Move over Brad Star, Seth Knight, Brent Corrigan, Logan McCree, Sebastian Young, Jake Lyons, and Spencer Fox, because the mother(fucker) of all crowdfunding projects is finally upon us: Retired gay porn star (and The Sword’s favorite Applebee’s lunch companion) Jeff Stryker wants you to give him $43,000 so he can make a coffee table book about how to grow pot.

Did you think that the trend of porn stars (or anyone, really) begging for money on the internet couldn’t get more insane? Ha ha, think again.

Jeff Stryker’s Growing Medical Marijuana Coffee Table Book to save lives.

Over 2 million patients use medical marijuana as it is widely accepted and legal in 18 states within the USA.

Although governments collect permit fees, taxes and allow the sale of medical marijuana, they do not monitor the marijuana being sold to see if it contains dangerous toxic chemicals or leftover fertalizers [sic].

What they term “medical marijuana”, is carelessly grown and sold using hydroponics and chemicals to rush production. This so called medical marijuana “is” ladled with chemicals and left over fertilizers which the consumer then smokes or eats.

There are going to be a lot of fundraisers for victims of disabilities, terrible diseases, cancers and aliments caused by the smoking of these chemicals if we don’t take a stand today. I want to expose the dangers and prevent millions of people from becoming unknowing victims and permanently injuried [sic] by carelessness.

Using the celebrity name “Jeff Stryker” along with a beautiful Coffee Table Book and your help, I hope to raise attention to this cause and SAVE LIVES in the process. I want to add your name and photo to my book too, you can be in it as producer!

If funded I assure you, I will be doing television and radio talk shows, promoting a campaign to expose the poisoning of America… I offer great rewards that are rare one of a kind items made available only through this Indiegogo project, such as my Action figures, playing cards and special Tee Shirts. I offer my “all” to make this a reality. I care.

Research shows 2,421,069 registered patients in the USA are using Medical Marijuana. This makes a grow book by Jeff Stryker not only a collector’s item, great photo coffee table book and super gift, “it makes it a much needed reference book”.

Why is that last part in quotes?

The goal now is to hire a professional writer to edit Jeff’s 2 years of daily journals and daily growth photographs together. This book is to be made for everyday people to easily grow in whatever area they have indoor or out and produce safe natural marijuana.We even have a small chapter on concealing your grow if someone feels the need.

Unlike any other kickstarter projects I studied, I show in the “Gallery” section a complete monetary breakdown for rewards and the monies pledged as well as very impressive rewards for your funding. I does [sic] not add any cost for my action figures or the playing cards. I want you to see the only charges are for the creation of the unique “one of a kind” items made especially for you (ie: tee shirts, special edition books, prints) and fees. I figured in the Indiegogo/Paypal fees at 10%. I also figured into that 10% the boxes, shipping supplies and labor to package rewards.

The cost of printing of a 250 page high quality glossy color coffee table photo book starts at $25 depending on the volume of prints we place. I calculated a estimated “$26,000″ needed to hire the best writer to edit the book and other expences to be occured [sic].

Why is $26,000 in quotes?

I would assemble Jeff Stryker’s pictures of pot into a coffee table book for $6,000, not $26,000, so he should just hire me. Also, if he needs “26,000,” why is he asking for $42,700? Is Jeff Stryker “lying” about what he’s going to do with your money? I only ask because “I care.”

Be sure to check out Jeff Stryker’s donor rewards, which are even more amazing than his photos, especially the one if you give him $2,000:

$2000
Dinner and everything

Name in front area of book as “Co-Executive Producer”, (photo optional), lunch with and paid by Jeff Stryker, photos taken with Jeff Stryker, 4 signed action figures, 4 signed books, 4 signed prints, 4 Tee shirts, both decks of playing cards, all digital downloads, DVD with kickstarter movie clip and special “thank you” from Jeff Stryker, phone answering machine greeting (on the DVD) and personal call from Jeff Stryker. (you are responsible for all transportation, etc. to lunch).
Estimated delivery: January 2014

A phone answering machine message, on a Kickstarter DVD movie clip. I thought this was a coffee table book, being funded via Indiegogo?

