FOF #844 – Let Your Freak Flag Fly Freely
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19 commentsGet your fetish gear ready folks! Whip it up. Whooo. On today’s Feast of Fools we’ve got Demetri Moshoyannis, he’s the sexy executive director for the Folsom Street Fair, one of the largest spectator events in California.
As one of the few occasions when sadomasochistic activities are encouraged and performed in public, it attracts a considerable number of sightseers and those who enjoy the attention of onlookers as well as the hundreds of photographers and videographers.
Folsom Street Fair is part of San Francisco’s Leather week, taking place on Sunday Sept 28 in San Francisco!
Demetri talks about the how the fair went from being a neighborhood gathering to a full on freak festival and the controversy over their 2007 poster, a queer take on DaVinci’s famous “Last Supper” painting.
Fundamentalist groups called the poster an offensive take on a religious image, but why did they ignore the Simpsons’, Battle Star Gallatica’s and all the other pop icon takes on the same painting?
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Get out of the sun! Scientists say suntans are unsafe at any level. The same mechanism that tells a cell to get tan destroys DNA which is the first step in mutation that may lead to cancer. You’ve heard it for years but we really hope you are using sunscreen. But, on the other hand maybe the British scientists who conducted the study are just trying to justify their pale complexions.
Daniel Radcliffe’s naked American debut in Eqqus. Paul gives all the details about young Daniel’s manscaping techniques and whether he was really into his love scenes with his female costar or not. We had no idea that Daniel’s character rides bareback on a hot male actor portraying a horse. Yippee Yee ha! Giddy up and go!
All this and more on today’s gay fun show!
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FOF #813 – Market Days Preview
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It just might be the gayest event in the whole midwest.
On today’s show Jason Heidemann, the Gay & Lesbian editor for Time Out Chicago talks about Northalsted Market Days, the largest and gayest street festival in the Midwest.
Jason describes the month of June and all the Pride events surrounding it as Thanksgiving with your family which is fun but a time of reflection and thanks for all we’ve achieved.
But Northalsted Market Days is simply one giant gay party with no agenda except to have a good time. In many ways, Market Days is the party we all want to have after the Pride Parade is over but have nowhere to go and often have to work the next day.
Listen as we give you the inside scoop on what to see, what to do and who to do this weekend as over 200,000 people gather to hang out in the gorgeous Lakeview area and feast on street food, drink in public and enjoy the tinny sound of 80s has-been bands like Expose!
One perennial favorite of the street fair is the Steamworks booth which is more like a mini-mall featuring an eclectic mix of staff, porn stars and local residents playing twister for kitchsy prizes. I’m definitively not as limber as some of these famous adult actors, but it sure is fun to “lose” in this game, if you consider losing as lying under a pile of handsome men.
Some men like a challenge, I don’t.
Be sure to keep an eye out on our flickr photo gallery for pics of guys (and gals) kissing each other with joyful bliss. It’s always a hit with the online photo bloggers.
One thing thing that everyone loves to talk about to this day is the phallic, awkward pylons that anchor the Halsted Street area between Addison and Belmont as the official “gay” area of Chicago. When they were first erected, many people thought they were odd, ugly and way too gay, but over the years I’ve grown to like them a lot and embrace their quirky, rocket like presence looming over us like trees in Lord of the Rings.
If these pylons could talk!
By the way, kudos for Time Out Chicago for making their whole issue go gay. It looks fabulous, especially the cover of the handsome young blond man spraying us with his hose and cooling us from the summer heat.
We’re hoping to do interviews from the Mark Twain Hotel in San Francisco and plan on getting as many of the folks from Trannyshack on the show in person, talking about the queer legacy of San Francisco, Harvey Milk, the Coquettes and what it means to the rest of the world. But, we need your support to help make it happen. It’s just around the corner so please give a helping hand.
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