I have no idea what to put for show notes.  call the listener line at 206.339.4512

It's another one of those talking podcasts for David b and Brian G. Learn how to stalk Brian on the web at his new blog Entertaining the Dog, and maybe even on manhunt!!!

Joe.My.God post about queens demo.

Cleve Jones was recently at the New York City LGBT Center talking about the National Equality March.  Listen here to that speech.

Brian G and David b have a nice chat and invite you to join them at the National Equality March.

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On July 15th International Mr. Leather announced that they would stop the sale of bareback porn at their event.  Brian G and David b spoke with Will Clark and Eric Leven about IML's announcement, bareback porn and safer sex.

Will Clark blogs about IML's annoucement.

Eric Leven blogs about IML's annoucement.

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Brian G and David b chat.

The links mentioned are Farmboys / Perge Modo and The Bilerico Project.

Brian G and David b chat the recent coupe in the NY State senate, and things they are doing for pride month.  Things like Broadway Bares, Pride48, the NYC Drag March, the NYC Dyke March.
Enjoy!

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Today we hear from Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum form Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, New York City's LGBTi Synagogue.

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The fourth in our series of speeches from the May 14th marriage equality rally in NYC, today we hear form Christine C. Quinn.

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Continuing our series of speaches given at the May 17th marriage equality  rally in NYC, today we hear form New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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Today we hear form New York  State assembly member Daniel J. O'Donnell,  yes he's Rosie's brother!

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Today we are at the ACTION = MARRIAGE EQUALITY rally held in New York City on May 17th and organized by Broadway Impact.

Hear some music from the cast of the musical HAIR and the speech given by New York Governor David Paterson.

More to come.

OccasionalFags David b and Brian G. have a delightful First Monday chat about the origins of the First Monday chat.

The they each share, respectively, some of the going ons in each of their lives.

Brian G. talks about Gay Getaways, 33 Variations and Jane Fonda's birthday operation.

David b talks about cherry blossoms in Brooklyn and people who dress up as cartoons for fun.

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Enjoy!

Jane Fonda's blog

Sakura Matsuri

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Taiko Masala

David b got a parking ticket and Brian G sleepwalks.  Have a listen and leave comments at the listener complaint line 206.339.4512!

David b has a birthday and can no longer take baths in the sink. Brian G does his best to prop up the economy, even though he will soon be on unemployment. Have a listen and leave comments at the listener complaint line 206.339.4512!

Brian and David b have dinner (David cooked) with Jerry, one of the original Occasionals. We talk about Rick Warren and other things. Here is the link to the Max Blumtnthal article David b said he would put in the show notes.

It's the first Monday of the month, and the first Monday of the year, and it is a first Monday chat by the TOF boys.

David b listens as Brian brain farts. Go check out VJnetcast for the chit chat with Brian, David, JT and VJ.

OccasionalFags David b and Brian G. sit down at the family dining room table to discuss upcoming responses to the recent passage of Proposition 8 (the anti-gay marriage proposition) in California.

For those who like to read and don't have the time to listen:

- No on H8 Demonstration outside the Mormon Temple in NYC

- Brooklyn Ambulatory Care anti-prayer vigil Demonstration

- Nationwide No on H8 Demonstration outside City Hall

Listen in as Brian, VJ and David b talk about Brian and David's recent camping adventures at Hillside and The Woods. Other topics that come up:

Winter Rendezvous

Bill Elliot on Broadway

Bill Elliot the movie

Brian G. and David b chat.

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Brian and David b chat.

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Recorded on the first Monday and posted for the second Monday, it's a late first Monday podcast.  Brian G. and David b talk about how they played hooky, what they are doing for Pride month and who got some stimulus! 

Join David b and Brian G as they talk with VJ and David from That Blue Jeans Guy about the 2^nd anniversary of TOF and other things.  At the end of the show we have a Go Go Boy Sonnet form Edmund Miller.

On Friday April 25, the Day of Silence, a vigil was held in honor of Lawrence King and all LGBTQ youth victims and survivors of violence.  Presented here are 2 of the speakers at the vigil, Pauline Park from NYAGRA, and Christen from SAFE HORIZON.

 

Also, watch Adrian Acosta’s video from the vigil.

After taking in  - at the World Trade Center - an early morning of dueling  professional homophobes, the Pope and Fred Phelps, TheOccasionalFags end up at restaurant Florent for Brunch.

