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Taste the rainbow and we don’t mean Skittles!
Gay Season reaches it’s apex this Sunday as cities across the U.S. and abroad celebrate the modern gay rights movement by holding a Pride Parade.
Some may not know that the Parades commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riots, a series of violent conflicts between queer folks and New York City cops that began on June 28, 1969 and lasted several days after the police raid of the Stonewall Inn gay bar.
The riots are seen as a critical turning point in the modern gay rights movement and helped galvanize people all across the U.S. to organize, protest and shape the future of sexual acceptance.
On today’s show Sal-E joins us to talk about his Muppet themed float for Green Dolphin Street bar in Chicago and follow up on all the drag queen drama happening these days.
If you’re going to the Pride Parade in Chicago hang out with us on the West side of Broadway, just South of Belmont, in front of the chili place. It’s shady there and you cna arrive to the parade late as it ends nearby!
Here are some pics of the parade in 2005, where we were trolling some hunky gay yuppie who was really enjoying watching the parade of hunks and skunks rolling on by.
Connell O’Donovan joins us for a phone interview to discuss the Mormon Church’s plan to aid the passing of a proposed amendment to the California constitution that will define marriage as the the union of a man to a woman.
Connell is a member of the support group “Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons” and a Mormon historian. He has written many works on Mormon history, including a history of homosexuality and Mormonism from 1840-1980 which is an interesting read.
O’Connell also shares with us his personal experience of growing up Mormon and the various ways they tried to change his and other people’s behaviors through such torturous methods as electroshock, vomit aversion, and exorcisms. They actually wanted to show him gay male porn and and give him a drug that would make him vomit and then later show him straight porn and give him a drug to experience euphoria. Can you believe it?
Drink Responsibly? You always hear those words of concern by liquor companies in ads, but we’re not sure what they mean by that. For many GLBT folks, our role with alcohol is a complex one, where bars bring us together, but for some the consumption of alcohol can ruin their lives.
How can we all have a healthier relationship with alcohol? How can we talk about drinking without pointing fingers?
Join me Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion and LifeLube, Project CRYSP, and the Chicago Task Force on LGBT Substance Use and Abuse at Sidetrack as we ponder these important topics in an alcohol friendly environment. Did I mention they serve purple slushy drinks? Yum.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 6 p.m.
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Fausto Fernós says:
June 27, 2008 at 01:26
This might be what the float could look like. It’s Zazoo and Satori’s float from Cincinnati Pride just a couple of weeks ago!
Marc Felion says:
June 27, 2008 at 02:52When I wrote this on this entry,
O’Connell also shares with us his personal experience of growing up Mormon and the various ways they tried to change his and other people’s behaviors through such torturous methods as electroshock, vomit aversion, and exorcisms.
it originally read:
….of growing up Mormon and the various ways they tried to “cure” his and other people’s homosexuality through such torturous “therapies” as…..
It just didn’t seem right to me. Even though we put words like “cure” and “therapy” into quotes to signify what “those people” mean by using them, we need to stop and call it for what it is. Don't even give them a hint that what they are doing is correct or just or in any way medically sound.
Fausto Fernós says:
June 27, 2008 at 04:30How about-
they tried to stop their sexual desire through torture and abuse?
Dan-X ! says:
June 27, 2008 at 08:05Joke for Sal-E…
Q: What’s green and smells like bacon?
A: Kermit The Frog’s dick.
jimberly says:
June 27, 2008 at 08:06Hey boys, thanks for getting the word out on our forum on alcohol at Sidetrack. I am soooo psyched for this event - I don’t know when if ever we have had a community-wide discussion about the role of alcohol in our lives… and certainly not in a BAR! This should be good. This is for all the beautiful letters of the rainbow - so LGBTQIAs and ev everyone else is welcome. The only proviso - you need to be 21 with an ID. Due to the purple slushies…..
Pete says:
June 27, 2008 at 09:06halsted at pride is insane and so amateur. everyone knows broadway is the place to be. i’ll be at my friend’s apartment right in front of the jewel, getting wasted and molested.
pridefest should be fun too. check out the band, 16 candles, and tiffany!
Michael says:
June 27, 2008 at 10:06A Shopping Montage would be hilarious - just think of all those clothes changes you could do!
I have several friends who are Mormans and still struggle with their church and their families.
Ooohhh Fausto & Sal-E as strippers - HOTT!
Fausto, I always knew that you were a fighter, too bad I wasn’t there becuase I would have totally chanted along with you. Nothing like a good drag queen fight.
Teddy says:
June 27, 2008 at 10:31i’ll be marching with barack obama’s contingent, so if you’re at pride say hi to me!
oh and the drag queen drama was hilarious. that girl was a mess! The fight chanting was funny, but I wasn’t going to say shit when i saw Mercedes!
elotrolado says:
June 27, 2008 at 16:18Poor Connell, throughout much of the interviewer, the hosts trivialize his experience and the marriage amendment issue by joking away much of his horrible experiences, and constantly interrupting him. So glib, so “nothing can hurt me, i’m too fabulous”, trying sooo hard to be “entertaining”….Yes, gay life is difficult and challenging and much much more, but you don’t have to reflexively react because you don’t want to allow any acknowledgement of the pain. You can choose to respond humanely, yes, with humor, but also with compassion.
