Kim Ann Foxman — BrownDownCrown has something really important to tell you. WE SO PROUD OF YOU GIRL! You bringing back all our Chicago warehouse raver day memories and for that — we thank you. Check out her newest video for CREATURE here and we can’t wait for Kim Ann to come back to SF so we can wrap her in baconz and throw her to the gayz!
http://player.vimeo.com/video/16438164
KIM ANN FOXMAN “CREATURE” [mr.intl records] from KIM ANN FOXMAN on Vimeo.
Jenna Riot and I just premiered BrownDownCrownTV Episode 3: I Know What You Did Last Summer With That Celebrity at the K’Vetsh 14th birthday party (for those who don’t know, K’Vetsh is one of SF’s longest running open mic nights…. but kind of so much more). They pulled out an all star line up — Michelle Tea, Jenny Hoyston and Tara Jepsen with their band Lesbians, Beth Pickens telling an amazing story about fiber, Dave End singing from his musical F.A.G.G.O.T.S. which I am so excited to hopefully see in SF soon, Chris Vargas and Greg Youmans, Vero Majano, Kari Orvik, DJ Tanner and Kirk Read. It all takes place in the lobby of a bathhouse Bette Midler style. Huge thanks to K’Vetsh — which is the main reason BDCTV even exists!
Check it out and tell yr friends — BDCTV3 !
Hey all —
BrownDownCrown had to take a few months off to do some incredibly awesome things — the most exciting of which is the dance party, HARD FRENCH. The party is put on by six amazing folks in San Francisco (one of which is BDC’s Devon Devine), and we just wrapped up a mind blowing season. The party took us to NYC and Toronto, we had a celebrity WhiteTightRight guest DJ John Cameron Mitchell and coming up in January is a winter ball at a haunted lodge in the Santa Cruz Mountains! Its a simple formula — daytime soul party with a BBQ, photo booth and the most mixed ass crowd of folks on a huge back patio in the Mission. We just wrapped up our season finale this weekend which happens to coincide with the resurrection of BrownDownCrown the blog and TV show! Find out more on our facebook page… and we are glad to be back reporting on all things brown and down!
Hard French Crew
The only thing nerdier than loving Battlestar Galactica is discovering it a year after the four season stint has ended. Maybe its just us here at the BDC world headquarters, but we thought it was kind of a known scientific fact that in the future the world is going to be ALL BROWN (jealous?) but I guess its ok to throw some whiny white folks for some diversity on TV. But as FEMINISTS,HOMOSEXUALS and PUNKS, BDC was left wondering — when the Cylons nuked the planets — where did THEY all go? There may be some spoilers for those hardcore fans but in the end if you were that hardcore you probably already watched the entire series three times and these tiny bits of information don’t really give away any major plotlines. With that warning — read at yr own risk my BDC BSG fans…
Our first answer came in the form of a TV movie called Razor that gives us a glimpse into the Battlestar Pegasus and reveals that Commander Helena Cain was actually a POWER HUNGRY LESBIAN who was doing it with a CYLON (Ilene Chaiken eat yr L Word heart out with that storyline). Sure she was a little crazy and basically freaked her frackin frack when she found out her lover was a robot but what modern day DZ hasn’t?
Although its not officially on the actual series but via the BSG’s webisode series, Face of the Enemy, we do find out that the hella sexy and hella brown Lt. Felix Gaeta (pronounced GAYta) is a big ole pervy queer who likes it both up the butt and with robots. The entire webisode series gives us a deeper glimpse through flashbacks into his life on New Caprica (and him falling for a Cylon) as his lover set out on a quest to save Gaeta who is on a ship that did not make a jump with the rest of the fleet.
The lack of queerness on the show, according to executive producer and writer David Eick (via this pretty horribly written article that assumes all gays need is a shirtless jock to watch a tv show) is mostly due to the fact that they are too busy fighting Cylons to worry about giving each other bjs.
And that leave us with Caprica — the newest spin off from the BSG series that takes place 58 years BEFORE the Cylon attacks and stars a wide eyed 13yo Bill Adama before he ever thought he would be trying to find Earth for a living. This show which is attempting to gain a larger audience than BSG (i.e. – ladies, teens, queers, freaks, goths?) is jam packed with the most important elements of any tv show – gayz, cults, teen angst, polygamy, ritualistic murders and Eric Stoltz. We find out that young Bill Adama’s bad ass uncle, Sam Adama, is married to some dude named Larry and in between being HOT and COVERED IN TATTOOS he is killing people and blowing up buildings. Is this the Dynasty of the future? I don’t know but someone over at SYFY channel realized all the gays really want is a shirtless inked up homosexual gang member to tune in. He’s also from the BROWN PLANET – TORAN – which we’re not sure if you have to actually be brown or just have a good tan… but in any case they do brown things like eat meat, play with bones and get discriminated against. Check out what all those tattoos mean here and we’ll keep you updated on any juicy gay gossip that emerges from BSG and Caprica.
The HARD FRENCH crew in SF are starting a new OUTDOOR DAYTIME soul music party! The idea behind the event is to modernize, takeover, revamp, trick out, revive, and do up the Outdoor Afternoon Dance Party in the Mission. This is a party for everyone- a party where drag queens mingle with lesbians, leather daddy’s soul dance with cholas, sharps share hot dogs with activists, jocks make out with twinks, brown meets white meets purple meets gay guy meets ladies meets q and everyone leaves excited for the next party. The party is being dj’d by Resident DJ newcomers and soul music wizards DJ Carnita and DJ Brown Amy. They, along with the rest of the Hard French Crew, will be curating music throughout the spring and summer with live bands, guest dj’s, performers and as many surprises.
for more info check out our facebook invite and DJ Carnita and DJ Brown Amy’s blog, The Real Nitty Gritty.
