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In cased you missed the live taping of our podcast from Steamworks, Chicago photographer Jason Smith put together this high definition assortment of clips from the event.
The video imagery is luscious, and it’s always a great whenever we can incorporate George Takei into the video.
In cased you missed the live taping of our podcast from Steamworks, Chicago photographer Jason Smith put together this high definition assortment of clips from the event.
The video imagery is luscious, and it’s always a great whenever we can incorporate George Takei into the video.
Yeehaw! We’ve been having a grand time meeting lots of great people and making some really great connections at the South by Southwest Media Conference (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. As part of the conference...
Fausto Fernós (right) with Mashable's Pete Cashmore, named by INQ Mobile in 2009 as the world's most influential twitter user.
Yeehaw! We’ve been having a grand time meeting lots of great people and making some really great connections at the South by Southwest Media Conference (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. As part of the conference Fausto Fernós moderated and spoke at “Engaging the Queer Community,” a panel dealing with the issues that come up for LGBT bloggers and content creators (like podcasts and video blogging.)
Obviously, we only scratched the service in the hour long session, but the response was overwhelming. As the first ever queer panel of its kind for the 23 year old conference, it was a long time coming.
According to the organizers of the conference, the only reason a session or panel on LGBT online issues hadn’t been done before is because it never was submitted by anyone. So props out to Trish Bendix from After Ellen who had the idea, got all the panelists together and pushed for it to happen!
Being a part of this landmark session is important for the health of Feast of Fun as it introduces us to new partners, listeners and readers, but also because it allows us to share our expertise with others for increased visibility for gay people in not only at tech conferences, but on the internet at large.
We’ve lined up interviews with some of the hottest talent SXSW and Austin have to offer-
• Heather Gold-comedian, speaker, and solo performer.
We also want to give a big thanks to Orbitz for helping with our travel costs in getting us to Austin.
Orbitz has a new program that if you select two LGBT or HIV/AIDS charities when you book through them, they’ll donate to that organization. It’s a win-win when you book your next trip.
Local residents of Truckee, CA, got a bit more than they bargained for when they allowed an MTV film crew to erect an eight-foot tall ice sculpture in the shape of a penis. Town officials...
Local residents of Truckee, CA, got a bit more than they bargained for when they allowed an MTV film crew to erect an eight-foot tall ice sculpture in the shape of a penis. Town officials who issued the permits said that they were told tricked by producers of a new MTV show called “The Dudesons,” who claimed that they wouldn’t be doing anything distasteful.
Naturally, the townsfolk were dismayed when show members arrived in fur and began frolicking in the “white fluid” that began spewing out of the sculpture. Although I appreciate a good cock now and then, this probably wasn’t the best way to go about this stunt… but at least I have an idea of what to do for my next Christmas party.
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Aiden James (On the Run) Video Hits MTV, LOGO & Vh1
Scruffy Songster: AIDEN JAMES’ Official Music Video “ON THE RUN” hits MTVmusic.com, Vh1.com and LOGO NewNowNext PopLab along side Mariah and Lady Gaga.. have you see it? Â www.aidenjamesmusic.com
Scruffy Songster: AIDEN JAMES’ Official Music Video “ON THE RUN” hits MTVmusic.com, Vh1.com and LOGO NewNowNext PopLab along side Mariah and Lady Gaga.. have you see it? Â www.aidenjamesmusic.com
This is a German game show. The girl is able to identify Star Wars Lego characters with her mouth. The host is dressed like The Doctor Who of the old time series and the girl...
This is a German game show. The girl is able to identify Star Wars Lego characters with her mouth. The host is dressed like The Doctor Who of the old time series and the girl is sitting in a Star Trek / Captain Kirk chair.
The Germans and the Japanese… you can’t beat them for Game Shows.
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FOF #1158 – Butching It up with Sinclair Sexsmith – 03.14.10
For gay, lesbian, bi and trans folks blogging is an exciting way to discover their sexier side by reflecting on their experiences with others.
