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	<title>Hearsay: Nellie&#39;s flings open its doors&#44; Baltimore&#39;s Hippo turns 35&#44; and a couple of local boys hit the big 3&#45;0</title>
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Hearsay: Sporting news&#46;&#46;&#46; There wasn&#39;t enough CO2 at Nellie&#39;s Sports Bar this past Monday to high&#45;ball the high&#45;quality beers on draft &#45;&#45; and at times there wasn&#39;t enough oxygen atoms in the atmosphere for Hearsay&#39;s high&#45;ball&#44; either&#46; With a line out the door after Team D&#46;C&#46;&#39;s Nationals Night Out game&#44; the joint was jumping and Hearsay&#39;s heart was pumping&#46; Chris &#39;&#39;That&#39;s the Way the Cookie Crumbles&#39;&#39; Dyer&#44; Brent &#39;&#39;Major League&#39;&#39; Minor&#44; Phil &#39;&#39;Coach&#39;&#39; Piga&#44; Ted &#39;&#39;Shortstop&#39;&#39; Miller&#44; Robert &#39;&#39;Heavy&#45;Hitter&#39;&#39; York&#44; Shane &#39;&#39;Stadium&#39;&#39; Griffith &#45;&#45; the gang was almost all here&#46; Hearsay had fun trying to determine who were catchers and who were pitchers &#45;&#45; oh&#44; hell&#44; let&#39;s face facts&#44; they&#39;re all catchers&#33; Balls to the wall&#44; bats to the mat&#44; hands to the athletic supporters&#44; all courtesy of Queen Nellie himself&#44; Doug &#39;&#39;Sports Machine&#39;&#39; Schantz&#46; With a lot of relief pitching from his managers&#44; Darren &#39;&#39;Tetherball&#39;&#39; Philips and Michael &#39;&#39;Badmitten&#39;&#39; Sasser and still more relief from all the hot Nellie bartenders&#44; waiters and security staff&#44; who just looked so damn cute in those Universal Gear Athletics tight tees&#46; Let&#39;s just say Hearsay&#39;s Monday night bar game went way into extra&#45;innings&#46;&#46;&#46;&#46; Hip&#45;hip Hippo&#33;&#46;&#46;&#46; Some people go to Rehoboth for the summer&#44; but Baltimore doesn&#39;t get the respect it deserves as a fun destination&#44; any time of year&#46; And Hearsay loves fun&#44; hon&#46; And boy buns&#44; too&#44; son&#46; &#40;Sorry about that&#46; Hearsay&#39;s done with the fun run of rhymes&#46; Starting now&#46; Don&#39;t have a cow&#46; Okay&#44; starting now&#46; Pow&#46; Now&#33;&#41; But Hearsay&#39;s secret about Charm City&#39;s charm is apparently out&#58; Club Hippo was hip and hopping on Saturday&#44; July 7 &#45;&#45; or&#44; to be more precise&#58; 07&#47;07&#47;07&#44; which is just three digits away from being the mark of the Devil&#46; Fortunately&#44; the Hippo is more like kissed by an angel&#44; having served as Baltimore&#39;s gay nightlife beacon for 35 amazing years&#46; And what a fun place it is to go&#46; You can stand and model &#45;&#45; and even sit&#33; &#45;&#45; and still see the action on the slightly sunken rectangular dance floor&#46; Book&#45;ended by bars&#44; alcohol is always within easy&#45;spilling distance&#46; And the dance floor itself is big enough to bust a move&#46; Or cop a feel of those busting a move&#46; Or both&#44; in the case of Ron &#39;&#39;Ewwa&#45;Ewwa&#39;&#39; Brown&#46; As well as Michael &#39;&#39;House Party Headquarters&#39;&#39; Scott&#46; Yes&#44; it was that kind of night&#46; There were soooo many D&#46;C&#46; boys there&#46; Brown&#39;s hubby Bruce &#39;&#39;Baltimore Virgin&#39;&#39; Nylander was there&#44; and &#45;&#45; well&#44; let&#39;s just get the name&#45;dropping out of the way&#44; shall we&#63; Chris &#39;&#39;A Perfect&#39;&#39; Dix&#46; Mike &#39;&#39;Beat&#39;&#39; Reimer&#46; Bill &#39;&#39;Mad Max&#39;&#39; Pullen&#46; David &#39;&#39;Back to&#39;&#39; Black&#46; DJ &#39;&#39;Beans and&#39;&#39; Rice&#46; Lee &#39;&#39;That&#39;s Classified&#39;&#39; Hylton&#46; John &#39;&#39;TenTen&#39;&#39; Anderson&#46; Ben &#39;&#39;More To&#39;&#39; Read&#46; And because variety is a McCormick spice of life&#44; Hearsay will now drop the names of some of the Baltimore lads it befriended&#58; Dale &#39;&#39;My Tide Is High&#39;&#39; Janni and Tracy &#39;&#39;My Bounce is Fluffy&#39;&#39; Noell&#46; Jeff &#39;&#39;Good to the Last&#39;&#39; Siperly and Dan &#39;&#39;Deep Fried&#39;&#39; Calamari&#46; Also there was Jeff &#39;&#39;As Sure As I&#39;m&#39;&#39; Abell&#44; the Saturday evening news anchor on Ballmer&#39;s WBFF&#45;TV Fox 45&#46; &#39;&#39;Coming up at 10&#58; Eager beavers already lined up to party at One West Eager Street&#46; Run if you don&#39;t want to wait&#46;&#39;&#39;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Hearsay: Pride&#44; Cherry and Moody&#58; A Weekend of Wonderment</title>
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Hearsay: Pride Weekend Wonders&#46;&#46;&#46; Oops&#44; Hearsay did it again&#46; By the time Hearsay&#39;s weekend rolled into Monday&#44; it was too late to turn back&#46; Hearsay is out &#45;&#45; worn out&#44; to be exact&#44; after a full bout of Pride with a Cherry on top&#46; Two weekends royally packed into one&#46; What fun&#33; No&#44; seriously&#44; what fun&#33; Results the Gym&#39;s 2007 Parade float Let&#39;s begin with the Capital Pride Parade&#44; which&#44; despite construction on P Street&#44; ran like clockwork&#46; No problems with street closures&#44; no problems with missing police officers&#44; no late stepoff&#44; no problems at all&#46; It&#39;s as though we had a new mayor in this here town&#33; All of the usual suspects were present &#45;&#45; Jim Graham waving his straw hat&#44; Lena Lett holding tight to her disco ball&#44; a Whitman&#39;s Sampler of dykes vroom&#45;vrooming on their bikes&#44; the Centaur Motorcycle Club&#39;s big manly rig&#44; Phase 1&#39;s less big &#40;but no less manly&#41; rig&#44; Cowboys lifting their legs skyward&#44; and a group of Asian gays armed with water cannons cheerfully spreading AQUA&#46; There were also some new additions&#44; notably a float from 17th Street newcomer Jack&#39;s&#44; which bounced a female float sitter along the way&#44; and Be Bar&#44; which put forth a homage to High School Musical that would have made Disney execs blush&#46; Mayor Adrian Fenty tossed strings of beads to the strings of bead&#45;crazed crowd&#46; Seriously&#44; have you ever noticed how people go gonzo for a string of beads at the Pride parade&#63; Stand back and observe sometime &#45;&#45; it&#39;s a veritable frenzy of &#39;&#39;gimmee&#44; gimmee&#44; gimmee&#33;&#39;&#39; People&#44; it&#39;s not like the beads contain a magical&#44; mind&#45;altering substance&#46; The people who used to toss those out to the crowd are now safely behind bars&#46; These are just plain old ordinary beads&#46; It&#39;s not like you&#39;re getting a pearl necklace or anything&#46; &#40;Well&#46;&#46;&#46;&#41; Hearsay missed the presence of longtime D&#46;C&#46; Different Drummer Major Ed &#39;&#39;Shut Up and Twirl Me&#39;&#39; Wilson&#44; unable to participate this year due to an accident involving a big chunk of wood and his thigh&#46; As usual&#44; the PFLAG contingent generated the biggest response from the crowd&#46; We love our gay&#45;loving heterosexual parents&#44; don&#39;t we&#63; After all&#44; we wouldn&#39;t be here if they hadn&#39;t