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Re: Occupy Wall Street
Tomorrow's Schedule: October 15th International Day of Action Occupy Wall Street's October 15th - Day of Actions have actions targeting banks throughout the day around specific themes: jobs, education, housing, environment, and war. It will culminate with a mass convergence at Times Square, 5pm. Thousands will be participating throughout the day. Don't miss Occupy Wall Street's biggest day! Complete Schedule for NYC 11AM - March on the Banks ... From Liberty Square to Chase We will then...
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Re: Occupy Wall Street
Join the OWS Maid Brigade for more anti-capitalist street theater! As corporate powers externalize their costs, ordinary people are forced to clean up the mess. From oil spills to bank bailouts, corporate money-making schemes have us working as round-the-clock maids picking up after criminal profiteers… NO MORE NICE On MAY DAY , we will take the streets in classic maid costumes—modified however we see fit—and spread the message that we are sick of cleaning up after capitalism and corporate...
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Re: Hurricane Irene on the Motherboards NYC
Seems the wind action here on the Westside was minimal; I have seen many pics of broken trees in the EV and Tompkins Square Park. Now the issue of flooding and tidal surges remains for this neighborhood. I look out the window and see joggers. Nothing will stop them, apparently. I can also see about 3 feet of water on (the now closed?) Don Hill's roof. Not good. Somebody should have cleaned out those drains! In this area the sea wall by the river is new and sturdy. Down at BPC and over in the...
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Re: Your favorite Jackie theme?
That was you??? I remember that show, it was genius! "Black like Jackie" was good as was "Fidler In The Hood" but I think we really perfected Blackness in '99 with "Uncle Charlie's Cabin". Truly one of my faves. It was so over the top! It's really hard to shock people today, especially at one of our events but... black total top masters and their white pussy boy slaves in cages and all set in the pre-civil war South had people's jaws on the floor! I remember black stud Joseph all dressed...
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Re: Sex With Taxi Drivers part 2
Everyone-Unable to fit my entire body through the partition, I simply crammed my goodyear tire and rubber grade A titties and booty through the chain slot and let the man pleasure himself. Dresscode -keep up the good work. I cannot tell you how many times various cab drivers have begged to know your whereabouts salivating at the thought of the hottest piece of action on this planet. Daddy-if you get tired of genetic women would you consider taking up with the oldest transvestite in the...
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Re: Mondo Internet
Daddy, you never fail to impress me. That's astounding kismet...Oh, the circles in which you travel. And yeah, now I'm very sad. Poor little Gary Coleman, it's really heartbreaking to hear that he was asked to leave. Where is the love? Where, by God, is the love? Well, maybe it is found here, but I dare not tempt fate, I'm enough of a pervert as it is... CLICK ME for HOTT SEXXX ACTION with GARY COLEMAN [This message was edited by Minerva on 11-16-01 at 02:26 AM.]
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Re: Miss Understood's Hi from Thailand
I'm writing to you from the fancy bathhouse. It's one of those places you could never leave. But I will. I'm not THAT pervy. I am being a little more pervy this year though. At home I would be wayyy too self concious to walk around in a towel. I hope Chelsea culture stays away from here forever! They do have some reverse body image issues here. They'll have perfect flat abs and then think they're too skinny! You know here, the country not just the bathhouse, they would never think of making...
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Re: Rice Queens - The Anne Rice topic
When you really begin to delve into the Mayfair Witches books, you may also become obsessed by the Talamasca, the secret society of vampire/witch protectors and researchers that permates the books, and eventually spills over into the later Vamp Chronicles as well. Their motto: Investigators of the Paranormal We watch And are always here. There are certain similarities between the Talamasca and our extended tribes- From a Talamasca site I have heard that Anne plans to do a whole book on the...
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
---Or, Daddy-D. & Hatches, "We tell ourselves stories to keep ourselves alive," says Joan Didion, as quoted in an intro to a "quasi-fiction" American queer "best of" anthology featuring the work of David Wojnarowicz ... by Brian Bouldrey ---Goblin, for thee I have done mass research and have compiled a "DW" file of information for this topic some 40 pages in length ... It is too much for any one person to take in one night. So I will be adding links to names and places throughout this...
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Re: David Wojnarowicz - Artist
Daddy-D: I promise not to dreg up emotions too often. And someday, you and Chi Chi will have to let me write a bit about your early exploits. This is something I look forward to. You know, one of the first conversations I had with Rose, maybe about four years ago, was about whether or not I could come in to Mother early one night just to interview her. She seemed to me to have stories untold of amazing interest (however since there was no place to publish such tales) I did not pursue the...
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Re: The Club Creatures - Zazoo & Satori
but my brother jay-jay and i have a gig.....we are the hilton sisters for halloween. and i will be doing a instalation for the club WHITE STAR. and performing with my bro and judging a costume contest...but back too my buddies zazoo and satori this is an art forum .....and you should see what they can do with a tupper wear bowl and action figures. It all good... i love their looks.... we go shoping sometimes when the are in chicago and we make fun of each other and what outfits we can make...
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Re: GG barnum room
one would enter through the long skinny bar all lined up with the beautiful girls and their long legs checking out the new action coming in the door. So exciting! Never were the ladies at a t-bar so alluring. Then to the disco back room and then turn the corner to the main trapeze disco. it was the site of the original, and new wave remake of the Peppermint Lounge. There was always something ready willing and able to happen.
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Re: ARCADIA! Opening Night Gala May 30 at CBGB Gallery
On the top of my thank-you list are the names Jade, Mia and Derrick "” who put up with me week after week, let me be bossy on occassion, but always kept the momentum going, especially during those few dark hours when I found myself pulling my hair out! Chi Chi, thank-you so much for putting your confidence in me, when we started, you probably thought I could do anything, and (while I'm not saying that's not true) I know I may have shocked you with just what minor setbacks proved to show what...
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Re: 57 Varieties ( Club 57 Remembered)
Bill Landis (Sleazoid Express) befriended Ondine and somehow convinced him to star in an original play called Ondine is Burr - the Life of a Muffin Queen. It was all about Raymond Burr's shit eating fetish. The script was unbelievably awful,but Ondine made the most of it and hammed it up to the hilt. All of the action took place on the Ironsides set, so Ondine sat in a wheelchair barking out lines like, "Marcus! Manservant, come and attend me! I require your services immediately for I am a...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
"This page fully supports the right of gay men and lesbians to marry, and we believe that in time they will have this right across the nation. But we also see a practical value in how the issue is currently unfolding. Louis Brandeis, the great Supreme Court justice, said he believed that the states should serve as social laboratories for the nation. Massachusetts and California "” and Vermont, before them, with its civil unions law "” are fulfilling that role right now. They have already...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
This in The Daily News from our buddy in the State Assembly. By LAWRENCE C. MOSS Acting to further the equal protection and nondiscrimination provisions of the California Constitution, San Francisco officials went beyond the "man and a woman" definition of marriage in state law last week by issuing licenses to same-sex couples. On the same day, the New York City clerk disregarded not only constitutional principles, but also existing state statutes by refusing marriage licenses to same-sex...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
The situation outside San Francisco's City Hall escalates as gay marriage opponents begin passionate protests. San Francisco (which is both a city and a county) has now stepped up the battle with a lawsuit of its own against California state. What's fierce to me in all of this is how many of the local and even state officials, most of them heterosexual, are in favor of Mayor Newsom's decision. Even if all these gay marriages happening now are later invalidated, this historic event has begun...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
I just found this article. It has tomorrow's date on it but whatever. Take that, Mrs. Bush!
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
Courtesy of editorials.com: "In response to Governor Schwarzenegger's directive to him that he take immediate action to stop the San Francisco Mayor's issuing of marriage licenses in violation of state law, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer stated the following: "The governor can direct the Highway Patrol. He can direct the next 'Terminator 4' movie if he chooses. But he can't direct the attorney general in the way he's attempted to do."
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
A despicable election year trick, intended to drive a wedge between the queer community and our hetero neighbors. While depressing, this article is highly informative and I love the quoted reactions from DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe, the ACLU and others. And though the Democratic presidential candidates are not THAT much better, at least they are against a constitutional amendment and Kerry can boast that he voted against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
This disturbed girl repeatedly slams the very same gay activists who fight for her human rights, excoriating "lunatic AIDS activism" and the "neo-Stalinists who run San Francisco" while decrying gays for making sex "central to the culture", as if her own bareback internet activities don't point to the same thing. Her attacks on AIDS researchers who dared to release studies about the rise in unsafe sex and HIV infection rates among gay men (after she declared the AIDS epidemic "over" as a...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
And the battle comes at last to our soil. I've always liked politicians like Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein and Barney Frank, but they've been in office for years and we've seen little action. Now they look like tired old buffalos next to the handful of mavericks like Mayor Newsome, Mayor Daley and New Paltz, New York's mayor, Jason West, who boldly go where no one has gone before. Rock on!
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
Nicholas D. Kristof does it again: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/03/opinion/03KRIS.html?th "Long before President Bush's call for a 'constitutional amendment protecting marriage,' Representative Seaborn Roddenberry of Georgia proposed an amendment that he said would uphold the sanctity of marriage. "Mr. Roddenberry's proposed amendment, in December 1912, stated, 'Intermarriage between Negroes or persons of color and Caucasians . . . is forever prohibited.' He took this action, he said,...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
The gay marriage tide gets higher and continues gaining momentum across the nation ... will it soon be a tidal wave? Now Oregon's Multnomah County got into the action and started issuing same sex marriage licenses today. Here in our state, Mayor John Shields of Nyack says he will not only marry same sex couples but will seek a license for himself and his partner! Ithaca Mayor Carolyn Peterson has laid out a municipal strategy to provoke a court ruling on the state law and has pledged legal...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
...here in NYC there will be a demo tomorrow at City Hall. I received this via email today: ----- The time is now! President Bush has endorsed a Constitutional Amendment that would make discrimination against LGBT people the law of the land. The time is now! Thousands of same-sex couples are already getting married across the country. What are you waiting for? An engraved invitation? Join the MASSIVE DEMONSTRATION Tomorrow, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 8:00 AM at CITY HALL Corner of Centre and...
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Re: Puritan Watch
LEASH GAL You have to grant that The Post comes up with the sickest slogans. Leash Gal for a brief shining moment was Top Domme at the Iraqi Torture Chambers; now she's chopped liver. I'm been muttering "LEASH GAL!" all evening. I'm half-expecting that phone call requesting "Leash Gal...? I'm into heavy humiliation!" That quote was my favorite - "Not what you'd expect from Americans... lots of sexual stuff." Elementary my dear Senator: A homely little chick finally gets as much action as she...
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Re: Puritan Watch
I would love not to know any of this is happening. It would make me feel less cynical about humanity. But the media being what it is, and video-cameras being joyfully used to film criminal activity, I think we have no choice but to recognize atrocities are an everyday occurence. And perhaps with the looking, we have a responsibility to look at ALL of it and cry out against it. The ring-leader of the sex-games was a guy, but it seems a big part of the "shock and awe" of this incident is the...
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Re: My Night of 1000 Stevies 14 review
Oh Jenny, Jenny, Jenny, Nightclubs... (that's where you were sweetie, in a nightclub) open say at 9 or 10 PM. They close at about 4 or 5 AM. Most of the hot action happens aound midnight. The REALLY hot action happens after 1 or 2. The REALLY REALY HOT action happens about 5 or 6 AM. After that its MANHUNT . You may have been born in New York but you obviously have been hanging out in Danbury too long. Next time go with Messy Bonnie Raitt and leave Mom at home. She'll show you a good time.
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Re: Provincetown
Well it's been awhile but this is as good a time as any to give you the latest from PPtown. Well the place was packed with gay brides and grooms and more press people than you'd find at a Michael Jackson court date. There are living for it here. 124 couples filed for marriage licenses here on Monday followed by 124 weddings throughout the week. All kinds of queers are here to participate and celebrate this piece of history. It really has a true feeling of solidarity and community more than I...
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Re: Swept Away part 2
Suprised that this isn't in mainstream media.. but I guess ET wouldn't get to talk to her on tour if they did do a feature on it! Urgh the media!! MAY 24--On the eve of Madonna's launch of her "shocking" new tour, the singer has quietly settled a federal lawsuit that accused her of ripping off the work of an acclaimed photographer. Details of the financial settlement are confidential and Madonna acknowledged no wrongdoing in her liberal appropriation of the images of the late French...
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Re: RIP, VIP - Chapter 2 (3/5/04++)
In his personal life legend has it that Brando was a complete sexual freak who tried everything, including man-on-man action. Somewhere I used to have an infamous photo from the 50s, supposedly of him, in profile sucking a big dick. When I saw it I was convinced. If it wasn't him it was an exact replica-clone. (one can dream, right?) "A Streetcar Named Desire" is one of my favorite films. But you MUST see Brando in John Huston's 60s cult classic "Reflections in a Golden Eye" in which he...
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Re: Oh, no, here come The Republicans!
Gorgeous! My fave term this weekend: Mouse Bloc: "If one mouse can scare an elephant, what can thousands do?" Referring specifically to an illegal action planned for the Disney-fied Theatre District later on Sunday...
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Re: Oh, no, here come The Republicans!
Here I reprint part of an email from Linda describing the drag action at the media protest on Wednesday: ----- From: Linda Simpson Subject: DQs vs RNC Date: September 2, 2004 10:15:24 AM EDT Hi Hattie: ...We joined a protest in front of CNN and Fox News and then proceeded through Times Square and as close to Madison Square Garden as we could get, carrying signs that said "Sex Change for Regime Change"; "The Republican Potty Stinks"; and "Bush is a Drag." I must say we caused a sensation. The...
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Re: Puritan Watch
This is a long two page article from the NYTIMES but it is spot on target regarding some aspects of the mass delusion being incubated by the Little Bush Idiocracy. And it took some backbone for Rich to write it. Curious as hell though that the Times put it in the Arts section and perhaps it is a little delusionally symptomatic that an article about censorship in the news is written about for a cultural context. The main point though, that the political administration in power proclaims that...
