FOFA #983 – Jack of All Trades
Interview with Project Runway designer Jack Mackenroth.
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On the fourth season of the reality tv show Project Runway- mens designer Jack Mackenroth abruptly withdrew from the show due to a serious staph infection completely unrelated to his HIV status.
A real life jack-of-all-trades, he is now working on a design-inspired TV show pilot with Kevin Christiana.
He’s in Chicago to promote his Merck sponsored HIV Education Campaign Living Positive by Design– as an honorary guest of Design for a Cure.
And, he’s training to compete in Men’s Swimming at the Out Games in Copenhagen. How does he do it all?
We’ve got the sexy, fashion savvy Jack Mackenroth in the home studio. He’s taking your questions through Facebook and he’s telling it all!
Listen as Jack talks about how he manages to stay healthy, muscular and sexy, how serious he got with fellow reality TV star Dale from Top Chef and what it was like playing a dead body on the TV show Law and Order. Plus, what are the fashionistas REALLY like? Find out on today’s show.
Check out these fun pictures of Jack taken by our friend Jason Smith during the taping of the show.
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Behind the Scenes on the New Dining Out for Life Campaign
Sexy and for a good cause, Marc Felion went behind the scenes on the photo shoot for the new Dining Out for Life campaign, featuring lots of hot models in all sorts of poses. Why? Because Chicago’s known as the city of big shoulders, so why not use some guys with big shoulders?
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(NWS)-Broadway Bares to Fight AIDS [VIDEO]
The theme was “Click it!”. All performances use the computer as a basis of their theme. This performance is called “The World Wide Web.” HOT!
Koalas Have AIDS
With urbanization, dogs and cars all cutting down Australia’s koala numbers in half over the past six years, now they have to deal with chlamydia and Koala AIDS, or KIDS. No joke.
Now koalas have…
With urbanization, dogs and cars all cutting down Australia’s koala numbers in half over the past six years, now they have to deal with chlamydia and Koala AIDS, or KIDS. No joke.
Now koalas have AIDS? It’s heartbreaking, and they could face extinction.
Even though koala tourism generates over one billion dollars each year for the Australian economy, their government has not yet declared them an endangered species or taken any concrete steps to address the problem. Experts say they could be gone, extinct in 30 years.
I wonder what’s causing this outbreak of disease in koalas? I wonder if the lesbian koalas are getting sick as well.
Social Network for the Dead
Most people belong to social networks of some sorts but how about one for the the people that are already dead?
I always try to imagine what we all are missing because of the deaths of…
Generation You- Project Crysp's forum on inter-generational realtionships.
I always try to imagine what we all are missing because of the deaths of so many wonderful people to AIDS. The impact on our culture is so great but do we even know just how great it is? Take a moment and think about the art that will never be made, the stories that will never be told, the costumes that will never be sewn, the play that will never be staged or the hugs and kisses you’ll never get.
So how do we remember?
Chris Bartlett, has started The Gay History Wiki to reclaim the memories of thousands of people who died from AIDS.
You may remember Chris Bartlett, the director of the Greater Philadelphia LGBT Leadership Initiative who participated in the Project Crysp forum Generation You.
From the New York Times Article:
“So much was lost when those lives were ripped out of the heart of the city,” said Mr. Bartlett. “There were 4,600 men who died from a gay male population of about 26,000” in Philadelphia, he added.
And later in the article:
“At this point, everybody knows the value of participating in a social network that’s alive,” said Mr. Bartlett, who is linked as a friend of Dominic Bash online and whose Twitter address is the name of another gay man who is long gone: @Harveymilk. “I’m making the case that the value people offer to a social network does not disappear when they die,” he said.
FOF #1101 – An Intimate Look at Michael Kearns
On World Aids Day we talk with groundbreaking actor and activist Michael Kearns.
Before coming out of the closet was seen as a career move in the entertainment industry, Michael Kearns was the first Hollywood actor on record to come out as a gay man in the mid-seventies. Today Michael is re-staging his one man show “Intimacies” featuring six characters on the AIDS crisis of the early 80s.
It’s World AIDS Day, the international day of remembrance which raises awareness about the AIDS pandemic and honors the struggles and triumphs of people living with HIV.
Today we’re talking to groundbreaking actor and activist Michael Kearns.
In the mid 70s, long before coming out of the closet was considered a career move in Hollywood, Michael Kearns was famous for becoming the out gay model and spokesperson for the popular book, “The Happy Hustler” even though he didn’t write it.
Prompted by the AIDS-related death of “Midnight Express” star Brad Davis in 1991, Michael made history when came forward on television as being HIV positive at a time when so many people were afraid to divulge their status.
He later appeared on the TV shows Life Goes On and Beverly Hills 90210 as a man living with HIV.
Today Michael is re-staging his one man show “Intimacies’” for a 20 year anniversary tour. The show features six characters identified by the placement of a red scarf to tell six diferent monolouges on the AIDS crisis of the early 80s. Never in the history of theater has a red scarf meant so much!
Listen as Michael Kearns talks with us about why he came forward back then, why Hollywood still has a long way to go when embracing gay men and he reveals the juicy details of an affair he had with a major music celebrity.
