Bite the Fruit — Community & Pride

The personal lubricant Boy Butter aired a new ad on TV last Friday during the grand premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 15. The commercial, “Storia D’Amore” (love story in Italian), features two men (models Facundo Rodriguez and Jerreth Ludwig) in a Mediterranean villa. Boy Butter has a history of producing very sensual commercials that air on TV during high-profile broadcasts of TV shows and/or live events. If you thought airing during RuPaul’s Drag Race was racy, check out this commercial which broadcasted regularly on ESPN and ESPN2 during many popular sporting events, including boxing matches, SportsCenter news, and UFC...

Daniel Craig (James Bond, 2006-2021) appears in an atypical role, “as himself,” according to the film’s credits.   This Belvedere Vodka ad, by the Academy Award winning filmmaker Taika Waititi, featuring original music by Rita Ora and Giggs, photography by Juergen Teller, captures Craig in a less melodramatic light than his fans are accustomed to. We post it here just to shake things up.   We hope to see more sexy avant-garde frolicking by Craig.   Belvedere Vodka is a Polish rye luxury vodka first produced in 1993 and made available in the US in 1996.   Since 2011, the...

The Rainbow Flag is a symbol of pride for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning (or queer), intersex and ally (LGBTQIA) people. The colors reflect the diversity of the gay community and the spectrum of human sexuality and gender. Using a rainbow flag as a symbol of gay pride began in San Francisco in 1978. Its use has become the convention at LGBTQIA+ rights events in the US and worldwide. Many fly the rainbow flag to celebrate inclusivity, hope and freedom. The first rainbow flags were flown on June 25, 1978, at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. The flags...

  Links to DC LGBTQIA+ organizations and resources:   Ask Rayceen Show The Black Rose Blasphemy (FetLife Group) Bound: DCSMB Centaur Motorcycle Club The Crucible DC Aquatics Club DC Bear Club DC's Different Drummers DC Gay Basketball League DC Pride Volleyball League DC Speakeasy (FetLife Group) DC Strokes FetLife The Garden/DC Hothouse Gay Men's Chorus of Washington Onyx Mid-Atlantic SMYAL Spank DC Spartan Motorcycle Club Stonewall Kickball DC Studio 58 (FetLife Group) Team DC Whitman-Walker Health More groups

Genderism: The Invisible System We’re Still Rewarding When we redesigned Bite the Fruit’s online store, a practical problem surfaced. How do you categorize products without using “For Him” and “For Her”? At first glance, it seemed like a marketing decision. But it wasn’t. It was cultural. Because the moment you try to sort pleasure into pink and blue boxes, you collide with something deeper: a system most people have never consciously examined. Genderism. And genderism is not about toys. It is about power. Seeing What We Were Taught Not to See What invisible structure is shaping behavior here? Gender binarism...