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Entries from July 2010

Flashback: 2004-2009

July 30th, 2010 · No Comments

Looking back at the last five years of Comfort & Joy… montage created by Chickpea…

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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 [...]

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Tags: 2010 · Off Playa

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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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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Tags: 2010 · Events · Off Playa

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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Tags: 2010 · Events · Off Playa · Video

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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Tags: Burning Man · Video

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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Tags: 2010 · Burning Man · Playa · Video

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 [...]

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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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Tags: 2010 · Burning Man · Playa · VOLUNTEERING · Video