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Happy Gay Pride Week!

T

TheOriginalLarry

"So..when a man you've never met before suddenly gives you flowers, that's just Impulse....." - from an '80s TV commerical.

Any reason is a good one to have a big week long party. Even straight guys like me can't argue with that. And Seattle is once again the epicenter of all that is gloriously (BLEEP) in the Northwest this weekend....

More here:

http://www.thestranger.com/

Cheers!

<P ID="signature">______________
Seattle Hempfest, August 20-21, Myrtle Edwards Park, http://www.hempfest.org/

[email protected]


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> "So..when a man you've never met before suddenly gives you
> flowers, that's just Impulse....." - from an '80s TV
> commerical.
>
> Any reason is a good one to have a big week long party. Even
> straight guys like me can't argue with that. And Seattle is
> once again the epicenter of all that is gloriously (BLEEP)
> in the Northwest this weekend....
>
> More here:
>
> http://www.thestranger.com/
>
> Cheers!
>
So when is straight pride week? I demand equal time!
 
> "So..when a man you've never met before suddenly gives you
> flowers, that's just Impulse....." - from an '80s TV
> commerical.
>
> Any reason is a good one to have a big week long party. Even
> straight guys like me can't argue with that. And Seattle is
> once again the epicenter of all that is gloriously (BLEEP)
> in the Northwest this weekend....
>
> More here:
>
> http://www.thestranger.com/
>
> Cheers!
>
There's some interesting marching orders there.

I have friends that are (BLEEP), so I know what it's like to have someone sit and tell bad jokes about it in front of them, totally unaware that they are hurting someone in the room. It's happened in a work environment, which was quickly resolved... The funny thing is larry, these people who bash, have no idea that the guy who designed theCarhart jacket and Catepillar boots or interior of thier Chevy full size or even the bikini thier copenhagen chewing girlfriend wears was a (BLEEP).

Now come to think of it, look at the back of a one dollar bill. other than the weird pyramid eyeball thingamajig, and the bald eagle, everything else looks pretty fruity. I guess it takes all kinds to make things go 'round...
 
> > "So..when a man you've never met before suddenly gives you
>
> > flowers, that's just Impulse....." - from an '80s TV
> > commerical.
> >
> > Any reason is a good one to have a big week long party.
> Even
> > straight guys like me can't argue with that. And Seattle
> is
> > once again the epicenter of all that is gloriously (BLEEP)
>
> > in the Northwest this weekend....
> >
> > More here:
> >
> > http://www.thestranger.com/
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> So when is straight pride week? I demand equal time!
>
Just go to any bar in the burbs during a weeknight and hang around the pool tables and dart board.
 
KGAY

Live 105 in SF is doing their annual "KGAY" stint in honor of Gay Pride Weekend.

www.live105.com

Question for you all: Do you think that a "gay" format could be commercially viable?

Whether viable or not, just for kicks, lets compile a "gay" playlist.

Fruity Fact:
There was once a KGAY in Salem, OR and a WGAY in Washington, DC (neither were "gay" stations though)
 
Gay Radio Format

>>>> Do you think that a "GAY" format could be commercially viable?..

Sure!

Aren't Fisher and West NOW?
 
Re: KGAY

> Whether viable or not, just for kicks, lets compile a "gay"
> playlist.

I'd envision a mix of show tunes, disco, techno, eighties stuff like The Cure and The Smiths and the occasional spin of The Kinks' "Lola". They could have a special feature at noon called "Lunch with Judy (Garland)" and a Sunday morning show called "Breakfast with Cher".
 
WTF?

A "GAY" format?
What exactly IS that?

What will be on the playlist.
Exclusively Elton John, Liberace, George Michael?

Or are you referring to only ads aimed at a Gay demo? Only hosts who are out and gay?

Inquiring minds, as the man once said, wanna know.
 
You can't have that

Don't you remember that case in Michigan a couple of years ago?

High School Honor student was suspended for a STRAIGHT PRIDE sweatshirt.
The school's position is that it was OFFENSIVE.
 
