Here it is, boys and girls, the trailer for the latest James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace. Sadly, Daniel Craig does not sport that infamous bathing suit.

A new series of portraits by conceptual photographer Sam Taylor-Wood features some of Hollywood’s most sought after leading men – Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Daniel Craig, Hayden Christensen etc – in tears.

According to Taylor-Wood, the idea’s pretty simple: “It’s about the idea of taking these big, masculine men and showing a different side.”

Yay, straightforward, unpretentious art!
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Sometimes you come across a story that starts in one place and ends somewhere else entirely. Take, for example, this piece from List. We dove in to read what actor Tamer Hassan had to say about his Layer Cake co-star Daniel Craig's Oscar ambitions.

Craig, says Hassan, wants an Academy Award so badly that he'd do a gay scene in the next James Bond flick: "That's Daniel dying for an Oscar. Ever since Brokeback Mountain everyone wants to have a gay scene to win an Oscar." Ah, yes, the gay for gold card. Cute, but not the most original punchline.

While we would have ended there, we wanted to "hear" what else Hassan had to say for himself - and we're kind of grossed out. With regard to playing gay:

You couldn't get me doing that though - my son would never forgive me! I've got a 16-year-old son, so can you imagine? He would get ridiculed for it. And he's at a professional soccer club too - can you imagine the dressing room banter?! So, no, they couldn't get me doing that. They can keep the Oscar and I'll keep my virginity!

Good God! Is it really so difficult to discuss gay with your son - and address homophobia in his soccer club - that you'd reject a gay role even if it garnered an Oscar? Way to commit…

No doubt the world of porn qualifies as wild. With all those hot bodies, infinite positions and dirty imaginations, the adult film industry is one monstrous jungle of sexual kicks. But what happens when those kicks get political? Can the lascivious be judicious?

Gaytanamo drew fire even before anyone lost precious fluids. In early January, The Washington Blade accused Jersey-based production company, Dark Alley Media of “fisting their way out of the Geneva Convention.” Here at Queerty, we wondered why Matthias von Fistenberg and Owen Hawk chose to name their porn after Guantánamo Bay: the controversial American holding facility where terror suspects are subject to psychological and physical torture. Hawk told us:

Gaytanamo does not trivialize peoples suffering, but uses images and representations in order to attempt change in perception.
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When we are put in front of the reality of our own violent desires, we are no doubt uncomfortable. But it is precisely because [we] are not put in front of these desires — and therefore never get to understand them — that policies born out of this repression, a la Guantanamo, are even possible.

Now, Queerty contributor James Withers offers his take on Gaytanamo conflict, after the jump.

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If you thought Elton John's party looked fun, you should check out some pictures from this weekend's Independent Spirit Awards. Melissa Etheridge may not have won, but Little Miss Sunshine took home a bunch of honors, including best feature and best supporting actor for Alan Arkin.

We've included some pictures after the jump. They're all Polaroidy and shit. It is, after all, a celebration of independent spirits. When you're done looking them over, you can see more here. They won't be as big, though. Sorry.

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We were just giving ourselves a little poke and came across a comment on Tuesday's Daniel Craig-related post. (For the amnesiacs out there, it seems Craig got a little grumpy with homo-journo Johann Hari after Hari complimented his body.) With regard to that post, a reader named Katie had this to say:

u lot r all fags hes da best if ya fink hes a twat ur da 1 dats needz mental help

We think we're supposed to be offended, but we're just confused.

Also, we can't help but wonder if Katie's related to homo-hating reader Randal. Remember him from our legendary post, Crazy Man Emails Us Crazy Email of Craziness? If they're not related, perhaps they're soul mates. Although it is possible they're both related and soul mates. You know how those things go…

Yow, seems like Daniel Craig's a little touchy about his looks. British homo-journo Johann Hari of The Independent apparently told the James Bond actor he's looking well and got an earful, Pink News UK reports.

When we first spoke, he was in a vile mood. I just made a joke about how great he looked in his shorts in the film.

There were so many ways he could have reacted. But instead, he called me a fucking fool. I hadn't said it nastily.

He could have just smiled and said he wasn't in the mood for a joke. But he was actively rude and seemed to snarl at me.

Apparently Craig's tired of people paying more attention to his body than his acting. Poor thing…

• Someone buy Carson Kressley's book for Carson Kressley, please! (Thanks, Radar.)

• Maybe Kressley can then give the book to Ontario's Health Minister, George Smitherman - he's marrying his long-time beau this summer.

• We're sure President Bush won't be invited. We're also sure he'll be really offended. You know, because he's so compassionate.

