By Fausto Fernós on August 6, 2008
It just might be the gayest event in the whole midwest.
On today’s show Jason Heidemann, the Gay & Lesbian editor for Time Out Chicago talks about Northalsted Market Days, the largest and gayest street festival in the Midwest.
Jason describes the month of June and all the Pride events surrounding it as Thanksgiving with your family which is fun but a time of reflection and thanks for all we’ve achieved.
But Northalsted Market Days is simply one giant gay party with no agenda except to have a good time. In many ways, Market Days is the party we all want to have after the Pride Parade is over but have nowhere to go and often have to work the next day.
Listen as we give you the inside scoop on what to see, what to do and who to do this weekend as over 200,000 people gather to hang out in the gorgeous Lakeview area and feast on street food, drink in public and enjoy the tinny sound of 80s has-been bands like Expose!
One perennial favorite of the street fair is the Steamworks booth which is more like a mini-mall featuring an eclectic mix of staff, porn stars and local residents playing twister for kitchsy prizes. I’m definitively not as limber as some of these famous adult actors, but it sure is fun to “lose” in this game, if you consider losing as lying under a pile of handsome men.
Some men like a challenge, I don’t.
Be sure to keep an eye out on our flickr photo gallery for pics of guys (and gals) kissing each other with joyful bliss. It’s always a hit with the online photo bloggers.
One thing thing that everyone loves to talk about to this day is the phallic, awkward pylons that anchor the Halsted Street area between Addison and Belmont as the official “gay” area of Chicago. When they were first erected, many people thought they were odd, ugly and way too gay, but over the years I’ve grown to like them a lot and embrace their quirky, rocket like presence looming over us like trees in Lord of the Rings.
If these pylons could talk!
By the way, kudos for Time Out Chicago for making their whole issue go gay. It looks fabulous, especially the cover of the handsome young blond man spraying us with his hose and cooling us from the summer heat.
We’re hoping to do interviews from the Mark Twain Hotel in San Francisco and plan on getting as many of the folks from Trannyshack on the show in person, talking about the queer legacy of San Francisco, Harvey Milk, the Coquettes and what it means to the rest of the world. But, we need your support to help make it happen. It’s just around the corner so please give a helping hand.
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By Fausto Fernós on August 5, 2008
We need your help! We’re trying to get our butts to San Francisco and Las Vegas and right now our ability to pay for the trip alone is woefully low. So we’re pulling out a nice bottle of wine, and all stops to bring you the wildest podcast we can. Help us make this trip […]
continueBy Fausto Fernós on August 4, 2008
I usually know who I am most of the time, but there are moments when I’m faced with choices that make me question not only my identity, but reality itself.
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By Marc Felion on August 3, 2008
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We’re delighted to announce that we’re planning on coming out west to San Francisco and Las Vegas in August, and we’re taking ALL of you with us!
Next month we’re going to be podcasting from Las Vegas and San Francisco with live interviews from both cities, including in PERSON Heklina and Peaches Christ dishing the […]
By Fausto Fernós on August 1, 2008
“On a scale from one to ten, just HOW GAY are you?” Imagine hearing this question from your roommate’s father, only he happens to be a famous and physically intimidating wrestler.
On today’s show choreographer Glenn Packard- the gay roomate of Brook Hogan from the reality TV show Brooke Knows Best talks about being asked […]
By Fausto Fernós on July 31, 2008
Sal-E has been dressing in costume and putting on make up everyday for the past seven days, in a row, just for your entertainment pleasure!
Poor guy! His pores are more clogged than lesbians shoes during a dutch dancing party! Clogged, clogged, I tells ya.
On today’s show Sal-E joins us to celebrate his 28th birthday, […]
By Fausto Fernós on July 30, 2008
None of us really believe in astrology. The thought that a planets or stars’ location at the time of our birth has any relevance on who we are and what the future holds is far fetched to say the least.
We had an astrologer on the show way back in March of 2006 and […]
By Fausto Fernós on July 29, 2008
“Walter, fix me a drink!” In the 1960s, 70s and early 80s we always saw characters on TV drinking all the time, either at home, after work, during lunch, or pretty much all the time.
Everybody seemed to have a little cocktail bar set up in their living room. And then all of a sudden, […]
By Marc Felion on July 28, 2008
We’ve got a delicious bucket of hope! I’m sure you’ve check out Presidential hopeful Barak Obama dazzling speech to the world in Germany, while rival John McCain spoke to diners in a German Restaurant in Ohio. Talk about a cartoonish contrast between candidates.
One looks like the angry old man next door chasing children off the […]
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joost | August 20, 2008
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Marc Felion | August 20, 2008
Joost, are you Dutch? If so, then yes, twitter suicide would not be interesting to you since assisted suicide is so common in the Netherlands.
joost | August 20, 2008
I’m not sure I understand …. was this (nick) some sort of phenomenon? If so, I totally missed it. Seems like much ado about nothing.
Marc Felion | August 20, 2008
That’s so funny. I’ve actually been thinking of asking her to come on and the show sometime. If we can talk to Shirley Phelps, we can talk to Anne Coulter....
Jaycub | August 20, 2008
Just thought I’d let you guys know, V-Mar shows up on the 4th page of google images whe nyou search “anne coulter”. ha! when i saw that i lol’d for...
RcktMan | August 19, 2008
Crocs are so evil!!! I think they’re the ugliest shoe-type things ever invented. I’m with ya. Great show… I’m so behind, I am trying to...
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