Here is their chatter.

Enjoy!

It’s a First Monday again. In this one we get a Listener call and talk about a few other podcast. Check them out, “A Walk in the Park� and the soon to launch “Dial H for Homo�.

David b was out of town on business during a symposium at the New York City GLBT Center on antibiotic resistant strains of staph or MRSAs and their relation to men who have sex with men.  Brian G. went, Edirol recorder in hand.

Entitled, "Staph, Bath and Beyond," the forum was created to address recent misinformation about the "flesh eating virus" as a sexually transmitted disease.  The evening was divided into two parts, one on MRSA, and the other on Bathhouses and rumors of the city's Department of Health's plan to close commercial sex venues.

We present to you here speakers from the first MRSA section.  More on the  bathhouse section will be posted in the coming weeks.

Birthdays, dim sum and questions, questions, questions - It must be First Monday with TheOccasionalFags.  (First Monday's episodes being those in which we go over what is current or topical in our lives for all to hear)

Enjoy!

This week we talk with Mark Hannay form the Metro New York Health Care For All Campaign about the difference health care plans of the presidential candidates’.

Got an invitation from our good friend Vj of vjnet.blogspot.com to join him for the Winter Rendezvous gay ski weekend in beautiful Stowe, Vermont. 

Alpine-style Skiing, hearty-styled homos, spa-styling in hot tubs and all the maple syrup covered chedder scrambled eggs one could eat  - needless to say, VJ had us at "hello".

Here is our second installment of of first Monday "FagLife" series recorded at the end of our weekend in Vermont with our good friend VJ.

Enjoy!

(Video of the weekend to come, ASAP).

Was he inspired by the artistic dictates of his own inner muse, or was it the need to spend yet another hour and a half in the same room as Cheyenne Jackson.

We'll never know, but what we've ended up with is Occasional Fag Brian G's trip to the Barnes and Noble on 60th Street and Broadway for the official release of the Xanadu on Broadway Original Cast Recording.

Now that you're here...  Now that you're near... 

Happy New Year!

And welcome to a new year of TheOccasionalFag.

Brian G had this idea that some sort of format for the podcast should be set up, and to those ends this is the first of the "Fag Life" first Mondays!  Each first monday of the month the Occasionals will gather and converse about what is going on in life; so, it's not hard news, but it is about the first hand going ons of two contemporary urban Homos in the twenty-first Century.

Brian and David b talk about Christmas past and present.

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The world lost a Grand Old Fag on Wednesday December fifth when Bob Kohler passed away.  Join us as we celebrate Bob’s life and political activism at his political funeral, held in the streets of Manhattan on Sunday evening December 9th.

New York Times article about the political funeral.

Village Voice article about the political funeral.

Words to YOU’RE A GRAND OLD FAG:

You’re a grand old fag
You’re a radical fag
On the front lines and kick lines with flair!
You’ve got loads of class,
A real cute ass,
And wit you so gen’rously share.
When the chips are down
You are always around
And we know we have nothing to fear!
We swear we’ll keep our butt holes clean
And our eyes on the grand old queer!

Join Brian G and David b with family and friends for a bit of Thanksgiving Day dinner (with no special effects stolen from anyone or any other podcasts).

About half way through everyone has to exclaim what they are actually thankful for.  Thank Goodness...

IATSE Local One, the Broadway Stagehand's Union is on strike closing 22 shows on Broadway.  We comment...  Kinda...

Plus, TheOccasionalFag invites those delicious darlings of Pro-Choice vocal stylizations - The Church Lades For Choice - to rise to the Q-Cast Connection's Chitty Poppinoff Challenge.  Heaven help us!

NOTE:  Donate money to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS!  NOW!

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This past summer Brian G traveled to Las Vegas with his partner David (Mr. Who) and David's cousin Annette.

While there, they took in the Star Trek Experience at the Hilton Hotel finding that it exceeded all of their expectations.  All three being only part-time fans of the films and many series (enough to tell the difference between a Tribble and a bottle of Romulan Ale) they still had a amazing time.

During dinner at Quark's Restaurant in the Experience, they were chatted up by a blue skinned and antennaed Andorian from the icy moon of Andoria of the ringed gas giant Andor in the Procyan System.  Brian G was wearing the binaural mics all night, so presented here is their conversation with the "Commander" about alien sexual politics, alien race issues and our favorite alien - "Admiral" Janeway.