• Here's a little tonic for your upset tummy: rumor has it that John Barrowman may sign on to play a seductive gay villain opposite Daniel Craig's James Bond.

• After you're done thinking about Barrowman getting naked with Bond, why not think about some of the most famous young designers, some of whom we'd like to get naked with, too. After we play dress up, of course.

• Now you've picked out your wardrobe, allouw John Mayer to provide a lesson in how not to open an interview with Ryan Seacrest, "You’re like the Anderson Cooper of E!” Oh, wait, actually, we think every interview with Ryan Seacrest should start like that…

A friend just sent us the first public shots from Out Magazine's photo shoot with Jamie Dornan, the phenomenally beautiful Calvin Klein model who plays Kirsten Dunst's lover in Marie Antionette. Looking pretty fly there, Mr. Dornan…

As if drooling over Dornan isn't reason enough, the ever-improving fag rag turns its homo-gaze toward Bond (James Bond, that is) with a Mark Simpson feature on Bond's metrosexuality and a spy themed fashion editorial (we'd share those pics with you, but they're top secret - and already on the website) for the release of Casino Royale.

Also in this issue - which should hit stands by the end of the week - the Out boys unveil a new look. EIC Aaron Hicklin uses his editorial letter as explanation:

“If you don’t grow and change, you die,” explained long time James Bond producer Barbara Brocolli earlier this year, after dumping Pierce Brosnan in favor of Daniel Craig, a guy who actually has more than one facial expression. Brocolli’s axiom may be particularly relevant to Bond, who—post Austin Powers—is becoming a parody of a parody of a parody, but it also applies to magazines. As you will have noticed, we’ve been doing some growing and changing of our own of late, introducing new writers and photographers, and expanding the fashion coverage, culminating in the redesign you see here. We think it’s a handsome new look that better reflects the tone and style of the content, and think that you will, too.

We could wax philosophical on the mag's new direction and all that, but we'd rather try to imagine Dornan naked. You can, too. Where? After the jump, you crazy kids!

(Loyal readers may notice we've changed some text here - we apologize if we got you all excited by mentioning a Daniel Craig shoot and Kirsten Dunst's involvement in the issue. Our brains are all mush thanks to the Dornan shots. Not surprisingly, other parts of our anatomy aren't so soft…)

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• We're glad to know we weren't being overly-sensitive when those "silly little fairy" Dodge Caliber ads got under our skin. Everybody thinks they're such comedians now with the post-Brokeback gay jokes. Hardy har har. [DetNews]

• Man sends mail-bomb to plastic surgeon after unsatisfactory penile enlargement surgery. We'll never laugh at those overcompensating "I drive a Corvette because my penis is small" guys again. [10News]

• Note to Christian Right: We gays really are recruiting now. You can even take a college class on gay parenting. While we're teaching people how to be gay: how about a class on teaching gay guys to throw a ball? Because everyone here at Queerty throws like limp-wristed girls, and our softball team is going to get annhilated. [GayWired]

• Daniel Craig, the new (and very sexy!) James Bond, is already a gay icon. Or so he thinks. We've always thought 007 needs to have a gay spy, anyway. Perhaps 008? Since most gay guys claim to be "8" anyway, it makes sense. [Yahoo]

• James Bond to go nekkid. 007 movies have been boring the past several years, but Daniel Craig is already spicing things up. [Socialite's Life]

• Gays infiltrate reality-TV again, but even that won't save Unan1mous, which premieres tonight. Screw it, watch Top Model instead. [Boston.com]

• P. Diddy carries a man-bag. Call it a purse, and he'll pop a cap in yo' ass, bitch. [StarPulse]

• Chastity Bono takes a break from working out on Celebrity Fit Club to chat about her addiction to pills, challenges of losing weight, and having her uterus removed. What a life! [AfterEllen]

What would you do if a hunky working-class robber broke into your apartment? British painter Francis Bacon ordered such an intruder to strip, and then to intrude further. He and George Dyer, such was the miscreant’s name, became lovers in one of those S and M arrangements that you just know has to end with somebody getting hurt.

In this case, the sadistic one killed himself. The silver lining in the homo storm cloud, though, is that this wholesome tale was made into a BBC movie and is available from Amazon.com. Derek Jacobi plays Francis Bacon, so any way you cut it he is bound to be called “Sir” at some point.

For the ultimate recommendation for this film, Love Is The Devil, we turn to the Show Biz Maven, who says: “Bacon is comfortable in The Colony, his favorite haunt, where there are more social outcasts than in a John Waters movie." The actor who portrays the very promiscuously gay George Dyer, recently anointed as James Bond, is Daniel Craig. Things that make you go hmmmmm.