Hey Guys,
I write to talk about my new gay-themed, campy slasher “Skull &
Bones” (USA, 2007, 73 minutes). The tagline “A Tale of Homo-cidal
Mania” sums up my original and darkly humorous take on a traditional
genre: http://www.skullandbonesthemovie.com
Allow me to highlight other key features of the film:
Continue reading ‘SKULL & BONES–Nasty gay fetish slasher film’
In the current issue of the SF Bay Times, queer rock columnist Don Baird penned a eulogy of Adam Block. Block was a rock journalist who for many years had a column in the gay news magazine The Advocate called Block on Rock. Despite the stereotype of gays being only into dance music, he was writing for a gay audience about rock music, as the title of the column forthrightly stated.I started reading his column in the mid-1980s when I was a student in Northfield, Minnesota. The library at Carleton College had a subscription. I was a student at the Lutheran college St. Olaf (no Golden Girls jokes, please) and I would cross town to go to the gay support group at the more liberal Carleton (and met my first two boyfriends, both “Carls.”)I kept reading the magazine after graduation at Quatrefoil Library in St. Paul, a gay non-profit lending library, and sometime in 1988 in Adam’s column, he wrote about early gay zines (the word queer hadn’t come into vogue yet) including G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce’s J.D.s, which I sent off for and received in the mail. I also wrote off for copies of Homocore and Boysville U.S.A. Eventually I started my own zine, Holy Titclamps, and in 1990, as I noted in the editorial introduction to issue #4, Adam wrote up my zine in his column in The Advocate. Through his writing and sharing information, Adam did a lot to spread the word and had a major impact on development of the queercore scene. A lot of his old columns can be found on microfilm of back issues of The Advocate in libraries. I would suggest seeking them out.I wish I’d taken an opportunity to tell Adam about the impact he had on me while he was still around.
The Divys have released their home-made video for the club mix of their single, Freddie, Are You Single?. The song won ‘Best Electronic Song’ by The John Lennon Songwriting Contest in September 2006: www.jlsc.com/winners/2006a/winners.php
Sure, this version is not punk music, per se, but it does have a punk rock approach as the band totally wrote, acted and filmed and edited the video themselves.
It might remind you of the classic Cindy Lauper video, ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’, with the drag-queens thrown into it. It’s a hilarious video! ENJOY!
The Divys are also featured on the video game, ‘Dance Dance Revolution: Universe 2′ for XBox as of December 2007 and will be in arcades worldwide. http://xbox360.gamezone.com/news/10_25_07_08_04AM.htm
The song, ‘Get Up! Give Up! Move On!’, was the band’s attempt at writing a DEVO song. And they feel very happy with the outcome.
You can hear it at: www.punkrockers.com/TheDivys
Reposted from the HOMO A GOGO myspace
Let’s talk about what’s going on with our fair festival, in a, “State of the HAGG address,” sort of way. You are probably wondering when and where the next festival will be so you can start to plan your gaycation. We are working on some great big gay changes and want to keep you all updated.
We have reassessed the plan to do a 2008 festival and realize that we are not ready. Queer Arts in Action, the “parent” organization of Homo A Go Go, doesn’t have the financial resources to make Homo A Go Go 2008 a reality.
We need your help to keep Homo A Go Go go-going. We are putting our fundraising and non-profit organizational plans in motion during this next year. These include membership programs (programs that people donate to the non-profit organization on a monthly or yearly basis), fundraising parties in several cities, HAGG merchandise and online programming. This leaves us with the necessary conclusion to wait to launch the next festival on July 29-August 2, 2009. We feel this was a difficult but necessary move to make.
I’d also like to officially announce that HAGG is moving out of Olympia. This was another difficult decision to make because there are many reasons why we love to be in our home town. There are some issues that have made Olympia challenging: lack of appropriate and affordable venues and inaccessibility to attendees travelling to the festival. Another reasons is that, I as the executive director, don’t live in Olympia anymore (I live in Los Angeles), and trying to keep the festival in Olympia is difficult on the organization and on me personally. There are currently two proposals on the table for the 2009 location: Los Angeles and San Francisco. We are currently looking at production budgets and feasibility for each city. We are doing an online survey so we can get an idea of where YOU would like to be in 2009. Follow the link below to vote!
