Frank’n’Beans: Occupy Protestors – The Sexy 99%
By: Frank Lopez
11.17.2011
First and foremost: As fan of equality, Frank has no beef with The Occupy Wall Street movement.
On the contrary, we at Gay.net respect the resilient and radical protesters gathering in New York and around the country to bring about change. Just this morning "Occupy" marches are happening all over the country, boldly showing that this movement is not going to back down any time soon.
The #OWS resistance movement is a leaderless one, comprised of all people across all different ages, races, and political affiliations. “The one thing we all have in common,” the Org’s website pronounces, “is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants… This #ows movement empowers real people to create real change from the bottom up. We want to see a general assembly in every backyard, on every street corner because we don't need Wall Street and we don't need politicians to build a better society.”
As a member of the LGBT community and a proud American, I believe there is nothing hotter than standing up against oppression and voicing your opinions in a non-violent manner. So with that in mind, amidst the media coverage, critique, and censorship surrounding Occupy Wall Street’s protesters, we couldn’t help but notice many of the 99% happened to be hotties.
Press the big green "play" button in the center below to see our cyber salute to the sexiest protesters caught on camera while occupying.
See more hot protestors and find out why they're at #OWS from The Observer.
For more news and information about #OWS Movement, visit http://occupywallst.org/
Comments
If Gay Men would Occupy the Centers for Disease and "Control" and shut it down all stigma would vanish it would stop the CDC's definitional paradigm of defining "gay" as a disease and everything associated with GBLT as disease carriers.
The CDC is to blame for lives of perhaps millions of Antiretroviral Dead Patients and the phony medical constructed syndrome referred to as "AIDS" and "H.I.V."
2011 and you still doubt the efficacy of anti-retroviral treatment? How are those mushrooms from CA, growing in the back of your dark closet, doing. How about that "HIV has no connection to AIDS." Is it working for you? Good, for how long I can only wonder. My friend was dead within 6 months because he refused conventional treatment and did exactly what I mentioned above. OTOH, I have a friend who is an over 20 year survivor, I'm on my 8th year. The CDC was off in the beginning of all this, but then, weren't we all?
Obviously I'm a man who loves men, but I also take my politics very seriously, and the Occupy movement is far more important than who's hot and who's not.
Wow what uneducated rock did you have to climb out from under, and what the hell do out of work people looking for a corporate american handout have to do with hiv? Rationlize your own behavior much?
hmm.. I guess there were no sexy asians.
salute to the sexiest protesters? thanks for continuing to perpetuate the superficiality of the gay community
gays individually do enough to perpetuate the superficiality :(
Yes! Someone ELSE who thinks the same thing I do!
mad props to you two bitches cause that's the truth.
salute to the sexiest protesters? thanks for continuing to perpetuate the superficiality of the gay community
Trust the gays to trivialise the whole "Occupy" thing. No wonder we don't have equal rights in this country. We are pathetic. We aren't worthy of being taken seriously.
Do we really have to be looking for hot men 24/7 ? Do we really not have any other interests in life ?
There is currently a Human Rights Campaign petition to end DOMA. Something that would benefit ALL gay Americans. Despite AT LEAST 5 million gay people in this country the petition still has only 160,000 signatures. Shameful. People can spend hours on sites like this looking for dick but they can't spend 10 seconds to sign a petition to end discrimination. We aren't asking you to camp out in tents - we just want an electronic signature.
This is likely to be the last realistic attempt for many years to get rid of DOMA. If we don't end it now we will be stuck with it for at least 10 MORE YEARS.
Here is the petition if any of you can spare 10 seconds to fight back !
https://secure3.convio.net/hrc/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction...
i just signed it, thanks for the link, totally agree with your post
We have several generations of " LAZY I'M ENTITLED" Americans. This year Washington State had a severe shortage of labor to pick apples. Normally migrate Hispanics, but due to the current immgration conflict LOOMING over their heads the State had to hire convicts at the rate of $22.00 an hour. I see nothing wrong with hard work and $160.00 aday.
I think it's a little funny that even while there's a protest of all the injustices of our government and its monetary greed, we gay folk can still turn those protests (complete with police brutality and all) into an opportunity to cruise the "hot guys". Way to go, Gay.net!!!
I'm at a loss as to why we can be perceived as shallow and narcissistic??
