Miller-sponsored, Miller-approved: The Folsom Street Fair, uncovered
Drink up, get spanked, get naked!
Undercover Internet photojournalist Zombie, a brave, brave, soul, was at the Miller Lite-approved Folsom Street Fair last weekend. Zombie did the publishing of explicit photographs that no one else will do, breaking the MSM taboo. (Be warned: It’s not safe for work, not safe on a full stomach, and not really safe for home unless you are prepared for some really nasty stuff. Also: the page takes a while to load.) Note that Zombie was there less than hour:
I was at the fair for less than an hour altogether — not much more than 45 minutes. And in that short amount of time, I took all the photos you see here. Yet the fair was an all-day event, and lasted from 11am to 6pm — seven hours. So, one can extrapolate that a great deal more must have gone on that I did not record. What you see here is just a small random sample of what happened that day.
Here’s one of the tamer photos:
You’ll have to go to Zombie’s to find out what happened after the dog mask-muzzled guy on the sidewalk is forced to eat “food” from the dog dish.
Blech.
Were kids there this year? Does Miller care?
I encourage you to send Zombie’s report to Miller Lite, proud sponsor of the leather/bondage orgy, dungeon beds, casual public masturbation, public oral sex, and public erection competitions.
Yeah. Swell.
Contact Miller Lite’s public relations spokesman Julian Green at green.julian@mbco.com.
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There is a hilarious warning on the Miller Brewing website:
You may not post or transmit to this Web site any unlawful, pornographic, obscene, profane, defamatory, libelous, threatening or otherwise objectionable material.
So you’re not allowed to send photos to Miller of the public sex scenes at the Folsom Street orgy that Miller sponsored.
Snort-worthy.
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I’m not one who tends to believe boycotts are a good idea. But I’m also not inclined to support a company that sponsors events such as the Folsom Street Fair. The fact that it’s a primarily gay event is irrelevant – in their sponsorship of this fair, Miller is supporting public indecency. Public heterosexual contact would be just as offensive.
Miller Brewing Company is free to continue spending their money where they wish, but those who use their product are just as free to limit that company’s profits.
Newcastle, anyone?
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Reader Jim M. forwards an e-mail he sent to Miller’s parent company:
To: media.relations@sabmiller.com
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:49 PM
Subject: Folsom SponsorshipTo: Mr. Nigel Fairbrass
Mr. Fairbrass:
As an investor in many companies across the globe, I was particularly alarmed to note your organization’s sponsorship of a alternative lifestyle sado-machoist event in the San Francisco area.
The first indication that something was amiss was the depiction of Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” as a gay S&M bacchanal, complete with appropriate leather adornments and environmentally unfriendly plastic sexual aids. Despite protests lodged regarding your sponsorship of the event, the sponsorship proceeded.
Here is a website documenting but a small part of one person’s experience at the event: http://www.zombietime.com/folsom_sf_2007_part_1/index.php.
I urge you to review the pictures, since this is what SABMiller supported. In addition to the gleeful participants, there were very young children in attendance as well as reports of underage participation.
I would appreciate your thoughts on why SAB deems this function to be worth of corporate sponsorship. Reviewing your website and the causes you claim to support, I have a hard time understanding why SAB would find The Folsom event consistent with its corporate goals and worthy of its “proud sponsorship”.
I will await your response before I begin alerting my investment advisers to dump any and all SAB holdings.
Cheers,
Jim
From Jim M.:
Miller is a subsidiary of a South African Brewer listed on the London and Japan Stock Exchanges: sabmiller.com
Here is the list of media contacts at their parent company:
Head of Media Relations Nigel Fairbrass
Telephone: +44-20-7659-0105
Mobile: +44-7799-894-265
Corporate Media Relations Manager Victoria McNamee
Telephone: +44 20 7659 0172
Mobile: +44-7713-246-957
Media Relations Executive
Briony Gilbert
Telephone: +44-20-7659-0115
Email: media.relations@sabmiller.com
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I saw Zombie’s pics yesterday. What I noticed right away was that some of the “gadgets” available made no secret of their underlying hostility and contempt for religions, Christianity in particular.