Enjoy

"Out at the Fairgrounds" is our gay night at Six Flags Great Adventure here in the Tri-State/NYC area (would that we had a Disney Park close by to have a Gay Day at).  It is a Fund-raiser for Heritage of Pride, the group that sponsors our yearly Gay Pride festivities.

Along with Brian and David B, this year our coaster loving congregation includes the delightful VJ of VJnet, Brian's partner David (also sometimes known as Mr. Who so as not to be confused with David B), David B's partner Leon and also his brother Eric and his partner Paul.  Eric and Paul brought two friends (a couple) with them from Ohio, so it was Nine of us all braving the Russian Mountians together.

This podcast is of us in line for Medusa, a floor-less B&M Coaster towards the back of the park at Great Adventure.

Brian and I go and see a circus, talk about ourselves, and skulk through a cruisey area of Central Park.  Go see Circus Amok if you are in NYC in September.  Come see the Church Ladies for Choice at Will Clark's Porno Bing Sept 5th, it’s a fund raiser for Sylvia’s Place.  Or ride roller coasters at 6 Flags Great Adventure on Sept. 14 with some queercasters, buy tickets here.

Both David B. and Brian first met David Zinn back in 1990 when we were all involved with ACT UP: The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power.  Mr. Zinn and Brian were both on the fundraising committee and worked together on many events for the group.

Back then, as now, David Zinn was an incredibly talented costume and set designer working with Regional Theatres and Operas across the Country. David has recently broken into Broadway with his costume designs for XANADU, THE MUSICAL, and, as we are huge fans of the show, we called to see if he would be up for dinner and an interview.

He was!

Okay, forgive the background noise.  We should have found a quieter restaurant.  Do we ever?  Not really...  But, enjoy the talk about an earlier show that David worked on, Chess, and then talk of Xanadu.

Broadway Bares is a yearly burlesque/striptease show put on by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS that is now in its 17th year. 

It all started back with the first show where just eight gypsies at the Splash Bar (for a while known as SBNY, now, once again, known as Splash Bar) did two "filled to capacity" shows to raise over eight thousand dollars.  The cast of this year's show topped 250 and raised over three quarters of a million to be distributed to AIDS Service Organizations around the country.

I (Brian) donate my time setting up the show each year (for the past six years) and was allowed this time to bring in the Edirol recorder.

What we have here as a TheOccasionalFag episode is a very loose editing of the almost eight hours of sound that I collected; most of it kinda useless, so I hope you enjoy some of this: there are snippets of the show itself, but being a strip show, it's much funner to watch than to listen to.  There are two interviews with people whom I greatly admire, Armondo Farfalle, the acrobat, and Malan, the designer from Project Runway Season 3, and there is an semi-aborted interview with a big gay celebrity we all know and love. 

And, through it all, commentary from David B and Brian - recorded at a different time just to make it sound oddly removed from the ongoing proceedings...

Enjoy!

We announce the winner of our Soy Candles by Phebes contest, and talk about upcoming podcasts. ddbean, our winner should email us at TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail[dot]com with contact info as we can put you in touch with Mike Hipp and arrangements can be made to send you your candles.  Or call our listener hot line 206-600-5504.

Here in city of New York we've found a way to celebrate Pride all month long by having Pride Days in each of it's five boroughs.  The first one to come each year on the first Sunday in June is Queen's Pride.

Join David B, Leon, Andrew and Brian as we enjoy this Reader's Digest abridged version of Pride in one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods on the planet - I Dios Mio!

Is listening to people (well, us, theoccasionalfag guys) paint the new Marsha P. Johnson Drop-In Center for Homeless LGBT Youth at 151 West 127th street in any way more exciting than watching paint dry?  We hope so...

We showed up to pitch in and help out getting this new center open in Harlem - recorders in hand - and you know what?  There is plenty of time for you to join in and show up to help as well.  Contact Kate Barnhard at manager@sylviasplace.org to offer your time, things or money.  As Kathy Griffin of D-List fame would say, "It's for the kids!"  And it really is!

Side note: We'll be announcing the winner of the Soy Candles by Phebes next episode and we'd like to thank all who entered by leaving a review on our iTunes Music Store page.

