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Halloween 2009

October 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

(Photo credit: Jose Guzman-Colon)
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Tags: Events · Getting Political · Off Playa

Rio restates “The Policy of Truth”

January 31st, 2009 · No Comments

What is she doing with that Crisco??

At Pink Slip’s Inauguration Night show, Rio (with STORM & P-Raw backing her up) recreated her number from December’s Solstice Celebration in a fierce farewell to G.W. Bush.

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Tags: Getting Political · Performance · Video

Suppervision 3: Tickets Now Available!

December 16th, 2008 · No Comments

“After-Vision” AFTERGLOW afterparty invitations w/ location info will be distributed after the show at Suppervision: two parties for the price of one!
PRESALE Tickets now available through Brown Paper Tickets.
Proceeds benefit Comfort & Joy’s Burning Man 2009 Art Installation Fund.
Get YOUR TICKETS now!

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Tags: 2007 · 2009 · Burning Man · Events · Getting Political · Music · Off Playa · Performance · Video

FIRED UP

November 11th, 2008 · No Comments

by Anna Conda

I had a great Friday last week. Really great healing day. First Brett and I became domestic partners then we marched with 40 thousand of our friends in the protest from city hall to Dolores Park and back to city hall. At 11 the Marcy Playground Minute was off the hook! Then the [...]

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An Inspiring Letter from Matt Coles

November 7th, 2008 · No Comments

A friend sent this to me from Matt Coles, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation LGBT & AIDS Project. I found it inspiring. History is on our side and we’ll win this fight, eventually… xo frisk
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After the California Supreme Court’s brilliant, inspiring decision in May, Tuesday’s loss at the polls is a bitter pill. [...]

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A Call to Arms

November 6th, 2008 · 5 Comments

by Anna Conda

We are not going.
We will not give up.
When I was born in the summer of love I was born under the sign of mental Illness. I was gay and that was enough to have me put in a mental institution and lock me away till I was better and straight. My parents just [...]

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The Last Trans March?

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

There is a very important story in this week’s Bay Area Reporter about the Trans March, Pink Saturday and the Dyke March. These events are in danger of being canceled next year due to high fees.
Please e-mail the Mayor and Supervisors to let them know how important these events are, and to support the Music [...]

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Comfort & Joy artist gets deported… for wearing a wedding dress

June 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

A treasured member of our community is being forced to leave the country in less than one month. Doghood, a brilliant conceptual artist known for his sophisticated light installations, is getting deported for organizing activist queer street theater.
Doghood must leave the country by June 16th…. right as a new exhibition [...]

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Tags: Art · Events · Getting Political · Off Playa

The Deep End announces 2 fundraiser dates

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments

One of our favorite daytime discos at Burning Man just released their fundraiser schedule for the summer. Mark your calendars!

Saturday, May 31st @ The Endup
Saturday, July 26th @ The Endup

Get more info (and download live dj mixes) at www.thedeependcamp.com

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Tags: 2007 · 2008 · Burning Man · Events · Getting Political · Off Playa · Video

“Save SF Culture” Campaign Gets Big Boost

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments

A new ballot initiative designed to reduce permit paperwork for cultural event producers got overwhelming support at a recent Entertainment Commission hearing last week. A large crowd of people and long line of inspiring speakers (including $teven Ra$pa, one of the organizers of the Burning Man festival), brought quite a bit of positive atttention to [...]

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