Monthly Archives: April 2012

Posted on April 5, 2012 by gayhighwaymen | Leave a comment

Smokeout is always a good time. Low key desert run for cigar and pipemen, we are sitting it out this year. May be back next. Here are some cool pics from last year’s run…a popular replay from 2011. Enjoy!

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Bellagio Fountains, Floating Bear Conga Lines, Butkus Autographs in the Las Vegas version of a mall, Kush Fine Art. Srsly? Billboards of course. Surveillance like mad. The Arturo Fuente Cigar Lounge abuts an escalator in the Forum Shops on The Strip. Everything in Las Vegas is the Las Vegas version of…whatever, wherever. Paris and New York in plaster, Venice in Sherwin Williams. Covers the Globe in Amalgamated Capital. Or something like that.

The Las Vegas version of a run is Smokeout, an informally structured event now in its 11th year. Smokeout is billed as “an uncomplicated, fun-filled weekend in Las Vegas for Cigar Studs, Pipe Studs, Bikers, Leathermen, Bears and their friends from all over the world.” No run fee; events are on a pay/per basis and include dinners, cigar parties, bar nights, a Leather party, friendly low-stakes poker, a rollercoaster outing, a piss party, and a motorcycle…

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Hot Draw! Mark I. Chester hosts Gay Men’s Kinky Sketch Group in San Francisco

Posted on April 5, 2012 by gayhighwaymen | 1 comment

Hosted by Mark I. Chester, an institution in the San Francisco gay art scene for a long time now. Best known as a photographer, Chester is also an underground artist who opens his SOMA studio to regular life-drawing sessions, including the monthly Hot Draw! – Devoted to fans of kinky gay male erotica. Themes of power, control, submission, fetish, gear, S/m and kink galore dominate at these events. Pictured here is Dan Becker’s quick sketch of artist Richard Bolingbroke’s sub bear paul on all fours. That would be Bolingbroke’s boot: good bear! More on Hot Draw! here. Interested in getting your hot self in front of Chester’s hot camera lens? That can happen, too. Information here.

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Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Art and Artists, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Leather, Men, North America, Photography, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Subcultures

Tagged Art, BDSM, Bear, Boots, Culture, Dan Becker, Erotic, Gay, Homoerotic, Hot Draw!, Kink, Leather, Male, Mark I. Chester, Photography, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Sexy, sub bear

HuffPost Gay Voices: Liberian Anti-Gay Group Issues Hit List, Governments Do Nothing

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Maštíŋčala Sáŋ | Leave a comment

This disturbing story from Liberia on Huffington Post reveals that an anti-gay group in the country has published a “hit list” of LGBT advocates that they would like to kill. More disturbing, perhaps, is the complete silence of elected officials around the issue. According to Huffington Post, Liberia’s president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf vowed

to preserve an existing law criminalizing “voluntary sodomy”.

Also disappointing to me, as a US citizen, is the lack of response from the US embassy in Monrovia. International pressure has certainly been helpful in compelling governments to be accountable around human rights issues in the past.
I’m hoping Liberian LGBT advocates will comment on this issue soon – I will publish updates as I get them.
-AidanAbroad

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Posted in Activism, Africa, Crime, Human Rights, Liberia, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., WORLD WIDE: Gay around the Globe!

Tagged Activism, Africa, apathy, assassination, Ellen Sirleaf, Gay, hit list, Homophobia, HuffPost, human rights, LGBT, Liberia, US Embassy