Um ... don't see any 'FATS' hotties on OWS .... wuteva happened to the Revolution ... I'll believe the "No Fats or Femmes" stuff when I start seeing big fat chubs & 60 somethings as models in gay media ads! Let's have a bald 260 lbs model for a 2Xist ad!
until recently, the wealthy paid MUCH higher tax rates, and yet we now have richer rich than ever in history. if you have your own business, as i have, think about who uses your services. are they wealthy? if they are not, they will soon not earn enough money to afford your business's services, as the un-wealthy have been making less and less income almost exactly as far back as the lowered tax rates for the wealthy. don't sit there, smug in your own job or with your own money, because the stranglehold of money crisis will be at your door soon enough. i don't know who said it...i think it was about nazi germany...but it was said "they came and took away the blankety-blanks, and i said it didn't concern me, and spoke not for them. then, they came and took the blankety-blanks, and again,
i said they are nothing to me and said nothing. and then, they came for me, and there were non left to speak for me" i am employed, own my own big home, have excellent credit, but i'll be damned if i don't understand those occupyers are speaking for me. they may not speak well or know what is exactly wrong, but they are on to something. make no mistake.
You're thinking of Martin Niemöller.
I just love how the Socialist Pigs on here want to blame others for their lack of success! If you don't like your economic situation, GO TO WORK!
Create Your OWN JOB! I did.. and I LOVE working for myself. I control my destiny! NOT some corporate big whig, NOT some Government Employee!
QUIT MAKING EXCUSES FOR YOUR FAILURES!
yes but working (if you can call it that) by being a sperm donor doesnt take talent. Obviously you are a republican because you see everything thru red glasses and like to smell your own farts.
Just what every comment-board on the Internet needs, its very own ALL-CAPS shoutycrackers teabagger meat-stick.
Shades of William Loeb; you can shout and scold in print! Your intemperate diatribe, by implication, places responsibility for lack of opportunity on the backs of well educated, well prepared, professionally accredited recent college graduates who cannot find jobs. You refer to Socialists as pigs. Political discourse and diversity is at the heart of democracy. Congratulations on your control of your destiny (does that in any way imply fate or pre-ordained "happy" endings?)... I suppose you don't see anything contradictory in the use of "control" and "destiny" as you have in the same sentence. If the human race ever has need of an enema, you, sir, qualify eminently as an appropriate site of administration. In fine, there is no "h" in wig.
Ask the people who make Guns if they dont have enough money , they are crying all the way to the bank
I'm sure this guys are well enhanced. Hot bods and all.
If you added up all the money from the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions with all the money lost to the Bush tax cuts there would be no fiscal crisis, real or imagined. It's trillions. The problems and the solutions simply are not that difficult to find. But since monied interests rule the day actually implementing any corrections but those which burden the non rich with "austerity" measures, i.e., a total destruction of any safety net, will be a long shot.
In your gross miscalculations (if you did any at all) you perpetrate the FALSE premise that Iraq and Afghanistan were, and are the big financial burdens causing the Feds fiscal problems.
Both wars ,in their entirety, didn't cost over a trillion dollars in monetary expense until after a decade. They are absolute bargains (in terms of treasure)compared to the 3/4 of a trillion dollar per anum entitlement babies. Many of whom have included themselves in the OWS movement.
Furthermore, if the feds implemented a tax rate of 100% (yeah that's right, take it all) for everyone making over 250k, we would still be short money.
The OWS movement looks like a bunch of spoiled brats to me, but hey, they are just mirroring the rest of the spoiled brats that Americans (yes I am one) have become.
I also believe the Occupy Wall street "movement" will rapidly become Occupy Ft Lauderdale as soon as the snow flies in NYC.
Reasons we're so far in debt.....Social Security and Medicare are unsustainable in their present form. Both great ideas, but not at the level they pay out. Generations of people on welfare that don't deserve it...some do, but nobody is checking on those that don't. Disability is out of control...if you're too fat or too lazy or too nervous around people or drug addicted etc, you can get a lawyer to get you on disability.Again, nobody is checking. Our manufacturing jobs went to countries that employ slave labor and we reward the companies that went there. The large banks that we bailed out...where are all the prosecutions of the superwealthy behind the big real estate scam that caused the failures? Decades of D.C. playing partisan politics, with no regard to the growing debt. WE'RE HEADING FOR A CLIFF...GET YOUR PARACHUTE.
Will you all please stop putting medicaid and social security /medicare into the same package. Social security and medicare were bought and paid for by the working people in this country with their taxation. It is not a handout. If would be solvent now if Bush 2 had not raided it to play war.
Don't forget that there is a lot of people who need to get on disability that can't. From people who actually deserve and need it and have just been on a waiting list for years, to people who can't afford to quit working even though it is literally killing them, because they would become homeless and die of starvation before the system gave them one penny. There are ways to make disability work, and an easy part of it would be to stop giving billions in bailouts to companies who just waste it on vacations for their CEO's, and apply it instead to making sure those who need disability get it, and those that don't don't. If you knew of anyone trying to get into disability who needs it you would be sick of how unhelpful it is to those that need it, and not sick of how people are on it who could live without it.
The system would rather let many die or end up homeless or in jail than give some money to help those in need.
I agree 100 percent.
