{"id":91239,"date":"2023-03-13T00:26:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T07:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91239"},"modified":"2023-03-13T00:26:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T07:26:10","slug":"foreign-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/03\/13\/foreign-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, gay porn aficionados head to Chicago on Memorial Day weekend for the <strong><em>Grabby Awards <\/em><\/strong>(attendance surely helped by <strong><em>International Mr. Leather<\/em><\/strong>, which takes place the same weekend). &nbsp;But, didya know that the <em>Grabbys <\/em>have a European cousin?&nbsp; The <strong><em>Grabby Awards Europe <\/em><\/strong>will take place in Torremolinos, Spain April 20-23.&nbsp; According to the press release, the show will \u201ccelebrate the best gay European porn stars, gay porn labels, movies and creative content of the year\u201d.&nbsp; Information on both the domestic and international awards can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.GrabbyAwards.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>GrabbyAwards.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We previously reported a story about an Italian man fired from his university job due to his past as a gay porn performer.&nbsp; The man in question is sexy <strong>Carlo Masi<\/strong>, who made loads of films for <em>Colt Studios<\/em>.&nbsp; His real name is <strong>Ruggero Freddi<\/strong>, and he was a teacher at the <em>Sapienza<\/em> <em>University<\/em> of Rome.&nbsp; He claimed to have been fired without explanation and without pay for the work he had already done.&nbsp; So he sued for what I consider a paltry amount \u2013 roughly $2,500 for the work he had done and $1,500 for \u201cunjustified dismissal\u201d.&nbsp; You would think a smart defendant would pay the $4K and be done with it.&nbsp; But this case actually went to trial \u2013 which he won.&nbsp; \u201cI hope my case gives courage to all PhD students who are exploited after years of studies and specializations,\u201d said Carlo\/Ruggero \u2013 except I suspect he said it in&nbsp;Italian.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someone familiar with a foreign tongue is <strong>Ricky Martin<\/strong>, who has been dealing with a whole bunch of contentious issues for the past few years.&nbsp; After settling things with his nephew (look it up), he had to deal with a $3 million commission suit from his former manager \u2013 a suit which promised to reveal \u201ccareer-ending allegations\u201d.&nbsp; Martin settled this one out of court.&nbsp; Since we hear his former manager is only receiving a five-figure payout, I guess those revelations weren\u2019t as \u201ccareer-ending\u201d as alleged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, gay porn aficionados head to Chicago on Memorial Day weekend for the Grabby Awards (attendance surely helped by International Mr. Leather, which takes place the same weekend). &nbsp;But, didya know that the Grabbys have a European cousin?&nbsp; The Grabby Awards Europe will take place in Torremolinos, Spain April 20-23.&nbsp; According to the press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91240,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91239\/revisions\/91240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}