Subj: [BWC] 1) EARLY news, links and FRI EVENTS... Part 2 SAT!
Date: 2/24/05 4:20:56 AM Pacific Standard Time
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A) BWClub NEWS, WEB LINKS, NEWS ITEMS

* I'm sending out Part 1 of the BWClub E-MAIL EARLY this week because Juan and I are in Reno on business on Thursday and Friday, and meeting Kurt Jacobowitz-Cain & Paul Cain of STAND, the Sierra Tahoe Area Nude Dudes at STANDNV@aol.com. We'll be back, though, and I'll have Part 2 of the BWClub E-mail out to you on Saturday morning, including the venue for our Sunday hike (keep your fingers crossed that the weather's sunny and war so that we can go out and get NAKED)!

* A reminder: I HAVE FREE BLOW BUDDIES PASSES for BWClubbers attending BWClub hikes! I have passes for each of the Golden Shower Buddies, Leather Buddies, Underwear Buddies, and Bondage Buddies parties through December 2005, as well as a very limited number of regular Blow Buddies passes (good Thursday-Sunday). You want one? Join us on a BWClub hike, be the first one that day to ask for it, and I'll give you a pass. If you're not already a Blow Buddies member, be prepared to buy a $5 membership when you use the pass. www.BlowBuddies.com

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* NAKED DINNERS IN MANHATTAN: <<NEW YORK (Reuters) - The diners arrived at a nice Manhattan restaurant on a cold February night and stripped off coats, hats, gloves and scarves. They didn't stop there. Skirts, shirts, pants, underwear and stockings all ended up stashed in plastic bags by the bar as the patrons got naked for the monthly "Clothing Optional Dinner." "It's exciting to be in a restaurant nude," said George Keyes, 65, a retired junior high school English teacher. Nude yes, but not unadorned. Keyes, a lifelong nudist, wore a necklace, earrings and a black leather "genital bracelet" with red studs. And white sneakers. The dinner was started by a group of New York nudists who wanted something a bit more elegant than the wilderness getaways and beach resorts they generally frequent. "When you go away on holiday it's more you're roughing it in the woods, whereas this is a really nice restaurant," said Keyes, a member of gay nudist group Males Au Naturel, or MAN. John Ordover set up the dining club about a year ago, recruiting members through word of mouth and the Internet. "Next month is our Easter bonnet event, where everybody has to come wearing an Easter bonnet," said Ordover, a heavyset man with a jovial smile and glasses. Around 30 people arrived for the buffet dinner -- organizers specified no hot soup on the menu -- most of them middle-aged, several married couples, some singles, the youngest perhaps in their 30s.>> today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx

* BRITISH NAVY WELCOMES GAYS (Yeah, like THAT'S news? HA! Thanks, anyway, Bill aka Chad James!): <<LONDON (BBC) -- The Royal Navy has become the first section of the British armed forces to join a scheme protecting gay rights. It has signed equal rights charity Stonewall's Diversity Champions Programme to promote fair treatment of lesbian, gay and bisexual recruits. Gay and lesbian couples with a registered civil partnership will also be able to apply for married quarters, in all armed forces, from the autumn. Gay people were legally permitted in the UK forces only in 2000. The Civil Partnership Act 2004, for which Stonewall campaigned, was passed in November and is expected to take effect later this year. Royal Navy spokesman Anton Hanney said the force's existing no-sex policy would remain in place on ships and at naval bases for homosexual and heterosexual staff. He said: "However, from the autumn, as long as gay or lesbian couples have a registered civil partnership, they will be eligible to apply for accommodation in married quarters. "We will be complying with the law. We are obliged to give equal treatment to gay and lesbian partnerships under these terms... this a cross-service policy across the armed forces." During the first year of the Navy's involvement with the Stonewall programme, seminars, pamphlets and specific advice will be offered to servicemen. Stonewall chief executive Ben Summerskill said he was optimistic the Army and the RAF would follow suit. He said forces staff had become so sophisticated and highly-trained that they could no longer afford to lose them as a result of prejudice. Mr Summerskill said: "I think the Navy have been very courageous to engage with this so publicly." The move was described as a "superbly positive" move by Lieutenant Commander Craig Jones, 36, who has been serving with the Navy for 16 years, 11 of which were "in the closet." Lt Cdr Jones, who lives in Sussex Square, Brighton, with his boyfriend, 30-year-old clinical psychologist Adam Mason, said: "It's really nice to see the Royal Navy demonstrating confidence in being able to be so positive about the issue." He said that by joining the scheme the Navy was not actively targeting gay recruits, but rather, trying not to miss out on their expertise. Vice-Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent, Second Sea Lord, said: "I am committed to ensuring the Royal Navy has a culture in which all our people are valued for themselves and are thus able to give 100% to their job." The Navy joins 90 other large organisations, with more than two million employees, in the scheme, including BT and IBM.>> news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-...4282175.stm

