It’s been months since I’ve updated my little dog and pony show.  I’ve received e-mails asking that I get back in to it; I obviously haven’t.

For those of you who were around when I first began, I was a posting machine.  I’d commit myself to one post a day, and thus was testing out toys and sex products all the time like some horny maniac.

This coming March will mark TheINQUEERY’s 3 year anniversary.  Three years of reviewing sex toys…believe it or not, it gets somewhat exhausting!

I spoke to friends casually about possibly shutting down the site all together.  Each of them said the same thing; “Don’t you dare!”  Or some similar alternative statement.

Despite the site not being updated for months, it maintains a steady stream of incoming readers.  For this I am proud of myself, but it also makes me remember that what I am doing here is important for many men, gay or otherwise.

It’s this reason that I have decided to re-commit myself to what I set out to do: educate men about sex, safety, and sex products through my own personal experiences.

In order to re-commit myself to sex education online I need to provide an incentive for myself to reel me back in.  I’m a busy pig after all and to commit time to blogging when I have my regular job at The Pleasure Chest, workshops, conferences, etc, is a rather time consuming commitment.  That’s why I’ve decided that I will be renovating the sites clunky design for the 3-year anniversary, making it look all clean and purdy.  On top of that, I will be creating a sister-site as well, which will be less “Let’s read about Brandon having sex and masturbating!” and more education focused for everyone, with content appropriate for young men as well as us old folk.

Next year I will have the opportunity to travel across the country and will be planning on speaking at various schools and centers whenever possible.  If you have a topic that you’d like to have me speak on or you think that an establishment might benefit from my presence, you can always e-mail me at mebrandonb@gmail.com.

Until then, I just wanted to express my thanks to all of you who have made the roller coaster of the last three years possible.  Your support, be it indirect or otherwise, is very special to me and I truly appreciate you sharing your stories, your questions, your feelings, and your experiences with me so that all of this can be possible.

For the new year, let’s all resolve:

Be safe!

Be sexy!

and above all…

xo

Brandon B.

Oh my god!! Oh my god oh my god oh my god you guys! It’s almost my favorite day of the year — my birthday! I have been trying to think of what you all could get me, as well as ways to get the attention and praise that I require as a Taurus-Sun/Leo-Moon combo, and I’ve got just the ticket. Let’s have a contest!

“I HEART BRANDON B” Birthday Contest Realness!

Everyone knows that I am a huge attention whore and exhibitionist, and my greatest hope is to help others bring that out in themselves as well. So this contest will be all about embracing your inner Brandon B and really turning it out for the camera.

To enter, e-mail me a picture of yourself (or a part of yourself — cue George Tekei “Oh my!”) that you feel expresses your true love of me using your sexy self presenting Brandon B REALNESS.   To be eligible all photos submitted should clearly display the phrase “I HEART BRANDON B”.  You can write it on paper or REALLY up your chances by writing it somewhere on your body-ody-ody.  The sexier, more creative, more fun spirited, the better — though let’s stay away from nudity.  Brandon B is all about the flirt and the tease. Leave me wanting more!  Plus I’ve seen all your dicks on MANHUNT already anyway…

Incorporating some of the things I love is also encouraged but not necessary:

* Tattoos (real or self-made fakes)!

* The color fuchsia!

* Guys wearing makeup!

* Cats! #lizlemon

* Glitter!

* Bedroom eyes!

* Shirtlessness!

Submissions will be judged based on creativity, flirtation, and ultimately the pictures that display a sense of sexy fun that I try to personally share with the world! E-mail submissions to mebrandonb@gmail.com including your name. Submissions are due by April 29th, 2011 at 9:00PM and the winners will be decided by me and my best friend and posted on my personal blog PLAN B on April 30th — my birthday! Must be 18 years old or older to enter and living within the United States.

So what are we playing for?

3rd Place will receive a bundle of Tenga Eggs and a bottle of my NEW favorite water-based lube, Sliquid Oceanics (review coming soon)

2nd Place will receive one of my favorite buttplug the Tantus B-Bomb and a bottle of Sliquid Oceanics

1st Place will receive several bottles of various Sliquid lubes as well as the coveted, the cherished, the Brandon B of sex toys — the NJOY Pure Wand

UPDATED 4/13 4:44PM: Due to the support I have received from JimmyJane, Sliquid, and The Pleasure Chest when they all heard it was my birthday and I was doing a giveaway, the 1st Place winner will also receive a JimmyJane Form 2 vibrator and they get a choice…between the NJOY Pure Wand Oooorrrrr….the beast that is the NJOY Eleven. Who’s your favorite pretty boy?

