South African police are taking "equal opportunity" to a whole new level. As the country mulls legalizing prostitution, coppers are asking the government to import at least 2500 male hustlers for the 2010 World Cup. Though there are enough female sex workers, the Rainbow Nation's in dire need of more M4M sex workers. Police Commissioner spokesperson Renato Thabethe insists:

Our constitution demands equal opportunity for gay sports fans. South Africa is fast becoming the gay friendly capital of the continent, and we need to ensure that this remains the case in 2010.

Don't worry, though, the fuzz are dedicated to ensuring visitors get an authentic "African experience" by recruiting men from the continent:

We want to ensure that this is an African experience. What kind of African welcome will we offer to international visitors if they simply end up with the same sex workers that they left behind at home?

How thoughtful. Nothing tops a South African adventure like real life African hooker!

While the news may please gay soccer fans, South Africa's indigenous hustlers aren't feeling so international. Gay Association of Sex Worker's Guy Forheir issued a statement:

Everyday we are outlawed and oppressed by the government, and when we are finally about to be legalized, they are preparing to take our very living away from us. Why should ordinary South African sex professionals make way for foreigners? All we want to do is make a living... We have a right to make a quick buck on the 2010 World Cup just like every other South African.

The costumer always cums first.

GOV TO IMPORT GAY SEX WORKERS [Mamba Online]

We can't help but wonder what Russian conservative politician Nikolay Kuryanovich - the man who wants to make homosexuality illegal - has to say about this story:

The Russian military is reported to be investigating claims that army conscripts were forced to work as male prostitutes in St Petersburg.
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A spokeswoman for [human rights group] Soldiers' Mothers, Ella Polyakova, told the BBC that in St Petersburg there was "a network of clients" who would pay for sex with soldiers.

Older servicemen are said to have forced younger conscripts into prostitution and then taken the money for themselves.

It's hard out their for a pimp. Or, rather, Russian soldier.

Although, we can't blame the commanding officers for making a buck off their subordinates. You know what they say about Russian prostitutes: tasteless but potent.

Bring up Thailand and someone invariably brings up underage male hustlers. Certainly there are hundreds of readily exploitable young lads, but there's more to Thailand than just sexual tourism.

To shed some light on Thailand's boundary testing - yet not quite breaking - sexuality, we asked gay American expat Michael Clyne (pictured in an artist's rendition) to offer his take. Having lived there for the past year and a half, plus another lengthy stint a few years back, Clyne has a unique view of the country's visible and mute gay communities. While it's not unusual to see young boys dressed as woman, the country's never experienced what Westerners call a "gay rights movement". Rather, queerness has been subtly integrated into the national culture in some pretty astonishing ways.

Also, Clyne would like you all to know he's not a “Rice Queen “Soy Chaser", or a “Sexpat". He is, in fact, an equal opportunity slut.

(If you like what you see, head over to Clyne's blog, Bangkokker. Conversely, if you absolutely hate it, you can beat the tar out of him when he gets back to America next week. If you want to have sex with him, we're sure that can be arranged, too.)

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It seems that Atlanta's Midtown Ponce residents are all aflutter over an army of transgender street walkers turning tricks outside their doors. In their efforts to keep their streets "safe", they turned to the police for a bit of help.

In response, transgendered activists have argued that so many trannies turn to prositution because of widespread discrimination. The Southern Voice reports:

Members of the Midtown Ponce Security Alliance got a lesson in the discrimination faced by transgender people during the group’s Nov. 13 monthly meeting...

Around 50 residents attended the meeting, including Atlanta Police Department GLBT liaison Officer Darlene Harris. Transgender activists have expressed to Midtown residents that some transgender people turn to the streets as a last resort to make a living due to workplace discrimination.

Alliance members contend their concern is strictly safety and quality of life. They said they’re not singling out anyone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

A homo-journo named Dyana Bagby, however, sees things differently. In op-ed published today, she writes:

...It was obvious there is a deep-seeded dislike, possibly even hatred, for transgender prostitutes. So much so that in organization e-mails and letters to this newspaper from MNA members, they have coined their own term for transgender women who feel forced to sell their bodies for money — “transvestitutes.”

