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The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence present Pink Saturday 2009, the night before Pride. It was a much larger event than we've ever done for Pink Saturday and the City gave us a lot of trouble at the beginning, which really screwed up preparations. It was frantic behind the scenes, but everyone in the community loved it!

We anticipated a larger crowd and as it turned out, it was nearly double the number of people we expected. The battle with the City came from the fact that we needed to barricade more streets for the overflowing crowds, and to pay for it, we needed to sell booze. That's where the cops freaked out. It was a night time event with alcohol. We had actually officially canceled the event when the cops finally agreed to our proposal, and since it was so late in happening, Supervisor Bevan Dufty stepped in with some additional volunteers and sponsorship money to save the event.

In anticipation, between the volunteers and paid security, there were nearly 1,000 people involved in the production. We also added two performance stages, a live broadcast with Energy 92.7 FM, food vendors, alcohol sales, a laser light show and a giant disco ball suspended from a crane!

I got caught up in running errands at the last minute during all the panic, and for some reason, the flash on my camera was not cooperating. I only got a handful of pictures this year, so enjoy the little slide show above.

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Instead of a raucous float with blaring dance music, the Sisters chose to make a statement for Pride 2009. With veils covering their faces, the nuns rode in silence with no waving to the crowds or cheering. It was a solemn funeral procession with grave stones and just the toll of the bell mourning the loss of human rights.

Pride and Joy is an annual gay theme camp at Burning Man, but they also have a reputation for putting on fabulous "Gay Glo" performances under black light. For the Pink Saturday after party, or "After Glo", the kids put together a little fairy tale about two princes in the land of disco.

The author of the book "Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson", Ian Halperin, re-connected with his sources to provide insight into the final days of Michael Jackson. In a revealing article from the UK Daily Mail, we're finally learning what most of us already knew despite a lifetime of denial. The full article is after the jump, but here are some excerpts and photos from his last rehearsal.

"It is clear to me that Michael was homosexual and that his taste was for young men, albeit not as young as Jordan Chandler or Gavin Arvizo.

In the course of my investigations, I spoke to two of his gay lovers, one a Hollywood waiter, the other an aspiring actor. The waiter had remained friends, perhaps more, with the singer until his death last week. He had served Jackson at a restaurant, Jackson made his interest plain and the two slept together the following night. According to the waiter, Jackson fell in love.

The actor, who has been given solid but uninspiring film parts, saw Jackson in the middle of 2007. He told me they had spent nearly every night together during their affair – an easy claim to make, you might think. But this lover produced corroboration in the form of photographs of the two of them together, and a witness.

Other witnesses speak of strings of young men visiting his house at all hours, even in the period of his decline. Some stayed overnight.

When Jackson lived in Las Vegas, one of his closest aides told how he would sneak off to a ‘grungy, rat-infested’ motel – often dressed as a woman to disguise his identity – to meet a male construction worker he had fallen in love with.

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AFTER THE JUMP

PG rated trailer from Raging Stallion's sci fi thriller, "The Visitor". The use of the Broadway Tunnel in San Francisco is reminiscent of George Lucas's early sci fi THX 1138 which was also shot there.

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I received a copy of Raging Stallion's "High Tops" and I was thinking about writing a blog entry about sneaker fetish (whatever that is...) but I discovered something even more interesting about this movie. As I looked through the promotional stills, I noticed that one scene was actually shot in a pot farm! If you look closely in the background, yep, those are marijuana plants!

Oh, I get it! It's not "High Tops" it's "High Tops"!

I read the press release, and naturally there is no direct reference to marijuana officially, but it does mention "taking a smoke break" twice in the scenes breakdown.

But if you click here and go to the Raging Stallion website, you can view the trailer which not only shows the indoor marijuana grow house, but there is also a close-up of someone rolling a joint.

There is so much pot grown, sold and consumed here in San Francisco, I'm surprised that it hasn't played a more frequent role in gay porn movies.

Raging Stallion's "Tops Getting High"... I mean, "High Tops" stars JT Stryker, Alex Eden, Tristan Jaxx, Damien Crosse, Ethan Roberts, Conner Habib, Qpid Erose, Manuel DeBoxer, Damian Rios.

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Oprah is Dead

Be prepared for weeks of unending Michael Jackson coverage! We've already experienced over 10 years of child molestation jokes, now they're going to be re-hashed over and over ad nauseum and morphed into zombie child molestation jokes. Why do celebrity deaths overtake any other news items? North Korea has missiles pointed at Hawaii but we're focused on a pop singer who hasn't put out a record in ages. Watch the video above to get a sense of the mayhem that will ensue when, god forbid, Oprah dies (and wait for the Thriller reference 3/4 of the way through!)