So that “Last Supper” poster mockery wasn’t a fluke, or a “misunderstanding.” These are people who “celebrate” themselves through mockery of who and what they hate.
Telling, though, what one major religion they showed no animosity toward… the same one that’d have them all put to death.
I’ve heard it said that the best way to set back by years if not decades the open acceptance of homosexuality in society is to simply let them engage in public displays of their “alternative lifestyle.” Zombie’s photos are persuasive evidence in support of that statement.
Still have heard nothing from Miller’s parent, SAB Miller.
But it gets better. Listed among their top 10 Corporate Priorities is conbating AIDS/HIV. http://www.sabmiller.com/sabmiller.com/en_gb/Our+responsibility/Our+priorities/HIV+Aids/
Large corporations spend millions of dollars every year to promote themselves as good corporate citizens. The practical realization in the boardroom is that the companies reputation is critical to its future sales.
It only takes one bad event to put that multi-million dollar investment at risk. And whether that is money down the drain depends on how the company deals with the controversey.
What Miller did here was to sponsir a fringe of a fringe group loosely associated with the gay community. They certainly did no favors for the gay community in the Bay area by providing funds and credibility to such a group.
It will be interesting to see how SAB Miller handles this mess. If they choose to ignore it, I suppose we can surmise that “SAB” really is an arconym for “Sadism And Bondage” brewing.
On October 5th, 2007 at 11:32 am, xler8bmw said:
I thought indecent exposure was against the law. If they allow this then how can lawmakers even think of making a law against baggy pants.
I think that would be a great idea especially since the Democrats in Washington have no problem trying to censure the free speech rights of Rush Limbaugh, surely they would have no problem condemning the despicable debauchery of the Folsom street fair.
Unfortunately the Queen of the house who’s district is San Francisco has known full well not only what happens in Folsom but also the goings on in the gay pride parade in downtown SF which believe it or not is worse than Folsom and has been an ongoing debacle for a long time.
I doubt there will be a condemnation of public sex acts (I don’t care what they declare the town square to be).
But hey, Rush, no problem, he doesn’t deserve free speech.
Indeed Regulus…the crucifix ‘gadget’ is satanic…it breaks my heart that such a thing even exists.
Savage was talking about how some of the gay floggings were done right in front a Catholic Church. I’m reminded of the the first sorrowful mystery of the rosary…the agony in the garden…where Christ felt so abandoned…
Does not apply in SF. This stuff goes on a lot. I actually heard that their was another street fair, far worse than this the other day (the name escapes me).
I still can’t believe Gavin included an open letter to the public (come one, come all – people, families, etc) in the pamphlet of this event….well, actually, maybe I can.
Yeah, when Hell freezes over.
At.A.Loss.For.Words
I haven’t seen that much oral pleasuring in public since Al Gore’s global warming testimony on Capitol Hill!
/rimshot
California Penal Code §314
“Every person who willfully and lewdly, either:
1. Exposes his person, or the private parts thereof, in any public place, or in any place where there are present other persons to be offended or annoyed thereby; or,
2. Procures, counsels, or assists any person so to expose himself or take part in any other exhibition of himself to public view, or the view of any number of persons, such as is offensive to decency, or is adapted to excite to vicious or lewd thoughts or acts, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who violates subdivision 1 of this section after having entered, without consent, an inhabited dwelling house, or trailer couch as defined in Section 635 of the Vehicle Code, or the inhabited portion of any other building, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, or in the county jail not exceeding one year. Upon the second and each subsequent conviction under subdivision 1 of this section, or upon a first conviction under subdivision 1 of this section after a previous conviction under Section 288, every person so convicted is guilty of a felony, and is punishable by imprisonment in state prison.”
xler8bmw:
I completely understand your point, but to be honest, when you have the city council wackos and certain members of the public bullying the SFPD about discrimination etc. and your District Attorney comes from a Communist background…It ain’t getting prosecuted. Period.
