Thursday 12/3/2009
What Happened NY?
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How disappointing! The New York State Senate voted to reject Marriage Equality, leaving the majority of people in the state who support the bill wondering- who are they representing? Why the hate?
But it's not all bad news- Family Ties star Meredith Baxter comes out of the closet as a woman loving woman, ignoring the advice from her gal pal Rupert Evert to keep her lezzie loving ways a secret, since openly gay actors have a harder time finding work in Hollywood.
Although Christmas is days away, Europeans are getting read to celebrate St. Nick's Day, where the good kids get candy, and the bad kids get coal or even taken away by Krampus, a demonic looking figure with fur, horns and a long pink tongue.
Marc's friend Solitaire Miles joins us to give us the scoop on Santa's Satanic-looking sidekick.
Also making it big online:
Lou Dobbs challenges the President- will the former CNN anchor be Palin's bottom for the Presidential ticket in 2012?
Strapped for cash this holiday season? A British couple is turning to homemade porn as a source of revenue for their wedding.
Twitter suicides, tips for the common cold and the woman named Jesus Christ.
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Interactive Male, the hottest gay chatline in North America announces the winner of the Big Gay Kiss Contest. See the winning video and all the other hot entries at Big Gay Kiss, because a kiss ain't just a kiss.
How disappointing! The New York State Senate voted to reject Marriage Equality, leaving the majority of people in the state who support the bill wondering- who are they representing? Why the hate?
But it's not all bad news- Family Ties star Meredith Baxter comes out of the closet as a woman loving woman, ignoring the advice from her gal pal Rupert Evert to keep her lezzie loving ways a secret, since openly gay actors have a harder time finding work in Hollywood.
Although Christmas is days away, Europeans are getting read to celebrate St. Nick's Day, where the good kids get candy, and the bad kids get coal or even taken away by Krampus, a demonic looking figure with fur, horns and a long pink tongue.
Marc's friend Solitaire Miles joins us to give us the scoop on Santa's Satanic-looking sidekick.
Also making it big online:
Lou Dobbs challenges the President- will the former CNN anchor be Palin's bottom for the Presidential ticket in 2012?
Strapped for cash this holiday season? A British couple is turning to homemade porn as a source of revenue for their wedding.
Twitter suicides, tips for the common cold and the woman named Jesus Christ.
Visit out our sponsors:
Interactive Male
Interactive Male, the hottest gay chatline in North America announces the winner of the Big Gay Kiss Contest. See the winning video and all the other hot entries at Big Gay Kiss, because a kiss ain't just a kiss.
Featured Music:
Toilet Boys- Sex Music: iTunes|Amazon
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Wednesday 12/2/2009
Gay Bar in China
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On World AIDS Day, Obama Gets an D+. Now technically, is that passing grade? Today we're taking a look on the day after World AIDS Day at how the world is dealing with dealing with HIV and AIDS.
Activists gave President Obama's a D plus, due to the US Government's funding of HIV and AIDS not keeping up the global rates of infection. In contrast, President Bush had an F minus. Should Obama drop out or take a pass fail?
How's China dealing with AIDS? By opening a fabulous gay bar! But you're going to have to wait- The Chinese government has postponed their attempts to fight AIDS by opening a gay bar due to the unprecedented media attention.
What will their best selling drinks be? A Maotini or a Singapore Sling?
Our talk radio gal pal Summer Nettles joins us to take a fresh look at the hot stories making it big online.
Speaking of big, pro baseball player Grady Sizemore's hot naked iPhone photos leaked online, rumors persist that the full monty is yet to come.
Marilyn Monroe does Mary Jane.
Harry Potter can't keep his clothes on.
Gingerbread Town Massacre.
And the skankiest and luckiest people of the week.
Visit out our sponsors:
Interactive Male
Interactive Male, the hottest gay chatline in North America announces the winner of the Big Gay Kiss Contest. See the winning video and all the other hot entries at Big Gay Kiss, because a kiss ain't just a kiss.
On World AIDS Day, Obama Gets an D+. Now technically, is that passing grade? Today we're taking a look on the day after World AIDS Day at how the world is dealing with dealing with HIV and AIDS.
Activists gave President Obama's a D plus, due to the US Government's funding of HIV and AIDS not keeping up the global rates of infection. In contrast, President Bush had an F minus. Should Obama drop out or take a pass fail?
