{"id":95233,"date":"2026-06-28T16:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95233"},"modified":"2026-06-28T16:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:14:22","slug":"bares-appleton-and-drake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/06\/28\/bares-appleton-and-drake\/","title":{"rendered":"Bares, Appleton and Drake"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York\u2019s hottest night of the year took place last week with the return of the annual Broadway Bares <\/em><\/strong>benefit.  Since 1992, Jerry Mitchell <\/strong>has helped raise over $33 million for Broadway Cares\/Equity Fights AIDS<\/em>.  This year\u2019s extravaganza brought in $2,534,428 \u2013 breaking the previous year\u2019s record.  Mark MacKillop <\/strong>once again topped himself (which, experience has shown, could land you in the ER).  He brought in a staggering $227,371, roughly $200K more than the second-highest earner (Ricky Schroeder<\/strong>, Jerry Mitchell\u2019s hunky hubby).  Fun fact \u2013 MacKillop has raised over one MILLION dollars for BC\/EFA<\/em>.  If I were a betting man, I\u2019d count on some videos and photos showing up on BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As I was leaving Italy, Chris Appleton <\/strong>(former Mr. Lukas Gage<\/strong>) docked in Positano and wasted no time stripping down to his Speedo<\/em>.  This vacation is fortuitous because he\u2019s about to be very busy.  He\u2019ll be one of the competitors on the upcoming season of Strictly Come Dancing<\/em><\/strong> (the UK version of Dancing with the Stars<\/em><\/strong>).  While Lukas will likely not be cheering on his ex, Appleton\u2019s kids will be ringside most weeks.  You didn\u2019t know he had kids?  Prior to coming out at 26, he was with Katie Katon <\/strong>for about 9 years (he was married to Lukas less than 9 months).  Chris has a 24-year-old son named Billy <\/strong>and a 22-year-old daughter, Kitty-Blu <\/strong>\u2013 which I thought was a product in my local Petco<\/em>.  Anyhoo, you can check out his hot Speedo shots on our website.<\/p>\n

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Only a few days into the summer and we have a rerun.  It\u2019s been less than a month since the arrest of adult film star Drake Von <\/strong>(aka Dawson Bacon <\/strong>\u2013 which certainly sounds like more of a gay porn name to moi<\/em>).  He termed that incident a \u201cpublicity stunt\u201d.  Doesn\u2019t sound like he\u2019s very good at stunts because a few days ago, he crashed his Tesla <\/em>into a Kia Soul<\/em>!  He told police that he hadn\u2019t had a drop of alcohol in over a week.  But the cops reportedly found 13 nitrous oxide tanks in his car, along with balloons and rubber bands.  He agreed to take a sobriety test.  While we don\u2019t know the results, he was taken away in handcuffs \u2013 which he should be used to by now!  All of these incidents took place in Las Vegas \u2013 a city known for all sorts of stunts (it\u2019s also where Appleton and Gage wed).  Regarding that earlier \u201cstunt\u201d, we\u2019ve learned that it started when his galpal Quinn <\/strong>threw his Louis Vuitton <\/em><\/strong>promise ring out of a moving car (how Jonas Brothers <\/em><\/strong>of her).  When they got home, Von reportedly took Quinn\u2019s cell phone and said if she wanted it back, she\u2019d have to get on her knees and apologize to him.  Talk about art imitating life!  When the police arrived, they saw an empty magazine from a firearm on his coffee table and called in a SWAT <\/em>team.  Frankly, it all sounds far too dramatic for porn \u2013 gay or straight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York\u2019s hottest night of the year took place last week with the return of the annual Broadway Bares benefit.  Since 1992, Jerry Mitchell has helped raise over $33 million for Broadway Cares\/Equity Fights AIDS.  This year\u2019s extravaganza brought in $2,534,428 \u2013 breaking the previous year\u2019s record.  Mark MacKillop once again topped himself (which, experience<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95233","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\/95233","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=95233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95234,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95233\/revisions\/95234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}