Gaucherie

B411 Profile of the Week

2009-04-30T17:28:32Z

Really the crazy thing here is the number of people who are signing his guestbook telling him he is hot. Did they read the part of the profile where he calls the reader a cunt?

factock4u

"Hey I am sorry if you are ugly and you talk and look like BABY HEWEY... [two brain cells and a speach impediment] as in DUH!!!

No matter how nice you seem to be, or how much you say you are DDF. and HIV- and/or straight acting...your not. And you, and your boy friend have an open relationship... because you two haven't had sex together in years... cause your both too fat to fuck together, or you can't get it up due to alcohol addiction... GEE I thought alcohol was a drug. OH and 'DRAMA FREE???

Only because your the local GOSSIP CUNT AND DRAMA manufacturer here in Dallas.. People who live in glass houses should not be throwing stones. Dallas... Plano people... forget that tv show Dallas with JR/Sue Ellen crap get back to being real white single wide trailer trash like the rest of your familyand friends...

Actually decided to go back to college and get few more degrees so I can be a smarter smart ass... Sorry if you hate me but i don't give a shit what anyone thinks about me that does not pay my bills... no one but myself has ever done paid them. Enrolled and now a student at Brookhaven College here in Dallas. "

For Zeke - Nike's Livestrong Lunaracer

2009-04-11T15:38:01Z

In collaboration with Lance Armstrong's Livestrong Foundation, Nike Sportswear will release its latest special-edition sneaker, the Lunaracer, inspired by Armstrong's training regimen. Livestrong collaborations are approaching a saturation point, but the LunaRacer has this to recommend it: It marks the first time two proprietary Nike technologies—Lunarlite foam and "Flywire", both developed for last year's Olympic Games—have been used in the same shoe. The benefits of each are genuinely impressive (the foam makes for a lightweight but incredibly cushioning sole, while Flywire provides strong support without contributing unnecessary bulk); the combination makes the 5.5-ounce sneaker the fastest, strongest, and lightest Nike has ever produced for distance running. They may help your distance, but you'll need speed to get 'em—Nike Sportswear's Soho flagship will be the exclusive retailer, and when they're gone, they're gone.

Why I Love Rugby: The Players Have Balls

2009-04-09T15:53:41Z

Sean Chapin, of the SF Fog and SF Goaldiggers, post a response to the anti gay marriage ad that has been going around the web. The video was picked up and featured by the blog towleroad.com. Way to go Sean! Love the video and congrats.

http://www.towleroad.com/2009/04/samesex-marriage-debate-explodes-a-roundup.html

UPDATE:

Sean is also featured on Queerty.com today for his anti prop 8 song and video "United We Love".

Who Will Win the Bear vs. Twink War?

2009-04-03T16:50:42Z

In response to last weeks "Guerilla Bear Bar" at Badlands Queerty asks "Who Will Win the Bear vs. Twink War?"

The piece is cute and all but this this comment caught my eye, not because it isn't something that I haven't heard before but is something I hear all the time from "non bears".

No. 12 · Jason
This is a serious comment on a lighthearted thread, but what about the rest of us? I live in San Francisco so I'm aware of this split as much as anyone–I'm not thin (but too thin for the bears), still under 30 and with boyish features, but in general too old or masculine for the twinks. I don't really fit in either group.
This is coming off far more "wahhh poor me" than I honestly intend, but it does feel everything is increasingly targeted at one or the other. I don't really care that much beyond that I always feel out of place in one way or another at every gay bar, and wind up just heading over towards the Mission instead.
IMHO, I find the bears to be even more exclusive/judgmental than the twinks, which is saying a lot. I also find their scene to be more hypersexualized, not less. That's on the macro level, though; I have tons of friends from either side of the divide so I'm speaking more about how it feels at those bars than about how specific individuals think or feel.

So how do others feel about this, are the bear exclusive and judgmental or are they just miss understood?

Benefit of the Doubt - Obama's Gay Agenda

2009-04-02T23:48:35Z

Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic Monthly lays out Obama's Gay Agenda and then Andrew Sullivan points out the gapping hole in Obama's plan.

First up, Marc;

... the President has yet to utter a peep about gay rights, producing jitters in the gay rights community. Based on interviews with senior administration officials and with Democrats who advise the White House, here's what's going on.
As soon as the Senate confirms John Berry to head the Office of Personnel Management, Obama intends to sign an executive order strengthening workplace protections for the LGBT community.

Having Berry by his side is important -- Berry'd be the highest-ranking openly gay administration official -- and, of course, as the OPM chief, he's the chief human resource officer for government employees.

This executive order may -- or may not -- be accompanied by other instructions that would have the effect of expanding gay rights.

