By Erika Icon YNOT – Anna Devia is one of the breakout directors in a relatively new genre known as queer film. Often described as “porn with an artistic bent” or “documentary porn,” queer films encompass avant garde representations of marginalized aspects of the LGBT experience.

By Erika Icon YNOT – 2012 very well could be the year of Joey Gabra. In late 2011, he accepted the position of managing director at Affil4You, a subsidiary of Paris-based mobile services provider Wister. A few months later, Affil4You won a major industry award.

By Erika Icon YNOT – These days, it’s difficult to imagine that any company could complete its marketing portfolio without a Facebook account. If your company doesn’t have a Facebook page, you need to rethink your marketing strategy.

By Dave Cummings YNOT – Time speeds by, sometimes very rapidly. Heck, this summer will soon be over, and before we know it we’ll be dealing with Halloween, Thanksgiving, Xmas, and the start of yet another new calendar year — again! As I’ve gotten older and older, the time seems...

By Erika Icom YNOT – Julie Simone is a rarity because she does so many things well. She’s a dominatrix, an award-winning director, an artist, a businesswoman, an editor…and the list goes on. Iconic and well-respected in the BDSM/fetish community, she’s starting to get quite a bit...

By Erika Icon YNOT – A few weeks ago, something I wrote got a huge amount of Twitter action. Many people tweeted a link to a post in which I outlined how not to behave on Twitter, and others re-tweeted. Quite a few were shocked that people don’t know a few common-sense rules for...

By Erika Icon YNOT – Photographer extraordinaire Diane Arbus once wrote, “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.”

By Dave Cummings YNOT – Well, the old guy (me!) finally gave in and now has a cell phone. I was the lone long-term holdout among a bunch of Hash House Harrier (Google it) running club friends trying not to be pushed into being tethered to living in the tech age. Those who were...

By Julia Dimambro YNOT – I was born in the 1970s, and like most young girls of that time, I assumed I would grow up and become a princess by marrying Britain’s Prince Andrew (that was a near miss, hey?) or failing that, become a veterinarian, saving puppies and kittens for a...

By Erika Icon YNOT – As a publicist and somewhat of a social media expert, I spend a lot of time on Twitter — not just tweeting, but also watching. I keep an eye on what my clients say, because image is everything, but based on some of the behavior I’ve seen on Twitter, I think...