Free Read and Hillary Clinton

All Board! The Guadalupe is casting off from La Playa Blanca on a diving adventure. Find out what happens next with Shane and Andrew in chapter six of La Playa Blanca. 

And, if you have not heard Hillary Clinton's historical speech today on human rights for LGBT people, here is a link.

As always, Silver Flash Wednesday is taking place over at West Thornhill's, and there's a Flash Virgin on the loose, too. You can find all the linkes there.

Diving in Belize

At midnight tonight, the next chapter of my novella, La Playa Blanca (LPB), will be available for your reading pleasure. The best part? You can read it here for free. If you haven't been following along, the story is about two divers who are leading excursions into the wonders off the coast of Belize. You might be wondering if I've been diving in Belize. The answer is, yes, and I loved it. 

In the coming chapter of LPB, Shane and Andrew are preparing to take their clients into The Great Blue Hole, a dive I was unable to experience first-hand. Although, I'll admit to being too chicken, I also have a better excuse. My ears won't equalize below sixty feet due to a childhood surgery. I am strictly a shallow water diver, although I have several friends who have made this dive and highly recommend it for experienced deep water divers. 

This amazing submarine sink hole lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef surrounded by some of the worlds most spectaculer corals. So, for those who don't feel comfortable with caves and deep water, there is plenty to see in the shallows.

Although I do quite well with photography, it takes an extra special gift to capture good underwater photos. All of mine, unfortunately, were shot with a cheap disposable camera and somewhere along the way, I eventually gave up trying to capture the underwater world on my dives. I've learned to leave that to experts like Tony Rath, whose photo blog of Belize is one of my favorites. Here are a couple of his spectacular photos. I hope they'll give you a visual for the underwater world you're about to enter with Shane and Andrew. My boys will depart from La Playa Blanca on The Guadalupe tonight at midnight EST. I hope you will join them.

Two Men Zumanity

Tonight, I spent the evening with my family watching Cirque du Soleil. New factoid about me - I come from a long line of professional dancers. I even danced professionally myself, touring with a group all over Europe once upon a time, though I admit to being way out of shape these days. So, in my family, for the best way to grab and hold everyone's attention with little to no arguments, bring on the dancing. 

If you want innovative, provocative, and fantastic dances, consider tickets to Cirque du Soleil. After watching a not so great show, I started thinking of what to share with you from all the fantastic dances they have performed. Who wins the award as my all time favorite? I bestow this prestigious honor on Patrick King, the creator of Two Men for Zumanity.  I'm sure he'll be thrilled.  Here's the man himself performing with Johun King Silverhult. Wait for it. I promise you won't be disappointed.

Hung Like a Whale

Did you know that the largest testes in the world belongs to the right whale, weighing in at a thousand pounds and measuring nine feet in length? A friend of mine read my blog on gay animals and called to share her expertise on whale sex. I have to tell you, I'm fascinated. She described actually seeing two male gray whales mutually masturbating. Not surprisingly, even though we are both intelligent adults, we couldn't seem to stop ourselves from discussing size. The image is of two males engaged in sexual behavior, according to my friend. You can clearly see they are both excited.

I couldn't resist going on a whale hunt of sorts for more images, facts, and information. Why, I wonder, was I compelled to see this? It's not as if I have some interest in a man being hung like a whale. Seriously, should something that size ever come gunning for me, I'll run screaming! Still, I find myself compelled to look. Some of my curiosity comes from a recent whale watching trip in Bar Harbor last August. A pair of humpback males surfaced near our boat, and the naturalist recognized them immediately by the marks on their fins. She commented that this pair of adult males has been seen hanging out together for years. Generally, if you see one, you see them both. Of course, I immediately wondered if homosexual behaviors had been observed in humpbacks. What can I say? The naturalist didn't know.

My friend, always happy to support my educational endeavors, no matter how bizarre, loaned me a book called Gray Whales Wandering Giants by Robert H. Busch. The book provides lots of facts like the gray whale's penis size - five feet long. There are some really interesting photos, too. But, when it comes to discussions of gay behaviors, they do the typical  glossing of the topic by simply saying the "explanation behind homosexual behavior in gray whales is unknown."

By the way, in case my male readers are feeling ye olde size envy, you might like to know that whale sperm is actually smaller than human sperm. Of course, they produce gallons of it, so I'm not sure that helps.

Anyway, I went online searching for more information. I looked up Dr. Rich Osborne first, because he has studied, photographed, and described homosexual behavior in orcas. The males of this species apparently gather in groups during the breeding season and enjoy all kinds of mutual pleasure with each other when females are not present. One or more males have also been known to hold another breeding couple up during repeated copulations. Apparently, it's a bisexual free love party. You could go so far as to say sex among these guys is killer. But, I digress - again.

The Whale Museum in Friday Harbor, where Osborne was the research curator for many years, allegedly has an entire collection of NSFW orca photos  showing them engaged in same sex activities. I had hoped to find some of these images to share, but alas, I only found them mentioned in articles.

Instead, I made do with a photo of a fully erect orca. The researcher is gathering a sperm sample. Orcas also appear to be exhibitionists with no hang ups about gender or species. Yes, whales are fascinating in many, many ways.

Alas,  I need to stop this whale hunt, now. It's time for beauty rest so I'll be ready for a rollicking good time with the coffee porn gang, Andi Lea and West Thornhill, tomorrow. We are meeting  Amanda Young for lunch at Red Robin. Yay! 

Zero in 2011!

World AIDS Day. Working towards zero in 2011!