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TOF Video 109 Five in the Morning at The Woods Campgrounds (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) You know...  Sometimes OccasionalFag Brian G. just gets a bee in his behind to make a boring video: something a bit too long, with repetative and poorly timed editing...  Nothing much happens, becasuse sometimes -in the world, even the fabulous world of Occasional Fagdom - life is comprised of slow moments of blandnes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WRC 2 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 108 LGBT Pride 2011 Part Two - Dyke March Saturday and Marching with the Gay Bloggers of NYC (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) More of an amazing Pride weeekend here in New York City. Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 107 LGBT Pride 2011: Part One - Drag March Friday and the Passage of Marriage Equality in New York State (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) LGBT Pride weekend (the last weekend in the month of June) has come and gone, but what a glorious weekend it was... Presented here, in part one, is the Friday night Drag March put on by the Raical Faeries and the Church Ladies For Choice of New York City. As you may or may not know, the Drag March ends in front of the Stonewall ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WRC 1 Gay Pride For Gay Pride we present a episode of the "Wild Recorrd Collection". Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 89 Brian G and David b chat Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 106 Hernia Operation 2011 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) OccasionalFag Brian G. has an inguinal hernia on (under?) his right groin and a lipoma on his left flank that need to be taken care of.  Surgery is called for here.  For him it is the first time going under the knife, that is, if you don't count the lasik he had done back in the nineties (always trendy, that Brian G.) ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 105 Twenty Four Hours Before the End of Time. (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) Presented in this episode are the - no doubt - narcissistic ramblings of a twenty-first century gay man starting May the 20th, 2011 - 24 hours before the eve of destruction as predicted on billboards all over New York City. End of time, judgement day, end of the world, rapture...  Is there a difference?  For individua ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 104 NYC Easter Parade 2011 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) Occasional Fag Brian G. fabricates a hat and journeys to the fabled Easter Parade of New York City. Not really a parade as such, but rather a collection of individuals sporting their sunday finest on a closed off 5th Avenue between 47th and 59th streets. Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 103 Testing the Sling Shot On April 16 a new amusement park, Scream Zone, is scheduled to open at Coney Island.  On Sunday 4/10 David b was out at Coney as one of the new rides was tested!  Watch and enjoy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 102 Loading in the Nashscape for the NYC Production of War Horse at Lincoln Center (Hit the "POD" button above or click on the download below to see this video podcast) Several months back Occasionalfag Brian G. got to oversee the construction of and the loading in of a huge piece of scenery for one of the most amazing productions of theatre opening in New York this Spring season: the "Nashscape" for the Lincoln Center production of War Horse.  The "Nashscape", so named after its' inspiration - English landscape artist Paul Nash, was created for the New York Producti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 102 Loading in the Nashscape for the NYC Production of War Horse at Lincoln Center (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) Several months back Occasionalfag Brian G. got to oversee the construction of and the loading in of a huge piece of scenery for one of the most amazing productions of theatre opening in New York this Spring season: the "Nashscape" for the Lincoln Center production of War Horse.  The "Nashscape", so named after its' inspira ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 101 The Occasional Fags Pay a Visit to The View (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) After having requested them almost two years prior, tickets for a free taping of the ABC late morning gab-fest, The View, finally arrived, so it's off work and over to the Upper West Side of Manhattan for a morning of "audiencing" with the "Ladies". We couldn't take the video camera into the studio (although you will see in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 100 Church Ladies For Choice and Rick and Andy at the People Voice Cafe - 2011 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) As a special celebration of our one Hundredth video here on TheOccasionalFag we present to you snippets of our favorite activist darlings, Church Ladies For Choice, and our very favorite gay folk singers, Rick and Andy, from a recent concert here in New York City at the People's Voice Cafe.       Also, if you l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 88 The Wild Record Collection This week David b is all by him self, well... with guests.  David talks with Ron and Tony from public access tv's The Wild Record Collection.  The Museum of the Moving Image is doing a show on NYC's public access and Wild Record Collection will be a part of it on Friday 2/11 at 7pm, and Saturday & Sunday 2/12 & 13th at 5pm.    See video of WRC on Vimeo on YouTube ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 87 We're Back Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 99 A 4th of July Weekend in Baltimore, MD (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) Winter in upon us and what better way to spend it than to watch a video of a holiday weekend in July?  And yes, it took us this long to edit this piece, but what do you want for nothing more than your time to watch it?  Gold stars for everyone! Here at TheOccasionalFag. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 98 Donnie And Marie: A Broadway Christmas... Kinda. (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) The OccasionalFags, David b and Brian G., travel to the heart of Times Square to take in the holiday specticle of the Donnie and Marie Broadway Christmas Show. We simply cannot show you any of the D & M show because we're not in any possition to record it. Ins ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 97 Connecticut Antique Machinery Festival Fall 2010 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) Feeling less than redneck, greasemonkey butch as of late?  Well then join us at TheOccasionalFag.com for a trip to the Connecticut Antique Machinery Fall Festival in Kent, CT. We OccasionalFags love gears, pistons, flywheels; anything that moves (and pumps) with a consistant ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 96 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Annual Flea Market 2010 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) Every year the good, good people at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS host a Flea Market in the heart of the theatre district, Times Square. Every year OccasionalFag Brian G. is there, Flip camera in hand recording where and when he can while volunteering to help set up, run part ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 86 Whither Bear Art Thou? Being footloose and fancy free for the first time as a single man for the past year, Occasionalfag Brian G    has had the time to focus on items outside of the concerns brought on by hibernating in a relationship and    what he thinks he has discovered in his foraging about in the gay community is that the collective nature    of tho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 85 chit chat     Call the comment line 206.339.4512   TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail.com   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 85 chit chat     Call the comment line 206.339.4512   TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail.com   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 95 ACT UP Oral History Project Opening at White Columns Gallery, NYC (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) The ACT UP Oral History Project created a gallery show at the White Columns Gallery in the West Village to showcase its' collection of interviews of noted ACT UP members.  Included on the walls were many examples of the graphic work generated by ACT UP members during ACT UP's first few years. The show opened a few weeks ba ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 95 ACT UP Oral History Project Opening at White Columns Gallery, NYC (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) The ACT UP Oral History Project created a gallery show at the White Columns Gallery in the West Village to showcase its' collection of interviews of noted ACT UP members.  Included on the walls were many examples of the graphic work generated by ACT UP members during ACT UP's first few year ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 94 Beat It In honor of Christine O'Donnell.   leave a voice comment, 206.339.4512. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 94 Beat It In honor of Christine O'Donnell. This video short is to initiate and be a part of TheOccasionalFag's - ACT UP ANAL HISTORY PROJECT. Enjoy!   leave a voice comment, 206.339.4512. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 93 Illuminations 2010 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) To say that this year's illuminations weekend at The Woods Campgrounds in the Southern Poconos was a lost weekend for Occasionalfag Brian G. would be somewhat a misnomer.  Yes, he did spend the majority of the weekend inbibing in stiff drink, but he did so consciously as to see what this "lost weekend" stuff was really all ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 93 Illuminations 2010 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) To say that this year's illuminations weekend at The Woods Campgrounds in the Southern Poconos was a lost weekend for Occasionalfag Brian G. would be somewhat a misnomer.  Yes, he did spend the majority of the weekend inbibing in stiff drink, but he did so consciously as to see what this "l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 92 Fire Island Dance Festival 2010 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) For the past nine summers OccasionalFag Brian G. has been at the DRA (Dancers Responding to AIDS) Fire Island Dance Festival for a week of loading in, performances and the strike.  This year he decided to take a brake.  While the monies earned by the festival that are distributed to AIDS service organizations around t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 92 Fire Island Dance Festival 2010 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) For the past nine summers OccasionalFag Brian G. has been at the DRA (Dancers Responding to AIDS) Fire Island Dance Festival for a week of loading in, performances and the strike.  This year he decided to take a brake.  