SLICK IT UP AGAIN… HOW DOES IT FEEL?
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Like an abstract emotion so rare it has no name

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The new videos directed and Produced by Tim Palen, Art Directed by David Mason are as inspiring as anything created by slick it up. So watch, enjoy and order!



Berg und Prophet
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Wenn Sybille Berg im Spiegel über das neue Jahr philosophiert, hat das schon einen gewissen Unterhaltungswert. Aber erst wenn die Titanic sie neu interpretiert, erreichen ihre Gedanken wahre prophetische Größe. Also hier erst  der Prophet, und dann die Berg:

Gackerdigack (der Original-Titanic Text)

Wie man’s macht, macht man’s falsch, findet unsere Kolumnistin und erwartet für diesen Nichtgedanken das übliche viele Geld. Mein Bett stinkt. Ewig nicht gemacht, zuletzt, als Rüdiger an Heiligabend diesen Blasenkrebs hatte. Meine Güte. Der Weihnachtsbaum ist lange tot, so abgebrannt wie alle. Auch Rüdiger ist tot. Totgeschlagen. Mit 20 Franken in die Kronenhalle, was hat er auch erwartet? Alle Menschen müssen sterben, auch im neuen Jahr. Weihnachten ist passé. Da nützen alle Vorsätze nix. Auch der Januar ist schon wieder tot, so tot wie meine Vorsätze. Vorsätze, die Hoffnung der Kapitalisten. Jedes Jahr nehme ich mir vor, mal intensivst über mich nachzudenken. Aber über diesen einen Satz komme ich schon gar nicht hinaus. So gut wie alles an ihm ist falsch, beim nachdenken fängt das schon an. Auch intensivst geht im Grunde gar nicht, weil uns ennuyisierte Urbanistikerinnen das völlig aus unserem Kreativ-Konzept brächte. Und das heißt: Tippeltipptipp. Alles muß raus, schnell. Das ist modern. Kinder, Krebs, Karibik. Die Welt ist schlecht und seltsam drauf. Zusammenhänge sind was für Leute, die, egal. Wir leben nun mal nicht in einer Hollywood-Komödie mit Charlton Heston, und der Potsdamer Platz ist nicht der Meat Packing District. Was das heißt? Wer’s nicht weiß, muß fühlen. Irgendwie ist eh alles austauschbar. Auch Rüdiger. Er ist nicht tot, er ist nur vorausgegangen. Sagt man nicht so? Aber wer ist man? Dumm gelaufen. Laufen wollte man im neuen Jahr, eine Fremdsprache lernen (Deutsch), mal besser aussehen und nicht immer so gräßlich geistlos herumhühnern. Mal was Sinnvolles tun, einen Kuchen backen, still im Kühlschrank sitzen. Laubrechen. Aber wo kriegt man jetzt Laub her. Rüdiger sagt (er ist doch nicht tot, nur blaß), Armut ist ein Glanz aus Innen. Jetzt weiß ich, warum meine Stirn immer so glänzt. So geht es hin. Noch ein Wort, noch ein Komma, wieder ein Satz fertig. Fabelhaft. Vielleicht ist der Kapitalismus ja doch nicht so schlecht. Für die Unqualifizierten sorgt er doch ganz prima. Neuer Vorsatz: Alles so lassen. Wer macht mit?

und zum direkten vergleiche die Originale Sybille Berg in Spiegel-Online

Continue reading ‘Berg und Prophet’ »



SUPERSTAR
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Pornsuperstar, Illustration by Mathias Vef/Schwarzrosagold

After Warhol’s prediction of 15 minutes of fame for everyone came to an unforseen and appalling reality, the term “Superstar” has to be redefined. There is one space left where no public castingshows are ruining the carreers of promising newcummers – yet: the porn industry. MÄNNER magazine asked us to illustrate the new porn superstar for their spotslights of the mainstreaming glamoring culture.

Germany’s biggest boulevard paper BILD got very excited about the combination of porn and politics, complaining about leading German politicians giving interviews to a “Schniedel Magazin” – which is really funny, as BILD presents every paper with a bunch a bare tits on the cover…you have to read what they wrote!