How's China dealing with AIDS? By opening a fabulous gay bar! But you're going to have to wait- The Chinese government has postponed their attempts to fight AIDS by opening a gay bar due to the unprecedented media attention.
What will their best selling drinks be? A Maotini or a Singapore Sling?
Our talk radio gal pal Summer Nettles joins us to take a fresh look at the hot stories making it big online.
Speaking of big, pro baseball player Grady Sizemore's hot naked iPhone photos leaked online, rumors persist that the full monty is yet to come.
Marilyn Monroe does Mary Jane.
Harry Potter can't keep his clothes on.
Gingerbread Town Massacre.
And the skankiest and luckiest people of the week.
Visit out our sponsors:
Interactive Male
Interactive Male, the hottest gay chatline in North America announces the winner of the Big Gay Kiss Contest. See the winning video and all the other hot entries at Big Gay Kiss, because a kiss ain't just a kiss.
Featured Music:
Joe Walega and the Happy Hearts - Christmas Without Daddy
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Wednesday 12/2/2009
Interview With Michael Kearns
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It's World AIDS Day, the international day of remembrance which raises awareness about the AIDS pandemic and honors the struggles and triumphs of people living with HIV.
Today we're talking to groundbreaking actor and activist Michael Kearns.
In the mid 70s, long before coming out of the closet was considered a career move in Hollywood, Michael Kearns was famous for becoming the out gay model and spokesperson for the popular book, "The Happy Hustler" even though he didn't write it.
Prompted by the AIDS-related death of "Midnight Express" star Brad Davis in 1991, Michael made history when came forward on television as being HIV positive at a time when so many people were afraid to divulge their status.
He later appeared on the TV shows Life Goes On and Beverly Hills 90210 as a man living with HIV.
Today Michael is re-staging his one man show “Intimacies’” for a 20 year anniversary tour. The show features six characters identified by the placement of a red scarf to tell six diferent monolouges on the AIDS crisis of the early 80s. Never in the history of theater has a red scarf meant so much!
Listen as Michael Kearns talks with us about why he came forward back then, why Hollywood still has a long way to go when embracing gay men and he reveals the juicy details of an affair he had with a major music celebrity.
Who was it? Listen to today's show and find out. And we mean out.
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Steamworks Gym, Sauna and Baths.
Visit Steamwork's website and register to get a discount
on your next visit. Enter "Feast of Fun" on the promo
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Featured Books:
Grant Tracy Saxon- The Happy Hustler: My Own Story: Amazon
Michael Kearns- The Solo Performer's Journey: From the Page to the Stage: Amazon
Michael Kearns- T-Cells & Sympathy: Monologues in the Age of Aids: Amazon
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth- Hustle Beach: iTunes | Amazon
It's World AIDS Day, the international day of remembrance which raises awareness about the AIDS pandemic and honors the struggles and triumphs of people living with HIV.
Today we're talking to groundbreaking actor and activist Michael Kearns.
In the mid 70s, long before coming out of the closet was considered a career move in Hollywood, Michael Kearns was famous for becoming the out gay model and spokesperson for the popular book, "The Happy Hustler" even though he didn't write it.
Prompted by the AIDS-related death of "Midnight Express" star Brad Davis in 1991, Michael made history when came forward on television as being HIV positive at a time when so many people were afraid to divulge their status.
He later appeared on the TV shows Life Goes On and Beverly Hills 90210 as a man living with HIV.
Today Michael is re-staging his one man show “Intimacies’” for a 20 year anniversary tour. The show features six characters identified by the placement of a red scarf to tell six diferent monolouges on the AIDS crisis of the early 80s. Never in the history of theater has a red scarf meant so much!
Listen as Michael Kearns talks with us about why he came forward back then, why Hollywood still has a long way to go when embracing gay men and he reveals the juicy details of an affair he had with a major music celebrity.
Who was it? Listen to today's show and find out. And we mean out.
Visit out our sponsors:
Steamworks Gym, Sauna and Baths.
Visit Steamwork's website and register to get a discount
on your next visit. Enter "Feast of Fun" on the promo
code field to get the special discount.
Featured Books:
Grant Tracy Saxon- The Happy Hustler: My Own Story: Amazon
Michael Kearns- The Solo Performer's Journey: From the Page to the Stage: Amazon
Michael Kearns- T-Cells & Sympathy: Monologues in the Age of Aids: Amazon
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth- Hustle Beach: iTunes | Amazon
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Monday 11/23/2009
Jackie Hoffman from the Addams Family
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Many women would kill for the role of Grandmama in the all new The Addams Family musical, but Jackie Hoffman says she's pissed because she doesn't get to sing her own song and her stage time is being whittled down to next to nothing.
