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"Purple Rain" Photography by Lana Quicksand

If you wish to see more of Lana's photography, please visit her Flickr photostream here.

Menwear Fashion Week 2014

This event started already yesterday, but there seems to have been some serious communication issues in getting the news out... At least I did not see a single word concerning it until I got an invitation yesterday to come to a SL Live Radio gig there.

Well, live and learn! Anyhow here is the landmark to Menswear Fashion Week 2014 (SLurl).and here is the link to the blog Menswear Fashion Week 2014 - Blog

SATURDAY April 26th, 2014
11am-12pm SL Chic Zafari @ MWFW 2014 Fashion Show
2-3pm SL E-Clipse Designs, Champagne Sparkling Fashion, Dot-Be, Madrid Solo, Contraption Group Show
6-7pm SL Rfyre @ MWFW 2014 Fashion Show

SUNDAY April 27th, 2014
11am-12pm SL Zed Sensations @ MWFW 2014 Fashion Show
2-3pm SL INNUENDO at MWFW 2014 Fashion Show
6-7pm SL Aitui, 69 Park Ave, Costa Creations, G&D The Italian Store, JFL Men’s Hats, Dynasty Group Show

MONDAY April 28th, 2014
11am-12pm SL Vitamen, White Widow, Riaxik, HOTDIVE, Zibska, Stone by Phe, Amacci Group Show
2-3pm SL Xiaj @ MWFW 2014 Fashion Show
6-7pm SL Central Park Fashion Show

TUESDAY April 29th, 2014
11am-12pm Blvck Anchor @ MWFW 2014 Fashion Show
2-3pm SL Clef De Peau @ MWFW 2014 Fashion Show

WEDNESAY April 30th, 2014
11am-12pm SL Wall Street Fashion Show
2-3pm SL iLLMATIC, UNORTHODOX, Akeyo, Feel, !Bravura Homme, J&A Rock Culture Group Show
6-7pm SL Peka’s Design @ MWFW 2014 Fashion Show

FRIDAY May 2nd, 2014
11am-12pm SL Pure Poison @ MWFW 2014 Fashion Show
2-3pm SL Countdown @ MWFW 2014 Fashion Show
6-7pm SL Image Factory @ MWFW 2014 Fashion Show

SATURDAY May 3rd, 2014
11am-12pm SL Faster Pussycat/Velvet Elvis @ MWFW 2014 Fashion Show
12-2pm SL ModeLS Magazine Closing Party
2-3pm SL *just BECAUSE*,Zanze, SORGO, Atelier m+, Cashmere & Keane, Jeepers Creepers, SF Designs Group Show
6-7pm SL Broadway Baby Fashion Show

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Premium Designers:
Akeruka
Blvck Anchor
Chic Zafari
Countdown
Gabriel
Image Factory
Pure Poison
Rfyre
XIAJ
Zed Sensations

MWFW 2014 Designers:
[ BarmaleY]
[sYs]
(red) Sand
*Just BECAUSE*
-Instinct- Clothes
69 Park Ave
Aitui
Akeyo
Amacci
Atelier m+
Body Factory
Bravura! Homme
CHAMPAGNE!Sparkling Fashion
Clef de Pea
Contraption
Costa Creations
David Heather
Dot-Be
Dynasty
E-Clipse
Faster Pussycat & Velvet Elvis
Feel
Frontline
G&D The Italian Store
HOTDIVE
HUMANOID
iLLMATIC
INNUENDO
Instinct Clothes
J&A Rock Culture
Jeepers Creepers
JFL Men’s Hats
Madrid Solo
Miss. C
N1CO
PeKaS Design
Riaxik
S O R G O ♛
SF Design
STONE by Phe
Swagga
UNORTHODOX
Vengeful Threads
Vexing
Vitamen
White Widow
Zakar & ZOOM
Zanze
Zentro
zibska

Spurt 24-Hour DJ-Athon

Your teleport to the action at Spurt's Beach (SLurl)

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"Pea Soup!" Photography Miles Cantelou

If you wish to see more of Miles' photography, please visit his Flickr photostream here.

In Your Face, Mr. President!

My hero of the day is Neal Gottlieb, ice-cream manufacturer and mountain climber who summited Uganda's highest mountain two days ago, placed a gay pride flag on it's peak and then wrote a message to the hateful homophobe and bigoted President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.

April 22, 2014

Dear President Museveni of Uganda,

On April 16, 2014, after a 6-day climb, I summited your country’s tallest peak, Mount Stanley’s 16,753 foot tall Margherita Peak, and mounted a gay pride flag at its summit in protest of your country’s criminalization of homosexuality. Your country’s highest point is no longer its soil, its snow or a summit marker, but rather a gay pride flag waving brilliantly, shining down from above as a sign of protest and hope behalf of the many thousands of Ugandans that you seek to repress and the many more that understand the hideous nature of your repressive legislation.

The wiser of us understand that humans possess certain unalienable rights. These rights include freedom to express oneself, freedom to worship one’s god or none at all and freedom to live and love as one is born.

Despite this, you recently signed legislation into law that allows those born homosexual to be imprisoned for life. This is a disgusting, despicable act that threatens to ruin countless lives. If you had a son, daughter, niece or nephew that was homosexual, would you want her or him to be imprisoned for life? What if you have friends that are closeted homosexuals? Should they be locked up for the rest of their lives? If you were born gay, would you deserve to be imprisoned?

In a country that is dependent on the United States to fund the majority of its HIV/AIDS care, where less than 5% of those with cancer have access to treatment and where those with access to electricity is still a small minority of the populace, does it make any sense to devote precious and limited resources to imprison those who should be free? Does it make any sense that your administration never successfully prosecuted anybody from Amin’s reign of terror that resulted in over 100,000 murders, yet you wish to imprison for life those who have not committed atrocities but are simply born gay?

As the president of a nation you have the opportunity to be a great man and lead your country forward. Instead, you choose to hold your people back like the imperialists, the dictators and the warlords that have held Africa back generation after generation. The people that you wish to imprison are the same people who can help Uganda grow into a great nation.

When you choose to deny the people of Uganda their human rights, you are no better than Amin.

If you don’t like said flag on your highest peak, I urge you to climb up and take it down. However, you are an old man and surely the 6-day climb through the steep muddy bogs and up the mountain’s glaciers is well beyond your physical ability. Your days are more limited than most. Do you want your remaining days to be yet another blight on the history of your nation or will you find the strength to reverse your actions and allow all Ugandans to be free?

With all due respect,
Neal Gottlieb

P.S. This protest action is mine and mine alone. Neither my fellow climbers nor the Ugandan guides and porters had anything to do with it. The Ugandan guides present at the summit as the flag was mounted had absolutely no idea what the flag stands for, nor did they ask.

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And then I sent this tweet to the president who, as it happens, today joined Twitter!

In your face @KagutaMuseveni Man conquers Uganda’s highest mountain and claims it for the gays http://t.co/0DeFzdyuBo via @gaystarnews
— Bock McMillan (@BockMcMillan) April 25, 2014

Thank you @nealhgottlieb you are now officially my superhero! @MIA_UG
— Bock McMillan (@BockMcMillan) April 25, 2014

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"Whenever I'm alone with you" Photography by Kidman Latte

If you wish to see more of Kidman's photography, please visit her Flickr photostream here.