2/11 – FOUR LIONS
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FOUR LIONS shows a bunch of British jihadists who push their distorted dreams of glory to the breaking point. When their competing ideologies clash, an emotionally engaging and entirely plausible farce emerges. Four Lions is a comic tour de force; it shows that terrorism is both about ideology and about idiots. Few cinemas worldwide and none in Germany so far dared to show the movie, that’s based on three years of research and meetings with everyone from imams to ex-mujahedeen and a wealth of surveillance material from major trials. We think we should not allow stupid religious idiots on both sides to fill us with awe and fear and prohibiting us to laugh.



CLEANING UP AFTER NEW YEAR’S EVE
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New Year´s celebrations are just over and while everyone is trying to recover some are already cleaning up the big mess. What looks like BSR workers coming straight (or not) from Berghain is more than that – those extraordinary good dancing and looking guys are dancers from the Berliner Staatsballett starring Vladislav Marinov.



SILVESTER IN BAD BERGHAIN
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All jene, die die ersten 48 Stunden des neuen Jahres in der entspannten Atmosphäre des prächtigen und weithin bekannten Kurhauses von Bad Berghain verbringen wollen, sollten wissen, dass die allgegenwärtige weiße Schicht in der Stadt und der dramatische Temparatursturz Folge einer Riechsalzexplosion sind. Berlins bester Reporter Adidas Zabel traute sich als einziger, direkt vom Ort des Geschehens zu berichten…



SINNLICHE WEIHNACHTEN
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Merry Christmas! – Prettige kerstdagen! – Joyeux Noël! – Hyvaa joulua! – Fröhliche Weihnachten! – Kala Christouyenna! – Buone Feste Natalizie! – Feliz Natal! – חג מולד שמח! – Feliz Navidad! – Sretan Bozic! – Gajan Kristnaskon! – Wesołych Świąt! – Nadolig Llawen! – god jul! – С Рождеством! - 聖誕快樂 – สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส



RUGBY SAFETY
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Will Coxhead, flight attendand in the Air New Zealand passenger safety video is trying to sneak a smooch from Richard Kahui, a rugby player on the All Blacks. Who would not? But after ongoing protests the scene will be removed. Interesting enough the protests did not come from christian or muslim puritans but from homosexuals themselves… well, not ALL rugby players are gay…yet. But thanks to Ian Roberts for being one of the first pros to come out more than a decade ago



GO WIKILEAKS
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China has been constantly criticized for trying to silence those who criticized them, for putting those who speak up into jail, for a state to suppress the freedom of speech. If the west wants to be better than words it should start at least to allow words. Support wikileaks and whoever speaks up! The one to blame is not the one who publishes, but the one who puts in words.



SAVE FASHION III
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The independent, Berlin-based fashion label SAVE FASHION will celebrate its third presentation.  Sexy Save Fashion designer, model and DJ KEVINFUNKT,  will be mixing fashion, music and urban lifestyleon December 4, 2010 for some amazing tunes and a brand-new design.

Starting at 22h30 KM36 – Karl-Marx-Allee 36 – Berlin-Mitte



ב ר ל י ן
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(c) Schwarzrosagold 2010

Chanukka is coming up, The Meschugge party close and the next Pag Party  at Tape club not far away. Reason enough to come up with a Hebrew line of our Berlin collection. By the way  – we only do that, because we want to see the sexy guys from Tel Aviv wearing them.



FCKNG HOT
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SRG Fashion

The new Schwarzrosagold Berlin line is now available – new colours, new styles. Made and designed in Berlin, worn worldwide. See more and order!



JL
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(c) Schwarzrosagold 2010 Continue reading ‘JL’ »



FCKH8!
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The fight goes on!
Especially now, after the conservative and mossback tea party gained power and a republican majority in congress. Hate against LGBT will not decrease and Prop 8 in California is still reality.
FCKH8 (C) Luke Montgomery
Media campaigner Luke Montgomery created FCKH8 and cute pink t-shirts to help all those numskulls to GET OVER IT that some chicks marry chicks and some dudes marry dudes! If you buy a shirt $5 will go to groups fighting against Prop 8 and working for marriage equality.



