Posted on 10/04/2007 9:29:51 PM PDT by TFFKAMM
Every year in San Francisco there's a free outdoor "fetish" event called the Folsom Street Fair at which hundreds of thousands of mostly gay men stroll around the city streets in leather or rubber fetish outfits.
This year, a major controversy surrounding the fair was ignited by its official poster, which was a parody of the Da Vinci's The Last Supper featuring sex toys and fetish gear, instead of the standard biblical scene. Christian groups and some conservatives found the poster offensive.
The controversy then spread when critics discovered that Miller Beer, a mainstream corporation, was the fair's main sponsor. Conservative groups began to call for a boycott of Miller products if the beverage company did not withdraw its sponsorship.
The fracas expanded when images of young children attending the 2005 Folsom Street Fair -- illustrations for an online magazine article -- began circulating in the blogosphere...
Click here for Zombie's photographic report of this event.
WARNING: These pictures are very graphic and are extremely work- and family-unfriendly. The link to Zombie's photographic report is not posted here to titillate or sensationalize -- the pics speak for themselves, and reveal an almost unimaginable level of public depravity, all sponsored by major corporations and underwritten by City taxes. Follow the above link at your own risk!
(Moderators: If this posting is really FR-inappropriate, feel free to delete it. I've posted it since, in the wake of the Miller Beer controversy, I want to keep the FR community apprised of just how bad Folsom is.)
I normally look at zombies picture coverage of protests and the like, but I think I’ll pass on this one.
Are these the pics that they will never show on MSM.
As I said above -- if you click on the link, you're on your own.
Nam Vet
Welcome to Hillary and Pelosi’s vision of america.
Any pretense of tolerance I had just went out the window. I guess I’m glad people can finally understand the level of depravity involved. I don’t know what else to say...
Speechless.......I thought it was illegal, nevermind, this is SF. Where they outlaw the military and get all butt-hurt over the Blue Angels.
But I am literally astounded that anyone would do that *in public*.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Full Disclosure:
Kyrie eleison.
I’m going to go put paint thinner in my eyes and set them on fire, I’m sending you a bill for the replacements and the therapy, and for the russian girl and the hotel bill.
I’m going to go put paint thinner in my eyes and set them on fire, I’m sending you a bill for the replacements and the therapy, and for the russian girl and the hotel bill.
Unsurprisingly, the hepatitis booth was among the most popular at the entire event.
Zombie does a fantastic job of chronicling moonbat events in San Franfreaksco, and I visit his site regularly to see if there is anything new. I clicked on this set and looked at a few pictures, got disgusted and stopped. I am far from being a prude, but it was just too much. And, people reportedly took their little kids to the fair!
absolutely outrageious.
From the author:
“I am also not a Christian, and I am pretty much completely non-religious. Yet by doing this report, I know full well that I’ll be handing ideological ammunition to the anti-homosexual forces, and a propaganda coup to the Christians who were laughed at for claiming the event featured open-air sex.”
No longer parody (and it probably never was):
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28491
Go to the site. Ask them a question (upper right)and then you can send them the link to zombies page.
I like the pic that wrote itself. It’s sad that this is the USA i’m looking at.
Miller is owned by www.sabmiller.com
They pretend that one of their corporate priorities is to:
Contribute to the reduction of HIV/Aids within our sphere of influence
http://www.sabmiller.com/sabmiller.com/en_gb/Our+responsibility/Our+priorities/HIV+Aids/
“The interventions are divided into two areas. First, existing infections are managed through voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), early diagnosis and managed healthcare, which includes free anti-retroviral treatment for employees and their direct dependents. Second, we aim to reduce and prevent new infections through effective education programmes which incorporate a behavioural change component.”
I guess the Folsom Street Fair was one of these “effective education programmes” to reduce AIDS/HIV.
Some names to ping with a link to zombies page.
http://www.sabmiller.com/sabmiller.com/en_gb/Our+responsibility/Our+team/
The sustainability development team is responsible for setting strategy and policy for the group and working with all the individual companies to engage them in the priorities relevant to them. The team is headed by Sue Clark, Corporate Affairs Director, who sits on both the Corporate Accountability and Risk Assurance Committee and the Executive Committee.
Andy Wales
Head of Sustainable Development
Andy.Wales@sabmiller.com
Dr Alan Knight
Sustainable Development Consultant
Alan.Knight@sabmiller.com
David Grant
Group Environment Policy Manager
DaGrant@sabmiller.com
Jenni Gillies
Group HIV/Aids Manager
jenni.gillies@za.sabmiller.com
Patricia Crampton
Sustainable Development Assistant/Executive
patricia.crampton@sabmiller.com
I’m still sickened by the crucifix dildo. It’s almost like people are begging to be struck by lightning. The whole thing seems incredibly evil.
