Saturday 31 March 2007

BiQR Links - Resources for queer bikers

I've been collecting good links since before MotorQR was launched. I'll work on putting them together in a useful format. I've started today with links to BiQR clubs:

Canada

Canada / US
United States
Australia
Europe
 Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
 Italy
Netherlands
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom

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Sunday 25 March 2007

Gay Trucker Culture

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Wednesday 21 March 2007

So Long To Gay Sex With Straight Truckers Day!

- Thursday September 21, 2006 -
You live in a really boring town where the only sex you've ever had has been gay sex with straight truckers who have been on the road so long they don't care what they have sex with, just as long as he or she or it is tender and will listen when they whisper their dreams and secrets in the back of cab. It keeps the loneliness at bay, but you can't help but think there has to be more.

"Is this all there is?" you'll say to Buzz, a Portland man sporting a wedding ring who's driving a couple hundred radios down to Tennessee. You and he will be laying together in the back of his cab on a blanket he bought in Mexico. Buzz will be absently running his fingers through the hair on your chest.

"No offense," you'll say. "But all you straight truckers are all the same. You buy me some pie. You put your thing in my mouth. Then you chase me around the parking lot with a tire iron. I want romance."

"Who says I'm straight?" Buzz will say with a smile.

You'll look at his ring. "Commitment ceremony," Buzz will say. "Stephen's a pharmacist, and he understands that I get lonely on the road."

Your heart will do a little dance. "So I just had gay sex with a gay trucker?" you'll almost sing.

Buzz will say, "I'm gonna be driving a couple hundred thousand Pokemon cards out to New Mexico next month. You gonna be in town?"

"I'll be here," you'll say through a big smile.

"It's a date then," Buzz will say.

A date. A real date. With a real gay trucker. There've been so many empty experiences over so many weekends, but you knew that if you kept wearing a half shirt to the truck stop parking lot, one day your prince would come along, and he would cheat on his husband with you. Anyone who thinks romance is dead has never had a slice of pie at the The Rachel Rose Diner & Gas off of I-81.

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This story is from the Girls Are Pretty website and is meant to be darkly humorous. I have, however, recently discovered that there are a lot of gay truckers out there and that they are definitely finding each other. Stay tuned for more...

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Thursday 15 March 2007

MotorQueer Shop

I have just set up a shop for items that are discussed here on MotorQueer. Items like the GinchGonch underwear discussed a few days ago can easily be found by scrolling down to the sidebar on the right. Follow the link to find items from older posts.

You can also grab the hardcover photobook Real Men from Ray Dragon. From what i can tell, the MotorQueer theme doesn't run through the whole book. But if it's sitting on your coffee table most of the time, what does it matter?..

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Wednesday 14 March 2007

Meet NASCAR’s Own Soap Opera Family: The Earnhardt's

By Dylan Vox

NASCAR is one of the most watched sports in the United States, and if there is anyone who knows that it is a serious business, it's the Earnhardt family. It may not be exactly gay but for the Earnhardt's, NASCAR is definitely all in the family. Just like any good Aaron Spelling production, there has been tragedy, triumph, business deals, and rocky relationships that all occur under the watchful eye of the media. At each turn, however, the Earnhardt's have proven that they are forever the Royal Family of America's favorite pastime.

As a young boy watching his father Ralph race, and win in Stock car events throughout the Southeast, Dale Earnhardt, Sr., developed a love for the sport that would ultimately fuel one of the most successful careers in the history of motorsports.

In his late teens, Dale began racing Hobby-class cars in and around his native Kannapolis, NC, working full-time by day, welding and mounting tires, and either racing or working on his cars by night. In 1973, Ralph Earnhardt died of heart failure while working on his race car. Crushed by the loss, Dale eventually learned to cope, by becoming more determined than ever to be successful as a driver, and made his Winston Cup Debut two years later.