Happy birthday to me! Good luck!

I know what you’re thinking. “I can’t think of a single thing I want for Christmas this year except a lap dance from the scrawny awkward nerd that runs TheINQUEERY.com” Well you are not alone, and I hear your mildly-offensive pleas, and being the philanthropist I am I have agreed to give you exactly what you want!

On February 4th come join Tied Up Events, my awesome self, and some other sexy fools as we raise money for Sex Work Awareness. Not many people are aware that today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. As stated on the Sex Work Awareness website, “Join us in solidarity to fight the criminalization, oppression, assault, rape and murder of sex workers – and of folks perceived as sex workers.”

The event goes from 6:30PM to 10:00PM and it all goes down at Madame X here in New York City. There will be a performance by Graydancer,  belly dance and foot rubs by Luna, and lap dances (politeness and strip club etiquette  apply, except in my case where I only ask that you not leave bite marks) by The Luscious Lifestyle Diva, Ms. Yolanda Shoshana,  Ms. Abiola Abrams, Sweet N’ Lo,  Ms. Savannah Darling and of course me. If you can’t imagine me giving a lap dance have a look at this and get ready to make it rain on me.

Admittance is $15 pre-paid via Eventbrite or $20 at the door and includes a 2011 NYC SexBlogger Calendar featuring me (I’m August), Wet safe sex kits, and a $10 gift certificate to The Pleasure Chest for the first hundred people to register and/or arrive.  You can also pre-purchase your lap dance or foot rub tickets for $15 at Eventbrite (remember to print out and bring your confirmation with you) or pay $20 at the event.

For more information please visit TiedUpEvents.com. See you there!

(Photo: 2010 JM Darling)

300 years ago when I was born I never dreamed that I would have such amazing people and projects filling my life. I also thought I’d never have sex with Brad Pitt (it totally happened last night in my dream. I’m not joking).

I am excited to announce that I am officially a member of The Darling House. Darling House is a live salon chronicling the erotic renaissance and I am basically the head gay supreme of the posse. Haters gonna hate.

So what does this mean? Coming soon you will find tons of live content including photos, videos, live cams, and other fun artsy business. All for free and a lot of it including my smooth sexy body.

The launch will be soon but I wanted to announce all this now because tomorrow at Beauty Bar in New York City we are holding a fund raiser for Burning Angel model Jessie Lee. Poor Jessie was hurt badly in a car accident and we are rallying behind her to help pay some of her hospital bills by selling some beautiful erotic photos by 20 amazing photographers, showcasing some sexy live acts, holding a raffle, and plus I’ll be there getting tipsy and asking people to touch my hair. Oh and a portion of the bar goes to Jessie’s fund, so yeah I’ll probably contribute most of that. It goes from 8-11, so come out and meet the other darlings.

Hope to see you there!

-Brandon B.

My least favorite thing about MySpace was seeing that I had 10 new e-mails and getting excited that I was making eFriends only to find that 9 of those were from people telling me to check out their bands and 1 was from my mom who thought she was sending me a text.

BUT that being said I wanted to point you in the direction of my fellow queer friend’s new album Screaming Underground because this is my blog and I make the rules around here. I promised Charlie I’d publicly jerk him off here to help promote his album a while back but am finally doing it now because I’m an asshole and have been busy, but lucky for you the day has arrived!

I’ve seen Charlie Demos perform several times now and basically he unearths himself, covers himself in blood, and then takes off his clothes. It’s pretty much the best thing in America.

Go download his album for free and offer him free oral sex. Here is a short bio about the skinny beautiful bastard.

