http://tombianchi.com/journal/jrnl_104/jrnl_main.htm
- "Did I say muscle? Yes we do come here to see and touch and taste that. The Pines invites us to live nakedly / vibrantly / and ultimately lovingly."\
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I especially love the accompanying footage of the muscley houseboy walking the three dogs.
"You there! Raoul! These dogs won''t walk themselves, you know!"
- I''m glad he clarifies that it''s The Pines that do all that. \
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We wouldn''t want anyone to confuse it with Cherry Grove.
- I''ve never been to Fire Island but someone told me that Cherry Grove was more "west village" while the Pines was more "chelsea". I guess that means CG attracts an older, more musical theater crowd while the Pines has muscle boys. Has anyone else noticed this?
- We have been to Cherry Grove, r2. There are times in one''s life when sheer perfection starts to lose its luster, its gorgeous sheen, and the soul cries out for a different point of view to restore what has been lost. When such a crisis occurs, we go "slumming" and take a short stroll down the beach to the Grove. The sight of those poor, pudgy bodies shuttling back and forth between Cherry''s and the Ice Palace is like a sorbet to "cleanse the palate". After at most an hour of witnessing this sad display, as there are limits to how much sorbet our souls can absorb, we return to the Pines - by way of the delectable Meat Rack - and find ourselves re-nourished and ready to take on whatever challenge (or muscle) is presented to us!
Tom Bianchi
- I love the first picture of him spreading his varicose veiny grizzled thighs in a gesture of joyous welcome, as if to say, "Come world, enjoy the pleasures of my skanky aged crotch!"
- So many old queens so many white couches. Not that that is a bad thing. I am old and I have a white couch...wait...
- Must be cold out there right now.
- he''s never failed to give me gas.
- Hiding in ghettos and ''being gay'' is so yesteryear.
- Wow r4 I''m at work and dare not open the Miss Tom Bianchi website. Is that directly from his overwrought scriblings or are you merely channeling his thoughts?
- He''s got yet another new "forever soulmate" named Ben! Ben too, you see is "perfection", as well as having a "soul". Aren''t these the qualities Tom sees in every man under 35 who isn''t running strenuously in the opposite direction?
- Is he on Twitter? I wish I could get his nuggets of wisdom every single day.
- He is looney tunes... but harmless. And an artist? Maybe- he likes to take pictures of the guys he wants to do... and often they are good pics. Crazy as he is, he has managed to build a life and living around his dick. Mostly people have to earn a living doing something almost against their will. I know the older guy/younger hairy chest guy in some of the pics. The older guy is the current mayor of the Pines and one of the nicest men I know- wonderful man. %0D\
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charlie
- "...he has managed to build a life and living around his dick."%0D\
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Why is that different than any other man? He''s just more public about it because of his career. Everything a man does from the time he gets up in the morning is about his dick: earning money, working-out, grooming, lying, eating... it''s all about sex.
- He looks like one of those apple throwing trees in The Wizard of Oz.
- Speak for yourself. My work and my career have nothing to do with my sexuality or sex life. This is neither a good nor a bad thing.
charlie
- It has to be said:\
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Zak, neither tan nor particularly fagulous although I do enjoy a showtune...
- r14, no. No, it isn''t. Project much, sex freak?
- Can someone explain to me who exactly he is? I mean, I know the jokes about him, but I still don''t understand why he thinks we''re supposed to care about him, ridiculous prose aside.
The Voice of the Night
- [quote]Everything a man does from the time he gets up in the morning is about his dick: earning money, working-out, grooming, lying, eating... it''s all about sex.\
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Woods. But I think you''d better get back to improving your golf game.
- He is a photographer who has published a few moderately successful coffee table type books of male nudes- obviously homoerotic and homosexual, going back years.%0D\
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- "Good looking young men, as you must know, can be very susceptible to that kind of flattery, or presumed flattery." %0D\
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Rolling my eyes at you.
- Does Tom B. ever give a fleeting second''s thought to ANYthing else?\
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Politics?\
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Does he read books?\
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He seems so empty.
- Do you know a homely or out of shape person who gets photographed for being, homely, and put in coffee table books and such or soft core porn? Do you know of any homely men photographed by Tom Bianchi or Bruce Weber or for Playgirl etc? How many out of shape homely men/boys are at SeanCody.com?
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- Um, Charlie?
- Is the photography in his coffee table book as bad as the photography on his website?
