SAMURI featuring Dance Music Legend and DIva of Change records anti-NRA music video for GAYS AGAINST GUNS campaign to expose NRA congressional PUPPETS

We are GAYS AGAINST GUNS , We will fight the Gun Lobby, NRA and the people who profit from gun manufacturing on every front ,,, from the Streets to the Dance Floor we will expose the people with blood on their hands from Hedge fund Wall Streeters like BlackRock to the NRA Puppets in Congress who sell their votes and voices to the highest bidder .. if one of these puppets is running in your district VOTE THEM OUT . Watch the video and learn who they are,

We are GAYS AGAINST GUNS remembering those killed in mass shootings ., our own tribe at PULSE in ORLANDO and every other person murdered by gun violence in mass shootings.

And because we are GAYS AGAINST GUNS we take our message to the DANCE FLOOR because we know the importance of listening to music and dancing together including our non-gay allies, Black Lives Matter , Save the Children .. Wall street stop profiting from gun violence , We know who you are and we will be in your face until you stop,

Thank you KEVIN Mother Juan Aviance

Gays Against Guns (GAG) is in full-force this week. The queer anti-gun group released a new video that calls out every U.S. senator who has taken money from the NRA in exchange for helping block gun safety laws.

The video uses the vocals of NYC house music and legendary drag figure Kevin Aviance of the seminal House of Aviance, as well as DJ Uri Dalal. “Puppet of the NRA” is intended as a message to voters as they hit the polls on Nov. 8 not to reelect this group of senators who are in the pocket of the NRA.

“Uri and I love the work that GAG has been doing to bring down the gun lobby that blocks smart safety laws, so it was my honor and pleasure to lend my talent to this fierce video calling out the NRA puppets who need to scram from Washington next year,” Aviance told The Huffington Post.

GAG is an anti-gun LGBTQ organization initially formed as a means to achieve common sense gun laws in wake of the Pulse nightclub massacre that left 49 queer people, mostly of color, dead. Since the group’s establishment, members have staged a number of demonstrations, including staging a die-in to shame NRA-supporting politician Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) and protesting alongside Queer Nation outside of Trump Tower. GAG also marched in the 2016 NYC Pride Parade, massing an estimated 800 people, and shut down two Reebok stores in response to the company’s sponsorship of the Crossfit Games, where the winners were reported to win handguns as prizes.

Head here for more information on GAG.

A SONG FOR NOVEMBER 9th lets build OUR REVOLUTION> YES I will vote for HRc with my eyes wide open Eddie Vetter - Imagine

 A SONG 

Drag Queens, Skinheads, Artists and Some Girls: the Pyramid Club of the ...

ESSENTIAL:  Because of the recent wide spread media attention paid to Tim Lawrence's. LIFE AND DEATH ON NYC DANCEFLOOR 1980 to 1983 and MoMA positioning Club 57 as the essential petrie dish for 80's alternative culture and NYC outsider art.  This vivid and memory provoking documentary footage from visual artist MARJAN MOGHADDAM could not be more timely. While Lawrence elevates the Mudd Club and the Garage as the two most important club scenes in his book, I would like to suggest that despite the importance of the MUDD Club as a social scene and the petrie significance of  tiny Club 57 on St Mark's place. I would like to suggest that in fact the PYRAMID is more deserving of attention, Like the Garage and its community of dances floor lovers. the Pyramid because of the the diverse community of people who identified with its culture and community, The Pyramid was the
loadstone of cultural representation for outsider art in the period.  MOGHADDAM's video like the collective work of both MARJAN
MOGHADDAM and Nelson Sullivan and  especially Tom Rubnitz takes us into the inner world of the Pyramid and the people who populated it. Not only were
the performance ideas percolated at Club 57 realized at the Pyramid
including many from Ann Magnuson and Joey Arias. The dance floor ..not shown in this video .. was intensely hot... with DJ's like Dany
Johnson, Ivan Ivan and Sister Dimension keeping the beat pounding
as as very diverse sets of feet danced away the night from drag queens to hard core punks, In the 50's clubs like the Stork Club and El Morocco , in the 60's it was Max's Kansas City and Arthur . In the 70's Studio 54, Mudd Club and
Hurrah all clubs build on a self-defined community identity. Here
Marjan captures the real essence of what Bobby Bradley with
the help of Brian Butterick and Sister Dimension created.
Before the scene was ravaged by AIDS and heroin addiction it was a
glorious or should I say fabulous mixing of the shared vision
community , And yes it was community .. when I was locked out of my
own club (danceteria 2) by the Mafia who had seduced by
business partner financially , it was Bobby Bradley who called me
first and said : “Jim if you ever want to present or do something
at the Pyramid , you can. You are family … and I did the Penguin
Nights series there.