had the kind of icky sex that allows for us to be born unto the world&#46; Kinda funny how that works out&#46; After losing last year&#39;s best float award&#44; Results THE Gym pulled out the heaviest&#44; largest construction machinery it could find and impressed the crowd&#44; in the process winning top honors&#46; Don&#39;t believe otherwise &#45;&#45; size always matters to a homosexual assemblage&#46; Most folks in the parade were not on big rigs&#44; but&#44; in fact&#44; humbly on foot&#44; many stomping their praise for the lord&#46; Was it just Hearsay or are the Presbyterians taking over&#63; Before you know it&#44; even Hearsay will be feeling predestined&#46;&#46;&#46;&#46; Festival fun&#46;&#46;&#46; The Capital Pride Festival can get pretty wild&#46; And that&#39;s true even with the drinkers forced into alcohol confinement&#46; &#39;&#39;Fuck that&#44; fuck that&#44; fuck that&#33;&#39;&#39; came the yelling from the stage&#46; Such language&#33; Has the D&#46;C&#46; Council made Pride a No&#45;Smoking Zone&#63; No&#44; no&#44; a thousand times no&#46; It was just an act &#45;&#45; the opening number from the dynamic lesbian hip&#45;hop duo God&#45;Des &#38; She&#46; G&#38;S were only one part of day&#39;s entertainment that was as diverse and as stimulating as ever &#45;&#45; from headliner Crystal Waters &#40;who performed simulated sexual acts with her dancing boys&#44; who then performed simulated sexual acts on each other&#41; to Rachel Panay&#44; who wore a red dress this year&#44; replacing the shimmering pink number from last&#44; to the gals of Wicked Jezabel&#44; who rocked the stage so hard the dome of the Capitol shook&#44; to the dancing hijinks of the D&#46;C&#46; Cowboys&#44; currently the city&#39;s busiest group of dancing half&#45;naked men&#46; Randi Miller&#44; the Voice of Metro &#40;&#39;&#39;Doors closing&#46; I said DOORS CLOSING&#33; GET YOUR FAT ASS IN THE CAR&#33;&#39;&#39;&#41;&#44; was late for her stint as emcee&#46; The reason&#63; She got stuck on Metro&#46; Hearsay lapped up the irony like a kitten laps milk &#45;&#45; or a giraffe laps peanut butter from Hearsay&#39;s nether&#45;region &#40;hey&#44; don&#39;t knock it until you&#39;ve tried it&#33;&#41;&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Hearsay: A &#39;Lost &#39; E&#46;D&#46;&#44; a &#39;&#39;glorious&#39;&#39; new hotspot in Northeast&#44; and cruising the open seas</title>
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Hearsay: Lost Longings&#46;&#46;&#46; Last weekend was Mother&#39;s Day&#44; but Hearsay was in more of a daddy mood&#46; Oh&#44; don&#39;t worry&#58; Hearsay made time for mother on Sunday&#46; &#39;&#39;Hearsay phone home&#33; Hearsay phone home&#33;&#39;&#39; the alien&#45;implanted chip started commanding in E&#46;T&#46;&#39;s annoying monotone early Sunday morning&#46; And it didn&#39;t stop until Hearsay called the Mothership in Nevada and swore it would take up valuable column space reporting that the Mothership is now open for tours to anyone interested in checking out the Flying Saucercenter&#44; Nevada&#46; Go and get yourself a good alien probing&#46; Speaking of probing&#44; at a recent social event &#40;a wedding&#41; of a high powered gay Washingtonian &#40;Metro Weekly editor Sean Bugg&#44; who married his childhood sweetheart Cavin Le&#44; the details of which you can read all about on Sean&#39;s personal blog&#44; Buggblog&#44; which you can link to through the metroweekly&#46;com home page&#41;&#44; Hearsay learned that there is a certain E&#46;D&#46; in