At the ACT UP 20th Anniversary Demonstration, while David B. was collecting video images, I (Brian) was collecting sounds: the voices of those who will put their bodies and voices out there so as to be counted as someone still furious at the lack of global attention being paid to this plague.

You know though, once you are there, it's not always about AIDS.  Sometimes, as you are marching along through the man made canyons of downtown Manhattan, there is time for talk of knitting, and maybe even a little bit of history about the buildings that surrounded us.

Slice-of-life-y and unfocused, this podcast puts you in the middle of the demo with some of our favorite people on the planet: Gilbert Baker, Karen Timore, Tad Loos, Donald Grove and others. 

Enjoy!

New York City's own Church Ladies For Choice, those daring defenders of Abortion Rights, Youth Condom Distribution and Queer Hegemony (don't we wish there really was a "Queer Hegemony", I mean, there kinda is, but really, who's kidding who; takes some mighty rose colored glasses to see it...  anyway...) were asked to entertain at the ACT UP Twentieth Anniversary Gathering/Party that followed their 20th Anniversary Demonstration/Action.

Now, anywhere that the Church Ladies For Choice go, TheOccasionalFag is sure - recorders in hand - to follow.  Always seems to happen.  Funny that.

Lucky you!

Well, maybe.  The Church Ladies sing and recount tales of activism past and then sing some more - with the audience joining in.  I'd say to "pray for pitch", but even heaven can't help us here.  Remember in the end, its the activism that counts. 

Enjoy...

No show notes for today as they would be the same as the show notes for TOF29 Bloomberg Pt 1.

On a recent ArcherRadio gang bang show, Mike Hipp of Podcastsoup.net asked something along the lines of, "Who really is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and what would he have to offer if he were to run for the Presidency?"

David B. decided to pick up this ball and run with it.  Invited into this "Fone-in Fag Fest"  on the concept of a Bloomberg candidacy and administration are Mike Hipp himself, Mark Tafoya of Remarkably Mark, Archer of Archer Radio, our friend Jon, the "Occasionals" themselves David B. and Brian and - later in part two of the podcast  - Ann Northrop of Gay USA.

-Does the conversation get heated?  Yes!
-Do people talk over each other?  Oh yes...
-Does the conversation get messy?  Well...
-Do things get personal?????  Not really by New York standards...  
(Is that a cop-out?)
-Should TheOccasionalFag learn to moderate things better...  Hey, there is a learning curve here and evolution does take place!

-Did all who participated in the conversation come skidding out of it charged up and wanting more?  We think so, which is why we're posting it, in the hopes that it charges up our listeners.

Points are made from all sides about personal responsibilities, whether that be the individual's responsibility to educate themselves and participate politically, or the responsibility of wealthier individuals not take unfair advantages of the ambiguities of huge collective activities such as voting.

Hey, If you already miss Rosie and Elizabeth going at it on The View, download and tune into this podcast!  Ahh, if only we had a split- screen of sound on hand.  We don't...  but we did split this podcast in two with the second half being posted this coming Wednesday, the 6th of June.

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Many have asked, "So what about this 'occasional Roller Coaster'?  What's this all about?" 

We here at TheOccasionalFag are proud to introduce our very first roller coaster podcast, and where else would we record from first other than that East Coast Mecca of all things carnival, Coney Island, NYC.

On the opening day of one of the best woodies on the planet, the Coney Island Cyclone, the first one hundred people in line ride for free.  We were there as well as many ACE'rs (American Coaster Enthusiasts) and Brooklyn-ites celebrating that little bit of "good-to-have-wood" heaven in their own back yard.  Interviews all around at the Cyclone and later at Nathan's Famous over Hot Dogs and Frog legs.

Also, we interview Kate Dale (Pictured), mermaid extraordinaire and Board Member of Coney Island USA, about the up and coming changes sweeping through the area (developers have purchased Astroland making it this park's last year) and what it means to be the best mermaid in the yearly Mermaid Parade three times over!

(If you are anywhere near New York City this summer, come see what Coney Island is before it does what it has been famous for in all of it's history: becoming something else.  The Mermaid Parade is always on the Saturday of the Summer Solstice (this year - June 23, 2007) and always the most fun.)

Enjoy the ride!

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It's not always about changing the world.  Sometimes you just have to take a break and get away from it all.

