The Sun Is Shining For The First Time In Forever; We're Gay! Fagz Club Spring 2010

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i mean, stuff was always mentioned peripherally in classes...in my public middle school, i remember it being mentioned by name but not really talked about.

and this ain't bragging, it's more just my own life story, but i think that some of my shock comes from the fact that i was so immersed in this history from the time i was young, being a 12-year-old punk kid who was lucky enough to grow up being friends with people like the guyz from Limpwrist, as well as literary types who gave me Ginsberg and Frank O'Hara books and whatnot. i don't judge people who don't know about this history, but i definitely find it a little sad and weird that it isn't more well-known. that said, i'm sure that 'Milk' did raise the profile of the early gay-rights movement for a lot of people, for better or for worse. (i only add that caveat b/c that film is just eh, and b/c of other issues that surrounded my own viewing of it that i've talked about before).

anyway, i need to finish writing this article on Azari & III:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWfNvPqKRJ0

The Portrait of a Lady of BJs (the table is the table), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link

Just showed a screener of the Stonewall doc to a gay who didn't know anything about them.

Does this work better than pinot grigio and Teddy Pendergrass?

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, and his boyfriend was there too.

rim this, fuck that (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link

So I just graduated college, and then got fired from my job about 20 minutes after (they actually called me DURING THE CEREMONY to tell me)

(Rice Dream) (Stevie D), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 14:36 (fourteen years ago) link

very yin and yang. Was it something you didn't want to be fired from?

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes. Oh yes. It was the one thing I was depending on after college to pay rent and save a few $$$s up to move to another city (where I could transfer locations). It's difficult to explain how enormously this has fucked me over.

(Rice Dream) (Stevie D), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link

Shit, I'm really, really sorry Stevie.

lol dope (Tape Store), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link

bah it's ok. I'm sure that something nicer will come out of it and it's one of those "blessings in disguise" things. But in the mean time I'm just like, oh my god, for real? It was the dumbest thing, too; it basically amounted to me giving someone too much of a free sample (which we're allowed to/encouraged to do)

(Rice Dream) (Stevie D), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link

I work[ed] at Wh0le F00dz by the by. R.I.P $12/hr wages and a 20% discount and some of the coolest raddest co-workers of all time :/

(Rice Dream) (Stevie D), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link

aw man, that sucks. sorry dude :/

if it's any consolation, yr grace jones picture is hanging on my wall (or is trying to, the tape i'm using to secure it isn't strong enough and i keep waking up with grace's face in my lap (ahem))

joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link

sorry Steve, but go sniff out some more money, pronto

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link

i'm sorry too. may love be with you.

i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh I'm already working on my resume and hope to be sending it out to places by the end of the day. On the bright side I get to sort of relax a bit after graduation! So this is sort of somewhat nice on some level.

(Rice Dream) (Stevie D), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link

shit, that sucks. good luck finding something.

and if it makes you feel any better, i've almost given up on finding a job of any sort. thinking of setting up my typewriter outside of ritzy places and being one of those d-bags who writes poems for money. or doing medical studies.

The Portrait of a Lady of BJs (the table is the table), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link

There's always hooking. (Jokes aside, that does suck, and get that resume up to date immediately!)

rim this, fuck that (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link

On a happier note I've decided I'm going to make a tomato pie and maybe invite some crust punks over and listen to Rites of Spring and dissect capitalism.

(Rice Dream) (Stevie D), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link

there's a dude in nyc who does that 'writes poems for money' thing, he sets up a table inside various subway stations and advertises as a "new york times published poet". he looks increasingly haggard every time i see him

i just sent a job app in, hoping against hope i get this one

joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link

u are smart, devoted and worthy, just fyi

i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link

i am supposed to meet up with a member of gravy train!!! for a date right now, but he ain't txtin me back, the bitch. :(

The Portrait of a Lady of BJs (the table is the table), Thursday, 20 May 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link

eh, whatever. i'm off work, drink time.

The Portrait of a Lady of BJs (the table is the table), Thursday, 20 May 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link

that subway poet has been around at least 20 years.

I was home today w/ a chest cold, sucks. No Vaginal Davis tonight.

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 May 2010 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link

man, everyone's sick. and i have to report for jury duty at 8:30am. (almost wrote 'judy duty'. i wish.)

joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Thursday, 20 May 2010 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link

showbiz aspiarants, lose your Gay Voice!

http://gawker.com/5542923/want-to-get-rid-of-your-gay-accent-theres-an-app-for-that

(Commenters otm on Vincent Price and Snagglepuss.)