Then comes legislation expanding the definition of what constitutes a "hate crime" under federal law. It passed the House and Senate last year with ease and included transgender protections. The House can pass it anytime it wants, and will do so within the next few months; the Senate will probably take it up before Memorial Day. White House and Senate sources are confident that there are 60 "yes" votes to avoid a filibuster. Later this year, Obama would sign the hate crimes expansion into law.

The fates of two other gay community priorities are less clear. The Senate could probably muster 60 votes in favor of a national employment non-discrimination act (ENDA) that does not include protection for transgenders; it's not clear at all whether a more expansive ENDA would clear. Passing this through the House won't be a problem, but the gay rights community knows that the onus is on it to find 60 votes in the Senate.

And then there's Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Some activists want Obama to force change to DoD policy through the Defense appropriations authorization bill. That would not survive a filibuster. The preferred route, I am told, is to build consensus. Obama would appoint a panel to study the issue and then wait until after the 2010 elections when there would (could) be more Democratic Senators.

Andrew Responds:

Obama's view on protecting gay servicemembers from harrassment and random firing is best summed up by the phrase "the fierce urgency of whenever":

The preferred route, I am told, is to build consensus. Obama would appoint a panel to study the issue and then wait until after the 2010 elections when there would (could) be more Democratic Senators.

I wonder how Obama would have felt if Truman had followed the same path of cowardice and convenience in 1948, when racial integration was far more contentious in the military than gay integration is today. Or whether he would have applauded if the NAACP had decided that inter-racial marriage was too big a step for them in 1967 and they'd be content with calling it a "civil union." On the matter of civil rights in his own time, alas, the first black president has so far demonstrated the courage of a Clinton.

The GLBT Agenda, as laid out by Marc is pretty stunning, but I can't help but read Andrew's column and find myself agreeing with Mr. Sullivan that ending the outright, career ending, no compromise discrimination against the members of the GLBT community that have volunteered to place their lives on the line for this country should be top priority.

Sporno

2009-03-26T21:25:01Z

When sports and porn collide: SPORNO!

Where The Wild (and gay) Things Are

2009-03-26T05:00:07Z

Author Maurice Sendak: "I’m Gay"

Children’s book author Maurice Sendak has been asked many questions throughout his career, but when New York Times writer Patricia Cohen asked if there is anything he’d never before been asked, the author paused before saying, “Well, that I’m gay.”

The 80-year-old author of the legendary children’s book Where the Wild Things Are revealed in the interview that he “just didn’t think it was anybody’s business.” Sendak told the Times that he lived with his partner, psychoanalyst Eugene Glynn, for 50 years before he passed away in 2007.

Sendak sat down with The New York Times to discuss a benefit celebrating his career. The event drew a slew of celebrity attention, including Meryl Streep, James Gandolfini, and playwright Tony Kushner, who called Sendak one of the most important “writers and artists ever to work in children’s literature.”

Sendak told the Times that he never came out to his parents -- something he says he now regrets. He says he kept quiet about being gay because the idea of a gay man writing children’s books might have killed his career when he was in his 20s and 30s.

Sendak is nearing completion on his latest book, he told the Times, but put work on hold when Glynn took ill. He told the Times that for the first time in his life, he is scared of not being able to finish a project.

“I feel like I don’t have a lot of time left,” he said.

On the heels of the Times interview, Out.com's Popnography blog extended a thanks to Sendak for "deciding at 80 years young there was no point in waiting around any longer to be asked."

The Upside of Prop 8

2009-03-23T16:22:21Z

It greatly reduces the chance of ever being featured on tackyweddings.com

Of course, when I do eventually get married I fully expect to end up looking something like this at the end of the day.

Know Hope - Stonewall Turns 40

2009-03-23T15:57:45Z

Ok, so the song basically sucks but, I posted the video because it enjoyed the fact that acknowledged that images of gays and lesbians, and a gay rights movement, existed before Stonewall (heck before WWII). Also, the video acknowledges the challenges we still face as a community in the US, around the word, and that the future can and will hold new victories.

Bootjacked

2009-03-22T17:08:16Z

I stand at the end of the main trail like I do most Saturday mornings. To my left is the Ben Johnson, one hour of heart pumping hiking up and out of the Muir valley to the scenic Dipsea trail. Straight ahead is the Bootjack trail. Bootjack follows the river that cut the valley over thousands of years. The trail is level and sunlit, but I know this is a trick. The Bootjack is going to climb up and up until it meets the TCC trail 1.7 miles from the point I stand on now. The Ben Johnson is steep but short, relatively.

I look at the trail map one more time, Bootjack to TCC to Stapelveldt and return via Ben Johnson. By the time I get back to my car I will have walked 6 miles and climbed or descended about 2000 feet total.

