OhioMike's Kilt Party

Tuesday evening (4-6 PM SLT) it was time for OhioMike's Kilt Party at the Second Pride Festival with Mike's hubby Hotboy as DJ, of course. I simply had to go, because - as everyone who knows me knows - I love tartan's and firmly believe that there isn't anything sexier than a man in tartan.

At a tartan party it is proper and fitting to come in your tartan, naked or splashed in colors. (Bear suits are acceptable if the person is completely covered in the skin.) Coming to a tartan party in anything except the three options mentioned is a social blunder of a magnitude equivalent to showing up at a royal wedding in dirty jeans and a torn t-shirt. Special dispensation for faux pas' from the rule are given to
1) Americans
2) Stunning beauties
3) Extreme youth and
4) Diagnosed idiots.

The venue was full of hunky men and a few women when I arrived. The music was loud and good, the DJ was loud and the crowd was loud, lewd and fun.

Benja & Ryce (Special dispensation by points 1 and 2 of the rules)
Benja being a Spaniard should know better, but his beauty saves him once again

Petr, Ty & Vaan

Myself and Marcellias

An unknown beautiful American man (Special dispensation by points 1 and 2 of the rules)

Please note! The party was open to everyone, in kilt or not. I just made up the rules and special dispensations to tease my friends Ryce and Benja.

The Finals of Mr. Gay 2012

Well, that was an ordeal I that will not forget soon.

Everything started out well. With the kind assistance of Garth Raleigh I got the landmark to the venue and arrived early to secure my spot an hour before the contest started.

I chose a seat close to the refreshments because one can never know how long these things last and the bar service is usually slow. if you can get any at all.

As usual the rest of the crowd started dropping in after the official start of the event, some gay men always need to make "an entrance!", it´s a sort of compulsive behavior that I believe could be connected with being gay. Either that, or they had been to the sim N District before and knew that it was lousy. 

With only 40 avatars on the sim and after 15 crashes or so and three sim restarts the event finally started about an hour and twenty minutes late.

Our MC for the evening was the always delightful Ms. Kharissa Indigo. She did a great job at handling everything that happened with her customary charm and calm.

My viewer kept acting up throughout the rest of the event.

I couldn't save pictures to my computer and crashed eleven times more, the first few times because I tried taking pictures and the rest of the time for no reason at all. Alas this meant that I could only take a few snapshots with lower than usual quality.

The final line up consisted of eight gorgeous guys. All selected by the patrons of a gay club in SecondLife.

We were presented with the guys in swimwear, fantasy outfits and formals intertwined with the men´s answers to - prepared or unprepared - questions at previous interviews.

The judges boiled the competitors down to the last three guys.

From left to right, Mr. [N] Club Geremy Pallis, Mr. Sexology Willstar Galatea and Mr. Warehouse #69 Ty Yifu.

Before the final declaration of the winner by the judges I had made up my mind of the order I placed the last three guys in. I had Ty as winner, followed by Willstar and then Geremy. Well that only goes to show, I should never be a judge at these competitions, because the winner was Geremy.

Ladies and gents, I present you with Mr. Gay 2012 Geremy Pallis! He was a little too boyish for my taste but I believe he won the contest with his excellent answers in the interviews.

The Splash Party with DJ Regi

After fiddling unsuccessfully with the settings on my viewer (Linden Lab´s Viewer 3) for about an hour and a half to get it to play Birdcage for me, I finally gave up.

At the end I reached so far that the viewer told me it was playing Media but I still could not see or hear anything. I know that it is way easier on the Firestorm viewer, because Media has a button of its own there, but that viewer is too heavy and slow for my purposes, and it´s overloaded with shit I do not need or want.

Searching for something else to do I saw that the Second Pride Splash Party was on, so I decided to go there with my music turned down very low - and I do not regret it because the place was filled with Ziggy Starsmith, Levi Ewing, Larz Kaz and a lot of other of SecondLife´s hunkiest male avatars and a few of the nicest female ones too, like Kharissa Indigo and Tootsie Nootan.

The motto for the party was "as bare as you dare, but no erections allowed" which, as I told Ziggy, was the first request I heard of that is actually easier to accomplish in SecondLife than in first life.

For more pictures from this event visit Ziggy On The Edge Of Second Life; Fun And Fabulous Second pride Part 6: Ziggy Gets Butt Naked...

The Yifus, Regi and Ty

"It Gets Better" in SecondLife

 

The It Gets Better Project (url) was created in first life to show young LGBT people the levels of happiness, potential, and positivity their lives will reach – if they can just get through their teen years. The project was initiated by the gay activist, syndicated sex advice columnist and author Dan Savage together with his partner Terry Miller to inspire hope for young people facing harassment.

I was happy to note, during my wanderings at the Second Pride festival sims yesterday, that this worthwhile project has now also spread into SecondLife. Although in a different format, posters instead of videos, the message resounding from them is loud and clear and will hopefully help young people in SecondLife that they are not alone and that things actually will get better.

You will find the It Gets Better booth in the Buenos Aires shopping district.

Here are a few of the individual testimonials.

The Yifus

Ra Deemster

Mirco Dinzeo, fabulous underwear creator (among many other things)

The always delightful Kharissa Indigo (SP2012 board member)

DJ Cupric "The Coop" Router and Jagger Naughton

Last - but not least - my brother in-law Jeb Nicholls, making the family proud