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The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has already successfully forced the city of Los Angeles to pass a bylaw that will require adult film companies to use condoms in their productions. The AHF is hoping to create a similar law to cover all of LA County; it has submitted over 360,000 signatures to the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder's office to place the initiative on the ballot of this fall's election.

The county Registrar-Recorder will now validate the signatures and determine if the measure will be added to the ballot. 232,000 signatures are needed for approval.

If the measure makes it through, and the voters pass it, it would have a huge effect on the industry. After all, Los Angeles County includes San Fernando Valley, also known as Porn Valley.

The ordinance that was passed by LA City Council in January, however, has yet to be enforced. The main issue is policing the new law.

"Due to the complexities of this issue and the need to further address the implementation matters associated with this Ordinance, additional time is needed to complete the report," the city's chief administrative office Miguel Santana informed to his colleagues. A final plan, which was to have been ready by now, has been pushed back until September.

"It's just complicated, and we're trying to figure out what to do," admitted Michael Weinstein, head of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. "We don't object to taking 90 more days. This issue has been developing for years."

But if something is proving this difficult to police on the city level, how would a similar law be effective across the county?

L.A. County Porn Condom Initiative Headed for Ballot [XBiz]

An interesting film will be making its way through the queer film festival circuit this summer. Buffering follows a gay couple as they explore online porn as a way to deal with some financial problems.

Darren Flaxstone and Christian Martin wrote and directed the movie. It focuses on Aaron and Seb, a couple who have maxed out their credit cards after losing their jobs. To save their home, Aaron secretly shares video of his sexual exploits with Seb online for profit. And when Seb finds out, things get real messy real quick.

"With each pass of the script Christian felt compelled to try and steer it back to a more dramatic film exploring the darker side of this sad and necessary-for-some reality," Flaxstone explained. "It’s a new form of prostitution of sorts — digital virtual pornography — with the added nightmare scenario that these digital uploads stay on the net for years and years."

But the film is not a complete downer. "The whole world economic crisis was hitting everyone and that in-of-itself is a very serious subject, but we wanted to go more humorous with the subject," Flaxstone added. "In the end, we think we’ve ended up with somewhere in between — a dramedy of sorts."

In the mood for something beefy?

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We weren't surprised to see Donny Wright win the TLA Video Award for Performer of the Year. The horse-hung stud has been on our radar since he did his first porn scene for Randy Blue in early 2010.

How'd this big-dicked hunk get started? Donny told BananaGuide, "I've always been curious about what it would be like to work in the porn industry. Get paid to party and travel to cool places, fuck the hottest guys. A lot of porn is filmed here in San Diego and I started getting offers from different studios but I wasn't sure which were legit or if I even wanted to do it. A friend of mine connected me with Howard from Fabscout and he hooked me up with Randy Blue."

He was soon offered an exclusive contract with Falcon / Raging Stallion.  " I worked with Falcon/Raging director Chris Ward when we filmed the season 1 finale for NakedSword's Golden Gate series. He had me come back a few weeks later to shoot the Raging Stallion movie Giants and offered me the contract not long after that." 

Donny appears in Falcon's Retreat, Roughin' It 2, and Big Rock Cove,  and Raging Stallion's Suck My Cock and Giants 2, among others.

That contract has now ended, but you'll be happy to know he's recently picked up a new gig, " I just signed a new contract with Next Door Studios. I worked with them before and it was a great experience so I'm excited to be returning. Not to mention they have some of the hottest guys in the biz."

Donny has just turned 27 and is single. When not working, he tells us, he keeps himself busy with "gymnastics, diving, surfing, or just staying home and playing video games all day."

We asked him to name three scenes that he thinks represent his best work in porn so far. To find out what they are (with pictures and links to video previews) read on ....  

> CONTINUE READING Donny Wright: my three hottest scenes

South Africa's ruling African National Congress is crying foul over a portrait of President Jacob Zuma. The party is demanding Johannesburg's Goodman Gallery remove a painting of Zuma entitled "The Spear," depicting the president with his genitals exposed.

The image was created as part of a collection called Hail to the Thief, which accuses the ANC of widespread corruption and greed.

"It's making a mockery of the highest office," ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu told Reuters.

Zuma, himself, said he was "shocked, personally offended and violated." He asked the courts to force the gallery to take the image down.

"We are not going to remove the images for the sake of defending the artist's right to freedom of expression and for the sake of upholding the gallery's reputation," said Lara Koseff who works at the gallery.

The image was ruined on Monday, however, when protesters covered the piece in paint.

In North America, a much smaller controversy has erupted around another politician's portrait. This one is of Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, displayed in the buff, lounging. His equipment is less impressive than Zuma's (which may explain some of the fuss).

"On the [Margaret] Sutherland painting: we're not impressed. Everyone knows the PM is a cat person," tweeted Harper spokesman Andrew MacDougall.

"This is one case where I think we really do need a Conservative cover-up," said Liberal MP Scott Brison. "I guess you could say in this painting it's quite obvious that the Prime Minister has very little to hide."

Snap!

Presidential penis portrait riles S.Africa's ANC [Reuters]

Protesters deface controversial portrait depicting South Africa's president Jacob Zuma [Mail Online]

‘Nude’ Stephen Harper painting causes a stir [The Globe and Mail]

In March, Dharun Ravi was convicted of invasion of privacy, witness tampering, tampering of evidence, and the hate crime of bias intimidation. He had filmed his roommate, Tyler Clementi, in an intimate moment with another man; Clementi later committed suicide.