[Indiegogo: The Jeff Stryker Journals]

Which gay porn power couples are still together? Who’s in a brand new relationship? Which couples are completely broken up forever? Here is a mega update on the status of all the gay porn power couples you are living vicariously through.

Bryan Cole and Duncan Black: SPLIT UP
It was fun while it lasted (November 2012 through March or April 2013), and luckily the two are still good friends.

Jake Bass and Connor Kline: STILL TOGETHER
It’s been two months since the start of Connor and Jake’s whirlwind international romance, and everyone knows that two months is the equivalent of two years in gay dating. Is a gay wedding in the works?

Bambi and James Jamesson: STILL TOGETHER
The couple that braids their hair together, stays together.

Trenton Ducati and Tate Ryder: SPLIT UP
Announced via press release in March 2013.

Jake Cruise and Topher DiMaggio: SPLIT UP

Jake Cruise and Blade Woods: SPLIT UP

Jake Cruise and Tate Ryder: SPLIT UP

Jake Cruise and Kyler Ash: SPLIT UP

Ricky Roman and Levi Karter: NEW COUPLE ALERT!
Though they may have been dating secretly for months, Levi and Ricky (a.k.a. “Licky”) went public with their relationship last week while in Philadelphia for QFest. Are they already out-cuting Connor and Jake?

Austin Wilde and Anthony Romero: SPLIT UP
Split up since at least March and no longer business partners, but wait…what’s this? Tomorrow’s GuysInSweatpants update is an Austony reunion! Was it filmed before the break-up, or was it filmed after, meaning this intense flip-fuck scene is strictly business?

Kirk Cummings and Marcus Ruhl: STILL TOGETHER
They’ve both come a long way!

Christian Owen and Jimmy Durano: STILL TOGETHER
The Hot House director and his Brazilian muse are still going strong!

Topher DiMaggio and Lance Luciano: STILL TOGETHER
Let’s hope Jake Cruise doesn’t woo Topher away and break up this hot couple!

Christopher Daniels and Teddy: SPLIT UP
Broken up for months, though I’m told Christopher Daniels has been seen visiting Teddy in rehab.

In less than two years, gay porn star Tom Faulk has gone from scrawny blond surf twink to humpy blond beefcake. Are you even looking at the pictures on the left?

In what has to be the best gay porn star makeover of the year, Tom Faulk beefed up and filled out without going too far and becoming a musclebound mess, and he even kept his trademark blond locks.

On the left, Tom Faulk for CollegeDudes.com in 2011. On the right, Tom Faulk today with cutie Hunter Page for Men.com’s Big Dicks At School. While he’s literally perfect, will he ever graduate?

[Men.com: Tom Faulk Fucks Hunter Page]

The fashion model and retired(?) gay porn star says he’s been doing this since he was 11 years old, his favorite drag queen is Suton (RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Raja), and he’s against legalizing pot. No mention whatsoever of former brofriend Simon Dexter.

In a shocking admission, the queen of NextDoorStudios (sorry, Stephan) reveals that she and James Jamesson broke up five months ago, but they still fuck every weekend.

Though The Sword labeled them “Still Together” in yesterday’s Gay Porn Power Couple State of Affairs, it turns out Bambi and James Jamesson might not be a gay porn power couple after all. For all intents and purposes, they’re still together, though it sounds like they might have an open relationship?

If you’re short on time, skip to 4:20 when Bambi starts talking about “fuck face James Jamesson” and how they’ve recently been having 3-ways with other men!

AND:

Alex Christian, the mega hunk in Bambi’s make-up chair, is hot. Here’s Josh Long fucking him:

[NextDoorBuddies: Josh Long Fucks Alex Christian]

Move over Miley Cyrus.

[JakeCruise.com via Anthony Duran]

Thanks to Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Boehringer Ingelheim, Abbott Laboratories, Tibotec Therapeutics, Pfizer, Hoffmann-La Roche, and GlaxoSmithKline, being a hot guy who’s living with HIV is easier than ever.