this town who is utterly&#44; absolutely obsessed with the TV show Lost&#46; Hearsay will now reveal clues to the identity of this E&#46;D&#46; in a ridiculously obscure Lost&#45;like manner&#46; He is known as the man from Maryland&#46; His father once borrowed a can of kidney beans from him&#46; He was hurled out of a window yet miraculously is still able to play the bassoon&#46; He once made love to a polar bear&#46; He has the most luxurious head of hair of all the E&#46;D&#46;&#39;s&#44; and that includes former Maunterite Kathleen &#39;&#39;Kate&#39;&#39; DeBold&#46; He&#39;s probably Jewish&#46; No&#44; he&#39;s definitely Jewish&#46; He&#39;s not Adam Tenner&#46; He&#39;s the other Jewish E&#46;D&#46; You know&#44; THE OTHER&#46; The organization he runs has a gala coming up this Sunday&#44; May 20&#44; at the North Bethesda Marriott&#46; Punch these numbers into your telephonic device &#45;&#45; 301&#45;587&#45;7500 &#45;&#45; and you too can save the world&#44; if not the cheerleader&#46; No&#44; wait&#44; that&#39;s Heroes&#46; And that&#39;s a whole different story&#46;&#46;&#46;&#46; Glory be&#46;&#46;&#46; Here&#39;s a hot tip for you &#45;&#45; 2120 is now open for &#39;&#39;business as usual&#46;&#39;&#39; What is 2120&#63; Good question&#46; It&#39;s Bob &#39;&#39;The Commish&#39;&#39; Siegel&#39;s new operation&#44; over yonder on West Virginia Avenue NE&#46; There is ample &#40;and apparently secure&#41; parking&#44; according to Bob&#44; and a boatload of space inside to mingle and&#44; well&#44; you remember the Glorious Health Club&#44; don&#39;t you&#63; Well&#44; it&#39;s kinda&#44; sorta like that&#46; Only in a different neighborhood&#46; Visit www&#46;2120club&#46;com or call 1&#45;866&#45;448&#45;2120 for more details than Hearsay can even begin to supply&#46;&#46;&#46;&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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Hearsay: Glowing at fur&#46;&#46;&#46; Hearsay is no longer water&#45;logged&#44; but it still feels bloated after the torrential downpours a couple weekends back &#45;&#45; and Hearsay&#39;s not just talking about the big boys from North Carolina with the tar&#45;heel fetish and the dirty &#40;blue&#41; devil dominating demeanors&#46; The rain&#44; the rain &#45;&#45; Hearsay nearly melted&#44; even without setting more than two feet out into the elements at any one time until the gods stopped crying&#46; Despite the sorry weather&#44; Hearsay knew it was going to be a good night a few Saturdays back at FUR&#44; when it was brusquely but effectively manhandled by FUR&#39;s frisker&#45;in&#45;charge&#44; a big yummy chunk of a man&#46; Yes sir&#44; Hearsay is happy to see you&#46; And no&#44; that&#39;s not an extra large cell phone in Hearsay&#39;s pocket&#46; The fur&#45;laden occasion&#63; Pete Kalamoutsos&#39;s Club Glow night&#46; Kalamoutsos grape&#45;leave stuffed the evening with some gay appeal&#44; especially the DJs&#58; first&#44; gay&#45;boy Yiannis kicked off the evening and then gay&#45;popular Victor &#39;&#39;Let Me Set You Free&#39;&#39; Calderone took over the turntables until after 4 a&#46;m&#46;&#44; making the club vibrate like a battery&#45;operated doohickey&#46; While milling about&#44; Hearsay made the acquaintance of Bethany &#39;&#39;Jesse&#39;&#39; James and Ryan &#39;&#39;Paul&#39;&#39; Peterson&#44; a quiet&#44; happy straight couple who go to so many gay parties&#44; they&#39;re known among their friends as Homo Hoppers&#46; Hearsay asked Bethany if she comes to Fur often&#44; and she laughed