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What and Where

Got Us Excited in 2024?

Edited by Mikkel Hyldebrandt

with plenty of hotspots to offer.

Concrete jungle? More like a concrete playground! The top cruisiest cities of 2024 in America are: 1. New York 2. Chicago 3. Las Vegas 4. Philadelphia 5. Houston Squirt.org, the online global community for hookups and cruising for gay, bi and curious men, has just dropped Squirt Unloaded— their annual (s)exposé on what guys have been up to all year long.

The annual report gathered responses from thousands of gay, bi and curious men to uncover current trends in sexual preferences, cruising behaviors, sexual turn-ons, and the influence of porn and pop culture in 2024. The findings offer a fascinating look at the evolving interests among gay, bi, and curious men worldwide.

Here are some of our handpicked favorites – see more Squirt Unloaded responses at Squirt.org.

CRUISING The Hottest USA Cruising Cities of 2024 New York City reigns supreme as the most popular cruising ground

Cities with The Most Tops in America Pack your bags and head to Dallas, where the Tops reign supreme in America. High ranking cities with the most tops in America are: 1. Dallas 2. San Francisco 3. San Antonio 4. Jacksonville 5. Seattle Cities with The Most Bottoms in America The City of Angels knows how to make dreams come true, especially in the bedroom which is why Los Angeles takes the cake as top city with the most Bottoms in America. The top ranking cities with the most bottoms in America are: 1. Los Angeles 2. Phoenix 3. Atlanta 4. Denver 5. Portland

POP CULTURE

Best Television Show of 2024 From superhero heartthrobs to interdimensional time travelers, these Best Podcast of 2024 Move over, boring history podcasts! shows had us glued to our screens These audio sexcapedes are giving us (and frantically searching for the pause all the juicy gossip, hilarious hot takes, button at all the right moments). and maybe even a reason to invest in noise-canceling headphones (if you Best shows of 2024 are: 1. The Boys know, you know!).

2. Doctor Who 3. RuPaul’s Drag Race The best podcasts in 2024 are: 4. Heartstopper 1. We’re Having Gay Sex 5. Fallout (Ashley Gavin) 2. The Savage Lovecast (Dan Best Movie of 2024 Savage) Get your popcorn ready, boys, because 3. Modern Gays (Daniel and these films had everything: action, Garet) 4. Bad Gays (Huw Lemmey and adventure, romance, and enough shirtless scenes to make Michelangelo Ben Miller) jealous!

5. Inside the Closet (Emma Willmann and Matteo Lane)

Best Movie! Best movies of 2024 are: 1. Deadpool & Wolverine 2. Dune: Part 2 3. Queer 4. Twisters 5. Road House (2024)

PORN STATS

Squirt Studio’s Hottest Gay Performers Hottest Performer of the Year is none Album of the Year other than the sexy hunk, Jack Hunter!

Billie Eilish had the gays in all the feels Top Performing Stars are: with her immaculate album “Hit Me 1. Jack Hunter Hard and Soft”. 2024 was a musical 2. Jesse Stone feast with these queens: 3. Hunter Vance 1. Hit Me Hard and Soft (Billie 4. Killian Knox Eilish) 5. Max Romano 2. The Tortured Poets Most Popular Gay Porn Categories Department (Taylor Swift) With options as wide as our holes: 3. Cowboy Carter (Beyoncé) 1. Bareback 4. Radical Optimism (Dua Lipa) 2. Big Dick 5. Eternal Sunshine (Ariana 3. Amateur Grande) 4. Cumshot 5. Blowjob 6. Daddy 7. Group Who Guys are Into 8. Rough Sex Silver Foxes aged to perfection have 9. Public been the most popular type of guy 10. Twinks gay & bi men are pursuing in 2024!

In addition, here’s who else gets our hearts racing in 2024: 1. Silver Foxes 2. Jocks 3. Blue Collar 4. Muscle Bears 5. Kinksters 6. Geeks 7. Chubs 8. Leather Studs 9. Twunks 10. Muscle Studs

TURN-ONS

Most Popular Kinks of 2024 Get ready to explore new frontiers of pleasure with this year’s hottest kinks: 1. Group Play 2. Voyeurism 3. Nudism 4. Roleplay 5. Exhibitionism 6. Spanking 7. Bondage 8. Watersports 9. Cybersex 10. Fisting

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End 2024 & Start 2025 with a BANG!

By Tim Blankenship

What better way to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new than by immersing yourself in two festivals designed to celebrate LGBTQ+ pride and togetherness? Whether you prefer soaking up the sun and sounds in Miami or reveling in the bold, electrifying atmosphere of D.C., Dreamland and MAL Weekend provide the perfect opportunity to ring in the new year with joy, culture, and community in two of America’s most dynamic cities.

From December 27 through January 1, luxury and festival energy. One of this year’s Dreamland transforms Miami into a paradise highlights is the introduction of Teleport City, of music, art, and celebration. Often referred a 5-D multi-sensory experience that invites to as the “Queer Coachella,” this annual New attendees to step into a dreamlike reality, creating unforgettable memories to carry into 2025.

As fireworks light up the Miami skies, festivalgoers will celebrate with thousands of likeminded individuals, united in love, inclusion, and resilience. Jake Resnicow, the festival’s producer, emphasizes the significance of creating safe and empowering spaces for the queer community to thrive amidst external challenges. Dreamland is more than a festival; it’s a sanctuary where LGBTQ+ Year’s music festival is the largest LGBTQ+ individuals can express themselves freely celebration of its kind in North America. and celebrate their collective strength.

