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Today we hear form New York State assembly member Daniel J. O'Donnell, yes he's Rosie's brother!

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Today we are at the ACTION = MARRIAGE EQUALITY rally held in New York City on May 17th and organized by Broadway Impact.

Hear some music form the cast of the musical HAIR and the speech given by New York Governor David Patterson.

More to come.

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Yes, it's true, OccasionalFag Brian G. wants nothing more in this life than to be Samantha Brown, that penultimately perky blond of a professional exhibitionist from the Travel Channel who goes everywhere and does everything. She is also, just about, on every channel on the television in your room if you stay at an on property resort hotel at the Disney World complex, but we digress...

So here is Brian G. on vacation (part 1) in beautiful Puerto Rico (you lovely island...) with his beloved life partner Mr. Who - who just so happens to be 1/2 Puerto Rican and paid for the vacation package during Brian G.'s work slowdown.

Both wish every day that they were back there now...

Enjoy!

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We bring you a few of the protests that happened in NYC last week.

First, a rally to celebrate marriage victory in Vermont, and shame New York State for still not having marriage. Then a protest at the Iraqi embassy in response to the recent killings of gay men in Sadr City. Read more here and here.

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Each year the MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) of NYC (New York City), in a holiday celebration of itself, lets some of its antique subway cars out to play every Sunday from 10 AM to 4 PM in December (on the "V" line between 2nd Avenue and Queensboro Plaza).

Geek out with Brian G., David b, Leon and Mr. Who, TheOccasionalFags, as we take an old fashioned ride, racing around under the Big Apple, in subway cars of the past.

Enjoy!

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In celebration of this, our 100th episode of TheOccasionalFag, David b and Brian G. sit down in front of the iSight camera and discuss last week's counter-demonstrations to the passage of Proposition 8 - the anti-gay marriage proposition in California - that took place here in New York City. Celebrate with us and get to know two gay men who are good friends by watching the video. Support Gay Marriage or Marriage Equality in New York State by Calling State Senator Ruben Diaz Sr. (NYC -718-991-3161/Albany - 518-415-2511) and respectfully demanding that he support the civil right for all to marry by supporting Malcolm Smith for Democratic Majority Leader.

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This week we run off to the Circus.

Founded in 1998, Circus Amok is New York Cities’ internationally-acclaimed one-ring FREE traveling circus. They've been bringing wildly fantastical, funny, sharp, glamorous, compelling
political circus spectacle to all. Watch now and see part of this
years show SUB-PRIME SUBLIME.

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Occasional Fags Brian G. and his partner Mr. Who were invited to The Woods, a gay campground in the Poconos (or as he likes to refer to them - the “Poke-Oh!-Nos”), by friend Jamie L. for it's weekend “Illuminations” presentation: an evening when each campsite decorates it's grounds using lights and luminaries and a dance is held where all are invited to paint their bodies with day glo paints and dance under black lights.

Here is a video of that weekend.

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Here it is, part two of this year's video of the incredible Fire Island Dance Festival.
It's kind of a jumble of still and moving images from rehearsals, performances and back stage, but then the Festival itself is such an incredibly jam packed weekend of so much going on if you are working it that, this is, to a great extent, what it feels like.
The dance companies featured this year included:

-Alvin Ailey American Dance Company
-Atlanta Ballet
-Bad Boys of Dance & Jerry Mitchell
-Ballet Hispanico
-Jermaine Browne
-Dance Plus Ballroom
-Vernard J. Gilmore
-Jacoby and Pronk
-Jennifer Muller/The Works
-Parsons Dance
-Jason Samuels Smith
-Ellis Wood Dance
The hosts this year for were Whoopi Goldberg and Caroline Rhea.

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TOF Video 28 FI Dance Festival 2008 part 1

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Artist Olafur Eliasson has placed 4 waterfalls along the East River around lower Manhattan in collaboration with The Public Art Fund and the City of New York. Leon and David b saw these waterfalls one Sunday afternoon while aboard the Circle Line

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