The Voice of the Night
- Yes it is, VOTN. Bianchi spent many years in NYC as a lawyer in the entertainment industry and made a pile of money. He then left his job to devote himself full-time to photography and finding his numerous "soulmates." He''s empty, shallow and a mega-narcissist, but he''s harmless and not hurting anyone.
- [quote]Do you know a homely or out of shape person who gets photographed for being, homely, and put in coffee table books
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- Also for charlie:
http://www.mimifroufrou.com/scentedsalamander/images/lillian-hellman-blackglama.jpg
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I have coffee table books on my coffee table with all three of these pictures in them.
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- [quote]He''s empty, shallow and a mega-narcissist, [bold]but he''s harmless and not hurting anyone.[/bold]\
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This argument gets trotted out on any thread about Tom Bianchi, and I think it''s a singularly stupid one.\
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90% of the celebrities we diss on Datalounge could be described this way: Lindsay Lohan, Barbara Walters, Paris Hilton, Star Jones, Gwyneth Paltrow, Charlie Sheen, Russell Brand, the Kardashian sisters, Joan Rivers...\
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If we were limited to discussing and dissing celebrities who actually hurt people, we''d be limited to talking only about Mel Gibson and O.J. Simpson.\
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I''m sorry, but just being empty, shallow and mega-narcissistic is grounds for being mocked on Datalounge, and it always has been, and it always will be.
- I too wonder if Tom is harmless.\
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He deals in pandering a sense of beauty that few can achieve, and even fewer can achieve without medication. \
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His "Art" is all about playing on the most obvious gay sterotypes. \
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And by the way, how hard is it to take photos of "perfect" bodies any way?
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- [quote]And by the way, how hard is it to take photos of "perfect" bodies any way?%0D\
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I''m sorry, I like seeing a nice-looking man as much as the next guy, but the photos on his website (to say nothing of the accompanying prose) are dreadful.%0D\
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How old is he, anyway?
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- He''s one hundred and thirty-four years young!
- I believe it.
- [quote]Does Tom B. ever give a fleeting second''s thought to ANYthing else? Politics?\
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I''m all for men discovering each other''s bodies spiritually and physically in bathhouses, swimming pools, public parks and public restrooms!\
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Does he read books?\
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My villa in Palm Springs is filled with books! I have all the greats represented: Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Weber, Tom of Finland, George Platt Lynes, Helmut Newton, John Preston, Gordon Merrick...
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- [quote]He''s one hundred and thirty-four years young!\
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I could believe that.\
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Note to self: remember to try to age gracefully.
The Voice of the Night
- [quote]he''s harmless and not hurting anyone.%0D\
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I know one of his former "soulmates" in Palm Springs who actually bought Tom''s load of airy fairy love bullshit and who Tom then dumped with no warning who would have a HUGE disagreement with that statement.
- Tom is like an aged cheese. Not a fine, aged cheese, but an aged cheese. With mold on it. Fur covering the creamy cheese. And a stink that would make Cheryl pass out.
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- Is "muscle" his euphemism for "penis?"\
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Why be so coy?
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- It has to be said:%0D\
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Oh, I think so, majorly.
- LOL!! Jealous of a fossil with varicose veins the size of drainage ditches? Oh dear.
- Am I jealous that he has managed to turn a decent talent into a life of laying by the pool with naked hotties? Yes.\
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Jealous of his narcissistic/ borderline personality disorder prose and apparent mindset? Nope.
- VOTN, is your Google broken?
- Derek appears a bit long in tooth for Mr. Bianchi. \
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I think this is a good thing. Gramma Gums was looking a bit pathetic with the uber-twink set.
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AIDS meds cause those veiny legs. Lots of geezers in Palm Springs have them.
- [quote]VOTN, is your Google broken?\
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I looked at his website for as long as I could stand, and I still didn''t know.\
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Unless there''s a Tom Bianchi For Dummies website, I don''t know that Google would be of much help.\
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And if he is using it in place of "cock" it still doesn''t tell me why.
The Voice of the Night
- Yeah, I don''t know where anyone could get any info on Tom Bianchi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bianchi
- Grammy Gums, lol\
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I thought we''d established that her nickname was "Granny T-Cells"
- That wiki page is hysterically funny (one of the world''s most prolific and well loved writers and artists! Who hit the crack pip before writing this? It also says virtually nothing about him other than PR bullshit.