Cops are treated like dirt here. We have twice as many IA investigations as any other department and let me let you in on a little secret. It’s NOT the cops.
I can guarantee you they steer clear of arresting folks at the FSF, and for good reason. If they make an arrest for public indecency at a gay event like the FSF, no doubt they will be blamed for being anti-gay and have to sit through an internal affairs investigation despite the fact a good number of the police officers on the force in SF are gay.
PS. If I go the rest of my life without seeing a grown man in butt-less chaps it will be too soon.
Wow Fee didn’t realize it was that bad in SF. At least NYC has a little decency
(Head in hands)- Yep.
First of all… look everyone I am just as disgusted by this as the rest of you but those who are advocating the “bombing” “9.9 earthquakes” and other incidents that cause injury, death and destruction to the residents of San Francisco are as equally out there and wrong as Code Pink extremists.
I spent most of my life in San Francisco and believe it or not… a majority of us DO NOT support this extreme behavior or other extreme liberal policies. When will the GOP present viable candidates and invest the resources required to have opposition voices in SF??
If the majority of the people of SF do not condone this kind of debauchery then why and how is it happening? How come the majority is not voting these elected officials who allow this kind of thing to happen, out of office? Any society that allows this kind of thing to happen is doomed. No society can survive this cancer for long. I shudder to think of the future of this country. We are destroying ourselves from within while the hordes are sitting on our backdoor step just waiting for the chance to come in, and I don’t just mean the Mexican border!
Been out here my whole life as well, and there are NO viable GOP candidates (just by virtue of being in the GOP)that SF would/will embrace).
Politics here mean you look the other way to all the things MM reports about. If Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer or Newsome spoke out against ANYTHING you’ve seen on this website, they minus well hand in their resignation letter.
All people care about here are two things (and not even objectively at that):
1. What is your position on war or the military?
2. What is your position on gays and gay adoption?
If either one of your answers are even SLIGHTLY restrictive to their agenda….well buh, bye!
I agree, not everyone is like this…but the people who run things here are the people who are on the left. And sadly, I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
Sometimes I feel like we are Vichy France out here….we let them take over…shame on us.
SF definitely needs some conservative values. We conservatives are all about the consequences and this little block would have brought many of them!
Look at those pics and tell me homosexuality is not a mental illness.
All of this makes me unspeakably sad. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970’s when it was proud of its military at NAS Moffett Field, the Presidio, NAS Alameda…and Fleet Week or a visit from the Blue Angels was a big fat family fun deal. My dad flew P-3’s, and my t-shirt proudly proclaimed same. In just a generation, my hometown has become a bastion of indecency and anti-military sentiment. Although I’ve moved many times since then (Navy junior, then Army wife) it’s difficult to rectify my childhood memories with the obvious disdain for our values shown at this event. Depressing…
Ditto’s Lone Ranger…it is depravity run to its extreme…and no it is not normal…the operative term here is “sin.”
Romans 1:27-29 (NIV)
27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.
We can all agree that this deal in SF is ridiculous and frankly, disgusting. I think Rick Moran and RetFireman hit the nail on the head in their respective posts. However, my experience with the gay community in various parts of this country (including SF) tells me that this kind of stuff reflects a very small minority of that community. There are all kinds of similarly sexually offensive events that occur in the heterosexual community (watch “Real Sex” sometime on HBO for example, not that I’ve ever seen it).
Like I said, Moran and RetFireman got it right. bear1909, sorry, but if you really believe what you’ve posted, yes, you are indeed a homophobe. Augustine, sorry to you as well. Quoting anit-homosexual doesn’t let you off the hook, rather it just makes you look like kind of a cowardly bigot who hides behind religion as an excuse for his bigotry. Sorry, just calling it as I see it.