I step off the main trail onto Bootjack. The river is still full with the rain from winter. The morning fog has burned off and the sun is coming through the unbelievably tall red woods and pines that have stood in this valley for hundreds of years. There is a gentle rise to the wide and well traveled trail. The stream becomes louder as it starts to fall more steeply. My breathing picks up a bit but is still steady and quiet. Quickly I am out of the sun and buried under the forest as the hill steepens. At times the stream is more like a waterfall as it races down the hillside to the valley below. I alternate between walking next to the stream or standing thirty feet above it trying not to think of the fact that I am here alone, earlier in the morning, and the trail is slick.

I cross bridge after bridge as water feeds the stream from all directions. The wood on each is bridge is old soft and wet. There is moss growing on the railings. I try and not think of all the last time someone made sure they were sound as I cross them.

A bridge, with steel supports, crosses the main stream and now I am on a long switch back up the left bank. I climb through a clearing and pass the a small bench. Back into the woods I meet up with the stream again and cross over to the right hand bank again and keep climbing.

Steps. Steps created by old railroad ties laid years before hand. Slick and muddy I climb the steps in the hillside. On rare occasions a simple message has been carved into the step; "Bootjack", "Muir Woods", "Ranger Station", "3 Miles". My heart skips a beat, three miles to the ranger station??? That can't be right the TCC is supposed to meet up with the Bootjack near the ranger station it can't be three miles from here. I start to think of the time I actually got lost in Muir woods for a few hours when I mistakenly took a side trail and ended up sliding down hillsides on my ass to get back to the valley floor. Soon I see a trail marker, it's the TCC, I am not lost. I know the worst of the climbing is over, the TCC follows the hillside staying relatively level the whole way.

As I am shouldering my Camelback, after a short break, I hear voices coming along the TCC, loud voices. Joggers. We say our good mornings as they run by. Disappointed I will have to share the trail with runners I start along the TCC. The trail is easy and scenic. Occasional breaks in the trees let me see out across the valley. Other times I walk through the special hush of a redwood grove. I only encounter a handful of the other people on the 1.4 miles of the TCC before I hook up with Stapelveldt trail. A half mile of of short switch backs that descend towards the Ben Johnson trail. Suddenly I am in a small clearing with a bench, above me are the switchbacks that lead to the Dipsea trail, behind me is Stapleveldt, and ahead is Ben Johnson.

But before that is a tree, fallen across the trail. This is new, I think. The roots over a good half the trail and the trunk the other half as the tree points down the hillside. I am going to have to scramble over the slick trunk to get down the Ben Johnson. I try not to think about the tree destabilizing and sliding down the side of the hill while I am on top of it. Ben Johnson drops steeply back to the valley floor. I have been hiking for 4.5 miles before I start to descend. Quickly my ankles and big toes are begging for a break. Near the bottom of Ben Johnson I run into a young couple with an infant strapped to the husbands chest. His bald head is covered in sweat already. I resist the urge to tell them the still have at least half a mile of steep climbing to go before they hit anything more level.

At the bottom of Ben Johnson I decide to take the Hillside trail back to the main trail to try and avoid some of the crowd that has finally arrived at Muir. Hillside is wide flat and easy but my feet hate me at this point and my mind starts to focus on the warm dry interior of my car. Passing the tour bus crowd on the Hillside trail I am finally back on the main trail. I stop at the entrance to report the fallen tree to the Rangers before heading back to my car. I strip off a few lawyers in the parking lot and break out an energy bar to help recover. My prime parking spot which I claimed before 8 AM this morning, is quickly claimed by an excited family as I begin another climb out of Muir Valley and home.

"Blow Me"

2009-03-19T20:09:08Z

Christian conservatives are up in arms over a new inflatable toy by comic book and film giant Marvel. The inflatable Wolverine doll comes with a strategically placed inflation tube --

Proud Friends of Mary's

2009-03-16T19:40:05Z

Some Polish Catholics apparently had a fit over gays being represented in an IKEA CATALOGUE (pages 54-57). Ikea was pressured to respond to the letters from the angry Catholics so they issued this statement:

"Homosexuality is one of the essential elements of living in contemporary society."

'nuff said

Proud Mary's

2009-03-16T19:25:28Z

There are three kinds of camp; good camp (Showgirls), bad camp (Spice Girls), and tired camp (It's Raining Men).

This, my friends, is good camp.

My Name is Durden, Tyler Durden

2009-03-13T04:53:42Z

Oliver Peoples is re-releasing Tyler Durden's signature sunglasses from the film "Fight Club". The OP-523, out of production since 2000, is available now for a limited time in two colors: silver with blood-red glass and gold with orange glass. Only 75 of each will be sold. Get them while supplies last, just make sure you don't tell anyone.

