Help! Decor Dilemma!

(photo via homeklondike.com)

Dear David,
I hear you have some judgement on decorating so I would like your advice. I love my partner a lot but our taste is completely different. Now that we live together our apartment looks like it has schizophrenia, with his things mixed with my things. He has taste, but it is so different that we just find it almost impossible to buy furniture or art or even lampshades together. What to do?
~Decor Dilemma

Dear D. D.,
My advice is this. You decorate the living room. He decorates the bedroom. You do the kitchen. He does the bathroom. If you have more rooms, keep it up. Or choose which rooms you'd rather decorate. Since you like him fine maybe you should decorate the bedroom, where you'll be spending lots of time.

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Thank-you To Queer New York's David Frank Ray (aka QNY's Darling!) and guest writer/photographer Miguel Dominguez for covering my very fun and successful book event! Read all about it and check out their photos on their blog here.

Handsomest Man in the World ~ Claude Simonon

It is Handsomest Man in the World day again. This is from a men's fashion magazine in London and this is Claude Simonon from Storm Models. Very French. When French men are good looking they are really good looking. Does anyone remember Louis Jourdan? Probably all time winner for Handsomest Man in the World:

Also included today are two pictures from the same magazine of a naked man working on the pole. I have never seen this before and thought it was really sexy:

Also, my darling blog-readers, remember I have a new book and several other newish ones. My new book is "Love in the Loire" about sexcapades in France. An also my previous novel is "I Don't Kiss", which is pretty autobiographical should you care. And my advice/picture book "How To Be Gay in the 21st Century." If you're feeling a bit adrift this might be excellent reading. Not bad for women either! We are all in this thing together.

The Secret Lives of Married Men...

Dear David G. and D.,
I read in the New York Times that Christopher Plummer is starring in a new movie about a man who comes out at age 75 and his interaction with his son. Have you heard of this before?
~Bewildered but not Bothered

Dear B. and B.,
I read the same review. And I certainly know a lot as I wrote the book "The Secret Lives of Married Men" about gay men who married women. This is not at all uncommon but you have to realize that you are not really going to be sought after as a sex object at 75. One, these guys put off making their big decision until nobody cares anymore. And two, I find it hard not to wonder what kind of relationship you have with a wife who doesn't really know who you are. Nor do your children.

Again, it's the guys who just want to make it in the world so desperately they are willing to do this. I had a fraternity brother who married because as a doctor he said, "I had to." This gives you a good idea how far the world has come in the last fifty years. We have made big strides in gay acceptance except these older guys are still living in terms of the world they grew up in. Sad for them. Sad for their wives. And family.
~David

Gay Dad?

(Hat photo via zazzle.com)

Dear David,
I was at a party recently and met and attractive Latin-American man who was gay. He told me he had been married and has 2 children. He said, "I was gay originally but got tired of the lifestyle, got married and had two children, but now I'm back to being gay again." What do you make of this?
~One of the women who reads your blog

Dear Woman Blog Reader,
How nice to hear from you. My blog-mistress reports to me that many of the four thousand hits I've had in past two months are from women. That's why am giving fashion advice for the girls once a week. Please ladies, continue to contact me.

As for your Latin-American friend. To me the Latin-American world is pretty much a matriarchy, stemming as it does from the Mediterranean culture of Spain, Portugal, and Italy. Mom is the most important thing in that culture and getting married and having kids to please her seems extremely important. You are not gay in that world if you do not "bottom." Men can pretty much insert their penises anywhere and it's ok. It is very different from the gay world as we know it in North America where prominent men in sports are beginning to come out.

My only thoughts about this, and this is true for everywhere, is I think the poor wives get a bad deal. They really deserve to have husbands that think they're number one and are not either leaving them or cheating on them with other men. I don't think this situation is going to change very soon.
~David

"Love in the Loire" Book Reading & Nude Arnold Schwarzenegger photos

Here I am reading from my latest novel "Love in the Loire" at Books & Books in Miami Beach on Lincoln Road:

PART 1


PART 2


And here is the photo I promised...Arnold in his hey-day, we covered up his "winkie" for you. David's Gay Dish is a G-rated blog afterall:

The text in the article says: "At the beginning of Total Recall, we briefly see a bit of ass-top and a butt cleft," a prurient reviewer noted. "More satisfying is the scene in Red Heat...Schwarzie flounces around a sauna and then bounce around in the snow, giving us some shots of his tremendous ass" (upper left, facing). Called "and unstoppable womanizer" (bottom left, facing) despite his marriage to Maria Shriver, Arnie is said by a male pal to favor a sex act he calls "polishing the helmet" (bottom left), explaining, "It's not being unfaithful. It's only some plo-jobs." I was always fascinated by size and bigness," says the modern day Hercules (middle left). He shows off massive thighs, great glutes (bottom & top right, facing) and a muscle that remains to be seen pumped up to its full potential (below).

How to Keep Sex Interesting in a Long-Term Relationship

(Image via dreamstime.com)

Dear David,
What would you do to keep sex interesting when a relationship goes on for some time? I do not want to head towards threesomes.
~Double or Nothing

Dear D.O.N.,
You are so right. There is no reason for sex to get boring. I slept with the same person for 30 years and I never didn't feel like it. He said to me once, "You are so inventive. You really should have worked as a whore." Was that a compliment or not? I was never sure. Anyway. I like to sort of edge them towards things they want to do and don't want to do at the same time. Put a finger here. Put a finger there. Try things you have not tried before. Places: the kitchen? Positions: on the bathroom floor kneeling, in the bathtub? Be aware. If they seem to really like something, follow it up. This is your job. I particularly like to hear, "You made me do that" in an accusing tone. That means they did something they were thinking about but didn't have the nerve. Now they can blame you.

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TONIGHT! TONIGHT!

You're invited to a book party for my new novel "Love in the Loire" at the Rizzoli bookstore in New York at 31 W. 57th St. between 5th and 6th Avenues. Book Party starts at 5:30 pm, Thursday June 2, 2011. TONIGHT! If you are in or about New York, please come.

Handsomest Man in the World & Men & Women's Fashion Advice

Dear Friends,
This week's Handsomest Man in the World is Stefan Pinto, who is on the cover of my book "Escort." Stefan is not nor ever has been an escort but is an actor and health guru, currently residing in Hollywood. He went from an overweight teenager to glorious guy and has a website telling all about it here. What I like best about Stefan is that he makes me laugh, which is very rare for a handsome man.

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Fashion directions today:
I am crazy about the current J. Crew catalog:

Jenna Lyons, the Creative Director of J. Crew is on top of it. Check out this video of a typical day for J. Crew's executive creative director Jenna Lyons.

They have a page on new watches and bracelets for men that they are doing with Timex:

And the children's clothes, particularly for the little boys are terrific. Those little men in their little jackets looks great:

And the big men, too:

I think my direction for everybody right now is the jacket. I think it makes your body look good and there is something quite grown-up about it. I think American men are finally ready to dress as though they are no longer in high school, and the jacket does it.

I love women in the long tight pants, and a slim-fitting jacket. Like this Vogue.com ad:

One in a sober tone, the other in something very bright. And I think if you are going to wear high heels, this where to do it. Dressed like this in the evening in heels, when you don't have to do a lot of walking, you can look very authoritative, girls. You can tell men what to do, if you know what I mean and I think you do.

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You're invited to a book party for my new novel "Love in the Loire" at the Rizzoli bookstore in New York at 31 W. 57th St. between 5th and 6th Avenues. Book Party starts at 5:30 pm, Thursday June 2, 2011. If you are in or about New York, please come.