- [quote]Yeah, I don''t know where anyone could get any info on Tom Bianchi.%0D\
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Secondly, it still doesn''t answer my question on "muscle."
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- There''s some nazi queen guarding Bianchi''s page like a gargoyle. I tried to alter a few things (hee hee) and he threatened me for "vandalizing" the page. i pointed out that many of the ridiculous claims were not cited- apparently that''s okay now.
- You can bust him for being a sockpuppet.
The Voice of the Night
- How do I do that? I''m not that familiar with wiki.
- [quote]How do I do that? I''m not that familiar with wiki.%0D\
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It logs the IP address of anyone who makes an edit to the page, and if you keep changing things in accordance with their stated guidelines, and someone keeps changing it back, you go to the "Talk" page and add the tag {{subst:socksuspectnotice|PUPPETMASTER}}
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- I have observed Mr Bianchi in Provincetown on several occasions. If you do not look like a Colt model then stay clear. You are invisible and not welcomed in his imperial presence. He is constantly cruising,eyes darting like an octogenarian weasel. Watching him hold court,pool side, wearing a tiny bikini bathing suit is not to be believed. He appears insane.
- Tom Bianchi''s back: it''s probably as scary as his front!
Zak
- the grove/pines debate is stupid. they are right next to each other separated by a major cruising forrest and a nude beach; about 1/3 of a mile between the towns; there are hot men in both towns, cherry grove has more night life and commerce, pines has fancier houses, cherry grove is more of a typical fun kitschy beach resort. Both have extremely hot underwear parties. Cherry Grove is more mixed, Pines is more male. Cherry Grove has more restaurants, although there really isn''t any good place to dine out in either town. Both are extremely expensive, but the Pines is moreso. Anyone in decent shape runs or walks between the two communities, some of us daily, and enjoy the scenery of all sorts in both towns.\
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A great many people who enjoy gay Fire Island avail themselves of the best of both towns.
- and before someone calls me a Grover with a chip on my shoulder, I live in a beautiful house in the Pines. It''s just that I''m not a snob and have fun (!!!!) in both towns.
r59
- I really think it''s interesting how straight men admire or at least vicariously enjoy Hugh Hefner, but so many gay men can''t stand Tom Bianchi.
- R61, Hugh Hefner never pretended to be some prolific writer, talking about the "spiritual connection" and "oneness" he felt with the centerfold of the month. Bianchi is annoying because rather than take Jake Cruise''s approach and say "I like hot guys", he has to make it about him, bullshit spirituality, and what reads like a very insecure person saying "no, really, I LOVE my life. Did I already say that? Because I do." Nauseating.
- R61- ummm, so gay men should model ourselves after straight men? That''s nuts. straight men do lots of abhorrent, bizarre, and ridiculous things. Being gay liberates me from all that bullshit, hon, if I choose to be liberated. I''m not going to celebrate a cretin who tried to turn his obsession with sex and "perfect'' bodies into some kind of religion. He''s moronic.
- [quote]Bianchi is annoying because rather than take Jake Cruise''s approach and say "I like hot guys", he has to make it about him, bullshit spirituality, and what reads like a very insecure person saying "no, really, I LOVE my life. Did I already say that? Because I do." Nauseating.\
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I just can''t abide anyone, gay or straight, who uses $5 words in order to make is sound like he isn''t a vain, shallow person.\
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It reminds me of the guy with the epic SilverDaddy.com profile that kept going on and on and on about how brilliant he was.
The Voice of the Night
- The man is a sick joke. End of story...Period
- "Derek appears a bit long in tooth for Mr. Bianchi."%0D\
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- I see Miss Bianchi has discovered ''the batman angle'' in her photography.
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- [quote]and before someone calls me a Grover with a chip on my shoulder, I live in a beautiful house in the Pines.\
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Whew! That a close call.\
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You''ve really got us convinced you''re not a snob at all about The Pines. Good job.
- Oh God...will somebody please throw a bucket of water on this witch!!!
- For those of us who live outside of the cynical sarcastic of the center of the universe that is Manhattan, Bianchi''s photos have proven to be quite interesting principally because they depict the older male - in his 50s and 60s - as a sexual being. %0D
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- Hear, hear, r70! But for "sexual being" read "mawkishly exploitative and self-deluded sexual being."
- R70- oh please, Mary!! LOL!