WOW...someone that believes EXACTLY same thing I do. I have been saying the same thing about disability. People who never paid into as well getting benefits. Everything you said was RIGHT ON!!! I actually am very surprised to see all the points you said.
Thanks...we're witnessing our country's destruction and are powerless to do anything about it. Voting in new people only puts them into the corrupt partisan system that's already there. Protests are great, but I fear we're too late. A little late night rhyme, lol.
Our country is in a financial mess right now and I have no idea how to fix it. I'm not sure if the Occupy movement is a good thing or not but at least it is opening a dialoge.
I think the 1 percent need to open the purse a little more, how can you justify living in a huge mansion while many of your employees can barely afford rent on the salary you pay them?
One the other hand taxing the wealthy isn't the answer either. Tax the rich too much and they'll simply move to Mexico, China, or some other country and take thier money with them. I will also point out that our government would squander and waste whatever extra money they would get in the first place. The US government once spent hundreds of dollars on toilet seats, they've proven they are not responsible with the nation's money.
Again I have no idea how to fix our nations debt but additional taxes won't help anyone and will hurt more than help. We need new ideas and a fresh perspective to pull us of this dark hole.
Change Comes from Us
More years ago than I care to count, when I was about seven years-of-age, my grandfather, a Russian immanent, was convinced that the Chicago School System (C.S.S.) failed its students; he said, "Children come out of school unable to do anything but work on assembly lines. If they were taught to think, they would get too bored to work at such jobs." One day, while my divorced mother was holding down a pretty decent job, my grandfather gave me the "princely" sum of a quarter, patted my bottom, and told me to, "Go Downtown and learn something." That evening, when we met at the dinner table, my turn came to tell about my adventures at the Field Museum; I was mad about the reconstructed dinosaur skeletons. My grandfather asked, "Roger, did you count the vertebrae; did you learn how long ago those monsters lived?" The penny dropped! My grandfather got change for his quarter. The next day, I asked visitors what the cards next to the exhibits said. And the months after that, I asked more. Bit-by-bit, I saw the sounds of the words on the cards.
Years before, the "deal" had been made between my grandparents and the C.S.S. Board, was--If the children passed the tests, they could continue to be taught at "home". At first, I did very poorly with all of the tests; most abysmal were the math results. In near panic, I asked my mother to teach me some math; after a couple of months, math grades were tops. Handwriting was next lowest , again with the treat of being made to going to school looming, my grandfather set me to work with a copybook and a dip pen, learning Spencerian Steel-plate.
I cannot recommend this educational approach to anyone; Chicago streets are not safe for any child alone; more importantly, I missed years of socialization and the camaraderie of sport. However, the point is: If there is a need, imagined or real, given the opportunity,the commonsense of the majority of the citizenry will find the means of meeting the need.
A few days ago, I made a cake. I brought it to a "Take Back" group group in Amsterdam. First question: How is it (or any food) going to be distributed? There emerged a: "Food Distributor". So it is--the populace have the capacity to solve problems. I predict that--eventually, there will emerge from the populace persons who will even manage money (Will they be called, "Bankers"? I think not; the title is too sullied).
Nearly everything has been corrupted. That is why there is no single point to the "Take Back" movement. A parallel honest system will grow in its place.
--R.T. Thomes
Congratulations, I envy you your grandfather's wisdom. He was a great teacher!
R.T. Thomes- Loved your story. Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed it. I completely agree that the populace HAVE the capacity to solve problems. The only real issue I have is that it is most likely far far far too late. Just today the "Super Commitee" is unable to reach an agreement and is going to "kick the can down the road". Well unfortunately we are out of road. They have kicked the can off a cliff and America went with the can. Now in fairness they were placed with more problems than any congress in the history of this nation however it still doesnt change the fact the America is done and over. This country has seen its best days which unfortunately for my generation means we will have nothing. No hopes of a brighter tommarow.
Correction: "immanent" should be: "immigrant"
My apology. --R.T. Thomes
the one guy holding the "for sale" sign with "congress" written on it looks like a guy i went to high school with. Erik M.
Lovely...But did they know they were going to wind up on gay.com?
I was thinking perhaps that's why the ones who took theirs shirts off did so in the middle of November! ;-)
LOL...I was thinking the same thing.
For the idiots that STILL don't know what this protest is about (Even though multiple people said so already, even here) It's about standing up to the rich having influence over our democracy. The government should be for the people, by the people. Not for the rich, by the money they have.
Without MONEY- WE would not have our GAY Rights. Money talks, in any country, take it away and we will just be a bunch of talking or should I say *hushed American-Chinese Nationalist.
Don't start with the strawman arguments. I'm talking about how people use their money an an influence in the political/democratic processes in this nation in ways that would normally be seen as something called, er, I don't know, um CORRUPTION?