While the monies earned by the festival that are d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 84 Bla Bla Bla leave a comment, email us as theoccasional[at]gmail.com or call the voice line at 206.339.4512.     Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 84 Blah, Blah, Vampire Emergency, Blah leave a comment, email us as theoccasional[at]gmail.com or call the voice line at 206.339.4512.     Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 91 Back to California for Dore/Up Your Alley Leather Street Festival (Amoungst other things...) (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) So It's back to San Francisco, CA for OccasionalFag Brian G. to take in the Dore/Up Your Alley Leather Street Festival.  Back to cable cars climbing half way to the stars and all the sour dough bread one can eat.  Back to furry clonish men who are friendlier than their New York counterparts.  Back to the 440 Bar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 91 Back to California for Dore/Up Your Alley Leather Street Festival (Amoungst other things...) (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) So It's back to San Francisco, CA for OccasionalFag Brian G. to take in the Dore/Up Your Alley Leather Street Festival.  Back to cable cars climbing half way to the stars and all the sour dough bread one can eat.  Back to furry clonish men who are friendlier than their New York counter ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 90 Coney Island at Night (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) The Monday night after Pride Weekend OccasionalFags David b and Brian G. joined by Leon and VJ journey to Coney Island, Brooklyn for an evening at Luna Park, the first new park to open up in the area in 26 years. Here are images from that gloaming of electrical gleam, screaming night of mechanical exstatic revelation are edited ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 90 Coney Island at Night (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) The Monday night after Pride Weekend OccasionalFags David b and Brian G. joined by Leon and VJ journey to Coney Island, Brooklyn for an evening at Luna Park, the first new park to open up in the area in 26 years. Here are images from that gloaming of electrical gleam, screaming n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 89 Pride Weekend 2010 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) Big Happy LGBT Pride to everyone, and if you missed any of it, fear not because TheOccasionalFag didn't. Flip camera in hand we take in it all.  Now, as always, so can you. Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 89 Pride Weekend 2010 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) Big Happy LGBT Pride to everyone, and if you missed any of it, fear not because TheOccasionalFag didn't. Flip camera in hand we take in it all.  Now, as always, so can you. Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 83 New Alternatives   Recorded live on Pride48, we are joined by Kate Barnhart from New Alternatives for LGBT Youth.  New Alternatives is an organization who's mission is to increase the self-sufficiency of homeless LGBT youth to enable them to “go beyond” the shelter system and transition into stable adult lives.    Also in studio with us is VJ of VJNetcast.com, Tim Corrimal, of The Tim Corrimal Show, and Chef Mark pf the Culinary Media Network.   Call the comment line 206 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 83 New Alternatives   Recorded live on Pride48, we are joined by Kate Barnhart from New Alternatives for LGBT Youth.  New Alternatives is an organization whose mission is to increase the self-sufficiency of homeless LGBT youth to enable them to “go beyond” the shelter system and transition into stable adult lives.    Also in studio with us is VJ of VJNetcast.com, Tim Corrimal, of The Tim Corrimal Show, and Chef Mar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 88 International Mr. Leather 2010 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) OccasionalFag Brian G. hits Chicago and the International Mr. Leather competition with Flip camera in hand, recording both the city and the men for you, our faithful downloaders.  Begun in 1979 as an outgrowth to the Mr. Gold Coast Contest in the Windy City, the International Mr. Leather competition has evolved as the leat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 88 International Mr. Leather 2010 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) OccasionalFag Brian G. hits Chicago and the International Mr. Leather competition with Flip camera in hand, recording both the city and the men for you, our faithful downloaders.  Begun in 1979 as an outgrowth to the Mr. Gold Coast Contest in the Windy City, the Internationa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 87 Borrowing Roan 2010: Playing again at Playland (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) The first thing Roan (the celebrated son of a good friend to TheOccasionalFags) said to us after not seeing him for a while was, "When are we going to Playland?"  Our answer was, "When does it open for the season?" This time on our visit we brought more gay men to share in the delight of borrowing a friend's child to becom ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 87 Borrowing Roan 2010: Playing again at Playland (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) The first thing Roan (the celebrated son of a good friend to TheOccasionalFags) said to us after not seeing him for a while was, "When are we going to Playland?"  Our answer was, "When does it open for the season?" This time on our visit we brought more gay m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 86 Bear Fair NYC 2010 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) As a part of the first ever Urban Bear Weekend in New York City a street fair, The Bear Fair, was held on Sunday, May the 16th. OccasionalFag Brian G. and several of his clan attended.  Here's the video. Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 86 Bear Fair NYC 2010 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) As a part of the first ever Urban Bear Weekend in New York City a street fair, The Bear Fair, was held on Sunday, May the 16th. OccasionalFag Brian G. and several of his clan attended.  Here's the video. Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 80 Brian Tries to Accessorize Brian and David talk about a recent fundraiser they attended for New Alternatives, an organization for homeless LGBT youth. Here is the link if you would like to donate.  Call the comment line 609.339.4512 | TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 82 Brian Tries to Accessorize Brian and David talk about a recent fundraiser they attended for New Alternatives, an organization for homeless LGBT youth. Here is the link if you would like to donate.  Call the comment line 609.339.4512 | TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 85 Mr. Who and Podcast Michael Visit India and Ride an Elephant to the Palace (in Jaipur). (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) Though no longer a couple, occasionalfag's Brian G. and Mr. Who are still good friends who keep in contact, so when Mr. Who was invited by his friend Podcast Michael (whom you may remember from an early audio podcast here entitled, "Orisia! Orisia! Orisia!") to travel to India, Mr. Who borrowed Brian G.'s flip camera to capture ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 85 Mr. Who and Podcast Michael Visit India and Ride an Elephant to the Palace (in Jaipur). (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) Though no longer a couple, occasionalfag's Brian G. and Mr. Who are still good friends who keep in contact, so when Mr. Who was invited by his friend Podcast Michael (whom you may remember from an early audio podcast here entitled, "Orisia! Orisia! Orisia!") to travel to India, Mr. Who borrowed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 84 Furball with Rick and Joe (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) Let the fur fly! The Furball is a celebration of everything furry and fuzzy. Dance:208 the biweekly dance party/fundraiser for the NYC LGBT Community Center presents the infamous NYC fur attack--Furball! Furball, usually taking place in November and May, is a multi-level furry dance party that takes over the LGBT Center in NYC ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 84 Furball with Rick and Joe (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) Let the fur fly! The Furball is a celebration of everything furry and fuzzy. Dance:208 the biweekly dance party/fundraiser for the NYC LGBT Community Center presents the infamous NYC fur attack--Furball! Furball, usually taking place in November and May, is a multi-level furry dance party that t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 81 Brian is GAGA! Brian is Gaga for The Kid on Broadway!Voice mail and listener comments.Call the comment line 609.339.4512 | TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 81 Brian is GAGA! Brian is Gaga for The Kid on Broadway!Voice mail and listener comments.Call the comment line 609.339.4512 | TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 83 Brian G.'s California Vacation Part 2: San Diego (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) The continuing and concluding episode of OccasionalFag Brian G.'s recent trip to California. In this segment, Brian travels around southern California visiting with family and revisiting past haunts such as his elementary school.  He didn't know it, but it seems Brian was a "Kimberly Cub" before he became the "bear-ish" da ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 83 Brian G.'s California Vacation Part 2: San Diego (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) The continuing and concluding episode of OccasionalFag Brian G.'s recent trip to California. In this segment, Brian travels around southern California visiting with family and revisiting past haunts such as his elementary school.  He didn't know it, but it seems Brian was a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 80 Some nattering!   Call the comment line 609.339.4512 | TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 80 Some nattering!   Call the comment line 609.339.4512 | TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 82 Brian G. Gets His Stitches Out (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) Just two days after arriving back in New York from his California vacation and on his second day back in the shop where he works, OccasionalFag Brian G. had what he refers to as an unfortunate head-butting incident with an unusually sharpened piece of steel. Here is a video of th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 82 Brian G. Get His Stitches Out (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) Just two days after arriving back in New York from his California vacation and on his second day back in the shop where he works, OccasionalFag Brian G. had what he refers to as an unfortunate head-butting incident with an unusually sharpened piece of steel. Here is a video of the day and days surrounding the removal of those s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 81 Brian G.'s California Vacation Part 1: San Francisco (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) At the beginning of this month, OccasionalFag Brian G. traveled to beautiful sunny sunshine California - where he was born - to reconnect with his past.  