- [quote]Bianchi''s photos have proven to be quite interesting principally because they depict the older male - in his 50s and 60s - as a sexual being.\
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But there are no men in their 60s in his photos... other than him.\
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if they were really all that groundbreaking, his photos would show multiple older men as sexual beings... not just ONE older man who is sexually interested in men thirty, forty, even fifty years younger than he is.
- Thank you r73!
- Just how old is he now? 70s?
- I just read his Wiki. 66? Please.
- That Wiki page is Sockpuppet city.
- [quote] Bianchi''s photos have proven to be quite interesting principally because they depict the older male - in his 50s and 60s - as a sexual being.\
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And they do this how, exactly? They certainly don''t depict anything remotely considered truth or reality, considering that Bianchi is close to seventy and eats, sleeps, and breathes steroids because of the fact that he has AIDS, a reality that he constantly hides since his brain is so fogged up with anti anxiety meds and he lives in a land of constant delusion. \
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A normal, functioning sixty year old man does not look like that disgusting little orange troll. Nor is a normal sixty year old man constantly surrounded by men 1/3 of his age that he pays for.\
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You are incredibly naive and gullible.
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"He is currently working on an album and stage presentation of some poems being set to song from his book MEN I%E2%80%99VE LOVED."%0D\
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AH HA HA HA HA HAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- I totally agree he is a nut... but I also think he is a harmless nut. The vitriole of many posts and the one below... phew. I wonder what the poster below does for a living, and his age, and I wonder if he would post his pic as well... then others could give him their take on what a normal person should be doing. By the way, Bianchi pays for no one. He does not "keep" his squeezes. I''ve met him, I know people who know him quite well, in PS and in the FIP.%0D\
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"A normal, functioning sixty year old man does not look like that disgusting little orange troll. Nor is a normal sixty year old man constantly surrounded by men 1/3 of his age that he pays for.%0D\
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- R80= acquaintance who''s just as fucked up as he is. Go away little sockpuppet.
- [quote]"He is currently working on an album and stage presentation of some poems being set to song from his book MEN I''VE LOVED."\
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It''s a take-off of "O Calcutta!" It''s called "O Mary!"
- Elaine Stritch IS Tom Bianchi in "MEN I''VE LOVED"!!!!
- [quote]and before someone calls me a Grover with a chip on my shoulder, I live in a beautiful house in the Pines. It''s just that I''m not a snob\
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Oh the irony.
- Got some questions here. Does anybody know how exactly RICH Tom Bianchi is? And how he makes money? I mean, I don''t see how he could afford to lead his lifestyle based on his book sales alone. Maybe wise diversified investments? At any rate, is Bianchi a millionaire? multimillionaire? Wouldn''t be surprised if he were, seeing as how he seems to have half the world''s hottest gay men as lovers... %0D\
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Now, the following one is probably what everyone else here is also wondering about. HOW THE HELL did Tom Bianchi manage to meet his 42-years-younger blond ex-boytoy, Aaron Young!?!? And WHY did they break up!?!? Who dumped who!?!? Love to know the inside scoop on that as well!!!
- P.S. Just not buying how Bianchi does NOT pay for his "squeezes" or "lovers" or "life partners" or whatever he calls them. There has to be some sort of monetary transaction there, no? Can anybody shed light on this? For example, the courting process? Online? All the hottest circuit parties across the country (plus the world)? And how does the breakup initiation begin? Surely not by a curt phone call or text message... AND, do they continue to keep in touch afterwards? %0D\
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- It''s just not a Tom Bianchi thread without the inevitable appearance of the "I know Tom and he''s harmless" Troll making excuses for him.
- But, that''s the thing; Bianchi is NOT harming anybody. Or is he? Has somebody ever get OD''d in his parties? Has Bianchi himself ever committed grave crimes of any kind? Murder? Domestic violence? Illegal drug trafficking? Money laundering? The answer is most likely no to any of those, I am guessing...
- R88- listen, sockpuppet...enough. \
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"Harm" is a relative term. Go away.
- R88- sweetums, this is a gay gossip board. Where we gossip. One of the things we gossip about is a pathetic old troll like this. No one''s claiming he''s a serial killer, dearest. He''s one of the wealthy one percent, flaunting his wealth by buying his way through "soul mates". Which would be one thing if he had the tiniest bit of self awareness or honesty. But he wraps all his obsession with materialism, acquisition, and objectification in this veneer of religiosity. It''s sickening. He uses people then pretends that it''s all some spiritual enterprise. If he had the tiniest bit of capacity to laugh at himself, that might be different. He''d still be a douche, but at least he wouldn''t be a walking parody of a human being.\
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Taking nude pictures of steroid-addicted men doesn''t make him a high priest of the sex religion. Just a creepy old troll.