Even the security alliance’s official October 2006 safety report states: “Sgt. Miller stressed that the transvestitutes on our streets are dangerous and one should exercise caution around them. Most of them are doing so to support a drugs habit, making them irrational and potentially violent. They also carry blades and pepper spray, and are quick to attack residents when challenged or observed (especially when taking pictures or observing with binoculars).

Okay, we agree that the report's statement perpetuates stereotypes and all that, but we have to say that "transvestitute" may be one of the best made-up words we've ever heard.

Seriously, if Gay Speak weren't dead, we'd totally stick it in there. In fact, transvestitute would be the queen of Gay Speak. You wouldn't fuck with tranvestitute, because transvetitute would totally slash you, cover the cut with pepper spray, slash you again and then sell your body for drug money. And new heels.

(And if you're wondering why we used that picture of Bea Arthur, it's because we're assholes.)

It's unfair of us to say he was wearing no pants, because British Constable Suckbir Mann was actually wearing crotchless leather ones in his web ad for sexual services. He charged £100 for a sexy night one-on-one or with a third, though the tryst most likely would be short so he could run home to his wife and kids.

What's most embarassing for the police department is that Const. Mann is Sikh and has often appeared in the media to promote the diversity of the police force. Apparently the force was even more diverse than they first thought!

Unfortunately, despite all his media appearances, we cannot find a single photo of him. Please let us know if you can locate one.

HOOKER COPPER RAPPED [Sunday Mail]
Cop Suspended For Moonlighting As A Hustler [365 Gay]

The Lib Dem party over in the UK is reeling from yet another scandal, this one involving an MP who has been enjoying regular visits from a 23-year-old rent boy. Mark Oaten, the Home Affairs Spokesman for the party has stepped down.

The disclosure that Mr. Oaten, 41, a former contender for the leadership, had allegedly paid £80 a time for sex with a man, dismayed and shocked party leaders.

According to the paper, Mr. Oaten first contacted the unnamed man - then aged 23 - in 2004 through a gay website, and they met regularly over a six-month period. On one occasion, a second male prostitute was said to have been involved.

A threesome with hot male hustlers? Damn, the Brits have all the fun. But considering the guy has a wife and a couple of rugrats at home, we can’t really approve of this sort of thing.

Why can’t gay politicians just be gay? Why do they have to go all Ennis Del Mar on their families? And £80? That’s less than $150 U.S. At the very least the guy is certainly thrifty with his man-whores.

Lib Dems left reeling by Oaten rent boy scandal [The Independent]

In what may be the biggest shock of the year, a devout executive committee member, Lonnie Latham of the Southern Baptist Convention, was arrested for propositioning a male police officer who was working undercover as a prostitute in the parking lot of Oklahoma City’s Habana Inn. What’s more, the pastor has spoken out against homosexuality and same-sex marriage. We are so completely shocked we can hardly stand it.

L.L.'s deal:

Latham is one of four Southern Baptist Convention executive committee members from Oklahoma. He spoke out last year against a measure, ultimately approved by voters, to expand tribal gaming. He has also spoken out against same-sex marriage and in support of a Southern Baptist Convention directive urging its 42,000 churches to befriend gays and lesbians and try to convince them that they can become heterosexual "if they accept Jesus Christ as their savior and reject their 'sinful, destructive lifestyle."

What we don’t understand is how many of these jokers have to get caught doing this kind of crap before actual religious people catch onto their bull? We don’t know the answer to that but what we do know is that, now with all the “press,” that Habana Inn is going to be booked up with evangelicals and Baptists ten ways ‘til Sunday.

Southern Baptist leader arrested for soliticing policeman [Washington Blade]

• After reading that Madonna doesn't watch TV, it's a little shocking to hear that she just "loves" MTV's Pimp My Ride Still, we can't wait for her new music video. [Sky Showbiz]

• The more accepted homosexuality becomes in India, the more male hustlers (who only cost about as much as a couple of packs of gum) sprout up all over the country. [DNA India]

• The UK is going to make Special K extra, extra special. It’ll soon be classified as a class C drug. [Reuters UK]

• Concerned Women For America are here to tell us that not only does Barbie give young girls a body image complex but the plastic bitch is responsible for turning kids into trannies. [365 Gay]

• Gay rights lawyers are suing those party poopers who want to put an end to same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. [Reuters]