Kellan Lutz Poses For Calvin Klein

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New AAG Model: Anthony M.

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Filip For Tarzan

His progress is amazing. Filip J. was photographed for CzechYoungMuscle four years ago. Now there are new shots, and the man looks better than ever: Long, wild hair, and a pretty buff body. The man should be the next Tarzan.

Tory George Poses For NCB

Top fitness model Tory George is showing off for NorCalBodz Photography. Enjoy this slide show with his best shots:

Zac Compton: Big Biceps

Zac is getting huge. The 20-year-old bodybuilder says: "I started out about a year ago at 183 lbs. I am now 206 pounds. I feel better and bigger than I have ever before and this is only the beginning." His upper arms measure 17.5 inches at the moment. In this video Zac Compton is training his biceps with concentration curls:





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David Rich: Get Six-Pack Abs

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World Service survey shows public concern over BBC's news

News 24: Fewer than a third of Britons believe the BBC performs well when it comes to accurate news reporting

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Several times I heard them say that being gay is a promiscuous, and only thinks about sex almost always betrays. Worst of all, who said such statements were themselves gay, calling their reality as "bubble." Not that I think differently, but it would be unfair just to name homosexuals as promiscuous, but I also could not say that heterosexuals exhibiting the same behavior. Therefore, I began to observe the behavior of boys regardless of their sexuality. I noticed that they had not so many differences, and often in the form of thinking was similar or even equal, differing only by the interest in the case of gay boys and girls in the case of heterosexuals.

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Gay porn star Mason Wyler takes who is HIV positive

The porn actor Mason Wyler, 26, said in an interview with "The Advocate" who is HIV positive.

Wyler posted on his official website that carry the disease discovered in May. In 2008, actor graced the headlines of newspapers and websites in the U.S. after that date had been raped - which has never been clear, raising the suspicion that it was all a lie to promote himself.

Matt Damon’s stepsister auditioned to play his lover – mistakenly!

London, Oct 22 : American actor Matt Damon’s stepsister has revealed that she was left stunned when she landed an audition for a role in his new movie and was told that she would be playing his lover.

Model-turned-actress Sarah Bradford, 22, who had grown up with Damon, 39, after her mother and his father married, was shocked when casting bosses told her she would have to jump into bed with her sibling.

“Five months ago I went in for a reading for this movie Matt’s in, The Adjustment Bureau. It’s in production right now in New York,” the Daily Express quoted her as telling New York magazine.

“It was for a character called Elise - she is basically queen bee at this ballet academy - and all of a sudden they say, ‘Are you aware that if you get this role, you’ll be playing Matt’s love, having a love affair with your brother.’

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Fortunately for her she was given another role to play, and was very excited about it.

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Atlanta police investigating slaying of Black Gay Pride organizer

Atlanta police are investigating whether the murder of the organizer of the city’s Black Gay Pride celebration was shot because he was gay.
“The Atlanta Police Department is exploring all possibilities with regards to the homicide of Durand Robinson,” Atlanta Police Department spokesman Carlos Campos told the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.

Robinson, 50, owned a popular gay club and was found dead in the middle of a street in southwest Atlanta early Wednesday. He was shot in the chest.

In The Life Atlanta is organizing a candlelight vigil for Sept. 1.

Atlanta’s Black Gay Pride celebration is scheduled for Sept. 1- Sept. 6

Pentagon to meet with military gay spouses

Members of the Pentagon’s Comprehensive Review Working Group on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell will meet with lesbian and gay military partners on Sept. 16, said Servicemember’s United.
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The meeting will be the first time Pentagon staff are meeting with gay military partners about Don’t Ask.
“We are honored to be able to facilitate this meeting between the partners of active duty lesbian and gay troops and the leadership and staff of the Comprehensive Review Working Group,” said Alexander Nicholson, executive director of Servicemembers United. “The plight of military partners is something that Servicemembers United has led the way on with our Campaign for Military Partners, and we have been pushing for partner input into the review process for quite some time. We are glad that the Pentagon recognizes the value of input from these silent heroes.”

