Second Pride Wants Bloggers - Apply Now!

My dear old friend Mr Kahvy Smith Esq, nee Sands, asked me to help spreading the word on this. So here goes!

"We need bloggers for this years round of Second Pride!!!

For the first time ever, Pride is happy to announce the use of a Bloggers Room. With so many amazing creators on board -- check them out on http://second-pride.com/vendors/ -- we could not go without YOUR help!

So now we need YOU!!!! We are looking for Bloggers that want to blog about the items for sale at Pride from June 23rd - July 1st! Set up starts at June 18 and items should become available from now till the event opens.

• Bloggers gain access to a special bloggers room through a private group, items will be available there for you to pick up. 
• Acceptation based on first come base, Bloggers that already work with vendors that participate have first pick 
• We are gunning for at least two blog posts from you! We know the deadline is steep, if that's a problem for you, please don't apply! We need people that can work fast and furious to get the word out!
• Creator participation is volunteer base, not all of them will participate but some exciting content creators already have joined the room, including to date, Gabriel, L&B, T L C , Sources, RJD, Redangel, PowerDesign and more are added every day!!! 
• A young team of Blogger Management so we expect you, to work with us to make it better! Help shape us up and make Blogging a Regular for Pride! Be a Pioneer with us!!! 

Contact Kahvy Smith​ (kahvy.sands) inworld for an application and/or more info!"

Pulse, Orlando, Florida - 1st Anniversary

Honor the dead and the survivors of the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016. 

1. Stanley Almodovar III, 23 years old
2. Amanda L. Alvear, 25 years old
3. Oscar A. Aracena Montero, 26 years old
4. Rodolfo Ayala Ayala, 33 years old
5. Antonio Davon Brown, 29 years old
6. Darryl Roman Burt II, 29 years old
7. Angel Candelario-Padro, 28 years old
8. Juan Chavez Martinez, 25 years old
9. Luis Daniel Conde, 39 years old
10. Cory James Connell, 21 years old
11. Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25 years old
12. Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32 years old
13. Simón Adrian Carrillo Fernández, 31 years old
14. Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25 years old
15. Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26 years old
16. Peter Ommy Gonzalez Cruz, 22 years old
17. Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22 years old
18. Paul Terrell Henry, 41 years old
19. Frank Hernandez, 27 years old
20. Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 years old
21. Javier Jorge Reyes, 40 years old
22. Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19 years old
23. Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30 years old
24. Anthony Luis Laureano Disla, 25 years old
25. Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32 years old
26. Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21 years old
27. Brenda Marquez McCool, 49 years old
28. Gilberto R. Silva Menendez, 25 years old
29. Kimberly Jean Morris, 37 years old
30. Akyra Monet Murray, 18 years old
31. Luis Omar Ocasio Capo, 20 years old
32. Geraldo A. Ortiz Jimenez, 25 years old
33. Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36 years old
34. Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32 years old
35. Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35 years old
36. Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25 years old
37. Jean Carlos Nieves Rodríguez, 27 years old
38. Xavier Emmanuel Serrano-Rosado, 35 years old
39. Christopher Joseph Sanfeliz, 24 years old
40. Yilmary Rodríguez Solivan, 24 years old
41. Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34 years old
42. Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33 years old
43. Martin Benitez Torres, 33 years old
44. Jonathan A. Camuy Vega, 24 years old
45. Juan Pablo Rivera Velázquez, 37 years old
46. Luis Sergio Vielma, 22 years old
47. Franky Jimmy DeJesus Velázquez, 50 years old
48. Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 years old
49. Jerald Arthur Wright, 31 years old

Petr Says

Stolen from my friend Petr Hastings Vanbeek's blog: Confessions of A Digital DaddyBear: Wrap It Up!

Second Pride Festival 2017 - The Logo

Poster by LLedge Eames

Below is the logo of this years Second Pride festival, which was recently released. 

I like it! Its powerful and illustrates that we still have to stand up and be counted in the fight for our own and our International sisters and brothers rights and protections.

Sure, pride is a celebration of who we are and how far we have come in some countries, but we must also always remember there are places in the world where the situation for our sisters and brothers our far from comfortable and easy as it is for us.

We are here to celebrate and to give them hope and show support in their struggles. We are here to be in the faces of their and our oppressors, to show we exist and we are here to stay. We will be loud and proud because we cant!

Putin: No Shower With A Gay Man In A Submarine

pinknews.co,uk reports: 

The Russian President (...) was speaking to filmmaker Oliver Stone for The Putin Interviews. In a discussion about the military, Stone had asked the leader: "If you’re taking a shower in a submarine with a man and you know he’s gay, do they have a problem with that?"

According to the Daily Beast, Putin responded: "Well, I prefer not to go to shower with him. Why provoke him? But you know, I’m a judo master and a SAMBO master as well."

He added: "I can tell you this, that as head of state today, I believe it’s my duty to uphold traditional values and family values. But why? Because same-sex marriages will not produce any children. God has decided, and we have to care about birth rates in our country. We have to reinforce families. But that doesn’t mean that there should be any persecution against anyone."

Putin is often hostile to Russia’s own LGBT community, signing the country’s ‘gay propaganda’ law back in 2013.

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Interesting answer isn't it?

Notice how Vladimir "Little Father" Putin, expects every gay man to want and not be able to resist his luscious and delightful body, how he will be able to deal  with the assault with his athletic prowess in martial arts an combat sports. And he does it all because "God has decided." And to calm us gay and liberal westerners he concludes that this doesn't mean there should be "any persecution against anyone".

The last part sounds extremely fake coming from a man who legislated again "gay propaganda" and doesn't lift a finger or much less does anything else to control his Chechen henchmen in killing, maiming and abusing gay men. 

So, It's The Swedish National Day...

... and we don't really give much of a damn because - as most of the old countries in the world - it's not really a big deal here.

Sure since 2005 we get a day off from work, because the politicians thought we should celebrate it more, and our royalties are busy handing out Swedish flags to various deserving organisations all day.

But nah, we still don't think its anything to celebrate. Swedes aren't big on nationalism. We certainly like our country but it's not at all a big deal as with some other nations.

If we heard somebody try to launch political slogans as "Sweden First" or "Make Sweden Great Again" most of us would probably laugh our asses off until we peed in our pants.

SL14B Official Shopping Event, June 5-26, 2017

Linden Lab is hosting a shopping event to celebrate the fourteenth anniversary of SecondLife. It's promising you can get "free gifts and exclusive items from many of Second Life's top designers".

The locations to pick up your loot are presented here: SL14B Official Shopping Event.