Unzipped Media, publishers of the world’s top-selling erotic men’s magazines Men, Freshmen, and Unzipped, presents the May 2009 cover of Unzipped featuring Beau Breedlove, the world's most famous openly gay political intern.
Breedlove is the former legislative intern at the center of the controversy involving Portland, Oregon's Mayor Sam Adams.
The issue hits newsstands and will be available in select bookstores on Tuesday, April 7, 2009.
Unzipped Media has just completed an erotic photo session with Beau Breedlove, the former intern whose affair with Portland, Oregon, Mayor Sam Adams become a national sensation.
Breedlove's erotic photos will appear in the May 2009 issue of Unzipped magazine. The photos were taken by erotic experts Edendale studios. The photos will be accompanied by an exclusive interview with Breedlove.
Beau Breedlove, the former lover of gay Portland, Oregon Mayor Sam Adams, has accepted Unzipped magazine's offer to be featured on the magazine's May cover and traveled to Los Angeles this weekend for a nude photo shoot, editors announced on Tuesday.
Breedlove's name was thrust into the spotlight in January, when Adams admitted to having an affair with the former state legislature intern. The affair allegedly took place in 2005, when Adams was a Portland city commissioner and Breedlove was just 18 years old.
Adams had previously maintained their relationship was strictly platonic.
Unzipped's website, Unzipped.net, quickly became the go-to destination for all things Breedlove when editors posted a photo gallery of pictures from Breedlove’s now deleted MySpace page. When interest in the photos took off, the magazine extended an offer for Breedlove to appear on the cover. Breedlove agreed to the offer for an undisclosed amount of money.
"Beau Breedlove was extremely professional at his first erotic photo shoot in Los Angeles this past weekend," Unzipped's online editor, Sean Carnage, told Advocate.com. "He came to L.A. to prove that the Portland scandal does not define his sexuality. The photos portray the real Beau—a confident and extremely handsome young man who is openly sensual, openly sexual, and has nothing to hide."
The May issue of Unzipped will be on newsstands in mid April. For photos from Breedlove’s trip to Los Angeles, visit Unzipped.net.
Sam Adams, the openly fabulous mayor of Portland, Oregon, screwed an 18-year-old intern, the improbably named Beau Breedlove, and lied about it. Why? Because he'd just broken up with his boyfriend, he told Out.
In his first interview since the scandal broke, Adams said that he won't resign, despite the ridiculous porniness of the whole scenario, which has even gotten Time's eyebrows cocked.
Handily, Oregon law gives him six months before he can be booted by a recall. And it's not clear if he even did anything wrong when he pursued the affair in 2005. Breedlove was a legislative intern, but he didn't work for Adams, then 42 and a member of the city council. Both agree Breedlove was 18 when the relationship became physical, though Breedlove recently told the Oregonian that they kissed in a bathroom when he was 17.
Pursuing a relationship across a 24-year-age gap looks bad. And lying about it, as Adams and Breedlove did in 2007 when rumors first surfaced, is the real problem.
His apology:
"I was forty-[two], however many years older than he was. And an elected official. I think the difference in age and the fact that I was an elected official made it inappropriate.... [E]lected officials are held to higher standards, and I know that. I can say, at the time, I was very flattered by the attention. I’d recently ended my 11-year relationship. I was dating again. I didn’t think it through...."
When a straight person screws up, and there have been a number of straight political figures who have, I don’t think that paints a brush on all straight politicians. I think that American’s are smart enough to know that we’re all unique. We’re all individuals.
Adams wants to make it clear: This is not about him being gay. Oh, and Out magazine wants you to know it's not about being gay, either. Here's how Out's publicity department describes the magazine: "Out is the definitive personal style guide for men, offering the latest trends and service information for a highly evolved and active consumer. Always ahead of the curve, Out sets the trends that people follow." So there you have it: Adams's problem isn't that he's gay. It's that he's highly evolved.
The Mayor of Portland, Oregon has said he "still has a very positive contribution to make" despite admitting he lied about his relationship with a teenager.
Sam Adams admitted last week that he had sex with Beau Breedlove during the summer of 2005, but only after he had turned 18.
Mr Adams, who was elected last year and took office on January 1st, had denied their relationship was sexual for at least 18 months.
Mr Breedlove was 17 and working as a state legislative intern when he met then-City Commissioner Adams.
Mr Adams publicly admitted on Tuesday that his previous assertions that he was merely "mentoring" Beau Breedlove for a career in politics had no foundation and were simply a front for their sexual relationship.
