Gay Belfast Hunk of the Month

Taylor Lautner is the American actor that is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Jacob Black in the Twilight film series, though he is also notable for roles in films such as The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D and Cheaper by the Dozen 2.

Karate mad Lautner began acting due to his karate coach, who had played the Blue Power Ranger. He first appeared in the made-for-television film Shadow Fury, and subsequently had roles on the series Summerland, The Bernie Mac Show, and My Wife and Kids. However, in 2005, Lautner won the role of Shark Boy in the Robert Rodriguez film, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D. He spent three months on location in Austin, Texas filming. Months later, he successfully auditioned to play Elliot, the son of the Bakers' rivals, in Cheaper by the Dozen 2.

In October 2008, Lautner played Christian Slater's son in the television series My Own Worst Enemy, until the show was canceled after only 9 episodes. Lautner then played Native American character Jacob Black in Twilight, the movie adaptation of the novel by Stephenie Meyer. Due to major physical changes that occur in the character of Jacob Black throughout the series, the director of Twilight's sequel,

The Twilight Saga: New Moon, considered replacing Lautner with a different actor in the second film. In an attempt to keep the role, Lautner weight-trained extensively and gained approximately 30 pounds. Lautner reprised his role as Jacob in New Moon in 2009 and its sequel The Twilight Saga: Eclipse in 2010. In 2010, Lautner appeared in the romantic comedy film Valentine's Day as Willy Harrinton.

In September 2009, Lautner and Shakira presented the Best Female Video award to Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Lautner hosted Saturday Night Live last December making him one of the youngest celebrity hosts in the show's history.

In 2010, at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, Lautner and Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart presented a tribute to honor the horror movie genre. Lautner is currently the highest paid teenage actor.

In 2012, Lautner will star as Stretch Armstrong in a 3D film about the eponymous toy and has been cast in Cancun, which will center more around his martial arts skills. Lautner has also been cast in the thriller film Abduction.

The hunky actor was born Jan. 5, 1975 in Philadelphia. Cooper was inspired to pursue acting after watching John Hurt play the title role in David Lynch’s “The Elephant Man” a role Cooper would later tackle for his thesis performance at the Actors Studio Drama School. After graduating from Georgetown University in 1997 with a degree in English, he relocated to New York City and enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts program at the Actors Studio at New School University. While still a student, Cooper made his television debut on a 1999 episode of “Sex and the City”.

Handsome and irreverently funny, Bradley Cooper’s combination of romantic leading man and hilarious character actor helped him progress from TV guest spots to memorable parts in features in a relatively short amount of time. After attracting attention for his likable role as Jennifer Garner’s reporter friend on “Alias”, Cooper fearlessly made his first major big screen impression as the unlikable groom in “Wedding Crashers”. He regained audience’s affection in lesser fare like “Failure to Launch” and, in testament to his charisma, emerged unscathed from Sandra Bullock’s notorious bomb “All About Steve”.

Cooper ensured his own launch with the lead in the critical and box office juggernaut “The Hangover” and proved an invaluable member of the romantic, dramatic ensemble “He’s Just Not That Into You” and “Valentine’s Day” casts. Graduating to full-fledged stardom with a flashy role in “The A-Team”, Cooper continued to rise as a bankable, talented and very much in-demand movie star. The A-Team opens in Belfast at the end of July.

Originally from Alaska Daniel Robinson was raised in Oregon. He performed as an actor and singer all over the west coast starting at the age of 11.

Daniel Robinson Gay Belfast Hunk of the Month June 2010

In his last year of High School he joined Dance West, a pre-professional dance company, as a principle dancer under the Direction of the acclaimed choreographer and performer Julane Stites.

After graduation he attended the UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA for dance with the superb training of Susan Quinn, Sam Watson, Melissa Lowe, Jory Hancock, Mia Michaels and James Clouser. Daniel then made his way to New York City to attend the AMERICAN MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC ACADEMY.

In 2002 he joined the European tour of GREASE and in 2004 starred as Will Parker in the first national tour of the Broadway revival of OKLAHOMA!

