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By Brian Baltin

Dorothy's Broom

www.dorothysbroom.com

Adorably billing itself as "the only gay-owned travel site that lives up to our standards," DB is an incredible resource, including destination guides for the most obscurely hidden spot you could ever want to visit (You think we're kidding? We're talking Brunei, Curaçao, and Lithuania here.), wry, intelligently written gay vacation guides, and a gay bar finder that actually diagrams major bars in heavily queer-trafficked areas. If that isn't enough to persuade you that you should consult them before traveling anywhere, factor in a currency converter, online check-ins, passport info—and even a guide to surviving turbulence.

Extreme Gay Cams

www.extremegaycams.com

EGC is a webcam site "spying" in eight houses all across the United States. Tattooed Pierre in Florida, "Dad" in Chicago (whose tagline is "So son, you want to spy on your ole dad?"), fine-ass white-boy Brick in Arizona, and the bonus of the eight-boy

Studsdorm.com, among others, you can most certainly get your voyeuristic swerve on here.

Left Brain

frank.blogs.com/life

We have completely fallen in love with Frank. Not only is he achingly, resplendently beautiful, he's also got a brilliantly vitriolic wit, and loves everything Brazilian as much as we do (not just the always-quenching and obligatory Brahma beer—though he does apparently drink plenty of that). His recent Rio diary was the most sublime armchair travel read we've had in eons, helped by plenty of lovely photos of himself and equally godly Brasileiro boys, along with other Rio culture and color). Staggeringly intelligent and funny as hell, his blog offers cultural stimuli from every film he's just watched (Chungking Express, and our favorites, 2046 and Three Dancing Slaves… how could we not worship him?) and every book he's just read. But it's not all sexy as fuck highbrow fare on LB, there's plenty of lowbrow fluff as well, via his weekly Hot Boy Friday and plenty of other posts on godly boys he digs.

Making Satan Blush

makingsatanblush.blogspot.com

With a name this ingenious, it wouldn't even matter if this blog were any good, but as it happens, it is. It's not just the random photos of fine-ass boys licking their own pits (though that's always hot as fuck) or his musings on vintage porn mags— just the intro materials will get you hooked. Subtitled "When the lord of darkness covers his eyes, you know it's got to be good," his intro paragraph is even more endearingly telling: "I am a 20 something gay boy who was raised by a fundamentalist minister. It is true what they say, ‘Preacher's kids are the worst kind.’ I love it naughty and dirty, and might just get kinky if the situation arises." God love 'im.