So while she's in town, she's doing double duty in her comedy cabaret show "Whining in the Windy City" which promises to skewer everything that is merry for the holidays with biting, fearless stand up comedy and original songs. Jackie's going to spill the beans on working on Broadway and dish the dirt on her comedy peers from Chicago like Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and the Sedaris siblings who, as she says, are now more famous than she is.
She's hilarious and hateful, and she's in the home studio. Look out!
Jackie doesn't hold back her true feelings about the new Addams Family musical, her funniest moment on stage ever and why the holidays and children are so annoying to her.
Don't miss"Whining in the Windy City" at the Royal George Cabaret, 1641 N. Halsted, Monday evenings, November 30 – December 21, at 7:30 p.m.
In the news:
Robert Pattison goes on David Letterman and talks about how everyone wants him to take a bite out of them, even a 250 pound Mexican man.
Sarah Palin tells Oprah "You're not the center of the world."
and a father in Minnesota teaches his song Klingon by only speaking to him in the artificial language for the first three years of his life. Believe it or not, the father says he isn't really a huge Star Trek.
Visit out our sponsors:
Steamworks Gym, Sauna and Baths.
Visit Steamwork's website and register to get a discount
on your next visit. Enter "Feast of Fun" on the promo
code field to get the special discount.
Featured Music:
Jackie Hoffman - Jackie Hoffman At Joe's Pub:
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Many women would kill for the role of Grandmama in the all new The Addams Family musical, but Jackie Hoffman says she's pissed because she doesn't get to sing her own song and her stage time is being whittled down to next to nothing.
So while she's in town, she's doing double duty in her comedy cabaret show "Whining in the Windy City" which promises to skewer everything that is merry for the holidays with biting, fearless stand up comedy and original songs. Jackie's going to spill the beans on working on Broadway and dish the dirt on her comedy peers from Chicago like Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and the Sedaris siblings who, as she says, are now more famous than she is.
She's hilarious and hateful, and she's in the home studio. Look out!
Jackie doesn't hold back her true feelings about the new Addams Family musical, her funniest moment on stage ever and why the holidays and children are so annoying to her.
Don't miss"Whining in the Windy City" at the Royal George Cabaret, 1641 N. Halsted, Monday evenings, November 30 – December 21, at 7:30 p.m.
In the news:
Robert Pattison goes on David Letterman and talks about how everyone wants him to take a bite out of them, even a 250 pound Mexican man.
Sarah Palin tells Oprah "You're not the center of the world."
and a father in Minnesota teaches his song Klingon by only speaking to him in the artificial language for the first three years of his life. Believe it or not, the father says he isn't really a huge Star Trek.
Visit out our sponsors:
Steamworks Gym, Sauna and Baths.
Visit Steamwork's website and register to get a discount
on your next visit. Enter "Feast of Fun" on the promo
code field to get the special discount.
Featured Music:
Jackie Hoffman - Jackie Hoffman At Joe's Pub:
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Friday 11/20/2009
Michael Kearns Performs 20th Anniversary Revival
World AIDS Day is December 1 and to celebrate all that we've achieved in the two decades of tireless efforts for the LGBTQ community and its friends, Victory Gardens "Fresh Squeezed" is hosting of Michael Kearns’s celebrated solo show, "intimacies'" now on its 20th anniversary revival tour.
When Hollywood’s first openly gay actor, Michael Kearns, first performed “intimacies” in Chicago in 1989 it received a very conflicted and controversial reception. A Chicago Reader review of “intimacies” from 1989 said: “All six of Michael Kearns's AIDS-infected characters are the stereotypical dregs of society, full of hatred and self-loathing.”
Kearns now says of his characters in the current version of "intimacies" that they "will be different today than it was 20 years ago, because I have 20 years of new experience to bring to all six of them; 20 years of agony and ecstasy; 20 years of maturation as well as insidious addiction; 20 years of deaths and a few births.”
Michael Kearn's "intimacies" is one night only this Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 7:30pm at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater mainstage, 2433 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago.
Michael's show is the second in a series of performances in Victory Garden's a Queer Theater Spotlight followed later this season by fellow queer icons Charles Busch and Julie Halston (December 7), and Tim Miller and Holly Hughes (March 15-21, 2010).
sponsored by Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
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