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Entries from July 2010
Flashback: 2004-2009
July 30th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009 · Burning Man · Video
Get on the bus, Queen!
July 20th, 2010 · No Comments
Get on the Bus Queen! Yes, there’s a bus leaving from SF for Wolf Creek Sanctuary on the Monday after Ultra TOUCH – just in time for the Radical Faeries 2010 Summer Men’s Gathering! Cosponsored by Comfort & Joy + the church of Nomenus… only 14 seats available on a
first-cum-first-served basis. See this Webpage for [...]
Whirling With Delight
July 20th, 2010 · No Comments
What a whirl!
Are you seeing flashes of glitter, hearing the voices of drag queens, or experiencing radical queer tendencies? Then you may be coming down from the fabulosity that was Faetopia and the incredible week of programming that we showcased this Pride (on top of everything else you could do). Comfort & Joy welcomed [...]
Tags: 2010 · Burning Man · Off Playa
Faerie Tea Party
July 18th, 2010 · No Comments
Mrs. Vera, Mr. Tina
and the Drag Harpies
are throwing a tea party
on Saturday, July 24
starting at 2:00pm
in Patricia’s Green
(Octavia & Hayes)
in Hayes Valley.
Bring nibblies,
other libations to put in tea cups
besides tea
and a camera.
When people are asking for a theme we tell them to dress up.
When they press further, we say don’t wear pants (unless of course, [...]
Tags: Burning Man · Events · Off Playa
25 ideas for our queer future
July 17th, 2010 · No Comments
Comfort & Joy’s Artist Malcolm Drake guided Bay Guardian readers through 25 Visions of our Queer Future in the weekly newspaper’s special June Pride 2010 issue, which also featured coverage of our future-utopia(s) orientated storefront Faetopia Festival as well as Zak’s musings on the Future of Gay Spirituality as the President of the radical [...]
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Just Added: The Wet Spots!
July 16th, 2010 · No Comments
Comfort & Joy is proud to present a special performance by the legendary vaudevillian duo “The Wet Spots” – as seen at Kinky Salon – and famous for asking… “Do You Take It…?” this Friday, July 23rd at Ultra TOUCH. This internationally acclaimed cabaret duo (husband & wife duo Cass King and John Woods) [...]
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Making Acculturation sexy (through Submission)
July 11th, 2010 · No Comments
Definition: Ac·cul·tur·a·tion
1. A process by which the culture of an isolated society changes on contact with a different one.
2. A process by which a person acquires the culture of the society that he/she inhabits.
Remember your first time at Burning Man, finally seeing everything you’d been hearing about? Well, if a picture is worth a [...]
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Hitler vs. Dubstep @ Burningman 2010
July 11th, 2010 · No Comments
After learning that Trance is dead on the playa, Hitler organizes a sound camp….
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Deep End reborn as DISTRIKT for Metropolis
July 11th, 2010 · No Comments
Looking for a large-scale outdoor daytime discotheque in Black Rock City’s Metropolis? Just head on down to DISTRIKT, an invention/experiment by a few former Deep End organizers.
“Ask any one of us why, and you might get a different answer: giving back, a desire to throw a furious & fierce whomping [...]
Tags: 2010 · Burning Man · Events · Music · Off Playa · Playa
Building the Temple of Flux
July 11th, 2010 · No Comments
“Change is inevitable. Change is constant,” as Benjamin Disraeli said, standing on the shoulders of Heraclitus. The Flux Foundation embraces this knowledge as they create the Temple for Burning Man 2010.
The Burning Man Temple is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. It is an institution dedicated to remembrance, catharsis, and rebirth – an essential place [...]
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