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So It's back to San Francisco, CA for OccasionalFag Brian G. to take in the Dore/Up Your Alley Leather Street Festival.  Back to cable cars climbing half way to the stars and all the sour dough bread one can eat.  Back to furry clonish men who are friendlier than their New York counterparts.  Back to the 440 Bar and the Bagdad Cafe, Starbelly restaurant and the Midnight Sun bar...

The young man who accompanied Brian G. to the Gliroy Garlic Festival and the Santa Cruz Boardwalk is his good friend Cemre.  He throws a pretty mean "cuddle" party here in NYC and I do mean cuddle party - kids these days are so decadent...  Our Gen f*cked, they cuddle.  He was out in the Bay Area for the summer and was more than happy to tag along as Brian G. indulged in edibles and coasters.   Long may the Cuddlers reign!

Enjoy the video of Brian G.'s vacation!

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The Monday night after Pride Weekend OccasionalFags David b and Brian G. joined by Leon and VJ journey to Coney Island, Brooklyn for an evening at Luna Park, the first new park to open up in the area in 26 years.

Here are images from that gloaming of electrical gleam, screaming night of mechanical exstatic revelation are edited here.

Enjoy!

Music for this video is provided by:

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Big Happy LGBT Pride to everyone, and if you missed any of it, fear not because TheOccasionalFag didn't.

Flip camera in hand we take in it all.  Now, as always, so can you.

Enjoy!

Recorded live on Pride48, we are joined by Kate Barnhart from New Alternatives for LGBT Youth.  New Alternatives is an organization whose mission is to increase the self-sufficiency of homeless LGBT youth to enable them to “go beyond” the shelter system and transition into stable adult lives. 

Also in studio with us is VJ of VJNetcast.com, Tim Corrimal, of The Tim Corrimal Show, and Chef Mark pf the Culinary Media Network.

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OccasionalFag Brian G. hits Chicago and the International Mr. Leather competition with Flip camera in hand, recording both the city and the men for you, our faithful downloaders. 

Begun in 1979 as an outgrowth to the Mr. Gold Coast Contest in the Windy City, the International Mr. Leather competition has evolved as the leather community evolves into an international (hence the name) phenomenom of huge proportions.

Anything more to be said about the weekend will be said next week in an audio podcast between Brian G. and David b.

Enjoy!

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The first thing Roan (the celebrated son of a good friend to TheOccasionalFags) said to us after not seeing him for a while was, "When are we going to Playland?" 

Our answer was, "When does it open for the season?"

This time on our visit we brought more gay men to share in the delight of borrowing a friend's child to become a child once again as well.

Enjoy!

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As a part of the first ever Urban Bear Weekend in New York City a street fair, The Bear Fair, was held on Sunday, May the 16th.

OccasionalFag Brian G. and several of his clan attended.  Here's the video.

Enjoy!

Brian and David talk about a recent fundraiser they attended for New Alternatives, an organization for homeless LGBT youth. Here is the link if you would like to donate.  Call the comment line 609.339.4512 | TheOccasionalFag[at]gmail.com

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Though no longer a couple, occasionalfag's Brian G. and Mr. Who are still good friends who keep in contact, so when Mr. Who was invited by his friend Podcast Michael (whom you may remember from an early audio podcast here entitled, "Orisia! Orisia! Orisia!") to travel to India, Mr. Who borrowed Brian G.'s flip camera to capture what images he could.  Brian G. has now edited them into this short video for your enjoyment.

Mr. Who's real name is David, but is called Mr. Who as there are just too many Davids in this world and some differenciation is needed.  Same goes for Podcast Michael, who's real name is just Michael, but must suffer the surname Podcast as that is how we know him and it separates him from all the other Michaels in life.

To get a fuller experience (smell-o-vision) watching this video, take your laptop to a local cattle farm or horse stable while viewing.  We here at TheOccasionalFag have been assured that while different to an extent, the smell is similar enough to be considered an authentic simulation of what Mr. Who and Podcast Michael experienced.

Enjoy!