2nd Saturday at Goodhandy's

Another great night at Goodhandy's. I am very impressed at how supportive the
T-ladies have been of this club. Guys, I am not making it up, there were around
30 - 40 T-Girls in attendance tonight. And about the same number of guys. It truly
was "T-Girls on Parade". I took some photos of the midnight show starring Tulsi
and Coco Puff.


And other photos of our staff and Barrel Girls.


And Lisa Paradise, who appeared at the Lounge last month, celebrated her birthday
at Goodhandy's and jumped up on a barrel herself.

Mandy Goodhandy photo

I missed posting a photo of Mandy Goodhandy late last night when I was doing the blog updates. Here is a lovely photo of my dear friend and business partner Mandy Goodhandy (who will very likely be appearing on stage tonight in our midnight cabaret show....):

Some shots from Goodhandy's Tonight

Week 2 of Goodhandy's was nice - lots of ladies and a decent number of men.

We were pleased to have a new bartender at the upstairs bar that very few of you have met - a lovely lady named Phoenix:

New barrel-babe Cindy came along with Kim, and the two of them "barrel-babed" for the crowd - Here are some photos from the barrel-babes:

Tasha Jones worked as a hostess tonight, and I took this shot of Lexi from Hamilton with Tasha:

I also got a cute shot of the always pleasant Shelby Wylde:


All in all, it was a very nice evening.

I hope to see you all this Saturday, and remember we have a midnight show featuring Tulsi, her guests, and I believe Mandy Goodhandy will be making an appearance as well.

New Video Model - Brandon

Brandon came wandering into our Thursday night audition sessions in a cowboy hat. He is a former male stripper for ladies, totally straight, but did appear in a solo video. He says he may consider coming out to the Lounge, but he seemed worried about how men customers would behave compared to the ladies.

New Video Model - Jay

This is Jay - he appeared in a Side-By-Side video this evening with his roommate Malek.

Jay does not want to appear at the Lounge, but is interested in doing more videos.

New Nude Boy on Saturday - Malek

There is something about the Quebec boys.... and once again, we have another one for you this weekend.
We have finally started up our downtown audition sessions again, which means another flock of boys. It seems that when we do the sessions downtown, we see two or three or even four per week, and out of those, if one or two decides to appear at the Lounge, I'm happy.
Malek was brought in today by his roommate Jay. Jay and Malek did a non-touching side-by-side video, and Malek is going to trek out to the Lounge on Saturday.

About the Lounge and me and Mandy - don't worry, I will be returning to the Lounge one week from tomorrow. Goodhandy's just opened and I needed at least 2 weeks to get things organized and off the ground, but Fausto (aka Chico-Loco) is perfectly capable of running Goodhandy's, and I want to reassure you that I will not be neglecting the Lounge. In fact, I think that since we have a downtown location, the Lounge will even get better.

So please do visit the Lounge this weekend and hang out with Alex, Deven, Dominic, Mitch, MJ, and Ian, and new "nude boy" Malek from Montreal.

Here is a shot of Malek:

Review of Goodhandy's by director / playwright John Palmer

My friend John, who directed the movie Sugar (which I co-wrote) came in to Goodhandy's on Saturday to check it out. Saturday being the "mixed" night, he felt very comfortable as a gay man who is not at all into gay bars. To be clear: we do not consider Goodhandy's to be a gay bar anyways, it is just that John's personal perspective is as someone who has experienced primarily gay bars.
Here are his kind words:
Hi Todd and Amanda,
I want to rave about your new place. Its wonderful and witty and wild. I am mad about T-boys.

The crowd you attract is thankfully unique, sophistocated, laissez-faire, and humane.

Finally a bar (a misnomer but...) in which I felt relaxed!!

It is certainly about Gender but it made me turn upsidedown about it--I had to rethink the whole notion of gender and about time too.

I did not feel uncomfortable as I do in gaybars-- I felt equal despite fat, head and age.

You have opened a unique place here which makes, I think a much needed contribution to Toronto's nightlife and hopefully, tourism industry.

I wish you all the best and send my love.

I know its going to work!

Much luv to you both, John Palmer.

Goodhandy's Saturday Night Opening

We had a great opening Saturday night at Goodhandy's.

The buzz amongst the T-Girls is good - finally a place for them to hang out.
"T-Girls on Parade" (which is what we are calling the Saturday nights) is going to be an interesting night to watch evolve - we want the night to be very mixed, with Trans-folk and other gendered people all partying together.