Heaven or Hell?
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Porn Heaven (C) Schwarzrosagold

Porn Hell (C) Schwarzrosagold

Porn is not something one is blasé about. The one side hypes is into a core culture and avant-garde, others see it as highly addictive thing snatchig one’s phantasies. We hope the first side is right – we tried to find that out for MÄNNER magazine who asked for two art works to illustrate this cleavage.



forced out
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from Israel by Ido Sarid


Israel's Eurovision 2010 star Harel Skaat

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Harel Skaat was one of the finalists of the Israeli equivalent to “American Idol” in 2004.
In 2010 he represented Israel in Eurovision and was one of the favorites to win according to the polls. There were always lots of rumors about his sexual orientation – obviously he was a sex symbol not only to teenage girls…
After a terror attack in a Teenage Youth Center in Tel Aviv in August 2009, many said “now it’s the time to come out of the closet”. In the annual memorial rally to the victims of the massacre, Harel Skaat gave a performance and said “I thank you for inviting me, and I’m proud to be here”.
Gal Ochovsky, a journalist and a film maker said, “I feel humiliated by the appearance of Skaat here and it makes me feel very bad”, meaning that it’s unacceptable that a closet case stands on the podium at such an event, hiding his sexual orientation. Many criticized Ochovsky for Outing Skaat publicly and humiliating him in the media. Ochovsky replied that “may be the threat of outing shake people and in doing so it make them come out of the closet eventually”.

In a documentary film about himself  Skaat said: “When I’ll have a boy friend i’m not going to hide him. But it is unacceptable that I’ll be in the center of the town forced to explain to people who I am… I don’t like the fact when others choose the right time for me”.

A debate that reminds of Rosa von Praunheim’s (in)famous outings in Germany 20 years ago… ago. 



CUTE SHOOT
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EXTRA ORDINÄR
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Tonight is Hustlaball in Berlin so if you are still looking for that extraordinary outfit you don’t have to share with other guests here is some inspiration…
Thanks to our extraordinary model…



BORDEL DES ARTS
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Photographer Phillip Baben der Erde and SRG’s client Rub Addiction present their work at the Bordel des Arts in Berlin’s new venue Asphalt club on Friday. Amongst sexy boys some of Berlin’s best DJs will get the party going: Mitja Prinz from Watergate, Shootingstar and Bar25 executive Britta Arnold, Red Robin, one of the very first residents from Bar25 and some more big names.

Sounds like the perfect mix of art, party, fetish and fashion.

Friday Oct. 15.th, 9 pm  @ Asphalt, Mohrenstr 30, Berlin



so cheap
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The most famous unknown grafitty artist Banky has been asked to create an opening credit for the Simpsons. This is the first time ever an artist has been involved in the opening credit of the show.
Banksy created the sequence because the animation of Simpsons characters was outsourced to South Korea. Fox however admitted that they know nothing about Banksy’s real identity and can now see what it means to outsource…

20th Century Fox started to pull the video down so watch it before it’s too late.
We just thought this is excellent inspiration for getting into mass production of our coming fashion collection.



OH MY GOD
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Oh my god, we were surprised…seeing young Craigery Morgan being sooo surprised.
oh my, oh my…oh my god. watch yourself the video, that hit 1,000,000 clicks in less than 24 hours…

Continue reading ‘OH MY GOD’ »



New York: KEEPING THE MEMORY ALIVE
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World Trade Center 1978

It’s our memories, that keep things alive much longer than they exist and it’s our personal memories that make things valuable.
my-wtc.com is a photo-blog about the World Trade Center by German artists Stefka ammon and Robert Ziegler, that collects private photographies from New York City (1970ies through September 10th 2001). On these pictures visitors, tourists and residents have been photographed in front of, on top, next or inside the WTC. With this growing collection they aim to document and describe analytically the specific aura, meaning and significance of this architectural and cultural complex from the angle of visitors’ and tourists’ images from all over the World. And the stories that people tell about it. So if you happen to have old images in albums, boxes or files, please scan and submit them at www.my-wtc.com – the World Trade Memorial Foundation showed interest as well!

The official launching of the photo-blog MY_WTC will will be this thursday in Berlin at schnellundschmutzig, Markthalle IX, Eisenbahnstrasse 42, Berlin-Kreuzberg



Vereinigungen
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(C) Schwarzrosagold

Schwarzrosagold freut sich über die vielen Vereinigungen,
die ohne die eine vor 20 Jahre nicht möglich gewesen wären.

Keep on Vereinigungen!

