Weekend Woof #88: Smoothies and Furries

This week's edition is a combination of attractive dudes seen around the Castro gayborhood and handsome furry faced fellas striking poses with our for our #ILikeMikeSF campaign. Many thanks to all the guys for gracing the lens of my camera.

The hot weather on Saturday in Jane Warner Plaza had some smooth men showing off well-developed muscles in the sunshine.

I don't know the name of the dude with the super bushy, wide beard on the bike but the smiling fella in the baseball cap is our former neighbor Russell. He let me rub my fingertips on his facial fur and I can report it was thick and bristled at my touch.

The handsome furry man on the bench is Matthew who works at the Opera Plaza Cinema and he supports our alternative candidacy, and follows us on Twitter. On the bottom is my friend Damien from the Immune Enhancement Project, left, and his date Jonathan.

And how was your week for male-gazing?

Effective Campaigning at Harvey Milk Plaza

By Todd Swindell and Michael Petrelis

(Cross-posted from our campaign page.)

Since our alternative candidacy is a very grassroots effort, we need to press lots of flesh and a top location for that is at the Harvey Milk Plaza transit hub in the heart of the Castro.

In recent days, we've been at the plaza during the evening rush hour greeting voters and potential donors distributing as many campaign cards as possible. It's been surprising hearing how many people say they're not on Facebook and we tell them the page is open to all regardless of being a user of Facebook or not.

One of the pleasures campaigning at this location is getting reacquainted to the many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender folks and people living with HIV/AIDS we've met over the decades.

Every encounter with an old friend or hearing words of encouragement from strangers is a "win" for our campaign. We hope this sort of old-fashion electioneering educates voters that we're on the fall ballot and persuades them to tell their social media contacts about our campaign.

This photo is of an old acquaintance named Shadow who had nothing but words of praise to share, well, that and a very welcomed bear hug. Thanks, Shadow for your support and embrace, not to mention posing with our #ILikeMikeSF sign.