- A camptastic creepy old troll at that!
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- [quote]But, that''s the thing; Bianchi is NOT harming anybody. \
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Nor for that matter is Gwyneth Paltrow, nor Star Jones, nor Ryan Seacrest, nor Camilla Parker-Bowles, nor Whitney Houston, nor Barbara Walters, nor Jennifer Aniston, nor Kanye West, nor Kevin Spacey, and ad infinitum. Yet we make fun of them incessantly, and rightly so, because this is a gossip board, and that''s it''s purpose.
- There has to be AT LEAST ONE person among you righteous Bianchi Haters that knows the background story behind Bianchi''s wealth and his relationship with Aaron Young!!! C''mon, ya uptight nancies, spill ''em beans, if you love to gossip as much as you sound out to be!
- I would love to put Bianchi on a panel with Larry Kramer. Hilarity ensues!
- r92- thank you!
- What is on his ipod?
- Tom Bianchi might be comfortably upper middle class, but I don''t think he''s got lots of cash flow. I imagine he bought his Palm Springs home a couple of decades ago when he was a full-time lawyer. He openly states that he is a house guest on F.I. He never seems to travel anywhere where paid accommodations are required. There does exist a strange demographic of gay men who love this house guest crap. Get a hotel room cheapskates!
- Oh, but he''s harmless!
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- [quote]"He is currently working on an album and stage presentation of some poems being set to song from his book MEN I''VE LOVED."\
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That''s got to be a 37-hour experience. What''s he going to call it? [italic]The Cock-Ring Cycle{/italic]?
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- STILL waiting on the Bianchi''s ex-mega-young-boytoy Aaron Young story. %0D\
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Now go back to trashing him. Like I said, he is almost as easy to trash as Sarah Palin or Donald Trump- But each of them have been more harmful. Bianchi is just your proverbial dirty old man and the stuff he writes on his website is hilarious.
charlie
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- charlie, how many fucking times are you going to keep saying "he''s harmless"?\
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And why the fuck should that matter? You enjoy making fun on other threads of lots of people who are similarly "harmless." That''s a pretty hypocritical stance to take.\
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You''re a buzzkill. And for God''s sake, stop posting the same damn thing over and over again--we heard you the first time.
- Imagine if he had Denise Eaker Hoover, mhb, kirker and charlie as weekend houseguests...
- I''ve added more and I don''t give a rats ass what you think 104. And if you read my posts, I am not habitually mean or for lack of another word, stupid, such as the silly house guesting poster (and of course I am kidding R103). I call out people like you R104 who hurl expletives at others- not classy. It''s my calling as an older queen you nitwit. Think of me as Tawanda in Fried Green Tomatos, a thin version. %0D\
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Like Michfest, you can''t take Bianchi seriously.
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I think of more as the grandmother in the back seat of the car in "A Good Man is Hard to Find," a more annoying version.
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- charlie, we BEG of you not another unsolicited long windy rose lensed narrative about your days as a ribbon clerk in Manhattan. PLEASE.\
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and no, I wouldn''t be interested of whom your houseguests of.....yore would be. (Where hell did THAT come from?!?) \
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Interesting you somehow take offense to an anonymous poster suggesting you as a houseguest - w/out malice by the way - of someone you suggest as "harmless".\
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Back to arranging your glass menagerie, doll.
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- P.S. NO ONE w/ a modicum of good breeding and social awareness uses the word... "classy".\
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Time to shed the veneer, dear.
- What about Tom Bianchi''s back? Is it more distinguished than his flanks?
- Nah nah nah-nah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9gQD6i4htU
- "Your calling as an older queen" is to call people out? Since when is calling people out only a "privilege" one acquires at a certain age?
- charlie- please go away. Seriously. You are easily one of the most tiresome bores ever. You seem to think you''re in a piano bar circa 1974 regaling us with your witty bon mots about how you once sold Bacall some feminine deodorant product. You''re less "Fried Green Tomatoes" than "Boys in the Band'' mixed with "Deliverance" and that queen who got eaten in "Suddenly, Last Summer". You seem to have met every celebrity who''s ever lived, and yet you have all the wit, charm, and grace of a scabies diagnosis. We get it...you''re old. Add "tired", "silly", "boring", "repetitive", and "unbearable" and you''ll be close to the mark.