Featuring six spectacular parties over five days, Dreamland offers an electrifying lineup of world-renowned artists, including Purple Disco Machine, Dombresky, and Coco & Breezy, who will keep the beats pumping across disco, house, and electronic genres.

Set against Miami’s breathtaking coastal views, Dreamland’s events will unfold in iconic venues like M2 and Kygo’s Palm Tree Club, offering the ultimate blend of tropical

sounds, and breathtaking stage production.

The weekend culminates on Sunday with LUST, a sultry closing event featuring Grammy-nominated DJ Abel and Sam Blacky, offering dark beats and sensual energy in one of D.C.’s hottest venues.

MAL Weekend is more than a party; it’s a celebration of the leather and fetish communities’ culture and artistry, as well After dancing into 2025 at Dreamland, the as a philanthropic force, having raised over celebration continues just days later in $150,000 for LGBTQIA+ nonprofits last year.

Washington, D.C., with the Mid-Atlantic Like Dreamland, it serves as a safe and Leather Weekend from January 9 through welcoming space for attendees to explore, January 12. Known as one of the world’s connect, and embrace being gay in the USA! premier leather and fetish festivals, MAL offers a dynamic mix of community, artistry, and boundary-pushing parties. Partnering with KINETIC Presents, this year’s event will deliver the largest MAL experience to date, featuring four incredible parties designed to captivate attendees.

The festivities kick off with BOOTCAMP, the

official opening party on Thursday, featuring DJs Onyx, Alex Lo, and Dan Slater in an electric atmosphere with immersive play zones. On Friday, UNCUT XL takes over the renovated Republiq venue with circuit and tech house beats from renowned DJs and performances by adult entertainers.

Saturday’s main event, PERVERT, promises For more information on both to be the weekend’s centerpiece with its festivals, visit DreamlandNYE.com warehouse setting, tribal and deep house and KineticPresents.com.

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QUEER Uma Thurman plans to clean house

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Indya Moore visits ‘Mother, Father, Sister, Brother’

“Pulp Fiction” icon “ P o s e ” Uma Thurman princess Indya has signed Moore is hard on to a new at work on a 1930s-set period new comedydrama, “The drama from H o u s e k e e p e r, ” acclaimed a l o n g s i d e i n d i e “Bridgerton” star filmmaker Jim Phoebe Dynevor.

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Directed by It’s called Richard Eyre (“Notes on a Scandal” “Father, Mother, Sister, Brother” and “Iris”) with a script from author and will take form of a triptych. It Rose Tremain, adapting her own will feature three different stories forthcoming novel, the story is a (the press release calls them “quiet” fictionalized telling of the incidents and “observational”) related to adult that inspired novelist Daphne du children, estranged parents and Maurier’s gothic novel, “Rebecca,” strained family scenarios all around, which was, in turn, turned into a with each story taking place at the classic film from Alfred Hitchcock. same time but in different countries Thurman will star in the title role with — the U.S., France, and Ireland.

Dynevor as du Maurier and joining Alongside Moore, the film cothem will be Academy Award winner stars Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Anthony Hopkins as Lord DeWithers, Mayim Bialik, Tom Waits, Charlotte owner of Manderville Hall. All other Rampling, Vicky Krieps (“Phantom plot details are a mystery, which is Thread”) and “Grown-ish” star Luka fitting for something that led to the Sabbat. In production now, we’re mysterious “Rebecca.” It goes in looking forward to a little official front of the camera in 2025. Re-watch “quiet” after the screaming election that Hitchcock in the meantime. of 2024. If we want more noise we’ll just rewatch “August Osage County.”

Jinkx Monsoon returns to Broadway

Andrew Scott feels the ‘Pressure’ Andrew Scott refuses to take a vacation. He’s jumped on board another new project, “Pressure,” for director-screenwriter Anthony Maras (“Hotel Mumbai”) and Olivier Award winning co-screenwriter David Haig.

The true story, based on Haig’s acclaimed play, is set during WWII, will star Scott as Britain’s chief meteorologist James Stagg, whose

Jinkx Monsoon already made her Broadway debut in “Chicago” in 2023, and now they want her back there for a reimagined “Pirates of Penzance.” The “RuPaul’s Drag Race” legend will hit the boards in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical,” alongside “Frazier” star David Hyde timing assessments and decisionPierce and Ramin Karimloo (“Funny making was critical to Allied forces Girl”). Rupert Holmes has taken on the eve of the D-Day invasion of the classic Gilbert & Sullivan comic Normandy. Brendan Fraser plays opera and is turning it on its head Dwight Eisenhower and the film coto become a New Orleans-set, jazz- stars Kerry Condon (“The Banshees based musical comedy. Monsoon of Inisherin”), Chris Messina (“The will play Ruth, Karimloo the Pirate Mindy Project”) and Damian Lewis King, and Pierce will handle Major (“Billions”). This has award season General Stanley. And yes, readers written all over it, of course, and it’s of a certain age will remember Mr. currently filming in the U.K. Make Holmes from his ’70s pop career plans now to take your history-loving and “The Piña Colada Song.” Now Dad on a movie date. you know what’s he’s been up to lately. Check out his latest project in April of 2025.

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