Continue reading ‘Vereinigungen’ »



PIANO MAN
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(c) Schwarzrosagold 2010



Tel Aviv: Yom Kippur
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hunk relaxing on Tel Avivs busiest highway, photographed by Ido Sarid

Ayalon Highway, usually used by some 750,000 vehicles on each weekday, is dead empty. It’s Yom Kippur. The holiest day in the Jewish calendar is traditionally observed with a 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer. On this day, no one in Israel is driving the car, so highways are deserted and dates have to be within walking distance. Naturally on Atraf, Israels gay dating website, the first question each person asks today is “where do u live”. Maybe to increase chances, Atraf opened for 24 hours all the “black lists”, so you can text guys who blocked you and ask for forgiveness. This meaning of Yom Kippur, to apologize to friends and to God for your bad deeds, becomes a vital chance to re-date close acquaintances.

And if you were in doubt wether it’s worth going to Tel Aviv, learn something new: Size doesn’t matter



18… years ago
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Pedj & Kelly

When you are 18 and madly in love, thinking about sex and singing about love, playing sports and playing with eachother and learning the complex language of french…well, that was 18 years ago.

Pedj and Kelly were 18 when sharing their love for life with the world, singing along the Lion King and playing in the Montpellier french rugby team.  A gay phantasy or just straight reality?



Made in Berlin
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In June we met this really sexy piece of German meat for a photo shooting in our new studio environment. He is sexy, tattood and as conservative as Berlin gets. And thanks to our new fashion model  sales for our Berlin-Collection increased rapidly.

Thanks, Stephan!

Continue reading ‘Made in Berlin’ »



Matsch to Matsch
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Matsch by Patrick Mettraux

Mud by Patrick Mettraux

Switzerland’s hottest photographer Patrick Mettraux shoots his boys usually with bright colorful backgrounds, hot sneakers and all sorts of gaudy stuff. But  this weekend suppressed all colors – except black. He captured perfectly how we feel right now. Matschig…

Thanks, Patrick!



Much too much…
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Fetish Fraktal (C) Schwarzrosagold

Folsom offers so much you would need to multiply yourself  to work off all of it.
We will try our best!



Zucht und Ordnungsamt
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Stippvisite der bürgerlichen Moral

Die Sonne scheint auf die gut gelaunten Besucher beim siebten Folsomfest – wie immer geht es um Fetisch, um Toleranz, um Aufklärung und den Abbau von Vorurteilen.

An den Eingängen bitten die Schwester des Ordens der Perpetuellen Indulgenz und andere Berliner Gruppen wieder um eine Spende, um Förderprojekte zu unterstützen.

FOLSOM EUROPE hat dank seiner Besucher und ehrenamtlichen Helfer in den ersten fünf Jahren rund 50.000 Euro an Spenden an seine jährlich wechselnden Förderprojekte verteilen können.

Es ist Europas größtes Leder- und Fetischevent. Fast 20.000 Menschen genießen die nachbarschaftliche Atmosphäre mit Essens- und Getränkeständen, Verkaufs- und Informationsständen und lauschen der Musik angesagter Europäischer DJs.

Aber etwas ist dieses Jahr anders: Plötzlich regnet es, und einige Kostüme sitzen schlecht – mit teils ausdrucklosem, teils hasserfülltem Blick marschiert die „Ordnungsmacht“ auf. Es ist unsere steuerfinanzierte Verwaltung, die sich im Ausbruch aus der Langeweile übt und wohl auch im Bewusstsein des ihnen stets versagten Ansehens wenigstens nach Aufsehen lechzt.

Nun fordert Ignoranz Toleranz immer in besonderem Maße heraus und so versuchen wir zu verstehen, warum die seit Jahren erfolgreiche Kampagne der Deutschen Aidshilfe gerade die Berliner Sittenwächter auf den Plan ruft. Oder warum die Kunstwerke des bekannten Zeichners Sepp of Vienna den Moralwächtern missfallen.

Man sagt unserer Hauptstadt ja immer mal wieder nach, sie sei provinziell, und unsere Ordnungsbeamtinnen tun ihr bestes dem Image der Hauptstadt zu entsprechen. Continue reading ‘Zucht und Ordnungsamt’ »



Save Fetish!
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It’s Folsom in Berlin and thousands of guys covered in black leather or rubber will be coming to Berlin. Fetish is getting a bit mainstream, so let’s save Fetish…

We tried and rebranded a label that offers real handcrafted Fetish from Berlin: Rub Addiction – made to measure and made to play.

So see what’s next and see you at Folsom!



Save Fashion
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What you might like about SAVE FASHION today, could make you turn away tomorrow.We like that.