* ALABAMA MAKES SEX TOYS ILLEGAL (Thanks, Bill aka Chad James!): <<WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a constitutional challenge to an Alabama law that makes it a crime to sell sex toys. The high court refused to hear an appeal by a group of individuals who regularly use sexual devices and by two vendors who argued the case raised important issues about the scope of the constitutional right to sexual privacy. The law prohibited the distribution of "any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs." First-time violators can face a fine of up to $10,000 and as much as one year in jail. The law, adopted in 1998, allowed the sale of ordinary vibrators and body massagers that are not designed or marketed primarily as sexual aids. It exempted sales of sexual devices "for a bona fide medical, scientific, educational, legislative, judicial or law enforcement purpose." Georgia and Texas are the only other states that restrict the distribution of sexual devices, according to the court record in the case. Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union, representing those who challenged the law, argued that private, consensual sexual conduct among adults is constitutionally protected and beyond the reach of government regulation. They said the Supreme Court's decision in 2003 striking down a Texas sodomy law also created a fundamental, constitutional due process right to sexual privacy. "The evidence shows that this case is not about novelty items, naughty toys or obscene matter. It is a case about human sexuality and extremely intimate acts," the attorneys said. They said Alabama has never explained "why sales of performance enhancing drugs like Viagra, Cialis and Levitra and even ribbed condoms are not similarly prohibited." The attorneys said the state did not contest the evidence that about 20 percent of all American women use a vibrator and at least 10 percent of sexually active adults use vibrators in their regular sex life. A federal judge ruled against the state and found a constitutional "right to use sexual devices like ... vibrators, dildos, anal beads and artificial vaginas." But a U.S. appeals court based in Atlanta upheld the law by a 2-1 vote. The appeals court said it agreed with Alabama that the law exercised time-honored use of state police power to restrict the sale of sex. It rejected the ACLU's argument that the constitutional right to privacy covered the commercial sale of sex toys. Alabama Attorney General Troy King opposed the ACLU's appeal. "This case involves conduct that is both public and commercial -- the sale of sexual devices to the general public in commercial retail shopping centers" and at in-house Tupperware-style parties, he said. King said the law respected "the distinction between public commercial conduct and purely private behavior." He said, "It ... stays out of people's bedrooms." The justices rejected the appeal without any comment or recorded dissent.>> groups.yahoo.com/group/1Bl...tingBigger

* CARTOONS ARE GETTING GAYER, TOO:

--"SIMPSONS" LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE (Thanks, Bill aka Chad James!): <<CTV.ca Springfield, the home town of television's favourite dysfunctional nuclear family "The Simpsons", is about to become the gay capital of animated America. The same-sex marriage debate has been heating up the Canadian parliament, but the hit television show will also take on the controversial issue in Sunday's episode -- a move that has some U.S. Christian Conservatives upset. As the mayor of Springfield says in a clip of the episode: "Springfield: a place where everyone can marry... even dudes." "I think television is becoming obsessed with homosexuality. In fact I wouldn't put it past people to dig up reruns of Happy Days and have the Fonz come out as gay," said Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America. In the show, Springfield will legalize gay marriage to bring in tourists and Homer Simpson will become an ordained minister over the Internet so that he can marry same-sex couples. And like any tourist initiative, there is a catchy song -- this time, to the tune of Harry Belafonte's Banana Boat. The song goes: "Gay-o, it's OK-o/Tie the knot and spend all your dough." "We don't really take any positions for or against anything, we just like to examine all sides of an issue and I think that anyone who would get their political wisdom from a cartoon might be sadly mistaken," "The Simpsons" Executive Producer Al Jean said. But lots of fans watch for that very reason -- they like the tongue-in-cheek political commentary, sometimes subtle, sometimes blatant. And there are religious messages as well, making it harder for right-wing critics to criticize the animated show. Mark Pinsky, author of "The Gospel According to The Simpsons" told ABC News that there are "Too many intelligent, discerning Christians and evangelicals who've adopted the show, who like the show. I think it would be too dangerous quite frankly, and too marginalizing for other leaders of the Christian right to attack the show". The big mystery that will finally be revealed on Sunday episode is which character will come out of the closet -- but producers aren't talking.>> groups.yahoo.com/group/SILVERLAKEm4m AND www.CTV.ca

--FINSTONES ARE "WAY TOO GAY" (Thanks, Tom!): <<FLINTSTONES ARE 'WAY TOO GAY' -- Group Seeks Ban on Cartoon, Cereal, Vitamins The ongoing campaign against alleged gay icons in animated cartoons continued today as a newly formed conservative group demanded that television stations stop broadcasting "The Flintstones" at once. Harland Devane, leader of the group Focus on the Flintstones, said at a press conference in Washington, D.C. today that his organization was issuing the demand because, "Quite simply, everything about 'The Flintstones' is way too gay." The conservative activist distributed a memo itemizing over fifty ways in which the self-styled "modern Stone Age family" series promotes homosexuality, but left little doubt that most of his concerns centered on the relationship between the two main characters, Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble. "Their relationship is more flagrantly homosexual than anything in Oliver Stone's 'Alexander,'" Mr. Devane said. He pointed out that Fred and Barney are virtually inseparable, are never seen wearing pants, and live together in the suggestively named town of Bedrock. Noting that the show's theme song exhorts viewers to have "a gay old time," he added that the two men wear hard hats and construction garb while at work, an oblique reference to the construction worker in the classic disco band "The Village People." "Do I believe they are gay icons?" Mr. Devane said. "I abba-dabba-do." He added that Focus on the Flintstones' efforts will not stop at banning the cartoon series from TV, telling reporters that the group is also "taking a close look" at Flintstone-related consumer products such as Flintstone vitamins and cereal. "We are very uncomfortable with Fruity Pebbles," he said.>> groups.yahoo.com/group/Man-Hunt AND www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp

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