In 2006, his dream came true as he made his Broadway debut in HAIRSPRAY in the role of Fender and as the understudiy for Link Larkin and Corny Collins.

After Hairspray closed on Broadway he joined the tour of HAPPY DAYS as Potsie Weber and understudied the role of the Fonz.

In 2009 Daniel launched his movie career starring in the feature Film, Big Gay Musical, in the roles of Paul and Adam. 2010 will be two more milestones in Daniel’s career.

He will be starring in two feature films and directing both a national commercial for a leading Fashion magazine, Gazelland and a documentary about Broadway Bares.

Daniel now resides in New York City where he continues to create and inspire us with his ability as a dancer, actor and hunky good looks.

Hunky British actor Dominic West was born into an Irish Catholic family in Sheffield, England. He found fame as the straight-talking Baltimore police detective in the US drama, The Wire. Dominic West Gay Belfast Hunk of the Month May 2010

Dominic West Gay Belfast Hunk of the Month May 2010

Before the Wire his most notable screen appearances include Chicago, Hannibal Rising and Mona Lisa Smile. Recent appearances have included the role of Oliver Cromwell in the Channel 4 series The Devil's Whore and the Centurion, which is release in May.

Centurion is a British historical thriller, directed by Neil Marshall, about the ill-fated Ninth Legion marching north to Caledonia to wipe out the Picts and their leader. West plays the hunky Titus Flavius Virilus, commander of Legio IX Hispana. Michael Fassbender and Olga Kurylenko also star. In Centurion, set in the second century AD,

Dominic West and Michael Fassbender are a pair of tough Romans leading a detachment of the Ninth Legion on an impossible action against the deadly Picts and fighting their way back towards home through hostile territory only to be betrayed by a local commander saving face and an irresolute leadership back in Rome.

Centurion is an entertaining swords-n-sandals romp with enjoyable action sequences and terrific performances from a superb ensemble cast. Worth seeing. The film will be released in the US this summer.

With the UK election just over the Yorkshire lad recently announced that he fancies the Tory Leader wife, Samantha Cameron. Prime Minister David Cameron and West are both Old Etonians, although the Tory leader was two years ahead.

West lives with Catherine Fitzgerald, the former Countess Durham, and their two children a short distance from the Cameron’s in west London.

Danny is a London Wasps and England rugby player. However, our hunk is a keen all-round sportsman, Danny (or Cips) played junior football for Queens Park Rangers, and was offered youth terms by Reading. He also played schoolboy cricket for Berkshire and Oxfordshire and was invited to join Surrey County Cricket Club as a batsman. But he discovered his real passion when he started playing rugby at 9 years old at Rosslyn Park in Roehampton and stayed at the club until U15s level.

Danny joined the Wasps Academy in 2003 and at the age of 17, he made his London Wasps 1st XV debut against Bristol in the Powergen Cup in December 2004. This made him the youngest player to take to the pitch in a senior rugby game at the time.

Danny made his Premiership debut from the bench against Bath in November 2006, when he scored his first competitive try. This was followed by his first Premiership start against Worcester in January 2007, where he was named Man of the Match after scoring Wasps only try of the game. Since then he has become one of the most talked about names in rugby.

Danny earned his first England cap as a replacement for Mike Tindall in the 2008 RBS 6 Nations match against Wales at Twickenham. He also came on a week later against Italy in Rome and started with England against Ireland in March, scoring 18 points in his first three appearances.

In May 2008, Danny suffered a career threatening fracture dislocation of his right ankle during Wasps' semi-final play-off victory over Bath. It was predicted that he wouldn’t play for at least six months, but he returned to the pitch six weeks ahead of schedule to play Bath, again, in the Guinness Premiership. He was also picked for the England Team for the 2008 Autumn Internationals. Although later droped due to the misfortune of being photographed leaving a London niteclub before a match.

Our hunk is also a regular in gossip columns. He made the tabloids in 2007 reportedly having a fling with a transsexual called Darren Pratt! In 2008 he started to date model and actress Kelly Brook. However this year, the 22-year-old fly-half confirmed last month that he would be leaving Wasps at the end of the season and joining a new franchise Down Under. Good luck, Danny.

