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Meet Andy Reynolds dba Popular Publicity.
He is a NYC-based freelance book, music, film, event and lifestyle publicist, as well as an expert in LGBT media worldwide. He knows people who want to know you and will present your book, music, or service with understanding, wit, and, when appropriate, humor. Placements include The New York Times, Washington Post, The PBS Newshour and various local NPR stations.
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"Desire Will Set You Free"
For Indie Gay Film Fans, Dekkoo.com is a Trove of New Worlds,
Experiences, Ways to be Gay
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Dekkoo Original Series
5 Most Shocking Gay Films on Dekkoo
5 Best Gay Films Not Available on Netflix
5 Best Gay Short Films Available on Dekkoo
(New York, NY) May 23, 2017 – Launched in October of 2016, Dekkoo (pronounced “DECK-koo”) is the only subscription-based streaming media service dedicated specifically to gay men. It provides the largest streaming collection of gay-centric entertainment available. With over 600 hours of content, including three original series (and more in the works), Dekkoo boasts a bigger selection than Netflix or Amazon Video.
In focusing just on the “G” in “LGBT”, Dekkoo’s mission is to provide a richer experience in gay-centric entertainment. “If you enjoy Italian food you could certainly go to the Olive Garden and eat Italian food, but the menu wouldn’t reflect the richness that is Italian cuisine," Dekkoo COO Brian Sokel explains.
"Essentially, Netflix and Amazon provide a gay cinematic experience that is adequate. They carry a selection wide release titles that appeals to the most mainstream gay film fan. They sell the spaghetti and meatballs. Dekkoo is like that amazing Italian restaurant that only the locals know about, where Mama still makes the traditional osso buco. We provide a deep dive into the rich and diverse world of gay cinema. We ‘locally source’ our films and content to provide a home for connoisseurs of gay movies.”
Continue reading "PRESS RELEASE: Gay Streaming Service Dekkoo Defines Its Niche" »
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Miss Gay Arizona America 2016 Savannah Stevens. Photo: Scotty Kirby Photography
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Contact: Andy Reynolds, Popular Publicity, andy@popularpublicity.com
Miss Gay Arizona America America 2017
June 25, 2017
5:00 pm
Theme: “Bond: Excellence is Forever”
Tempe Center for the Arts
700 W Rio Salado Pkwy, Tempe, AZ 85281
Tickets $20 (Tickets on sale here May 28th at 10 am)
More info: http://www.missgayarizonaamerica.com
> Read the Q&A with Miss Gay Arizona America Savannah Stevens on the Miss Gay America blog MGAZINE.
> Check out the Phoenix New Times slideshow from last year’s pageant here.
Miss Gay Arizona America 2015 Nevaeh McKenzie with the freshly crowned Miss Gay Arizona America 2016 Savannah Stevens at last year's Miss Gay Arizona America pageant.
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(New York, NY) May 22, 2017–On Sunday, June 25, 2017, the Tempe Center for the Arts will be the setting for Miss Gay Arizona America, a state preliminary competition for the 45th annual Miss Gay America Pageant.
Established in Nashville in 1972–37 years before "RuPaul's Drag Race"–The Miss Gay America Pageant is the world’s first, longest running and most prestigious female impersonator competition.
The Miss Gay Arizona America pageant began in 1986, is now in its 31st year, and last year claimed its third Miss Gay America “Best Overall Preliminary” Award.
The evening's theme will be "Bond: Excellence is Forever". For the Presentation category, contestants will be asked to impersonate their favorite Bond spy/villan. The Forever Miss Gay Arizona Americas (former national title holders) are encouraged to dress as "Bond Girls".
For those wondering, the Miss Gay America pageant is G-Rated, classy, dazzling, and family-friendly entertainment. Many of the contestants arrive with parents, children and cheering family members in tow.
Ten contestants from cities across the state including Phoenix, Tucson, Casa Grande and Flagstaff will compete in five categories: Male Interview (in suit and tie), Presentation (theme based costume), Evening Gown, On Stage Interview and Talent (big production number with costumes, sets and dancers).
The pageant will honor the current Miss Gay Arizona America 2016 Savannah Stevens, of Phoenix, and feature Miss Gay America 2017 Suzy Wong, of Nashville.
About the Miss Gay America Pageant
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(New York, NY) May 18, 2017 – By now you know that streaming media platform Dekkoo.com is home to the deepest and most eclectic catalog of independent gay films on the internet, from shockers (John Waters twisted 2016 pick "Like Cattle Towards Glow") to shorts ("G O'Clock") to documentaries ("Jobriath A.D.") and original series ("Feral").
If you've yet to check out Dekkoo.com, try starting with the relentlessly sexy "Sexual Tension: Volatile" in which Argentine filmmaker Marco Berger presents six titillating tales crackling with homoerotic is-he-isn't-he/will-he-won't-he electricity.
Sure to put a tickle in your pickle, "Volatile," from 2012, is paralyzingly magnetic in its relatability. What gay man has not been in–or fantasized about being in–any one of these vignettes?