Today we continue our series of interviews with well known bloggers. Kinky writer, queer butch top, Sinclair Sexsmith of the Sugarbutch Chronicles talks about her journey writing erotica, coming out and New York City's Lesbian Sex Mafia!
For gay, lesbian, bi and trans folks telling our stories is vital to our personal growth.
The internet creates a safe space for people to discover the sexier side of themselves by reflecting on their experiences with others.
Today we continue our series of interviews with well known bloggers who know how make it happen. We have kinky writer, queer butch top, Sinclair Sexsmith of the Sugarbutch Chronicles.
Listen as we chat with Sinclair about her journey writing erotica, coming out in your blog and New York City’s Lesbian Sex Mafia!
How do you avoid getting your site blocked because of its sexy content?
The controversy over Hot Top Butches, dealing with haters on your blog and why losing guilt over sex may be the most important thing you can do.
On March 19, the Superior Court of California will decide whether to hear my anti-gay workplace discrimination case against Korn/Ferry International, the largest executive recruitment firm in the world. Korn/Ferry is trying to exploit a...
On March 19, the Superior Court of California will decide whether to hear my anti-gay workplace discrimination case against Korn/Ferry International, the largest executive recruitment firm in the world. Korn/Ferry is trying to exploit a legal loophole to get my case dismissed. If Korn/Ferry succeeds, a legal precedent will be set allowing businesses headquartered in states where sexual orientation protections do exist to require employees in states without anti-discrimination laws to sign away their workplace protections.
Click here to read my story and my claims of the anti-gay culture I experienced while building Korn/Ferry a multi-million dollar executive coaching practice. CLICK HERE to watch a YouTube video of my story.
You may have seen the creepy Trollol guy form this video with the h1 “I’m happy to be on my way home.”
Now he’s been remixed-
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You may have seen the creepy Trollol guy form this video with the h1 “I’m happy to be on my way home.”
Congratulations to “America’s Lesbian Sweetheart” Cameron Esposito on the debut of her first comedy album. It was a real pleasure watching the taping of the album at the Lincoln Lodge on a cold winter night...
Congratulations to “America’s Lesbian Sweetheart” Cameron Esposito on the debut of her first comedy album. It was a real pleasure watching the taping of the album at the Lincoln Lodge on a cold winter night this past January.
We look forward to hearing many more albums in the future form this amazingly talented person. You go girl!
And please note- Cameron’s wearing a pearl necklace on the album cover. Do you think she knows what a “pearl necklace”means?
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Are you at SXSW or live in Texas?
Come join many of the biggest names in queer online culture. Network with other queer/LGBT bloggers, filmmakers and musicians including Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion from the Feast of Fun podcast Trish Bendix from After Ellen, Bil Browning from the Bilerico Project and Sinclair Sexsmith from the Sugarbutch Chronicles.
Sunday, March 14, 9pm
Oil Can Harrys, Austin, Texas
Are you in Austin, Texas?
Come join some of the biggest names in queer online culture and view some of the best viral videos of 2009.
SXSW Queer Blogger Tweetup
Sunday, March 14 at 09:00 PM
Oil Can Harry’s Facebook Link | Special hookup for SXSW Attendees (bring your badge) or
folks who follow @oilcanharrys on Twitter. (Bring your smartphone or proof)
Every year in the spring, thousands of internet and filmmaking rock stars (and rock-star-rock-stars) gather in Austin, Texas for South by Southwest, the interactive, film, and music conference that originally began as a music festival in the late 80s. Today it’s a big deal, bringing the biggest names in the industry together with everyday people in a mixing of the minds, a delicious burrito full of culture and fun.
And we’re in the thick of it. My gal pal Trish Bendix and I are moderating “Engaging The Queer Community” an in-depth discussion with Bil Browning and Sinclair Sexsmith on how to make your blogs, twitters, podcasts and youtube videos fabulous.
