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FREE Black & Latino Gay Travel & Entertainment Guide July/August 2007 Vol. 3 Issue 4 Features Cruisin’ with Stanley Bennett Clay by Taylor Siluwé ......................................................... 2 School District Apologizes to Gay Student by Rod McCullon ........................................................ 3 Music Reviews by TPROmix ................................................................ 4 The Evolution Of Robin Thicke, The New Face of Soul by Lenox Magee ........................................................ 6 Rihanna, Good Girl Gone Bad by Norman Mayers .................................................... 8 Black Prides & Events ................................................ 9 Frank Léon Roberts .................................................... 18 Hip & Pop & Learn & Love by Victor Hoff .............................................................. 20 Blogs That Matter By Victor Hoff .............................................................. 21 Cover Model Richard Anthony .................................. 22 States Alabama ...................................................................... 29 Arizona ......................................................................... 28 California ..................................................................... 29 Colorado ...................................................................... 32 District of Columbia. ................................................... 33 Florida .......................................................................... 33 Georgia ........................................................................ 37 lowa ............................................................................. 38 Illinois .......................................................................... 38 Indiana ......................................................................... 39 Kansas ......................................................................... 39 Louisiana ..................................................................... 39 Maryland ..................................................................... 39 Massachusetts ............................................................ 40 Michigan ...................................................................... 40 RICHARD ANTHONY Minnesota ................................................................... 40 Mississippi ................................................................... 40 CREW Missouri ....................................................................... 40 Publisher - Flava Works, Inc North Carolina ............................................................. 42 Creative Director - Dan Nelson Nevada ......................................................................... 42 Contributors - Lenox Magee, Frank Leon Roberts, Taylor Siluwé, TPROmix, Don Ammer, Rod McCullom, New York ...................................................................... 43 Norman Mayers, Victor Hoff Ohio ............................................................................. 45 CONTACT US Pennsylvania ............................................................... 45 Flava Works, Inc., 2610 North Miami Avenue Rhode Island ............................................................... 45 Miami, FL 33127-4438 Phone: 877-FLAVALIFE (877-352-8254) South Carolina ............................................................ 45 Fax: 866-935-7275 Tennessee .................................................................... 45 Subscriptions - To order subscriptions, change your address or ask about an existing subscription, call Texas ............................................................................ 46 toll free Phone: 877-FLAVALIFE (877-352-8254) Virginia ........................................................................ 46 Web Site - www.FlavaLife.com Washington ................................................................. 46 Advertising - For rates and deadlines call Phone: 877-FLAVALIFE (877-352-8254), e-mail sales@ Wisconsin .................................................................... 46 flavalife.com or visit www.FlavaLife.com Wisconsin .................................................................... 46 FlavaLife (ISSN1557-2668) is published bimonthly by Flava Works, Canada ......................................................................... 48 Inc. The entire contents of FlavaLife magazine are copyright © Puerto Rico .................................................................. 48 2007 by Flava Works, Inc. and may not be reproduced in any man- ner, either whole or in part, without written permission from the St Croix ........................................................................ 48 publisher. All rights reserved. FLAVALIFE CRUISIN’ WITH STANLEY BENNETT CLAY BY TAYLOR SILUWÉ School District There ain’t nothing sexier than a man with a book. If you think it’s nerdy, then journalist, thrashes through life and love all Apologizes to Gay you just don’t know. the while hiding feelings for Brando kept hid- Student After den since they were teenagers. Soon, rape and My love affair with author Stanley Bennett Clay began with In Search of Pretty murder throw Brando and Omar up against Blacking Out Photo Young Black Men. I took the provocative title on my birthday cruise last year. some harsh realities in a world where every- of Male Kiss Between peaceful moments staring at the Caribbean Sea, I was enraptured by thing is not as it seems. By Rod McCullom the tale of Dorian Moore, “... a mysterious and seductive young man who pro- At its core, Looker is a love story of sorts. Yet it A New Jersey school super- vides comfort to the moneyed, the neglected, the lost, and the lonely in an el- intendent was forced to per- egant hilltop community in southern California.” Ooh, a hot hustler boy—just has all the wonderfully voyeuristic dark eroti- cism of its predecessor. sonally apologize to a gay my flava. high school senior after she ordered staff to But it was the title that caught me; I ordered it without knowing a thing about “Whenever Omar and Andrew got together they “black out” a yearbook photo showing him Stanley Bennett Clay. Maybe because I realized that my life has been a search got right down to business ... Burberry briefs kissing his boyfriend. for pretty young black men ever since I was one—and and cheap polyester boxers would be stomped off to the ground. They would suck on nipples Newark School District Superintendent Mar- also, that until the day I die they’ll have the heart-stop- ion A. Bolden showed up at the graduation ping ability to bring a smile to my face, a tingle to my like newborns; take to dick like the bottle. Hot breath would heat up both pairs of balls; and rehearsal at East Side High School and was nuts, and make me play the biggest fool. Yeah. The good introduced to 18-year-old Andre Jackson. In ones can. Omar’s tongue, with decades of experience, would play gently around the soft, trim hairs front of the graduating class, Bolden pre- As I read and sun-bathed and enjoyed the pleasant rock- that encircled the sweet smiling young pucker. sented a personal apology for redacting the ing of the ship, I peeked over my shades at the most yearbooks. The personal apology came a full adorable sight. A real, live, pretty young black man “Young stallion legs would hoist up and spread day after the school district issued an apol- (who’d only been old enough to drink for ten minutes) young ass for old dick that now begged for a ogy through a press release to the media. sauntered by looking edible, dangerous and darkly Bra- ride with a quiver, and young ass would oblige In late June, Jackson attended his senior zilian in his Speedo. To my delight, he set up a deck with the joy of the pain that only good, deep banquet and was excited to collect his year- chair next to mine; giving a show involving slow appli- penetration brings.” book. He’d paid an additional $150 for the cations of oil and a few seductive stretches. He asked Awesome. But it’s much more than just sex. special tribute page filled with shots of boy- what I was reading, and a few 151 Coladas later, we Stanley Bennett Clay’s intricate tales flow, ex- friend David Escobales, 19, of Allentown, Pa., were the best of friends. cite and educate on the high-seas and off, mak- and others. Jackson learned what happened He reminded me of Stanley Bennett Clay’s character, Dorian Moore—the hot ing his work a must-have in the travel bag of to his page only moments before the books hustler who drove some residents of the rich black enclave of Baldwin Hills to every pretty young black man of substance, and were distributed. While the students waited, lascivious and murderous distraction—and I had to admit that lust for such those of us who, well, just wanna get into the staff members in another room blacked out heavenly creatures can do exactly that. briefs of one. I’ll bring it on my cruise any- the 4 1/2-by-5-inch picture from approxi- way, waiting for the next pretty young ‘looker’ mately 230 books. “…Was he a god, or was he just another piece of trade? Maybe Dorian Moore to ask me what I’m reading. ‘Cause like I said was one and the same; after all, gods and trade both provide comfort. The can- ... there ain’t nothing sexier than a man with a Bolden said the picture seemed “illicit” to nibalizing of Dorian Moore, and morsels like him, will continue. It is the law of book. You better act like you know. ~ TaylorSi- her although The New York Times reports