and laughed and laughed&#46; And laughed&#46; Guess Hearsay needs to work on its pick up lines with the ladies&#44; because that line always works with the lads&#33; So back to the lads Hearsay trots&#46; Hearsay spent a few minutes socializing with Mike &#39;&#39;If Victor Texts&#46;&#46;&#46;&#39;&#39; McGrath and Chris &#39;&#39;&#46;&#46;&#46;I&#39;ll Be Right There&#39;&#39; Wiggins before they had to go somewhere&#44; to see &#40;who else&#63;&#41; Victor&#46; Hearsay then unearthed Jason &#39;&#39;1969&#39;&#39; Stonewall in the crowd&#44; who had brought his sister out for the occasion&#46; What&#39;s that expression&#63; The family that parties together&#46;&#46;&#46;&#46; Pelham &#40;left&#41; Hattoy&#39;s off&#46;&#46;&#46; Last Wednesday&#44; Hearsay popped in the 18th &#38; U Duplex Diner to hunt down an old friend &#40;or is that foe&#63; Hearsay can&#39;t remember&#44; save a few weightlifting sessions at the Y&#41;&#46; The friend &#40;or foe&#41; happened to be Bob &#39;&#39;The Taking of&#39;&#39; Pelham&#44; and the occasion was an impromptu gathering in the memory of Hearsay&#39;s old chum&#44; Bob &#39;&#39;Ba&#45;Dum&#45;Bum&#39;&#39; Hattoy&#44; who was&#44; among many other fine and notable things&#44; the funniest gay man on the planet next to Hearsay and Rosie O&#39;Donnell&#46; Pelham&#44; visiting from Texas&#44; where he now toils as an oil tycoon&#44; had arranged for a memorial gathering earlier that evening on Capitol Hill&#44; a gathering that included remembrances from Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and Senator Hillary Clinton&#44; both FOBHs&#46; Hearsay will say this about Pelham&#44; whom it hadn&#39;t laid eyes on in almost a decade &#45;&#45; he&#39;s still a man worth laying eyes on&#46; After accepting a fizzy drink from Eric &#39;&#39;Duplex Man&#39;&#39; Hirshfield&#44; Hearsay went around the room&#44; accumulating stories about The Mad Hattoy&#46; The best came from Stuart &#39;&#39;Pliant Skin is Genetic&#39;&#39; Spencer&#44; who recalled a story that was extremely funny but completely unfit for publication&#44; even by Hearsay&#39;s loose and limber standards&#46; All Hearsay can say is it took place in a urinal&#46; Now let your filthy little minds go to work&#46; Chad Johnson offered up a list of Hattoyisms&#44; quotes attributed to Mr&#46; H&#44; the most famous of which remains &#39;&#39;I&#39;m a legend in my own mind&#46;&#39;&#39; Actually&#44; Hattoy will forever remain a legend in Hearsay&#39;s mind&#46; So long&#44; Bob&#46; We&#39;ll miss you&#46;&#46;&#46;&#46; 40 is the new 20&#46;&#46;&#46; Last time Hearsay was on the scene&#44; years ago&#44; before its abduction &#45;&#45; err&#44; abdication and fleeing to the desert for foreign flushing and native rehabilitation &#45;&#45; it remembers hanging out with twentysomethings and hearing of thirtysomething birthdays&#46; Now people are turning 40&#33; Why&#44; just look at Kevin &#39;&#39;Supple&#39;&#39; Steele&#46; He doesn&#39;t look a day over 39&#44; but in fact&#44; he is now 40&#44; which is only ten years away from the big five&#45;uh&#45;oh&#33; Anyway&#44; Steele didn&#39;t have the decency to mourn the occasion quietly&#46; Instead&#44; he insisted that a gaggle of his friends throw him a party&#46; Patrick &#39;&#39;Long Time Coming&#39;&#39; Branson&#44; Scott &#39;&#39;Tall&#44; Light and Handsome&#39;&#39; Johnson and Tony &#39;&#39;Short&#44; Dark and Cute&#39;&#39; Johnson &#45;&#45; looks can be deceiving&#44; but these Johnsons are not related &#45;&#45; helped organize the party hosted by John &#39;&#39;Smile And the World Turns&#39;&#39; Darnell at his lovely high and tight U Street abode&#46; Michael &#39;&#39;Smile And the World Melts&#39;&#39; Crossett made everyone say cheese and act happy as the official birthday photographer&#44; snapping photos with and without Steele against a wall&#45;paper pattern backdrop that included Steele&#39;s initials&#46;  ... 