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 May 2010 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link

spent 3 nights in LA, 2 in Santa Barbara, 1 in Oakland and 5 in SF starting tonight. loving it.

elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Sunday, 23 May 2010 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link

too late for this now but LA gay bars = all about gold coast imo

joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Sunday, 23 May 2010 06:52 (fourteen years ago) link

rev, u read this book?

http://www.amazon.com/Disidentifications-Performance-Politics-Cultural-Americas/dp/0816630151

plax (ico), Sunday, 23 May 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link

no, but it looks v interesting and thank u for pointing me to it!

The Reverend, Sunday, 23 May 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link

hi

i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link

hi surm! ^_^

The Reverend, Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link

:D u seem in good spirits today reverend

i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link

He's done himself proud on a couple of the music threads.

Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 May 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link

too late for this now but LA gay bars = all about gold coast imo

― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Sunday, 23 May 2010 06:52 (Yesterday) Permalink

ha, love that place.

I am an old guy, and I prefer the late 90s. (Matt P), Monday, 24 May 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link

so NYC gays: I'm going to be in town on June 6th through the 9th. I'd love to finally meet y'all. Can we plan something?

Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 May 2010 00:24 (fourteen years ago) link

these guys are bad planners (youth, texting), but we can try. Bring yr phone charger this time.

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 May 2010 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link

and happy birthday, KJB!!!

I may go to LA next summer; what's this Gold Coast like?

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 24 May 2010 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link

hey all.

wild weekend, sort of. uh, been trying to hang with elmo, but have been too distracted or not into his planz? i am really bad at going to gay bars, at this point. maybe tonight? who knows. i sort of want to take him to Aunt Charlies tomorrow night, but i don't if he'll be up for it since he leaves the next day?

in other news, i believe i might have gotten a job. i try-out on thursday at this bourgeois coffee place in berkeley. kind of just excited about the prospects of having a job and some money in the pocket.

The Portrait of a Lady of BJs (the table is the table), Monday, 24 May 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link

spent the weekend visiting my parents in ottawa, and awkwardly bumped into/hung out with half the guys from montreal i've ever been into and their new boyfriends (more or less). surprisingly enjoyable weekend anyhow.

LCD are playing tonight, so that should be good. otherwise life here is muggy and uneventful.

California sounds like a hell of a lot of fun.

Alex in Montreal, Monday, 24 May 2010 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link

California is too much fun. the key to surviving is naps.

The Portrait of a Lady of BJs (the table is the table), Monday, 24 May 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link

i never go to gay bars now, but i have, like, no money and i have, like, no gay friends in town and going by myself isn't as fun

the really annoying thing is that every seemingly gay dude that i meet in the course of normal life that i am remotely attracted to turns out to be not a gay dude at all :(

upper mississippi sh@key mo (The Reverend), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 00:39 (fourteen years ago) link

aunt charlie's is not too far from my hotel, table, if that makes thing easier? we made dinner plans with a few friends on separate before realizing they all live in the castro --

elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link

haha, yeah, the Castro scene just bugs me out? it's like 'how the other half lives,' or something... i mean, i like getting wasted as much as the next queen, but i'd rather do it in the TL. if you're down tomorrow night for aunt charlies, it'll be worth your while. it's a fun party, and how can you say no to these two lovely boyz, your hosts?

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs347.ash1/29518_398386219360_294622869360_3667050_2520471_n.jpg

The Portrait of a Lady of BJs (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link

also i'd totally have to turn into a pumpkin tonight, and my boy isn't gonna want to drive since he was lifting heavy things all day. but he has off tomorrow!!!

The Portrait of a Lady of BJs (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 01:24 (fourteen years ago) link

gold coast is seedy, homey, way past its prime, hookers out back, aging showbiz / whoever crowd, no bros, no bois, not bear/leather either. cheap drinks, crappy music, pool and pool league. an old weho bastion with a history that hasn't turned into a "lounge" and doesn't really have a "thing" either. j4ke and n1ck run it and are nice guys. i think you'd like it dr m. oh yeah, tvs. though trunks down the street is sort of the same thing w/ a sports bar set up if you want to watch a game. xposts

I am an old guy, and I prefer the late 90s. (Matt P), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link

i don't go to gay bars at all anymore because 1) i live in salt lake city 2) quit drinking

I am an old guy, and I prefer the late 90s. (Matt P), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link

Guys, the first 20 minutes of the SATC[ sequel turned me irreparably straight.

rim this, fuck that (Eric H.), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link

uh oh. Why would you even watch that?

limp bizkotti (Stevie D), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link

LIZA

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:50 (fourteen years ago) link

Free screening and I needed something to review this week. (Didn't even realize until today that Jakey G's gross abs are also opening this weekend.)

rim this, fuck that (Eric H.), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 04:05 (fourteen years ago) link

gross abs vs gross girlz

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link

gross gay weddings

rim this, fuck that (Eric H.), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 04:18 (fourteen years ago) link


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