TOPHER TIME: REMEBER THE POOR GROUNDHOG & Break OUT The Candles Were Having Another Round Of Queer Holy Days!!

Break out the Candles! Does anyone know if Canterbury Jack saw his shadow? It is time for another joint holy day news cycle. Yes you read correctly folks Today is a holy day on the calendar of two religions.

From the Pagans, specifically the Celtic traditions, you have the major Sabbath of Imbolc, the last of the winter night festivals that concentrates on final purification for the new life that is brought forth in Springtime. This is a time for new beginnings for the year or initiations, this is historically when the female sheep start showing signs of milking for the new baby on the way and when people would do a final restock of supplies for the rest of winter weather.

From the Christians, we celebrate the Feast of Mary's Presentation of the God-Child in the Temple, previously (and by some groups still) referred to as, the Circumcision of Jesus (which was originally earlier but merged with this Feast Day in common practice) to provide the cyclical 40 days from Christmastide. This is also a time of refreshing nourishment and purification before the fast of Lent and the watching for the lamb that is to be slain. It is both a Festival and a moment of Reflection in anticipation of what is yet to come in the Liturgical celebration and to prepare the members of the Body of Christ in their spiritual journey and living relationship to one another.

It still baffles my mind that so many Leaders in the Church abhor sexual expression and at the same time the end of the second holiest season of the Churches' Liturgical Celebration focuses solely on baby boy and the historic act of his Divine penis getting trimmed up for a healthy sex life and ritual sacrifice thirty years ahead in life. Is it any wonder that more Catholic Boys have not come out of the closet?

In three days or next weekend, depending on your tradition, Christians will also celebrate the Memorial Feast of Saint Blaze, where there will be the Blessing of the Throats with the remnants of the Advent/Christmas wreath candles which were extinguished during the Presentation Liturgy. Christ is now the light for the whole world to see!

It is about time for this flu bug to go away, it will be nice to actually be able to have a clear head without the assistance of over the counter medication in a week. (photo: Definition Of A Man)

As Pagans wonder where they put the beeswax for the winter night festival, Catholics already have their candles tied off with red ribbons and are ready for the holy slaughter of viral infections everywhere; however on a Secular act of faith, we get to watch a bunch of idiots standing around at five in the morning to pull a poor defensless little groundhog/prarie dog, and the one unfortunate incident a long time back with a badger, out of its winter domicile to see whether or not it can see it's shadow, to determine how much longer winter is going to be.

As I finish up this post, I have been told Puxy from Philly, did see his shadow. And humanist and atheist call those of us whom are religious crazy, but I am pretty sure not as crazy as this next story, provided by 9 News in Australia:

Thailand's Medical Council has exonerated a male nurse who mistakenly circumcised a 12-year-old boy instead of removing an abscess from his mouth, news reports said. Acting Medical Council President Somsak Lohlekha said the unwanted circumcision was the result of a "miscommunication" between doctor and nurse, reported the Bangkok Post. The boy's mother, Rattanaporn Manaschuen, on Thursday lodged a complaint with the council after her son had his foreskin removed at a clinic in Samut Prakan instead of receiving treatment for a mouth abscess.

After investigating the case, Somsak concluded that the clinic's doctor had ordered an "excision" be performed on the boy but the nurse had understood that a "circumcision" was needed. Looking on the bright side, Somsak advised the mother of the now circumcised boy that the operation would help him keep his genitalia clean.

Thanks to Phillip DeFranco for the story tip. Can we also say that was an ultimate burn by the Medical Council President! Come on this is a twelve year old boy who received unnecessary surgery and underwent a painful ordeal. The next thing you will hear is that the Hospital charged them for the procedure, geezers.

NURSE: "Yeah I am just going to come in, pick up your penis, like the
good Doctor told me to, and slice off your foreskin it wont hurt a bit."
12 YR. BOY: "What the (with mouth still full of crud and slightly swollen shut) *mumble, mumble* high pitched screaming!* the fuck are you doing!" As he passes out from the shock.

