Category Archives: SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More.

Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits (BAAITS) 2nd Annual Two Spirit Powwow!

Posted on January 19, 2013 by gayhighwaymen | Leave a comment

You’re invited: Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits (BAAITS) 2nd Annual Two Spirit Powwow!

This year’s event will take place Saturday, February 2nd in Oakland, starting at noon. For directions and more information, visit the BAAITS website.

Last year’s groundbreaking powwow attracted over 500 people, and made history as the first and only public Two Spirit Powwow in the world.

A Powwow is a public gathering with Native dancing and drums, seeing friends and family. It is a cultural event, large and crowded at times, yet intimate. It holds a place in the hearts of the Native community, and BAAITS offering up this Powwow in the name of Two Spirit peoples is truly an honoring. The overwhelming response of our allies honors and recognizes the work and important role of the Two Spirit community.

We welcome all Two Spirit people as well as allies. Come one, come all. All dancers and Drums are invited to join us. Special dance categories this year will include a Switch Dance (Women take on the male roles, and vice-versa) and a Duct Tape Special, in which the dance regalia is made of duct tape and found objects. There will be contests for dancers, fry bread and Indian tacos, crafts and gifts for sale, a raffle, and most of all – community!

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Posted in Activism, Food, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Indigenous cultures, Music, Northern California, Sexy Holidays, Spirituality, Subcultures

Tagged 1st Nation, Activism, American Indian, Art, BAAITS, Community, Culture, Dance, Drums, Food, Gay, LGBT, Oakland, Powwow, Queer, Switch Dance, Two Spirit

Wild! PETA Versus the Outlaw Bikers: new Cali Manga from JoJo Mendoco. NSFW!

Posted on December 29, 2012 by gayhighwaymen | 1 comment

This shocking tale was making the innerweb rounds as a true story. It’s not. It’s just a meme joke. Sometimes though it’s more important that a story be interesting than that it be strictly true. Such with this satirical drawing illustrating the invented scene – from JoJo Mendoco.

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Posted in Activism, Art and Artists, Comics, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Internet, JoJo Mendoco, Leather, Men, Signage, Subcultures

Tagged Bara, Bikers, Cartoon, Comics, Comix, Culture, Gai Comi, Gay, Manga, meme, PETA, Pop, Yaoi

Ho! Ho! Hold It Right There, Mr. Claus! Occupy Santa tossed in Austin Slammer for coloring with Kids at State Capitol…

Posted on December 24, 2012 by gayhighwaymen | Leave a comment

United Santa Assault in the USA! Peace. Harmony. Joy. Community. These were just a few of the horrifying threats scrawled by an Occupy movement Santa and some of his little helpers in sidewalk chalk at the State Capitol in Austin, Texas. More at the Free Keene site, New Hampshire’s on-line destination for liberty activism.

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Posted in Activism, Beards, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Military, Photography, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Strange Holidays, Strange News, Texas

Tagged Activism, Arrested, Austin, Occupy, OWS, Photography, police, Santa

What happens when you win the Rat Race…

Posted on December 20, 2012 by gayhighwaymen | Leave a comment

You win the rat race; you’re still a rat. But rats are after all successes of evolution. Cockroaches, too. Humans? An evolutionary blip. Hair today. Gone tamale. C’est la vie. C’est la Guerre. Tout le Monde manges pommes de terre. Sight seen at Stanford University. Thanks, A.

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Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Northern California, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.

Tagged politics, Public Art, Rat Race, Signage, Stanford

Happy Homoerotic Thanksgiving Day …1928!

Posted on November 22, 2012 by gayhighwaymen | 2 comments

These two staunch white guys look about ready to eat each other up. Looks like the pilgrim has already started to unwrap the football player. TV didn’t link the holiday to the sport after all. Something seems to be missing from this scenario, though. Where are the First Nation studs? Maybe planning a little dessert entertainment for these two…all in good, clean fun. Of course.

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Posted in Food, Football, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., History, Indigenous cultures, Men, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Sexy Holidays, Signage

Tagged 1928, Advertising, Art, Culture, First Nation, Football, Gay, History, Holiday, Homoerotic, Illustration, Pilgrim, Sexy, Thanksgiving

Street Art Haiku

Posted on September 23, 2012 by gayhighwaymen | Leave a comment

Aware sheep. Free air.
Hopland in Mendocino.
Stickers and harvest soon.

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Posted in Activism, ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., DIY and Maker Culture, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Mendocino County, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.

Tagged 420, Consumerism, Culture, Haiku, Mendocino County, Street Art

It Came from Outside…sneak preview!

Posted on September 14, 2012 by gayhighwaymen | Leave a comment

Preview shot of It Came from Outside! At Big Umbrella Studios in San Francisco. Good art, good cause, good grief! Curated by resident coy bad boy koi artist and queer street art historian Jeremy Novy.

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Posted in Activism, ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Art and Artists, Collecting, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Nishikigoi, Photography, San Francisco, Signage, Street Art, Grafitti, etc., Youth

Tagged Activism, Art, California, Collecting, Culture, etc., Gay, Gay Gaze, Graffiti, Grafitti, Homoerotic, iPhone photography, Photography, Queer, San Francisco, Sexy, Signage, Street Art

SF Eagle to Re-Open!?

Posted on August 29, 2012 by gayhighwaymen | 2 comments

It’s been over a year now, and the City of San Francisco has been without one of its iconic Leather bars, The SF Eagle. This site’s most popular post ever heralded its loss. In a city where real estate is at a premium, the expansive patio had for years provided a big outdoor space where Old Leather and New Gear, club brothers and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Queers of all spots and stripes and even friendly str8 hipsters and visiting moms could all relax, if not quite mix. For the last year, a group of die-hards has occupied other bars for monthly Eagle in Exile events. Now, it seems, the bar is set to re-open…under gay ownership. There has been a lot of weird back-room politics on this one, and there was a moment when it appeared that the place would be delivered to straights. And now?

The New SF Eagle states on their website:

“It will take a couple of months to do the much-needed repairs and upgrades that the property requires, but some upcoming events are already in the works prior to the opening of the bar. Please check this website periodically for new announcements coming soon.

The bar and patio located at 398 12th Street has long been a special place, not only to the LGBT community, but to the entire community for decades, not to mention the live music community as well. We just couldn’t let such a historic place like this disappear!

We will continue to host fundraisers for all the organizations from the past, as well as welcoming new ones to make the S.F. Eagle the pride of our community once again.

We look forward to seeing all of you very soon!”

Well…Cool! Looking forward to the re-opening with (guarded) optimism!

Eagle Poster by Uyvari, 1981. This poster, and lots of other hot, hard art will be on display at the Tough Love exhibit in San Francisco during the month of September. Cum out and see sum!

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Posted in Art and Artists, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., History, Leather, Men, Northern California, San Francisco, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Subcultures

Tagged Art, Culture, Eagle, Gay, Gay Bar, History, Leather, politics, Real Estate, San Francisco, Tavern, Uyvari

Other Blogs: The Gay Manifesto. “Survival is a Choice”

Posted on July 8, 2012 by gayhighwaymen | Leave a comment

An interesting counterpoint to the stereotype of the urban, liberal, out and proud gay, the author of The Gay Manifesto is rural, more libertarian than liberal and off the grid and proud. He describes himself: “I am a pissed off Gay American living off-grid in the mountains of Southern Colorado. I built my own cabin, grow most of my own food, generate my own power and brew my own beer…”