You’ve worked hard (to become HIV positive?), so why settle?

Remember back in 2006 when Truvada was only being used to treat HIV, and not to mislead people into thinking it could effectively prevent HIV in negative people? Don’t forget to wear your helmet.

I am cherished (by GlaxoSmithKline).

As if having HIV wasn’t bad enough, now you’re fat! Don’t worry, Egrifta is here…

But what kind of medication does the Egrifta manufacturer make to treat the side effects of Egrifta?

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You can’t criticize any company (even a pharmaceutical one) for manipulating their target audience by using attractive people in cheery advertisements. And it’s not just HIV medication advertisements. It’s all medications. People in the Lunestra ads look particularly amazing. If portraying HIV as trivial and controllable (look at me—I’m hanging off the side of a mountain!) helps people feel empowered, great. And yet, isn’t it all sort of disgusting?

Of course, I’m not fully qualified to gauge how positive people are “supposed’ to react to all these nice people who seem to not have a care in the world. As someone who is HIV-negative, my reaction to these ads is that maybe having HIV isn’t that big of a deal after all, and maybe it makes me a little less inclined to worry about catching it. If I ever do get HIV, I’ll just get a boyfriend and go rock climbing and take one pill per day. Maybe I’ll even become a model and pose for an advertisement for the pharmaceutical company that makes the pills I take. Maybe I will finally be able to take control of my life, once I get HIV.

I’ve never seen someone tweet an image of a typed message announcing his retirement, but that’s what CockyBoys’ Jett Black just did. It’s unclear if he’s leaving porn completely for a different career, but he probably isn’t headed back to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet anytime soon. Good luck, Jett!

UPDATE: A source close to CockyBoys tells The Sword exclusively that Jett Black was actually fired.

I’m told Jett Black was fired for “several” reasons yet to be revealed, and that those reasons are so major, legal action against him is currently being considered. Stay tuned…

Meanwhile, CockyBoys models Jake Bass and Max Ryder are responding to Jett Black’s departure:

As I reported yesterday, Jett Black has been fired from CockyBoys. Today, CockyBoys’ owner Jake Jaxson has released a statement confirming the news. Here it is:

Jett Black is no longer with CockyBoys. Yesterday I terminated his contract. After multiple attempts to rebuild trust with Jett, he chose to violate the terms of our agreement, and for the protection of my business, my staff and other performers I had no choice but to end our relationship.

As many of you know, I have stood firmly by his side. This past year, I have supported him while he dealt with being expelled from his ballet school— an outcome he fully expected— and the subsequent attention surrounding his decision to become an adult performer. I gave him all the support and resources I could offer. Once released from the RWB, he was literally homeless, and without hesitation we gave him our apartment in the city. Having no other income, we advanced him funds ahead of his work, and needing a routine and balance I created a work space for him at our office — teaching him how to make additional income by becoming an affiliate, and mentoring him by teaching valuable job skills that could benefit him beyond just being a performer. He had unlimited access to my most valuable team members, and access to information that was intended to help him grow within OUR Company. But while I was giving him support and teaching him, he was laying the ground work for an “exit” that provided him maximum benefit at my expense.

I will never understand his actions. Nor do I need to. Such is life and today is a new day.

[Jake Jaxson]

A source tells The Sword that Jett Black was terminated for a variety of offenses, including his attempt to secretly share CockyBoys’ confidential financial records with a struggling rival studio.

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Just in case you were seeking his approval.

Depending on how much of a life you have, Jeff Palmer’s bizarre and depressing freak show of a website is a source of endless entertainment. For example, did you know that Jeff Palmer has recorded a bunch of amazingly horrible dance songs? There are music videos that go with them.

I thought that the retired gay porn star’s insane website was all about AIDS conspiracy theories, but it turns out there is a whole page devoted to his “music.”

My favorite Jeff Palmer song is called “JP Is Faggot,” which is better than anything Colton Ford or Zeb Atlas has ever put out, and I am not kidding. Listen to it if you haven’t already.

And here are Jeff Palmer’s music videos. Are you all out of acid? “Rocktronic” is the next best thing.

