Our most read feature? It may very well end up Ava and C.I.'s "Media: Gay Rights and Gay Wrongs" from last week. It's already huge.
And it should have been part of a theme edition. We were talking, Ava and C.I. and I, about e-mails two weeks ago. Miles Striker was an issue in the e-mails. They weren't familiar with him. I explained the complaints about him that had come in. They started talking about it and said they could do it, they could even bring in other fetish performers, they could do this and that. They planned to call three friends who are adult entertainers in the gay porn industry for feedback and suggestions. It was going to be a very interesting article.
And it was. This was truly an article about media as they covered videos, stories, etc.
But what the three of us came up with was much more ambitious.
At her site, Rebecca's been covering Twitter male stars. Who pose nude or semi. She's particularly fond of THE GAY GASTON. And what if, we came up with, the guys who work on THIRD evaluated these males? Could we see, for example, why ten men were considered hot?
The ten would be decided by the women of the site.
Marcia and I -- as LGBTQs -- might end up left out and we discussed that with Marcia who was more than okay with that because she loved the idea. Then we were going to do a roundtable on sexuality. For the editorial, Ava and C.I. planned one that would touch on the LGBTQ community in Iraq and on the Iraq sex trade industry which would note the documentary available currently on AMAZON.
It was pretty intricate and involved and there were other components.
I have a piece this edition about KINDLE that was going to run the same edition and Ava, C.I. and I did a book discussion on that. (This ran last week in HILDA'S MIX instead.)
When Sunday ended, only Ava and C.I.'s piece was written (they wrote it from five a.m. to ten a.m. Sunday). We had recorded the discussion and needed to transcribe that. The women had picked 10 men that they considered hot.
The stumbling block?
The men looking at the photos of the ten guys. Jim joked and joked. He can do a Jim's World feature if he wants to address whether this was his usual silliness (which it may have been) or if this was because he was uncomfortable? Mike, Jess and Stan weren't uncomfortable and were all for doing this. Wally wasn't participating because he had a family event and was sitting the whole edition out. Cedric appeared game but got tired of the stalling and the joking and ended up bailing. (I don't blame him.)
This should have been a really easy edition.
Why did it fall apart?
I don't know. I know this happens on other topics as well so it would be simplistic just to say it was because of the LGBTQ topic.
But, whatever the reason, I found it personally disappointing.