Since he first burst onto the music scene in March 2006, the prolific musical chameleon has already released three chart-topping albums, including his eponymous debut album, from which its first single “Don’t Ever Stop” was featured in Casper Andreas’ film, “A Four Letter Word;”2008’s How to be a Boi, which featured the title song in Rob Williams’ “3-Day Weekend;” and his current album, Anatomy 1.
The music video to the first single from Anatomy 1, “Insane,” shot to the top of the charts shortly after its world premiere, and was named to the LOGO Network’s “Ultimate Queer Videos of All Time” list, as well as being nominated for “Video of the Year.”
He is a fixture in the New York City underground queer music scene blending a new sound of electronic and dark synth with emotional and provoking performance art pieces when he takes the stage. He is also a resident artist with several top-tier burlesque shows such as Auralfixia and Cabaret Cataplexy. On September 21st, “Screaming Underground”, Charlie’s new EP is available as a FREE download on his site www.charliedemos.com

New York, NY (September 10, 2010) – Tied Up Events enlisted a group of the most dynamic online sex-positive writers, models and porn stars from across the nation and Canada, along with a stellar group of photographers to create the 3rd Annual New York Sex Blogger 2011 Limited Edition Calendar.

This year’s calendar will raise funds to support Woodhull Freedom Foundation. Woodhull is a national organization whose mission is to affirm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right.

Woodhull envisions a world that recognizes sexual freedom as the fundamental human right of all individuals to develop and express their unique sexuality; to be personally autonomous with regard to bodily integrity and expression; and to enjoy sexual dignity, privacy and consensual sexual expression without societal or governmental interference, coercion or stigmatization.

Woodhull is dedicated to expanding the national dialog around sex and sexuality and to being the resolute national voice that consistently raises the interconnections between various identities, communities, and the issue of sexual freedom as a fundamental human right.

Portraying Visions of Sexual Freedom in the calendar are Bad Bad Girl, Brandon B, Coy Pink, Dangerous Lilly, Essin’ Em, Gloria Brame, Jiz Lee, Lillith Grey, Luna, Matthew Lawrence, Max Lagos, Mollena Williams, Nina Hartley, Radical Vixen, Sadie Smythe and Sovereign Syre. A full biography of each calendar model is available at http://www.sexbloggercalendar.com/2011-models/.

The calendar launch party will be held on Friday, October 1st, 2010, at Fontana’s, 105 Eldridge St, NYC, from 6:30 – 9:30.  Not only is the party free but the first 200 guests will receive FREE gift bags stuffed with $10 gift certificates from Fascinations, fun items from Bachelorette.com, Pearl Drop vibes from Good Vibrations, cock rings from Professor Oni and Sugar and Crystal Delights, free porn cards from Hot Movies for Her, pens and a special surprise from Whore Magazine, Eros Lube courtesy of Tabu Toys, a coupon for a free vibrator from Pleasure Chest and much more.

One of the highlights of our parties has always been our raffle with its phenomenal prize packages and this year is no different.  Our sexy raffle prizes include the ultimate sex toy – the Njoy Eleven, an erotica libraries donated by Alison Tyler for Pretty Things Press and by Cleis Press, photo shoots by several notable photographers including JM Darling, a bible purse and three year membership from Kink Academy, a rope kit and gift certificates from Maui Kink, a gift bag full of hand-made sensual goodies from Williamburg’s Shag, a leather collar, cuffs, leash, flogger and sexy t-shirt from Stockroom, romance baskets from My Pleasure, OhMiBod and Vibrators.com, a silky, sensual Lelo blindfold and Evolved vibrator from Tabu Toys, two (2) all access passes to Cinekink, the kinky film festival, a gift basket from Good Vibes, and, because our generous supporters keep adding items every day, more.

Our party would not be a Tied Up Events production without some sensationally sexy performances.  Produced by NYC’s one and only, N, of Crimson Kitty Productions and Auralfixia, there will be spoken performances by Carol Queen, Nina Hartley and Dylan Ryan, sensual belly dance by Luna and burlesque performed by Lillith Grey of Gloryhole Girls and, of course, N.  Go-go dancers will also be weaving and shimmying their way through the crowd.  Also featured will be Professor Oni,  the founder of Lifestyle Images and the first and only “Endorphin Engineer” brings his Bakushi (Japanese Rope Bondage Artist) talents to the party in a unique “Decorative Micro Bondage Salon”.  Using rope as fine as 1mm in diameter, he creates custom designs on hands, feet, bodies and even hair.  This bondage is not for restraint, but rather for relishing and releasing  the beauty within and without each and every body.