Who was it? Listen to today’s show and find out. And we mean out.
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China Funds a Gay Bar
The Chinese government is funding a gay bar in the city of Dali to reach out to China’s gay community in an effort ot fight AIDS.
Founder Zhang Jianbo hopes that the bar will be a…
The Chinese government is funding a gay bar in the city of Dali to reach out to China’s gay community in an effort ot fight AIDS.
Founder Zhang Jianbo hopes that the bar will be a public gathering place for gay men, especially from rural villages, who used to gather in a patch of woods near the historic town.
Trust me, they’ll still go to that little patch too!
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Michael Kearns Performs 20th Anniversary Revival Tour of “intimacies” This Sunday [Sponsored]
World AIDS Day is December 1 and to celebrate all that we’ve achieved in the two decades of tireless efforts for the LGBTQ community and its friends, Victory Gardens “Fresh Squeezed” is hosting of Michael…
World AIDS Day is December 1 and to celebrate all that we’ve achieved in the two decades of tireless efforts for the LGBTQ community and its friends, Victory Gardens “Fresh Squeezed” is hosting of Michael Kearns’s celebrated solo show, “intimacies’” now on its 20th anniversary revival tour.
When Hollywood’s first openly gay actor, Michael Kearns, first performed “intimacies” in Chicago in 1989 it received a very conflicted and controversial reception. A Chicago Reader review of “intimacies” from 1989 said: “All six of Michael Kearns’s AIDS-infected characters are the stereotypical dregs of society, full of hatred and self-loathing.”
Kearns now says of his characters in the current version of “intimacies” that they “will be different today than it was 20 years ago, because I have 20 years of new experience to bring to all six of them; 20 years of agony and ecstasy; 20 years of maturation as well as insidious addiction; 20 years of deaths and a few births.”
Michael Kearn’s “intimacies” is one night only this Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 7:30pm at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater mainstage, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago.
Michael’s show is the second in a series of performances in Victory Garden’s a Queer Theater Spotlight followed later this season by fellow queer icons Charles Busch and Julie Halston (December 7), and Tim Miller and Holly Hughes (March 15-21, 2010).
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Special Edition FOF: Risky Business?
Live podcast forum on Barebacking, risk, pleasure and the influence of porn. Taped at the Center on Halsted in Chicago, August 17, 2009.
On today’s special edition of Feast of Fun, we’re teaming up with Lifelube and Project Crysp in conjunction with the 2009 National LGBTI Health Summit to bring you Risky Business- a raw discussion with a live audience at the Center on Halsted on the sex and intimacy we crave and the risk we’re willing to take.
How do adult films with bareback sex affect our sexual desires and practices?
Are videos depicting sex without condoms a hot but safe way for viewers to find pleasure or is it a dangerous normalization of risk?
We have a panel of experts here to break down the ins-and-outs of condomless sex.
Tony Valenzuela, Writer and Activist whose work focuses on the politics of gay sex, subcultures and assets based perspectives. He’s known as AIDS activism’s most misunderstood man.
Mufasa Ali, Minister and Activist, as well as co-founder of ONYX, a leather group for men of color.
Dr. Braden Berkey, Clinical psychologist whose practice focuses on gay men, and the director of the Center on Halsted’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Institute.
Chuck Renslow, the founder of International Mr. Leather Conference and Convention, was in the audience to talk about why he recently banned bareback porn at IML and the future of the ban.
This is a frank talk about the kind of sex men have in real life and how they “seroadapt” or reduce sexual harm.
For many people, this is just the start of the conversation surrounding sex without condoms, it is not the final word. If you have any questions or insight, please leave a comment and keep the conversation going. Please be respectful and refrain from personal attacks, inflammatory remarks or general hysteria.
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FOF #1037 – Whose Death Panel is it Anyway?
AIDS activist Jim Pickett sheds light to Republican tactics of stalling health care reform.
The fight is on over the future of Healthcare! America may have voted for change but health insurance industry funded conservative Republicans are doing everything in their power, come hell or high water, to misinform the public and stop reform dead in its tracks.
Secret deals with drug companies, Death panels– what’s going on here?
One sad reality is that the only death panels that do exist are inside the health insurance companies, every day life saving treatments are denied to people simply because it doesn’t help their profits.
AIDS activist and writer Jim Pickett is here to help us make sense of it all. Jim is co-chairing the National LGBTI Health Summit, a four day conference to build community networks and share ideas which starts this weekend in Chicago.
How do we inspire a deeper conversation inside our own community around health? What’s at stake if we don’t recognize the needs of gay folks in healthcare reform?
Come to “Risky Business” a live podcast forum at the Center on Halsted in Chicago in Monday, August 17th. Find out how porn – and bareback porn – affect our sexual desires and actions!
In the news:
Will conservative Christians declare the bizarre African frog who feeds her young with her own unfertilized eggs as unholy? You have to see the video to believe it!
The Anti-Gay lobby group Focus on the Family faces hard financial times.
And Viagra ice cream– just another form of P.R. spam or the real deal? On thing that may be the real deal is Peptol Bismol Ice Cream. Would you eat it?
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