International Gay Escort Award Winners: The Hookies

Last night in Manhattan, on the eve of the Black Party XXXIV (with its worst-ever theme and graphics -- clowns), Rentboy.com presented the Hookies, honoring the world's finest male escorts. If any cultural significance can be gleaned from the event, perhaps it's that the finalists and winners are not particularly young -- several claim to be in their 30s -- contradicting shopworn notions about gay desire and priorities. The other point to make is that the victories are meaningless, as they were chosen by a public voting from photos without personal experience of all six nominees for Best Top, etc., in fifteen categories. 

Mr. International Escort 2013 is Mr. San Francisco Christopher Daniels [pic], somehow besting regional hotness from LA, NYC, Chicago, Florida, Toronto, London, and Paris.

Best Newcomer: JD Phoenix

Best Kink: Draven Torres

Best Twink: Sean Caden

Best Daddy: Charlie Harding

Best Body: Trenton Ducati

Best Cock: Rafael Alencar

Best Ass: Tate Ryder

Best Top: Austin Wolf

Best Bear: Heath Jordan

Best Masseur: Andreas NYC

Best Dancer: Erik Rage

Best Blogger: Eli Lewis

Best Dressed: Josh Ryley

Best Boyfriend Fantasy: Samuel Colt

Best Porn Star Escort: Trenton Ducati

The best memoir on hustling is Rick Whitaker's Assuming the Position. But there's also Aiden Shaw's Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom and My Undoing: Love in the Thick of Sex, Drugs, Pornography, and Prostitution.

This week Michael Musto posted "So Many Gay Porn Stars Have Died Lately! Why?" and turned to Sean Van Sant for these answers:

"I think all of these deaths are very different," he wrote to me, "so I do not want to generalize. I think sex workers suffer the same problems gay men do in general, with substance abuse and suicide rates high, and those problems can be even worse for sex workers, who lack support systems because of shame and stigma for their profession. But those factors are not new, nor are they suddenly worse than before.

"I think we should be looking closer at

1) Gay men in midlife crisis

2) Use of body-building steroids causing severe health problems and daily pain as men age (this has gone unreported)

3) Over-prescription of pain medications (how and why was it so easy to commit suicide?)

4) A poor economy for transitioning into other forms of work after a career based on physical labor and youth

5) And lastly there is a real possibility of 'copy-cat' syndrome where suicides inspire more suicides. Suicide rates are much, much higher for men than for women; and the U.S. military is experiencing an historical number of suicides among veterans."

Comments

[Steve N]

"Black Party XXXIV (with its worst-ever theme and graphics -- clowns)"
FYI I chose to sit this one out, largely for that reason. Hope you had a good time without me.

[Gay Escorts]

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The star studded awards gala will be hosted by noted actor and Will and Grace alumnus Leslie Jordan, who s just completed a run on London's West End in the one man show My Trip Down the Pink Carpet.
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