If you are unable to attend the launch party, you can still buy your limited edition copy of the calendar directly through the Sex Blogger Calendar website.

For more photos of last year’s party, see Anna King’s coverage for Time Out NY and Nick McGlynn’s photos at Random Night Out.

About the NYC Sex Blogger 2011 Limited Edition Calendar:
For the latest news, a complete list of bios of each sex blogger featured in the calendar, our sponsors, and our Community of friends, please visit the NYC Sex Blogger Calendar Website (http://sexbloggercalendar.com).

Tomorrow at 8PM I will be facilitating the infamous Blow-jobs and Beyond workshop here in New York at The Pleasure Chest. It’s free and lots of fun if you find yourself with nothing better to do than wish a snowman really would give you head in a heat wave like this. RSVP on the Facebook page and share with your friends and lovers. Come early as this workshop tends to fill up fast. See you there!

The time has come!

Earlier this month I had announced that I was selected as a model for the 2011 Sex Blogger calendar. Well now you are able to pre-order your copy for a discounted price!

On top of that, you are able to help support the Woodhull Freedom Foundation by purchasing a day in the calendar. By purchasing days, you are able to include an 80 character message of your choosing. I encourage you to buy a day and use it to flirt with me. I really am as easy as I look, it would totally work.

They have some special package combos so check them out. Also, please mark October 1st on your current boring calendar, as it is the official launch party where you can come and mingle with myself and the other sexy models!

For details on how to purchase your calendar and/or days, please visit the Sex Blogger Calendar website.

I have never been able to attend a New York Pride because my boss always made me work in the store, which is ironic because I was always the one who actively fought for equal rights between the two of us. Last year was even worse because we actually had a float for the first time in the parade which I specifically said I wanted to be on and I still had to work. This was the middle-finger equivalent of sticking a thousand dicks in my eye. Well this year was different because I was in charge, so I finally got to celebrate Pride, which is an annual event that is very important to me. Leading up to the march I found myself hearing people saying things that really surprised me when asked what they were doing for Pride. Stop the turnip truck, because when someone says “I don’t think Pride is necessary anymore,” I take issue!

For the sake of argument I am going to refer to this evening I spent with this one guy a “date”. This someone was, for all intents and purposes, a bad Joan Rivers act incarnate. He was from some hee-haw state that I didn’t commit to memory. He was the type of person who explains retail experiences with rude customers and how clever they were when they were rude back, in a show of “aren’t I a bad ass?!” chest-beating. His sense of humor was very angsty, he complained at one point that New Yorkers were “idiots” who didn’t think he was funny, but insisted that he was actually hilarious and stated “If my friend from back home was here we’d show everyone! We’d show everyone here that my jokes are actually funny!”

As my eyes were rolling across the floor he continued to make a fool of himself, but I was nice about it because it was clear that he had a very strong sense about himself based on a whole lot of nothing and it would have been mean to point it all out to him at once. Kinda like how you don’t wake up someone who’s sleep walking.

I had to interject, however, when I asked him what he was doing for Pride weekend and his response was:

“Oh, I don’t believe in Pride. I’m a proud person all the time, I don’t need it. And I am strong, and I feel like those people who are weak need Pride, but I don’t need it anymore.”

I like when people say things that are outlandishly stupid so nonchalantly.

I carry a fortune-cookie paper around in my wallet that reads “Only fools and dead men don’t change their minds. Fools won’t and dead men can’t.” I won’t say that it makes me mad when people take this stance against Pride, but I will say it is irritating, and furthermore frustrating at how many gays actually do hold this opinion and stick to it. I can only explain why it is important to me and hope that others take a moment to examine their own opinions.

When I was 16 my mom came to me and told me that my dad had been going through my sent e-mails on AOL (LOL @ AOL). He found what you would expect to find in any hot-blooded gay teen’s outbox (a whole lot of “Can we meet so you can stick it in my outbox?”). I went to my dad and simply said “I heard you were reading my e-mail.” Immediately he got angry and flustered and all he could say was “If you are gay, just don’t ever tell me” and left the room. It was then that I realized I would never be able to truly talk to my dad about my life because he couldn’t even discuss a factor of myself without completely shutting down. Being a huge loner as a kid I thus had nobody to talk to, and for a long time wondered if taking my own life would be the solution. Fortunately I am a pussy when it comes to pain so I never attempted anything, but the same couldn’t be said for my younger sister.