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Contact: Andy Reynolds, Popular Publicity, andy@popularpublicity.com
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Photo: Kaitlin Newman for The Baltimore Sun
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Contact: Andy Reynolds, Popular Publicity, andy@popularpublicity.com
Miss Gay Maryland America 2017
Saturday: April 22, 2017
Alice in Wonderland
Doors open at 6:00PM - Pageant at 7:00PM
Horseshoe Casino Baltimore
1525 Russell St. Baltimore, MD 21230
More info: http://www.missgaymarylandamerica.com/
> Read the Q&A with Rebecca Blaqueout on the Miss Gay America blog MGAZINE.
> Check out the Baltimore Sun slideshow from last year’s pageant here.
(New York, NY) April 11, 2017–On April 22, 2017, the Horseshoe Casino Baltimore will be the setting for Miss Gay Maryland America, a state preliminary competition for the 45th Miss Gay America Pageant.
Established in Nashville in 1972–37 years before "RuPaul's Drag Race"–The Miss Gay America Pageant is the world’s first, longest running and most prestigious female impersonator competition. The Miss Gay Maryland America began in 1985 and is now in its 32nd year.
The evening's theme will the "Alice in Wonderland" Tea Party scene, as seen in the 1951 “Alice in Wonderland” movie by Walt Disney. The catch: costumes are not to be a main character from the movie or story, but a Tea Party guest! See the rules at www.missgaymarylandamerica.com.
For those wondering, the Miss Gay America pageant is G-Rated, classy, dazzling, and family-friendly entertainment. Many of the contestants arrive with parents, children and cheering family members in tow.
Nearly a dozen contestants from across the state will compete in five categories: Male Interview, Presentation (theme based costume), Evening Gown, Talent (fully produced stage production; sets, dancers, permitted), On Stage Interview.
The pageant will honor the current Miss Gay Maryland America 2016 Rebecca Blaqueout, from Baltimore, and feature Miss Gay America 2017 Suzy Wong (left), of Nashville.
The Miss Gay Missouri America began in 1985 and now in its 32nd year, remains one of the oldest preliminaries in the Miss Gay America pageant system.
About the Miss Gay America Pageant
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Popular Publicity placed client The Black Party® in today's New York Times. Read the story online at http://bit.ly/NYTimes_The_Black_Party •
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Still from the video trailer for Rites XXXVILI: The Black Party® "Dark Matter"
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Contact: Andy Reynolds, andy@popularpublicity.com
New York, NY, March 30, 2017 – The Black Party® presented by The Saint At Large® is the most anticipated and most underground event on the gay dance calendar. After decades at Roseland ballroom, The Black Party® will return for its second year in a Brooklyn warehouse. Held just following the vernal equinox, over 4000 attend this annual Rites of Spring fetish bacchanalia. Main room DJs are Byrell The Great, Roi Perez, Boris, Mike Servito, Naeem Johnson, and Johnny Dynell. Strap yourselves in, it’s gonna be a banging night!
The Saint at Large® presents Rites XXXVIII: The Black Party®
“Dark Matter”
Saturday April 1, 2017 • 10PM Saturday – 6PM Sunday
NEW VENUE: 641 W. 50th St, New York, NY 10019
Strange Live Acts • Dress: Heavy
12 DJs • 20 Hour Event
21+ Valid ID Required
NO CAMERAS, NO CELLPHONES
Tickets: www.saintatlarge.com
1. The first Black Party® was held in1980 at the private gay disco, Flamingo, on the second floor of a building on the SW corner of Broadway & Houston. The following year it moved to the new members only gay club, The Saint at 105 Second Avenue at 6th Street. Constructed within the premises of the famous Sixties rock-n-roll venue Fillmore East (Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, The Doors, etc.), The Saint At Large’s namesake is considered one of the most futuristic, architecturally and sonically sophisticated clubs (gay or straight) ever built. (Watch the “Stories of The Saint” mini documentary series and see photos here.)
Continue reading "PRESS RELEASE: 10 Things To Know About THE BLACK PARTY®, April 1, NYC" »
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"I’m Fine" cast: (l-r) Lee Doud, Perry Powell, Richard Stokes and Ulysses Morazan. Photo: Andrew J. Ceperley
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Contact: Andy Reynolds, Popular Publicity, andy@popularpublicity.com
Gay Streaming TV Service Dekkoo Launches Take-It-With-You Series
with Smart Phone Junkies in Mind
"I'm Fine" Debuts on Dekkoo April 19
Watch "I"m Fine" on Dekkoo at https://dekkoo.vhx.tv/i-m-fine
(New York, NY) March 27, 2017 – Attention phone junkies and gay dramedy fans - check out the trailer for Dekkoo.com's forthcoming third original series, "I'm Fine.”
Set in West Hollywood, “I’m Fine” tells the story of Nate, who just broke up with his boyfriend – BUT IS TOTALLY FINE! – and in doing so takes a fresh, honest, and humorous look at gay male relationships and friendship, and the often-blurry line between the two.