HARD FRENCH
a saturday afternoon soul music party
dj carnita
dj brown amy
El Rio. March 6th. 3pm – 8pm. DJs on the patio. BBQ. Hard Dancing. Hard Cruising.
this is a new monthly OUTDOOR dance party at el rio, the first saturday of the month. come shake it and eat a burger at the BBQ or drink a beer during the beer bust!
$5 – gets you in for hard dancing and hard cruising all day long
OR
$10 – gets you in and you get unlimited beer and a plate of bbq from 3pm – 5pm
Brunch is our favorite meal of the day because it includes ALL THE MEALS OF THE DAY and always features bacon and champagne. So how excited were we when our hottt SF friends were organizing a FAT-TASTIC Brunch?! Seems like such a good idea we asked if we could invite all the fatties on BROWNDOWNCROWN and they said the more people there are the more chances everyone has of making out! See ya on Sunday! We leave you with BROWNDOWNCROWN QUEEN, Mo’Nique — and some of HER ideas about it all!
Jenna Riot is now the new face of Faith21! With your help (and hella tween voters), she was hand picked by Mia Tyler for Forever 21’s new plus size line. Forever21 (or as some folks refer to it, Forever31) is hella religious which means the fact that they picked a brown queer femme fatty to represent their new line is one step closer to BDC’s TGD – TOTAL GLOBAL DOMINATION. If we can slip past the Christians, we can do anything! She is flying down to LA for a shopping spree and photo shoot — may we suggest Jenna Riot in a sexy outfit as a DOUBLE DOUBLE ANIMAL STYLE – chowing down on some In N Out and covered in their secret sauce between two extra large man patties? Regardless — Faith21’s current model, Whitney Thompson, is the first plus size model to win America’s Next Top Model and has been quoted as saying, “people should look like she does rather than skin-and-bones, which is disgusting and sends a bad message to people everywhere.” We couldn’t agree more! We just hope Whitney introduces Jenna to BDC Superstar TYRA BANKS so she can make a special guest appearance on BDCTV in a fat suit so we can really give her something to cry about! Congrats Jenna — now that you are the chosen one its time to show the world what BDC is all about! Click here to check out the other winners and what Mia Tyler had to say about them all.
The Mission SRO Collaborative is looking for toy donations for the 100 kids that live in and out of the single room occupancy hotels in the mission district. These are little brown kids who might not otherwise be able to afford toys for the holidays and BDC superstar Jorge Portillo (Program Coordinator for the M.SRO.Collab) is organizing an EMERGENCY TOY DRIVE to get them the toys that will put smiles on their faces this year.
the deets:
what: Mission SRO Collaborative TOY EMERGENCY
who: toys for the 100 little brown kids that live in single room occupancy hotels with their families
when: they need to get the toys by this MONDAY DECEMBER 21st, 3PM.
where: drop off the toys at 938 Valencia St. (btwn 20th and 21st – you don’t even have to leave the mission, hipster!) from 9am – 6pm or make special arrangements with Jorge Portillo (415-282-6209 ext 16, 12, or 19) and jorge@dscs.org
why: cuz these kids are off the radar and don’t have access to a lot of the services provided to homeless families.
THEY NEED THE GOOD STUFF! AGE APPROPRIATE GIFTS FOR KIDS 5-18. ACTION FIGURES, DOLLS, GAMES, PUZZLES, ART SUPPLIES, BUILDING TOYS ARE SOME GOOD EXAMPLES!
We asked Jorge some questions about the toy drive and Mission SRO Collaborative and this is what he had to say:
BDC:What is the mission of the Mission SRO Collaborative?
Jorge: Though its currently being revised our current Mission Statement is:
The Mission SRO Collaborative provides tenants rights counseling, organizing leadership opportunities, case management, safe sex/substance abuse outreach services and community space to tenants of Single Room Occupancy hotels in San Francisco’s Mission District. We work together to empower single adult residents and families to defend their rights and organize themselves to improve their lives and living conditions.
BDC: Where do these kids live that will be getting the toys?
Jorge: The kids we work with live inside the hotels. Until recently the families I work with were considered Homeless under federal guidelines (I say until recently because the federal govt. just passed legislation removing families living in SRO’s from the federal definition of homelessness which will undoubtedly have a detrimental effect on their ability to receive social services). Usually these families live in rooms that are no larger than about 8×10, share this space with 4 or 5 other people, have no kitchens, and share bathroom facilities with the variety of folks also living in those buildings. The buildings are in (pardon my francois) usually pretty shitty condition; abestos ridden, plagued with pests, unkept, and under exploitative management.
BDC: Why is it important to donate toys to the M.SRO.Colab?
Jorge: I think the most important reason is because so many of our kids are off the radar. They don’t stay in shelters or live on the streets (though they might as well) so they dont benefit from services for homeless youth, their parents can barely afford to keep the meager roofs they currently have over their heads much less buy them a gift, because they come from traditionally uber- marginalized communities; recently arrived immigrants, monolingual households, single parent homes, etc… and really can’t participate in afterschool programs or other programs where they might get gifts, and because we are really the only organization serving these amazing little buds.
For more information about the Mission SRO Collaborative contact Jorge Portillo, jorge@dscs.org
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