SAVE FASHION is all about celebrating the pleasure of urban emotions and ideas expressed through fashion. And the guys who wear it. So let’s celebrate urban hedonism in a fresh way at Spy-Club in Berlin’s famous Cookies on August 28. Loads of sexy boys will be there – wearing save fashion or a little less.



Oil en Vogue?
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Water & Oil (C) Vogue & Steve Meisel

Water & Oil (C) Vogue & Steve Meisel

Distasteful and cheesy or a camp comment to the catastrophy in the Gulf of Mexico?
The italian Vogue published the images of Photographer Steven Meisel where Kristen McMenamy is dressed in feathery outfits and thick slimy mucous traps her to the ground, trying to writhe free.
Is it an inappropriate use of the disaster just for commercial purposes or are the images inducing enough pain making you realize that we are helpless in the face of such a calamite?
Well we are not…. Continue reading ‘Oil en Vogue?’ »



Once in a lifetime
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wired.com/gadgetlab

iPhone users have more sexual partners than BlackBerry or Android owners. By age 30, the average male iPhone user has had about 10 partners. By contrast, BlackBerry users hover around 8 partners and Android users have a mere 6.

The question that raised for us was of course: per what? per day? per month? per year? The real answer is shaking…it’s total. In a life. what a life?

But at least it shows that iPhone users aren’t just getting fucked by Apple.



Kiss me baby… one more time
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Transgenialer CSD Kreuzberg, Berlin

The Kiss 2010, Berlin (c) SchwarzRosaGold

One of the most famous kisses in world history happened 1945 at New Yorks Time Square after Japan’s capitulation. Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt caught nurse  Edith Shain life in the act and shared the image via  ”Life”-Magazine. Hundreds of tongue-hungry couples took the chance to re-enact the famous kiss at Time Square today.

65 years later the world seems to be ready for the capitulation of the conservative. We caught that young man live at the “Transgenial” CSD in Kreuzberg kissing many guys.

Kiss me baby, one more time  - everywhere in the world.

Times Square Kiss 1945

AP Photo/Victor Jorgensen



Superhero – Super Heavy?
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Spiderman

Spiderman

Some of our Heroes weren’t seen in public for quite a long time. But luckily the Paprazzis did their work well and discovered them. Frighting what time can do…

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman

Sailormoon

Sailormoon

Skelletor

Skelletor



Super Hero Week
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Superbutch, Illustration by Schwarzrosagold

Inspired by an illustration we did for Männer Magazine we dedicated this week to our Superheroes – and found quite a few of them to be absolutely gay. Basicly any major city has a Superhero covering gay needs.

The good thing talking about Superheroes is that superlatives seem just appropriate.New York’s Superhero Dave – known as the creator and Supermodel of slick-it-up was caught in action  by the extraordinary exterface.

Superhero Slick it Up (C) Exterface

Quite a few of themrecently came together at the Comicon in San Diego.

Comicon (C) Out.com

Picture by out.com

And of course the most incredible of them all lives in Berlin – the incredible Rummelsnuff. Better don’t make him angry – and go to his next concert.

Rummelsnuff (C) Ray Van Zeschau

Rummelsnuff (C) Ray Van Zeschau



London: royal rabbits and kingsize queens
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London Mix (C) Schwarzrosagold

Amongst a lot of inspiration found in the side streets of London we saw the next generation of streetart – elaborate three dimensional grafities next to royal rabbit drawings and kingsize queens in Shoreditch. Between Fashion week and Fetish week we also had some spare time ito see “Exposed” at Tate Modern – a documentary of voyeurism through the last 150 years that’s well worth seeing.



Faule Äpfel?
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Evil Apple (C) Schwarzrosagold

Lange stand Apple für einen coolen, urbanen Lebensstil, für Individualismus und Unabhängigkeit. Nicht erst seit den Antennendesaster ist das Image angekratzt, denn auf dem Zenit seiner iMacht angekommen, zeigt Apple-Chef Steve Jobs nun ein ganz anderes Gesicht: das des spießigen Moralpolizisten. Nachdem wir schon im Mai erste faule Stellen gefunden haben, wird es jetzt richtig madig: Die Juli-Ausgabe der MÄNNER nimmt den Apfel unter die Lupe und hat uns beauftragt den aufkommenden Frust fotografisch zu verdeutlichen.



football in style
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(c) SRG

During the semifinals the Calvin Klein boys found the beautifully designed objects by star architect Jürgen Mayer H. perfect for watching the football match against spain. Loads of champagne were neccessary later to forget the match.