What else is there for a day after the Stuper Bowl? No offense intended, I love to watch men play sports, preferably half naked and with sexual tension (2 photos: hottie Xander Scott with Brent Diggs (Randy Blue), via Dude Flesh, nsfw), but some of these ultimate championships bouts are so overrated, and ridiculous in their marketing ploys, I cant support them because of a lack of economic equity to the common man. I am not saying they do not deserve a hefty hunk of change, but nothing is worth a thousand dollars a second for ad rates. That money could be spent somewhere else and on better initiatives and actually do more then a thirty second commercial that is little more then the latest in mental masturbation and marketing scheme. And in this pre-depression economy we should be encouraging a better more frugal use of economic resources. Besides most of the commercials I have viewed from the event sucked major ostrich eggs. The commercials that were banned are better than the ones aired and they have already begun having parodies and impressions created. This one below, was created as a spoof of the PETA commercial that was banned, by Alex Mercado @ SOTC on [You Tube] or [MySpace]. F6 spotlighted Alex before, last year.



What else is creeping its ugly head out from hiding? Discrimination and police entrapment. Gay Agenda is reporting that: A great deal of anger is building against the NYPD due to an increased number of gay men being arrested for prostitution at various Manhattan adult video stores....

Police allegedly have been using good looking, young undercover cops to try to pick up middle-aged gay men, The undercover cops offer to go home with them for consensual sex. As the officers leave the store with the men, they offer to pay the men for the sex, which often confuses the victims who don’t understand why a younger man would offer to pay them for sex. Then, as the officer escorts the unknowing male out of the store, they find themselves surrounded by undercover cops, handcuffed and charged with prostitution, even though they never agreed to taking money for sex. (photo Wicked Gay Blog)

Many citizens, gay and straight allies of the gay community, view the arrests as an effort by police to shut down pornography stores the city, and also view this as an attempt by police to criminalize gay sex, much as they did prior to the Stonewall riots of 1969 when it was illegal for more than 3 gay men to congregate in any given location at one time. Homophobia, even in Manhattan is alive and well.

Back to the Super Bowl, Queers United, is relating the story of the Get To Know Us Ads (viewable in the player below) and how they were previously rejected by KABC-TV during the inauguration festivities of Barack Hussein Obama.

Now Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV refused to air the same ads during the Superbowl citing that the NFL doesn't allow for "advocacy ads". GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, had the following to say, "Despite this policy, other advocacy ads aired multiple times throughout the day’s NFL-controlled programming. Among the advocacy ads which did air were PSAs for TobaccoFreeCA.org and DontBeAnAsterisk.org, an anti-steroids advocacy campaign" in clarification as to why they are queening out about it. Click here for the contact form for KNBC-TV.

Absolut Vodka has its own take (pic to left) on the controversy of pro queer advertising in sports and media. Keep up the good work, Absolut! The next time I am offered cinnamon blow jobs, I will take a shot and it will be you. (Photo: Swish Embassy)



Talking about fire and ice, and things that just weren't suppose to happen according to conservative Christians, specifically tRick the Dick into Submission Warren and Pompus Benedict I'm God's Rottweiler the XVI. There is now even more proof that Homosexuality is present and prevalent in nature. The Gay Penguins, not Roy and Silo of New York, talked about in the controversial children book And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, that garnered the honour of Top Challenged Book by the American Library Association in 2006. We are talking about the Gay Penguins from China that were segregated a couple months back for stealing eggs and trying to raise the kids on there own have now been released from their captivity, allowed to marry. Having proven their parenting capabilities through foster parenting a couple of eggs while in seclusion, Zoo Official hope that by blessing their union and restoring their relationship they would stop trying to persuade or recruit new penguins to their flock.