And here is “Liberec,” which includes the lyrics, “I’m sorry, I have to go. Here comes my helicopter.” Jeff Palmer is flying very, very high.

[JeffPalmer.net]

Here’s Cody Cummings’ (who’s going by his gay porn star name, so hiring that lawyer to sue former employer NextDoorStudios paid off?) audition tape to become a sports reporter for TMZ. He forgets to mention that he used to fake fuck guys for money.

TMZ put out a call asking for aspiring sports reporters to send in their tapes, along with the instructions that they were “NOT looking for lazy, camera hoggin’ fame-whores,” so I’m not sure that Cody would be a good fit for them. Does TMZ hire people to pretend to report the news?

“I never do this, but…”

10 more semi-nude Nick Jonas pictures:

But back to today…..

Just so you know, Perez Hilton has an entire gallery of photos on GuysWithiPhones, which includes one selfie (above, right) that was uploaded just yesterday (perhaps inspired by Nick Jonas?). Where is his baby?

Male celebrities cannot keep their clothes on, which is almost always a good thing, but what if you had to choose only one celebrity to see shirtless for the rest of your life?

All of these shirtless hotties have bangin’ bikini bodies, but which one of them took the BEST shirtless photo of the summer?

Who could forget this post-concert pic of Justin Bieber, whose sculpted abs and bulging man-biceps might almost make you forget that he has literally been pissing and spitting on people all summer long!

Who could forget when hairy-chested Zac Efron semi-shirtlessly adjusted his equipment while filming a movie this summer?

Who could forget when proud father Perez Hilton took this nearly-nude bathroom selfie, showing off his rock hard abs and even a slight penis bump in some barely-there briefs? Woof!!

Who could forget when Patrick Schwarzenegger took this SWOLE gym selfie after pumping 50,000 pounds of pure iron, just like his hot DILF of a dad used to be able to do before he got old and fat?

Who could forget Geraldo!

And lastly, who could forget when every single gay man in America simultaneously busted a nut onto his computer screen after furiously masturbating to this post-workout selfie from former virgin and current diabetic Nick Jonas?

Gay and lesbian Russians are being persecuted by their government because of their sexuality. If you order an Appletini with Ketel One instead of Stoil, could you be helping to save their lives?

No.

Russia has historically been a country willing to let its citizens starve to death if it meant preserving its so-called moral traditions and its reputation of being the strongest, boldest, most proud bunch of ass-backwards lunatics on the face of the earth. So even if Stoli is produced in Russia and even if its CEO is a rich Russian man living in the Motherland with ties to the government (I would link you to the 78 million op-eds both disputing and asserting each of these points if any of them weren’t just regurgitated press releases from self-serving megalomaniacs like Dan Savage or the editorial staff from GayCities’ Queerty, which is literally being paid by Stoli) and even if Stoli were to somehow collapse because of some hunky bartenders from Boxers NYC and The Abbey and Sidetracks pouring one out for their comrades, no serious person can honestly believe that any of it would actually persuade one single Russian politician—not to mention the majority of Russian citizens, many of whom are crazy, violent, murderous fascists—to re-think what has been a fundamental component of their national identity for over 300 years.

—In 1716, Tsar Peter the Great enacted a ban on male homosexuality in the armed forces. The prohibition on sodomy was part of a larger reform movement designed to modernize Russia and efforts to extend a similar ban to the civilian population were rejected until 1835.

—In 1832, Tsar Nicholas I added Article 995 which outlawed muzhelozhstvo. While this could have created a ban on all forms of private adult voluntary homosexual behavior, the courts tended to limit its interpretation to anal sex between men, thus making private acts of oral sex between consenting men legal. The law did not explicitly address female homosexuality or cross-dressing, although both behaviors were considered to be equally immoral and may have been punished under other laws. Persons convicted under Article 995 were to be stripped of their rights and relocated to Siberia for four to five years.

—In 1933, Article 121 was added to the criminal code, for the entire Soviet Union, that expressly prohibited male homosexuality, with up to five years of hard labor in prison.