The staff also recognizes that it is necessary to adapt the festival programming to acknowledge that HAGG has become a sort of, “family reunion,” for many people. We want to keep offering amazing music, film, art, spoken word and workshops, but we also want to make sure we build in more time for connecting. The result is that instead of simply offering more music, film, art, performance and workshops, we want to change our programming to adapt to a very specific audience and to offer some more interactive programming.
Lastly, we’d like to clear up some confusion that seemed to come with the announcement that we would do HAGG in Los Angeles in 2007. We have no intention of having HAGG in multiple cities or in franchising HAGG. HAGG will continue to be a single festival produced by the non-profit organization, Queer Arts in Action (QAA). QAA will be the only producer of the HAGG festival.
Love,
Ed Varga
QAA/HAGG Executive Director
aka head homo
p.s. now go vote! LA or SF?
Allison from the LA Gay and Lesbian Center sent me a nice e-mail informing me of a cool Queer Music Fest happening here in SoCal. The headliners are QueerPunks.com faves Girl In A Coma, who happen to be on Joan Jett’s Blackheart Records.
Check out the flyer below - Click on the thumbnail to see the full size. 
The gay community’s favorite meathead punk has spoken out about gay marriage and leigislator creep Larry Craig.
How ironic is it that Sen. Larry Craig was nailed for coming on to an undercover cop after he ran under the family values flag?
It’s really ironic but if someone is gay, he should be able to express himself and not eat hand grenades every day. He [Craig] is an older guy. Coming out was not an option for him. He had to be so suppressed and so he married a woman and procreated. It’s too bad that’s the life he had to live, and it’s especially weird if he voted for anti-gay legislation. If you put your hand under the men’s room stall, that’s not going to go quietly in the night. The hypocrisy is obvious in his case. I’m being easy on the guy and I shouldn’t because he’s an asshole.
Source: Cleveland Free Times via TowleRoad
Hey Everyone!
I was just on Pansy Division’s MySpace Page and noticed they have a bunch of new tour dates. Sweet!
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Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland | Los Angeles, California | ||
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San Diego, CA - The Casbah | San Diego, California | ||
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Corona (Orange County), CA - Showcase Theatre | Corona (Orange County), California | ||
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Phoenix, AZ - The Sets | Phoenix, Arizona | ||
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Albuquerque, NM - Launch Pad | Albuquerque, New Mexico | ||
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Austin, TX - Red 7 | Austin, Texas | ||
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Oklahoma City, OK - The Conservatory | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | ||
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St. Louis, MO - Creepy Crawl | St. Louis, Missouri | ||
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Chicago, IL - Reggie’s | Chicago, Illinois | ||
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Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom | Cleveland, Ohio | ||
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Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||
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Baltimore, MD - venue TBA | Baltimore, MD | ||
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Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell’s | Hoboken, New Jersey | ||
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New York or Boston - TBA | New York or Boston - TBA | ||
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New York or Boston - TBA | New York or Boston - TBA |
Guerilla Gay Bar, My favorite gay community activism, has a great article in the New York Times.
Organizers send out save-the-date e-mail messages and announce the location one day before an event to catch the site and its patrons off guard. Sometimes there is a parting of the sea, with all the gay men on one side and the straight patrons on the other. Sometimes the patrons look annoyed; sometimes they offer warm welcomes.
“They’re very welcome here,” said Sarah Stebbings, a bartender at Cock ’n Bull Pub, a British bar in Santa Monica, which was invaded by the group last January. “They packed the place out.”
Jorge Castillo, 36, an arts professor, said that the guerrilla concept is not for everyone. Mr. Castillo said it challenges gay men who suffer from “heterophobia.”
“A lot of gay guys are scared” to get out of their comfort zone, he said. “They think people are going to judge them.”
Check out the aritcle here. Unfortunately you’ll have to go through the free sign-up process, but it’s not too painful.
Spinner.com has listed the “20 Rockin’ Gay Moments” and I can’t help but think they’re way off and didn’t really do any research at all.
Check it out here and feel free to add the “rockin’ gay moments” that you remember.
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