Gay Anthems for Second Pride 9

Pet Shop Boys - Go West

Interesting Twist, Julian

Susan Benn, from the Julian Assange Defence Fund, addresses the media
outside the Ecuadorean embassy. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

Julian Assange delivered a statement to the press yesterday, through a spokesperson outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London, in which he, among other things, said:

"Although it is normal procedure, Swedish authorities have refused, without reason, to make the three hour trip to London and to interview Julian causing him to be trapped in the UK under virtual house arrest for 561 days and an additional 10 days in solitary confinement – all without charge. Instead they have issued an Interpol red notice and extradition requests."

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Nice try Julian, but you get no bananas from me. You cannot blame this on either the prosecutor Mrs. Marianne Ny or Sweden, because it is all your own fault by the course of action you have chosen. 

It is up to the prosecutor to decide in what manner to best conduct the investigation and if it is possible and suitable for the full investigation of the alleged crimes to question a suspect abroad. It is never a right for the suspected criminal to ask for special treatment or to tell the prosecutor how to do her job.

Read the full article guardian.co.uk; Julian Assange to sit out standoff over extradition at Ecuadorean embassy.

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

Movies at SP2012 (Updated)

Did you know you can watch movies at the ongoing Second Pride Festival? Well, you can, there are two movies available.

Milk (url) is was playing in the National Academy of Music in London (SLurl).

Rent (url) is was playing in the Castro Theater in San Francisco (SLurl)

You must have QuickTime (url) installed. It is advised that you start the movie at the same time with friends so you can all be at the same point. You start the movie by playing your Media Stream for video.

If you haven't used QuickTime before, please remember to start it after you have installed it and allow it to be the primary viewer for the file types it requests,


That's what I am going to do today, I have had a bad headache for two days now and just want to relax without any music, so I guess it must be Milk for me tonight. I had actually suggested that one of the films shown should be the wonderful Beautiful Thing (url), but it wasn't considered to be "liberating" enough. I can appreciate that point, but still...

UPDATE
...and just as I logged in-world I got a message in the Pride Festival group that they had changed the movies to two I have seen about 10 times each. BUGGER me for being so slow!

Now showing are instead

Birdcage (url) is playing in the Castro Theater in San Francisco (SLurl)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (url) is playing in the National Academy of Music in London (SLurl).

The Trannies Rebel at SP2012 (Updated)

UPDATE: Police have now identified one of the ringleaders of the riots as being 
Mr. Kip Ashbourne (21), a respected resident of SecondLife but now also a fashion icon.
Photography quoted from Eddi Haskell´s Second Life 

Photography quoted from Eddi Haskell´s Second Life

Yesterday we had the reenactment and celebration of the trannies at Stonewall Inn standing up against harassment and telling the police that "enough is enough is enough", of course I missed it all when I crashed and my camera went on a strike.

For pictures from the event please visit
Eddi Haskell´s Second Life,
Jeff Ellsworth Witnessing A Second Life,
NakedCarl and 
Ziggy on the Edge of Second Life.

The Bullring and DJ InsyX are also covering SP2012 even if they did not blog from the riot. 

Gay Anthems for Second Pride 8

Gloria Gaynor - I Am What I Am

The Stonewall Riots at SP2012

This party actually starts already at 4 PM and goes on until 9 PM, so its FIVE HOURS of partying;
4 - 7 PM Stonewall Inn with DJ Hotboy
7 - 9 PM Stonewall Riot with DJ Rocky

Now, what does one wear at a riot, I wonder? Or do you look away from that and simply focus on looking

B-L-O-O-D-Y

F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S ?

SLurl´s to the festival sims

Buenos Aires

London

San Francisco

Sydney