The vacation lasted a week and started in the fabulous city of sodomy by the sea: San Francisco.  Twenty one years a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 81 Brian G.'s California Vacation Part 1: San Francisco (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below) At the beginning of this month, OccaisonalFag Brian G. traveled to beautiful sunny sunshine California - where he was born - to reconnect with his past.  The vacation lasted a week and started in the fabulous city of sodomy by the sea: San Francisco.  Twenty one years ago Brian received his MFA (a perfectly useless de ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 80 That Was February... (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).   What is it about the month of February... If the month of March comes in as a lion, then wouldn't that make the entire month of February the lion that it comes in as?  There are songs composed around many months, but how many does Febr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 80 That Was February... (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).   What is it about the month of February... If the month of March comes in as a lion, then wouldn't that make the entire month of February the lion that it comes in as?  There are songs composed around many months, but how many does February have? It is Black history month, but conversationally I have yet to meet a B ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 79 Walking in Central Park After the recent snowstorm in NYC Leon, David b and Leon's friend Suwanita took a walk through the Ravine in the North Woods of Central Park.         Call the comment line 609.339.4512 | TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail.com   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 79 Walking in Central Park After the recent snowstorm in NYC Leon, David b and Leon's friend Suwanita took a walk through the Ravine in the North Woods of Central Park.         Call the comment line 609.339.4512 | TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail.com   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 78 David's Birthdays It's David b's bithday,watch as David gets older!   the music for this video Jason Silver's Happy Birthday is from Mevio's Music Alley Check it out at music.mevio.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 78 David's Birthdays It's David b's bithday,watch as David gets older!   the music for this video Jason Silver's Happy Birthday is from Mevio's Music Alley Check it out at music.mevio.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 79 Brian Buys Leather Brian spends Superbowl winnings on -- LEATHER! Call the comment line 206.339.4512 | TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 79 Brian Buys Leather Brian spends Superbowl winnings on -- LEATHER! Call the comment line 206.339.4512 | TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 75 Loading in the Parachute (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below). It was OccasionalFag Brian G's extreme pleasure for his work to be able to build and load in a parachute display at an East Coast Military Academy's Visitor's Center.  Made a quick video of it for you to enjoy so please do! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 75 Loading in the Parachute (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below). It was OccasionalFag Brian G's extreme pleasure for his work to be able to build and load in a parachute display at an East Coast Military Academy's Visitor's Center.  Made a quick video of it for you to enjoy so please do! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 78 Zapping Harold Ford Jr We are back to the political as we talk to our friend Jon who zapped Harold Ford Jr last week.NBC NY coverage of the zapNew York daily News coverage of the zap Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 78 Zapping Harold Ford Jr We are back to the political as we talk to our friend Jon who zapped Harold Ford Jr last week.NBC NY coverage of the zapNew York daily News coverage of the zap Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 74 National Boat Show NYC 2010 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).   To escape the rampages of their otherwise stormy lives, OccasionalFags Brian G and David b take in the New York National Boat Show. Ahoy mates! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 74 National Boat Show NYC 2010 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post. You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below). To escape the rampages of their otherwise stormy lives, OccasionalFags Brian G and David b take in the New York National Boat Show. Ahoy mates! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 77 Holiday Recap Brian G. and David b review their Holidays!call the listener line 206.339.4512 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 77 Holiday Recap Brian G. and David b review their Holidays!call the listener line 206.339.4512 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 73 Holiday 2009 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).This Christmas Eve, Occasionalfags Brian G, David b and Leon travel down to be with the big "b" family in Pennsylvania.  Christmas day is spent eating.  What else should they be doing...Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 73 Holiday 2009 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).This Christmas Eve, Occasionalfags Brian G, David b and Leon travel down to be with the big "b" family in Pennsylvania.  Christmas day is spent eating.  What else should they be doing...Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 72 Christmas Story (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 71 COSI (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).OccasionalFag Brian G. traveled to Central Ohio to be with family this past Thanksgiving.  Here is a video of he and his niece Rachel taking in COSI, the hands-on science museum in downtown Columbus.  And yes, marriage equality just failed to pass here in New York State and we're giving you home movies, but - re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 70 Borrowing Roan (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).Sometimes LGBT activism is about getting out there in the streets and yelling your head off about how the world just isn't treating you to humane enough standards and, then, sometimes it's about showing the world just how normal (and, maybe, perhaps a little bit boring) you as a Gay individual can truly be.This is one of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 69 Jack Price March and Rally: College Point, Queens (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).On October the 8th, a 49 year old gay man named Jack Price was savagely beaten with in an inch of his life in College Point, a quiet neighborhood out near Flushing, Queens.On October the 17th a march and rally were held to provide a focal point for the community's support for Jack and to let those who perpetrated this act ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 75 Chatty It's another one of those talking podcasts for David b and Brian G. Learn how to stalk Brian on the web at his new blog Entertaining the Dog, and maybe even on manhunt!!!Joe.My.God post about queens demo. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 68 National Equality March 2009 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).We went.  We marched.  It was good...Very little about the Rally in this video.  You want to watch images of that then head over to CSPAN.  They did an amazing job of covering it and if you look closely, at one point you can see OccasionalFag David b!Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 67 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Grand Auction and Flea Market If you couldn't make it to the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Grand Auction and Flea Market here in New York City this last Sunday, September the 27th, well...  don't worry, we here at TheOccasionalFag did!Flip Camera in hand, when not lending a hand to help set up the event, Brian G. was recording all that he could so that you can take in the experience vicariously.  Aahh!  And even with the rain, the show went on!Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 73 Equality March Brian G and David b have a nice chat and invite you to join them at the National Equality March.Call the complaint line 206.339.4512 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 66 Coney Island Strip (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).Each week through the summer, Coney Island USA presents burlesque shows of superlative quality and distinction, keeping the fine art of the striptease alive.One of these shows is all men (Yeah, I know, just one?  Ah well, striping is a woman's art form).  On a tip from our good friend Jon, TheOccasionalFags trav ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 65 Illuminations at The Woods Campgrounds 2009 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).Many is the weekend this summer on the Northeast Coast that has been a wash out due to ungodly amounts of rain (global warming or weirding?).  Fortunately we had one great one several weeks back in the middle of August that allowed for a truly spectacular Illuminations weekend at The Woods Campgrounds in the southern ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 64 Fire Island Dance Festival 15/2009 In editing this year's video of DRA's (Dancers Responding to AIDS) 15th Annual Fire Island Dance Festival, Occasional Fag Brian G., who volunteers each year to help load in and strike the show, wanted to go back to making a series of still photos set to music, like the earlier videos of the festival that he has made.  Not gonna happen... Just a few still Photos in to the edit and Brian G. was bored.  So he started playing with ideas of timing motion against stillness.  Simple ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 63 Fire Island Diaries: Fire Island Dance Festival 15 - Load-in and Strike (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).Underlining a great deal of this year's Fire Island Dance Festival for OccasionalFag Brian G. - who volunteers to help set up and strike it every year - is how much he has become a part of the theatre community here in New York City.  So much so that he forgets the he, like most of the theatre viewing public, used to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 73 Bareback On July 15th International Mr. Leather announced that they would stop the sale of bareback porn at their event.  Brian G and David b spoke with Will Clark and Eric Leven about IML's announcement, bareback porn and safer sex.Will Clark blogs about IML's annoucement.Eric Leven blogs about IML's annoucement.Call our comment line at 206.3394512 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 62 LGBT Pride 2009 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).TheOccasionalFags take in Gay Pride Weekend in New York City.Their Schedule?Friday evening - the Drag March in the Village.Saturday afternoon - the Church Ladies for Choice salute the Dyke March on Fifth Avenue.Sunday day - The Pride March with the NYC Gay Bloggers and Digital Activists.Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 72 Post Pride Brian G and David b chat.The links mentioned are Farmboys / Perge Modo and The Bilerico Project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 61 More Fags, More Fun! What with Gay Pride weekend just a few days past, we've had no time to put together something of substance for you viewing pleasure.  Don't fret though, we won't let that stop us from posting something; and something it is!This is probably the worst video we've ever put up here at the OccasionalFag.  These are sounds and images from our recent trip to Six Flags New England - one of the better Six Flags Parks.  The oft repeated and incredibly annoying theme music is from a tra ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 60 Broadway Bares Load-in and Strike 2009 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download it from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).Once again it's back to the theatre district and into the Roseland Ballroom for another Big Gay Bob the Builder look into how Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS puts up it's huge annual fund-raising super show "Broadway Bares"!There is an incredible set of photos from the show to be found here!Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 59 Queens Pride NYC 2009 (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).Here in New York, LGBTI Pride comes early to the city in the borough of Queens.  The first Sunday in the month of Pride (June) is always Queen's Pride in Jackson Heights, Queens.  Queens love LGBTI Pride in Queens, and flock to it by taking the 7 Train (the Queens express) to be with other Queens in Queens.Here is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 71 Pride. Brian G and David b chat the recent coupe in the NY State senate, and things they are doing for pride month.  Things like Broadway Bares, Pride48, the NYC Drag March, the NYC Dyke March.Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 58 Storm King Art Center What with Marriage Equality so under attack, we've all been so busy acting up, fighting back!To recharge our souls and spirits, theoccasionalfags travel just one hour north of the George Washington Bridge to take in the Storm King Art Center: an outdoor art museum mostly dedicated to monumental sculpture and earthworks.When it comes to talking about the art, please forgive Brian G. his ramblings.  We all know that he is no Sister Wendy, and never will be.It was a beautiful day and ther ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 70 DAY OF DECISION RALLY (To Listen to podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download from the itunes music store or from the link listed below)Today we hear from Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum form Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, New York City's LGBTi Synagogue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 57 Marriage Equality Rally: The Video (To view the podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download from the itunes music store or from the link listed below).We've presented to you audio podcasts of the speeches from the majority of the political representatives who were present at the Marriage Equality Rally on sixth Avenue in Manhattan.Now TheOccasionalFag presents to you a video of and surrounding the May 17th rallys, both pro and - unfortunately - against Marriage Equality.En ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 69 MARRIAGE EQUALITY RALLY part 4 (To Listen to podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download from the itunes music store or from the link listed below)The fourth in our series of speeches from the May 14th marriage equality rally in NYC, today we hear form Christine C. Quinn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 68 MARRIAGE EQUALITY RALLY part 3 (To Listen to podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download from the itunes music store or from the link listed below)Continuing our series of speaches given at the May 17th marriage equality  rally in NYC, today we hear form New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 67 MARRIAGE EQUALITY RALLY part 2 (To Listen to podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download from the itunes music store or from the link listed below)Today we hear form New York  State assembly member Daniel J. O'Donnell,  yes he's Rosie's brother! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 66 MARRIAGE EQUALITY RALLY part 1 (To Listen to podcast click on small POD button in upper left corner of this post.  You may also download from the itunes music store or from the link listed below)Today we are at the ACTION = MARRIAGE EQUALITY rally held in New York City on May 17th and organized by Broadway Impact.Hear some music from the cast of the musical HAIR and the speech given by New York Governor David Paterson.More to come. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 56 Fire Island Diaries Spring '09 Is there anything quite so fluffy as OccasionalFag Brian G.'s Fire Island Diaries?We think not, but we also refuse to stop presenting them.Why?Because they, like Fire Island itself, are there, and that is Love, Valour and Compassion enough.Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 65 Gay Getaway OccasionalFags David b and Brian G. have a delightful First Monday chat about the origins of the First Monday chat.The they each share, respectively, some of the going ons in each of their lives.Brian G. talks about Gay Getaways, 33 Variations and Jane Fonda's birthday operation.David b talks about cherry blossoms in Brooklyn and people who dress up as cartoons for fun.Download from itunes or click on the small pod button in the upper left corner of this post to listen to.Enjoy!Jane Fonda's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 55 Mr Who and Brian G. go to Puerto Rico, Part 2 (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)Part two of OccasionalFags Brian G and Mr. Who's recent trip to Puerto Rico.Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 54 Mr. Who and Brian G. go to Puerto Rico, Part 1 (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)Yes, it's true, OccasionalFag Brian G. wants nothing more in this life than to be Samantha Brown, that penultimately perky blond of a professional exhibitionist from the Travel Channel who goes everywhere and does everything.  She is also, just about, on every channel on the television in your room if you stay at an on property resort hotel at the Disney World complex, but we digress...So here is Brian G. on vacation (part 1 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF video 53 Last Week In Protest (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner, and then wait - for some, video must completely download before beginning)We bring you a few of the protests that happened in NYC last week.  First, a rally to celebrate marriage victory in Vermont, and shame New York State for still not having marriage.  Then a protest at the Iraqi embassy in response to the recent killings of gay men in Sadr City.  Read more here and here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 52 Back to Stowe 2009 (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)While at Winter Rendezvous, the gay ski week at Stowe Mountain, Vermont, OccasionalFag Mr. Who won two free evenings at The Inn at the Mountain along with two two-day lift tickets.  So, for Mr. Who and his Partner Brian G. it is "Back to Stowe!"Actually though, with two two-day lift tickets, when you from as far away from Stowe as New York City is (around 340 miles), you really need three nights in hotel, so for th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 64 Civil Service David b got a parking ticket and Brian G sleepwalks.  Have a listen and leave comments at the listener complaint line 206.339.4512! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 51 The 16th Annual "Original" GLBT Expo Join TheOccasionalFags as we take in The 16th annual "Original" GLBT Expo at the Jacob Javitts Center in New York City. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 50 The New York Botanical Garden's Orchid Show 2009 (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)Is there any flower as gay as the stately orchid?  I mean, other than the riotous pansy, or, maybe, the stoic tulip, hasn't the orchid and its needs been compared throughout the ages to that of same sex love?  Who knows...  Maybe not.  We at TheOccasionalFag really aren't flower guys in the sense that we make a living out of their preservation and/or presentation.  If you do work in this admirable field, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 49 Life Of Brian, Gee! (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)A week in the life of OccasionalFag Brian G.Knowing that some important life events were on the horizon for himself, Brian G. carried around the Flip camera for a week, editing it together into what you have here.  A silly little fluff piece to be sure, but what do you want for nothing?  Rubber biscuits?(After discussion with David b it has been decided that the "Life Of David b" should be coming down the TOF ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 63 <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> David b has a birthday and can no longer take baths in the sink. Brian G does his best to prop up the economy, even though he will soon be on unemployment. Have a listen and leave comments at the listener complaint line 206.339.4512! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 48 Winter Rendezvous Gay Ski Weekend at Stowe Mountain 2009: Part 2 (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)More of all the fun we had this year up at Stowe, Vermont.You know, most times we edit these videos keeping the viewer in mind.  A "you-are-there" pseudo journalist approach that gives you a sense for what happened and (maybe) why.  These images are just plain and simple home movie fun, 'cause sometimes we're having such a blast that it's easy to forget to whip out the Flip camera and get the image.We'd love f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 47 Winter Rendezvous Gay Ski Weekend at Stowe Mountain 2009: Part One (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)Home movies set to song of TheOccasionalFags and VJ of vjnet.wordpress.com at the Winter Rendezvous gay ski week in Stowe, Vermont.Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 46 Sunday Morning Gambling at CUP Diner in Astoria A relatively new weekend tradition for TheOccasionalFags is Sunday morning Brunch at CUP Diner in Astoria where in which monies can be idled away on the vice of state sanctioned gambling in the form of quick pick numbers.  Hey, you never know...Actually, you do know, but still and none the less, even in defeat we have fun.Enjoy... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 45 Light Up The Night Demonstration for Marriage Equality (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)Back in December OccasionalFag Brian G. made it to the Light Up The Night Demonstration for Marriage Equality in New York City.   