Monday, August 04, 2008

Why can't we beat AIDS?

Whence this problem? More than 56,000 in U.S. infected with AIDS each year

WARNING: LINK TAKES YOU TO ANOTHER WARNING PAGE WARNING YOU HOW EXTREMELY GRAPHIC THIS REPORT IS. Don't say you weren't warned.

Up Your Alley 2008:

a free, open-to-the-public street festival held in San Francisco on July 27. Up Your Alley -- which until recently was called the Dore Alley Fair -- is very similar to the larger and more well-known Folsom Street Fair, in that they are both held to celebrate the leather and fetish scene in the gay community. While Folsom is internationally known and draws visitors from all over the world, Up Your Alley is thought of more as the fetish event "for locals," and because of that it is smaller, has fewer retail vendors and booths, and generally flies under the radar.

However, in recent years, the original Dore Alley Fair stopped being independently produced, and became a subsidiary of the larger Folsom Street Fair nonprofit organization; the name was changed to Up Your Alley, and was it was more heavily promoted on the official Folsom Web site.


This is a photo report by Zombie. It's uncensored, though Zombie does allow you to choose a version in which the genitalia are pixillated. It's just as obscene, but not quiet as likely to cause nausea.

Zombie notes, "Many of the beneficiaries from the fair's vendor proceeds were AIDS-related organizations. And various AIDS-themed booths were stationed around the fair -- such as the San Francisco AIDS Foundation seen here on the left." But not a condom in sight. And in just the hour he/she was there, Zombie got photos of one man having oral sex performed on him by three different other men.

The whole thing pretty much speaks for itself. But it's not for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach.

And, as one of the commenters in the Zombie blog points out, here is a case in which life surpasses The Onion. (Link safe and not graphic.)

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