• Ruben Solorio has been arrested in connection with the 2005 murder of Arizona-based drag queen, Amancio Corrales. Hooray!

• Get the low down on Sao Paulo Pride parties. Be sure to send us a postcard. And a Brazilian.

• David Banda's the cutest of all Madonna's "stolen" African babies!

• Focus on The Family seems to think that New York state law defines marriage as "between a man and a woman". Good As You calls "bullshit".

• The United Kingdom's foremost expert on sex change operations, Dr. Russell Reid, has been found guilty of professional misconduct after rushing five patients into surgery without following proper procedure.

• Scream screenwriter and known homosexual Kevin Williamson has a new soap: Hidden Palms. AfterElton describes it as a blend between The OC and Desperate Housewives. Sounds juicy shitty interesting...

• It's Fleet Week and this sailor's looking for some action. Also, has a crush on his drill sergeant, no foresight (he included his picture).

• Some people may take offense at Best Week Ever calling this man a "scary tranny", but nothing else fits. Except, maybe, for Norman Bates.

Those Brazilians sure are competitive. First, Made in Brazil hosted the 2006 Hottest Brazilian Contest, then came the Mr. Brazil face off, and we have The Hottest Brazilian tournament.

Mix Brasil and Manhunt have scoured the sex-crazed web-page's archives to find the top ten Brazilians up in the 'mo mix. Now it's up to you to decide which one comes out on top. The winning stud receives an all expenses paid trip to São Paulo pride.

So, what do you get? The satisfaction of knowing that you've helped someone pretty. And, really, isn't that what life's all about.

Head on over and cast your vote. We voted for this dude - the only one with body hair.

Brazilian punk funk electro rocking trio Bonde do Role just wants to get you moving. And they do. You may not get understand Bonde's lyrics to their single, "Solta O Frango", but you'll definitely get the message: live it up.

Even if you do speak Portuguese, you may not pick up on the group's gay word play - no doubt the influence of gay DJ, Gorky, who met the other DJ, Pedro, back in 2004 and asked Marino to join them on their genre-bending, queer-tinged trip. Domino Records brags:

Bonde’s mums love Bonde’s music, by the way. Gorky’s does her hydro-gymnastics to …With Lasers. She likes the happy songs, or at least the ones which sound happy but are probably about something unspeakable, because most of the lyrics on …With Lasers are in an obscure Portugese sub-dialect called Pajuba, which was appropriated by the gay community, a bit like polaris in Britain. “They have different words for ass,” Pedro clarifies. These lyrics pop up in ‘James Bonde’. “Gorky really likes James Bond,” Marina explains, “so I wrote a song about James Bond being gay, and turned him into James Bonde. He would be so much better being gay. The song is about how The Queen would sack him if she found out he uses false eyelashes.”

Check out Bonde do Role's debut album, ...With Lasers, available now on iTunes.

(By the way, Bonde means "crew" in Brazilian slang. As in, pass the word along to your bonde.)

Is it us or has today been dragging like a well-worn anus?

To tighten things up a bit, so to speak, let's all take a second to leer at model Leandro Okabe with a video from his shoot with The Boy. Guaranteed to make time fly by - or, at least, 2 minutes and 43 seconds...

Take a peek, after the jump...

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• See these two men? They're Brazilian actors named Sérgio Abreu and Carlos Casagrande and they're totally playing lovers on a new prime-time sudster, Paraíso Tropica. How do you say "very hot" in Portuguese? [Made in Brazil]

• Viktor and Rolf are so avant-garde! They totally strapped lights to a model. [IHT]

• We totally inspired Kenneth Hill to make a super-hero. He didn't name it, though. Perhaps you can help. [QueerSighted]

• Meanwhile, HX editor Brandon Voss has been spending some time with Sarah Silverman. The result? An eye-opening interview. Did you know you can say "cunt" on Comedy Central after 1am? Now you do. Thanks Voss and Silverman, you just made our day. [The Advocate]

• Here's another tough question: if you're on American Idol and have an initialed name, does that make you gay? It certainly looks that way. [Brace Face]

• A Swedish club's been ordered to pay 30,000 kronor after asking a lesbian couple to stop snogging. Yeah, that's basically all you need to know... [The Local]

We've received more than a few emails from readers urging us to vote for them in Genre Magazine's Man of the Year contest. We forgot until just now, so we headed on over to cast our vote and found this message:

Dear Gays and Str8s recruited to help your favorite gay,
We have recently discovered that several illegal programs were being used to alter the GENREMAN voting system. We are disappointed that a select few would go to such extreme and (sadly) desperate measures to win. We have made the decision to begin GENREMAN again with a blank slate and hope that this competition will recommence with a higher level of integrity and respect.

As for our vote - we're rooting for Los Angeles homo, Andrew Gonzalez. Not only do we love his name, but he's only got four votes right now. As we proved with the Mr. Brazil competition, we always go for the underdog.

We've just received a very excited email from the kids at Made in Brazil about tonight's Mr. Brazil competition in which a parade of men will compete to move on to the cut-throat and oh-so-compelling Mr. World Competition. Titillating indeed.

