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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 and the Bagdad Cafe, Starbelly restaurant and the Midnight Sun bar...

The young man who accompanied Brian G. to the Gliroy Garlic Festival and the Santa Cruz Boardwalk is his good friend Cemre.  He throws a pretty mean "cuddle" party here in NYC and I do mean cuddle party - kids these days are so decadent...  Our Gen f*cked, they cuddle.  He was out in the Bay Area for the summer and was more than happy to tag along as Brian G. indulged in edibles and coasters.   Long may the Cuddlers reign!

Enjoy the video of Brian G.'s vacation!

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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 here.

Enjoy!

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The song:

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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!

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 Mark pf the Culinary Media Network.

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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 leather community evolves into an international (hence the name) phenomenom of huge proportions.

Anything more to be said about the weekend will be said next week in an audio podcast between Brian G. and David b.

Enjoy!

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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 become a child once again as well.

Enjoy!

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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!

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

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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 what images he could.  Brian G. has now edited them into this short video for your enjoyment.

Mr. Who's real name is David, but is called Mr. Who as there are just too many Davids in this world and some differenciation is needed.  Same goes for Podcast Michael, who's real name is just Michael, but must suffer the surname Podcast as that is how we know him and it separates him from all the other Michaels in life.

To get a fuller experience (smell-o-vision) watching this video, take your laptop to a local cattle farm or horse stable while viewing.  We here at TheOccasionalFag have been assured that while different to an extent, the smell is similar enough to be considered an authentic simulation of what Mr. Who and Podcast Michael experienced.

Enjoy!

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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 at 208 West 13th Street.

Join OccasionalFag Brian G. with his bearish friends Rick and Joe as they tipple the light furtastic at Furball.  This is just a short little video of some ass-orted silly behaviour from last weekend in NYC.  Wrecked em?

(Side note: that is not a hickey on Brian G.'s neck, but a welding wound he got from creating yet another tree - this time a big ass cherry blossom tree for a new Chicago Lyric Opera's production of the Mikado.)

Enjoy!

Brian is Gaga for The Kid on Broadway!

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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" daddy we know today.  To bad he didn't have the time to visit his former High School, "Rim of the World" up in Rim Forest, CA...  We should all be so lucky to be a part of any Rim of the Worlds...  To bad as well he couldn't find a college to go to named Cockatoo U.

Enjoy!

Some nattering!

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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 stitches...

Don't worry, no blood...

Enjoy...

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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 ago Brian received his MFA (a perfectly useless degree) from the University of California at Berkeley.  This placed him in the Bay Area for two years of his life from 1987-89.  Everything had changed and yet it was all still the same.

Enjoy!

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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 Black person who wouldn't trade it for any other month of the year...

February is a tough month.  We here at the Occasional Fag didn't have much going on.  Here is a video Brian G. has put together of bits and pieces of the comings and goings of the month.

Enjoy! (Or try to...  And stay warm as you do!)

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.

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It's David b's bithday,watch as David gets older!

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Brian spends Superbowl winnings on -- LEATHER! Call the comment line 206.339.4512 | TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail.com

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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!

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 zap

New York daily News coverage of the zap

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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!

You be the judge.

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