Here in the tri-state area, if you wish to invest the money, or - like me (Brian) - you have friends that have invested the money, you get away for the weekend out on Fire Island.

My friends Mark and Jay have me out each year at the beginning of the season to help them open up their house.  This podcast is an interview with Jay Pagano about the new community center in The Pines, and a, on my part, stream of consciousness "sound-seeing" walk along the beach wearing the binaural mics.

David B. is out of town the weekend of this posting, so - like it or not - this is a Brian podcast.  (I hope David B. likes it...  ).

Enjoy!

We here at TheOccasionalFag pride ourselves on our activist pasts, but what about the activist future?


In this episode we interview members of a relatively new group to emerge on the Queer Activist horizon, the Radical Homosexual Agenda, who describe themselves thusly:


The Radical Homosexual Agenda (R.H.A.) provides grass-roots support for queer youth and adults entrenched along the frontlines of the homophobia crisis in America. Frequently recognizable by our regulation pink army helmets, we believe in education and advocacy via direct action, sensationalism, and participatory arts-n-crafts for all. With over 23,000 Google results and counting, the Radical Homosexual Agenda has long been a household name from coast to coast.

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Assemble for Rights NYC

WNYC RADIO

On April the 18th of this year, the 11th annual Day of Silence (a national youth-run effort using silence to protest the actual silencing of LGBT people due to harassment, bias and abuse in schools), Erin Davies VW Bug was spray-painted with the words "FAg" and "U R gay" because of a rainbow sticker she had previously placed on the bumper.

The vortex of emotions that anyone of us would be feeling at having been violated in such a way coalesced into a determination that not only would Erin not "fix" her car, but work to fix her world instead. Thus was born the "Fagbug". This summer Ms. Davies will be driving her modified automobile cross country to generate dialogue about the oppressive conditions GLBT people still live with day to day.

We discovered her story on the web, asked for an interview and are happy as could be that we got to speak with Erin.


Part of The FagBug project is to include in the coming weeks the creation of VW shaped rainbow Fagbug stickers of support that will be available at Erin's website. Just as all forms of sexual expression are welcome into the Queer community, the Fagbug sticker will be for anyone standing (or Driving) for cultural and sexual diversity expressed without fear (Gilbert Baker - our rainbow flag Betsy Ross - would be so proud!).

Well hung over and ravenously hungry, our occasional fags: David B. and Brian, meet at the Tick-Tock Diner at The New Yorker Hotel in the morning just before the Podcamp NYC "Un-conventional" conference which took place at said hotel.

This, of course, makes it the morning after the Queercasters "Meet and Greet" at Therapy lounge in Hell's Kitchen that went until well past midnight the night before. 

We both had a great time as you are soon to hear - if you listen - so enjoy!

This week we have a round table discussion with Mark Hannay form the Metro New York Health Care For All Campaign and ACT UP, & Kenneth R. Weinberg MD from Physicians for a National Health Program. We discuss the need for universal health care and the ACT UP demo that is happening this Thursday March 29th.

Related Links

HR 676

The Library of Congress THOMAS

United States House of Representatives

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE ACTION NETWORK

Healthcare-NOW

Larry Kramer’s speech at the Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community center commemorating the 20th anniversary of ACT UP.

OUT FM

Today Brain and I talk to our friend and Harm Reduction guru Donald about - of all things - Harm Reduction... and sex... and drug use; all without once mentioning Ann Coulter, Matt Sanchez or Scooter Libby!

Harm Reduction Coalition

The Occasional Fags, Brian and David, have a "fabulous" weekend in the city (New York City to be exact!) and are sharing it with you this episode.

Saturday evening is the Manhattan World's Fair, an open house party to introduce a new performance/art space to artists who eventually might make use of it.  The performance presented that evening might have been lacking, but the music - a retro-80's sound - was just too much fun.

Sunday afternoon was a screening at St. Bart's on Park Avenue of "QueerStreets", a documentary of some of the residents of Sylvia's Place, the homeless youth shelter we visited in TOF episode #18.

CLFC, of course, is the Church Ladies For Choice of NYC: those darling defenders of Women's Healthcare facilities and the cheerleaders for a Pro-choice America.  A "Fag Fest" is our tribute to the weekly "Gang Bang" on ArcherRadio.