As I left first period in high school one morning I saw my sister’s friend carrying my sister in her arms towards my class. “She just showed up and collapsed!” she told me, and handed her over to me. My younger sister’s body was shockingly lifeless and light, it didn’t feel like there was anything inside her but air. I ran to the nurses office where we summoned an ambulance and left for the hospital.

They made her drink several large cups of charcoal to flush out her system. The nurses explained to me that it had been a suicide attempt and that my sister had taken a massive overdose of my mother’s anti-depressant medication. She was going to be ok though.

I sat by my sister’s hospital bed while she was slowly coming down off of the high. She was conscious now, but very stoned, and couldn’t stop telling me knock-knock jokes. I smiled and laughed because it’s what she needed, and frankly it’s what I needed too, but as she told me these jokes I looked at her and felt a tremendous amount of guilt. My sister was obviously a lesbian and was bullied at school on a daily basis like myself, but I had never reached out to her to talk about it. I had basically closed off to her the way my dad had to me, and worse I had taken a lot of my baggage out on her. I felt, for the first time ever, like a horrible person.

My sister survived and to date we have a very strong relationship. She is actually coming out to visit me in September from Los Angeles. She got her act together and now is a very strong person with a very nice job that she is great at and lives a very free lifestyle as an open lesbian.

Pride is a lot of things. It’s a celebration, a statement, a distraction. It is one of the only parties out there that is focused on being all-inclusive. You’ll see every type of person either in the march or watching it. People from all walks of life come together and line the streets, all supporting the same message; “We are proud.”

When someone tells me that they don’t think Pride is necessary, I can’t help but believe that they go through life with tunnel vision. I live in New York where for the most part I can walk around being a big ol’ queen and I’ll make it home alive, but there are people who live in places where they can’t. Even here in New York you’ll get called a faggot from time to time by passing cars or groups of punks, and even here in New York I hear stories of people getting the shit kicked out of them just because they were gay.

When I first started The INQUEERY I read two articles, two months apart, about two separate boys, both who had hung themselves because of anti-gay bullying. One was 11 years old.

The article revealed some very sad statistics:

Nearly 9 out of 10 LGBT youth (86.2%) reported being verbally harassed at school in the past year because of their sexual orientation, nearly half (44.1%) reported being physically harassed and about a quarter (22.1%) reported being physically assaulted, according to GLSEN’s 2007 National School Climate Survey of more than 6,000 LGBT students.

In most cases, the harassment is unreported. Nearly two-thirds of LGBT students (60.8%) who experience harassment or assault never reported the incident to the school. The most common reason given was that they didn’t believe anything would be done to address the situation. Of those who did report the incident, nearly a third (31.1%) said the school staff did nothing in response.

Pride represents people being comfortable in their own skin, what ever skin it is that they choose to wear. It is a symbol across the nation to people of all ages that it gets better, and that there are other people like you. Pride for many LGBTQ youth is a symbol of hope — a yearly event where they know they can go and walk around being themselves and not have to be afraid of the consequences. Pride is important, even for people who are strong and comfortable in their own skin, because for some people it’s all they have — your body in a crowd, your face in a photograph, your cheers on a TV screen.

So yes there are twinks walking around in their American Apparel briefs, and there are thousands of men in drag and make-up. You’ll see bears in chaps and dykes-on-bikes, but you’ll also see plain clothes persons of various colors, gender identifications, and ages. You’ll see straight allies, proud parents and siblings, couples with children in love who want to get married. You see people from all walks of life, walks that you may not interact with, who have all come together for this one day to fight oppression with celebration.If that symbol were to only nurture one person and save only one life, wouldn’t that still make it worth it?

When I go to Pride, I don’t see weak people. I see warriors.

What do you see?

*Several photos courtesy Krys Fox Photography

Jokes on them!

I was interviewed for a very cool website called The Beautiful Kind — a site full of kinky stories and sex advice. Check out the interview here and leave comments about how you’ve all slept with me and how good my butt tastes.