CharlesVer33 says:
June 27, 2008 at 18:00I thought it was funny! Elotrolado- the show is under the “COMEDY” category, not under “deep thoughts.”
I like how Fausto and Marc can go from serious to silly on the turn of a dime, and I also appreciate their ability to get up to the minute cutting edge guests like Connell. Where else are you going to get a free, quality show like this one? I don’t see Logo interviewing the guy. I don’t read about him in any gay papers. So be thankful that you got a glimse of this wonderful humanitarian.
Fausto Fernós says:
June 28, 2008 at 03:28I did the best I could, trying to keep it relevant and entertaining. There are some very good political podcasts like “Democracy Now” you might enjoy listening to Elotrolado, but the Feast of FOOLS is about raising awareness through entertainment, not by solemn discourse.
Vomit aversion therapy? That’s pretty funny, considering so many gay men find vomiting a kinky thing. In 2008 considering how visible gay people are, it’s pretty insane that any religion could reasonably even suggest torture as a means of stopping someone’s sexual desires, but that’s the reality of the situation.
Of course things can “hurt” us, and I’m very sure there are many gay mormons out there today who struggle and suffer from dealing with their sexuality.
I hope to continue to hear your thoughts on this important topic.
shane says:
June 29, 2008 at 23:11I want to thank you guys for bringing this subject up. As a gay Mormon, growing up in a town too small to contain all this fabulousness, I used to feel pretty bad about my youth. But, listening to what Connell had to go through, I consider myself very lucky. I’m so tired of hearing about what the church has to say about homosexuality. People don’t really care, they just believe whatever someone tells you from a pulpit. Maybe someday I’ll be able to put my pathetic hangups away and be lucky enough to find someone that will love me, and when I do, I’m going to marry him, and fuck you if you’re going to try to stand in my way!!!
Fausto Fernós says:
June 30, 2008 at 00:32Thanks for the love Shane! We are all very lucky indeed.
The sad thing is that a lot of this torture usually happens at the hands of parents who just don’t know better and are sincerely struggling to help their children.
I hope that as the veil of sexual diversity gets lifted with the internet and it’s impact on traditional media (and mass entertainment) that people will finally see gay love as a beautiful pink shade of the rainbow of human experience.
Marc Felion says:
June 30, 2008 at 01:12Dear elotrolado-
It was never my intent to trivialize anything that Connell had to say. If you read the show notes and our previous comments you’ll see that we have some inkling into the breath of the situation.
We were under the gun to get this show out before the June 29th proclamation and to be frank, I don’t want to focus on every single horrible thing that happens to gays. But, I will gladly revisit this topic at another time and keep the conversation going.
Curtis says:
June 30, 2008 at 11:12I know Connell and he has a very strong sense of humor about his experiences and would absolutely be an advocate of the unique intersection of humor and seriousness on the FOF. I think that intersection and instinct (at the risk of being accused of generalizing) is one the aspects of a “Queer sensibility” that I treasure most. Finding humor in our pain, in the blacker side of humanity is to me a very real part of a highly developed Queer identity.
I did feel like his story was rushed a bit. Connell has so many interesting things to tell about his own personal story and about the whacked out, ugly and yes sometimes darkly funny story of the Mormon Church and it’s long interest in homosexuality. I hope that Connell will be invited back to tell us more. He is a font of knowledge.
Mark Wilson says:
July 2, 2008 at 03:24YAY! Sal-E’s back loved it. You should do a Boy George on him and tie him up so that he is always on LOL
We do have National Health dentists here but they are so over subscribed that a lot of people have to go private. All school age kids get free dental care as do expectant mothers. I think it has a lot to do with genes though, my eldest brother is very lax with his dental care and hasn’t got a single filling but the brother between us is very much more careful about brushing and flossing but he has had to have all sorts of work done - I guess it’s the luck of the draw. Still, I can’t complain I have the sexiest ex rugby player dentist who flirts outrageously with me, is a facebook friend and has invited me clubbing with him 
kennidi says:
July 2, 2008 at 13:29NO DO NOT MIX MY SONG WITH TRACY’S SONG I WILL KILL YOU ALL!!!! I DON’T WANT A DEPRESSING SONG WITH MY SONG!!!! I Agreed to have Sal-e mix it to go on my single release don’t want other artist on my album!!! I HOPE THAT WAS A HUGE JOKE!!!
As for the fight it was fun…but the drag mess is over!!! Thanks for playing DIVA!!! Love SAL, we had a blast on the Pride float!!!
Much Love, Kennidi
SAL-E says:
July 2, 2008 at 22:46Zazoo and Satori have more muppets then I do!
Love them both!
They are moving to New York and so JOJO BABY and I will be planning a little Field trip you know to promote our movie and all that but mostly to hit the Clubs and be “Scene Stealers” as they like to call us.
It is not our fault that we tend to stand out.
I put pictures up from the Pride parade on my Flickr Account.
Love ya
-SAL-E…
Ben Consoli says:
July 6, 2008 at 15:14YEAH.. SAL-E is on the show! I was laughing so hard listening to the ‘drag queens attack’ story. wish i was there…
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awww…wish i could have been there!! i would have been the only chick there besides your mom and sister i see x)……..
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Lizz is a stitch! Grey Gardens and the Daily Show- I’m there!
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No matter who gets elected, we need to step up the pressure on them as soon as they get into office for our rights.
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