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	<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Hearsay: Black Cat goes gay for a night&#59; Taking underwear to a whole new level&#59; Using the Black Party as a personal litter box</title>
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Hearsay: A prodigal if uncomplicated return&#46;&#46;&#46; Testing&#46; Testing&#46; Is this thing on&#63;&#46;&#46;&#46; Oh&#44; you don&#39;t TALK into it&#44; you TYPE into it and when words come out there on the paper &#45;&#45; like so much chatty&#44; gossipy diarrhea of the mouth&#46; Why&#44; it&#39;s positively magical&#33; Okay&#44; just kidding&#46; Hearsay hasn&#39;t forgotten how to type&#44; let alone gossip&#44; chat&#44; shamelessly promote&#44; promote shamelessly&#44; and gently rib&#45;roast the local GLBTIQWXYZ community that comprises our local and social and international and universal&#44; um&#44; universe&#46; Where has Hearsay been for the past three or so years&#44; you ask&#63; Hearsay has been on an incredible adventure&#44; one that it will reveal in measured flashbacks in upcoming columns&#46; Just like that show Lost&#46; Except with no hatches or smoke monsters&#46; Let&#39;s just say this for now&#58; after a decade of sloshing around the bottom of a martini glass&#44; olives and cocktail onions Hearsay&#39;s only source of nutrition&#44; toothpicks its only means for pimple removal&#44; Hearsay up and left for a stint in the Doodles Weaver Rehabilitation Habitat&#44; which is a fairly nice facility in the Nevada desert&#44; a flying saucer&#39;s throw away from Heinz Area 57&#46; Or is that 51&#63; The details are still fuzzy&#44; as Hearsay is still healing from all that prolonged probing of alien objects&#46; Nevertheless&#44; Hearsay was released from the Habitat on its own recognizance&#44; promising The Overseer it would never so much as touch a drink again&#46; It returned to Washington &#45;&#45; only to find the Nightlife scene had dramatically changed&#46; A baseball stadium is now being erected where some of Hearsay&#39;s traditional haunts once stood&#44; where Hearsay spent many nights batting very different kinds of balls around&#46; And what&#39;s with this no smoking except outside crap&#63; It&#39;s enough to make one want to drink again&#46; Which is what Hearsay promptly did &#40;sorry&#44; Overseer&#41;&#44; ordering its favorite drink&#44; shaken&#44; stirred and undiluted&#46; So Hearsay guesses the wagon is way off in the distance&#46; Way off&#46; Way&#44; waaaaaay off&#46;&#46;&#46;&#46; Straight to the gays&#46;&#46;&#46; Last Friday wasn&#39;t just any DJ dance night at the Black Cat&#39;s Backstage space&#46; It was a DJ dance night devoted to the Queen&#46; Oh&#44; how the queens love the Queen&#33; On this night&#44; the queens &#45;&#45; several hundred of them&#44; enough to keep people waiting in line out in the cold for as long as four&#45;digit minutes &#45;&#45; invaded the Queen&#39;s kingdom&#46; DJs Stereo Faith and Julian S&#46; Process played Britpop for their regular Sorted party&#44; but this night was anything but ordinary&#44; or&#44; as the