Category Archives: Speedo

This slightly infamous blue speedo made its debut in The Divine Diva Tour Book: A Fairy’s Tale way back in 2005, in photos featured within the spread seen here. My body is currently a far cry from the one so flagrantly on display below, and I’ve come to terms with it in relative peace. In fact, most of the tantrums of getting older seem to be had by some of my straight male friends, whose sensitive nature is such that they won’t be named or called out, but they know who they are. As a gay man of a certain age, I don’t pretend not to notice the chill that gray hair and a burgeoning belly has on the spell I could once cast on an unsuspecting public, but I’ve always preferred going unnoticed than having all eyes on me in the center of the ring just like a circus…

Don’t believe me? Look it up. 

This particular photo shoot inspired one of my favorite artists, Michael Breyette, to immortalize me in one of his pastel portraits, which has been one of the greatest honors of my life. To be stilled in time by such a hero, frozen in a summer moment that I would never capture again, fills me with gratitude. Far more than that, it’s proof that I was young once, that I existed, that I roamed and romped on this earth, and long after I’m gone a gorgeous remnant like this might remain. 

As I approach my 50th year on earth, I feel differently about time – less frantic, less rushed – which is odd because by reason I should be feeling the opposite in the fleetingness of it all. And yes, I do sense the rush of it, how the days seem to move faster and faster, but I’m better at letting the rush brush by me as I keep to my own pace. 

I’ve always taken a little longer to get things; I still don’t know how to tie a shoe without making bunny ears because they simply went too quickly that day in school and I was too shy to ask them to slow down. 

The contradiction is apparent and always has been. Devilry and divinity each exist because of the other. To be divine is to master the art of not being a devil, but to paraphrase Milton, better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. Inspiring infuriation has always been a talent. A naughty wink or a naughty pucker – both with an exquisite and delicious taint…

And so closes another chapter of The Divine Diva Tour: A Fairy’s Tale – reminding me just what a hot mess I was back then, and how delightfully messy this whole project was. 

~ The Divine Diva Tour: A Fairy’s Tale ~

1. Pink Frilly Fairy: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three
2. Homage to Herb: Part One, Part Two and Part Three
3. A Purple-Hued Interlude
4. Style & Panache: Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four.
5. Purple Puff Confection: Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four.
6. A Blue-Hued Interlude
7. Fuchsia Fabulousness: Part One. Part Two and Part Three.
8. Bad Boy Bangs: Part One, Part Two. and Part Three.
9. Vanity Under Where: Part One, Part Two. and Part Three.
10. Sugar Plum Ballerina: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three.
11. A Pool Frolic: Part One and Part Two.