Much has been made online about how these demos, that took place across the country (similar to the City Hall Demonstrations a month earlier), were not the best use of our community's limited resources.  Not an easy call to make, but if nothing else, we here at TheOccaisonalFag bet that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 62 Dinner Chat &lt;!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --&gt; &lt;!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --&gt; Brian and David b have dinner (David cooked) with Jerry, one of the original Occasionals. We talk about Rick Warren and other things. Here is the link to the Max Blumtnthal article David b said he would put in the show notes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 61 It's the first Monday of the month, and the first Monday of the year, and it is a first Monday chat by the TOF boys. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 44 A Very Gay Christmas In truth Christmas has already passed, and you are probably as tired of the season as we are, but we have these video images to share, so share them we must.A combination of video from David b's incredible Christmas evening dinner and video from Christmas window decorations around town.  (If you have been with us all these years then you must have learned one thing - that we occasional fags love Christmas window decorations almost as much as we love to eat Christmas dinner!).God rest E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 43 Brian G. Showers for Christmas In celebration of the new underwater/waterproof case for his Flip camera, Brian G. takes and records a shower this fine, blessed morning.Have yourself a Merry Little War-on-Christmas, and a Happy New Wave! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 60 Brain Farts. <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> David b listens as Brian brain farts. Go check out VJnetcast for the chit chat with Brian, David, JT and VJ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 42 Riding The Vintage Subway Train of NYC (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)Each year the MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) of NYC (New York City), in a holiday celebration of itself, lets some of its antique subway cars out to play every Sunday from 10 AM to 4 PM in December (on the "V" line between 2nd Avenue and Queensboro Plaza).Geek out with Brian G., David b, Leon and Mr. Who, TheOccasionalFags, as we take an old fashioned ride, racing around under the Big Apple, in subway cars of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 40 A Morning of Clinic Defense with Brooklyn Pro-Choice Network (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)What with all the demos going on around the passage of Proposition 8 (the anti-gay marriage Prop in California) you'd think there wouldn't be enough time to throw in a counter demo to an anti-choice prayer vigil in front of a healthcare facility that provides abortions in Brooklyn, but for TheOccasionalFags there's always enough time to stand up for reproductive freedoms.The video of the No To H8 demos is coming, but the counter ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 59 No to Yes on H8 OccasionalFags David b and Brian G. sit down at the family dining room table to discuss upcoming responses to the recent passage of Proposition 8 (the anti-gay marriage proposition) in California.For those who like to read and don't have the time to listen:- No on H8 Demonstration outside the Mormon Temple in NYC(The Mormon Church donated 20 million dollars towards the destruction of marriage equality in California).Wednesday November the 12th, 6:30 PM125 Broadway (65th and Broadway)- Brook ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 38 Folsom Street East Last June OccasionalFags Brian G. and Mr. Who went to the Folsom Street East Festival (New Yorkâs premiere s/m-leather-fetish themed street festival produced by Gay Male S/M Activists (GMSMA)) on June 22nd - one week before Pride!These images have been rattling about Brian G.'s computer now for all this time and he has finally taken the time to edit some of them together for your enjoyment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 36 Halloween At Lake Compounce TheOccasionalFags, with friends and family, once again have gone to Lake Compounce Amusement Park to partake in their Halloween Festivities.Enjoy this video of their evening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 36 Fire Island Dairies Fall 2008 Hey OccasionalFag fans - don't expect too much from this video.  It's just a collection of video images and video recorded thoughts from OccasionalFag Brian G. while he was out helping his friends close down their house for the season; you know, riding the ferry, walking on the beach.That is to say that, maybe, what pod-casting does best is to present these simple mundane moments (leave the drama to major media), but in piecing these images together, Brian G. couldn't find the internal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 35 BIG GAY CAMPFIRE! (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)Need to get away from it all for a few minutes?Well here is your solution:  The Big Gay Campfire!Five relaxing minutes of nothing else but a big pile of burning wood from a clothing-optional gay camping resort in the Northern Pocono Mountains.  Think of it as a video yule log for the gay pod-casting community.Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 58 Clothing Optional Camping <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> Listen in as Brian, VJ and David b talk about Brian and David's recent camping adventures at Hillside and The Woods. Other topics that come up: Winter Rendezvous Bill Elliot on Broadway Bill Elliot the movie Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 34 Circus Amok <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> (to play video click on the small POD button in the upper left corner) This week we run off to the Circus. Founded in 1998, Circus Amok is NYC's internationally-acclaimed one-ring FREE traveling circus. They've been bringing wildly fantastical, funny, sharp, glamorous, compelling political circus spectacle to all. Watch now and see part of this years show SUB-PRIME SUBLIME. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 33 Trip To IKEA (part 5): Let Me GO! As our trip to IKEA finally draws to a close we find our OccasionalFags waiting for David b's shelving units, loading up the rented truck and driving back to Manhattan.Hej!Links to the previous Trip To IKEA episodes:Trip To IKEA part 1Trip To IKEA part 2Trip To IKEA part 3Trip To IKEA part 4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 32 Coaster Hysteria: The Queens Tour 2008 The Recipe:Put Four Queens in a car and mix liberally over a one week period of time with 14 new (to them) coasters to ride (and get credits on) in four different amusement parks in three different states.Parks visited:KnoebelsHoliday WorldIndiana BeachCedar PointStir and enjoy... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 31 Illuminations at The Woods Campgrounds 2008 (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)Occasional Fags Brian G. and his partner Mr. Who were invited to The Woods, a gay campground in the Poconos (or as he likes to refer to them - the "Poke-Oh!-Nos"), by friend Jamie L. for it's weekend "Illuminations" presentation: an evening when each campsite decorates it's grounds using lights and luminaries and a dance is held where all are invited to paint their bodies with day glo paints and dance under bl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 30 Fire Island Dance Festival 2008 Part 2 (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)Here it is, part two of this year's video of the incredible Fire Island Dance Festival.  It's kind of a jumble of still and moving images from rehearsals, performances and back stage, but then the Festival itself is such an incredibly jam packed weekend of so much going on if you are working it that, this is, to a great extent, what it feels like.The dance companies featured this year included:-Alvin Ailey American Dance Com ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 29 Waterfalls Artist Olafur Eliasson has placed 4 waterfalls along the East River around lower Manhattan in collaboration with The Public Art Fund and the City of New York.  Leon and David b saw these waterfalls one Sunday afternoon while aboard the Circle Line. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 57 Chatting Brian G. and David b chat.Call the comment line 206.600.5504. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 28 Fire Island Dance Festival 2008 - Part One Well, TheOccasionalFags are back from their summer vacation, rested and ready for another round of Pod-casting.If you are a regular follower of this Podcast then you may remember that each summer OccasionalFag Brian G. goes out to Fire Island to volunteer his time being a part of the Fire Island Dance Festival.  This summer is no different.  He was there, and when he wasn't actively working (and sometimes when he was...) he had camera in hand to record the event.The Dance Festival ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 27 Loading in Broadway Bares 2008 (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)Each year OccasionalFag Brian G. volunteers his time to load in Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS "Broadway Bares" Fund-raising Burlesque show.This is the 18th Broadway Bares and the seventh one Brian has been there to work on.Sorry kids, no images of hot half naked dancers in this vid.  The web site www.broadwayworld.com usually has some great pictures of the dancers and goings on...  You want more than what ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 56 Brian and David b chat. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 26 Radical Faerie/CLFC Drag March '08 (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)Each year for the past two years TheOccasionalFag.com has brought you a podcast about the Drag March.  It takes place the Friday night before Pride Sunday - a little march from the East Village to the Stonewall Inn in the West Village.This year we have video!  Or we have what video OccasionalFag Brian G. - in the Drag March as the Evil Queen that she really is - could take whilst marching along...And what a wonderful Dr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 25 Church Ladies For Choice LIVE at Restaurant Florent Part Deux (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)Part Deux of the Church Ladies For Choice (a performance activist troop dedicated to the blessed trinity of activist causes: Reproductive Freedoms, Youth AIDS and Condom Education and Queer Rights) performing LIVE at Restaurant Florent.Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 24 Church Ladies For Choice LIVE at Restaurant Florent (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)New York City's own CHURCH LADIES FOR CHOICE LIVE and in performance at Restaurant Florent in the meatpacking district!Restuarant Florent is closing at the end of this month (June).  