Fleet Week - White Meat Monday Edition

Fleet Week continues here in New York City until Wednesday.

"A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guarantee of peace."

... Pres. Theodore Roosevelt

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Feel Free To ASK (For Sprinkles); TELL (What Flavor)

The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck is back in the city - just in time for Fleet Week.

Via Joe.My.God

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Fleet Week Sails Into NYC

From NY1:

Fleet Week kicked off Wednesday morning with a “Parade of Ships” on the Hudson, which included one massive craft built from World Trade Center steel. The USS New York, a ship constructed with nearly eight tons of steel from Ground Zero, led the procession at the launch of New York’s 24th annual Fleet Week. 

It is the boat’s first official trip to the city since being commissioned here in 2009.

“The fact that it has the steel from the Trade Center, that it was built to honor the memory of those who were lost on that day, it's incredibly moving to me,” said Captain Brenda Berkman of the FDNY. 

As the USS New York approached Lower Manhattan, its crew stood at attention to pay their respects to those killed in the terror attacks on September 11th.

NYC's Fleet Week 2010 Comes To An End...

A warm "buh-bye" to all the cute Sailors, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen who visited NYC over the past week.  Thank you for all you do - and may your journeys elsewhere be rewarding and free of incident.

The Fleet Is IN!

The USS Iwo Jima passes the lower Manhattan skyline this morning (Mark Lennihan/AP)

It's Fleet Week here in NYC - that magical time when drunken sailors and marines wander around Times Square looking for trouble and us New Yorkers help them find it.  God Bless America...

Fleet Week Begins In NYC

The fleet's in!!! Fleet Week has started in NYC - and the city streets are filling up with Sailors and Marines. While walking home yesterday I saw tons of hot military men - but I didn't take any PAPIveillance photos. I don't need Homeland Security knocking on my door...

The Fleet's In!

In honor of Fleet Week here in NYC, I present to you the painting The Fleet’s In!, by artist Paul Cadmus. Cadmus was born in Manhattan in 1904, and as a gay man he created controversy throughout his career. The scandal that put him on the map was the painting of The Fleet’s In! in 1933.

Cadmus was commissioned by the Public Works of Art Project (later part of the WPA) to paint during the Great Depression. In 1934, The Fleet’s In! was selected to be included in a show at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. The depiction of a homosexual man (on the left with the red tie - a recognized gay “signal” at the time) offering a sailor a cigarette was enough to have it removed from the show, by order of the Navy. Of course the fact that the drunken sailors are cavorting with prostitutes wasn’t a problem at all - but the mere SUGGESTION of homosexuality was enough to have it censored.

Due to the controversy, his first one-man show in Manhattan attracted 7,000 people. “I owe that Admiral a very large sum”, Cadmus remarked decades later.

He met Jon Anderson on a pier in Nantucket in 1964, and Anderson became Cadmus' muse and lover for 34 years - until Cadmus’ death in 1999.

Hello, Sailor!

It is Fleet Week here in New York City – and groups of uniformed Sailors and Marines can be seen wandering the streets of my fair city. Late at night, the proverbial drunken sailor (or two) can be spotted at some of Times Square's more seedy establishments, as well as in a Gay bar or two. They don’t go into these places in uniform (it’s against regulations) – but you can spot the crew cut a mile away.