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�

 

LINKS:

 

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!

Just a test posting to see how this works.