I am laughing so hard right now! What is even more funny, in honour of the Cardinals getting there balls handed to them and told to go back home, is that, according to a report on Towle Road, there is a Cardinal missing one of his balls. Not the football team's member but an actual bird, that is male and female, and not a drag queen or a hot trannie mess. Nope this bird is straight the fuck up half and half, part of what Our GLBTIQAS Community calls InterSexed. To be honest it is probably a rare case of Chimerical Genetics, but not unheard of either.

It is official F6 has gone towards the edge and flipped every birdie possible @ the Religious Right!

Nope all I have is this star studded cast performing a musical against Prop H8

*PLEASE NOTE: THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED*

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Hairspray composer Marc Shaiman (whose boycott lead to the resignation of Sacramento's California Musical Theatre creative director Scott Eckern following his donation to Prop 8) wrote and conceived this hysterical short piece (presented with a wink and a nod by the 'Sacramento Community College Players'), which was directed and staged by Hairspray director and choreographer Adam Shankman and features plenty of folks you will recognize.

Shaiman plays the piano. Jordan Ballard, Margaret Cho, Barrett Foa, J.B. Ghuman, John Hill, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Rashad Naylor, Nicole Parker star as 'California Gays and The People That Love Them'. John C Reilly as a Prop 8 leader, and Alison Janney as his wife. Kathy Najimy as his second wife. Jenifer Lewis as a riffing Prop 8'er. Craig Robinson as a preacher. Rashida Jones, Lake Bell, Sarah Chalke as Scary Catholic School Girls from Hell. Katharine "Kooks" Leonard, Seth Morris, Denise "Esi!" Piane, Lucian Piane, Richard Read, Seth Redford, Quinton Strack, and Tate Taylor as The Frightened Villagers. Jack Black stars as Jesus Christ, and Neil Patrick Harris is billed as 'A Very Smart Fellow'. (SOURCE: TOWLEROAD)

And now Dr. Gary Cass of the CHRISTIAN ANTI DEFAMATION COMMISSION has his undies in an uproar and is demanding an apology. In their latest press release the CADC asserts that the "low budget musical farce that defames Christ, mocks Christians and distorts the teaching of the BIBLE, ...and condones shameful, homosexual acts", describes the campy show as an affront to all people of faith. (SOURCE: CHRISTIAN NEWS WIRE)

Shameful! Really, Dr. Cass, did you have to go there?

I am not ashamed of my personal relationship with a Triune Deity of incestuously homosexual male (with some effeminate male) and female personifications! Why should you be? After all, It was the Prophet Jeremiah whom said "You seduced me O LORD and I let myself be seduced by You! (20)" (or by St. Jerome's text, "seduxisti me Domine et seductus sum; fortior me fuisti et invaluisti."). Here is the full text from 20:7-11 of the NEW AMERICAN BIBLE, just to be fair and for full context:

You duped me, O LORD, and I let myself be duped; you were too strong for me, and you triumphed. All the day I am an object of laughter; everyone mocks me. Whenever I speak, I must cry out, violence and outrage is my message; The word of the LORD has brought me derision and reproach all the day. I say to myself, I will not mention him, I will speak in his name no more. But then it becomes like fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding it in, I cannot endure it. Yes, I hear the whisperings of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce! let us denounce him!” All those who were my friends are on the watch for any misstep of mine. “Perhaps he will be trapped; then we can prevail, and take our vengeance on him.” But the LORD is with me, like a mighty champion: my persecutors will stumble, they will not triumph. In their failure they will be put to utter shame, to lasting, unforgettable confusion. (SOURCE: USCCB)

Begin the week with laughter: Horses Races & Rugby Bois

One day while he was at the track playing the ponies and all but losing his shirt, Mitch noticed a priest who stepped out onto the track and blessed the forehead of one of the horses lining up for the 4th race. Lo and behold, that horse - a very long shot - won the race.