- I''m tremendously jealous of some aspects of Tom''s lifestyle and completely disgusted by others. Careerwise, I have worked my ass off, earned a doctorate, and still I can only dream of being able to affort to live in such relative luxury. I would love to have a fabulous retreat in PS or FI of my very own. On the other hand, I can''t stand being surrounded by queens who are so shallow and youth-obsessed, like Tom and his circle. So I guess I''ll just have to visit those fab places a week or two a year, and settle for that.
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- AARON YOUNG, ya gossip-loving nancies! C''mon, get ''em gossip fingers on and type juice if ya got anythin''on that!!! There''s gotta be a whole lotta drama from start to end in Bianchi''s relationship with A.Y., I can only imagine... %0D\
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Parental issues, perhaps? Their parents are too old? Too repressive? All in all, so curiously strange!
- Does anyone else get a kind of Michfest vibe off TB''s writing?
- Charlie, please don''t go away. I love your posts. I for one like the perspective of older folk. Ignore the hater.
- 119- he''s ONE guy. He doesn''t singularly represent the "perspective of older folks". That''s moronic. Older men are just as varied in their opinions as younger men. What charlie represents is the "know-it-all-asshole" perspective, and that''s not all that lovely. The board wouldn''t kiss much if he left.\
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(charlie- notice how I pretended that 119 wasn''t you after dumping your cookies and not signing in to your I.D.?)
- Charlie, surely YOU would know a thing or two about the 2-year-or-something "unusual intergenerational" (quoted from none other than The Great Grey One himself) relationship between Aaron Young and Bianchi. Tell us everything you know about it!
- GEE-ZUS! You could get herpes flicking through that veiny old troll''s books. I wouldn''t touch him with a barge pole. Gristly old carcass that he is.
- I wish there was a HIV- version of Tom Bianchi.
- Charlie, we are still waiting.
- "I wish there was a HIV- version of Tom Bianchi."\
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- Why the hell not? Anyway, when you get to Bianchi''s age, the HIV- version of Bianchi-style life would be infinitely better than being stuck in some retirement home or a club for fat cats even if you are rich enough.
- How did Bianchi survive the ''80s practically unscathed? Is he one of the few "chosen ones" or something?
- Charlie, we''re still waiting on the Aaron Young story. Or anybody else for that matter.
- Yoo Hoo!\
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- How much money could he have amassed if he quit being a lawyer at the ripe old age of 34. I can''t imagine that those books were flying off the shelves, except in a couple of gay bookstores.
- Yes, Bianchi is a disgusting, hideous, lecherous, old man. But as bad a he is now - just imagine what he will be like in 10 years, or even 20 years, assuming he''s still with us. He will be just as lecherous, only he''ll be even more frighteningly ugly. And still pining away for his latest new boyfriend, who will be 50+ years his junior. %0D\
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- He retired at 34? What''s the story there? Inherited wealth?
- He''s been living off charlie''s hospitality, r132.%0D\
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"you have all the wit, charm, and grace of a scabies diagnosis" is my new favorite description of charlie''s special something.
- I wonder if he''s broken up with the new boyfriend yet.
- Tom Bianchi''s back!\
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- These photos are so 90''s.
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Yeah I was a "ribbon clerk", in the most beautiful men's clothing store in Manahttan at the time. I was involved in the merchandising (although most of what we did was pic fabric and forecast since our stuff was all one label- Andre Oliver). And yeah, I sure did meet a lot of people. I still do, for very different reasons- and I went into an entirely different career in 1982- reverted to sales only while I got my degrees to do what I do now. And of course survived. Meeting energitic, creative, talented, and productive people is great, nothing better.%0D
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Going to the DNC Obama event tonight at the Sheraton. But then no one would be interested in that other than to trash that worthless President of ours and all his hangers on- or the crowd who are attending- including myself. Luckily, I am very interested in all of it. Gee wonder if Bianchi will be in the crowd? %0D
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- Is "charlie" really one guy or a persona that gets assumed by any random person in DL?
- charlie is free-floating dementia that periodically becomes intense enough to emit content directly to DL''s server. Like a ghost writing on a foggy window.