+{Oh my ,, .I seemed be able to
recognize and remember almost everyone in this video .. Thanks
MARJAN MOGHADDAM   

HISTORY CORRECTION : 'Patient zero' Gaëtan Dugas not source of HIV/Aids outbreak, study confirms | Science | The Guardian

Gaëtan Dugas  . This is no surprise to me and I  am angry that it has taken so long  for the record to be corrected. I asked Randy Shilts directly about why he had singled out  Gaëtan Dugas. His answer surprised me . He told me that he had not originally named  Dugas as the cause of the Aids pandemic in US  . He told me that his editor Michael Denney has insisted he personalize the story so readers could identify.  Shilts told me he resisted but Michael insisted back. Randy was already sick and simply gave up the fight. He told me he regretted doing so in retrospect.





Two things i should add: 2: prior to the formal announcement of the discovery of grid an std epidemiologist conference in Washington State had a paper presented that showed the outbreak of a what was presumed to be a infectious agent among gay men. The study had traced sexual activity pf a closed circle of men in Los Angeles which included  Gaëtan Dugas whose members had come down with this mysterious immune affected disease. They also discovered the same pattern in a group of men on fire island in ny  who also were experience this unknow condition.  Gaëtan Dugas becasue of his work as an airline steward had had sex with men in each group. It was concluded that what each group had in common besides dugas was extreme sex play which could involved blood,.When I spoke to Shults I  asked him if he was familiar with this group study, He said yes, it was where he first learned of  Gaëtan Dugas.  I remeber suggesting to him that people who do similar rhings have similar results. He agreed.



2:  Michael Denney also insisted that David Carter in STONEWALL RIOT  use the word riot to describe  the first night of the Stonewall Rebellion. Carter knew it was not a riot . What happened in no way fit the criteria for the use of the word riot. But the inexperienced writer was told it was important to use the word to help book sales by Denney. Carter told me this himself when i asked why the book was so titled. Carter now likes to use the word "uprising" but this too is not the correct use of the word uprising. Uprising implies pre-planning . This is why I  use the word rebellion ... in this historical moment the actions of the people in the street were spontaneous ..It was not pre-planned,. No one can take credit for what happened . I know i was present in front of the Stonewall Inn from 10:30 pm that first night and the following three,,, this is documented in Martin Duberman's book STONEWALL 





'Patient zero' Gaëtan Dugas not source of HIV/Aids outbreak, study confirms | Science | The Guardian

Final Gathering of 60's Anti-War tribe: Vietnam Power of Protest Tom Hay...

Final Gathering of this Anti-War tribe: Vietnam Power of Protest and what we learned, Tom Hayden gives the closing speech after a two gathering of veterans of the Anti-war movement of the 60's Yes we and the Vietnamese people won. The war was finally stopped. The US was defeated, Here in his speech and in the many workshops of the conference much attention was placed on what this generation had learned from our activism them,to pass on to the younger movement emerging today like BLM  On a personal note,  Tom Hayden from the Point Huron statement which spark plugged Students for Democratic Society  (SDS) along with Carl Whitman' s GAY MANIFESTO written in the same period moved me into more conscious political understanding and cultural and political work. This was the last time I was with Tom in public , I am at an age when people die not of AIDS or OD's but of age related issues . A death like Tom's affects me differently A comrade falls and we are left to honor and continue the struggle not with the arrogance of age but with a continued  compassion and desire for change.Tom opened his remarks saying "This may be the last time we gather as this group ,,,,,,, thank you Tom for living a very human life of positive revolution , I am committed to carrying it on ..

World's oldest pop starç : Ahmada - OffSide Trick ft Bi Kidude

She is 94 in this music video   Zanzibar super star  enjoy 

Deadline to Register to Vote in New York State! Friday, Oct 14.