Continue reading ‘football in style’ »



Street Sports
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Work-Outside, (C) Schwarzrosagold

Work-Outside, (C) Schwarzrosagold

No air conditioning, hot and sticky air. Why going to the gym to work out when there is plenty of room outside in the city? Why not doing a work outside? We went outside with a friend and did so. There were a lot of spectators, even a bunch of sweating police men came and applaused. Hope the readers of MÄNNER magazine do, who published our pics for a photo-story in their June issue.

Continue reading ‘Street Sports’ »



Transgenial Daneben?
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Transgenialer CSD 2010 (C) Schwarzrosagold

Wir haben das zum Anlass genommen die superindividuelle megakommerzielle Neon Kollektion zu gestalten...

Nach Judith Butlers Ablehnung des ihr angetragenen Preises auf dem ersten, “großen” CSD und Ihrer ausdrücklichen Lobpreisung des so genannten Transgenialen CSD in Neukölln und Kreuzberg war die Aufmerksamkeit auf die innerschwulen Reibereien statt die Gemeinsamkeiten gelenkt. Für kommerziell hielt sie den CSD, zu wenig politisch und einige der Veranstalter gar für rassistisch.

Es mag auch kommerzielle Interesse geben,  wenn Unternehmen wie IKEA mit einen guten Diversity Management mitmachen, aber es zeugt sicher von mehr Toleranz als Butlers Diffamierungen. Und dass bei 600.000 Teilnehmern eine gewisse Menge Mainstream-Schwuler zu Mainstream-Musik in schwulem Mainstream-Outfits getanzt wird, nun gut. Kommerzialismuskritik ist sicher an manchen Enden der Gesellschaft angebracht. Aber das die vielen “unpolitischen, spießigen, Mainstream-Schwulen” sich zeigen und demonstrieren, dass es immerhin 600.000 sind, ist auch ein politisches Statement. Jan Federsen beschreibt auf taz.de, wie die schwule Befreiung nicht wegen, sondern trotz der Judith Butlers gelingen konnte.

Der harte Rassismus-Vorwurf an den großen CSD aber ist krass und regt viele auf. Wenn man den Aufruf zum ach so politsischen Transgenialen CSD liest, wo in Schwarz-Weiß Denken ein so platter Rundumschlag gemacht wird, dass . sich die meisten, mit denen wir auf dem Kreuzberger CSD sprachen, wohl mit dem Fest, nicht aber mit den Parolen identifizieren konnten und deshalb auch nicht an der eigentlichen Demonstration teilnahmen. Das dämmerte wohl auch den anonymen Verfassern, als sie danach kurzerhand das Manifest von der Webseite entsorgten.

Butler hat ihre Vorwürfe in einem Interview auf taz.de mit dem Chefredakteur der MÄNNER konkretisiert. Man dürfe nicht auf den ethnischen Hintergrund homophober Gewalt hinweisen, das sei rassistisch, man dürfe Homophobie nur im großen ganzen sehen, nur wenn man auch die böse CDU, die katholische Kirche und die Rechtsextremen erwähne.

Dass die katholische Kirche homophob ist, erklärt sie fast täglich selbst, dass die CDU kein Hort queerer Kultur ist sollte nicht überraschen. Aber kein Schwuler wird von einem radikalen Messdiener nachts im Park angegriffen und homophob ist die offizielle Merkel-CDU wahrlich auch nicht mehr.

Aber dass körperliche und verbale Angriffe in den Großstädten, dort wo viele Schwule und Lesben und Transsexuelle leben, neben manchen Skins hauptsächlich von Jugendlichen mit Migrationshintergrund verübt werden, ist die Art von Homophobie, die für viele eine konkrete Bedrohung für Leib und Leben bedeutet. Und etwa nicht wenn irgendein greiser Kardinal sich schwadronieren lächerlich macht

Dass genau diese Form Homophobie nicht angegangen werden dürfe, aus Gründen einer Political Correctness, empfinden viele als gefährliche Ignoranz.

Im Islam, genau wie im Christentum zählt Homosexualität nicht zu den großen Tugenden. Aber in den kritisierten Studien gibt es Hinweise auf eine Verbindung zwischen gesteigerter Homophobie  und größerer Religiösität, auch bei Jugendlichen mit osteuropäischem Hintergrund, aber vor allem bei Jugendlichen mit einem islamischen Hintergrund.

