Long Beach Gay Pride Celebrates 25 years

Over the weekend the sun shinned on Long Beach for the 25th annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade.  The theme this year was "I am what I am".

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Mardi Gras Party Was Almost In The Toilet

This year’s Mardi Gras Party was a total sell out success a week before the doors even opened.

The entertainment was world class. The scramble for tickets in the lead up was something we haven’t seen in years.

But according to the Sydney Morning Herald, a drastic issue with the toilets almost left the party up to its waist in… well, shit.

When the toilets in the Hordern Pavillion apparently began “erupting” just days before Mardi Gras Party was set to happen, the venue operators called in a plumber. When they realised that this was no ordinary plumbing blockage Sydney Water sent engineers over to see what could possibly be causing the problem.

The sewer that runs beneath the Hordern and the Royal Hall Of Industries is huge – big enough to carry waste from the Sydney Cricket Ground, the Football Stadium, from Fox Studios, not to mention homes in Paddington as well. Experts couldn’t work out what could possibly be blocking it. A camera was sent up the pipe and they found that the sewer was filled practically to the top with concrete. Lots of it. 13 tonnes of the stuff – an entire cement mixer truckload. In fact, the blockages ran for 140 metres in two sections.

Sydney Water were left with no other option but to install 400 metres of bypass pipes so that the party could go ahead.

A Sydney Water spokesperson told the Herald that the cement must have been illegally dumped by “some moron”. Believe it or not, all these months later Sydney Water is still working on removing the blockages using high pressure hoses – jackhammers couldn’t be used because the pipes are too old and fragile. They say that the cost of removing the concrete could go well into six figures.

Thanks to quick thinking and fortunate timing the party did go ahead. But things could have turned out very differently indeed.

Source - Samesame.com.au

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Australian Tourism must try to be more GAY

"Australian tourism is still not gay enough"... That’s the message from Joshua O’Neil, a leading gay and lesbian marketing specialist.

By not catering enough to the gay community, the local tourism industry was still missing out on a large slice of the population pie. Gays are on the whole high earners, have a large disposable income, and are generally free to travel without children.

While places such as Sydney and the Gold Coast are already tapped into the gay market share, the rest of Australia was still lagging behind when it came to being “gay welcoming”.

O’Neil, who represents Puffta Media, feels that the tourism industry should be more open to all groups in general, no matter who they are. More businesses, he says, will then “feel more comfortable about targeting [the gay] market which is great for our community.”

As we reported in (DNA #97) recently, the Sydney Gay And Lesbian Mardi Gras does not receive a single cent of either state or federal funding, even though the event generates $46 million tourist dollars annually. 

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Hot Brazilian Twins

A number of Gay Blog sites have been featuring the hot Brazilian twins Flavio and Gustavo Mendonca, I have managed to bring together the best of the best for your enjoyment.  

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Cuban Government Moves To End Homophobia

Cuba's gay community celebrated unprecedented openness - and high-ranking political alliances - with a government-backed campaign against homophobia on the weekend.

The meeting at a convention center in Havana's Vedado district may have been the largest gathering of openly gay activists ever on the communist-run island. President Raul Castro's daughter Mariela, who has promoted the rights of sexual minorities, presided.

"This is a very important moment for us, the men and women of Cuba, because for the first time we can gather in this way and speak profoundly and with scientific basis about these topics," said Castro, director of Cuba's Center for Sexual Education.

Mariela Castro joined government leaders and hundreds of activists at the one-day conference for the International Day Against Homophobia that featured shows, lectures, panel discussions and book presentations. A station also offered blood-tests for sexually transmitted diseases.

Cuban state television gave prime-time play Friday to the U.S. film "Brokeback Mountain," which tells the story of two cowboys who conceal their homosexual affair.

Prejudice against homosexuals remains deeply rooted in Cuban society, but the government has steadily moved away from the Puritanism of the 1960s and 1970s, when homosexuals hid their sexuality for fear of being ridiculed, fired from work or even imprisoned.

Now Cuba's parliament is studying proposals to legalize same-sex unions and give gay couples the benefits that people in traditional marriages enjoy.

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Ben Cohen Ousts David Beckham in ‘Gay Times’ Sports Personality of Year

England Rugby star Ben Cohen has trounced David Beckham by winning the gold medal in the GT’ Readers’ Award for ‘Sports Personality of the Year’—silver for ‘Sexiest Man of the Year’.

Traditionally it has been David Beckham who wins these awards. So is Becks losing his luster in the eyes of gay men?

Instead Cohen, the second-highest all-time Rugby Union England try-scorer, has scored a major hit with gay men across the UK.

“Ben Cohen is a fabulous mountain of a man and I’m not surprised he’s charmed our readers so thoroughly,” commented GT editor Joseph Galliano.

Ben Cohen said: “I’m really flattered and am constantly surprised by the amount of attention I get from gay people—to win these awards fromGay Times is just brilliant.”

The rugby hunk pushed David Beckham into second place in the week when Mrs. Victoria ‘Posh’ Beckham revealed that gay men fancied her, but straight guys didn’t.

Actor John Barrowman took top spot in the Sexiest Man of the Year category, with Cohen placing second.

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Water and Sand - David Vance

Water and Sand, the complete opposites provide a fantastic element or background to photography.  These beautiful images are from talented photographer David Vance. 

The combination of water sand and hot men really gets one's blood flowing, imagine frolicking around in the water or rolling on the sand with some of these hot men.

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AQUADAKS

Although summer is over and we in Sydney Australia start to slip into out warm tracksuit pants and ugg boots infront of a warm fireplace it is nice to see some hot eye candy in swimmers.  I can not go past a couple of the boys from the AQUADAKS website.  The two boys featured below are Andrew and Ryan.

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Herndon Climb time: 2:35:59

A wiry volleyball player from Pennsylvania had the honor this morning of scaling the Herndon Monument, signaling the end of the freshman or "plebe" year for the Naval Academy Class of 2011.

This year's time of 2 hours, 35 minutes and 59 seconds was more than an hour longer than last year's time of 1 hour, 32 minutes, 42 seconds.
This year's Herndon Climb was slightly different from past years, because upperclassmen did not soak the plebes - and the ground around the monument - with a garden hose while they attempted to make the climb.

Although the monument was greased in 100 pounds of lard courtesy of 1st Company, there were no mocking messages written into the lard, as in past.

Legend has it that the plebe who scales Herndon will be the first in the class to become admiral, but this prediction has never proved true.

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It was inevitable

A funny thing occurred yesterday, I called a dear female friend in Adelaide whom a number of years ago was going out with my best friend.

One day I was asked by both of them, whether or not she should take the job as cabin crew for emerites airline on an 18 month contract.  I said " absolutely yes go for it", to both her and her mothers excitement, but my best friend whom expected me to say no was not impressed.  

She later accepted the contract and worked overseas jet setting all over the world having an amazing time.  She returned and got married to my best friend but they grew apart and are no longer together.

So yesterday when I mentioned that I had applied for QANTAS cabin crew, and that I had passed all of my interviews and that I feel confident of being offered a position, I asked her should I give up being a fire fighter to become a cabin crew member, she replied "absolutely YES go for it!", we both laughed and I said I should have known "It was inevitable" those comments would come back and bite me on the ass.

What to do?

Continue working as a fire fighter in a macho environment or if offered take the cabin crew position....

If any cabin crew read this please make a comment..

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