Wow. It’s pride and I just saw my first Frameline movie last night. The National Queer Arts Festival is happening. Queer art and film and love every where. It’s overwhelming, yet fun and inspiring.
I saw the acclaimed film from Argentina XXY last night at the Castro and it was packed. Coming of age meets gender politics meets sweet adolescent sex (I’m not a pervert, it was an empowering scene!) The main character Alex is adorable and gives a very real performance of an adolescent struggling with her inter sexed body and the ramifications that exist with in her family and the community. Overall, the film did a great job of showing how young people and the parents are faced with making decisions and that allowing the inter sexed person to make their own choice about what to do with their bodies is best. Or really what not to do! You don’t need “corrective surgery,” your body is beautiful. The film shared that sentiment many times though out, but my favorite was the sex scene between Alex and her 17 year old boy crush - they make out, she flips him over and does him up the butt. It’s radical!
Argentina keeps them coming. This is the third amazing film to come out of there in the last few festivals. Last year I saw Glue, another coming of age cute gay boy movie, and the year before I saw Suddenly, about lesbians who take a road trip down the coast. I recommend them both.
I’ve mentioned her before, she’s been in Curve magazine, Arlan is a fan, her web banner is right above us staring you in the face, and she produces the hottest lesbian erotica around. Shine Louise Houston just wrapped her fourth feature film on Sunday starring a real MMA fighter who happens to also be the champion wrestler on the popular site Ultimate Surrender under the name of Syd Blackovich.
Champion is a queer boxing movie packed with 20 minutes of tightly crafted drama woven into hot sex scenes to make it an hour long feature film. It is not due to be released until January 2009, but you can check out the film rushes and photos at the film’s official blog site.
5 Fun Facts about Pink and White
1. About 50% of the couples that star in the movies are real couples.
2. All the crew are queer folks from the community.
3. Shine snort laughs while she directs.
4. The main videographer has been female ejaculated (squirted) on 4 times in 4 years. Once a year baby!
5. More than half of the models are doing porn for the first time and only do it with Pink and White.
Uh uh, (clears throat). Ahem, so if you’ve been reading my blog for a while you know that I’m the co-producer of this Rhapsody series called “Rock-Star Guide to the Galaxy”. Uh huh. Well, so we’re in LA to work with this particular band that for the moment shall remain nameless. Uh huh. Anyway, it’s nice and hot, like LA should be, and we’re in the green room at the Roxy and who walks in?! Clea Duvall. Uh huh.
I’ve been working with a lot of talent lately and I’m always calm, cool and professional. But a shout out back to my regulars – you’ve heard me mention before that Clea is one of my favorite actresses – right up there with Winona Ryder.. Uh huh. So pardon me while I take a moment to recount the story for you all.
Part 1: Clea walks in and stands in a corner (the corner that I’m standing in holding my video camera); she then turns to me, puts her hand out and says, “Hi, I’m Clea. You look familiar.” Uh huh. Turning red, eyes blinking, jaw dropping. I remember my name and introduce myself “We’re from San Francisco, so…uh..I don’t know where we would have met. But, well, you obviously look familiar.”
Part 2: The VIP area of the Roxy. It’s the end of the show and I have to remind myself to breath due to so many hot situations already. Deep slow breaths. Clea turns around and asks me, “is life that hard?” At that point, I just crack up laughing. We start chatting and at some point we get on the subject of smoking cigarettes and I share my theory, that “half of the addiction to smoking is not just the nicotine, but the deep rhythmic breaths you take while you smoke.” WTF is that!? Who says that? I do a lot of yoga.
Part 3: Inspiration. I finally come out to Clea that I’ve a big fan of hers since I was 16. Then I get worried that maybe I should check my facts before I open my big mouth, but before I can find my way through the space-time continuum she just asks me my age and it turns out she started acting when she was 18 (that means I was 15, so we’re all good). Then she shares that some things she saw while growing up influenced what she does now. I thought that was so sweet, that I got lost in my thoughts, and forgot to ask her what it was that influenced her!
Clea, if you read this blog, we all want to know what it was that influenced you while you were growing up. You have obviously been an inspiration and have influenced a lot of folks from my generation and younger.
So, um, will you be in my movie Licorice? I’m writing a coming of age drama that you would be perfect to play the role of the older sister. I already produced a short scene from it and gave a copy to one of your friends in that band we all know and love, (uh huh, just clearing my throat again in case you aren’t getting the hint).