The meeting is part of Servicemembers United’s Military Partners Forum in Washington, DC in conjunction with its fall “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Lobby Day.

The Pentagon is currently surveying 150,000 military spouses as part of a study looking at the consequences of repealing Don’t Ask. The survey, of course, isn’t going to gay partners of servicemembers – but it’s been leaked and is now online.

Corvino: Ken Mehlman’s new beginning?

In some circles, Ken Mehlman’s coming out as gay this week was about as shocking as Rosie O’Donnell’s coming out in 2002, or Ricky Martin’s coming out earlier this year. Others were quite surprised. Still others asked, “Who’s Ken Mehlman?”
Answer: Ken Mehlman is, according to the Atlantic piece that broke the story, “the most powerful Republican in history to identify as gay.” He’s the former chair of the Republican National Committee, and he was George W. Bush’s campaign manager in 2004.

Which means that Mehlman, 43, has spent a good chunk of his adult life contributing to a party and to campaigns that engaged in explicit gay-baiting. Recall that during the November 2004 presidential election, anti-gay marriage amendments passed in 11 states—part of Karl Rove’s strategy to draw out conservative evangelical voters.

Does Mehlman regret his role in all that?

Sort of, it seems. The Atlantic piece claims that Mehlman tried to scale back the marriage-equality attacks in “private discussions” with senior Republicans, and that he acknowledges that his coming out sooner might have mitigated some of his party’s homophobia.

But the quotations from Mehlman suggest that he doesn’t fully grasp his complicity. From the Atlantic piece:

”What I do regret, and think a lot about, is that one of the things I talked a lot about in politics was how I tried to expand the party into neighborhoods where the message wasn’t always heard. I didn’t do this in the gay community at all.”

He said that he “really wished” he had come to terms with his sexual orientation earlier, “so I could have worked against [the Federal Marriage Amendment]” and “reached out to the gay community in the way I reached out to African Americans.”

Here, Mehlman sounds at least as concerned (or more) about his failure to educate gays about Republican values as he does about his failure to educate Republicans (including himself) about gays.

In the interview, Mehlman also claims that former President Bush is “no homophobe,” which is true if by homophobe you mean someone viscerally uncomfortable with gay people. I lived in Austin when Bush was Texas Governor, and I knew people who knew him well. Gays were part of the Bushes’ social circle for years.

But homophobia doesn’t always come with open disgust, any more than racism always comes with hoods and pitchforks. Publicly, Bush, Rove, and Mehlman treated homosexuality as at best unspeakable, and at worst a threat to family and civilization. In doing so, they perpetuated the notion that gayness is a dirty little secret, something shameful and unholy.

Such homophobia is far more insidious—its damage far more pervasive—than any “God Hates Fags” rally. As someone who has experienced the closet firsthand, Mehlman ought now to understand that.

The reason that LGBT people are angry at Mehlman is that he was a key player in an organization that fostered and exploited such homophobia. The Republican party’s gay-baiting in 2004 didn’t just lead to a wave of discriminatory amendments: it also drove countless LGBT youth into the shaming closet that Mehlman is now gratefully escaping.

That’s what I want to see front and center on his regret list.

Which doesn’t mean I’m going to join the pile-on of those who say that there’s absolutely nothing that Mehlman could ever do to redeem himself. Quite the contrary.

Mehlman can’t change his past; no one can.

But if we want people to make better choices in the future, we hardly encourage their reform by telling them that they’re beyond redemption—as various bloggers have suggested regarding Mehlman.

Mehlman could easily have spent his life, as do many closeted Republicans (and Democrats, and Independents), covertly seeking romance with people who either don’t know or don’t care about his past. He has plenty of money; he could have afforded a nice closet.

By coming out in The Atlantic he has rejected that path. Good for him.

Instead, he wants to devote his energy to the fight for marriage rights. He has become actively involved in the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which is working to overturn California’s Prop. 8. His professional history puts him in a unique position to reach out to Republicans and others traditionally opposed to marriage equality.

If he continues these efforts—if he uses his strategic know-how to win political battles for equality, if he goes behind “enemy lines” to fight the homophobia that his party so deftly exploited, if he works to dismantle the crippling shame of the closet—then he should be congratulated, not shunned.

