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Travel with David b and Brian G out to Southern Brooklyn as they take in a meal at the lovely Parkview Diner and they visit the newly re-tracked Coney Island Cyclone.

Enjoy!

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Title says it all...

Enjoy!

Sincerely,

Brian G., Mr. Who and V.J.

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Things have been a bit slow here at TheOccasionalFag...  So many life changes that putting together a short video for this podcast, well... there just isn't the time that there used to be. 

One thing that stays stable, though, is how OccasionalFag Brian G. continues to want to prove that gay men can be as everyday dull as their straight conterparts.  With that in mind, in this video he does his laundry...  What do you want for a podcast?  You want drama?  Watch the Housewives of Tabatha's A-List Brad, Brad World...  This is the internet.  We have no money for it... Or even less than Bravo TV seems to have.

Enjoy!

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About time we here at TheOccaisonalFag made it to downtown Manhattan for the most exciting thing to happen in activism in a decade: Occupy Wall Street.

Though we're not a part of its' undertaking (yet...), we're there with them in spirit (as is most of the 99%, it seems)

Enjoy the walk through.

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Editing this video made OccaisonalFag Brian G. wish he had been a bit more prepared with the information in his shpeel about the dance company, Streb Extreme Action, and why they were in the meatpacking District of Manhattan to present Elizabeth Streb's latest "action" piece, but hey... this is TheOccasionalFag, not the BBC or NBC News...

He constantly refers to the equipment - that he got to oversee the fabrication of at his place of employment - as the "Ladder", because that is what they called it in the shop.  In Streb Speak, the ladder is "Ascension", and it's an amazing piece.

The music that is tacked on for this video was not a part of the original presention, but is just one of Brian G's favorite American Music Club songs.

Enjoy!

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OccasionalFags David b and Brian G. travel to Middlebury Connecticut to discover the pleasures of Quassy Amusement Park for the very first time.

There they ride the brand spankin' new Wooden Warrior roller coaster designed by The Gravity Group and built by Gravitykraft Corporation.

Enjoy!

Find out how to help save hundreds of hours of priceless AIDS activist video footage before our history is lost forever. Listen to TheOccasionalFag - LIVE - on Pride48.com Sunday September 18th at 12pm EDT.

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Ah, Fire Island...  Where the scenery is beautiful, but can't hold a candle to the dancers of the yearly Fire Island Dance Festival produced by DRA - Dancers Responding to AIDS.

Here is the yearly video that OccasionalFag Brian G. creates after volunteering to be a part of the festival.

It's always fun.

Enjoy!

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More of an amazing Pride weeekend here in New York City.

Enjoy!

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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 Inn where the riots that occured in the summer of 1969 are considered the genesis of the modern Gay Rights Movement.  In other words, we landed 300 wild queens in front of the Stonewall just minutes (maybe 45...) before the vote on Marriage Equality came in.  The crowd numbers swelled into the thousands after the vote, but we can proudly say that we - and you our viewer - were there first!

Enjoy!

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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.)...

This is just a short two shot video of before and after; keeping friends, family and the tens of tens of fans of TheOccasionalFag abreast of what's going on for one queen in Queens, New York.

Enjoy!

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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 individuals who buy into the whole sin and redemption game, there probably is, but we here at TheOccasionalFag are playing fast and loose with words that are just externalizations of Christian power mongering and resentment.  Don't play pedant with us, we don't care...  To us, the rapture is not much more than a great idea for the ultimate roller coaster.  Think of it...  Wouldn't it be fun?

Join OccasionalFag and walking/talking head Brian G. as he spends 24 hours before the beginning of the end rifting and musing on what it all means to him.  Or don't...  No rapture did take place after all...

Ah well, the more time that Christians are focused on the rapture, the less time they're thinking about how to destroy the gays...

Now the FamilyRadio.com website is down, so I can't even do the research to find the name of the myopic fool who preached about this trash in the first place.  Ain't life a bitch?

Enjoy!

Enjoy!Enjoy!

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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 Production of War Horse and is not in the London National Theatre production that then transferred to the West End.

Presented here are what images Brian G. could capture when not at work supervising the Load-in.

Enjoy!

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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 one shot we kinda did), but the "Ladies" of The View can be seen every weekday morning and this is our podcast, so this is about simple, mundane little us and our time before and after waiting in line...

Enjoy!

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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.

Instead this is us, being the rambling (not redhead) homos that we are going on about winter in New York City as we dine and head on over to the show.

Enjoy!

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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 motion, and, of course, we're gay men, so all events with the word "antique" in them always hold that oh-so-special attraction (even if we're not all that into antiques...  Go figure?).

You'll find we also love images of men on tractors.  Maybe just 'cause there were so many to be found at this event.  Slow, good fun.

Like a machine, this video is low on content, high on repetative images of said tractors.  It's been a slow Fall here on the East Coast for TheOccasionalFags.  What can we say...

Enjoy!

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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 parts of and strike the days events.

It really is an amazingly fun event.

Enjoy!

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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 back and theoccasionalfag was there to collect video images.

Is the music we have decided to set the images to in this video, part of our completely fabricated ACT UP ANAL HISTORY PROJECT, appropriate?  Yes and no...  Maybe?  We asked Harmonie Moore what she thought and her response was, "fuck em, they want me dead anyway...".

Enjoy!

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.

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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 about.  It was fun...  Just another thing.  Hasn't had a sip of the hooch since.  Really.

As for the lights and the men and the beautiful outdoors?  Well, the weekend would have gone better if Saturday evening hadn't turned to rain.  But then, what better than to snuggle with a hunny under a warm sleeping bag as the rain falls gently outside the tent.  No, you'll not be seeing that part.  This podcast is explicit, but not x-rated.  Who knows though.  Brian G. has always wanted to do something softcore and slightly dreamlike before he turns fifty (three years from now, thank you).  Finding someone to do it with - on video - is the problem, or not...

Enjoy!

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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 the country are more than enough motivation to continue donating his time to the event, he just wanted to spend a summer away from Fire Island and all it represents.

As he puts it, he sometimes feels too old to be young out on Fire island and too poor to be old out on Fire island.

He'll be back next year...  Older and perchance no wealthier, but distanced enough to feel longing again.

Though his visit to the Dance festival this time was brief, just a day to collect the images that are presented here instead of a whole week, it is better than nothing, yes?  Unfortunately his visit coincided with that of New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham, so the better perch from which to record the dancers was taken.  It is what it is...

Enjoy!

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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!

Music for this video is provided by:

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!

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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!

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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!

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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!