No, no gay conspiracy is working against me. At least not yet. I've been told that will happen eventually, by people who should know.

As for the CoS...well...my publishers are both fellow Priests.

www.scapegoatpublishing.com/aboutus.htm

That's how they knew of me and my work and decided they wanted to publish it in the first place. ;)

What? You got gas? You should try Beano dude! lol

I still havent gotten it in the mail yet. Hopefully tommorrow or sometime this week. Anyone read the whole thing yet? (Besides Jack : )

FUCK!!! Halfway through my post I went back and was going to add more and it started erasing what I had written. After I said "Bashing is bashing" I think I said something about not seeing what Jack has to say as being Sexist or "woman hating" etc..... And that Mathew Shepard and all other victims of violence are relevant to us all, "gay" or str8" All true victims of injustice are equal in their circumstance. Whether someone is bashed to death because they are "gay" or for any other reason is fucked up. For "gay" people to crusade about it gets old. It's wrong. Everyone knows and agrees on that. But for gay people to use negative events as an excuse for living in a perpetual state of vitimhood is obscene! If someone's got a problem with what he's saying I wonder if they have a problem with the womens rights movement? The United Negro College Fund? Etc.... There are so many things that are blown so far out of proportion these days. And sadly it is typically based on conjecture. Jacks word speaks for itself. Take it or leave it.

Thanks Jack.
I think that my work caters to a more younger crowd. Most young people in this day and age don't read, they'de rather throw on the "movie version of the book" if you know what I mean haha
When I said "we're doing pretty much the same thing, just on different scales" I meant it.
Jack does it more maturly with literature and the written word where my films are of the "underground style" so it's much more 'in your face' in terms of imagery and music and everything I do is somehow wrapped up in a heavy metal package.
Part of that package of course is reclaiming masculinity but my main goal and agenda is to educate the public that there are queers who are very masculine and into heavy metal. It doesn't always work though with other gay men because a lot of them are not interested in metal music or the metal lifestyle, so it goes ignored. In fact the majority of my sales are from overseas or from heterosexual WOMEN.
I think the only reason why my films sell to a gay audience (for the most part) is because of my appearance as shallow as that is, and they usually miss the overall point of what I'm trying to do. I imagine because I'm delving into an EXTREMELY masculine terrority (metal). A lot of homosexuals just cannot relate to that, where they CAN relate to Jack's book because the overall subject is masculinity and the "heavy metal" aspect is not there. I also throw in horror elements into a lot of my work as well and a lot of gay men don't know how to take underground film let alone an underground film with such a subject matter they cannot relate to.
There is a difference in educating about masculinity on a whole and eduating about a masculine lifestyle such as heavy metal.
I say that my work tends to be more younger related simply because I think younger people now relate better with films and music than books and literature. Not all of course, but most. An older gay man is more likely to pick up a book and read studies on this subject than they are to watch two greasy longhaired headbangers gallavaning around town over blistering metal; unless they want to jerk off to that fantasy of MY REALITY (which I'm sure I get with my films too from certain people).
I've received hundreds of messages from young "alternative types" claiming that because of my films and because of who I am it has helped them come out of the closet. For once, they had a role model that wasn't Will & Grace but rather someone they could relate to.
On the same scale, I've had tons of messages from young GAY men who claim they were ready to kill themselves because "nobody understood them", or they thought they were the only "gay rocker" alive, until they seen my work.
That in itself makes it all worthwhile to me.
Older gay men tend to ignore my work and that's where JACK comes in and does the job and kudos for him for doing it.
A lot of gay men my age have that fantasy of 'hooking up with' those kind of rocker guys that beat them up in high school. The problem that a lot of them will never admit that.
I've been a big fan of John Waters older work, not because it's 'gay', but because it's pure underground film at it's finest.
It's so over-the-top that the gay factor doesn't even come into play for me.
We may do things a bit differently in terms of subject matter and marketing, but all in all we're doing the same kind of thing.
And that my friend, kicks ass.

ps: Jack; my films have sold out about a month ago; I'm currently redoing my website and clips will be put up this month. I'll definately let you know though! You can email me to at: johnnyterris@yahoo.com

Cheers beers and rock n roll!
Johnny.