Since then, Ravi had been waiting to find out his sentence. He faced 10 years in prison, though some thought it more likely that he would be deported back to India.

“All of the defendant’s actions ... were planned, were purposeful, and were malicious,” prosecutor Julia McClure argued. “The jury’s verdict gave some measure of justice ... but justice can only be fully realized by respecting and enforcing the law and punishing this defendant for his conduct, his criminal acts.”

Yesterday, a judge sentenced him to 30 days in jail, and 300 hours of community service. He will also have to pay $10,000 to help victims of bias crimes, and complete a program on cyber-bullying and alternative lifestyles.

“Nothing I say is intended in any way to disparage you or demean you. I don’t even know you," said Judge Glenn Berman as he handed out his sentence. “But I heard this jury say ‘guilty’ 288 times — 24 questions, 12 jurors — that’s the multiplication. And I haven’t heard you apologize once. You cannot expunge the conduct or the pain you caused.”

However, the judge added that he felt Ravi had not acted out of hatred but "colossal insensitivity.”

When asked in an earlier interview about apologizing, Ravi declined. “When politicians give public apologies, to me, it always sounds so insincere and false,” Ravi said. “No matter what I say, people will take it that way.”

The defense plans to appeal the conviction. 

Dharun Ravi refuses to apologize for spying on gay roommate Tyler Clementi [National Post]

Rutgers webcam spy Dharun Ravi sentenced to 30 days [BBC]

Jamaican reggae star Beenie Man has apologized for saying not-so-nice things about gay people in his songs.

The popular star was banned from performing in countries like Britain, New Zealand, and Belgium because of lyrics like "Well I'm think of a new Jamaica, me come to execute all of the gays," while calling on fans to kill gay disc jockeys. 

He now says he is sorry. In a YouTube video, Beenie said, "Let me make this clear and straight. I have nothing against no one. I respect each and every human being, regardless of which race or creed, regardless of which religious belief you believe in, and regardless of which sexual preference you are, including gay and lesbian people.

"I love each and every one and am just begging each and everyone to do the same...do not fight against me for a song that I sang 20 years ago...I was a kid. Now I know that people live in the world that live their life differently than the way I live my life. Just love the music and respect the music."

Not everyone is convinced.

"Beenie Man's so-called apology is so vague that it does not even mention what he is apologising for," argued Brett Lock, from gay-rights group Outrage!. "It could be an apology for anything. It contains no explicit regret for his incitements to murder gay people, and no specific affirmation of his respect for homosexuals and homosexual human rights."

Activist Peter Tatchell pointed out that Beenie Man's apology is being issued a few months before he wants back into the UK in order to promote a new album. 

Beenie Man offers apology for his homophobic lyrics [The Independent]

Make you want you to take an art class, doesn't it?

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A 9-year-old, tired of the hate being spewed by the Westboro Baptist Church, decided to display his own sign. It was small. It was handwritten. But it packed a punch.

The boys mother posted the photo of her son on Facebook and wrote: “After our walk around Washburn campus, we ran into the Phelps… Josef was determined to make his own statement so we went to the car and with pencil and his sketch pad, he made up his own little sign that reads “GOD HATES NO ONE”.

“I have never been prouder. Those people are scary but he stood strong, was respectful and stood by his convictions. He will be a good man, I have no doubt.”

“I stood up to the Westboro Baptist Church and there are some things I want to say about it," Josef explained. "One, why I did it: I hate those signs, I hate them and I want to stop them. Two, the way I feel about it is that I can do anything if you let me. And three, we should all respect each other, even if our ideas are not the same.”

There is hope for future generations!

Nine-year-old tells ‘God Hates Fags’ church ‘God hates no one’ [PinkNews]

Can you guess who has had a gay experience?

Move over Harry Potter, Twilight and the Hunger Games; there's a new book in town and it's for adults only.

Fifty Shades of Grey, by author E L James, is filled with bondage, spanking, and masochism. It has found its way to the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list and is currently the most talked about book in the media.

The novel is the first part of a trilogy that centers around the sadomasochistic relationship between characters Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele. And yes, it has already been optioned by Universal Pictures so you'll get to see how Hollywood handles what is basically an x-rated novel.

Interestingly, the book is having some real world ramifications. In Britain, at least, people are becoming more sexually curious. Sex toy sales have increased, as have the number of people visiting sex clubs.

Renée Denyer even started to offer spanking classes at London’s Sh! boutiques. And they are becoming more popular as people read the book.

“Most people are not as hardcore as Christian Grey in the novels, they’re just getting into it,” explained Denyer.

Writer Barbara Amiel, the 71-year-old wife of defamed media mogul Conrad Black, admitted to being a fan. She recently stated that “the question of whether it is truly sexually gratifying to have a Wartenberg pinwheel roll over your nipples while handcuffed to a stretcher bar with a ball gag in your mouth is something I hadn’t really thought about in the sheltered life I lead.”

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The bottom line: the rise of sado-masochism in London [London Evening Standard]

Charting presidential candidates’ approval numbers, collected by pollsters like Gallup, can get quite boring. But what if those reports could be sexier?

New York University graduate student Matthew Epler, a master’s student at the university’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), might have the answer in his recently unveiled project, which he dubbed Grand Old Party.

“Grand Old Party is a data visualization of voter approval rates amongst registered Republicans for each of the GOP candidates,” Epler explains in a video for the project. “It’s also a set of butt plugs.”

Polling just became fun!

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