Dekkoo calls “I’m Fine” their first take-it-with-you "pocket series." Season 1 consists of eight short episodes, each around 5 minutes in length. Los Angeles based director Brandon Kirby crafted each in an effort to challenge long-format series and embrace the short attention spans of contemporary streaming television viewers.
“My motivation to make “I’m Fine” was the end of HBO’s ‘Looking,’ and how there is no series dedicated solely to how we as gay men experience friendships and relationships,” says Kirby. “Beyond what ‘Looking’ was able to achieve, I want to talk about gay male friendship in the way Noah Baumbach’s “Frances Ha” and the “Broad City” series have explored the fluidity found within female friendship."
Meet Brandon in the super cute "I'm Fine" teaser video here.
“I’m Fine” episodes 1 through 4 will be available on Dekkoo.com April 19, with episodes 5 through 8 launching June 21. It is Dekkoo's third original series, following the critically acclaimed (really) dramatic series "Feral", about gay life and love in the Bible Belt and "Love Is Blind", which follows fourteen single New York City men on seven real blind dates (one per episode).
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The Saint at Large® presents Rites XXXVIII: The Black Party®
“Dark Matter”
Saturday April 1, 2017 • 10PM Saturday – 6PM Sunday
NEW VENUE: 641 W. 50th St, New York, NY 10019
Strange Live Acts • Dress: Heavy
12 DJs • 20 Hour Event
21+ Valid ID Required
NO CAMERAS, NO CELLPHONES
Contact: Andy Reynolds, andy@popularpublicity.com
See also: 2017 Black Party Announced, Theme Revealed
(New York, NY) March 17, 2017 - As the most anticipated event on the gay dance calendar, The Black Party has a 37-year reputation to maintain as an arbiter of taste -- setting the stage for loyal followers eager for discourse on the ‘new’ Saint sound. Each year, The Saint At Large strives to feature a decidedly progressive stable of artists reflective of current musical trends in dance capitals such as Berlin, Montreal and, of course, the New York City underground scene.
What's the Black Party? Watch this post party video from last year's event.
The 2017 Black Party DJs, in order of sets, are:
MAIN ROOM
BYRELL THE GREAT
ROI PEREZ
BORIS
MIKE SERVITO
NAEEM JOHNSON
JOHNNY DYNELL
LUNAR LOUNGE
DAWSON
DANDYLION
W. JEREMY
GUSTAVO
PHILLIP KIMBALL
BRIAN GATELY
Guests are treated to 20+ hours of a spectrum of musical styles and genres. The length of the party and the varied techniques of these turntable giants create the soundtrack for a uniquely powerful and immersive experience, enhanced by state-of the art lights, sound and outrageous performance art, a journey that has become known The Saint Trip. This year, top favorites have been invited back, some in different time slots, while introducing new names to keep the event fresh and the dance floor on edge. DJ bios + Soundcloud DJ sets below.
Continue reading "SAINT AT LARGE Announces BLACK PARTY 2017 DJ Lineup" »
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Contact: Andy Reynolds, Popular Publicity, andy@popularpublicity.com
The Saint at Large® presents Rites XXXVIII: The Black Party®
“Dark Matter”
Saturday April 1, 2017 • 10PM Saturday – 6PM Sunday
NEW VENUE: 641 W. 50th St, New York, NY 10019
Strange Live Acts • Dress: Heavy
12 DJs • 20 Hour Event
21+ Valid ID Required
NO CAMERAS, NO CELLPHONES
Tickets: www.saintatlarge.com
Queer refugees from planet Earth escape to a space colony in a galaxy far away, joining with like-minded creatures to set up a new, libertine Eden
(New York, NY) March 17, 2017 - The Saint At Large®, gay nightlife’s preeminent party producer, announces this year’s Black Party theme: “Dark Matter.”
“Dark Matter” as described by The Black Party®’s creative director, acclaimed conceptual artist, Rob Roth (Rhianna, David Bowie, Lady Gaga, Click + Drag):
"On April 1, the Resistance will launch a stealth mission to transport refugees fleeing Earth’s hostile new world order to a fantastic alternate universe where bizarrely-uniformed men have forged their own, queer, libertine, Eden.
Obscured from prying eyes by clouds of mysterious dark matter, a new space colony will be built on a multitude of planets in a galaxy claimed as our own. Robotic space probes will explore the depths of space in order to expand the Resistance further with new life forms willing to join the cause.
Though not for everyone–the ship has limited capacity and the journey is not for the weak of heart (or imagination)–those who commit to the trip will be rewarded by the sights, sounds, and alien pleasures of a new, deliciously dark, Dionysian paradise."
A 20-hour event, The Black Party® is structured in five acts corresponding to five sets of increasingly intense dance music by world class DJs (see list below), drawing attendees into a magnetically immersive environment–a vortex of rhythm and light ignited throughout the night by the party’s renowned Strange Live Acts and Rob Roth’s warped hallucinogenic visuals.
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