It's Friday, reader. You know what that means - it's Queerty ReBUTTal time! Yay!

You guys did super with the comments. Really. Just super - lisp and all. While we have plenty of thoughts on your thoughts on our thoughts, we're switching it up these week. As you're well aware, we've just kicked off The Style Issue.

Before things go too far, however, we'd like to have a brief look back on some of our other issues and some of the bits that didn't make it. Take a look at some unpublished excerpts, after the jump.

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Yesterday we had a little sit down with Colin Weil - the producer behind the new meth-centric documentary, Rock Bottom. Today we're having a heart-to-heart with the film's director, Jay Corcoran.

After the jump, read what Corcoran has to say about meth's emotional effects, why mentoring may save gay communities and how gay people, including gay cable companies, simply don't want to help.

If you're in New York, head on over to The Quad to see the movie! You may want to eat first, because you really won't be in the mood after.

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Meth's an ugly drug. Sure, it may seem like a real party, but Tina's had a devastating impact on gay communities. In an effort to curb it's catastrophic affects, producer Colin Weil and director Jay Corcoran have teamed up to bring us Rock Bottom.

Following six meth-users over three years, the documentary explores not only meth's damage, but the state of the gay union, in general. Now in an extended release at New York City's Quad Cinema, Rock Bottom sheds some light on post-AIDS fear, a generation's crossroads and the difficult task of establishing healthy relationships.

See what Weil had to say for himself, including how his own experiences influenced his decision to produce the movie, when a gay man needs to learn to grow up and why it's so fucking hard to find a steady date, after the jump.

We've also included a trailer for the flick. And be sure to roll on by tomorrow to read our interview with Corcoran.

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Sebastian Cordoba knows a thing or two about binational relationships. The 37-year old Argentinean journalist/lawyer/filmmaker came to America ten years ago and fell head over heels in love. Riding the wave of lusty optimism, Cordoba abandoned his homeland and settled in The States. Unfortunately for Cordoba, his lover wasn't having it.

Determined to stay, Cordoba obtained a work visa and went on to find more American love. As that relationship crumbled, Cordoba partnered with famed immigration lawyer Lavi Soloway to secure the more reliable artist visa. Brainstorming a project, Cordoba decided to keep it personal and thus embarked on a two and a half year journey to chronicle the trials and tribulations of binational couples.

The result? His first feature documentary: Through Thick and Thin.

Read what Cordoba has to say about the project's political importance, the impending legislation and how he really fucked up his first love.

Plus, Cordoba gave us a few minutes of the flick. Ain't that sweet?

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We've been receiving a steady stream of replies to our call for things you love, which really makes us love you all even more than we already did. One of responses in particular caught our eye. It comes from a reader named Bryan who loves the accordion. He's so keen on it, in fact, that people's disdain for it makes him cry. Isn't that queer? Here's his slightly disturbing, but just as appreciated, explanation:

Most people hate the accordion. That makes me sad. Sometimes I cry about it, because I think it's one of the most expressive instruments out there. And so romantic! (Which is really quite convenient for your "emotions issue". Like you guys, I live in New York City, but I don't think I loathe it as much as you. In fact, I love it, especially the park near my house because an old Italian man's constantly playing…you guessed it, the accordion! He's such a welcome neighbor! I never tip him, though. This place is expensive.

This place is expensive, Bryan and we wouldn't tip that old Italian fogey either. As for loving the accordion - you're right, it's kind of romantic. Is it our personally favorite? No. We prefer the recorder. It really puts us in the mood. Probably because it's all phallic and shit.

We all know about love at first sight, but what about love at first listen? It's rare, but it happens. And it definitely happened to us the first time we heard Swedish pop duo, Johan Hedberg (left) and Peter Gunnarsson (right) aka: Suburban Kids With Biblical Names.

You may recall we celebrated our burgeoning aural relationship when we posted their video for "Loop Duplicate My Heart". Well, now we've gone to the next level with a little interview with the musically-inclined chums.

Read what they have to say about nostalgia, their first loves and the correlation between sex and desperation, after the jump.

As if that's not enough, we've included the video for their track, "Rent A Wreak" from their most recent release, #3. Now that's love.

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Heeding our call for things you love, a reader named Rob sent us this revolting report:

I know this sounds weird, but I can't get enough of the 23rd street F-train stop. When the train comes, you get a rush of sewerish air that makes me so horny! While other people turn to protect their delicate nostrils, I lean in to suck it all up!

That's absolutely vile. For those of you who don't know, the train station reeks of shit. While we have no confirmation, we hear it's actually the run off from that den of anonymous sex, The West Side Club. Perhaps that's why it gets Rob all riled up.

Regardless, we think it's gross, but thanks for writing, Rob. You're a star.

The rest of you - send us some notes on your little loves. But, again, no pictures of your cum, thanks.

We're sorry to make you wait so long, but we wanted to build a little suspense. As promised, here's part two of our interview with queer artist, Robert W. Richards. In part one, Richards gave us a little background on his life growing up in Maine, moving away, finding his his first love and surviving his first tumultuous, yet symbiotic relationship.