To commemorate its' many years of fine service to the community five evenings of performance were scheduled based on the five stages of loss set forth by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.The Church Ladies were the first performance on the first evening of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 23 A Day In The Hersheypark '08 (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)What could be nicer than a day spent amongst the coasters of Hersheypark, PA.Join TheOccasionalFags for this brief video summary of our recent trip and of what coaster heaven would be like should you find it in central Pennsylvania and not on the northern coast of the state of Ohio (that would be "Cedar Point" in Sandusky, OH for all of you who think an ACE member is something you find in a deck of cards).And yes, somet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 55 First Monday that's late Recoded on the first Monday, and posted for the second Monday, it's a late first Monday podcast.  Brian G. and David b talk about playing hooky, what they are doing for Pride month, and some stimulus!  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 22 Trip to IKEA (Part 4) (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)While waiting for David b to receive his larger purchased items Brian G. has a DSW Flashback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 21 Fire Island Diaries '08: The Video (To play video click on small POD button in upper left corner)Occasional Fag Brian G. made his way out to the Fire Island Resort Community, The Pines, once again this Spring.This time, Flip camera in hand, he has made a video.He wanted it to be a visual "tone poem" of the place, but since his friend Mark, whom he was staying with, had just seen Sunday in the Park with George on Broadway he has decided that it is to be a video "chromalume" (or however you spell it...).Wha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 20 Hey Brian G. What You Going to Spend the Money You Earned Loading in the Pope On? This video is about Occasional Fag Brian G. being part of the stage crew that loaded in the Pope for his 60,000 person mass in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx during his visit to the USA.  It's also about what Mr. G. then went and spent part of his paycheck on.One thing, though:After viewing this video, no comments please about lazy stage-hands just standing around in every shot.  Think about it - the only times I could get the video camera out to record in the Stadium were during hug ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 54 The Second Anniversary Join David b and Brian G as they talk with VJ and David from That Blue Jeans Guy about the 2nd anniversary of TOF and other things.  At the end of the show we have a Go Go Boy Sonnet form Edmund Miller. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 19 Trip to IKEA (Part 3) Part three of our never ending adventure in the Scandinavian wilds of North-Eastern New Jersey.For those of you looking for and expecting our monthly first Monday podcast there is to be a special event first Monday Podcast next week (the second Monday) in honor of our second anniversary of podcasting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 53 New York City Day of Silence Vigil. On Friday April 25, the Day of Silence, a vigil was held in honor of Lawrence King and all LGBTQ youth victims and survivors of violence.  Presented here are 2 of the speakers at the vigil, Pauline Park from NYAGRA, and Christen from SAFE HORIZON.   Also, watch Adrian Acostaâs video from the vigil. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 52 Mini Fag-Fest at Florent with David b and Brian G. After taking in  - at the World Trade Center - an early morning of dueling  professional homophobes, the Pope and Fred Phelps, TheOccasionalFags end up at restaurant Florent for Brunch.Here is their chatter.Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 18 Trip to IKEA (Part 2) Our trip to IKEA continues as we discover, briefly, what David b is at IKEA to buy, and then ignore him at together.  Not for the entire trip that is, just for this segment.On with the Show (room...) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 51 First Monday Faglife #4 Itâs a First Monday again. In this one we get a Listener call and talk about a few other podcast. Check them out, âA Walk in the Parkâ and the soon to launch âDial H for Homoâ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 17 Trip to IKEA (part 1) What is it gay men of the urban Northeast do when they are not working, eating, sleeping, activisting or having sex?  Why, fuck the stereotype, they're redecorating!And when you have the budget such as the men of this podcast (and most New Yorkers for that matter 'cause we all don't work on Wall Street) that means just one thing - IKEA!Besides, I don't know about you, but the first representation of a gay couple we ever saw in an advertisement on the tube (television that is, not You T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 16 Coney Island Cycone Opening 2008 Every year early Springtime one of the greatest roller coasters in the world, Coney Island's Cyclone, reopens to an adoring public.  The first one hundred people in line ride for free.TheOccasionalFag was there last year with sound and this year with video.It was cold and slightly rainy, but - along with all the various ACErs and Coney Island USA folks - we got our ride.  Enjoy it with us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 50 Staph, Bath and Beyond: The MRSA Symposium David b was out of town on business during a symposium at the New York City GLBT Center on antibiotic resistant strains of staph or MRSAs and their relation to men who have sex with men.  Brian G. went, Edirol recorder in hand.Entitled, "Staph, Bath and Beyond," the forum was created to address recent misinformation about the "flesh eating virus" as a sexually transmitted disease.  The evening was divided into two parts, one on MRSA, and the other on Bathhouses ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 15 David b's B-day and Podcaster's Dim Sum Brunch David b had a birthday.  Many fellow podcasters were invited.  Brian G shot video.Fellow podcasters decide the following weekend to gather for brunch.  David b suggests dim sum.  Brian G shoots more video.Edit.  Keep it under eight minutes.  Edit.  Add fun music.  Edit.This is what you get...Enjoy! FeaturingTIm Corrimal & RonChef Mark Eric the confessing southern boy & Bret Pinoyboy & Peter John Ong MikeypodVJ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 49 First Monday Faglife #3 Birthdays, dim sum and questions, questions, questions - It must be First Monday with TheOccasionalFags.  (First Monday's episodes being those in which we go over what is current or topical in our lives for all to hear)Enjoy! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 48 Presidential Health Care Plans. This week we talk with Mark Hannay form the Metro New York Health Care For All Campaign about the difference health care plans of the presidential candidatesâ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 14 Skiing at Stowe. As promised last week, here is the video from our  weekend skiing at Stowe VT with the homos of Winter Rendezvous.  Now you can see all the maple syrup covered cheddar scrambled eggs, icicles, and bank robbers you could possibly want.  Also check out our flickr photo set.  And VJ's flickr photo sets 1, set 2, and set 3. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 47 First Monday FagLife #2 Got an invitation from our good friend Vj of vjnet.blogspot.com to join him for the Winter Rendezvous gay ski weekend in beautiful Stowe, Vermont.  Alpine-style Skiing, hearty-styled homos, spa-styling in hot tubs and all the maple syrup covered chedder scrambled eggs one could eat  - needless to say, VJ had us at "hello".Here is our second installment of of first Monday "FagLife" series recorded at the end of our weekend in Vermont with our good friend VJ.Enjo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF video 13 1995 Drag March What with You Tube and video-casts and iPod videos and such, does anyone out there still watch Community Access Television on cable TV?Apparently, there is an OccasionalFag by the name of David b who lives in upstate Manhattan (Inwood) who does. Thank the stars this is so!  It was just a few weeks back that he discovered the footage on the tube we are presenting here to you now, that being images of the Second Annual Drag March in New York City held 13 years ago back in 1995.As they we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF46 Xanadu Cast Recording Release Was he inspired by the artistic dictates of his own inner muse, or was it the need to spend yet another hour and a half in the same room as Cheyenne Jackson.We'll never know, but what we've ended up with is Occasional Fag Brian G's trip to the Barnes and Noble on 60th Street and Broadway for the official release of the Xanadu on Broadway Original Cast Recording.Now that you're here...  Now that you're near...  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOFvideo12 Public Service Announcement For this episode Sharon Flewitts has a Public service announcement for us.   Call our listener comment line 206.600.5504 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF45 First Monday FagLife #1 Happy New Year!And welcome to a new year of TheOccasionalFag.Brian G had this idea that some sort of format for the podcast should be set up, and to those ends this is the first of the "Fag Life" first Mondays!  Each first monday of the month the Occasionals will gather and converse about what is going on in life; so, it's not hard news, but it is about the first hand going ons of two contemporary urban Homos in the twenty-first Century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOFVideo11Holidays'07 When Brian G was a child there were two 8-tracks that dominated the stereo during the holiday season: the Andy Williams Christmas Album and the Barbra Streisand Christmas Album.  Fast forward a decade (or two) and at family holiday gatherings all of Brian G's siblings are surprised to find that they have all purchased the Andy Williams Album to remind them of Christmas past; it is only Brian G who has purchased the Barbra Streisand Album.Keeping that in mind, here is a last minute vide ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 44 Holiday Ramblings Brian and David b talk about Christmas past and present. Call the listener line: 206-600-5504 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 43 On Tour. The world lost a Grand Old Fag on Wednesday December fifth when Bob Kohler passed away.  Join us as we celebrate Bobâs life and political activism at his political funeral, held in the streets of Manhattan on Sunday evening December 9th.New York Times article about the political funeral.Village Voice article about the political funeral.Words to YOUâRE A GRAND OLD FAG:Youâre a grand old fagYouâre a radical fagOn the front lines and kick lines with flair!Youâve got loads of class,A real ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 42 Thanksgiving '07 Unplugged Join Brian G and David b with family and friends for a bit of Thanksgiving Day dinner (with no special effects stolen from anyone or any other podcasts).About half way through everyone has to exclaim what they are actually thankful for.  