It won’t erase his past. But it’s a start at a much better future. I wish him well.

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Former Power Ranger Blue out of the closet and assume he is gay

The actor who played the Blue Ranger in Power Ranger series, David Yost, decided to exit the closet and took his homosexuality during an interview with Anime Festival Orlando 2010, an event for fans of Japanese animation, reported the Mail 24 hours.
Yost, who had participated in many campanahs to defend gay rights, first spoke openly about it.
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Terry Prone: My dead, gay friend who proves the Pope is wrong

Pope Benedict XVI says that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour is just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction. His controversial comments were all over the international media last week. They shouldn’t have been, according to the Iona Institute, a faith-based organisation. Because he didn’t say that at all.

So what he actually said was: “We need something like human ecology, meant in the right way. The Church speaks of human nature as ‘man’ or ‘woman’ and asks that this order is respected. This is not out-of-date metaphysics. It comes from the faith in the Creator and from listening to the language of creation, despising which would mean self-destruction for humans and therefore a destruction of the work itself of God.”

Clear on that, now? Me neither.

Thanks to the Iona Institute’s well-intended presentation of what the Pope meant to say, we now know Benedict comes from the same school of crystal-clear communication that gave us our beloved taoiseach. Given that media outlets, including the BBC, understood that the Pope was saying homosexuality is as dangerous to humanity as the destruction of the rainforest, Benedict clearly needs help with his communication.

My friend Kieran Lyons would have been offended by reports of the Pope’s statement. Although, no, Kieran didn’t do offended. He did outraged.

Not that he had much time for outrage the year his mother was diagnosed with secondary cancer and told she’d be dead in six months. He gave up his job and went back to the family home in Bagenalstown, Co Carlow, to nurse her.

His mother was a strong country widow who had come through a tough marriage relying on silence and prayer. Kieran could talk for Ireland but he also had insight, so each morning he’d leave the breakfast tray and go away to give her peace.

One morning after he set the tray on her lap, she caught his wrist. “I hardly know you,” she told him. He stepped back, the two of them silenced by the truth of what she had said. Kieran was in his mid-thirties and his mother hardly knew him.

“Would you write to me?”

“Write to you?”

“Write what you can’t talk to me about. A letter now and then.”

So he did. Every day for the seven-and-a-half months she survived, she got a handwritten letter from him in an envelope on the breakfast tray. Sometimes several pages long, sometimes one paragraph. Sometimes serious, often riotously funny. Towards the end, when neither breakfast nor reading were possible for her, he would read the letter aloud.
The letters told her the secrets of his life. Of the early months in the seminary, filled with happiness and certainty about the future. About the gently firm older priest in charge of the clerical students who knew him for what he was and helped him to see that the priesthood would not meet his needs. He told her of his desolate departure from the college, and of opting to study law, rather than his first love, medicine.

“You would have been a good doctor, though,” she said. It was an acknowledgment of his elegant and lightly dismissive management of the awkward intimacies dictated by her physical decline.

He was first a lawyer, then a magazine publisher, before becoming a full-time carer, letter-writer and laughter-inducer. She laughed most at his ruthlessly accurate self-portrayal: severely coeliac, committed hypochondriac and gay as Christmas.

It was only when her voice had shrivelled away to a whisper that she told him she loved him. He kissed her on the forehead. Then realised she had something to add: “Now I know why I love you.”

She never said anything else. Her silence gave way, the following day, to the agonised breathing before death.

After the funeral, he went through her papers. He found the first few months of his letters to her in an enamelled box tied together with a ribbon. That was unexpected; his mother had never been fond of ribbons. Rather, she was the kind of woman who kept a ball of rubber bands in a drawer because you’d never know when you’d need one. The ribbon was like receiving a posthumous sacramental blessing from her.

In the papers he found an aspect of her life of which he had known nothing: a leper colony in India she had supported for decades through the organisation of bring-and-buy sales. He sent the priest in India a letter and the rest of her money. The priest wrote back and told him the difference his mother had made.