Over the next 20 years Earnhardt created an empire with and one of the most successful racing teams in history winning the Winston cup a record total of seven times with his # 3 car. He also started a family which would eventually follow in his footsteps. Dale had four children and three marriages before finally settling down with Teresa Earnhardt.

In February 1998 after 20 attempts, Dale Earnhardt Senior captured the only major victory that had eluded him throughout his career, the Daytona 500. The win was the 71st of his career and came in his 575th Winston Cup start, placing him sixth on the all-time wins list. Earnhardt added to his legacy when NASCAR honored both him and his father Ralph as two of the 50 Greatest Drivers in NASCAR history. Two years later, Earnhardt's son, Dale, Jr., followed in his father's tire tracks, joining his dad on the Winston Cup circuit. Dale Earnhardt Junior was the second child from his second marriage to Brenda. Unlike Dale Senior, Junior was an outgoing personality who enjoyed the media attention. He started racing with his half brother Kerry Earnhardt and joined Dale Earnhardt Inc. (DEI) as one of their successful drivers.

Junior was creating a successful career on his own. Dale Jr.'s name has helped his media presence and he has even expressed interest in pursuing an acting career. Dale Jr. has appeared in print advertisements for Drakkar Noir Cologne, and in the video for Sheryl Crow's song Steve McQueen, which pays tribute to the late film star famous for his car chase scenes. He was also featured in several commercials for Wrangler jeans.

Junior was hot, and in 2005 even beat out heartthrob Jeff Gordon for NASCAR's Sexiest Driver. But his public persona had always been a source of concern for his step-mother Teresa who was very involved with the image of the DEI. "Teresa is my stepmother, and I have a mother at home that I have a very good relationship with," Junior once explained to the associated press. "Mine and Teresa's relationship has always been very black and white, very strict and in your face ... it ain't a bed of roses."

By 2001 father and son were competing against each other in event after event proving they were more than just stock car drivers. The major event of the season, however, occurred in the final corner of the final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. As Junior finished second, his father had crashed in turn four. Dale Earnhardt, Sr. did not survive the wreck.

Several press conferences were held in the days following Earnhardt's death. At one point, fans were threatening to kill Sterling Marlin, who had bumped into Earnhardt's car before the wreck, for causing his death. It was Dale Jr., who absolved Marlin of responsibility and asked everyone who loved his father to stop assigning blame for his death.

After much consideration Junior decided to race at Rockingham the following weekend, but finished in 43rd-place after a wreck that looked eerily similar to his father's which occurred just one week earlier.

Many believe Dale Earnhardt started the team as something his children would someday run, but after his tragic death, the controlling interest in the company did not in fact go to his children, but instead was retained by Teresa Earnhardt who quickly earned a reputation as an owner in absentia, making very few appearances at the race track and granting even fewer interviews. Teresa has controlled everything since the accident, including the rights to Earnhardt Jr.'s name, which she only relinquished to him last summer. But Junior wants more than just his name back, and just like any good soap opera, is prepared to walk away from the team if he doesn't get it.

Junior, who has competed for the DEI team for several years, recently has made insinuations that he will leave his family's name sake. Teresa commented this year to The Wall Street Journal, "Right now the ball's in his court to decide on whether he wants to be a NASCAR driver or whether he wants to be a public personality." The cold comments were just an ongoing example of the rocky relationship between owner and driver.

"The relationship that we have today is the same relationship we had when I was 6 years old when I moved into that house with Dad and her. It's always been the same. It hasn't gotten worse over the last couple years or last couple months. The way I felt about her then is the way I feel about her now. " Junior responded to allegations that his problems with Teresa may force him to leave DEI.

"I just want to drive races and win championships and hang it up one day and not have to worry about whether I have enough money in my retirement fund," Junior told AOL. "Just give me a good race car and make it run fast and give me guys I can enjoy working with, and I'll go to the racetrack and I'll do whatever you need me to do with the sponsors and everything else."