Nicholas Hoult Gay Belfast Hunk of the Month for March 2010

Nicholas Hoult was on born 7 December 1989 and is the English actor with roles in Nick Hornby's About a Boy, Channel 4's drugs-and-sex-drenched teen drama Skins and more recently the Tom Ford movie A Single Man, based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood.

The film also stars Colin Firth, Matthew Goode, and Julianne Moore. Nicholas plays the role of Kenny, a student who takes an interest in his gay professor after he loses his partner of 16 years.

Now, Nicholas Hoult is set to crack Hollywood with a new role in the upcoming CGI blockbuster Clash Of The Titans and other big budget film role. Yes the 6ft 3in actor is going far with fab classic movie star looks and talent that keep him busy.

Chris Weitz, who co-directed About a Boy and produced A Single Man, thinks there are several reasons for Hoult's transformation from child actor to star: "Arbitrarily, he turned from the shrimp who came up to my armpit to the hunk who towers above me, and while his looks have matured, they've remained inherently interesting and unconventional. On his own, though, he's shown that the naturalness of his performance as a 12-year-old was not a fluke. He's willing to do a tremendous amount of work to get a performance right."

Kirk McCambley, the ex toyboy lover of homophobic MP, Iris Robinson deserves a place in our hunky hall of fame. With Playgirl and Attitude chasing Kirk McCambley its not just the Gay Belfast team that thinks so. Playgirl's director of marketing Daniel Nardicio told the Belfast Telegraph that McCambley was "very attractive". He said: "He's Irish, he's good-looking and the toppling of a political dynasty is just great." The Belfast's Campbell College educated Casanova is also a gay club regular, contrary to the controversial views of his ex-lover, Kirk often frequented Belfast's top gay nightclub, The Kremlin.

Last month the BBC Northern Ireland documentary 'Spotlight' revealed that Kirk McCambley was 19 when the pair became lovers. Kirk now 21 owns the Lock Keeper's Inn in south Belfast which has become a tourist attraction since the revelations that have been reported throughout the world. He is also the darling of facebook with the 'Kirk 'God' McCambley Appreciation Society' attracting thousands of visitors. The facebook site claims to be dedicated to the 19 year old victim of Iris 'Cougar' Robinson.

The absence of information always breeds speculation — and Kirk McCambley certainly knows that now. His sensational affair with Iris Robinson may have been on everyone else's lips, but both parties have maintained a stolid silence since the news broke. The young stud could earn hundreds of thousands of pounds by dishing the dirt on former lover Iris Robinson, but it’s business as usual for Kirk McCambley at the Lock Keeper’s Inn on the banks of the River Lagan. The fling ended leaving Iris Robinson the married mum-of-three heartbroken after five months when he dumped her.

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In Jesse Rosen's feature-film debut, The Art Of Being Straight , 23-year-old Jon (played by Rosen himself), recently arrived in Los Angeles after leaving behind his girlfriend in New York, discovers that Southern California has more than sunshine and hot chicks to offer. Like, a hot-in-the-pants (male) boss who simply won't take no for an answer. So, that leads to a kiss, which leads to some more intimate stuff, which leads to self-denial, identity issues, and problems with anti-gay buddies. Jesse Rosen

Being straight - if you ain't, really - is not just an art form. In fact, it's a chore.

In writer-director Rosen's laidback, unpretentious dramatic comedy, which is currently available at Amazon on DVD, characters must come to terms not only with who they are, but with who others think they are. That's no easy task, and Rosen has a generally capable cast helping him convey that message. Particularly good is Rachel Castillo's Maddy, who identifies herself as a lesbian but who doesn't hesitate (too much) to become physically close with the (male) history teacher next door.

What I liked best about The Art of Being Straight, is Rosen's refusal to label his characters. Jon may come across to some as a closeted gay man, but just because he's in denial about his attraction to other men doesn't necessarily negate the possibility that he may be into women as well. Even the straight buddies come across as less hetero than they pride themselves to be, considering their obsession with who's gay who isn't, what's gay what isn't.

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