He apologised to Portland's voters.
The Oregon Attorney General is to investigate if Mr Adams is telling the truth - if he had sex with Mr Breedlove when he was 17 he has broken state law, which stipulates no-one under 18 can give consent to sexual acts.
The Mayor seems to have deciced to stay, and apologised again in a video posted on his website last night.
"Tomorrow, I go back to work as your mayor. I know I have made big mistakes. I know I have let you down. And I ask for your forgiveness.
"I believe I still have a very positive contribution to make — to put to work the 20 years of public service to the good of Portland. And as I do this, I pledge to you: I will work harder than I have ever worked before to make sure Portland meets our challenges.
"These are some of the toughest times we've ever faced. The worst recession in 60 years, one of the highest national unemployment rates, some of the toughest business landscape we've ever seen.
"Now, rightfully, I know Portlanders are not going to rely on my words, and will look to my ability to deliver results to them in the coming months.
"And as we do this work together, with the lessons that I've learned in hand, I will work each and every day to restore your trust and faith in me as a public servant.
"I want to thank everyone who has sent me letters and texts and emails of support. I want to thank everyone who has sent me questions and who have, rightfully, sent me criticisms.
"I look forward to working with all of you to make sure that Portland moves forward."
Last week a local gay magazine joined the Portland Business Journal, The Oregonian and the Portland Tribune in calling for Mayor Adams to resign.
"By his own admission, by committing the act of lying to the citizens of Portland, Adams has failed to show the principled character that this publication feels is a basic requirement for an elected official, " the Just Out editorial board said.
"Just Out acknowledges that over his two decades as a public servant Adams has risen to become one of Oregon's most revered openly gay leaders.
"The bond of trust and confidence has been broken. Adams has previously stated his hope that gay and lesbian youth might one day look to him as a role model and example.
"His own actions have now rendered this implausible.
The first gay person elected as Mayor of Portland should resign, a local LGBT publication has said.
Just Out has taken a similar stance to local Oregon newspapers and called on Sam Adams to leave office less than a month after he was sworn in.
On Tuesday he publicly apologised for lying for the past 18 months about the natue of his relationship with a teenager.
He admitted that his previous assertions that he was merely "mentoring" Beau Breedlove for a career in politics had no foundation and were simply a front for their sexual relationship.
Mr Breedlove was 17 and working as a state legislative intern when he met then-City Commissioner Adams, who was elected Mayor last year and took office on January 1st.
Mayor Adams said they had sex several times during the summer of 2005, by only after Mr Breedlove turned 18.
In 2007, while considering his candidacy, Mr Adams accused another mayoral hopeful of spreading fase rumours about his relationship with Mr Breedlove and explained the "mentoring" nature of their relationship.
The Oregon Attorney General is to investigate if Mr Adams is telling the truth - if he had sex with Mr Breedlove when he was 17 he has broken state law, which stipulates no-one under 18 can give consent to sexual acts.
A local gay magazine has joined the Portland Business Journal, The Oregonian and the Portland Tribune in calling for Mayor Adams to resign.
"By his own admission, by committing the act of lying to the citizens of Portland, Adams has failed to show the principled character that this publication feels is a basic requirement for an elected official, " the Just Out editorial board said.
"Just Out acknowledges that over his two decades as a public servant Adams has risen to become one of Oregon's most revered openly gay leaders.
"This publication has long admired Adams' vision, his intelligence and his tenacity.
"Ultimately we have concluded that these qualities cannot overcome the weakness revealed in Adams' recent admission.
"Adams' apology of yesterday, including specific reference to the gay community, while sincere, is not enough.
"The bond of trust and confidence has been broken. Adams has previously stated his hope that gay and lesbian youth might one day look to him as a role model and example.
"His own actions have now rendered this implausible.
"Adams must resign his seat as Portland's Mayor."
The Oregonian reports that the Mayor is losing support.
"I've been involved in Oregon politics for a long time, and I obviously understand people's anger and frustration," he told the paper yesterday.
"Portland isn't San Francisco, it's not Los Angeles, it's not the federal level. We have a standard for our politicians, and I violated that standard.
"I need to take some time to figure out what's best for Portlanders, but I'm not going to drag it out. There's too much work to do."
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Unzipped Media, publishers of the world’s top-selling erotic men’s magazines Men, Freshmen, and Unzipped, presents the May 2009 cover of Unzipped featuring Beau Breedlove, the world's most famous openly gay political intern.
