Tag Archives: Las Vegas

Via Karen Ocamb’s LGBTPOV, here’s an audio clip of GetEQUAL’s Robin McGehee and Las Vegas Stonewall Democrats chairman Derek Washington sparring over the effectiveness and purpose of GetEQUAL’s blockage of the Las Vegas strip during Netroots Nation. This was recorded during Washington’s local radio show and things get rolling at the 9:00 mark. Below are photos I later took of …

I didn’t get to see much of Las Vegas’ gay scene as Netroots pretty much kept us busy day and night. But I did get out to Fun Hog Ranch for a couple of hours, where I saw the first cigarette machine I think I’ve seen in a gay bar in about 20 years. Nice place, just the sort of …

Several hours after I posted a Morning View shot of the Chippendales Theatre last Wednesday, I got a charmingly effusive email from their publicist, Randy Slovacek (above), who outed himself as a longtime JMG reader and invited me to the show. So Friday night, in the company of fellow activists Phil Attey, David Castillo, and Zack Ford, we were seated …

UPDATE: The live stream is concluded. Franken opened with the “NeVAHda vs. NeVEHda” controversy. Preceding him was Tarryl Clark (Michele Bachmann’s opponent), and Linda Chavez-Thompson, candidate for Lt. Governor of Texas. Fantastic night!

Sen. Harry Reid’s opening remark at his keynote address at Netroots Nation recognized Lt. Dan Choi, who was sitting next to me in the front row. The entire room gave Choi a standing ovation. Later during the question and answer session, the moderator presented Reid with Choi’s West Point ring. Reid promised to return the ring to Choi upon the …

I started the day early at a breakfast with openly gay Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet, who is running for Congress against Rep. Mary Bono-Mack. (I’ll post my Q&A with Pougnet a bit later.) Then it was off to the grand hall to catch the tail-end of Van Jones‘ brilliant morning keynote. After that was the “Organizing For Equality in …

We continue to be plagued with spotty and slow internet access here at Netroots Nation, much to the anguish of digital activists and writers who came prepared to tweet, Facebook, and live-blog every waking moment. You can still follow the action at the Twitter hashtags #NN10 and #LGBTNN10, where attendees with smartphones are providing minute-by-minute coverage.

As I walked by with Strong Enough blasting at 120 decibels, I’m quite certain the clerk was signaling for me to kill her. All Cher, all day, every day? No jury would convict. At Caesar’s Palace, of course.

Maybe “party” makes “the” OK. But still.

Here’s some of the LGBT contingent here at Netroots Nation. No time to label all the photos, but you should recognize a lot of these folks. Follow along on Twitter at hashtag #LGBTNN10.

Here’s the video from Tuesday’s closure of the Las Vegas strip by GetEQUAL as they protested Sen. Harry Reid’s perceived inaction on ENDA.

Netroots Nation 2010 officially opened this morning and of course, interwebs access here is completely borked, hence my radio silence for the last few hours. Paid access in the hotel rooms is extremely slow and the free wifi in the convention center just isn’t working at all. Several thousand very frustrated bloggers and digital activists are wearing out their refresh …

The Chippendales Theatre is in my hotel and their ads line the casino passageways. There’s a Chippendales gift shop too!

Well, I’ve only been here a few hours and I’ve already learned that it is definitely not appreciated if you hover near the craps table and chant “Consuela, Consuela, Bo-Buela, CON-SU-AY-LA!” Seriously, any gay man would have been on the floor.

Eight members of GetEqual, including Robin McGehee and Dan Choi, were arrested in Las Vegas today after blocking traffic on the city’s busiest street in protest of inaction on ENDA by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). I’ll ask the participants about this tomorrow, if they’re out of jail by our planned breakfast. More photos by Steve Freiss are here.

The bottom line cracks me up.

I’ve arrived for Netroots Nation 2010, which is being held at the Harrah’s Rio All-Suites, where interestingly, I do not have a suite. I would have been able to check in an hour ago, but the capacity of the airport shuttles were severely restricted by the number of Larks onboard each one. What happens in Vegas…gets blogged.