Posts Tagged ‘Zack Rosen’
Was the Dupont High Heel Race a Success for Equality?
Last night, The New Gay editor Zack Rosen set out to determine once and for all whether all those heteros who flock to the Dupont High Heel Race every year are there to support the gay community, or just mock all the queens in dresses. This year, the pre-Halloween drag queen race was pushed into the political arena by a little administrative switch: Instead of a parade permit, the race secured a First Amendment permit, shifting the balance a bit from party to protest. So, are people who love watching gay guys stumble around in stripper heels as enthusiastic about supporting marriage equality? According to Rosen’s findings: Kinda.
Male Strippers Wanted
I’m looking to speak to some District-based male strippers for a story I’m working on. They can e-mail me here. In advance thanks for hooking me up with our city’s best erotic male dancers, I give you: Man2Man’s “Male Stripper,” courtesy of The New Gay’s Zack Rosen. Enjoy.
Are Condoms As Important to Straights as They are to Gays?
Zack Rosen over at The New Gay wrote an excellent column the other day about the importance of condom use within the gay community. The post covers a lot of ground—personal responsibility, modes of transmission, casual anal bleeding:
A couple years ago when one of the cutest boys I’d ever seen begged me to fuck him without a condom. Actually, beg is the wrong word. He pleaded. He whined. He implored me not to use one as if it was simply some seasoning our our sexual entree that he found disagreeable.
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Alternative Gay Blog Gets Mainstream Media Love
Yesterday, the Washington Post ran a story on local alternative gay media that featured Zack Rosen, co-creator of D.C. gay blog The New Gay. Rosen helped TNG develop into an exciting new online community that has courted readers and writers from all sides of the community—gay, lesbian, trans, and straight (but mostly, young). The blog has only gotten better since Rosen was laid off from his job at a more mainstream gay publication, the Washington Blade. The Post story has this funny back-and-forth, with Rosen talking Blade, and the Blade talking The New Gay:
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