Executive Director of PhillyGayCalendar
This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend an old friend’s show: Oz! Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Taking place at Stewart Middle School, this one night only event was produced, casted and stared by drag queen Aida Snatchwell.
Each has a definite ‘gay presence’ but only a handful of genuine gay clubs, bars, and restaurants.
Generally one thinks of Switzerland in terms of mountains, cheese and chocolate. While this is true, one could also think of it in terms of Gay women and men. German, French and Italian yet all Swiss!
I won’t belabor you with in depth recaps about your recent media involvement or even about this most recent incident when you were reportedly arrested in an attempt to solicit a male prostitute – as you, unlike the rest of us, were present for it all. I would like to focus less on your actions and more on the things that it seems you are not doing – or perhaps unable to fathom.
Last Saturday I was on a panel with a bunch of grown-up smarties about archiving, affect, and activism at Giovanni’s Room. I spoke for a little while about zines and my involvement in the Philadelphia zine community. The event went well, and I learned a lot from the other presenters.
Cologne Pride is one of the largest gay and lesbian events in Germany as well as all of Europe. In recent years there have been over one million participants in Cologne with even more expected this July.
Forearms are usually one of the forgotten muscles to train and if we don’t give them the right attention they could end up making us look like T-REX.
Hot Dark-haired men and the best hummus in the world – Yum!
Ain Gordon is an Obie award-winning playwright and actor currently in residence at Painted Bride Art Center in conjunction with Place Philadelphia, an eighteen month project at the Bride intended to unearth unknown stories of the city to share with the community through the Bride’s tradition of collaborative experiential art.
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