Check em out!
I couldn’t get the question page to open. Did you ask them their opinion of why exactly they sponsored such an event and why they want their product associated with “baby Jesus butt plugs”?
Miller hasn't responded to any questions AFAIK. But in post 22 there are some individual emails you can ping.
I wonder if we send their finace people a ping and ask them if the boycott is hurting their bottom line. Include the zombie link.
http://www.sabmiller.com/sabmiller.com/en_gb/Investors/Investor+contacts/
Senior Vice President Investor Relations
gary.leibowitz@sabmiller.com
Telephone: +44-20-7659-0119
Fax: +44-20-7659-0135
Genevieve Cruddas
PA to Gary Leibowitz and IR administrator
genevieve.cruddas@sabmiller.com
Telephone: +44-20-7659-0174
Fax: +44-20-7659-0135
Rachel Kentleton
Senior Manager
Beer industry regional focus: Latin America
rachel.kentleton@sabmiller.com
Telephone: +44-20-7659-0113
Fax: +44-20-7659-0135
Kelly Mulvey
Senior Manager
Beer industry regional focus: Europe
kelly.mulvey@sabmiller.com
Telephone: +44-20-7659-0176
Fax: +44-20-7659-0135
Henry Rudd
Senior Manager
Beer industry regional focus: Africa & Asia
henry.rudd@sabmiller.com
Telephone: +44-20-7659-2159
Fax: +44-20-7659-0135
Rickus Conradie
Associate
Beer industry regional focus: South Africa
rickus.conradie@sabmiller.com
Telephone: +44-20-7659-0194
Fax: +44-20-7659-0135
Send Miller the zombie link!
Yes... it is evil in it’s purest form.
“Sodom and Gomorrah”
I’m willing to bet that Sodom and Gomorrah was a sleep over compared to this.
And we all know what God did to them.
San Fransisco’s (and others like it) time is near.
Edwards-"We must give gays the freedom and rights to be who they truly are"
Hillary-"Amen!"
Obama"Ditto!"
Bwa-ha-ha! He mentions this after the penis picture. I like this guy's style.
After viewing the second pic, I couldn’t take anymore, but I appreciated the honest description of the goings-on that will go unreported elsewhere. So I right-clicked, selected “Block images from...” and just read the captions. It’s a running commentary without the visuals.
Please God, just one 9.6 Richter scale earthquake. PLEASE!
zombie's a she, FYI
As morbid and....well, icky as the Folsom Street Fair is, I’m glad in a sense that you posted this. I’m not entirely sure how many of us here on FR know just what goes on there every year.
One does have to wonder that if this is the modern, latter-day Sodom y Gommorrah and it’ll get the same fate those two locales did, what’s taking so long?
If you read the story about taking children to the Folsom Fair from 2005 that Michelle Malkin linked on her blog, you saw the twin toddler girls at the fair, wearing an outfit with little studded dog collars, among other stuff. Here's one of the girls' dads:
John Kruse is not just another John, he's Dr. John Kruse.
Father of two, John Kruse said it is an educational experience for children. He said there were conservative parents against having kids at the event."Those are the same close-minded people who think we shouldn't have children to begin with," he said.
He's a psychiatrist.
Not so fast....I have some futures invested in Chlorox stock.
How ironic.
I always thought Miller beer tasted like piss water....
I thought I've seen everything but I now I see I haven't, this goes way beyond the imaginations that anyone might have had of the goings-on in Sodom and Gomorrah but it's obvious that this Folsom Fair is just an example of where this perversion would like to take the mainstream of society if we let them.
It's sad to see people who are caught up into this type of depraved behavior, as there seems to be no depth to which this perversive mindset won't sink.
I live in a normal neighborhood in San Francisco. As bad as things are here, it doesn't come close to what happened in Sodom and Gomorrah. Re-read Genesis 19.
...but it's obvious that this Folsom Fair is just an example of where this perversion would like to take the mainstream of society if we let them.
That I agree wholeheartedly with.
I wonder how all the perverts in these pictures were able to hide their spewing/foaming aids from the photographer?
Given a short period of time to mull over it, I can think of thousands of things I’d rather do than to stroll around in public with my crank hanging out of my pants for all the world to see.
..but then again I’ve always been a bit shy about those things.
God delayed the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah because there were a few of his people living there. He totally destroyed the cities after his people had left. There are some Christians living in the modern city of Sodom now.
A natural ad campaign for Miller now, MILLER! THE QUEER BEER!
That is a great poster to put on billboards across America.
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