In this conclusion, Richards chats about a veritable pot pourri of subjects, including living with Peggy Lee, working on Grand Theft Auto, hitchhiking for the sake of music and how he's achieved his ultimate artistic goal.

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Most gay erotic artists rely on the cum shot or throbbing members to propel their message. Not New York-based artist Robert W. Richards. He employs more than sex in his artistic schemes. Each panel's saturated in as much emotion as lust: passion, longing and nostalgia pepper his works, giving them far more depth than a doodle of a dick. These distinctions make him the perfect addition to The Emotions Issue.

Now, for full disclosure, we've known Richards for a few years now. We'd never really sat down to talk to him - to really give his brain a good pick. So, we sent editor Andrew Belonsky on a little mission to see what makes Richards tick. And there's loads. He's got so much information to share, in fact, that we've had to split the interview in two. Lucky you.

After the jump, see what Richards had to say about his first love, how he spent his first night away from home and the true value of marriage.

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We're not sure if you kids remember or not, but when we introduced The Emotions Issue, we asked you kids to send us pictures of the people, places and things that you love. There's been a small trickle, but we're not nearly as impressed as we thought we would be. One of you jokesters even sent in a picture of your semen - a funny entry we thought, but you're no Matthias Hermann, mister, so don't even front.

Luckily, former Queerty contributor and Interview Magazine's Assistant Editor, Justin Conner heeded our call and sent us this Norman Rockwell painting. Here's what he had to say:

I love this Rockwell piece for two reasons. First, it represents a generation gap with such compassion and without pretentiousness. Second, it was recently found behind a fake wall in a man’s study after he died, I believe by his sons.

Rockwell painted the piece, Breaking Home Ties, back in 1954 after his oldest son enlisted in the army and his two other boys left the nest for school, according to CBC News.

As for the painting being discovered behind a wall, it seems Rockwell sold the painting to his friend Don Trachte for $900. An illustrator, Trachte copied the painting and stashed the original behind his wall. His children discovered it in 2006, one year after Trachte's death. Positively identified as the original, Breaking Home Ties snatched $15 million at a Sotheby's action last year.

We didn't know that. See? Love's a learning process. We want to learn more, so send us your goods!

While we're on the subject of emotions, we'd like to turn the floor over to a loverly gentleman named James Withers. Don't know Mr. Withers (pictured, dressed as an elf…for some reason)?

Well, we don't really know him either, but he wrote to us saying he's contributed to Genre and wanted to know if we were interested in a little somethin' somethin'.

Now, those of you who know us know that we're always interested in a little somethin' somethin', so we told Withers to pitch us something for the then forthcoming The Emotions Issue. He did and this is it. (See how easy we are?)

After the jump, see what Withers has to say about losing his friend Michael to the ultimate baddie: AIDS.

(PS: If you're down with Withers' piece, you should check out his blog: What the world does not need.)

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We're confident when we say Prince's "I Wanna Be Your Lover" ranks as one of the best love songs in the history of love songs.

It's so good, in fact, that there are two videos. We prefer this one, but we've included the other, after the jump.

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We've had an email correspondence with artist Del LaGrace Volcano for about two months now. We originally contacted him for The Boundaries Issue, but, as happens, things didn't work out. Sitting down to play The Emotions Issue, we knew we couldn't pull it off without his help.

Our entire mission with this issue revolves around the idea that love is not one set things - it's a melange, a collage, a medley of emotions, sentiments and, at times, constraints. Volcano's work addresses the space between gender, sexuality and everything in between.

On his website, Volcano writes,

As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body… An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at 'normalization'. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.

Like The Power Issue subject, Claude Cahun - who, you'll see, Volcano cites as an inspiration - Volcano's work seeks not simply to test the viewer's perspective, but to extend it. Break it, even. As in love, one walks away from Volcano's work having learned something new. Or, we should hope so, because no life's worth living if you don't open yourself to new experiences, right?

Lucky for us, Volcano opened himself up to us. See what he has to say about the all-pervasive nature of androgyny, "coming out" as "intersex", and his sexually frustrating teenage years, after the jump…

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(We found this picture because we were looking for an article on Loehmann's suing tranny, Jane Galla. Fox 5 News NY just reported that the retail chain and Galla reached a settlement and that they will now allow trannies to use whichever dressing room they choose. We can't find an article yet, though. We'll post when we do.)

A few months back we discussed an AfterElton article exploring the so-called art of so-called slash fiction: a fan-based genre presenting television characters in new - and often sexual - settings. Like all good things, the literary subset comes to us from Captain Kirk and Spock obsessed trekkies. And, like the written word itself, that came from drawings.

We'll totally say off the bat that we think it's pretty weird. But, we recently came across a massive archive of the drawings and we couldn't look away. Seriously, it's the most fascinatingly freaky thing we've seen on the web in a long time - and we see a lot of freaky things.

In honor of the great V-Day, we've curated a pictorial guide to Kirk and Spock's eternally perplexing love. Enter at your own risk. It ain't pretty.

(Also, we tagged this as art. We're sorry if this offends anyone. We don't blame you…)

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