Re: KGAY

> > Whether viable or not, just for kicks, lets compile a
> "gay"
> > playlist.
>
> I'd envision a mix of show tunes, disco, techno, eighties
> stuff like The Cure and The Smiths and the occasional spin
> of The Kinks' "Lola". They could have a special feature at
> noon called "Lunch with Judy (Garland)" and a Sunday morning
> show called "Breakfast with Cher".

Stereotypically for gay men, that would do the trick.

For lesbians, lots of classic rock, Melissa Etheridge, some country, the occasional Holly Near cut....

You can make a radio format that targets gay people. Most gay folks actually welcome the idea. But the stereotypes in music seems to get to some of them. Some can't stand Judy Garland or George Michael.

There's gay music artists. but what IS gay music?

You know, during the '80s when I grew up, we had all these hair metal bands that were really big (Poison, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister Cinderella, Guns-N-Roses, Skid Row, Warrant, White Lion-yes, even Kiss) that made videos that looked like drag fashion shows. Even back then. They would strut around stage in leather, make-up, jewelry, scarves and hairspray, giving *** hither looks into the cameras. If you pointed this out at a kegger party in 1988, you could get your a-- kicked.

Perfectly heterosexual male heavy metal hairballs (and mostly young men) LOVED to mimic the butt wiggle and castrated-sounding wailing of Sebastian Bach of Skid Row (a guy who once wore a shirt that said "AIDS Kills Fags Dead" as a big name butt-rocker, but has appeared in off-Broadway musicals lately.) Perfectly heterosexual female heavy metal hairballs loved the make-up tips. Both loved the hair.

And if you didn't listen to any of these bands, you were a "(BLEEP)"!

It especially wasn't easy if you were actually gay in a heavy metal high school. I had to stick up for a lot of gay kids in school. Even straight kids who were just percieved as gay. I didn't see what the big deal was anyway if you were gay, bi or straight, as long as you have someone to mutually love and depend on. And I still don't.

That pigeonholed me with a--hole homophobic hairball metalheads as a "(BLEEP)" too. But I knew the contradictions then that they still can't bear the inescapable reality of now. That gay people have somehow influenced their lives...indirectly...subversively...always under the surface and eventually under the skin like an L.A. Guns tattoo...

Looking back on the '90s and recent years with the hair metal revival, life has been hell for my now balding homophobic headbanger buddies. Freddy Mercury died of AIDS in 1991, Rob Halford of Judas Priest came out of the closet in 1993. And now somehow, they can't understand today's metrosexual nu-metal bands. But they look and sound like that twisted family from Rob Zombie's House Of A Thousand Corpses when they try to sing any of those old hair metal songs at a karaoke bar anymore.

Karmic payback is a bitch....<P ID="signature">______________
Seattle Hempfest, August 20-21, Myrtle Edwards Park, http://www.hempfest.org/

[email protected]


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The "Q" Word

> > "So..when a man you've never met before suddenly gives you
>
> > flowers, that's just Impulse....." - from an '80s TV
> > commerical.
> >
> > Any reason is a good one to have a big week long party.
> Even
> > straight guys like me can't argue with that. And Seattle
> is
> > once again the epicenter of all that is gloriously (BLEEP)
>
> > in the Northwest this weekend....
> >
> > More here:
> >
> > http://www.thestranger.com/
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> There's some interesting marching orders there.
>
> I have friends that are (BLEEP), so I know what it's like to
> have someone sit and tell bad jokes about it in front of
> them, totally unaware that they are hurting someone in the
> room. It's happened in a work environment, which was
> quickly resolved... The funny thing is larry, these
> people who bash, have no idea that the guy who designed
> theCarhart jacket and Catepillar boots or interior of
> thier Chevy full size or even the bikini thier copenhagen
> chewing girlfriend wears was a (BLEEP).

It's hard to tell what's offensive anymore, but last I checked, the context in which I was using the "Q" word was non-offensive.

