Linkaholic: 10/28/09
Oct 29th, 09 in Linkaholic by Mark- Burglaries, assalts, and battery. Oh my!
Castro Courier - Ronn Vigh covers the first annual B.Y.O.Q. music festival in Golden Gate Park
VidSF - True Blood season 3 gets even gayer
Dorothy Is Dead - San Francisco’s People, by Philip Bloom
Laughing Squid - Fear Heads mural in the Tenderloin
Laughing Squid - In Re: Bridge: Does this mean Halloween is back on?
SFist - Single Ladies gets an indie cover
Gay.com - Profile: The Dead Betties
Gay.com - Locked & loaded: Madame returns
BAR - An angry anniversary
BAR - USA’s safest cities? Surprise: SF is not one of them
SF Gate - I’d hit it
D-Listed - Fruit bats found to practice oral sex
Towelroad - Dick-o-lantern
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Dot.GAY?
Oct 26th, 09 in Community by Lotus
Spotted this over on Edge. The Dot Gay Alliance, a group of gay and gay-friendly social entrepreneurs, is seeking approval of a LGBT domain identifiable by its suffix. The purpose of the establishing the top-level domain is to provide “a reliable and ethical source of funding for LGBT civil rights.” According to the group “51% of all profits earned will be returned to the LGBT community in the form of grants to leading civil rights organizations.” Sounds great but adoption of less popular top-level domains hasn’t exactly been through roof with the majority of people purchasing them primarily to protect their .com offering. In addition many view any business that doesn’t own a dot.com extension as an amateur. What are your thoughts? Read the full story here.
Absolut Vodka bares all for gay rights
Oct 25th, 09 in Arts/Culture/Fashion, Community, Food & Drink by Lotus
Long time supporter of the LGBT community Absolute has removed the label from it’s iconic bottle as part of it’s latest iniative — In an ABSOLUT World, There Are No Labels. The limited edition naked bottle launched globally this month featuring only a small removable sticker encouraging consumers to discard their labels and to visit absolut.com/nolabel. The program seeks to challenge prejudice about sexual identities.
The original marriage equality ad
Oct 24th, 09 in Community by Lotus
This tip in from our friends over at The Dog and Pony Show. Turns out that great Irish spot for marriage equality was a re-do of American spot done back in 2005. It’s nice to see a powerful idea shared and executed well by all parties. Check out the original after the jump.
GirlonGirl Dodgeball 11/07/09
in Community, Entertainment, Events by Lotus
Saturday November 7th marks the fifth year of this annual dodgeball tournament. Combining “balls, beats, booze and boobs into one ladies-only drunken dodgeball playground” the event raises money for various bay area womens’ and girls’ athletics and features teams from all over the state. This year team brackets sold out in a record 4 days and they are expecting their biggest turn out yet. Teams compete for a grand prize of $600 with additional prizes for the best dressed team and craziest fan club.
Dyke rockabilly this Saturday
Oct 23rd, 09 in Entertainment by Mark
The Mighty Slim Pickins, your favorite all-dyke rockabilly band, is playing this Saturday as part of a three band, rock-a-billy, “dirty country” night! Annie’s Social Club is hosting this country-pompadour flavored night of music, cowboy boots, lassos, and Murrays hair pomade. Catch “Naked and Shameless,” a dirty country duo from Chicago at 9pm and then feast your eyes and ears on The Mighty Slim Pickins! Finishing the evening is “Three Bad Jacks; hunky, high-octane, rockabilly boys from L.A.!
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Irish Marriage equality ad
Oct 22nd, 09 in Community by Mark
Check out this beautiful and powerful ad created by MarriagEquality, a group fighting for civil marriage rights for gays and lesbians in Ireland. I haven’t seen anything nearly as effective from American marriage equality groups. Or am I just living in an SF bubble? Full video after the jump.
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Tranny Fest transgender film festival
in Arts/Culture/Fashion, Entertainment by Mark
Tranny Fest transgender film festival returns in November with two evenings of local, national, and international short films and videos and a one-night-only performance event.
Tranny Fest was founded in 1997 by Christopher Lee and Al Austin and is the world’s first transgender/genderqueer film festival.
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R.I.P. Castro Halloween
Oct 16th, 09 in Community, The Castro by Mark
According to SFPD’s press release today, Halloween in the Castro remains dead and buried again this year.
There will be no City-sponsored venue in the Castro district for Halloween, Saturday, October 31. There will be no official entertainment provided and no street closures are planned.
The San Francisco Police Department will be enforcing a zero-tolerance policy regarding public drinking and any other criminal activity. Those violating laws prohibiting the consumption of alcohol in public will be subject to arrest.
Photo by deerwnod on Photobucket
SF company making $600K to fight against gay couples
Oct 15th, 09 in Community by MarkAs reported by our friends at SF Appeal.
The company… has been paid nearly $360K. They’re also listed 12 more times in the “unpaid debts” section, billing about $240K more. So, so far they stand to make at least $600,000 off the deal. Coincidentally, this is just slightly higher than the extra tax burden shouldered by many gay couples due to discriminatory tax penalties.