Paige enjoyed her first night as a bartender and Marishka (renamed Joyce when working as a waitress) said that she is really enjoying serving. Jas had a good week working as a bus-girl and our T-Boy waiter Owen said he had a fun first night. 18 year old skater-kid-T-boy Tyler (who can't work next week because he has to take a girl to a prom) worked as a floating security person and Tasha Jones worked as hostess. (all the above linked photos were taken on the Thursday grand opening)

Tulsi came in with Marla Ponti and two back-up dancers (former Mr. El Convento Rico Renzo Garcia and current Mr. El Convento Rico Randell Ryan) and the group put on a midnight show. Mandy Goodhandy even came down the staircase in a red boa to perform Eartha Kitt's "Champagne Taste."

Sasha Van Bon Bon (burlesque entertainer in "the Scandelles") came on Saturday (one of my favorite columnists of all times, in any category), who writes "Love Bites" for Eye Weekly and our busboy Owen snapped this amazing photo during Mandy's show:

And bartender Fausto (on the right in this photo with the lovely Magenta) took some photos of Tulsi and Marla Ponti during the show:

Late-comers tonight - Kev and Bruce

Bruce will be coming in tonight, and so will Kev, who has only appeared once.
So with MJ and Mitch, that will make 4 nude boys tonight.

Holiday night at the Lounge...

Reminder guys: The Lounge will be closing early tonight, at midnight, to allow MJ, Mitch, and Ian (who will be covering for me as waiter and host) to make it downtown to the Grand Opening of our new club Goodhandy's.
We will be back to our normal Lounge schedule next week.
Also note: only MJ and Mitch have confirmed their appearances tonight at the Lounge. As in the past, if there are less than 3 "nude boys", cover charge will be half price. The two boys will certainly be able to create a party anyways, so I hope you check them out and have some fun!
I'll be back at the Lounge in 3 weeks, I need to get Goodhandy's up and running, and then I will be back. I am leaving you in Ian's capable hands, he is a really nice guy who many of you have met in the past.

This Week's New DVD - The Lounge After Hours Volume 9

CLICK THIS LINK for info on this week's newest DVD.

This is one of my all-time favorite scenes. Starring two of our best boys - Rich and Mitch. And including one big "first" - Rich sucking cock.

Grand Opening - Goodhandy's

What a night..... after about a month of preparing, we finally opened the doors to our new club.

I want to thank the community of gents, couples, and T-Girls who made tonight a success. And I want to thank our amazing club staff which is a group of fascinating people who cover the entire spectrum of gender and sexuality.

Our very first barrel-T-Babes were Kayla and Kiena, and check www.ladyplus.com on Friday for their escort ads. You can get a free escort ad on Ladyplus if you do some Barrel-Babing on one of our nights.

I need to sleep - so I am going to let some photos do the talking.

Hope to see you again on Saturday.



Finally - to those who had a difficult time finding the club, please listen carefully to my directions - it is ON Church Street, on the WEST side, just SOUTH of Richmond, on the second floor. It is directly above a new Spring Rolls "Go" Restaurant, look for the glass door with the "Goodhandy's" logo on it. There are a few confusing addressing schemes in the area, so some people told us they struggled to find the location. But if you just trust me, and can find the corner of Church and Richmond, you will be able to find us even if you have to walk 50 meters in any of the four directions.

The Lounge This Weekend

I want to let all of the Lounge gents know that this Saturday (and this Saturday only) we will be closing the Lounge at midnight. This is to allow the boys time to make it down to Goodhandy's for the grand opening.

Mitch and Ian will be running the club, and several boys have confirmed their appearances, but we are going to make it an early night. Most of you regular guys tend to be finished by around midnight anyways, but anyone who was considering making this weekend their first Lounge experience, please come at 945pm sharp so you have an enjoyable visit.

3 days..... Our new club

Wow.... the last couple months have been a blur of behind-the-scenes planning and cleaning and organization and staffing and construction and more cleaning and.... there are only three more days until we finally open Goodhandy's.

Visit www.goodhandys.com for our temporary site (we will be improving the site of course very soon, this is just an info site in the meantime) and come check us out this coming Thursday.

I should specify, that this Thursday is for T-Girls and the men and couples who admire them. Men who love men (and boys) can still come to the Lounge this Saturday and enjoy our continuing "nude boys".