Why I Love Rugby: The Players are Just Weird

2009-03-11T23:44:11Z

Members of a rugby team trying to look up inside their own butt to read a sticker placed there by the host.

I love this video for two reasons 1) rugby players are the only members of a team sport likely to participate in something like this and 2) this would never happen with any team sport in the US without some insane "role model" out cry from the more conservative elements of our society.

U of C Frat Boys Vs. Westboro Baptist Church

2009-03-11T23:31:07Z

Not the greatest anti-protest ever but as the saying goes, it's the thought that counts ...

As a fellow "Frat Boy" (Theta Chi '94 - Gamma Upsilon Chapter (and yes I came out to my brothers in '92)), I would like to extended Fraternity Honors to my Alpha Delta Phi Brothers in Arms.

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I Just Fell in Love

2009-03-10T20:25:27Z

I am sure you have all heard but just in case here is the clip of Britney letting the whole audience in on her "wardrobe malfunction"

I swear she should print this up on T-Shirts and sell them.

Charting Your Favorite Songs

2009-03-06T20:51:08Z

http://www.just-whatever.com/2009/02/18/musical-statistics/

Web 4.0 - OMFG!

2009-03-06T19:36:16Z

For Zeke - The Gayest March Madness Ever!

2009-03-05T17:16:43Z

"Excited" Bush Voter Shows Republicans the Light

2009-03-05T01:23:48Z

John Cole, "excited" Bush voter, shows the Republican's why their "Fail" campaign is so disgusting to the rest of America. The whole piece is worth a read to remind ourselves of the state of the country at the time of the Bush election, the controversy over the vote, the mild recession, the missing "W" keys, the economic surplus, and the fact that when in 2001 the shit hit the fan the Democratic party stepped up and supported a man they had deep disagreements.

Maybe the Republican's need to be reminded that they are hoping that that a wartime President fails.

.... Show me Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid standing in front of a camera saying “I want President Bush to fail” just like we have seen Mike Pence and the parade of other Republican leaders do in the past few days. ... And then when you are done, you can show me the video tapes or transcripts of all the Democrats groveling and begging for forgiveness at the feet of Michael Moore (who, by the way, is fat) after dissing him.

*** Update ***

Also, when a real crisis happened on 9/11, I remember the Democrats rushing to do whatever Bush wanted. I remember hand-holding and singing on the Capitol Steps. I don’t remember them hoping Bush’s response would fail.

Ok, This Guy is Truly a "Bear"

2009-03-04T17:56:21Z

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If Bruce Wayne Was a Fashion Victim

2009-03-03T07:51:09Z

Dress it up all you want it's still a waist bag.

As part of the Jil Sander Spring/Summer 2009 collection comes a series of utility belts. Each belt features numerous pouches, perfect to stow away anything that you absolutely need to have with you at all time.

Umm, no.

Know Hope - Us Vs. Them

2009-03-01T03:55:05Z

President Obama raised tens of millions from small donors, he isn't beholden to the corporate special interests like every member of congress, Democrats and Republicans alike, so he has the freedom to change the argument from the traditional Democrats Vs. Republican gridlock and instead change the argument to the American People Vs. Corporate Welfare.

It will be fun to see Exxon stamp it's feet begging for tax breaks while posting record profits quarter after quarter and don't even get me started on the ridiculous waste in the student loan and medicare system that does nothing but pad private companies pockets with public money. Kudos to the President for shining a light on these long standing, well known, pockets of corporate welfare.

"I realize that passing this budget won't be easy. Because it represents real and dramatic change, it also represents a threat to the status quo in Washington. I know that the insurance industry won't like the idea that they'll have to bid competitively to continue offer ing Medicare coverage, but that's how we'll help preserve and protect Medicare and lower health care costs for American families. I know that banks and big student lenders won't like the idea that we're ending their huge taxpayer subsidies, but that's how we'll save taxpayers nearly $50 billion and make college more affordable. I know that oil and gas companies won't like us ending nearly $30 billion in tax breaks, but that's how we'll help fund a renewable energy economy that will create new jobs and new industries. I know these steps won't sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business, and I know they're gearing up for a fight as we speak. My message to them is this:

"'So am I."

"The system we have now might work for the powerful and well-connected interests that have run Washington for far too long, but I don’t. I work for the American people. I didn’t come here to do the same thing we’ve been doing or to take small steps forward, I came to provide the sweeping change that this country demanded when it went to the polls in November."

Big Brother UK + Zombies = Awesome

2009-03-01T03:36:55Z

What if you were locked in the big brother house just as zombies took over the world? Wonder no more! This is an actual show on BBC 4, coming to a DVD near you soon.

Dead Set - TV Trailer