Tag Archives: Culture
A Global, Legitimate and very Sexy Threat: BIG Revolutionary Slide Show!
The International Business Times has called the Occupy Movement “global in nature” and a “legitimate threat.” It is that. It is also a feast of photography, and the first world-wide movement supported by the new communication technologies that fueled the Arab Spring. Gil Scott Heron was right. The revolution will not be televised. But…it will be tweeted. Photos from Amsterdam, Belgrade, Berlin, Denver, Durban, Hong Kong, London, New York, Rome, Taipei, Tokyo, San Francisco, Santiago, Sydney and Vancouver.
Theft at the Eureka Valley Branch of San Francisco Library: Harvey Milk Plaque stolen!
According to The Bay Area Reporter and other news sources, a plaque of the late gay political icon has been lifted from its home in front of the Eureka Valley branch of the San Francisco Public Library. Photographer Daniel Nicoletta, who came up as a youth working in Harvey’s Castro Camera store and on his campaigns, suspects a motive beyond mere profit. He told the B.A.R. “It definitely stinks of a political message to me. It’s not just some random vandalism by people hanging out in that plaza.”
Happiest Place to find Hung Unicorns in San Francisco…
Founded in 1974 by Harvey Milk, the Castro Street Fair is always on the first Sunday in October. Music, art, food, men, hung unicorns…all good, all happening all day in San Francisco’s Castro District. Party in the village! More here.
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Comics, San Francisco, Sexy Holidays, Signage, Subcultures
Tagged Castro Street Fair, Comics, Culture, San Francisco, Sexy, Signage, Unicorn Penis
Men of the Stacks! The 2012 Hot Librarians Calendar is Out!
Hot slim word nerds in glasses, brainy bears, bubbling bibliophiles, old-school Dewey decimal dads, and more. Who? What? What?!
They say: “We are educators, programmers, project managers, entrepreneurs, program coordinators, contractors, consultants, and speakers. We are academics. We are authors, diversity officers, historians, administrators, deans, professors, and researchers. We are creatives. We are musicians, bakers, painters, and storytellers. We are athletes, yogis, gym-rats, runners, and hikers. We are passionate. We are dog-lovers, radicals, conservatives, Christians, and Buddhists. We are in our twenties. We are in our forties. We are in relationships. We are perpetual bachelors. We are privileged beings who try to use their advantages to better the lives of others.
Who are we? We are The Men of the Stacks” Get the calendar here.
Posted in Activism, Photography, Scholarship, Subcultures
Tagged 2012, Art, Calendar, Culture, Gay, Male Librarian, Men of the Stacks, Photography, Sexy
Leather Week in SF ends…all quiet in the Village
Via friend of this site SMG. The Leather flag replaces Gilbert Baker’s Rainbow flag that normally flies above the Castro District.
Posted in Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy Holidays, Strange Holidays, Subcultures
Tagged Castro District, Culture, Flag, Gay, Leather, SanFrancisco
Sex to die for…Iran hangs three men for sodomy.
AFP/File, Behrouz Mehri
“Six men were executed by hanging in a prison just outside the city of Ahvaz early Sunday morning. Two were convicted rapists, one a drug trafficker, and the last three were found guilty of committing ‘forbidden acts against religion.’ Under Articles 108 and 110 of the Iranian Islamic Penal Code, the punishment for ‘Hadd’ or as the west calls it, sodomy, is death.”
via Queer Landia. For a list of the six countries which punish male homosexuality with the death penalty, click here. For the rest of the Queer Landia article, here.
Posted in Crime, History, Human Rights, Iran, Obituary, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Strange News, Subcultures
Tagged Article 108, Culture, Death Penalty, Gay, Hadd, Hanging, History, Iran, Islam, Lavat, Religion, Sodomy
Hector Silva in the Advocate Artist Spotlight
Image: Hector Silva
Friend of this site Hector Silva has a nice write-up in The Advocate’s Artist Spotlight series. His realistically rendered drawings range from simple portraiture to explicitly kinky, very hot erotica. For the Christopher Harrity article click here, and for our dinner with Hector, click here.
Posted in Hector Silva, Leather, Los Angeles, Southern California, Subcultures
Tagged Advocate, Art, Culture, Gay, Golden Shower, Hector Silva, Hispanic Art, Kink, Leather, Masculine, Piss Play, Sexy, Yellow Hanky
Dog Dandy Number One
From the bar at the historic Benbow Inn in California’s Humboldt County. For Dog Dandy Number Two, click here.
Posted in Dogs, Human Animals, iPhone, Northern California
Tagged Art, Culture, Dog, Humboldt County, painting, Portrait
black pony slave speaks! Mr ACL 2010 Marc Owens on race play. Gay Highwaymen interview…
pony and pal, Big Gay Al, at SmokeOut, Las Vegas 2011
…in which the Gay Highwaymen interview Marc “pony” Owens about race play. Owens is a well-known and respected player in Northern California. He is the outgoing Mr. Alameda County Leather, and active in the Golden Gate Guards and The 15 Association. Controversial even in hardcore Leather and Kink circles, race play brings up strong emotions in both those who practice it and those who criticize it. Owens plays that way…and speaks for himself.
G.H.: What is the appeal of race play for you?
M.p.O.: It brings out the submissive in me. White dominance over blacks: it’s almost the final frontier in tabu play.
G.H.: How did you get into it?
M.p.O.: Very slowly. I always had fantasies of it. It was either 1999 or 2000 when I met my Daddies in Berkeley while cruising online and we chatted about it through instant messenger. It was so hot I finally summoned the courage to meet with one of them and explore it. It was mind blowing!
G.H.: How does race play relate, and what are the differences and similarities, to racism and historical slavery?
M.p.O.: Well regarding racism and historical slavery…The similarity is the power exchange element of it. As a black submissive you are giving Whites power over you. Most submissives like being degraded and made to feel less than human next to their Dom. I’m just using historical slavery and racism to get to the extreme level of my kind of hardcore BDSM.
G.H.: How does it relate to Verbal Abuse, Humiliation, Degradation and Trash Talk?
Many submissives like being called “Bitch” “Whore” and other degrading names. Because the power in those words hits a chord with them and turns them on. To be called Coon, Monkey or the “N” word hits a chord with me and turns me on. To be humiliated and degraded because I’m black adds to and feeds my sexual desire. In race play the similarities are the same as any other type of S&M play it’s just the difference is I’m a black person in a mostly White dominated field of BDSM and that kind of puts me in that unique position to use race play to turn my TOP on and myself. The energy is amazing when you have two people who are really into it.
G.H.: And how does it relate to the Dom/sub dynamic?
M.p.O.: Since those types of relationships are based on the Top’s beliefs that the sub is not equal to them, that goes along with the White knowing he is superior to the black. It sweetens the pot in the relationship. Blacks who want to be submissive to Whites truly want to feel they are inferior to them. That puts them in the submissive headspace they need to be in.
Part II here. Part III coming soon…Comments are welcome.
Posted in History, Human Animals, Leather, Northern California, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Subcultures
Tagged 15 Association, BDSM, Black Men, Culture, Gay, Golden Gate Guards, History, Interview, Kink, Leather, Marc Owens, Mr ACL, pony, Race Play, Racism, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Slave
The Gay Highwaymen 