Thank Goodness... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 41 Broadway on Strike/Chitty Poppinoff Challenge IATSE Local One, the Broadway Stagehand's Union is on strike closing 22 shows on Broadway.  We comment...  Kinda...Plus, TheOccasionalFag invites those delicious darlings of Pro-Choice vocal stylizations - The Church Lades For Choice - to rise to the Q-Cast Connection's Chitty Poppinoff Challenge.  Heaven help us!NOTE:  Donate money to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS!  NOW!Call the listener comment line 206-600-5504 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 10, Feeding Kimba Another installment of the daily hum drum chores. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 9 Church Ladies For Choice/Xanadu/Harmonie Moore's Birthday Well, if you have been to this podcast's Flickr account recently, you know from the many picutres taken that Brian G had a birthday in which he and the Church Ladies For Choice took in an afternoon of theatre at the Helen Hayes theatre here in New York.They saw Xanadu On Broadway: The Musical!And you could also surmise that if Brian G has a bunch of pictures of a single event, he is going to use them to put together one of those video montages of pictures set to music that he gets such a ki ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 40 My Dinner with the Commander: Conversations with an Alien This past summer Brian G traveled to Las Vegas with his partner David (Mr. Who) and David's cousin Annette.While there, they took in the Star Trek Experience at the Hilton Hotel finding that it exceeded all of their expectations.  All three being only part-time fans of the films and many series (enough to tell the difference between a Tribble and a bottle of Romulan Ale) they still had a amazing time.During dinner at Quark's Restaurant in the Experience, they were chatted up by a blue ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 8 About The Night Brian G was playing on the computer with recent pictures from a trip to Lake Compounce Amusement Park; putting together a little video with still images the way he likes to do - very iMovie and all that.Here is the results of his play.  Not to get too pretentious or anything, but during his years in film school - in the art department, not the journalism school - Brian G was introduced to a couple of the films of Stan Brahkage.  One of them, "Anticipation of the Night", ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF video 7 Morning Coffee David b joins other queercasters with this household chore video!  This one is for you Tim Corrimal and Archerr. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 6 Fire Island Dance Festival '07 Unlike last year's Dance Festival video where I (Brian G) waited 11 months to get around to editing the darn thing, this year's Fire Island Dance Festival Video is ready now and posted for your viewing pleasure.As always, the Dance Festival is put on by DRA: Dancers Responding to AIDS.  It took place back in the middle of July on a perfectly beautiful weekend. Too bad the days surrounding that weekend were a little bit moist.  Not that you'll be seeing any of the rain.  This ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 39 Out at the Fairgrounds '07 "Out at the Fairgrounds" is our gay night at Six Flags Great Adventure here in the Tri-State/NYC area (would that we had a Disney Park close by to have a Gay Day at).  It is a Fund-raiser for Heritage of Pride, the group that sponsors our yearly Gay Pride festivities.Along with Brian and David B, this year our coaster loving congregation includes the delightful VJ of VJnet, Brian's partner David (also sometimes known as Mr. Who so as not to be confused with David B), David B' ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 38 Amok & Stuff Brian and I go and see a circus, talk about ourselves, and skulk through a cruisey area of Central Park.  Go see Circus Amok if you are in NYC in September.  Come see the Church Ladies for Choice at Will Clark's Porno Bing Sept 5th, itâs a fund raiser for Sylviaâs Place.  Or ride roller coasters at 6 Flags Great Adventure on Sept. 14 with some queercasters, buy tickets here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 37 Interview with David Zinn Both David B. and Brian first met David Zinn back in 1990 when we were all involved with ACT UP: The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power.  Mr. Zinn and Brian were both on the fundraising committee and worked together on many events for the group. Back then, as now, David Zinn was an incredibly talented costume and set designer working with Regional Theatres and Operas across the Country. David has recently broken into Broadway with his costume designs for XANADU, THE MUSICAL, and, as we ar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 36 Backstage at Broadway Bares 2007 Broadway Bares is a yearly burlesque/striptease show put on by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS that is now in its 17th year.  It all started back with the first show where just eight gypsies at the Splash Bar (for a while known as SBNY, now, once again, known as Splash Bar) did two "filled to capacity" shows to raise over eight thousand dollars.  The cast of this year's show topped 250 and raised over three quarters of a million to be distributed to AIDS Service Organi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF Video 3 Fire Island Dance Festival 2006 As you may remember from last summer, every year TheOccasionalFag, through Brian,  goes to the incredible Fire Island Dance Festival to help set up the stage and house, run the show and then strike everything.What you may not know is that he takes a great deal of pictures.  Then, when he gets home, he sits down to his mac and makes a little iMovie with them (much like Rosie always used to do on her talk show...).  It really is his way of enjoying the weekend again as when you ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 35 The Winner We announce the winner of our Soy Candles by Phebes contest, and talk about upcoming podcasts. ddbean, our winner should email us at TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail[dot]com with contact info as we can put you in touch with Mike Hipp and arrangements can be made to send you your candles.  Or call our listener hot line 206-600-5504. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 34 Queen's Pride Day '07 Here in city of New York we've found a way to celebrate Pride all month long by having Pride Days in each of it's five boroughs.  The first one to come each year on the first Sunday in June is Queen's Pride.Join David B, Leon, Andrew and Brian as we enjoy this Reader's Digest abridged version of Pride in one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods on the planet - I Dios Mio! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 33 Marsh P. Johnson Queer Youth Drop-In Center Painting Is listening to people (well, us, theoccasionalfag guys) paint the new Marsha P. Johnson Drop-In Center for Homeless LGBT Youth at 151 West 127th street in any way more exciting than watching paint dry?  We hope so...We showed up to pitch in and help out getting this new center open in Harlem - recorders in hand - and you know what?  There is plenty of time for you to join in and show up to help as well.  Contact Kate Barnhard at manager@sylviasplace.org to offer your time, t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 32 Activist Voices At the ACT UP 20th Anniversary Demonstration, while David B. was collecting video images, I (Brian) was collecting sounds: the voices of those who will put their bodies and voices out there so as to be counted as someone still furious at the lack of global attention being paid to this plague.You know though, once you are there, it's not always about AIDS.  Sometimes, as you are marching along through the man made canyons of downtown Manhattan, there is time for talk of knitting, and ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF31 Church Ladies For Choice LIVE @ ACT UP 20th New York City's own Church Ladies For Choice, those daring defenders of Abortion Rights, Youth Condom Distribution and Queer Hegemony (don't we wish there really was a "Queer Hegemony", I mean, there kinda is, but really, who's kidding who; takes some mighty rose colored glasses to see it...  anyway...) were asked to entertain at the ACT UP Twentieth Anniversary Gathering/Party that followed their 20th Anniversary Demonstration/Action.Now, anywhere that the Church Ladies For ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF30 Bloomberg Pt 2 No show notes for today as they would be the same as the show notes for TOF29 Bloomberg Pt 1. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF29 Bloomberg Pt 1 On a recent ArcherRadio gang bang show, Mike Hipp of Podcastsoup.net asked something along the lines of, "Who really is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and what would he have to offer if he were to run for the Presidency?"David B. decided to pick up this ball and run with it.  Invited into this "Fone-in Fag Fest"  on the concept of a Bloomberg candidacy and administration are Mike Hipp himself, Mark Tafoya of Remarkably Mark, Archer of Archer Radio, our f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 28 Coney Island: Cyclone Opening and Kate Dale Interview Many have asked, "So what about this 'occasional Roller Coaster'?  What's this all about?"  We here at TheOccasionalFag are proud to introduce our very first roller coaster podcast, and where else would we record from first other than that East Coast Mecca of all things carnival, Coney Island, NYC.On the opening day of one of the best woodies on the planet, the Coney Island Cyclone, the first one hundred people in line ride for free.  We were there as well as many A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 27 Fire Island Diaries '07: Opening Weekend It's not always about changing the world.  Sometimes you just have to take a break and get away from it all. Here in the tri-state area, if you wish to invest the money, or - like me (Brian) - you have friends that have invested the money, you get away for the weekend out on Fire Island.My friends Mark and Jay have me out each year at the beginning of the season to help them open up their house.  This podcast is an interview with Jay Pagano about the new community center in The Pi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF26 The Radical Homosexual Agenda We here at TheOccasionalFag pride ourselves on our activist pasts, but what about the activist future?In this episode we interview members of a relatively new group to emerge on the Queer Activist horizon, the Radical Homosexual Agenda, who describe themselves thusly:The Radical Homosexual Agenda (R.H.A.) provides grass-roots support for queer youth and adults entrenched along the frontlines of the homophobia crisis in America. Frequently recognizable by our regulation pink army helmets, we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF25 FagBug On April the 18th of this year, the 11th annual Day of Silence (a national youth-run effort using silence to protest the actual silencing of LGBT people due to harassment, bias and abuse in schools), Erin Davies VW Bug was spray-painted with the words "FAg" and "U R gay" because of a rainbow sticker she had previously placed on the bumper.The vortex of emotions that anyone of us would be feeling at having been violated in such a way coalesced into a determination that no ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF24 The Morning After Well hung over and ravenously hungry, our occasional fags: David B. and Brian, meet at the Tick-Tock Diner at The New Yorker Hotel in the morning just before the Podcamp NYC "Un-conventional" conference which took place at said hotel.This, of course, makes it the morning after the Queercasters "Meet and Greet" at Therapy lounge in Hell's Kitchen that went until well past midnight the night before.  