Tag Archives: Key West

Afternoon View – Fort Lauderdale Beach

I’m in Florida for the next two weeks and tomorrow Father Tony and I will spin his tiny convertible down the Overseas Highway for a week of poolside blogging at Key West’s fabulous Island House. There will be a JMG reader meet-up in Fort Lauderdale upon our return (details to follow) and then I’m off to spend Xmas in Orlando …

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Oil Spill Reaches Key West, Feds Double Banned Fishing Area

Federal officials have doubled the area of the Gulf that is banned to fishing fleets as the oil spill appears to have reached Key West. Yesterday the Florida Park Service reported that about 20 “tar balls” of crude oil have washed ashore. The new restrictions extend from the coastal area off south-central Louisiana to about 200 miles off the tip …

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Key West Cops Rock

On Key West’s bustling Duval Street, drag queens and go-go boys can be found standing in front of gay bars handing out fliers and posing for photos, more often that not with highly amused straight tourists. It’s a hectic, high-energy scene on those sidewalks, where gays and straights move comfortably among each other. Gay boys cat-call straight boys, straight couples …

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Morning View – Key West Detritus

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Key West Day Five, Part II

Last night we attended the Key West Headdress Ball 2009, where (mostly) locals competed for prizes based on their attire from the neck up. Silliness and burlesque prevailed. Those costumed from the neck down were not judged, except by some catty NYC-based writers. The event was held under a giant tent down by the southernmost point of the continental U.S., …

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Key West Day Five

Yesterday Father Tony and I overslept and missed the 7:15am boarding call for the high-speed ferry to the Dry Tortugas. Dammit all to hell. Those who went are calling it one of the highlights of the week. Dammit all to hell. So instead of a 70-mile voyage into the Gulf of Mexico, we made up for it with a trip …

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Morning View – Southernmost Point

It’s probably some kind of local law that every tourist in Key West must pose for this photo, judging by the line we had to wait in line just to get the brief opportunity for this shot. Father Tony had his eyes closed, but we figured “good enough” rather than wait again.

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Afternoon View – Father Tony Working (It)

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Key West Day Four

Yesterday Father Tony and I began the day with moped jaunt around the island, stopping first at the Key West AIDS Memorial, which is a simple and serene series of black granite tablets laid into the sidewalk and engraved with the names of some of the more than 1000 locals lost to the disease, an enormous number for a town …

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Morning View – Key West Taxi

Gay enough for ya?

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Key West Day Three

Yesterday our merry band of revelers returned to the all-gay Blu Q catamaran, this time for a daytime snorkling trip out to Man Key Reef, a shallow coral reef where the crystal-clear water provided great views. Then came lunch and kayaking off a unpopulated island, where Captain Steve pointed out the wreckage of a shabby craft recently abandoned by Cuban …

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Morning View – Big Cocks

There are hens and roosters running loose everywhere in Key West. We’ve been told they are all from from a single colony that was set free when cockfighting was made illegal. The roosters begin crowing at sun-up and continue to do so roughly every 7.5 minutes for the rest of the day, sort of like a poultry snooze alarm. The …

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Key West Day Two

Yesterday we did a sunset booze cruise on the all-gay Blu Q, a 42-foot catamaran. Gorgeous weather and fun company from around the world. Captain Steve and his occasionally naked crew were lots of fun. Afterwards we had a fancy dinner at Mangoes, after which I went back to Island House and collapsed for the evening while the more adventurous …

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Key West Day One

Not quite 24 hours on the island and as Divine said in Lust In The Dust, my ass is on its last legs. Steve Smith, our host from the Key West Business Guild picked up our group (myself, Father Tony, EDGE’s Michael K. Lavers, freelance journalist Rod McCullom, LOGO’s Mike Diamond, SiriusXM’s Frank DeCaro, and filmmakers Josh Koll and Josh …

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In The Conch Republic

The above creepy-ish tableau greets arrivals at Key West International, a fairly grand name for an airport whose terminal consists of one small room and one luggage carousel. Off to the Royal Coronation Ball, an AIDS fundraiser at La Te Da.

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Key West Bound

Blogging will be relatively light for the next six days as the Key West Business Guild is bringing me down on a press junket to cover Fantasy Fest. I’ll get some posts up tomorrow morning before I leave and probably a couple more during my layover at MIA. After that, it’ll be intermittent poolside vacation blogging as the Guild has …

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Cruise Away Your Marxist Blues

The Christianist “news” site, World Net Daily is staging a pre-inauguration cruise for its readers who are depressed about the coming communist/socialist/Marxist government. Dear WND readers, I know. With all three branches of the U.S. government soon to be in the hands of the liberal-left, many of you are plagued by two giant-sized questions: 1. What can you do – …

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