“Bears Can Dance” Review @ DC Bear Scene

Bears Can Dance – 495 Bears new monthly “T-Dance” upstairs at the Green Lantern – is a sexually-charged, growling furfest with familiar and new faces, colorful alcohol opportunities, hot bellies on hot bears dancing to well-mixed familiar tunes in a visually stimulating environment. 495 Bears organizers installed the disco lights from their own homes onto the ceiling of the too-familiar second floor, bringing a needed new atmosphere and genuine Bear Dance Floor to Sunday afternoons. If you miss Titan Bar, or are longing for a true Bear Happy Hour in Washington, D.C. you owe it to yourself to check this out.

via “Bears Can Dance” Review @ DC Bear Scene.

SF Weekly Music columnist tries to identify with her gay roommate

In San Fran, it’s not just the gay folks who “Gay it Forward.” Cute article on the SF Scene:

I took the opportunity to open the discussion of music, because he plays the same five songs over and over every day, and they are the worst shit I have ever heard. They sound like the no-name band’s song with girlie teenage vocals that gets played at the end of made-for-TV Hilary Duff movies. He plays the newest Britney CD when he is in the shower. He also told me the new Pussycat Dolls record was available online, and that he was totally psyched. (Breathe … breathe…)

So, I asked, what is with a 22-year old man listening to that crap? His answer was actually really good: “I’m gay.” It sort of stopped me in my tracks, as I had forgotten this element. I tried to make an example of gay people who have great taste in music, of which there are many, but all I saw were pictures of gay faves like Abba, Madonna, and Erasure dancing through my head. This is the shitty music of a different generation, though, alas. Now the torch is being passed.

“You have to see The Women,” he said to me. “It was soooo good!” He had it on DVD. But it wasn’t my all-time favorite movie from 1939, which I already own; it was the recent, completely retarded remake. I pointed out to him that the original was an iconic gay film. “Huh,” he said.

So here’s when I realized that I was being really annoying, and that no one needs to hear how lame he is all the time. No matter how idiotic his taste is, ’tis far, far worse for me to keep pointing that out…

via San Francisco Music – Underwear Night at 440 Castro

I’m going through the author Katy St. Clair’s previous articles. Love her.

Bong-busting boycott of Kellogg bubbling along

Bursting with indignation, legions of legalize-marijuana advocates are urging a boycott of Kellogg Co., including all of its popular munchies, for deciding to cut ties with Olympic hero Michael Phelps after he was photographed with a pot pipe.

via Pro-pot group smokes Kellogg for axing Phelps – Olympic Sports- nbcsports.msnbc.com.

Indignation? Let’s talk about indignation. For decades this country’s leaders have been riding indignation in order to fuel the prison industry. We criminalize and deny rights to otherwise law abiding citizens with a drug war that is financially cumbersome, and costs countess American lives through the violence that prohibition inevitably creates. Kellogg’s, after selling box after box with images of the record-breaking gold-medal Olympian, decides that his one-time private use of marijuana was “not consistent with the image of Kellogg.”

Well if marijuana use isn’t consistent with Kellogg, so be it, say the potheads. The website BoycottKellogs.net points to the National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws (NORML) Kellog’s boycott page and over 70 Kellogg products to boycott:

Cereal and snack manufacturer Kellogg’s announced that it will not renew its sponsorship contract with 14-time Olympic gold medal champion Michael Phelps. A Kellogg Company spokesperson said that Phelps’ recent acknowledgment of marijuana use, and subsequent apology, was “not consistent with the image” of the company.

We disagree!

As NORML wrote earlier this week, it’s not Michael Phelps who should be castigated, but rather it’s the absurd and hypocritical laws that criminalize the behavior of Phelps and tens of millions of other successful and productive Americans like him that is worthy of condemnation.

Millions of Americans agree. In fact, in the past week dozens of high profile pundits and commentators — including Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post, Stanton Peele in the Wall Street Journal, and Doug Bandow in National Review Online — have demanded a repeal of America’s archaic and overly punitive pot laws.

Michael Phelps is in good company. Nearly one out of two Americans have admitted using marijuana. Whether or not the most decorated athlete in history chooses to unwind during his off time with a glass of wine or a bit of cannabis is really none of the government’s — or our — business.

Please take time today to contact the Kellogg Corporation. Tell them that you oppose their decision to drop Michael Phelps and that, as a result of their actions, you will not be purchasing any Kellogg’s related products for the next three months (or until the company decides to reinstate the Phelps as their spokesperson).

Maybe Kellogg doesn’t deserve Michael Phelps.

Kellogg’s statement rejecting Michael Phelps wasn’t just a business decision. They could have quietly let the contract go. No, they had to make a point to say that Phelps – who trained hour upon hour a day, who pushed himself to be the best he could be for the country and who likely had a goal of being on a Wheaties box – because he was caught with one bong hit was “not consistent” with Kellogg’s. What is consistent with Kellogg except sugar coated breakfasts and the rise of diabetes in America? Fuck Kellogg.

And Michael, stop apologizing. Be a leader.

Stephen Andrew Moller gets no parole

Stephen Moller who is serving a prison sentence for killing Sean Kennedy, a young gay man in Greenville County, SC, was denied request for parole Wednesday morning. He will complete his sentence in July.

via No Parole; Stephen Moller Will Remain in Prison | WSPA.