The Los Padres Chapter of the Sierra Club displayed their "Green Block" as part of the Ventura Street Fair in Ventura on the 4th of July. The 30th annual street fair is mainly a shopping extraveganza, but the "Green Block" was selling ideas: how to Save the World for Kids, and how to Green the Home. The Ventura City Environmental Department showed kids how to recycle which items and how to win prizes with the correct answers to their quiz. Air Pollution Control District of Ventura had games for kids and prizes, as did the KidsVsGlobalWarming booth run by young teens. The MEChA Club from Oxnard College was requesting help to get rid of toxic waste in their community, and the younger kids painted pictures of what they do to Save The World! For the adults as well as kids, there were prizes and more prizes for answering correctly the questions about how to save money, energy and reduce global warming - at center stage, hosted by 3 teenagers actively participating in the environment: Eric Fernandez, Shannon McComb and Alec Loorz. Ladybugs and wonderful aromas brought many landscape enthusiasts to Nature by Design's booth. Free bike parking was provided for all fair goers. It was a great day for the saving energy, saving money and saving the environment!
It just might be the gayest event in the whole midwest. On today s show Jason Heidemann, the Gay Lesbian editor for Time Out Chicago talks about Northalsted Market Days, the largest and gayest street festival in the Midwest. Jason describes the month of June and all the Pride events surrounding it as Thanksgiving with your family which is fun but a time of reflection and thanks for all we ve achieved. But Northalsted Market Days is simply one giant gay party with no agenda except to have a good time. In many ways, Market Days is the party we all want to have after the Pride Parade is over but have nowhere to go and often have to work the next day. Listen as we give you the inside scoop on what to see, what to do and who to do this weekend as over 200,000 people gather to hang out in the gorgeous Lakeview area and feast on street food, drink in public and enjoy the tinny sound of 80s has-been bands like Expose! One perennial favorite of the street fair is the Steamworks booth which is more like a mini-mall featuring an eclectic mix of staff, porn stars and local residents playing twister for kitchsy prizes. I m definitively not as limber as some of these famous adult actors, but it sure is fun to lose in this game, if you consider losing as lying under a pile of handsome men. Some men like a challenge, I don t. Be sure to keep an eye out on our flickr photo gallery for pics of guys (and gals) kissing each other with joyful bliss. It s always a hit with the online photo bloggers. One thing thing that everyone loves to talk about to this day is the phallic, awkward pylons that anchor the Halsted Street area between Addison and Belmont as the official gay area of Chicago. When they were first erected, many people thought they were odd, ugly and way too gay, but over the years I ve grown to like them a lot and embrace their quirky, rocket like presence looming over us like trees in Lord of the Rings. If these pylons could talk! By the way, kudos for Time Out Chicago for making their whole issue go gay. It looks fabulous, especially the cover of the handsome young blond man spraying us with his hose and cooling us from the summer heat. We re hoping to do interviews from the Mark Twain Hotel in San Francisco and plan on getting as many of the folks from Trannyshack on the show in person, talking about the queer legacy of San Francisco, Harvey Milk, the Coquettes and what it means to the rest of the world. But, we need your support to help make it happen. It s just around the corner so please give a helping hand. We re trying to raise approximately $2820.00 in the next two weeks to cover the costs of the trip and repair our recording equipment to make it happen. Will you help? Click here below to donate: The podcast that makes it s own gravy- Feast of Fools. Featured Music: Gaye Adegbalola - Gaye Without Shame: iTunes | Amazon RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE Share & Save
An old-fashion drag queen from Columbia was" working the crowd" on the outskirts of the Queens annual Gay Pride Fair. Complete with a Mexican servant, a rainbow poodle and an "old" parrot, this spectacular exhibitionist created "unreal theater" on the street. Randy Wicker couldn't resist giving "commentary with attitude" during this report. It's a lot of fun. Randy certainly got his $5 worth videotaping this event.
Gay street fairs are public events. In urban areas, like the Borough of Queens in NYC, you find a mixture of cultures and many immigrant communities. I decided to try interviewing people, especially people who looked like they just might have 'wandered' in, about "what it was like going to a gay street fair for the first time?" This is the first of two or three vlogs focusing on this subject.
