Scouts, Sisters, and Hotties at the Castro Street Fair 2008
Filed under: comedy and humor, fables of fabulous faggotry, friendship, health and wellness, men's health
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Here are four of my pix from the 2008 Castro Street Fair. I hope you enjoy them as much as we all did the fair and each other’s fun!
Thanks to Daniel Javier, Rodney, Matthew and Matthew, Sister Mary Timothy, JD, Steve, Ed, Geoff, and all of the friends and family who celebrated.
Soldiers and Seamen and Leathermen and Hot Boys at Folsom Street Fair 2008
Filed under: art, fables of fabulous faggotry, friendship, gay culture, health and wellness, men's health, spirituality
Annually, San Francisco’s gay leather community and friends throw the world’s largest street fair dedicated to leather, sex and erotic fetishes, and classic fantasies: the legendary Folsom Street Fair, which turned 25 this year. I usually go and stay for as long as I can tolerate the mass of the crowds, which can get up to a few hundred thousand, and which covers 13 city blocks in the South of Market area, also known as SoMa. Although much of the event is meant to be provocative, I like going to see the creations people wear and celebrate with friends…then there are all of the sexy, hot men to see!
John Burnside, co-founder of the Radical Faeries, has died
Filed under: activism, gay culture, gratitude, men's health, spirituality
John Burnside, partner of the late Harry Hay, and co-founder of the Radical Faeries, died on Sunday, 14 September 2008, at the age of 91, in San Francisco. Along with Harry, John was cared for by a Circle of Loving Companions until his death, never missing a Saturday Radical Faerie coffee at the Charles Holmes Campus of the San Francisco LGBT Center. There is a shrine to John in the Castro at 18th and Castro Streets. Below are a few images taken from that altar of honoring and remembrance.
A Tighty Whitie Carwash and a Rocketdog Rescue Fundraiser at Cafe Flore
Filed under: comedy and humor, fables of fabulous faggotry, men's health
Gay Men’s Culture, Missing Generations, and the Hunt for Love
Filed under: activism, gay culture, health and wellness, men's health, spirituality
I infrequently find myself on Out.com, but found a dynamite article there, Has Manhunt Destroyed Gay Culture? Thanks to my friend, Mikey, for bringing it to my attention.
Gross, the author, has done an exceptional job of covering gay male culture’s move from meeting each other in our bars to meeting each other online, at personals sites and elsewhere. He makes some very strong points and declares that gay men were actually building a viable culture when AIDS appeared, but that we have now become more isolated from each other as a result of our technologically-enmeshed lives. I think Gross is spot-on with his observations, with a caveat at the end of this entry.
Six Feet of Sexy Green Eyes at The Eagle Tavern
Filed under: comedy and humor, fables of fabulous faggotry, friendship, gay culture
There he was, a friend of Garrett’s, in from Texas. Out with friends, I met him at a wicked beer bust at The Eagle Tavern, San Francisco’s legendary gay biker-leather-jeans bar, which is rockin’ and rollin’ with fun and festive goings-on every Sunday afternoon.
First thing I noticed, after the green eyes, was a most charming smile, then a hot chest. After I dropped down from my bench-perch to grab another scotch, I looked up to 6 feet of male hotness and testosterone. Cheeky bastard, too - devilish and playful.
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