Damit muss sich auseinander gesetzt werden dürfen und damit muss sich gemeinsam mit den islamischen Gemeinden auseinandergesetzt werden. Das ist nicht rassistisch und das ist nicht islamophob.
Diskriminierende Tendenzen innerhalb der LGBT-Szene mag es geben, aber die haben andere Gründe. Und die Teilnehmer des großen CSDs mit dem rassistischen Bezeichnungen „Weiße Schwule“ zu beschimpfen bringt mit Sicherheit nicht viel.

 

Transgenialer CSD 2010 (C) Schwarzrosagold

Transgenialer CSD 2010 (C) Schwarzrosagold



That’s why…
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Fussball WM Fanmeile
…we’re really happy that there are two more games to come!



Parallelwelt an der Ostsee
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Ostsee (C) Schwarzrosagold

Ostsee (C) Schwarzrosagold

Dem Trubel entfliehen, raus aus der Großstadt, keinen typischen Homourlaub machen – entspannen. Gerade der Sommer ist die perfekte Gelegenheit zu entdecken, dass das Gute so nah liegt. Warum nicht mal in Deutschland baden gehen? Nur zwei Stunden mit dem Auto von Berlin oder Hamburg, und man kann in die Fluten der Ostsee springen.Rügen und Usedom sind schon keine Geheimtipps mehr, aber der Darß scheint der ideale Ort für ein entspannendes Wochenende zwischen den anstrengenden CSDs.

Continue reading ‘Parallelwelt an der Ostsee’ »



Not everything was straight…
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100627_fussball1 (C) Schwarzrosagold

100627_fussball1 (C) imgur.com

(C) imgur.com

…when England was sent home – on Germanwings.

100627_fussball1 (C) Schwarzrosagold



Gay and Gaga? Geht’s noch?
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Gaga Illustration (C) Schwarzrosagold

Are Gay people still Gaga? Or are they as normal as the masses of mainstream? Did gay marriage and acceptance kill our creativity? Are Darkrooms and Gay Prides the last retreats where Gagaism breaks through? Heteronormativity taking over? Well, maybe the actual Homonormativity isn’t better.
Judith Butler didn’t accept the price for moral courage on this years Berlin Pride because the whole Pride was too commercial and superficial and not political enough, not queer (or gaga?) enough. Well, Homonormativity the big problem today? The Gay “Spießer” was talked about even in the 70s when Rosa von Praunheim claimed that the gays were more white-breaded than the mass just to thank not to be killed.
We should be facing the truth: The gay majority is as “spießig” as everyone else and most of them feel quite good about it.
The call for more political expression on a Gay Pride Demonstration is absolutely right, Transophobia or double discrimination being gay and migrant.
But talking about Afghanistan or stupid Israel bashing like in Madrid? Or even attacking some gay groups as being racist just because they bring up the problem of gay bashing amoung young migrants? Geht’s noch?

Well….  there is still al lot of Gaga in all of us!

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Pride & Politics
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CSD Berlin 2010 (C) Schwarzrosagold

Berlin Pride 2010: besides hundreds of Drag Queens and hot boys there were also some political issues on the Parade. There are still execution of homosexuals in Iran. Let’s hope for the green revolution and that there will be a Gay Pride Teheran 2020!

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Schlaaaaand!
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Schlaaaand (C) Schwarzrosagold

Schwarzrosagold met Schwarzrotgold today when Germany was meated by Serbia. The sun is shining in Berlin, the temperatures are rising and the fans start sweating and getting rid of their black three star “Nationalmannschafts” soccer shorts and bawl the new national anthem “Schlaand oh Schlaand”, but it didn’t help :-(



Siesta with the chicks
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Bauernhof (C) Karim Konrad

Berlin born and Sydney based photographer Karim Konrad took off a few days while visiting Germany at a nice “Bauernhof ” in the countryside. As the temperatures were rising, Karim seeked some cooling shadow in the barn and cought the “Knecht” doing his Siesta together with new born chicks…

www.karimkonrad.com

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SLUTS ARE PEOPLE TOO
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June 2nd is the official and international ‘Whores Day’. Let’s celebrate it with our new shirts!

Sluts are people too (C) ArsmathoSluts are people too (C) Arsmatho

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