We’re sifting through the issues of blogging from a queer identity or perspective. How do you get people interested and chatting you up without turning them into an angry mob? What about being in the closet as a blogger? How do you keep your site from being banned when you write about all that hot dirty sex you’ve been having?
How is new media changing how we push politicians and society forward towards embracing our rights?
As a way to say thanks to all the fabulous people who live in Texas, we’re throwing a party on Sunday, March 14 at 9pm at Oil Can Harry’s -the- oldest gay bar with the cutest guys and gals.
Come meet me (Fausto Fernós), Marc Felion, Trish Bendix (After Ellen), Sinclair Sexsmith (Sugarbutch Chronicles), Bil Browning (Bilerico Project) and dozens of other fab internet rock stars knocking down the drinks and having a great time.
Bring a camera and your iPhone, these things usually get wild.
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FOF #1157 – Craig Seymour Bares it All – 03.11.10
Visiting a strip club when you first come out can be a very liberating as it validates your desire to look at other men.
For Craig Seymour, he was so fascinated by his experience at the strip club, he did his college thesis on the subject of stripping and interviewed many male dancers and their clients. He eventually became one himself. Listen as Craig talks about his tell all book: "All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C."
Visiting a strip club when you first come out can be a very liberating experience as it validates your desire to look at other men. For Craig Seymour, he was so fascinated by his experience at the strip club, he did his college thesis on the subject of stripping and interviewed many male dancers and their clients. He eventually felt that if he was really going to know what it’s like to be one of them he’ll have to take it all off and work the pole.
The seedy clubs where Craig worked were famous for full-on nude men and he would spend hours working the crowd in his birthday suit to get just the right angle for his thesis. Now that’s research!
Craig put it all in his book “All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C” and he’s here today to talk about his experiences as a stripper, a professor and journalist.
Listen as Craig chats with us about the escalating costs of higher education, the changing face of LGBT journalism and why digital media is making it harder for conservative closeted politicians to lead double lives.
Plus-
His relationship with the conservative blogger Matt Drudge and why Matt wears those awful hats.
And how Luther Vandross almost came out to Craig during an interview but never quite got there
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Just a shade over a decade since his initial portrayal of the outrageously gay icon Jack McFarland on NBC’s “Will & Grace,” actor Sean Hayes has finally decided to come out of the closet about...
Just a shade over a decade since his initial portrayal of the outrageously gay icon Jack McFarland on NBC’s “Will & Grace,” actor Sean Hayes has finally decided to come out of the closet about his homosexuality. In an interview with The Advocate, Sean expressed a lot of resentment toward the gay community for pressuring him to come out earlier in his career saying, “What more do you want me to do? Do you want me to stand on a float? And then what? It’s never enough.”
Look, I completely respect other people’s privacy, but once you’ve gotten the part and seven consecutive Emmy nominations and a win with your first nomination, you’re no longer auditioning. You’ve got the part. Time to be proud of who you are. And if you just so happen to be typecast… is that such an awful thing? Even if I were straight, I’d rather be the “go-to” person for playing gay than not have a fucking job… ya know, like 10% of America right now.
So the answer to the question of what more do I want, Sean, is that I want every gay kid growing up in the world right now to have a role-model to look up to. And what better role-model is there than a proud gay man playing a proud gay man on national television?
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* Phil Reese Picture Illinois Discriminatory Anti-Gay, Anti-Jobs Bill Gone but Not Forgotten
Last week I told you about the urgent action needed to stop a bill seeking to water down Illinois’ potent gender identity and sexual orientation inclusive employment non-discrimination law. Republican gubernatorial front-runner, Bill Brady, had...
Last week I told you about the urgent action needed to stop a bill seeking to water down Illinois’ potent gender identity and sexual orientation inclusive employment non-discrimination law. Republican gubernatorial front-runner, Bill Brady, had quietly introduced a bill to expand “religious exemptions” so much that the law would be nearly nullified. Bill Brady had been vehemently against the law when it was initially introduced, back when he was in the lower house. Now a Senator and GOP Governor hopeful, Brady was seeking to use transgender, gay, lesbian and bisexual folks in Illinois to court favor in rural areas, and shore up his conservative base.