Death always come in threes. First it was Ed McMahon, then Farrah Fawcett and now Michael Jackson is dead. Larry King was set to devote his show to Farrah, now she's being put aside to devote two shows to Michael Jackson.

Even before Michael's death was officially pronounced, Brian Ochsman, the Jackson family attorney, for the first time broke ranks and spilled the beans that "He was surrounded by enablers." He stressed that when the truth comes out, it will be a bigger mess than Anna Nicole Smith's tragic end.

I've always suspected that he's addicted to prescription drugs provided by enablers that are exploiting his paranoia and promising to keep the world away from him. He lived in a bubble like Howard Hughs and Elvis.

Michael Jackson's first molestation case occurred before OJ Simpson killed his wife. At that time, a reporter asked OJ what he thought of the Michael Jackson trial, and OJ said, "Where's there's smoke there's fire." Very telling.

Objective legal commenters on CNN are now coming out to refer to the indisputable evidence against him in the child molestation trials, one of which was settled for "eight figures", which no one in the media has stated as fact before.

The truth can now come out, and it's going to get messy.

I don't cover mainstream celebrity gossip as often as I like, but by a simple search on my blog, I was amazed how many times I have mentioned Michael Jackson on Lavender Lounge Blog! He's made an impact even on me.

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I broke a personal record yesterday - attending three movie screenings in one day!

The first two movies were both on the same topic, male prostitution. After watching "Greek Pete", I wondered why this movie was given two screenings during the festival, and for that matter, why was it even in the festival. It's about a young male hustler in London who is neither successful nor the stereotypical hot mess. He's just boring and and somewhat boorish.

The representative from Frameline stressed the supposed "innovative" technique of creating a "hybrid" of narrative and documentary, which I chalk up as just lazy and indecisive. I think the back story is the film maker, Andrew Haigh, is merely naive to the world of adult entertainment and once he got involved, everything about it seemed fascinating - but only to him. The DVD Extras of virtually any good gay porn movie gives you a much better insight into young men who have sex for money, and with better lighting.

The film maker admitted that he "cheated" giving the subjects directions and topics to discuss in the scenes where they are supposed to be candid. Oooh, very Andy Warhol, but 40 years too late. If I want a fake reality show that's actually scripted, I'll watch "The Hills". He even went so far as to hire an actor (or a non-actor as the case may be) to play the role of a client to show Greek Pete on a date. It wasn't hard to see right through that, and the director even admitted it in the Q&A! I felt ripped off.

A few hours later I saw another documentary on the same topic of male prostitution, but this one was done right and came out a hundred times better. "The Good American" follows a truly interesting character named Tom Weise who helped found RentBoy.com. Why did the shitty little movie about a 20-something hooker sell out the big Castro Theater and the Victoria while the better movie about the 40 year old hooker with health problems was only screened at the smaller Victoria? Simple. Old queens buy tickets to movies that have pretty boys pictured in the program. Period. As a gay man scanning through a film festival program, which of the two images here catches your eye? I thought so.

Whether it's a narrative or a documentary, movies need conflict. "The Good American" enlightened us to numerous issues facing this generation of gay men as summed up by the film's very complex subject, Tom Weise. The film follows him all over New York, Las Vegas and Germany showing how he managed to run a very successful prostitution-related business that is barely legal, but was his only career option as an illegal German immigrant with HIV. The conflict goes even deeper as he pushes the envelope to produce XXX parties in prudish America, putting his immigration status in jeopardy with potential police reaction.

I've met Tom Weise and I attended the one of the Hustlaball events in Las Vegas portrayed in the film. Even at the time, we knew there was a buzz around town that the event could easily have been busted and the Wild Wild West reputation of Las Vegas does not include public nudity and sex. You can gamble and drink all you like, but can't show certain body parts in public!

The film opens as he begins the process of being deported back to Germany, severing ties with the company he founded, and marrying his American partner in Germany in hopes that by taking his husband's last name, he will be able to get a new passport to return to the States. The finale of the movie was to be his triumphant attendance at yesterday's screening, but in a letter from Tom Weise read at the beginning of the show, his visa was denied just two weeks ago.

Wow, talk about conflict and timeliness! This movie really shows courage and ambition by both the subject and the film maker.

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