Mark Hay

If only every company were as humble and helpful with their cheap, novelty products as are the #PenisPans #Cake folks http://t.co/zSzIV8smnd

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Bio: Mark Hay attends Columbia University where he is the Editor-in-Chief of Awaaz: The Voice of South Asia and the Columbia Political Review, and writes for Bwog and the Blue and White.

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Expansionist N.Y.U. does due-diligence presentation, Villagers hiss

There wasn't much room for conciliation. The audience, which at one point looked to have been about 150 people, greeted the university officials' presentation—which included an acknowledgment of previous wrongs—with an awkward trickle of applause. More

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on June 22nd, 2010 9:22am

 
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Dandy journeys to the underworld

Sebastian Horsley was a throwback to the kind of debauchery-as-lived-art that seems to have little place in this decidedly unromantic and ungritty moment.

This was a man who gained international fame in 2000 when he underwent a voluntary crucifixion in the Philippines, for art and attention, though among those who took him seriously, separating those motives was always just a bore."As an artist I don’t want to paint things as they are but the way I feel and sense they are," Horsley once said about the crucifixion episode. "I can only feel and sense how they are by undergoing the experience." More

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on June 18th, 2010 3:17pm

 
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Polyamorous people: Wescott, Wheeler and Lynes' tenuous legacy

Shortly after the start of a meeting of Polyamorous NYC at the LGBT Community Center last night, a woman, hair jutting askew in thick and stubby multi-colored braids, introduced herself. Her name was J, and she sells Obama novelty condoms in Times Square.She is not a regular at the gatherings of Polyamorous NYC, the nation's only group exploring long-term, romantic multi-partner relationships specifically geared toward the "LGBT" set. The group typically meets in a smaller room, but last night's event, which marked their 10th anniversary, was a larger affair—a full-scale lecture on the lives of three famous, powerful and openly polyamorous men: MoMA curator Monroe Wheeler and his lover of 67 years, the author Glenway Wescott. They were joined for 15 years by the comparatively youthful photographer George Platt Lynes. More

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on June 17th, 2010 3:53pm