There's no glamour in the tabloids. We have the same dozen stars in the same dozen positions, particularly one's that don't look very good in pictures. Just today The New York Post, everyone's favorite conservative tab-news rag, featured a picture of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan with a caption "Bimbo Summit". None of the women look particularly glamorous, nor do they invoke envy, sympathy or wonder.

If photographer Ron Galella had his way, we'd never have to look at another grotesque display of celebrity debauchery again. Sure, his pictures of the disco era captured enough debauchery to kill the Pope, but there's more to his work than deliciously excessive partying.

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We were just taking a trip down memory lane (read: we had a flashback) and recalled the Grace Jones dance classic, "Pull Up to The Bumper". A not-so-subtle, yet just-as-sexy allusion to sex of the penetrative variety, it's the perfect antidote to the mid-morning, sexless hours. Well, sexless for us, at least. So, we're just going to have to use our imaginations.

Luckily, our imaginations are far more graphic than our actual sex lives. So, too, is this song. Good news for you, not so much for us...

We’re gaga over Max Dursley Davies’ underwear line. They’re butch, but really gay at the same time. Just like Jonathan Rhys-Myers. And we’re loving the website images of hottie model boys in underwear covered in Keith Haring-inspired body paint. How very Grace Jones. Take a minute from your busy Friday and check them out. And if someone in your office catches you, let them know it is art you are looking at, not porn.

Max Dursley Davies [Official Site]
Keith Haring My Arse [BitchLess Blog]
Grace Jones by Keith Haring [The Blitz Kids]

To coincide with the launch of the Bid 2 Beat AIDS auction Bradford Shellhammer chatted with Chip Duckett, legendary NYC party promoter and the man behind the auction.

Chip, how did you get involved with LIFEbeat and who came up with the Bid2Beat auction?

I've worked with LIFEbeat for over eleven years, and we've done many benefits together, from after-concert parties to dance nights, so we know each other very well. And I'm an admitted eBay addict, so it just seemed natural --- and happily, LIFEbeat agreed. This will be the ultimate celebrity tag sale!

Can you explain to our readers what LIFEbeat is all about?

LIFEbeat was founded in 1992 when Bob Caviano, Grace Jones' manager, wrote an editorial in Billboard disclosing the fact that he had AIDS and challenging the industry to mobilize. The response was terrific, and LIFEbeat was born. Over the years LIFEbeat has raised millions of dollars, which has gone to help small AIDS organizations nationwide, among other projects. Most importantly, it uses the power of music to reach young people. One of the coolest things LIFEbeat does is distributing HIV/AIDS information packages and condoms to hundreds of thousands of kids at concerts and clubs nationwide. Think about it --- many young people don't have access to this at school, and would be intimidated around their parents. At concerts, they are free to get this info!

What are you expecting to get the biggest bid in the auction?

That's hard to say --- there's a 2006 Vespa LX-50 sitting in the lobby of Sirius Satellite Radio, signed by Kanye West, Gloria Estefan, Garth Brooks, and about 50 other stars. But some wealthy, drunk drag queens may just battle it out for J. Lo's signed jogging suit or Beyonce's signed jeans and top that Vespa! (That means YOU, Dina Martina and Jackie Beat!)

Info on gay icons Lindsay Lohan, Madonna, and Bea Arthur after the jump.

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