Brady is a right wing nut job. He needn’t worry about his conservative base. I don’t use nut job loosely. Brady is currently campaigning on–among other things–a strong “reform” platform–specifically touting campaign finance reform and term limits. One of the longest serving lawmakers in the Assembly, Brady voted against campaign finance reform bills numerous times, and also voted against a term limits bill. I’m confused…
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To many, the Middle East is a tantalizing mix of danger and desire. To a gay travel writer it's an adventure to a world where same-sex affection blurs in the sand.
Today Michael Luongo joins us to talk about his book tour through the Middle East to promote "Gay Travels in the Muslim World" a collection of true stories of men sexually attracted to other men in places like Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.
To many, the Middle East is a tantalizing mix of danger and desire. To a gay travel writer it’s an adventure to a world where same-sex affection blurs in the sand.
Today, Michael Luongo joins us to talk about his book tour through the Middle East to promote “Gay Travels in the Muslim World” a collection of true stories of men sexually attracted to other men in places like Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s the first gay American book ever translated into Arabic and was the first gay themed book ever presented at an Arabic language book fair.
Listen as Michael shares with us his how his controversial book got translated into Arabic, the difficulty of being in one of the world’s largest book fairs and why it was so hard to do a reading in Israel.
Michael also shares with us some safety issues for Westerners when traveling to the Middle East, his experience meeting Queen Rania of Jordan and why some men fetishize Middle Easterners.
Plus a heart-wrenching letter from a Muslim listener who left an abusive environment in Tajikistan to live as an openly gay man in America.
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For many of you who have enjoyed Bill Cruz on the podcast, Fausto and I very sorry to tell you that Bill’s dad died Feb 24th.
You may have noticed that Bill was scheduled...
Bill Cruz
For many of you who have enjoyed Bill Cruz on the podcast, Fausto and I very sorry to tell you that Bill’s dad died Feb 24th.
You may have noticed that Bill was scheduled to perform at the Steamworks show but he was in Denver dealing with the loss and taking care of his family.
Our thoughts are with you Bill.
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Two great shows in The Victory Garden Theater Fresh Squeezed Series- Tim Miller’s “Lay of the Land” and Holly Hughes’ “The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony)”
Tim Miller’s “Lay of the Land”
March 15,...
Two great shows in The Victory Garden Theater Fresh Squeezed Series- Tim Miller’s “Lay of the Land” and Holly Hughes’ “The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony)”
Tim Miller’s “Lay of the Land”
March 15, 2010-March 21, 2010
“Tim MIller’s Lay of the Land” is Tim Miller’s saucy, sharp-knifed look at the State of the Queer Union during a time of trial! Careening from his sexy misadventures performing in 45 States, to Marriage Equality street protests, to the electoral assaults on queer people all over the country, to his life as a grade-school flag monitor, to choking on cheap meat caught in his 10 year old gay boy’s throat, LAY OF THE LAND friskily gets at that feeling of gay folks being perpetually on trial, on the ballot, and on the menu! “Tim MIller’s Lay of the Land” is a “lay” in all kinds of ways: a sex-assignation, a queer citizenship map, and of course a narrative ballad with a recurrent refrain! (Miller’s favorite way-down-the-list definition for “lay”!)
Here’s a video “Tim Miller’s Lay of the Land”
Holly Hughes’ “The Dog and Pony Show (Bring Your Own Pony)”
March 18, 2010-March 21, 2010
Autobiography, animal behavior, and bald-faced lies create this poetic meditation on midlife crisis in the key of canine. After years as a self described “professional homosexual,” our heroine gives up preaching to the perverted and pestering the religious right. She takes a real job at a prestigious university, acquires a small pack of dogs, and discovers that as we age, the thin membrane that divides the animal from the human dissolves entirely.
Oh how fun – not! (OK, well, maybe a little bit.) Gay Avatar Sex Parties! Who knew. Includes the following jewel in the comments: “Well, let’s hope these Gayvatards aren’t like Puerto Ricans and don’t...
