Feb 19, 2016
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Last month I had the very mixed blessing of playing a, shall we say, supporting role in a pornographic sci-fi flick. I’ve had the honor previously in my scattershot performance career of playing diabolic night club singers, seditionary aristocrats, and even a condescending 3D projection, but this part was something else. Because, for the first time since I played one of the three Wise Men at age five in my Catholic primary school, I was cast as a character who was in no way haughty or sadistic, but rather naive, good natured, and even rather wholesome. (Well, as wholesome as one can be when surrounded entirely by dominatrix drag queens, junkie coppers and a chorus line of jerk-off boys.)
Feb 17, 2016
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Each week, Dandy Dicks will highlight a key figure in gay culture, be it past or present. These men are what we consider true Dandies, advancing the ideals of gay men everywhere and doing it with lasting influence and style. This week’s installment is on Langston Hughes, the renowned American poet who broke barriers as a queer, African-American artist in 1920s New York.
Feb 15, 2016
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Gays being vilified and described as crazy or evil by straights throughout history is nothing new. And, of course, for most of us, they’d be wrong. Most of us. Seeing as a lot of the Northern Hemisphere is going through a chilly and deep winter at the moment, we here at Dandy Dicks thought we’d provide you with an even chillier list. So here are our top five psychotic gays in history. Be forewarned, the photos and details may make Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs seem tame by comparison – and unlike that fictional character, no one made this shit up.
And who the hell am I? If you’ve been following the blog at all, you may have wondered out of which horny hole this perverted punk has stepped. I won’t reveal too much – a bit of mystery is sexy, right? But a few things may be in order.
First, I was born in that part of the world that most people think is actually Canada, but it’s not. I was born in Alaska. Who would have thought that place could produce more than oil and Sarah Palin – two decidedly unsexy things.
Second, I’m no stranger to sex on screen. I appeared in two arty porn films with DVD releases: one in San Francisco and one here in Berlin. There may be other footage of me out there, but if so, I don’t know where. And yup, I moved to Berlin from gay ol’ San Francisco, where I learned to be a proper fag and how to be a writer all at the same time.
There’s more from San Francisco coming your way via Dandy Dicks, so stay tuned.
But I left San Francisco. And took my heart with me. Five years now in Berlin and I can’t think of a better place to be. I’ve been making it here as a writer ever since and I’m happy to report there’s no going back.
I think I’ve given you enough of the basics. More you’ll just have to find out either through this blog or a little Google. But I hope with that you stick around Dandy Dicks – for this blog and of course, the boys!
Walter Crasshole