And our Saturday night at Goodhandy's is going to be a little more mixed than Thursdays - we are allowing (and encouraging) women, dykes, T-boys, "Gender-queers", and anyone else (there are WAY too many genders for me to even try to list them all...) But the nude boys of the Lounge will be heading downtown after their Lounge appearances and jumping up on the barrels for a late-night presentation. They will not be nude, of course, because our downtown venue is certainly nothing like a strip club, but it will add a fun sort of bisexual spin to the whole evening.

I realize we are opening on a long weekend, but hopefully a good handful of you will drop in to Goodhandy's, a venue that I think I can honestly say will be unlike any other in Toronto thus far.

Mandy Goodhandy is coming to play....

For those who know me well, and are following the sites, you may have noticed that while I have managed to get the DVDs out every Friday, and keep AmateurCanadianGuys up to date, I have been a little bit more frazzled and busy than usual.

This is the reason why - www.goodhandys.com - 2 T-Girl operated club nights that Mandy and I are opening downtown in less than 2 weeks. This is a beautiful 2 floor club space, with balconies, exposed brick walls, and great sight-lines for cruising - an ideal addition to our "Voyeur's Paradise" theme.

For the T-Girl lovers who read my blog, please check out the above link, and I hope to see you at our new club on Thursday May 18th, 2006.

And for those who may be worried that the Lounge is closing, don't even think about it, everything is great at the Lounge, and we are not changing a thing with our Nude Boy and Shemale Stripper entertainment schedule.

One final note - we are closing our Tuesday night spa event for the summer. We hope to re-introduce it in the fall on a monthly basis, with a slightly different format. So those who have not checked out the spa yet, you only have a few more weeks to check it out - www.ladyplus.com/spa.htm

Another Forgotten new Video Model - Miguel

I can't believe I also forgot to post this new video model - he is a sexy Ecuadorean named Miguel.

Forgotten Video Production - Daniel Fucks Tai

I almost forgot to let you in on this recent shoot - a couple weekends ago, the last time sexy Montreal boy Tai was in town, I paired him up with Daniel for a sex video.

This was a very, very hot video, because both boys were into each other. In fact, as I know Tai likes Asian boys, I had literally just sent Tai an e-mail telling him to check out Daniel, when I first posted Daniel online. Tai happened to have been checking out the Loungestrippers website at the exact same time, and when I hit Send/Receive in my e-mail programme, at the same moment as my e-mail went to Tai, I received an e-mail from Tai asking me "Who's this Daniel, can I do a video with him?"

So for the shoot, I wanted to preserve the chemistry and I kept Tai locked in one room, and Daniel in the other, while they did their paperwork. That way the camera got every moment of their first real meeting.

Here are a few samples from the video, which will eventually be available on DVD and on ACG:

Our First Auto-Fellatio Video - Dominic

We're going to have to nickname him "Self-Suck Dominic"... Dominic returned to the Lounge this weekend, and at the end of the night, we went to a nearby location to shoot an auto-fellatio video. Dominic was one of the original models posted when AmateurCanadianGuys opened, but he never let me know about his hidden talent. This is a very fascinating video, so watch for it on ACG, I will be posting it soon. Here are a couple photos from the shoot:

New Video Model - Kyle

Kyle is considering coming into the Lounge this coming weekend. Check the "Nude Boys" page to see, later in the week.

New Video Model and "Nude Boy" - Luis

Another of the Montreal invaders, this week I had time to do a proper shoot of Luis. We hope Luis will return soon - this boy is a real sweetheart.

New Video Model and "Nude Boy" - Sam

Sam appeared at the Lounge this recent Saturday. He is a friend of Luis, who appeared both last week and this week.

He is a cyber-sex model for a Montreal site, and has now completed his first AmateurCanadianGuys solo video.

Friday's New DVD - Side-By-Side #8 (Both models appear at the Lounge tonight!)

Friday's DVD features MJ and Rich - both of whom will be appearing live, in person, at the Lounge this evening. Click here for purchase information.

Fans of Rich please note: Rich is getting very busy with landscaping as the summer season has begun, so tonight might be one of the only chances you get to meet this hot guy for quite a while. So cancel your plans and come on by the Lounge!

The Second Montreal Invasion - This Weekend

This weekend is turning out to be another massive boy-fest.

Please check the Nude Boys page for details and photos.

And Luis, who appeared last weekend with little notice, will be bringing his friend along with him. He was kind enough to send me two photos of this friend (but he forgot to tell me his friend's name). So you will have to come out and meet the friend and ask him yourself.

See you Saturday!