The battle over DEI has shaped up to be as interesting as the war over Denver/Carrington, and everything but Joan Collins is included in the drama. The Earnhardt's have titillated fans with there story for three generations and undoubtedly will continue to do so in the future. Through all the marriages and children and wrecks and recoveries it is clear that NASCAR is a mainstay in the public eye, and the Earhardt's have always been a catalyst for that success.

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Ford: It wasn't pushed to drop gay ties

Automaker says not sponsoring GLAAD event has nothing to do with Christian group.

by David Shepardson

WASHINGTON -- Ford Motor Co. acknowledged Friday it had dropped its sponsorship of a gay advocacy group's annual event, but denied it was the result of pressure from a conservative group.

The American Family Association, a Tupelo, Miss.-based Christian group, has waged a two-year campaign to boycott and pressure Ford to halt its support of gay organizations and events and stop advertising in outlets that cater to gays and lesbians.

"It appears that Ford Motor Company, in response to AFA's boycott, is silently dropping public support for the homosexual agenda," the group said in a statement posted Thursday on its Web site.

The site noted that Ford wasn't sponsoring the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Awards -- a decision Ford and GLAAD confirmed. Ford's Jaguar brand had sponsored the event in recent years, including last year. The awards are a series of ceremonies that begin in New York later this month.

But Ford denied it dropped the sponsorship because of the AFA. The automaker also said it continues to advertise in gay and lesbian publications.

"We have elected to forgo sponsoring that program this year," Ford spokeswoman Kristen Kinley said, adding that "advertising and sponsorship decisions for all our brands are strictly driven by business considerations.

"We buy advertising to put Ford's message in front of as many customers as possible and includes customers of all walks of life -- customers who have a lot of other options given the competitive marketplace."

Kinley said the company hadn't ruled out sponsoring the event in the future.

In May 2005, the American Family Association called for a boycott of Ford, claiming the automaker supported homosexual groups. Shortly after, the group suspended the boycott after meeting with Ford executives and dealers.

But early last year, after claiming Ford hadn't maintained its "neutrality," the group registered a Web site, boycottford.com, and reinstated its effort.

The group has gone to great lengths to influence Ford, encouraging members to send a message to CEO and President Alan Mulally. It offers writers the option to click a box when e-mailing that reads: "I will pray for Alan Mulally." It urges people to print out its boycott Ford petition and distribute it at Sunday school and church.

Ford's advertising is similar to efforts by other large corporations and automakers.

Ford, General Motors Corp., Nissan Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler were among 138 companies to get a perfect score in a September report by another gay advocacy group, the Human Rights Campaign, which gives companies a "corporate equality score" on the basis of their positions on gay issues and whether a company "engages in appropriate or respectful advertising, marketing or sponsorship."

Despite Ford's decision, "we still have a very nice relationship with Jaguar," said Mark McCarthy, senior director of communications for GLAAD.

Companies realize the gay and lesbian consumer base is a very attractive demographic, McCarthy said. "The demographic certainly drives very positively for business."

More than 100 companies -- including IBM, Absolut, Budweiser, Motorola, Starbucks, Allstate and TimeWarner -- sponsor the awards.

The 18th annual awards begin March 27 in New York. Ceremonies will follow in Los Angeles, San Francisco and south Florida.

The awards honor "mainstream media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives," GLAAD says.

The events have featured celebrities, including Michael Douglas and Billy Crystal.

Source: Detroit News Washington Bureau

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Sunday 11 March 2007

Ford Loves Queers a little less

GLAAD (the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) once applauded Ford's commitment to supporting the gay community, but they've been mysteriously silent about the company's dissociation from their media awards.