As you may know, even a lady has to eat, so why not sit down with the "Creatrix" of all us Church Ladies, Sister Mary Cunnilingus herself, and have a civil Civil-disobedience conversation.  What better restaurant to have this conversation in than florent in the Meat Packing district of Manhattan.

Enjoy!

Additional Links:

Candles by Phebes,  PodcastSoup,  Brian's little "Cult of Mac" Blog

This week Brian and I bring you audio we recorded this past summer when we visited Sylvia's Place, an emergency night shelter for self identified Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, trans-gendered, trans-sexual and questioning youth from 16 to 23 years of age. Go to their web sight and click on the pay pal button at the bottom and make a donation.

Recently, for a friend, I summed up TheOccasionalFag as, well, all about either sex, activism, or Broadway.  His response was, "Yeah, your point?"

So this is one of those Broadway episodes.

Join TheOccasionalFag as we journey to Shubert Alley in the Heart of Times Square to partake of the sounds (and the windy weather...) of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS 20th Annual Broadway Flea Market.

Held each year in late September, the Flea Market has booths for Broadway Shows to sell their wares and both a silent and live auction.

As always, Enjoy!

Some related links:

The Actor's Fund of America
N.Y.State Theater Education Association
Judy and Me
Theater Development Fund
Film and Stage Jobs
Release Lestat
Naked Boys Singing
Marc Shaiman
Momma Mia
Patrick Quinn

What could be more urbane and civil than taking in the window displays in all the major shopping meccas of Metropolitan New York for the Holidays?

Well, many things actually, because as you will hear, TheOccasionalFags, Brian and David, get pushed, shoved and then run over by multiple strollers as they step out on the town to bring to you a little bit of crass capitalist Christmas fun.

Hear why one major department store arrested Santa back in 1991 and also why some of our good friends are now banned from ever shopping in Saks Fifth Avenue again - God Bless them!


This is a - as David puts it - cult of Mac "enhanced" podcast with pictures and binaural sound.  So try to listen to it with headphones and enjoy the picture show.

On the way back from doing clinic defense Saturday morning, the Church Ladies for Choice wrote a new song.  We present it here.

December first is World AIDS day, so Brian and David get cynical with James Wentzy, a friend they met back when they were all active with ACT UP in the 90’s, about what World AIDS Day means today.

Traveling back from Brian's 43rd birthday celebrations in Ohio - Cedar Point! - with David and Brian's Husband, Mr. Who, Brian dons the new (for us!) binaural mics and records one of those slice of life, get to know us, narcissistic sound "see-ings" that podcasting does so well.

Included as well are the new faggot national anthem (so say we!) and, for all you erudite mo-fos, a Go-Go Boy Sonnet, RE: Edmond Miller and TheOccasionalFag Episode 9

Burt Reynolds

Al Parker

Archer Farms

Hooper

Smokey and the Bandit

Gumball Rally

Shut The Fuck Up

Goblins and ghouls, witches and vampires, demons and devils are the stuff from which contemporary Halloween horrors are made, but is there anything as truly terrifying as an Evangelical, Right-wing, Fundamentalist Christian.  We here at TheOccasionalFag think not.  So when we heard of Les Freres Corbusier’s authentic reproduction of Pastor Keenan Roberts’ Christian HellHouse - a haunted house with scenes depicting iniquities such as cheerleaders getting abortions or gay men suffering through AIDS - we were practically the first ones in line.

Like always, when we go there, so do you.  The producers of Hell House gratefully allowed us to bring our recorder with us.

Joining us for phone interviews on the history of Halloween and Hell Houses past are Gavin and Jamie.

Happy Halloween!

The thought of taking the recorder out with me to the dance festival - for which I have been volunteering as a tech since 2001 - passed my mind, but it wasn't until David suggested it as well that the idea grew on me as a good one. Boy, I'm glad that I did. - Brian

In this episode we join occasional fag Brian out on Fire Island for one of the "premiere cultural events of one of the most prominent gay communities on the planet", DRA's (Dancers Responding to AIDS) Fire Island Dance Festival 2006.

Snippets of the show, interviews with organizers (and those whom are organized!) and behind the scenes collected sounds all make for an interesting look at what it takes to get this show on.

Enjoy!


CIRCA

Axis Dance

Yana Schnitzler

Verb Ballets

Join TheOccasionalFag.com on our very own Blair "Bitch" Project as we invade the Meat Rack - that wooded space on Fire Island, NY between The Pines and Cherry Grove - with mic in hand and recorder hidden in a backpack.  

