Arkady one Hot Model

Arkady (just Andy for friends) is the model we choosed today for our Hot Boy section. He is from Romania, is 25 years, loves modeling, art, dance and travel.

He describes as a free spirit, he loves adventure (and we do not want to say love adventures because we don’t know that), he considers as open minded and thinks that diversity is a positive thing from which each of us would learn something.

In the future he sees himself still in the spotlight as a model, actor, dancer, etc. By the way he looks, definitely he will be…

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Cristian Buca: Gay is a strong and defining word

Cristian Buca is a young Romanian artist, only 23 years old, creator of a lot of masterpieces, amazing transformations in which the freedom of his spirit is present in every single small piece of it. Cristian plays with an open attitude and a child like curiosity, a child that discovers the world with sensitivity, and from all this play, beautiful things are born.

He is modest, he prefers to stay behind his works, let them talk about his talent. But he is very careful with everything that surrounds him.

All started by playing, passionate and curious, and if at the beginning he described himself as a nail stylist, in time, he became make-up artist, model, and recently, fashion designer.

His latest creation made a lot of controversies in Romanian media, the national costume gown designed and worn by Miss Universe Romania.

So, a free spirit, a bohemian, Cristian Buca accepted to talk exclusively with StiriGay.ro about him, about his career and a bit about his private life. We were attracted to what he worked, we are proud of him as we want to be proud with other Romanian gay values, that are a lot.

At what age did you discovered your passion and what made you develop it into art?

Since I was a little boy I loved colors and strange mixes that I made with them. Later, I discovered lines and shapes so I loved painting. As any child, I was a fan of painting and coloring. My parents, some open minded people, had the initiative and worked hard to develop my artistic skills to the max. At 11, 11 and a half, I started experimenting some new colors, the cosmetic ones that I discovered in my mother's closet. When they saw it was a serious thing, my parents said that it's ok to start a very basic make-up training, something that was fit to my understanding at that age. So, like that, from painting to make-up was just a step.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Morgan Tepsic turns exhibitionism to art

What would you say if you will see a naked man jumping in front of his camera? Everyone is entitled to have an opinion about that but we must admit thatStiriGay.ro team loved the idea. And we will be lucky to see that live, here, in Romania as the man that invented that thing will visit our country very soon.

Morgan Tepsic is a 20 years old talented American photographer, born and living in Oklahoma City. Although all his pictures are great and he promotes photography as art, managing a magazine called Tepsic Magazine, Morgan is more known as "The Jumper Man", the guy that strips and jumps naked in front of his camera.

You would say an exhibitionist but the resulting pictures are totally crazy but innovative, having all the requirements of an artwork.

The 2010 Romanian Gay March was small but safe

A lot of journalists, enough supportive people and just a few members of the LGBT community... Only their leaders. Around 200 people.

Nice atmosphere, like for a celebration, with a plus brought by the group from the British Embassy, a supporter of the event. They gave a little glimpse from a true Pride. Overall things were as it supposed to be.

ACCEPT organized carefully the Diversity March. Security all over, two empty boulevards, police, gendarmes. The participans were more secure than a president. They prepared to deal with a huge crowd. But it wasn't one.

International gay photography project to photograph Gay-Fest 2010

The Walk with Pride (WWP) project will be in attendance at this year's Gay-Fest in Bucharest. Images from Gay-Fest will be included in the WWP's international photo collection, which will showcase a year of pride parades from around the globe.

The WWP project's aspiration is to use photography to promote international gay rights and visibility. While imagery often celebrates the colorful atmosphere of parades, the project also displays the diversity of LGBT communities.

EXCLUSIVE: East Bloc Love, the documentary about sexuality that will film in Romania

Logan Mucha, a young filmaker born in Canada, raised in Australia, choosed Romania, among other countries, as a source for his future project, the documentary East Bloc Love. Logan wants to explore the sexual identities and their changes in former sovietic influenced countries and his project already announces to be a succes.

Logan will begin filming in Romania at the end of March and, although he studied deeply the Romanian sexual minorities and their development, he found out that people are still closeted and negative when it comes to sharing experiences.

Are Romanians pro or against gay adoptions? When we'll ask this question in the culinarry shows?

An article posted Wednesday on the Radio 21 website caught my attention. The article followed an entertainment show and they tried as they could to be objective. But the adoptions in gay couples didn't seem to me as a subject for a funny show.

I couldn't realise from that article if the Romanians are pro or against and, honestly, I didn't interrested me. It's like asking me if I am pro or against adoptions in straight couples. Don't take it like that, what interests me is that those children we are talking about to have a shelter.

