From Russia with Gloves

I wonder if one hangs out with a lot of magicians, if one then eventually learns to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Along the same lines, despite my best intentions to let the magic remain a mystery, I’m slowly learning the tricks of the trade that professional bottoms use to manage their own irrigation. One friend has a red rubber bag with a hose in his shower, while other friends have various shower nozzle attachments and the like. And more than once I’ve found a bewildering collection of disposable surgical gloves in people’s medicine cabinets. Not that I snoop. I collect spare Cialis.

Given that I’ll be traveling far and wide with a few of these professional bottoms next week, I thought of suggesting a side trip to honor their much appreciated dedication.

Monument to enema treatments opens in Russia

MOSCOW (AP) — A monument to the enema, a procedure many people would rather not think about, has been unveiled at a spa in the southern Russian city of Zheleznovodsk.

The bronze syringe bulb, which weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels, was unveiled at the Mashuk-Akva Term spa, the spa’s director said Thursday.

“There is no kitsch or obscenity, it is a successful work of art,” Alexander Kharchenko told The Associated Press. “An enema is almost a symbol of our region.”

The Caucasus Mountains region is known for dozens of spas where enemas with water from mineral springs are routinely administered to treat digestive and other complaints.

Kharchenko, 50, said the monument cost $42,000 and was installed in a square in front of his spa on Wednesday. A banner declaring: “Let’s beat constipation and sloppiness with enemas” — an allusion to a line from “The Twelve Chairs,” a famous Soviet film comedy — was posted on one of the spa’s walls.

This Is How We Do It

“Thanks everyone – I’ve been a part of the Guild only a few months, but having a Pride March has to be one of the epic events I’ve experienced in the last 3 years of playing WOW. . . .”  

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June 16, 2008

Dial It Dammit

First, enemies of same sex marriage stated that a state poll (years old but whatever) show majority opposition to same sex marriage.  Then today I see a poll showing a slim majority of Californians in favor of legal same sex marriage, and of course the right wing nutjobs are now referencing some other poll showing marginal majority for the nay-sayers.

As Whoopi Goldberg said about the movie Showgirls, “I haven’t seen this many poles (polls) abused since World War I”.

Damn that joke doesn’t really work out in print.

Anyway, put down the internets a sec and phone the gov’s poll.

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The Governor’s office has set up a hot line public opinion vote on the recent Supreme Court decision.  Call and vote your support. There are supposedly more votes in OPPOSITION than to support currently.

To vote in support of the California Supreme Court’s decision on LGBT marriage, call the Governor’s office:

1. call 1-916-445-2841
2. press options 1 (english)  5 (to vote), 1 (LGBT issue), 1 (vote yes)

Fully automated and NOT limited to CALIFORNIA voters.

It couldn’t be easier to vote… please take 15 seconds right now to do it! Pass it on!!!

My Faggoty Attention

 We’ll go back to Brooklyn, get it cookin’

This video and song deserve each other, in a wonderfully camp way. And the choreography is inspired. By what, I dunno. Highly amusing tho.

Bears!

Found this gem at Joe.My.God

Bit o History

I once did a very brief volunteer stint for elderly queer peeps and got to hang with John Burnside, the life partner for the now-deceased Harry Hays.  Hays, among his other accomplishments, founded the Radical Faeries in 1979 and talks here about park sex in the days before fly briefs and zippers.

The above-linked site also has footage of the White Night Riots, which I could, and have, watched over and over. Something about fed-up queers torching cop cars makes me all hot and bothered. A tad more sad is the final words of Harvey Milk, who will apparently be played by Sean Penn in an upcoming Van Sant movie (and Matt Damon, in a huge acting stretch, is slated to play Milk’s assassin).

Bear Force One!

With the BF in helly hot China this week, I’ll be staying cool indoors here in SF, drinking all his likker and learning the dance moves to this goodness. Bring your white pants over if you wanna join. It’s so good!

Yet Again

Fuck, this irritates the shit out of me. Another fine example of how stupid fuckin bridge-and-tunnel breeders continue to fuck up queer traditions and neighborhoods.

No Castro Halloween this year, and no official S.F. alternative

Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Staff Writer

Thursday, August 9, 2007

The Great Pumpkin will skip San Francisco this year.

City officials said Wednesday that there will be no official Halloween celebration anywhere in San Francisco in October – not in the Castro neighborhood, the traditional home of the event, and not at a parking lot near AT&T Park, which had been considered as an alternate site.

“There will be no party,” said Audrey Joseph, president of the city’s Entertainment Commission.

Officials had been quietly working on plans to snuff out the Castro event, where a shooting last year injured nine people. The goal had been to instead hold a large outdoor concert near the ballpark. But the concert promoter has pulled out of the effort, and there is not enough time to find another, Joseph said.

But officials are still trying to prevent any festivities in the Castro. On Wednesday, Supervisor Bevan Dufty sent a letter to 110 owners of bars, restaurants and stores in the Castro, asking them to close shop on Halloween night to discourage partygoers.

The Halloween event was marred by violence last year after the shooting near the main stage on Market Street. Another person was injured as the crowd fled the area. Dufty and other city leaders had already been concerned about violence at the event, including the potential for attacks on members of the city’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population.

Halloween traditionally has been a major community event – sometimes referred to as the “gay Christmas” – but Dufty said that era has passed.

“It’s not a holiday in the Castro. It’s a night in which the neighborhood is overrun by people who come to gawk, not celebrate, and unfortunately it turns into gang night out in the Castro,” he said.

His First Dore

“San Francisco is gayer than I thought it would be.”

That is my brother being his usual spot-on self (he also noted that our hometown of Charleston SC was ‘a drinking city with a historic problem’, which is also just so nail on).

And points to him for letting his demonic older brother dress his straight ass up in leather for Dore Alley this year.

Pix are here, queers!