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- Married at last! Gay pair make it official on 30th anniversary…
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- Gay Activism and Iran: Do Western Activists Do More Harm Than Good? (Link to article by Scott Long)
- Emigrant: The Other White Meat?
- Obama Loves Queers! (Except Not)
- Hot (the bad kind) in the Mission
- HuffPost Gay Voices: Liberian Anti-Gay Group Issues Hit List, Governments Do Nothing
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Category Archives: San Francisco
Pitchers and Catchers and Homers, Oh My! 2010 San Francisco Sexy Giants win World Series…!
Yes…they nailed it! Sexy Giants win the World Series! Not an ugly one in the bunch…and a wider range of looks and more hair, facial and otherwise, than most teams. Renteria hit a 3-run homer in the 7th. Wilson throws winning pitch! 3-1 Final Score. Go, Giants! 2010 World Series Champions! Absolutely beautiful!
Posted in Baseball, San Francisco
Tagged Brian Wilson, Edgar Renteria, Giants, San Francisco, Sexy, Tim Lincecum, World Series
London Riddled with Puzzling Enigmas! …and other San Francisco Street Sites Seen
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.
Sights Seen at Folsom Street Fair
Beautiful weather for this year’s Folsom Street Fair brought out the bare skin and the bear skins, the otter skins and plenty of marked up, cut, whipped, scarred and inked skins of every color. The sun shone on all. It was a good year for garden parties, with Donna Sachet‘s Castro district annual and Mike McNamee’s patio BBQ at Stomper’s Boots bookending Rob Ford’s birthday at the Howard Langton Community Garden. A fine Folsom all around.
Posted in Leather, Northern California, San Francisco
Tagged BDSM, Donna Sachet, Folsom Street Fair, Homo Genii, Jok Church, Kink, Leathersex, San Francisco, Stomper's Boots
Three Generations of Leather: Wet Plate Ambrotype Photo by Eric Robinson
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.
Posted in Art and Artists, Eric Robinson, Leather, Photography, San Francisco
Tagged Ambrotype, Eric Robinson, Generations, Leather, Leather Family, Leather Week, Wet Plate
Sights Seen at the San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Progressive Dinner
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.
Posted in Leather, Northern California, San Francisco, Signage
Tagged Leather, Mr.S, progressive dinner, SF Eagle, SFBALA, SOMA, South of Market, The 15, The Lone Star, The Powerhouse
Leather Week at SF’s Castro Magnet features Jok Church MENdalas
Magnet, the men’s health clinic slash community center slash art gallery in the Castro, is featuring an exhibit of digital prints on stretched canvases by the quirky, multi-talented Jok Church. A long-time gay activist, Church is also a Leatherman, a cartoonist and the creator of the children’s TV science series Beakman’s World. His web design includes the sites for the French artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude and for the local watercolorist Richard Bolingbroke.
Church calls these highly-manipulated photographs MENdalas, a take-off on the meditative mandalas of Hindu and Buddhist iconography. The show opened with a splashy reception that drew such luminaries as Donna Sachet, the first lady in red of San Francisco drag, and Mark Leno, State senator for district 3, which includes the city and county of San Francisco and Marin and Sonoma counties. Church is donating 100% of sales to Magnet and to the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy. Sales were brisk at the opening, with more than half the work sold by evening’s end. Sister Dana Van Iquity, SOPI, wrote a review for the San Francisco Bay Times. The show continues at Magnet, located at 4122 18th Street at Castro, through the end of September.
Not So Still Life. Richard Bolingbroke at Hayward’s Sun Gallery.
San Francisco watercolorist and printmaker Richard Bolingbroke has a solo exhibit called Not So Still Life at the Hayward Center for the Arts’ Sun Gallery. It opened Friday with a reception and artist’s talk.
Sun Gallery is Hayward’s longest standing non-profits arts organization, with a mission to “enrich the cultural life of our community and promote art as the universal language between cultures, income levels and ages.”
Earlier this year, Bolingbroke produced a short-run volume of his long-term project Rituals and Meditations. More on that and information on how to order it or view it online is available here.
King Tut seen riding purple sparkly Girl’s Bike in San Francisco!
Curiouser and curiouser…but purple is the color of Royalty after all.
Crude Crude Summer and More – San Francisco Street Art Seen
Another batch of stickers, stencils, wheat pasted posters and other street-level aesthetic, political and personal statements from the most radically democratic of exhibition venues – the City street. These are from San Francisco. [photoevents: August 2010.]
Posted in San Francisco, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Tagged BP, Crude Summer, San Francisco, Street Art, Grafitti, etc.
Dunn on the Farm: “God Bless All Marriages” – A Report from the Stanford Daily.
Aidan Dunn celebrates Judge Vaughn Walker's decision to overturn Proposition 8 yesterday.
The Stanford Daily, which has been breaking news from the Farm since 1892, reports on yesterday’s ruling by federal judge Vaughn Walker that found California’s Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriages unconstitutional. Daily reporters interviewed Stanford religious studies student Aidan Dunn, class of 2011.
“Today is a great day,” Dunn said. “For me personally, it means that someday I might be able to marry the person that I love. What I hope it means for the community is that we start fighting for more queer and social justice issues.” For the rest of the story, visit the Stanford Daily online. [Photo courtesy Aidan Dunn]
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