- I think I am one person, perhaps with multiple personalities? %0D\
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Free floating dementia- ah yes, trying to trash me because I am 57. When all else fails, diminish someone as old, as [childish epithet posted by a bigoted tool], black, jewish, a frau, etc. You should only be so lucky to be 57 some day R139. If you get there, then you will know. It''s a lot better than 27, or 37, not too much better than 47.%0D\
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What are you doing tonight R139? Got a date? Watching reality TV? Posting on DL?
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- Charlie, you don''t know Bianchi all that well, do you? If yeah, spill the beans on the Aaron Young story already!
- Charlie, come on, this is a great chance to prove your credibility! Spill those beans!
- To the Aaron Young obsessed troll - Tom sucked his life force out of his andAaron is now a husk of a corpse, not unlike those "poor unfortunate souls" that dwell along the bottom of Ursula''s cave in THE LITTLE MERMAID.%0D\
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To charlie - just stop. As has been explained multiple times, we make fun of Tom because it''s easy. He sets himself up for it. If you can''t get it, move on. I don''t get the "footballers in love" threads and I don''t click on them for that reason. It aint rocket science. And since I don''t know you, I don''t care what you are doing tonight. I''m pretty sure no one else cares either. You are getting into "the kirker zone". So just stop.
- Charlie is proving himself to be a bit aired of the tete...n''est pas?
- That doesn''t explain anything, R144. Who initiated the breakup? And why?
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- Dear God, someone needs to iron him.
- CHARLIE, come on, spill the beans on the Aaron Young story! Why won''t you answer!?!?
- R141, why don''t you authenticate so that people can trash you with abandon over and over and over?
- CHARLIE! OR ANYBODY else that knows the Aaron Young story, please tell!
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- He needs a new pool boy. That underwater shot has nasty pool water.
- Tom Bianchi''s current "life partner" BEN!
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- I remember in the early 1980''s there were "coffee table" erotic books by Tom Bianchi, Bruce Weber, Bruno Gmunder, and Herb Ritts. Colt Studios also put out some more explicit stuff. They were an important part of the coming out process, in that it was one of the few places where you saw male nudes outside of a pornographic context. (Sure there were Michelangelos and other Renaissance artists, but those were "safe" and relatively tame, not erotic as such.) %0D\
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My problem with Bianchi''s philosophy, and that like so many of his contemporaries in the front end of the baby boom is that men are just delectable delights to be sampled like selections in a box of Godivas. It''s all about using them and then throwing them away when you''re finished. I have a feeling that''s what he does with his "boyfriends" and he''s probably sampling three new ones before he gave the existing true romance the brush off, or since he''s into computers, the "Dear John" email.%0D\
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- This Bianchi guy. No idea who he is and why anyone cares. In the schema that''s life, he''s not relevant, so why the hate on a nobody.
- Is charlie stalking Obama or something? This is the second time he''s gone to a fundraiser hosted by the prez. Funny how he accuses others of having empty lives...
- Charlie is not even real. Don''t bother.
- I don''t know, I think his photos are beautiful. Does that make me a bad gay? I kinda like him for what he is. An icon a man of pre-aids era, a man who has probably lost almost all his close friends and knows he is lucky to be alive.\
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That is what I think about Tom. Don''t crucify me for it. I am 50 so right behind him. I know what he went through and why he celebrate the gay man like he does... if you had lived as a sexually active man in the late 1970s and early 80s you would get his obsessions so to speak.\
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He is a damaged and troubled man trying to find peace where he can. That is what I think.
An old gay of 50.
- "My problem with Bianchi''s philosophy, and that like so many of his contemporaries in the front end of the baby boom is that men are just delectable delights to be sampled like selections in a box of Godivas. It''s all about using them and then throwing them away when you''re finished."\
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The reason we make fun of him is not the promiscuity, it''s the regular announcements that THIS soul mate, this one now in front of him, THIS is the one he has been waiting for because, as it turns out, his last soul mate was not as able to accept love as Tom had mistakenly thought.
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You sound awfully too naive to be an "old gay of 50". The reason Bianchi survived is probably due to the fact that he is a top, not his supposed luck.
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- I remember having dinner with Bianchi and his "soul mate" du jour close to 20 years ago. Tom seemed to be in his late ''50s even then and he lived with the blonde boytoy in a sizable garden apartment in Park La Brea in LA. \
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My memory of Tom being arrogant, narcissistic and paying me no attention whatsoever (back then, I usually got plenty). He carried on and on about working for the studios before quitting.\
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He split with that particular lover within a couple of months and, it seems, was well on his way to become the wretched, empty cartoon he is today.