We both had a great time as you are soon to hear - if you listen - s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF23 Health Care For All This week we have a round table discussion with Mark Hannay form the Metro New York Health Care For All Campaign and ACT UP, & Kenneth R. Weinberg MD from Physicians for a National Health Program. We discuss the need for universal health care and the ACT UP demo that is happening this Thursday March 29th.Related LinksHR 676The Library of Congress THOMASUnited States House of RepresentativesUNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE ACTION NETWORKHealthcare-NOW Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TOF 22 Larry Kramer Larry Kramerâs speech at the Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community center commemorating the 20th anniversary of ACT UP.OUT FM Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Harm Reduction Today Brain and I talk to our friend and Harm Reduction guru Donald about - of all things - Harm Reduction... and sex... and drug use; all without once mentioning Ann Coulter, Matt Sanchez or Scooter Libby!Harm Reduction Coalition Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Fabulous Weekend The Occasional Fags, Brian and David, have a "fabulous" weekend in the city (New York City to be exact!) and are sharing it with you this episode.Saturday evening is the Manhattan World's Fair, an open house party to introduce a new performance/art space to artists who eventually might make use of it.  The performance presented that evening might have been lacking, but the music - a retro-80's sound - was just too much fun.Sunday afternoon was a screening at St. Bart's on Par ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | CLFC Fag-Fest at florent CLFC, of course, is the Church Ladies For Choice of NYC: those darling defenders of Women's Healthcare facilities and the cheerleaders for a Pro-choice America.  A "Fag Fest" is our tribute to the weekly "Gang Bang" on ArcherRadio.As you may know, even a lady has to eat, so why not sit down with the "Creatrix" of all us Church Ladies, Sister Mary Cunnilingus herself, and have a civil Civil-disobedience conversation.  What better restaurant to have thi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sylvia's Place This week Brian and I bring you audio we recorded this past summer when we visited Sylvia's Place, an emergency night shelter for self identified Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, trans-gendered, trans-sexual and questioning youth from 16 to 23 years of age. Go to their web sight and click on the pay pal button at the bottom and make a donation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS 20th Annual Broadway Flea Market. Recently, for a friend, I summed up TheOccasionalFag as, well, all about either sex, activism, or Broadway.  His response was, "Yeah, your point?"So this is one of those Broadway episodes.Join TheOccasionalFag as we journey to Shubert Alley in the Heart of Times Square to partake of the sounds (and the windy weather...) of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS 20th Annual Broadway Flea Market.Held each year in late September, the Flea Market has booths for Broadway Shows to sell ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Drives The Right Wing Crazy On the way back from doing clinic defense Saturday morning, the Church Ladies for Choice wrote a new song.  We present it here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | World AIDS Day December first is World AIDS day, so Brian and David get cynical with James Wentzy, a friend they met back when they were all active with ACT UP in the 90âs, about what World AIDS Day means today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mr. Who Learns To Drive Traveling back from Brian's 43rd birthday celebrations in Ohio - Cedar Point! - with David and Brian's Husband, Mr. Who, Brian dons the new (for us!) binaural mics and records one of those slice of life, get to know us, narcissistic sound "see-ings" that podcasting does so well. Included as well are the new faggot national anthem (so say we!) and, for all you erudite mo-fos, a Go-Go Boy Sonnet, RE: Edmond Miller and TheOccasionalFag Episode 9 Burt Reynolds Al Parker Archer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Going to Hell Goblins and ghouls, witches and vampires, demons and devils are the stuff from which contemporary Halloween horrors are made, but is there anything as truly terrifying as an Evangelical, Right-wing, Fundamentalist Christian.  We here at TheOccasionalFag think not.  So when we heard of Les Freres Corbusierâs authentic reproduction of Pastor Keenan Robertsâ Christian HellHouse - a haunted house with scenes depicting iniquities such as cheerleaders getting abortions or gay men suffer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fire Island Dance Festival '06 The thought of taking the recorder out with me to the dance festival - for which I have been volunteering as a tech since 2001 - passed my mind, but it wasn't until David suggested it as well that the idea grew on me as a good one. Boy, I'm glad that I did. - BrianIn this episode we join occasional fag Brian out on Fire Island for one of the "premiere cultural events of one of the most prominent gay communities on the planet", DRA's (Dancers Responding to AIDS) Fire Island Dance Festival 20 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Meat Rack Diaries Join TheOccasionalFag.com on our very own Blair "Bitch" Project as we invade the Meat Rack - that wooded space on Fire Island, NY between The Pines and Cherry Grove - with mic in hand and recorder hidden in a backpack.  For the uninitiated, this is where men go to have sex.  Want more information on that?  Read Larry Kramer's "Faggots" for a start...This is a direct, unedited recording, about twenty minutes long, with afterthoughts recorded later mixed in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Go-Go Boy Sonnets The Occasionals (Grace, Tom, Jerry, Raju, Brian and David) continue the go go boy theme with this episode of TheOccasionalFag.  We talk to Edmund Miller about the writing and publishing of his book The Go Go Boy Sonnets.   www.gogoboysonnets.com  Byron photographed by Hans Farmeyer Gregory photographed by Daniel Perry Giovanni photographed by Daniel Perry Carlos photographed by Daniel Perry Zaki photographed by Brick Jones Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sea Tea A GLBT Pride street interview with porn star and activist, Will Clark, led to an invite to join his crew on the "Sea Tea / Bad Boys on the Hudson" floating sunday evening tea dance.Through the magic of podcasting, we now extend that invite to you!  Join David and Brian (mostly Brian, again...) as they swab the decks and shiver the timbers (whatever that means) of the "sweetest" bad boys to ever bubble up on TheOccasionalFag."I'd like to ask you some porn-star q ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pleasure and Political Demonstration This week we talk to Benjamin Shepard, Ph.D., fresh from his arrest at Ambassador Boltonâs office.  We talk about the play aspect in political activism and demonstration.   For additional reading see the article by Ben at DRAIN magazine under ârelated essaysâ?   LINKS:   YIPPIES The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army John Bolton Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gay Pride March 2006 Gay Pride "Two Thousand and Sex" bonus special!   Brian and David (mostly Brian) stood out on 5th Ave between 34th and 35th street and chatted up some of the Pride Marchers.   Hear are links to some of the people we talked to:   The North East Two-Spirit Society   "Sylvia's Place", an emergency night shelter for self identified Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, trans-gendered, trans-sexual and questioning youth.   New York City Gay Men's Chorus &nbs ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 14th Annual Dyke March NYC The second sound scene from "Church Lady Pride Two-Thousand Sex" is of the 14th Annual Dyke March down 5th Ave.   "Just look for the flashing lights" Additional Links: Dyke Tv Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 13th Annual Drag March NYC Sharon Flewitts and Harmonie Moore of the Church Ladies for Choice, the premiere Pro-choice Performance Activists of New York City, celebrate GAY PRIDE 2006, or as we like to call it, Church Lady Pride, Two Thousand SEX!   Here is the first of two resultant soundscapes:   The Friday night DRAG MARCH, organized this year by the Radical Faeries of NYC. Additional Links: Church Ladies for Choice Sacred Songs www.submitparty.com/spam http://somytherapis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | THE SUPERLUBE Microbicides is hardly a word to inspire the lighting of candles,  dimming of lights or turning up of soft music for.  It sounds more akin to something you would spray on the plants to keep away potato bugs.  Someday, though, it may be something you spray on or squeeze in yourself to keep away the dreaded HIV or a bothersome sexually transmitted disease. This Episode's Roundtable segment is all about Microbicides as The Occasional Fag crew verbally greases up Mitchel H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Orisa! Orisa! Orisa! Perhaps in your youth you saw Larry Wilcox on The Tonight Show telling Johnny Carson about what Eric Estrada did with live poultry in his off hours, or maybe the last time you were in Cuba enjoying a cup of tea with Fidel you noticed all the coconut shells and lit candles in the back room?  Speaking of Cuba, does Ricky Ricardoâs rendition of Babaloo in old reruns of I love Lucy stir some form of unnamed longing down in your soul? If so, youâve come to the right place for our late ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whores Will Be Whores The Occasional Fag Pilot Episode B: Whores Will Be Whores.As diverse as the GLBT community gets, the one thing we all still have that we share a common interest in is sex, so why not open The Occasional Fag with an all male roundtable about communal erotic intimacy in New York City.  Sure, we should have had a female fag or two on the panel, but sometimes, like not being able to pick and choose who in the sex club is brave enough to climb up in that sling, you have to play them as they ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Coming Soon Just a test posting to see how this works. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |