Born Richard Allen Lehmkuhl, Reichen is best know for winning season four of the US game show ‘Amazing Race’ with his then partner Chip Arndt. He is, basically, what you would call an all American hunk. He’s been in the Air Force where he rose to the rank of Captain before leaving and has since been an advocate of gay rights in the military. After leaving the Air Force and before becoming famous for Amazing Race he worked as a physics teacher and flight instructor, so this gorgeous bodied god also has a brain. And who says you can’t have everything? Reichen has.But it’s as a model that we’re interested in him and, in 2005 and 2006 he brought out nude and semi-nude calendars. Now he has his own website “Reichen.us” and it is this that I am going to look at next.

On the home page here you can find links to all areas of the site plus external links to his MySpace page and his fans’ forum, so you can get fully personal with him on several levels. The site shifts nicely from page to page, the forum opens in a new window and you will have to register for free to join in with it.

Also on his personal site there is some background information about him in his biography which also carries a great portrait of his gorgeous face and then there is a photo gallery. The ten or so pics here are not the sexy kind; they are snaps from his personal life so you can see him with his friends. You will also find a link to where you can buy his book ‘Here’s what we’ll say’ in which he chronicles his life and times as a gay man in the US Air Force Academy. You come away from the site getting the impression that here is a guy who became famous through TV but used that fame to the advantage of others. Which can only be a good thing and I am sure that it is for this work that he would like to be known, rather than for his relationship with pop singer Lance Bass (‘N Sync), though that is a big part of his life too.

Having had a quick look around his site I wanted to see if I could find you anything more erotic and so did another search on the net. There are some nice topless shots and a couple of him in underwear to be found on mostbeautifulman.com where the page on which he is featured also links to nine images and a gossip blog with pics of him and other famous and beautiful stars.

Narrowing my search to images only I came across misterworld.blogspot.com where I found a nude shot, profile though so a bit of a tease and techstickle where there were some other erotic (but not completely revealing) shots of him and he certainly is a hunk. He’s got a great body, a great smile and the more I see of him the more I like him. And apparently you can see even more of him on Dante’s Cove, which is not TV show I’ve seen before so I hope this isn’t old news. Also, check elquemon.blogspot.com for some more information about this topic.

So is he a male pin up? A celebrity? A campaigner for equal rights in the forces? What exactly is Reichen Lehmkuhl? You will have to work that one out for yourself. I think he is something of a mix of all of those things and then some more on top. He’s got that rare combination of good looks and a good heart and that’s enough to convert me from a researcher into a fan.

If you read the latest Out Magazine you will learn that cruises are becoming more and more popular but in this gay people profile we will feature the more personable version. No, not Tom Cruise but Jake Cruise known for his gay erotic work. Jake Cruise is a 40 something year old guy who has steadily built a name for himself in the porn industry after turning from website design to webmaster and producer. He does have his own site jakecruise.com and we’ll come to that in a moment but he has also launched another site which is something new and, I have to say, exciting.

‘Straight Guys For Gay Eyes’ is the name of the site that was started by Jake’s company, Jake Cruise Media and it can be found at sg4ge.com You won’t find straight guys in gay porn here, nor straight guys being ‘gay for pay’ but what you will find is horny straight men having sex with women but… and it’s a big but… the emphasis is on the guys.

How? Well, instead of the photos and vids being centred around the heterosexual sex content they stay with the guys; their bodies are the most important thing on the site, not the women’s. Now I know that a lot of us have a thing for straight guys and there are loads of ‘straight-gay’ sites out there where the models are supposed to be straight but are doing gay sex, so how do you know you’re getting off on watching a straight man? Well normally you don’t, but at Straight Guys For Gay Eyes you’ll find yourself getting off on real straight guys – and you know they are because they’re having sex with the opposite sex. If you didn’t follow all of that just take a look at the site and you’ll see what I mean.

And when you do look at the tour you’ll see plenty of hunks in solo pictures and plenty with a babe nearby, underneath or on his cock. But the guys are all stunning and, having looked inside the site once, I can tell you that what you see on the tour is what you get in the members’ area, only you get more of it as a member. I don’t know how Jake does it but he manages to make straight porn gay!

But back to Jake himself. I can tell you right off that he’s a really nice man, I know that from some e-mail contact I had with him a while back about his site. He replied quickly and in such a friendly tone that I thought we’d known each other for years. There are photos of Jake himself on his site but the emphasis is on the porn he produces. He’s made something like 25 movies (at least!) either as an actor, director or producer and you can find these in on-line video and DVD stores, just enter a search for Jake Cruise and you’ll get the list. On his own site, though, there are over 220 movies that he’s produced for the web, sometimes he appears in them and sometimes not. You can take a video preview of the site, simply chose your connection speed and media player to watch the streaming trailer. I found a couple of very fit East European boys in a high definition, short, clip when I was there.

The really good thing about Jake’s work, in my opinion, is that it’s not restricted to just one age-group, he works with models of all ages. If you go to the casting area of his site you’ll see that he is always looking for guys aged 18 – 60 and there is a very comprehensive application form. You know that he’s serious about his work and serious about bringing you good quality gay porn so if you’re thinking of a career in the gay porn industry you would do worse than contact Jake.

I wanted to know more about this guy because I’ve seen his name in various different places on the web; so I did a search and here are some of my findings. This will also be the start of a gay celebrity profile we will feature here on Daily Dose of Queer where we look at various gays and lesbians including high ranking businessmen, athletes, and even porn stars.

Well it was an easy start: chrisgeary.co.uk is his own site and there you’ll find a page telling you just about everything you could ever want to know. For a start he is British, that’s not so remarkable, but here are a few other things that you may not find so straightforward. He studied agricultural based business management in what the Brits call ‘The West Country’, he has worked as a farmer, he used to own a house outside of Miami, his dad works for the Ministry of Defence and his parents don’t approve of his website.

Why? I guess because Chris now spends his time working freelance for various gay sites and publications, he supplies models shoots and reviews as well as writing for QX Magazine (UK) and running a go-go boy agency supplying dancers to nightclubs and events throughout the UK and across Europe.

Quite a mixed bag but a successful one and Chris Geary now lives in a penthouse near London’s famous Tower Bridge. If you take a look at one of his photos you’ll see a big beefy guy who works out and has a body to be proud of. But it was not always like this; Chris has a medical condition known as Pectus Carinatum, more commonly known as a ‘pigeon chest’ where the sternum, the chest bone, protrudes forward. He admits to being very self conscious about this when he was younger, never going topless, but he also says that his gym workouts and large muscles now disguise this condition and it doesn’t bother him at all.

If you go and view his site you will find it a great mixture of personal information and images. For example there is a link over to his boyfriend’s site erikdechavez.com which is also a neat mix of the personal and the erotic. On Chris’ site you can view his collection of favorite images and you’ll get a pretty good idea of what he likes to view. There are wrestling galleries, horny twinks and ‘model boy’ galleries, videos, spy cams and international news and reviews. Some of the areas of the site are free, so bookmark them and pop back later for updates and news; others are links to premium sites (pay to join) that Chris recommends, but they do have preview areas and are well worth a look.

This is very much a Brit site which makes a refreshing change from all the US sites out there so if you’re interested to see what goes on in Gay Britain you can check out the news from London, Manchester and Birmingham (among other places) and down near the bottom of the home page you’ll see all the latest news and additions from the site. Chris Geary regularly updates the site with gay scene news and the site is a good mix of on-line entertainment and real-life events and happenings. If you want to get really involved you can make use of the message board; here you’ll find forums for guys in the UK and Australia, the US and China and for guys into wrestling, story writing and modelling.

So, from farmer to top gay internet celebrity in a few years, it just goes to prove that anything is possible when you put your mind and body to it. Take a look at chrisgeary.com and you’ll find it a friendly, informative site with plenty of interactive elements and a great community feel. He’s someone to aspire to and is pretty damn hot too!