He got himself a new job, setting up a publishing division within the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. He renewed an old friendship with me and together we wrote a book — This Business of Writing. Turn that beautifully produced hardback over and you’ll see a picture of the two of us. I’m trying not to laugh because, at the moment the shutter snapped, he was crouching to look smaller than his great height and predicting that the photograph would make him look like a tall stick of broccoli.

He also pursued a crazy idea developed after a visit to the leper colony his mother had helped. He worked out that in five years, when he was 50, he would have enough money to study medicine and then move to India to work with lepers. He wrote to medical colleges and found a place.

Then he became ill, and earlier this year he died suddenly. His funeral brought together dozens of people who had never known each other, each of them having been rescued, encouraged, lovingly bullied and dragged out of sadness by a man who — we now learnt — had spent his life doing pastoral work.

None of which, in fairness, the Pope would condemn. The Pope would say there’s nothing wrong in being homosexual; it’s just the act that’s wrong. Which line of thinking, logically extended, suggests the dead man was a danger to the human ecology the Pope wants to promote.

In fact, Kieran Lyons improved human ecology, making lives sustainable by noticing misery and promoting potential.

He was as gay as Christmas. And, for his friends, his passing leached some of the gaiety out of this one.

It's The Gays' Fault

I figured we had gotten past this canard but since Bill Donohue is on every television and radio show loudly proclaiming that the church's abuses can be attributed to "homosexuals", and therefore it is homosexuality and not the church that stands in the dock, it requires some unpacking.

Here's Donohue's valid point. In some of the reports on the sex abuse crisis, the impression is sometimes given that all the offenses are against children in the classic pedophile sense - pre-pubescent. The John Jay Report found that 22 percent of the cases of abuse in America were with children under the age of ten, 51% were between the ages of 11 and 14, and 15 percent were aged 16 or older. Eighty percent were same-sex abuse. So you can see how you can say that the majority of the cases were same-sex acts between men and male teens who were sexually past puberty. Hence, in Donohue's blinkered eyes, the gays did it. And if we get rid of all the gays, we may be unfair to many of them, but at least we can get rid of the abuse.

But here's why Donohue's attempt to blame the crisis on homosexuals as such is so wrong. First, the

BENEDICTChristopheSimon:AFP:Getty critical issue is abuse, not orientation. The abuse of a young or teenage boy is no different in its nature than the abuse of a young or teenage girl. The sin is the abuse of power, and the use of religious authority to subject the defenseless to an adult's sexual gratification. It's about the power differential, and the still fragile nature of a developing psyche and sexuality. The sexual orientation of the perpetrator is, strictly speaking, irrelevant to the matter at hand: an institution that sought to cover up, and protect rapists and molesters of minors. If we were talking about adult sexual relationships here, we could have a discussion about sexual orientation. But we're not. We're talking about abuse.

Secondly, and obviously, homosexuality is not abuse. It is an orientation that for the overwhelming majority involves consensual sex with adults. Some obvious attraction for teenage boys is as prevalent among gays as the obvious attraction for teenage girls for straight men. But there is no reason to correlate homosexuality with abuse, pederasty or pedophilia.

The real question is: what kind of gay man molests children and young teens? Just as: what kind of straight man molests children and young teens? What leads to this kind of behavior which is far from the norm among homosexuals and heterosexuals? And why does the Catholic Church priesthood seem such a magnet for child rapists and molesters? Why has it seemed to attract so many gay men who are psychologically disturbed or sick when it comes to their sexual orientation?

I find the answer pretty straightforward.

The church teaches first of all that all gay men are "objectively disordered:" deeply sick in their deepest soul and longing for love and intimacy. A young Catholic who finds out he's gay therefore simultaneously finds out that his church regards him as sick and inherently evil, for something he doesn't experience as a choice. That's a distorting and deeply, deeply damaging psychic wound. Young Catholic gay boys, tormented by this seemingly ineradicable sinfulness, often seek religious authority as a way to cope with the despair and loneliness their sexual orientation can create. (Trust me on this; it was my life). So this self-loathing kid both abstracts himself from sexual relationships with peers, idolizes those "normal" peers he sees as he reaches post-pubescence, and is simultaneously terrified by these desires and so seeks both solace and cover for not getting married by entering the priesthood.