For the uninitiated, this is where men go to have sex.  Want more information on that?  Read Larry Kramer's "Faggots" for a start...

This is a direct, unedited recording, about twenty minutes long, with afterthoughts recorded later mixed in - mostly to fill in the dead air space.

Let's see what sounds we can gather...

Mick Powers

OMEGA

Christian Action Network

The Occasionals (Grace, Tom, Jerry, Raju, Brian and David) continue the go go boy theme with this episode of TheOccasionalFag.  We talk to Edmund Miller about the writing and publishing of his book The Go Go Boy Sonnets.

 

www.gogoboysonnets.com

 
Byron photographed by Hans Farmeyer

Gregory photographed by Daniel Perry

Giovanni photographed by Daniel Perry

Carlos photographed by Daniel Perry

Zaki photographed by Brick Jones

A GLBT Pride street interview with porn star and activist, Will Clark, led to an invite to join his crew on the "Sea Tea / Bad Boys on the Hudson" floating sunday evening tea dance.

Through the magic of podcasting, we now extend that invite to you!  Join David and Brian (mostly Brian, again...) as they swab the decks and shiver the timbers (whatever that means) of the "sweetest" bad boys to ever bubble up on TheOccasionalFag.

"I'd like to ask you some porn-star questions, if I might?"

The Sea Teas are ongoing throughout the summer months, so you don't need to be Johnny Depp if you want to get out on the water to make merry with a bunch of salty dogs and other such pirate-like things...

Scott Spears
El Mirage
The Peacemaker
Duke Rivers
Tre Xavier
Manuel Torres
Kyle Douglas
Anti-Violence Project
Jeff Palmer
NYU School of Medicines  Center for AIDS Research
www.stepstudies.com
Project Achieve
Mick Powers
Max Scott
Enrico Vega

This week we talk to Benjamin Shepard, Ph.D., fresh from his arrest at Ambassador Bolton’s office.  We talk about the play aspect in political activism and demonstration.

 

For additional reading see the article by Ben at DRAIN magazine under “related essays�

 

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YIPPIES

The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army

John Bolton

Gay Pride "Two Thousand and Sex" bonus special!

 

Brian and David (mostly Brian) stood out on 5^th Ave between 34^th and 35^th street and chatted up some of the Pride Marchers.

 

Hear are links to some of the people we talked to:

 

The North East Two-Spirit Society

 

"Sylvia's Place", an emergency night shelter for self identified Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, trans-gendered, trans-sexual and questioning youth.

 

New York City Gay Men's Chorus

 

Will Clark

 

Frank DeCaro

 

Another Gay Movie

 

Gay Male S/M Activists

 

Gotham Knights Rugby Football Club

 

Sun Dance Outdoor Adventure Society

 

Cheer New York

 

The second sound scene from "Church Lady Pride Two-Thousand Sex" is of the 14^th Annual Dyke March down 5^th Ave.

 

"Just look for the flashing lights"

Additional Links:

Dyke Tv

Sharon Flewitts and Harmonie Moore of the Church Ladies for Choice, the premiere Pro-choice Performance Activists of New York City, celebrate GAY PRIDE 2006, or as we like to call it, Church Lady Pride, Two Thousand SEX!

 

Here is the first of two resultant soundscapes:

 

The Friday night DRAG MARCH, organized this year by the Radical Faeries of NYC.

Additional Links:

Church Ladies for Choice Sacred Songs

www.submitparty.com/spam

http://somytherapistsays.blogspot.com/

TheOccasionalFag’s sonic impressions of New York City’s Gay Pride 2006.

To be posted this Friday 6/30.

The Occasional Fag Pilot Episode B: Whores Will Be Whores.

As diverse as the GLBT community gets, the one thing we all still have that we share a common interest in is sex, so why not open The Occasional Fag with an all male roundtable about communal erotic intimacy in New York City.  Sure, we should have had a female fag or two on the panel, but sometimes, like not being able to pick and choose who in the sex club is brave enough to climb up in that sling, you have to play them as they lay. 

Also enjoy the musical tidbit from Harmonie  Moore of New York City's own Church Ladies for Choice.  You just may find it to be a little piece of heaven, but then again you just may find it to be a piece...  Heaven helps us!