I know exactly what you are talking about however str8 peeps cried foul when Gay Men and Women used there money to INFLUENCE policy. Truth hurts and on the Flip side Gay Men cried foul when Str8 people oh lets says the Mormons puts forth unlimited funding towards Prop 8 and won.... This is life. This is America.
Surprised that you don't only see it one way. Tonight I am impressed with the posts from this site. Some people on here are actually smart and know what they are talking about.
Heres the BOTTOM LINE..... And EVERY Country in the world is watching us to see us tear each other appart just as we are doing on here. Wisdom is knowing that you don't know it all! Each of us has vaild points and each of us lean towards one directions or another however this country is split 50/50 on which way to go. A fork in the road for America if you will. EVERY single person in America has to take blame. The banks, the government,and the citizens. Does this suck, absolutely! I am 30 and never will retire but then again my middle class parents, one a lifetime federal employee the other a realtor, piano teacher, and church organist, they too will never retire. We all need this reality check!!! We Americans are spoiled, overpaid, unwilling to do manual work, and all think we know what is best. We don't, We won't, We can't, We neverwill. At times we will get things right and at times we will get things wrong. We need to relook at our education system. It is the birth of thoughts and ideas. Every other country is excelling and we are failing in every way we possible. Back to my Bottom Line if we continue down this path of bickering America will fail !!! If that happens (which I personally believe will due to this polarized country) Then the whole of the world colapses due to globilization. You dont believe me? Look around at our Congress it is representative of the people. You dont see that then count the above comments and split them "left idealogy" and "right ideaology" WE represent the CONGRESS and as GAY Men it is always amazing to see the republicans, myself included. God help us all and save us from ourselves!!
Sidenote: God Help us ALL (Democrats and Republicans and all the fantastic flavors between) Save us from ourselves!!
*****NEWT 2012**** Because hes the only one with the experience at a national level! Not because I like him. I don't. I hate all the canidates but we need someone to steer this country even if that person is an a-hole.
Wow I am shocked at how out of touch some of you really are with this issue. I am a service connected disabled veteran who has been employed by the Federal Government and the legal system. I have also been a Republican Committeeman and the son of a Republican Chairman. I support the person not the party and have supported many Democrats. I am also a supporter of Occupy here in Philadelphia. My support goes back a long way, this is something this country needs and has needed for a long time. We need to stand up against the corruption that has become the norm for this country. The loss of jobs did not start with Obama it started with Reagan and was made worse by Clinton. Both of those leaders had many shining moments with their Presidency but sending jobs over seas was not one of them, Plus Reagan gave the Banks the power of To Big To Fail that we have heard so much about. The Occupy movement is about much more then that it is about Americans that are suffering through No Fault of their own and so many of them are Veterans who are losing Everything because they Served This Country in order to preserve your freedoms to have the things you have, to write on here and to protest our out of control government. Too many people are so out of touch with this, because they have not been affected - Yet. The "I Got Mine" attitude of so many Americans is how and why this country is going through this. My late father was a WWII veteran and my late Grandfather was a WWI vet they both believed that this country was so out of touch with the real world because we have never had a war fought here on our door steps. This country needs major changes, those guys up there in Washington are so out of touch they forgot why they went there to begin with. That 1% , the richest of Americans, some of them do not even know there is a problem. Most of them were handed everything, their late father or Grandfather made the business. I have seen so many successful business' run in the ground by privileged children who were just lazy. These protesters do not want a Hand Out or Bail Out they want their jobs back, they want their homes that were illegally taken from them with the rampant foreclosure fraud in this country and yes veterans want heath care and valid claims payment for disabilities from serving our Nation or a chance to work in a different field with the proper training / education. Real Americans Are Suffering and we should All be out there protesting to demand change in this country and some fresh faces in Washington and every State Government, we should all be out on election day instead of complaining about the crook who is elected. May God Bless America - We Need It !
Sorry to interfere with your narrative, but if you check the legislative history, it was former President Jimmy Carter and not Reagan who began the process of creating the "too big to fail" banking enterprise (and, for good measure, who provided a federal bailout to Chrysler). Carter-era deregulation that allowed savings and loans to invest in riskier sectors while their depositor's funds remained guaranteed by the federal government shifted the risk of bad investments from investors/bankers to the taxpayers. Perhaps you will recall the Savings and Loan crisis?
The feds are cutting annual benefits for education of marines from something like 2k a year to 745 a year or some gawd awful small amount like it. Meanwhile libritards are trying to force us to pay for the higher education of illegal immigrants. Whats wrong with that picture. Free schooling of someone committing an illegal act vs a tiny little stipend for those Americans who fight for their country when asked. Makes you wonder what politicians use to think with anymore when they get behind stuff like that. Yes California wants to pay for the college education of illegals now. Bravo Jerry Brown. Youre a rocket scientist.
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