None of this is conceivable without the shame and distortion of the closet, or the church's hideously misinformed and distorted view of homosexual orientation. And look at the age at which you are most likely to enter total sexual panic and arrest: exactly the age of the young teens these priests remain attracted to and abuse.

That's the age when the shame deepens into despair; that's when sexuality is arrested; that's where the psyche gets stunted. In some ways, I suspect, these molesters feel as if they are playing with equals - because emotionally they remain in the early teens. I'm not excusing this in any way; just trying to understand how such evil can be committed.

Ask yourself: how many openly gay and adjusted priests have been found to have abused minors? Or ask yourself another question: if straight men were forbidden to marry women, had their sexual and emotional development truncated at the age of 13, and were forced into institutions where they were treated by teenage girls as gods, an given untrammeled private access to them, how much sexual abuse do you think would occur there? Please. This is not that hard to understand.

I think it's compounded by the shame gay bishops feel about their own sexual orientation. They, like Bill Donohue, secretly associate their homosexuality with dysfunction, disorder, chaos, evil. So when they come across a fellow priest found to have molested teenage boys or children, they associate it with homosexuality - not pederasty - associate themselves with it, and try to cover it up - partly because they want to protect the church (which is their sole refuge) and partly because they want to protect those they wrongly associate with themselves. My own view is that Ratzinger fits almost perfectly into this paradigm, just as Weakland did. Which means there will be no change until this generation dies off. If Ratzinger were to face the truth on this, his world would collapse. He is not giving up on denial yet. He is a prime example of the walking wounded. Crippled, in fact, in the sole area he cannot be crippled: moral authority.

I don't believe, in other words, that you can tackle this problem without seeing it as a symptom of a much deeper failure of the church to come to terms with sexuality, sexual orientation and the warping, psychologically distorting impact of compulsory celibacy in the priesthood. If women and married men were allowed to be priests, if homosexuality were regarded in Catholic theology as a healthy and rare difference rather than as a shameful disorder, this atmosphere would end, and these crimes would for the most part disappear and the cloying, closeted power-structure which enabled them to go unpunished for so long would finally crumble. And the church could grow again.

Through the truth, not around it. But it's exactly that truth that this pontiff and his enablers refuse to acknowledge. It would kill them.

Calif bill protects clergy opposed to gay marriage

(08-25) 15:56 PDT Sacramento, Calif. (AP) --

Clergy who refuse to sanction same-sex marriages would be protected under a bill sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk by the state Senate.

Sen. Mark Leno's bill, approved 22-11 Wednesday, could become necessary if a federal appeals court upholds a judge's ruling this month striking down Proposition 8, the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban.


The bill says religious institutions from faiths that object to same-sex unions could not be stripped of their tax-exempt status if their clergy refuse to perform weddings for gay couples.

Leno, a gay Democrat from San Francisco, defended the measure when it was opposed by Sen. Roy Ashburn, an openly gay Republican from Bakersfield.

Ashburn objected that the bill defines same-sex marriages as civil relationships, which he says puts them in a lesser class than heterosexual marriages.

Same-sex marriage gains GOP support

A growing number of Republicans are breaking with the party's traditional stance to publicly state their support for same-sex marriage, a shift strategists say stems as much from demographics as from the renewed focus on economics and the "tea party" movement.

A solid majority of adults younger than 30 - about six in 10 - support the right of gay and lesbian couples to legally wed, according to a Washington Post poll in February.

But even many older Americans and self-identified social conservatives have changed their view on an issue that just six years ago galvanized voters in support of President George W. Bush's reelection.

Gay Republican activists credit the shift to the heightened attention within the GOP base to jobs and the economy, and by a desire among strategists to expand the party's appeal.

"Our nation is at a crossroads, and conservatives are trying to rally together to turn back the Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda," said Chris Barron, chairman of GOProud, a gay Republican group. "That's why we've seen people like Glenn Beck saying, 'Look, same-sex marriage isn't hurting anybody.' Because he sees a need to create a broad-based conservative movement."