While the MIB boys picked their favorites - all of whom look suspiciously like the same person - we took a gander at the comprehensive list and after much deliberation we've chosen Thiago Baptista as our winner.

Sure, he may not be the most muscular, waxed or particularly good looking, but we're all about the underdog.

Also, we have no confirmation, but we suspect he's got balls of steel. And, really, how could he not? Let's just hope he's got the backbone to match...

Because we know you guys are totally hard-up, here's a link to a video of sexy Big Brother Brazil contestant Alan Pierre showering.

Hmm, so Brazil banned YouTube because of a sex video, but they're allowing primetime penis? Maybe the toilets aren't the only things running backward down Rio way.

Thanks to Made in Brazil. You made our day past ten minutes.

Why The "Why Gay Me?" monkey? Because we couldn't put a penis and we missed his adorably mangled face. Oh, and it's a good way to remind you guys to send us your embarrassing tales. We need a good laugh.)

Another month, another Out. You may recall that last month they gave us the ritualistic end-of-the-year rejuvenatory spectacular (including Tom Donaghy's boffo essay on bridging the queer generational divide). Well, this month the boys take a trip down Rio way for a little skin tight swimsuit action.

Snapped by Matthias Vriens, the boys leave little to the imagination (you'll see what we mean, after the jump). Of course, there's more to the issue than just swimsuit clad beach bunnies, a species many may find terrifying. As EIC Aaron Hicklin points out in the editor's letter. Recalling in hilarious detail the horror of seeing his father in speedo, Hicklin muses:

The result is that I have always found men in skimpy swimsuits faintly embarrassing (often, let’s face it, for good reason). To which you might legitimately ask, “So what the hell is he doing editing this magazine?’ As one acquaintance put it, none too delicately, “Isn’t every issue of Out a swimsuit issue?” Well, no.

Hicklin goes on to suggest the reader check out the Mark Simpson aka "Sporno's the new Metrosexuality" penned assessment of so-called "Speedophobia" in the United States. Sure, it's a well-trod topic, but as is his inimitable style, Simpson gives it a little extra kick. Delving into the surprisingly absorbing (absorbant?) history of bathing suits, Simpson offers this nugget:

Bathing and swimming are undoubtedly pagan passions. The ancients invented the seaside resort and spent a great deal of gold on, and time in, their blessed public baths, where the men bathed and swam naked. Not because they were indifferent to nakedness, but because they esteemed virility. Every night was wet jockstrap night (without the jockstrap) at the Roman baths, and especially well-endowed bathers were likely to be greeted with a round of applause; during the reign of notorious size queen Emperor Elagabalus, those who hung low at the baths were promoted to high office.

Also in this issue, a piece on virginal Christ-loving (he loves you, too) gays, a few notes on our favorite reality-television diva-bitch heart stopper, New York and a Valentine's Day-themed "musical mix" from everyone's favorite cupid, John Waters. Of course, Out wouldn't have it any other way.

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We make innumerable decisions everyday. What to wear? What to eat? Which way to the bar? Those are some pretty hard choices, yes, but not as hard as naming Brazil's fineset man. There must be hundreds of attractive Brazilian boys, how can someone be expected to pick the most delectable of the bunch?

Well, the kids over at Made in Brazil have made things a little easier by narrowing it down to ten superior studs for their Hottest Brazilian 2006 contest!

For the second year in a row, readers can vote on which boy they most want to bone. We're leaning toward surfer Igor Rosa. It's an impossible mission, but we think you're up for it. Or, you will be...

We just received this link from our friends over at Made in Brazil detailing some pretty exciting legislative shifts down south. First, the country's lower legislative house has passed a discrimination bill protecting the homos. The International Herald Tribune Reports:

The bill, passed Thursday, makes discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation a crime equal to discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender and national origin — which have carried prison sentences since 1989, said Congresswoman Iara Bernardi.

The bill now goes before the Senate, which has not yet set a date to vote.

The next bit of news is that the county has granted the first adoption to a gay couple. While lesbian couples had previously been granted these rights, the case opens the door for more men of the homosexual variety to take in a little orphan. And, really, what could be better than having a small parasite draining your bank account? How about the fact that couples can now receive some of the same rights afforded straights?

That's right, queer couples in Brazil can now sign "união estável documents. We don't know exactly what that means, but MiB writes that "once filed give both partners similar rights to those of a heterosexual couple. It is a big step towards civil unions." Sounds good to us. But, we're sure it sounds better to the thousands of Brazilians for whom this actually matters.

Ug, America is just so third world!

We were happy and surprised to hear that this year's Pride celebration in São Paulo, Brazil was possibly the largest gay event in the world, with over 2.5 million people in attendance. Looking at these photos we believe it.

But we also think that it could possibly be the highest concentration of sexy shirtless gay men as well. We have amassed some photo evidence courtesy of our friends at Made In Brazil, which you can see after the jump.

Next year we may have to take a trip South, heat be damned, even if we risk being crushed by thousands of tanned pectorals.

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