The car company had been slated to sponsor the March 26, event, but the American Family Association-sponsored website, One News Now reports that they've backed out. Not surprisingly, AFA founder Don Wildmon takes some of the credit:

...Wildmon says he believes Ford's cancellation of its sponsorship of the Annual GLAAD Media Awards is another direct result of the boycott by AFA, other pro-family groups, and many Americans in response to the automaker's institutional support of homosexual causes and ideology. AFA also announced last week that Ford would no longer support homosexual publications with advertising.
Source: Queerty (follow the link to see other comments)

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Friday 9 March 2007

Motorcycle and Firetruck Underwear

What could be more fun than Underoos for adults? (Ok, not actual Underoos because of trademarks, etc...) GinchGonch produces a range of very fun underwear for both boys and girls, including these motorcycle briefs and a pair with FireTrucks. I would even venture to say that they are targeting gay men in particular. Check out their web site if you're not familiar with their ads. I like these so much that we have a couple pair here at home (yes, the ones pictured). I can't say much about durability, but they are definitely comfortable... and fun... and sexy.

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Monday 5 March 2007

Biker Erotica

Let me start by saying that this blog is intended not only to appeal to MotorFags like me, but also to all those MotorDykes out there. So I'm happy to be able to feature two anthologies of biker erotica, one gay, one lesbian.

What's sexier than a hot woman, clad in form-fitting leather, fiercely in control of the Iron Horse between her legs?

The sex is intense, joyful, liberating. The writing is hot, edgy, and uninhibited. The stories, while wildly different, are all sex-positive, adventurous, and sensual.

In Hard Road, Easy Riding editors Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia focus on the interaction between lesbian sex and the lifestyles of lesbian bikers. Follow the link to read more reviews, excerpts or to buy.

The Wildest Ones: Hot Biker Tales is editor M. Christian’s collection of 29 mean, nasty, dirty, diverse and definitely HOT stories.
Be warned, while these tales are wonderfully written by some of the top erotica writers in gay literature, featuring well-realized characters in mesmerizing locations, this is a nevertheless a surly, kick-ass, high-octane, burn-rubber book.
In The Road Killers, A.F. Waddell creates an urban legend of the Interior Design Chainsaw Killer who hates plaid and doilies… In Dionysus Redux, Jeff Mann depicts the frustrated desire of an professor for his rough biker student. Follow the link to STARbooks Press to buy this book - it's on sale right now.

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Speaking of Design...

Design and aesthetic are definitely important to MotorQueers. Well, at least to us MotorFags. And so I refer you to the results of the annual Peugeot Design Contest. Pictured below is the Flux, the winning design by 20-year old Mihai Panaitescu, a design student at the Instituto Europeo di Design in Turin, Italy. Visit the contest website to see more of the Flux and of the other concept designs chosen as finalists.

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Sunday 4 March 2007

Celebrity MotorQueer: Bryan Thompson

Celebrity may be somewhat relative, but coverage in newspapers across the world, magazines including GQ, Wallpaper and Architectural Digest, and television networks including Fox, ABC and MTV, an ongoing design blog on BravoTV.com and the occasional feature on Gaywheels.com probably constitute a good start.

Bryan is an automotoive and freelance designer. He is most renowned for developing a relationship between Nissan and Airstream that lead to the creation of the BaseCamp Trailer, manufactured by Airstream. Thompson created production and concept car designs for Nissan, including the Armada interior and the Actic interior and Airstream Trailer Concept revealed at the 2004 Detroit International Auto Show.

Bryan is a man after my own heart. Not only has he done freelance design work for a coffee house (check out his website), but his blog exhibits the requisite amount of hipster attitude:

Japanese cars from the 70s and 80s are the best. They are horrendously ugly, gorgeous and cool at the same time...... There's something strangely sexy about a chrome bumper, all that metal and glass and not a single air bag. The radios and steering wheels are works of art. I lust after them. The day a neighbor I didn't know rolled up in a 1978 Subaru was the day I became a stalker. I walked my dog Lou two blocks out of our way to see it. I took photos of it in the middle of the night and I searched until I found one just like it.

If you've been reading my posts you'll know how much i appreciate kitsch and Japanese imagery. And i love coffee! Thanks Bryan.

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