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Best Buns Contest Too Public?


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A gay rodeo’s "best buns contest" has elicited a complaint from a Sacramento-area resident who lives across the street from the venue where the event took place, according to KCRA.com. Monty Stanley of Wilton, Calif., said the October 17 show, which was sponsored by the Capitol Crossroads Gay Rodeo Association as a fund-raiser for Shriners children's hospitals, was in plain view from his driveway.

“They had more than best buns,” Stanley told KCRA. “They had everything out there naked, and you can see it plain as day. What I witnessed there and what you saw on that camera is not different than pornography.”

Stanley stood in his driveway and shot video of the event, which he made available to KCRA. On the night of the rodeo event, his teenage daughter had several friends over at the house, and Stanley said they all witnessed the contest as well.

“I didn’t like it at all,” Roonie Stanley told KCRA. “It was uncomfortable for me and my friends to hear, and you could hear it from the house, and we still had a movie on.”

A spokeswoman for the Capitol Crossroads Gay Rodeo Association admitted that men were showing their buns but insisted it never went further than that. “If I would have seen anything inappropriate, I would have kicked them out myself,” Janice Gimbel, vice president of the rodeo association, told KCRA. “We tried our best to make sure there wasn’t any problem.”

Gimbel added that the group had secured both county and liquor permits and that the private event took place on private property. She said she feels her group is being unfairly targeted, possibly because of the sexual orientation of its participants.

“Oh, no, that has nothing to do with it,” Stanley said. “I don’t care if that was a man and lady dancing there naked. You can’t have it.”

Gimbel told KCRA that her group will no longer put on any "best buns" contests and that she wished Stanley had come to her directly with his complaint at the time.

Stanley maintains that the county should have scrutinized the event more closely to ensure that such activities would be hidden from public view before issuing a permit.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Caleb
    Date posted: 10/26/2009 12:51:13 AM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    What? Are you agreeing with me, disagreeing with me, Bill? Or did you just try to insult me? I'm not...in the...closest...? Er, I'm not closest to a book that I'm reading on my knees? Please spell/grammar check and clarify your comment.

  • Name: bill
    Date posted: 10/25/2009 10:14:43 AM
    Hometown: atlanta

    Comment:

    caleb, of atlanta would you rater see someone reading a book in the closest since we both know you and your bad knees do i say more, but back to the best buns n ow tell me he was shocked but stood in his driveway filming the event, was that silva all over the film he sold to the tv station my oh my are his closest doors coming wide open

  • Name: Caleb
    Date posted: 10/24/2009 11:49:45 PM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    Another positive image boost to the rest of the neighborhood for the gay community, by the gay community.

  • Name: Rick
    Date posted: 10/24/2009 8:42:22 PM
    Hometown: Hoboken, NJ

    Comment:

    A story about "buns" is what the Advocate considers a major news story for gays? What a BORE.

  • Name: Scott
    Date posted: 10/24/2009 8:34:20 PM
    Hometown: Portland

    Comment:

    I don't agree Kevin, why do you think we need to behave like straight people do to gain acceptance? Isn't the idea to achieve the respect we are entitled to based on who we are and not who we pretend to be? People need to feel free to express themselves in a way that makes them comfortable. The gentlemen were raising money for sick children and that is not offensive in any way. If they can do it by showing their butts, so what. It's just a butt, a body part. As long as they were nice butts... I would have voted for a hairless swimmer type butt personally. And I have to agree that if It was a female wet t-shirt contest the man would enjoyed it. He was freaking out because it was gay men and he is insecure with his own sexuality.

  • Name: Thom
    Date posted: 10/24/2009 6:31:55 PM
    Hometown: Hyannis, Ma

    Comment:

    Why wasn't there a privacy fence put up to block their view??? Use common sense gay people when you show your body parts in front of BIGOTS. Come on now!!!!

  • Name: Mark
    Date posted: 10/24/2009 6:02:37 PM
    Hometown: Sacramento

    Comment:

    It was my understanding that these were two seperate events yet held at the same location. The Barn Dance was the event raising money for the charity. The Best Buns contest was a seperate event on its own. And from what I saw .. it was men lowering their underwear to show their buns or wearing a jockstrap. I dont recall seeing any frontal views. The camera shots advertised I dont believe were takin from offsite .. They were WAY to close up concidering the location of the stage. But I would agree the buns contest should have been held elsewhere as a seperate event!

  • Name: Terry
    Date posted: 10/24/2009 5:49:07 PM
    Hometown: alameda

    Comment:

    Maybe so Kevin but we all know how straight men think. If it's a naked woman, no straight man in his right mind would ever, EVER call the police or complain about indecency. He'd be run out of town if he complained. I imagine even some women would think he would be out of his mind to complain.

  • Name: Kevin
    Date posted: 10/24/2009 10:41:11 AM
    Hometown: Los Angeles

    Comment:

    As a gay man, I find the gay community to be a little brash and not only entilement but also the public display of body parts be it man or woman is still disgusting....STOP THINKING THAT THIS IS OKAY! and it's sick that gay men NEED to show skin inorder to raise money we are fighting for people to take us seriously in the senate and our goverment and gay men like this who share the same ideas are not doing a damn thing for our cause!

  • Name: Michael
    Date posted: 10/24/2009 3:51:35 AM
    Hometown: Clayton, CA

    Comment:

    If had had been women in the contest displaying their buns, he would have been seated in a lawn chair in the driveway with a cooler and videotaping it all. Any gay person who reads this knows what the real issue is here.



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