Jews say around Passover&#44; &#39;&#39;Ma Nesh Ta Nah Ha Lila Ha Zeh&#63;&#39;&#39; &#40;Try saying that to any Rabbi and see what he answers back&#33;&#41; Anyway&#44; it was the 3rd anniversary party for the Guerilla Queer Bar&#44; the Internet&#45;abetted effort that every month gays&#45;up a different straight bar&#46; It&#39;s what organizers Karl &#39;&#39;Me &#38; Mr&#46;&#39;&#39; Jones&#44; Amy &#39;&#39;Spicy Sweet&#39;&#39; Mulry and Chris &#39;&#39;I&#39;m Never Not on the&#39;&#39; Trott used to call a takeover&#44; but now that the efforts have reached maturity and gone totally mainstream&#44; they call it a blender &#40;make Hearsay&#39;s frothy&#44; please&#41;&#46; Actually&#44; they called it a &#39;&#39;blending&#39;&#39; in an ABCNews&#46;com report that was accompanied by a poll&#44; &#39;&#39;Are you comfortable with the organized effort by gay patrons to populate straight bars&#63;&#39;&#39; Two days into it&#44; the answer was a resounding YES&#33; Good thing&#44; too&#44; since the three blending queens have no intention of stopping&#46; The third anniversary was a resounding success &#45;&#45; Faith and Process&#44; Hope and Technique really fired up the crowd&#44; especially as the night wore on&#44; when they switched from pop and soul to mostly hard house and minimal techno&#44; inspiring one blond&#45;haired bubblegum&#45;chewing dude to dance on his head&#46; Jones was fired up&#58; He was last seen with a hot Latin luster who was trying to takeover &#45;&#45; er&#44; blend into &#45;&#45; him&#46; Jones appeared flattered&#44; but certainly not frothed&#44; about it&#46; There was Chris &#39;&#39;Chrisafer&#39;&#39; McCarthy braying in his special bearded way about the tiny&#44; pricey little vodka tonics they were serving at the Backstage bar&#46; The Black Cat is definitely a beer drinker&#39;s delight&#46; There was the skinny black boy in red from his ball&#45;capped head to his blue jeans&#46; He couldn&#39;t get enough of the dance music&#46; He was definitely sorted&#46; And so was Hearsay by the time it left&#46;&#46;&#46;&#46; Underwear by any other name&#46;&#46;&#46; How many inches in your Ginches&#63; Hearsay asks variations of that question of every boy it meets&#46; Recently&#44; Hearsay asked it of two boys who resembled plastic figurines wearing nothing but a shred of cotton as a few weeks ago these designer underwear models strutted into Universal Gear and Cobalt in one fell swoop as part of a D&#46;C&#46; &#39;&#39;Brief Greeting&#46;&#39;&#39; Benjamin &#39;&#39;What&#39;s Watergate&#63;&#39;&#39; Bradley and Ethan &#39;&#39;Ten Tin Foil&#39;&#39; Reynolds are the official Ginch Gonch Boys&#46; These official ambASSadors are representing the nascent Canadian underwear company that &#39;&#39;celebrates sexual awareness with flamboyant fashion&#44;&#39;&#39; and that&#44; according to a press release&#44; further aims through its marketing to attack &#39;&#39;sexual repression&#44; fanatic religious dogma and the ignorance that perpetuates AIDS&#46;&#39;&#39; Take that&#44; Calvin Klein&#46; Bet you just thought it was just something soft and comfy to cover your private bits with&#46; But no&#44; this is high&#45;falutin&#44; high&#45;priced underwear with a social mission&#33; Nevermind that the company&#39;s tagline is &#39;&#39;Live Like a Kid&#46;&#39;&#39; Or that the company provides no explicit examples of work in fighting repression or AIDS&#46; But why quibble&#63; Companies can say what they like&#46;  ... 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