It's one of those words that over time have become rendered impotent as an insult and now as a badge of honor for that community.....



>
> Now come to think of it, look at the back of a one dollar
> bill. other than the weird pyramid eyeball thingamajig, and
> the bald eagle, everything else looks pretty fruity. I
> guess it takes all kinds to make things go 'round...
>
<P ID="signature">______________
Seattle Hempfest, August 20-21, Myrtle Edwards Park, http://www.hempfest.org/

[email protected]


</P>
 
> > "So..when a man you've never met before suddenly gives you
>
> > flowers, that's just Impulse....." - from an '80s TV
> > commerical.
> >
> > Any reason is a good one to have a big week long party.
> Even
> > straight guys like me can't argue with that. And Seattle
> is
> > once again the epicenter of all that is gloriously (BLEEP)
>
> > in the Northwest this weekend....
> >
> > More here:
> >
> > http://www.thestranger.com/
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> So when is straight pride week? I demand equal time!

Straight Pride week is any of the remaining 51 weeks of the year.
>
<P ID="signature">______________
Seattle Hempfest, August 20-21, Myrtle Edwards Park, http://www.hempfest.org/

[email protected]


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Correction

>>> you referring to only ads.....

I think you mean, "only AIDS"....:)
 
What Music IS GAY?

>>> There's gay music artists, but what IS gay music?...

All cuts off the 'Saturday Night Fever' Soundtrack now...
 
Re: What Music IS GAY?

> >>> There's gay music artists, but what IS gay music?...
>
> All cuts off the 'Saturday Night Fever' Soundtrack now...
>

Don't forget 'Grease' ;)
 
Re: WTF?

> A "GAY" format?
> What exactly IS that?
>
> What will be on the playlist.
> Exclusively Elton John, Liberace, George Michael?
>
> Or are you referring to only ads aimed at a Gay demo? Only
> hosts who are out and gay?
>
> Inquiring minds, as the man once said, wanna know.
>
All gay! Yeah I can see it. In fact I forsee at least two variations with Gay-Talk and Gay-Music being in the forefront. Coming soon we'll have All-Traffic, All-Hispanic News, All-Lifestyle Talk, All-Entertainment Talk, The Weather Channel, All-Farm News and what I call the Frasier format (along with some as yet un-dreamed of concepts..). They won't be local, for the most part anyway, and there flagships will be beaming from the birds with local sticks as a part of the network.

Oprah will have a format too along with Eminem, Snoop Dog, Hillary Duff and Martha. They'll be a Pat Robertson channel, and others, from the Bible broadcasters. Local radio will compete with news, local music and Tradio. PBS won't offer much and continue to be clueless. And I forsee the 20-40 sticks in any given market ending up, with a few exceptions of course, becoming the Classified/Pennysaver type thingy.

All gay is probably six months away on one of the XM or Sirius birds.
 
Re: WTF?

> A "GAY" format?
> What exactly IS that?
>
> What will be on the playlist.
> Exclusively Elton John, Liberace, George Michael?
>
> Or are you referring to only ads aimed at a Gay demo? Only
> hosts who are out and gay?
>
> Inquiring minds, as the man once said, wanna know.
>

http://www.kngy.com/
http://www.energyarizona.com/

--Dance format--
If you listen to their promos, look at the websites, and the places they do remotes at, you get a pretty good idea that those stations aim for Women 18-25 and Gay Men 18-25.
Not to say that listening to Trance, House, or even 'Diva Bubble Gum Pop' makes you gay or that those genres are 'Gay', but dance stations definitely pull a large segment of the homosexual community. Both of the aforementioned stations have a few openly gay members, as well as a few other online and terrestrial dance stations.

I see Dance stations as a format aimed towards Gays, just as I see Country aimed for more conservative christians; Nobody on the station will openly say they support what they're aimed for, but the music and the 'attitude' definitely swings that way. Or at least thats what I observe... but then again I might be seeing that because I don't fit into either of those categories.
 
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