Gay soldier killed in action in Afghanistan

Congressman Jim Moran read a letter on the floor of the House of Representatives wednesday from an active duty soldier in Afghanistan. Congressman Moran stated that the soldier had, "learned that a fellow soldier was also gay, only after he was killed by an IED in Iraq.

The partner of the deceased soldier wrote the unit to say how much the victim had loved the military; how they were the only family he had ever known." The soldier originally provided the letter in response to an inquiry for the Pentagon's current study of "don't ask, don't tell."

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Brianna Caradja, the Gay Friendly Princess of Romania

Brianna Caradja is the most important gay symbol of modern Romania. She is a Princess, she is straight and she is gay friendly. So the gay community adopted her as their asset, a Romanian version of a Princess Diana. Brianna speaked freely in an exclusive interview for StiriGay.ro about her relationship with the community, about her unfortunate experiences with her ex-husband and about her future as a supporter of the Romanian Gay movement.

Although you're not a member of the LGBT community, you rapidly become a symbol of it because of your gay friendly atitude and, even more, because you are a supporter of the community. What was the experience or who did you ended to be close to the gays?
I like the way you put the question. :))) Exactly, I am not a member because I am totally straight. But, I am adopted by the community. I love telling that because it describes best this situation.

What are you willing to do in order to have a child?

Marriage and children are rights not recognised for gays in most of the countries. Once it will be legalised, the step to normality will be complete but until then it's a lot a work to do. What should they do?

To lie, to pretend they are straight, to fool a girl to make them a child? To do a deal with a lesbian and make their dreams come true together? Use the power of money and buy a child from a surogate mother? What is the correct or moral measure? Even more, how normal is to use such scams in order to fulfill a human right?

Today, StiriGay.ro is presenting a case in which reality overcame morality, in Romania. For protection we will use fake names.

SPECIAL: Shakira, drag queen: I managed to be ME in my dear small country

Despite all the homophobia and mean stuff, Shakira manages to say about him that he is a happy person, that he feels good in Romania and that life offered him enough to consider himself a lucky man. He learned to survive in a jungle that hates you only because you dare to be different.

With the drag queens group, he was sensational and if at the beginning they were only a freak show, thru artistic quality they changed the preconceived image about themselves. They were adored by gays and straight as well, they performed in gay clubs as well as in clubs that you'll never said a drag queen will ever enter.

Steaua’s owner is throwing homophobic things to footballers on the Media Pro channels

Gigi Becali, who is also a member in European Parliament, was extremely agressive verbally with a bulgarian football player only because people think he is gay. He is so hypocrite that he thinks this is not discrimination but it is personal opinion. And like all these are normal, the news was heavy promoted on the medias belonging to Media Pro Group.

Here you can read the original news as it was on thesport.ro site

Why didn't Becali wanted Ivanov to play at Steaua: "Instead of taking a gay, I preffer playing with the juniors"

The owner of Steaua Bucharest football team said that he canceled the deal for the transfer of the bulgarian player Ivanov because he heard some rumors about him being gay.

Gigi Becali told the media that he would never ever transfer to Steaua a player with other sexual orientations except straight and that he preffers to grow footballers from junior team.

SPECIAL: Confessions of a gay couple

Marius and Cristi are two young romanians who share life as a couple for 10 years. They met on the web. Cristi is from a small town and Marius from Bucharest. They had the opportunity to tell as all the details of their relationship, exclusively for StiriGay.ro.

"I don't know what attracted me at him but we loved to chat. He was so mysterious, not giving any information about him, not a picture and avoiding any chat too intimate", told us Marius.

SPECIAL: I made the mistake of watching TV

I have this habit of watching TV. Don't ask me why because I don't have an answer. I watch TV like all the normal people. But the folks that appear on TV have this gift of making me sometimes, by their small mind, to make me feel bad in my own home.

I was watching the famous news about the football players making sex in a small romanian city. First published by the Libertatea tabloid then cited on every blog or site, even on those gay themed, or at TV, especially on those stations so called News Channels. Every media was debating the same issue: how could they do such a thing, how could some footballers made sex with eachother. With lines like: "they aren't real football players, they are from far away", "too bad, he was a promising footballer but now his future career is compromised" or "what do gays do in football", did make my stomach feel sick.

ACCEPT: New chief executive is Alina Oancea and Romanian Pride - GayFEST will be on 17th-23rd of M

At the beginning of the year, Romanian LGBT Organization, Accept Romania announced two important things. Accept has a new chef executive, Alina Oancea, a psychologist with great experience in NGO, trainings and service consultancy.