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Eye Heart Teh Gaze: Big Deal Art Sale at Visual Aid

Posted on November 12, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Eye Heart Teh Gaze. Dr. Jordy Jones 2010

Saturday is Visual Aid’s Annual BIG DEAL Art Sale…4-9:30pm on Saturday, November 13, 2010 Somarts, 934 Brannan Street, SF. Tickets $50 at the door

Enjoy: Great art and people-watching. Listen: Soulful sonic goodness from DJs N’K and Garlynn. Imbibe: Libations from Blue Angel Vodka, Barefoot Wine and Bubbly, Peroni. Taste: Yummy hors d’oeuvres and desserts from Creole Catering Company, The Only Cookie, Heartbaker. Put Your Hands in the Air: Auctioneer David Sobon will energize the crowd. Feel Great: While raising funds for Visual Aid, providing a gallery, free art supplies and community to artists living with AIDS, cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening illnesses. Obey: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

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Ahoy, boys! Happy Veteran’s Day to our Mermen in Uniform…

Posted on November 11, 2010 by | 3 comments

Happy Veteran’s Day from friend of this site George Wong. Thanks, George! These sexy mermen sailors make me want to pull in a dock. Ahoy, boys…and thanks so much for your Service!

Update for Veteran’s Day, 2011: George Wong passed away this past summer. He will be missed.

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The Legacy, the Legacy, don’t forget the Legacy: Justin Bond’s New Depression.

Posted on November 10, 2010 by | 2 comments

A good counterpoint to the feel-good Bush love-fest splashing across the media grid in response to the launch of his biography. As Kiki of the notorious Kiki and Herb, Justin Bond tore into the media-fed adulation that erupted at the passing of former president Reagan. “The legacy, the legacy…” s/he snarled while recounting his long silence during the devastating peak years of the AIDS crisis. “That’s the legacy, Ladies and Gentlemen!” Bond has shed the Kiki persona for now, but the fierce political wit that has long infused his performances remains strong as ever.

Enjoy the Bush book. I suggest reading it by candlelight with a little cat-food pate and a juice-box. You can sit on a milk crate. Of course, you won’t find these things at your local market because it went out of business. But you can get them all at Walmart along with a wave from the elderly social security recipient who really needs that greeter job…to buy that cat food, those juice boxes and that book. It is the New Depression after all. And it is FUN, dammit!

Don’t forget the legacy…

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Leather or Not? Is SF Giants’ Star Pitcher Brian Wilson Kinky? Is “The Beard” Gay?

Posted on November 7, 2010 by | 1 comment

Just For Men Wilson. B-Weezy. Flicker. Mental Assassin. The Beard. Whatever you call him, Giants star pitcher Brian Wilson is as much a performance artist as he is an athlete. But what does it mean? The look: tattoos, mohawk, shaved head, thick beard, torn t-shirt, pinky ring, a cock-ring worn as bracelet, always close at hand. The attitude. The friends. Who is The Machine? A neighbor who comes by for “sugar” as he quips to the startled interviewer Chris Rose? His team-mate Pat Burrell playing an elaborate prank as suggested by some internet commentators? And what about the gear? Described as wearing a “gimp outfit” by some in a reference to Pulp Fiction, the man in the leather harness, jockstrap and hood in the background of this video would look right at home in a private dungeon or at the SF Eagle on a Sunday afternoon. But then…so would Wilson. So the question, still open, is: “Is he or isn’t he?” Is he playing a character? Or is he really…one of us?

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Chaos in San Francisco’s Mission District as Car plows into rowdy Crowd of Giants’ Fans…Graphic Video.

Posted on November 3, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Wild Giants fans dance around a bonfire at the corner of 22nd and Mission, jamming percussion on tin cans and street signs, pummeling them with skateboards, chanting and dancing, wild and ecstatic. Riot or street celebration? So far, the damage is only to property. But when a car plows into the crowd, things turn ugly. The mob reacts; the police arrive. Night sticks come out. Cameras flash. The new pose of civilian surveillance: hand up; phones out. Snap. Snap. We’ve come a long way, Baby, from Rodney King. A voice from the crowd offers sage advice: “Keep on stepping back, Man. You don’t want to get close to this!” Point well taken.

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Guys at Truck Stops: Surveilling the Wildlife at a Kansas “Kum N Go”

Posted on October 26, 2010 by | Leave a comment

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Gas stops provide ample opportunity for observing local wildlife in its own environment. These specimens were recorded in mid-May, 2010 in Kansas at a “Kum-N-Go” on the I-80. For a candid photo of the seldom-seen Middle American Humpy Striped Gas-Guzzler, click here.

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Crying Those Cocksucking Tears: Lavender Country – Deep Gay Twang from Back in the Day

Posted on October 21, 2010 by | Leave a comment

No video on this one, but a great audio clip. Crying Those Cocksucking Tears. Deep twang from Lavender Country from back in the heady post-Stonewall days of early gay lib.  Based in Seattle, Lavender Country was founded by Patrick Haggerty and also included Michael Carr on keyboards, Eve Morris on fiddle and vocals, and token heterosexual guitarist Robert Hammerstrom. Their self-titled album was released in 1973. For more on gay country music, read Chris Dickinson’s article “Country Undetectable: Gay Artists in Country Music” For more on queer music in general, the Queer Musical Heritage website is a great resource.

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London Riddled with Puzzling Enigmas! …and other San Francisco Street Sites Seen

Posted on October 14, 2010 by | Leave a comment

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No sexy guys in this one. But some street art. And some signage. And strange mise en abyme  headlines. And plants and where they grow in cities. And even a little negative Obama-Rama. For more on that, click here.

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Three Generations of Leather: Wet Plate Ambrotype Photo by Eric Robinson

Posted on September 25, 2010 by | 1 comment

Leather Family: Three Generations. photo: Eric Robinson

We learn from our elders and teach the young. And sometimes vice-versa. As a community that has collectively lost so many and so much in the last three decades, it is more important than ever that we pass on our best traditions to the generations coming up. It is equally important that we incorporate the fresh energy and ideas of youth into our clubs, institutions, dungeons and families. Make no mistake about it: this is a family photograph. It is a scan of a wet-plate ambrotype, a singular photo on black glass, a 19th century process turned towards 21st century subject matter. Taken by Eric Robinson as part of a project in which he made portraits of Leather families in San Francisco. July, 2010. For more on Eric, click here and here.

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Sights Seen at the San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Progressive Dinner

Posted on September 24, 2010 by | Leave a comment

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On the 11th of September, a few dozen Leathermen and some women participated in the San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance‘s annual progressive dinner. Starters were served at Mr. S Leather, soup and salad at The Powerhouse, main course at The SF Eagle and dessert at The Lone Star. The San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance is a coalition of twelve leather, fetish and motorcycle oriented clubs in the South-of-Market Area LBGT community.

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