December 8, 2014
Gifts: A Guide to the Gay (And Gay-Owned)
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 4 MIN.
HO HO HO! Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Kwanza and Solstice! It's that time of year, when we spread good cheer and love to all! Here's a few of our gift ideas for the one you love.....or even the one you like. From calendars to lube, we've included something for everyone.
Calendars
The New Year is quickly approaching and what better way to celebrate 2015 than with a flesh-revealing calendar? We've included one to satisfy every taste.
Players 2015
Rentboy.com, the world's premiere site for classy, upscale, gay male escorts, offers a titillating calendar of the "profession's" best and brightest. These gay for pay guys are actually gay, and hotter than hot can be! Includes Colt and Falcon guys, and recent SFGN interviewee Blue Bailey. Woof!
Features 26 color portraits of the world's sexiest escorts, oh, and an actual calendar too. $7.99, Players: 2015 is available at Amazon.
BelAmi Online Boys 2015
Offers pics of some of the prettiest models in the famed European gay porn stable.
Raging Stallion Hung 2015
Satisfies your Daddy craving.
Falcon Studios: California Dreamin 2015
Your dreams will come true with these gorgeous Cali dudes.
Hombres: 2015
Features arty, and sexy, Latino dudes, photographed in dramatic Black & White
These, and others, including "CockyBoys," "Rear Views," "XXL Weekly," "Jeff Palmer," and "Young Men of Germany," are available at: BrunoGmuender.com
Lubes
What better way to slide into the holidays than some brand new lube? Look beyond Swiss Navy and Wet and check these products.
Gun Oil Sexual Enhancement
Nothing says butch to a potential trick better than pulling out a bottle of "Gun Oil" lube. And it's not just a butch name either. The product is inspired by actual gun oil.
"U.S. Marine platoon leader and founder of Gun Oil recalled soldiers using CLP liquid, that keeps firearms and other weapons clean and firing accurately, as a perfect personal lubricant when relief, better known as masturbation, was necessary to relieve stress." With Gun Oil you're using the "official" lube of the Marines. Can't get much hotter than that. This company offers a variety of sexy lubes and products to enhance your naughtier moments.
Good Clean Love
For those of you wanting to really go green why not try Good Clean Love - it's healthy and organic. And by healthy we mean it's edible. Yes you can even it eat it! According to its website: "All of our lubricants are edible and delicious." We'll let you decide how delicious it really is though. If you're looking beyond lube they also sell toys, arousal oils, and many other sensual delights! Their website also states: "They are made with natural ingredients that actually interact with your brain and don't leave nasty and sticky residue on your skin."
�berlebe
There's nothing that says chic better than using �berlube. It's possibly the coolest lube out there. And its uses are endless. According to their website: "Did you know that �berlube is used by salons as a brilliant smoothing, finishing, and anti-frizz product? Or that athletes use �berlube for running, biking and swimming to eliminate chafing? Not just a lube, �berlube loves your whole body." How's that for getting your money's worth?
Food
Big Bottom Market
Big Bottom Market is a nod to the past born out of the crazy minds of three successful business partners and passionate foodies with a keen design sense and a passion for bringing the delicious and unique to everyone. It's hip, yet retro, refined, yet slightly irreverent. It's a gourmet deli at the farmer's market.
Big Bottom offers three sizes of gift boxes for the foodie in your life: Big ($25) Bigger ($50) and Biggest ($75). Once you realize that owner of the company, Michael Volpatt, is a gay man, the name makes a lot more sense. So whether you're a top or a bottom, check out www.BigBottomMarket.com for these yummy gourmet delights.
Novelties
The Gift Experience: Lesbian Gifts
This UK based site features a plethora of delights for the woman who wants to give something special to the woman in her life. There are matching Hers and Hers coffee mugs, Bride/Bride matching pillows for the bed, as well as more personalized items, such as wine glasses engraved with the loving couple's names. Personalized jewelry and picture frames, and other items, are also available.
www.TheGiftExperience.co.uk/lesbian-gifts/
Gay Jewelry
Love and Pride offers all kinds of lovely jewelry for LGBTs of every stripe. Bracelets, necklaces, Pride themed and Rainbow colored accessories, and wedding bands, of course. Beauty, grooming and home design items are also available. A site to visit for the holidays and maybe for Valentine's Day as well--which isn't too far off!
Gay Greeting Cards
Hallmark offers some lovely cards you can send along with your gifts, whether you're giving to your beloved spouse or a cherished couple who are part of your life. Silhouettes-Two Women and Silhouettes--Two Men, are exactly what they say they are: simple silhouettes of a same-sex couple with a romantic message inside. There's plenty of room for you to write in your own personal greeting to those special folks in your life. The cards are $3.49 each.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.