Beck, a tea party favorite, recently told fellow Fox talk show host Bill O'Reilly that gay marriage was not "a threat to the country" and that marriage is a religious, not a governmental, issue.

A number of prominent Republicans have been more outspoken, stating that they support same-sex marriage rights. They include Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain (Ariz.); "The View" commentator Elizabeth Hasselbeck; former first lady Laura Bush and former vice president Dick Cheney.

Ted Olson, solicitor general under Bush, was part of the legal team that successfully challenged Proposition 8, California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. And this week, former Republican operative Ken Mehlman disclosed that he is gay and that he will be raising money to support Olson's effort.
Also at play is the rise of the libertarian-leaning tea party movement. Many of the movement's leaders have said they oppose government intervention on marriage issues, while others say their concerns about taxation and the size of government supercede concerns over social issues.

"I come from a pretty strict upbringing in that I was raised Catholic," said Dawn Wildman, a coordinator for the California Tea Party Patriots, who said she personally opposes gay marriage. "But I have this strong belief in individualism. Not to mention that we don't have the luxury to think of the social issues right now."

One striking example of the tea party's ambivalence about social issues played out this summer in a House primary race in South Florida, where many tea party activists rallied around Donna Milo, a transgender Republican candidate who was seeking to challenge Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D). Milo came in third in the Aug. 24 primary.

Opposition to same-sex marriage has by no means disappeared in either party. President Obama has said he opposes the right of gay couples to marry, although he backs civil unions. Religiously inclined conservative groups such as the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family, whose political agenda has long overlapped with the GOP's, have continued to push back on the gains made by pro-gay marriage groups in recent years.
The issue of gay rights continues to divide the party. Conservative pundit Ann Coulter was excoriated this month by some on the religious right for agreeing to speak at Homocon, GOProud's convention, where she was billed as "the right-wing Judy Garland."

In a letter to supporters this week, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said Republicans who support same-sex marriage do it at their peril. The position "stands in direct opposition to the Party's platform, which is clear on the importance of marriage and family," he wrote. "The Party's unequivocal stand on life, marriage, and family is why many social conservatives have made the GOP their political home."

But some Republican activists say the party would be remiss if it did not consider the changing social trends, particularly among young people, who have leaned Democratic.

Some surveys show that support for same-sex marriage is growing even among young evangelical Christians. According to a 2008 study by the liberal-leaning group Faith in Public Life, young white evangelicals are more than twice as likely as older evangelicals to say that gay couples should be allowed to marry.

Mehlman's announcement this week was a dramatic example of the quiet but decisive shift that has taken place within the party. He helped orchestrate Bush's reelection strategy in 2004, which included an effort to motivate conservatives to the polls by putting same-sex marriage bans on state ballots. At the time, about two-thirds of Americans opposed the right of same-sex couples to legally marry, polls showed.

Mehlman told reporters Wednesday that he regretted not speaking out sooner.

Clarke Cooper, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay GOP group founded in the 1970s, said it is striking how far the attitude toward gays has shifted within the party in a short time. During the 1996 presidential election, Republican contender Bob Dole returned a $500 check from the group. Today, Cooper said, the political action committee has contributed to a half-dozen campaigns for the November midterm elections.
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"I can't even fathom what it must have been like when you're trying to give money to a candidate, to have it shoved back in your face," Cooper said. "Now candidates say, 'Hey, we need your endorsement.' That's a far cry from where we were in the '90s."

Staff writer Nia-Malika Henderson contributed to this report.

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hello guys, I'm back, after a time away from my blog and focused on my business and my personal life, now everything is better and I'm with intentions to post;) Asik alla ke we hope you like what i bring; )

Cristiano Ronaldo. A is mu ke butbolista Well

For me football is not going (although I love balls), just see the European Championship and the World, but that to find pictures of football players
Internet muxo I like, I post today to Cristiano Ronaldo, but I liked most of their principles (which was not...
metro sexual), does not deny an appointment with the addition to my ke me that Mexico is a bit Gay. Besos ;)))))