spiegel is not working as art director at Vogue, he's probably training. Mostly, he's swimming laps at the London Fields Lido every weekday from 8 to 9 AM, except Thursday which is his running day. Or he's kickboxing, or sparring at the London Gay Boxing Club. Typical Taurean, Günther is generally quite easy-going until you throw him in the ring and the welterweight unleashes his inner bull. I caught up with Günther, fresh off his first boxing tournament, and discovered how to use my gluteus maximus to throw a punch and how putting my face in a guy’s armpit might just save my life.

From the archives... This clipping from the 'Daily News' in Bowling Green, Kentucky was one of many local papers to run the syndicated Ann Landers advice column on Thursday, 9 September 1976.

I met Simon Fujiwara last November in San Francisco at 'The Air We Breathe', an exhibition at the SFMoMA that brought together poets and visual artists to ruminate on the topic of same-sex rights. Not only is Simon supercute and supersmart, he's also a devoted BF, has a degree in architecture from Cambridge, and is a classically-trained musician (regular readers will recall his art rock band, Asia Today, from the BUTT Bias mixtape). I picked Simon up in the bar of the St. Regis hotel and offered him a lift to the airport in my '87 Dodge Aries K-Car.