In case you missed it, here’s a link to the Rock-Star guide to the Galaxy webisode with CSS.
Here’s a sneak peak to the Rock-Star guide to the Galaxy webisode with Uh Huh Her coming this August.
Back in NYC for 2 hot days and there were many Hot Situations. I think there were so many Hot Situations that I can’t even share them all. First, we met up with one of the Go magazine editors to shoot the shiz about life and blogging at a neato restaurant called the New French wave in the village. Then a few of us ran off to one of the NYC lesbo clubs Snapshot that was happening that night just a few blocks away. I learned the best pick up line! This brave person approaches us (4 hotties) and says, “I heard it’s some body’s birthday over here.” Of course it wasn’t, but it worked!
The next day was full of fun office tours and interesting meetings all around MTV, Rhapsody and Logo. If you want to get a job at one of these media monsters, just swing the lingo, “I’m at 1515, where you at?” Totally works. You’ll be a media mogul in no time.
Of course we ended our stay with a few drinks with old friends on the back patio of the Metropolitan for the Wednesday lady’s night. It’s by far one of my favorite spots in NYC; even my California a$$ runs into old friends there, particularly NYC dancers in corner stores in the west village.
There’s this hot modern dance project that I’ve been following since college really (event though it wasn’t started yet). The project is called Modern Garage movement and the most recent dance is called New Gree. Last summer they toured garages around the west coast, including mine, and they look to be planning another tour this summer. Imagine beautiful women dancing on rooftops, garages, and public space and you have wine in your hand. Sounds like a hot situation to me! Check them out.
Who knew that there’s a Gay street in Baltimore? I was so excited about this bizarre urban planning decision that I risked life and limb to capture an image of the sign from a speeding vehicle – twice. I wish SF had a Gay St. But I’ll just have to relish in the delight that our whole city is like really really gay. Baltimore…I’m not so convinced.
Baltimore, Maryland (known affectionately as B’more or Bodymore, Murdaland depending in who you ask) was only known to me through my parents for its harbor side crab shacks. DJs have made it famous for its club gutter music and recent Showtime execs have shed light on some of the city’s darker goings-on (the Wire).
We were there for Aaron LaCrate, a New York based music producer, DJ, record label owner and clothier who gave us the rock-star guide to his beloved hometown. Aaron’s tour was deeply personal and at moments equally heartbreaking and heart warming. The Baltimore he showed us was full of life and hope but also abandonment and desperation. Once in a while in San Francisco I get a bad feeling about a particular block where I know the bored kids hang out, or a deserted street late at night and I just walk home a different route. I forget that there are places where people like me have a lot more to fear.
I was gay bashed in the parking lot of Wendy’s. In the middle of the day, next to the Home depot in a suburb 10 minutes out of the city. We were walking to our car and this dude pulls into the parking lot in a beat up sedan and stares at me with this evil, maniacal grin. I already felt him gay bashing inside his head. So one minute later I wasn’t surprised when I heard him call me like a dog from his car, “hey, homoooo. My girlfriend needs …..” I ran into my car and said, “Lock the doors, I just got gay bashed, lets get out of here!”
I was scared and felt gross. Living in mostly liberal areas of California for the last 10 years, I forget how difficult the rest of the world can be. I want to take a moment for all the queers that have suffered and survived gay bashing and hate violence. I would like to give Baltimore another try; I’m sure there’s a rich queer culture there with in it’s already interesting history. I mean, there’s a Gay St! (and for the record, I was only there for 2 days and saw 2 people who passed as queerdos) It is the home of quirky queer filmmaker John Waters, after all. Any Baltimore queers out there reading blogs and have some positive or not so positive shout outs for Baltimore? Leave a message.
Watch the Hot Situation - Sao Paulo, Brazil trailer.
From the producers of Rhapsody’s Rock-Star Guide to the Galaxy comes Hot Situation: a magazine-style travel/culture/art/music/food series for the Lesbian/Bisexual/Trans/Queer identified community. Each piece creatively explores the relationship between queer identity, culture and location via candid interviews with local “celesbians,” playful explorations of must-see spaces, and suggestions for dining, drinking and dancing. Hot Situation is current, relevant and also has a fun and campy sensibility that stays true to it’s objective: to explore what is unique about different communities and what experiences bring us together. The mission of Hot Situation is to encourage travel, community, acceptance and good times. Humor, bright colors, and costumes are welcomed and appreciated.
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