Oh how fun – not! (OK, well, maybe a little bit.) Gay Avatar Sex Parties! Who knew. Includes the following jewel in the comments: “Well, let’s hope these Gayvatards aren’t like Puerto Ricans and don’t migrate to Orlando.”
This is a link to This American Life and explains in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) declared that homosexuality was not a disease simply by changing the 81-word definition of sexual deviance in its...
This is a link to This American Life and explains in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) declared that homosexuality was not a disease simply by changing the 81-word definition of sexual deviance in its own reference manual. It was a change that attracted a lot of attention at the time, but the story of what led up to that change is one that we hear today, from reporter Alix Spiegel. Part one of Alix’s story details the activities of a closeted group of gay psychiatrists within the APA who met in secret and called themselves the GAYPA … and another, even more secret group of gay psychiatrists among the political echelons of the APA. Alix’s own grandfather was among these psychiatrists, and the president-elect of the APA at the time of the change.
Twenty-five yeTwenty-five year old Nicole recently lost almost 60 pounds–but you’d never know that by looking at her wardrobe. Many months have passed since her dramatic weight loss, yet she’s still wearing her “fat clothes”...
Twenty-five yeTwenty-five year old Nicole recently lost almost 60 pounds–but you’d never know that by looking at her wardrobe. Many months have passed since her dramatic weight loss, yet she’s still wearing her “fat clothes” and feeling like the shy, overweight girl she’d always been. Enter Laverne, Jamie and Nina. They’ve all gone through dramatic physical transformations, and they know what it takes to see yourself as you really are. They hope that new clothes, new hair, new makeup and a new sense of self will all help Nicole recognize and embrace her true inner goddess!ar old Nicole recently lost almost 60 pounds–but you’d never know that by looking at her wardrobe. Many months have passed since her dramatic weight loss, yet she’s still wearing her “fat clothes” and feeling like the shy, overweight girl she’d always been. Enter Laverne, Jamie and Nina. They’ve all gone through dramatic physical transformations, and they know what it takes to see yourself as you really are. They hope that new clothes, new hair, new makeup and a new sense of self will all help Nicole recognize and embrace her true inner goddess!
I have to hand it to whoever came up with this one, becasue kids it is fucking brilliant! Some enterprising and creative activists in Utah have turned the bright lights of poltical theater on how...
I have to hand it to whoever came up with this one, becasue kids it is fucking brilliant! Some enterprising and creative activists in Utah have turned the bright lights of poltical theater on how disturbing the the anti-Gay rhetoric has gotten in modern US poltics and where we just might be headed if we don’t nip this bigotry in the bud.
“Patriots for a Moral Utah” held themselves a little press conference that was actually attended by all the major media outlets in Slat Lake CIty where they unvelied their effort to introduce a refendum that would offer a kind of final solution to the problem of all those pesky homos making it real hard for god fearing Utahns to rais etheir kids in an atmosphere of hatred and intolerance. Make them move! And if they don’t, well they want to set up an office that would deal with those nasty “delinquent homosexuals” and give them the boot physically. Genius!
It was all an elaobrate hoax, but one that really shows where we’re headed if we keep indulging bigotry through legislation and public referendum in theis country.
Get ready to release the pressure! Today we put our homemade gyroscopic metal outfits to the test for a live show at the sexiest place on earth: Steamworks gym sauna and baths. Listen to the hilarious Keith Ecker, Teri Yaki, and Cameron Esposito with special musical guest Stephen Leonard.
Get ready to release the pressure! Today we put our homemade gyroscopic metal outfits to the test for a show at the sexiest place on earth: Steamworks gym sauna and baths.
Fausto and I put together a special Gagalicious Slash Fiction Fantasy song medley, complete with an aluminum foil gyroscopic suit. So check out the audience’s response, you won’t believe your ears.
[Recorded live at Steamworks Chicago on March 5, 2010]
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