Deadline to Register to Vote in New York State! Friday, Oct 14.
If you or someone you know would like to vote in the 2016 presidential election on Tuesday, November 8, but are not yet registered to vote, you can still register in one of three different ways, including online. The deadline to register is tomorrow, Friday, October 14.Registered voters in New York will be able to vote in the presidential election, in the election for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Senator Chuck Schumer, and in races for U.S. Congress, the New York State Senate, and the New York State Assembly. You can check online to see if you are registered at the correct address by going to the New York State Board of Elections website. (You can also learn who the candidates are in your district by going to the New York City Campaign Finance Board website and filling in your address.)

There are three ways you can register to vote in New York State: online, by U.S. mail, or in person.

TO REGISTER ONLINE:

This is the quickest and simplest way to register. Visit the website of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). On the DMV website, you can either sign into your existing account (if you already have one), or set up your new account (if you don't have one already). Once you have logged in to your DMV account, click on the tab marked "Electronic Voter Registration Application" and complete the form. Please make sure that you provide accurate, up-to-date information before you submit your application. (If you are already registered, but would simply like to update your address or your name, please go to the "Change of Address" or "Change of Name" to update your registration.)

TO REGISTER BY U.S. MAIL:

register by U.S. mail, please print out and complete a voter registration form and mail it postmarked by Friday, October 14, 2016 to your local county Board of Elections office. The form will be accepted as long as it is postmarked by 14 and received by October 19. You can also obtain registration forms from libraries, post offices and

most New York City government agencies. Please mail your voter registration form postmarked by October 14 to the New York County Board of Elections, 32 Broadway, Seventh Floor, New York, NY 10004.

TO REGISTER IN PERSON:

You can register to vote at your local New York County Board of Elections office or at most New York State agencies. (Board of Elections offices are open weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) Make sure to have a physical "hard copy" of a New York voter registration form when you arrive; you can download and print out a voter registration form in English here.

The Board of Elections office for New York County (which includes Manhattan and Roosevelt Island) is located at 200 Varick Street (off W. Houston Street), 10th Floor, New York, NY 10014. The phone number is 212-886-2100. It is open weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

APPLYING FOR AN ABSENTEE BALLOT

If you want to vote in the November 8 election, but you know you won't be able make it to the polls in person, you can apply for an absentee ballot either by U.S. mail or in person.

To apply for an absentee ballot by mail, you can download an application from the Board of Elections website, complete it, and mail it to your local Board of Elections office. (If you live in Manhattan, see the address for the New York County Board of Elections above). The final day to postmark your absentee ballot application is November 1.

To apply for an absentee ballot in person, you need to submit your application to your local Board of Elections office by November 7.

To make sure that your absentee ballot is counted, please have it postmarked by November 7, or deliver it yourself to the Board of Elections by 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 8, when polls close.

For more information, visit the websites of the New York City Board of Elections, the NYS DMV, or the New York State Board of Elections. You can also call the New York Board of Elections during business hours at 1-800-367-8683.

Exercising your right to vote is the very foundation of democracy. Please remember to vote on Tuesday, November 8!

Myke Dodge Weiskopf's SWM "Classics Set", Live on RadioRevolten (Halle, Germany), 5 Oct 2016 by shortwavemusic | ShortWaveMusic HQ | Free Listening on SoundCloud

Myke Dodge Weiskopf's SWM "Classics Set", Live on RadioRevolten (Halle, Germany), 5 Oct 2016 by shortwavemusic



SWM "Classics Set", Live on RadioRevolten (Halle, Germany), 5 Oct 2016 by shortwavemusic | ShortWaveMusic HQ | Free Listening on SoundCloud

When one of my favorite musicians went from Cindy to Cid and shares personal story (Cidny Bullens)

I remember booking at HURRAH this musician with Peter Frampton chops and caravaggio beauty, I listen to the album send to me and fell in love with the boy on the cover.. ...When Bullens arrived all rock'n'roll looking and sounding for the sound check I discovered that he was a she  How I did not realize that when I booked Cindy Bullens is between me and my shrink.  Bullens turned out to be the reel deal musically and we have been friends since. Through the ups and downs of both our lives. . Bullens made for me one of the great rock-n-roll albums with anthems for days ,, think Bruce . and very personal . SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH  (listen on spotify .. or better yet  (because the sonics are so oo much better ) . I will let you know when Cid hits town ,,OH it's Portland Maine, not Oregon