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Re: ACT UP
In terms of actual meetings, it's still sort of around, but really just a few stragglers. But you know so many early ACT UPers gave birth to or branched out into other AIDS organizatins (Housing Works, GMHC, TAG, etc.)And a lot of us have continued the work. Not to mention that it changed our thinking (mine at least) about community responsibility, the efficacy of direct action as a really viable means of political change, oh, and HIV and AIDS, of course. --For me that was the beginning of...
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Re: ACT UP
Has everyone forgotten the naked action and other demos at the RNC? ACT-UP is still very much with us!
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Re: SEX in Jackie 60
Thank goodness the sex didn't happen AT Jackie, but one of my ALL TIME hottest experiences was with an arab I met at Jackie who was some sort of secret service to an arab princess and he took me to The Waldorf where the entourage had I believe an entire floor. The poor princess had cancer or something and they were all in town trying to get her medical care. GORGEOUS Arab secret service man was giving me some of the BEST secret service I have EVER had while 2 of his cronies sat quietly at a...
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Re: ACT UP
False disappearance. A media phenomenon. As if when the media turns its spotlight somewhere else then you do not actually exist anymore. It raises the interesting question of whether a direct action requires the media attention to be effective at all. The media never could put its spotlight on all the FAX barrages ACTUP orchestrated, but did that prevent those actions from being highly efffective? No. Take a lesson, would-be militants. Those who are still operating as ACTUP, and those who...
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Re: ACT UP
Hmmm... I think I was misunderstood. ACT UP meetings on Mondays used to draw 200 or more. Now the actual "meetings" of the "official ACT UP" are small. That's all I meant in response to the question. But, yes, soooo many ACT UPers have gone to continue the work, most often with other groups, including direct action. Many were at the screening of the ACT UP oral history project last night. (It was like a "reunion!") --Check out the interviews on the website, and you'll see just how many could...
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Re: ACT UP
Yes, I definitely see your point about the media grabbing onto disparaging sensationalism (& maybe accidentally getting some good information out in the process). And I see all the good points above about media erasure of ACT UP and other direct action. But, oh dear, a good (gay) friend of mine (not that young, even, 31) just asked me to "remind" him, "what was ACT UP again?" He asked me if it was a 12-step group. --Compare that to this direct quote from Larry Kramer in his ACT UP oral...
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Re: ACT UP
I'm very grateful to have this forum to air my concerns and get feedback! (Thank you Johnny and Chi Chi). As for "ACT UP being past and erased" maybe it's something as simple as not *enough* time has gone by (so it isn't "officially recorded" yet, etc.) There were some academics at the Oral History screening, and one said transcripts from the ACT UP film are going into a new history book. Because really, the ACT UP hey day was *not* a "generation" ago. It's only been a few years! --Maybe...
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Re: Rice Queens - The Anne Rice topic
At the urging of my boyfriend, Chi Chi and numerous others, I've finally started reading Ms. Rice's magnum opus, THE WITCHING HOUR. I've never read any of her witch-related books, only the vampire ones. In my own (unfinished) novel, I stand behind my recent decision to leave out a large backstory section on my principle character. All that backstory was self-indulgent, it slowed the action and my manuscript is now much better as a result of cutting the fat. Besides, it's the mark of superior...
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Re: Rice Queens - The Anne Rice topic
THE WITCHING HOUR ended up consumming a large part of my summer reading. Having finally met Lasher, he turned out to be a footnote to the whole action at the end and ultimately took a backseat to the great dynasty of witches themselves, the Mayfairs, a family I wish I'd been born into! I loved, loved, LOVED the Talamasca file on the family tree, the personalities like Julien, Mary Beth, Katherine, Marguerite, Stella, Antha, Diedre, Cortland, etc and the luxurious evil that unfolds like the...
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Re: Air Travel is shite these days.....
That's one little thing I like about BA. I can get JD's for free because most their clientele will order something like Cutty Sark for a whiskey. When I ask for JD, often times I'm given a double dose. In the old days you could also smoke on the plane. These days going to the airport, I just have to laugh it off most the time. You have to have all your wits about you, know exactly what to say to get action out of all the different levels of personnel, at the same time try to be inconspicuous...
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Re: Goin' To The Chapel: The Lesbian, Gay & T/S Marriage Topic
Here's some good news amidst all of the bad lately: Calif. lawmakers pass gay marriage bill Action is first by a U.S. legislative body; bill goes to Schwarzenegger's desk Shelly Bailes, left, and her partner of 31 years, Ellen Pontac, celebrate after the California Assembly passed a same-sex marriage bill on Tuesday. Updated: 7:17 a.m. ET Sept. 7, 2005 SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gay rights supporters cheered loudly from the gallery as California lawmakers became the first in the country to approve...