—On 27 May 1993, homosexual acts between consenting males were legalised. However, there have been reports that by 13 August 1993, “not all persons serving sentences under the old legislation have been released from jail”, and there have been “cases of homosexuals being re-sentenced and kept in jail, cases of imprisoned homosexuals who cannot be located and of missing files”. The reform was largely the result of pressure from the Council of Europe.

Many delusional gay men are pointing to the boycotts of Coors Brewing Company and Target as proof that refusing to buy a corporation’s products can influence that corporation’s stance on the issues for which they are being boycotted, but do these people not realize that Coors is a beer company and Target is a grocery store and Russia is…a country? I am not pro-Stoli or pro-Russia, but I am anti-stupid, and meaninglessly boycotting something that may or may not be tangentially related to your cause—which will most certainly not bring about the desired change—is stupid, so don’t do it. Or, go ahead and do it. I don’t care.

Just today, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko announced that gay athletes would be arrested if they didn’t obey the country’s “homosexual propaganda” law, which directly contradicts recent statements from the International Olympic Committee that gay athletes participating in the 2014 Sochi games had nothing to worry about. Considering this new development, maybe people will give up on the worthless Stoli boycott and focus on a real target. Maybe people will do something that can actually hurt Russia and, more specifically and importantly, Russian nationalism: Boycott the Russian Olympics. Boycott the whole event. Don’t go, don’t watch it, and boycott every single product from every corporation that sponsors it.

I’ve heard ridiculous complaints that boycotting the Olympics would be “devastating” to the athletes who have trained “their entire lives” for the games, to which I say….and? So what if Tonya Harding Jr. has to wait a few years to put on the sequined leotard she’s been training her entire life to wear. Gay Russians don’t even have actual lives.

NakedSword’s co-production with Dirty Boy Video features Jimmy Roman and Giovanni Lovell (no relation) sniffing shoes and sucking cock, but why are they using a condom (on the cock, not the shoe) for a blowjob?

Have the condom zealots finally gotten their way, or was this condom blowjob merely a form of foreplay?
What other kinds of extreme safe sex measures would you like to see in gay porn?
Gas masks during rimming?
Burqas during anal?
Which is more unsafe: Sniffing a dirty shoe or sucking a cock without a condom?

[NakedSword: Jimmy Roman and Giovanni Lovell]

James Deen is currently starring with Lindsay Lohan in one of the worst (if not the worst) movies of the year. On the bright side, he gives good interviews (and has a great dick).

When asked by Gawker if he thinks double-penetration scenes are gay:

I think if you’re using hole to rub your dicks against another guy’s, then yeah, it’s a pretty homosexual activity but [not] if you and another dude together are having sex with a girl. The difference between a homosexual D.P. and a straight D.P. is when I go up to a girl and I’m like, “Oh my god, I want to see you just be a dirty little slut and do all these filthy things, I would love you to fuck two cocks at the same time, that would be so fucking hot, I want to be in that fucking hole,” that’s kind of a straight D.P. A gay D.P. is me going up to you and being like, “Hey bro, know what we should do? We should go find a girl and wrap her around our penises and rub our penises together. Let’s go find a girl to D.P.” I feel like it’s the motivation.

I guess that’s sort of similar to “it’s not gay if the balls don’t touch”? But what if a straight man suddenly discovers that he accidentally(?) likes the feeling of James Deen’s cock rubbing up against his while they are DP’ing a woman together? Oops. How can you even tell what’s rubbing up against what once you’re both inside there? Two men double-penetrating anyone (male or female) is inherently gay, is it not?

Also, what about taking things up the ass?

Some people like it in the butt and some people don’t. Just because some people like to put things in their butt, it doesn’t make them gay; it doesn’t make them not gay if they don’t; it’s just a sexual preference. There is a difference between wanting to feel something in my butt, and if that thing is phallic shaped it’s because that is what makes it feel good. If I want my female partner to do it, I feel like that’s straight: You just like it in the butt. But if you go up and if you’re like, “I want to have your male penis in my butt because I am attracted to you…”