- Is Bianchi a millionaire? If yeah, how? He seems very well-off, but can''t figure out where the money comes from.
- Bianchi is a living fossil of a bygone era of the gay rights movement. I can''t believe that anyone under 50 would buy his crappy ''art'' books.
- Yeah, but where does the money come from? And, do all his "life partners" and tricks start out as escorts?
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- Doesn''t anybody have the scoops on Aaron Young''s breakup with Tom Bianchi!?!?
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- He''s been taking the exact same BORING pictures (definitely not "art") for the last 15 years.\
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And the way he calls middle-aged men "boys", shows he''s just in complete denial.
- It''s entertaining - like watching a fat woman with ring-clad fingers work her way through a box of Fannie May candy. \
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"This vanilla cream is my utmost favorite." "No, THIS, THIS caramel is my utmost favorite!" "Ooh, now this IS the best! Heaven: a chocolate covered orange rind. Yes, it''s my favorite!"\
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"Perhaps I should go down to the lower layer..."
- Happy 4th, bitches. Anyone wanna go for a swim?
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- I think she''s tremendous.
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- Honey, she is trash that will not burn.
- I bet he was really hot physically when he was 40 or so. I''m sure he was even then an insufferable self-satisfied and self-congratulatory opportunist and Body Nazi, but at least in those days he was probably quite attractive.
- Aaron Young/Bianchi breakup drama/inside info please!
- I saw the documentary "Gay sex in the 70s" and Binachi was in there and said how if there was a cure for being HIV+ or if he could go back and not get HIV he would not do either because (in his own words) getting infected with HIV showed him all about what sex between men is like and what it's about.
This guy is clearly crazy and I told friends of mine who are HIV+ and even they agree, they told me how if there were a cure or something they could take that would get rid of HIV for them they'd do it and how HIV is not something you ever want to get.
- R162, "survived"? Binachi has been HIV+ for decades and as people have shown here he's a total mess.
I agree with R166 his photography isn't anything special and I've seen amateur porn pics online that are better than anything Binachi has taken.
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- Italians are crazy. So mentally ill and drama. My parents always told me to avoid them at all costs. Let my parents be your wise elders. They are crazy.
- Italians are crazy and suffer from innate depression. My grandparents and parents always warned me about them. They were right. Think about your own incidences with them. They're crazy and will turn on a dime. Run from them. They're crazy!
- A good friend of mine is prominently featured in one of the pictures at r173s link. So stupid to let that man take pictures of him, but he thought he was going to be famous and he was already HIV+ so he "dove in" and got it the whole treatment. It was about as bad as you can imagine.
- Did anyone's parents ever warn them about Italians? Do you think they are depressed?
- He compares himself to Richard Avedon in that link at R173. Oh, my sides.
- his new polaroid book was covered in the NYT sunday fashion magazine today
- He looks like a California Redwood, with a hard on.
- For all you who wonder about Bianchi's wealth, his Palm Springs home ( at 220 N. Burton Way) is in an unfashionable part of town, valued (by Zillow) at about $430,000 - 3 bd. , 2 ba. Hardly a glamorous villa, at 1,475 sq. feet. He's not 'living large'.
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- His pics are all the same. In pool. Next to pool. Inside sliding glasss door, outside sliding glass door. Sure the men are usually beautiful. But his creative
artistry is very weak. Take some ugly , fat men, and make them look good - that would be really interesting.
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- Is his real last name Bianchi or is it his "stage name?"
- RE 188 - I thought he lived in Warm Sands area, on Vista Oro St . - adjacent to all the gay resorts, and cruising ?
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- It's pretty tragic, all these soulmates. One of them was a guy who he met one night and the guy quit his job that day and moved to Palm Springs with Bianchi. I remember that almost immediately, Bianchi made the comment that the new guy made a comment about all the photos being taken.
About six months later, the guy was long gone and Bianchi said he'd had some issues and had died.
It was creepy.
- To paraphrase Christina, If he doesn't like you anymore, he can name you disappear
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- Think many of you are jealous cause you wish you could look that good at almost 70. He's a hot grandaddy - who unfortunately would fuck his own grandson, if he had one.
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