The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Wine Club

Sam and I got involved with this club just this month, and it was great. Not only does the delightful and knowledgeable staff look after you, oenologically speaking, but it’s a great fun date, even for married guys like Sam and me.

It’s $25 a person, for a flight of at least five wines, with generous pours… and the food is great too. 25% of the proceeds go to the LA Gay and Lesbian Center.

Monday, April 7th, 6 – 9 PM (the first Monday of every month)

Heritage Wine and Spirits
155 N Raymond Ave
Pasadena, CA 91103
626.844.9333
www.heritagewinecompany.com

Nominate America’s Gay Bachelor

MyPartner.com is looking for the handsomest and most sophisticated men in the U.S. to be America’s Gay Bachelor. They’ve started with a state-by-state eligible gay bachelor hunt with an eye to naming one of their hot catches America’s Gay Bachelor™ of the Year.

Anonymous Pickets Scientology Center

Seeing a nattily dressed man in a V for Vendetta mask wouldn’t be that unusual in Los Angeles – especially in the Los Feliz/Silverlake area, but hundreds? Well, it is the Ides of March. Here’s the video.

Landing on PlanetOut (& Gay.com)

“Sam and Bronson are the new Chip and Reichen.
Finally, another young, gay male couple that’s out, proud, and HOT in the U.S.”
—Jason, Sydney (gay.com)

If you saw our interview on Gay.com and PlanetOut and landed here—welcome. Don’t worry, I won’t let that headline go to my head. To prove it, I’ll admit my fascination with all of your NEGATIVE comments…

The Devil Wears Tweed: Sally Kern

Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern (R) claims that we queers are “worse than terrorism or Islam” (read: Muslims = terrorists) and accuses us of engaging in indoctrinating two-year olds in an agenda set to destroy the nation. She declares vehemently that this is not “hate-speech.” Yeah, right, and waterboarding isn’t torture. Gays aren’t going to destroy the country, people like Sally Kern will. Vote Democrat.

Please, take a moment to send this hateful, ignorant woman an email or favor her with a phone call (405) 557-7348.

What Monkey Evolution Could Teach Us About Immunity from HIV

As if any sane, thinking person really needed another reason to believe in evolution: this is the most exciting thing I’ve read about HIV research in a long time.

A gene, TRIM5, that provides immunity to retroviruses has been identified in two different primates on opposite ends of the world. Pigtail macaques live primarily in Southeast Asia, owl monkeys only in Central and South America.

Feminists Make Better Mates

According to a study from Sex Roles journal, women who paired with a male feminist were in healthier relationships – considering relationship quality, equality, stability, happiness and sexual satisfaction.

Men who chose female feminists also enjoyed more stability and a better sex life.

Now you know why feminist lesbian couples move in together immediately and never leave the house.

Sounds like science has once again confirmed what Aretha Franklin new all along. “R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Find out what it means to me.” So how can we organize an intervention for all of those Hot Chicks who wind up with douchebags?

Everyone on Craigslist is DDF

I have always loved reading personals: Gainesville’s Creative Loafing, student rags at USF, the Miami Herald, and L.A. Weekly, but then I discovered Craigslist and its endless hours of searchable entertainment. You can find just about anything there. Everybody knows this. But I’ve made an incredible discovery.

Are you ready for it?

Drug and disease free (DDF) men and women in Los Angeles and other major metropolitan areas are not to be found at bars, or circuit parties. They’re on Craigslist. Grade-A, unspoiled, extroverted, adult boy and girl scouts ripe for the picking, great at parties, ready to host or travel.

Craigslist has not returned calls seeking clarification on whether they have a DDF requirement or if there’s something magical about their ads that draws the squeaky clean and shields them from every drug and STD.

Don’t believe me?

Check It Out: Bronson & Sam on Nina Smith’s Queercents!

Queercents is a great site about money, consumerism, and all things economically practical. Sam and I have loved the site for a while, and were really excited when Nina Smith asked us to participate in her Ten Money Questions. The site has a queer bent, of course, but with information this good, everyone can benefit. It was a lot of fun, an we feel like we’ve made a friend in the process. Mwah backatcha, Nina!!! OX, Bronson & Sam

See Bronsam’s thoughts about money, here, and check out her other respondents’ answers here.

Make Art Stop AIDS

A shout out to Jason for putting the Goldstein Kapellas installation “Medicine Man” on my radar, and hopefully on your So Cal calendar. The new work is shaped like a human figure and is made of over 300 suspended HIV/AIDS medication bottles. It hovers at the center of six halos made of syringes.

Make Art/Stop AIDS is an international traveling exhibition of art dealing with the pandemic of HIV/AIDS opening at the Fowler Museum in Los Angeles February 23rd, and running through June 15th before taking off for Mexico City and then Brazil, South Africa and finally India.

Also on exhibit will be one of Daniel Goldstein’s “Icarian Series” leather peices on loan to the museum from the private collection of actor Richard Gere.

The image of “Medicine Man” (above left) will be the official banner for the show and on display through downtown Los Angeles.

For more information, call 415.621.5761, visit goldsteinkapellas.com, or email Jason Lahman. See you at the show.