Porno Pete Flops At IML

It’s International Mister Leather weekend in Chicago and yesterday Porno Pete announced a “press conference” to be held today outside the Leather Archives. Pity the press didn’t show up. Via DNA Info:

A handful of anti-gay activists and their cameramen held an event Friday morning dubbing the longstanding Leather Archives & Museum a “perversion museum” that promotes incest, pedophilia and sadomasochism to children. But Rogers Park neighbors weren’t having it. Naperville-based hate group Americans for Truth About Homosexuality planned the protest at the 16-year-old, adults-only museum at 6418 N. Greenview Ave. in before the International Mr. Leather conference this weekend Downtown. The four protesters who showed up on behalf of the group (not counting two camera men documenting the whole thing) were quickly outnumbered by local detractors telling them to “go home.” LaBarbera said the museum promoted incest, pedophilia and sadomasochism in a residential neighborhood near schools. The museum also promotes “consensual sexual violence” and “consensual slavery,” he said. But LaBarbera wouldn’t say how passing children could get inside the museum, where only adults are admitted and the door is locked around the clock.

Porno Pete was also very upset because the museum’s neighbors ripped up the anti-gay flyers he’d placed on car windshields around the neighborhood. Because that’s censorship! And closing down a museum isn’t! Accompanying Porno Pete was Mike Heath, who years ago was booted out of the very anti-gay Maine Family Policy Council for being too much of a douchebag, even for them. Hit the link for more about today’s nonsensery.

(Tipped by JMG reader Rebecca)