Before the next race, as the horses began lining up, Mitch watched with Interest the old priest step onto the track. Sure enough, as the 5th race horses came to the starting gate the priest made a blessing on the forehead of one of the horses. Mitch made a beeline for a betting window and placed a small bet on the horse. Again, even though it was another long shot, the horse the priest had blessed won the race.

Mitch collected his winnings, and anxiously waited to see which horse the priest would bless for the 6th race. The priest again blessed a horse. Mitch bet big on it, and it won. Mitch was elated. As the races continued the priest kept blessing long shot horses, and each one ended up coming in first. Bye and bye, Mitch was pulling in some serious money.

By the last race, he knew his wildest dreams were going to come true. He made a quick dash to the ATM, withdrew all his savings, and awaited the priest's blessing that would tell him which horse to bet on. True to his pattern, the priest stepped onto the track for the last race and blessed the forehead of an old nag t hat was the longest shot of the day. Mitch also observed the priest blessing the eyes, ears, and hooves of the old nag. Mitch knew he had a winner and bet every cent he owned on the old nag.

He then watched dumbfounded as the old nag come in dead last. Mitch, in a state of shock, made his way down to the track area where the priest was. Confronting the old priest he demanded, 'Father! What happened? All day long you blessed horses and they all won. Then in the last race, the horse you blessed lost by a Kentucky mile. Now, thanks to you I've lost every cent of my savings - all of it!'.

The priest nodded wisely and with sympathy. 'Son,' he said, 'that's the problem with our separated brethren, you can't tell the difference between a simple blessing and last rites!!'
(Photo Credit TOM HULL)

In other news from Andy over @ Towleroad, check out this commercial for the Jawbone Bluetooth headset. It claims to eliminate outside noise from your phone call. How it does so is the interesting part. Can't think of a better way to shut up a loud rugby team.

Which leads to the final part of this post, as previously mentioned, that is in regards to a regular feature of F6: SUPPORT THREE RIVERS ATHLETICS, which F6 also has a link section for on the bottom before the gay videos section. There our readers will find a list of all the different sports teams and athletic associations in the Fort Wayne area.

Our own Fort Wayne Rugby Club had its annual Leather Ball on Groundhog Day @ Columbia Street West. Unfortunately, due to an unforeseen memory lapse, F6's Editor forgot to report on it, so sorry. The schedule for next season hasn't been posted yet so if you want to find out more information contact Jeremy Steele @ 260-438-7776 or email him at jsteele@omnisource.com, to find out how you can participate in this grueling but very fun sport.

On a side note, the International Gay Rugby Association & Board (IGRAB!) Catchy acronym, btw! has a website. Indiana had two gay rugby teams but F6 cant find the websites at the moment. As soon as F6 does find it, the information will be posted here. If anyone knows what they are please leave a comment.

The Chicago Dragons are the closest team F6 can find at this time.

(Photo source: DDS? Ganked from FLIPFLOPSBOY with gratitude!)

Why is SHORTBUS necessary? Stick figures don't cut it anymore!

F6 recieved the title of this post and the pic on the right as a confidential comment towards this whole fiasco, we thought it was funny and posted it. In addition, so F6 can provide a full disclosure in its public service, here is the original WANE TV News Channel Fifteen story by Megan Stembol. Please note that there were certain inaccuracies in this report which were later corrected by Kevin Leininger in his review of the situation which you can review in the post below.


And finally, a comment from John Cameron Mitchell, taken directly from Andy Towle's Towleroad, the 22nd of March 2006:

"I actually like pornography, but I don't consider this film pornographic. I define — and most people do — pornography as devoid of artistic intent. The purpose of pornography is to arouse. I don't think anyone got [sexually aroused] watching this film. There is a certain provocation we had in mind with this film, but more important than that, we wanted to use sex as a metaphor for things that were, perhaps, universal, themes like connection and love and fear. We just thought the language of sex could be used the way the language of music could be used in a musical."