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Oakland’s first Pride parade is today, but according to the San Francisco Chronicle, the leather community is not invited. One thing you probably won’t find at Oakland’s first LGBT Pride Parade on Sunday: partially clad men in leather chaps. What you will find is the Jolly Trolly from Children’s Fairyland, pony rides, antique fire engines and singer/drummer Sheila E. Instead …

Whenever Porno Pete LaBarbera goes silent for a few days on Twitter, I usually figure that he’s out slithering around some kink event with his camera. And sure enough, his recent absence from the Twittersphere came because he was stalking the attendees of last weekend’s Up Your Alley Fair, the smaller version of San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair that precedes …

Folsom Street East runs today on West 27th between 10th and 11th avenues. That’s one block south of the street in front of the Eagle. The weather today is partly cloudy with highs in the mid-70s – perfect for an outdoor party.

Details and bios. I know most of these guys!

Folsom Street East didn’t happen last year due to the massive apartment building that is nearing completion on West 28th Street. The event returns this year, one block away. Via press release: Folsom Street East (FSE) today announced that it will hold its 16th annual Street Fair on Sunday, June 22nd. In anticipation of final approval from the City of …

Not nearly as racy as previous years, much to the disappointment of Porno Pete, no doubt.

Washington DC’s Eagle nightclub has been granted a 30-day extension on its lease and will remain open through the end of this month, much to the relief of Mid-Atlantic Leather attendees. Yesterday the Leather Journal  (not office safe) published details about a new location scheduled to open late this summer. The updated 16,000 square-foot building, which was originally a slaughter …

Just yesterday I mentioned that the Saint-At-Large hadn’t yet revealed if the Black Party would return to the Roseland before it closes on April 1st. I spoke too soon.

The legendary Roseland Ballroom, home to the Saint-At-Large Black Party for more than two decades, will reportedly close in April. Via Billboard Magazine: Evolving from ballroom dancing in the ‘20s to popular music, Roseland has for years been a favored New York play for a wide range of bands from the early days of rock, through disco, grunge, modern rock, …

Back in March, I reported that Chelsea’s iconic Rawhide bar was closing after 34 years in business.  Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York reports on what is going in at that location: Crain’s reports that Chelsea’s iconic gay leather bar is “being replaced by a West coast pizza chain, in another sign of the gentrification of the area around the popular High …

“Below is the ‘official’ promotional poster for the Folsom Street Fair, an annual, sadomasochism-celebrating street festival in San Francisco. The ‘fair’ is notorious for its open-air perversions, mocking of religion, sadistic whippings, ‘master-slave’ couples, and full nudity — and the latter will be allowed again this year due to an exemption granted to FSF to a new anti-public-nudity law passed …

One of the more interesting pitches to hit the JMG in-box this week….

Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the ninth year. I wrote this post in 2005 a couple of days after attending Pride here in NYC. In the following years I’ve reposted it in advance of the day in the hope of encouraging you to attend. This year it appears a week early because of a widely circulated …

The organizers of Folsom Street East announced this afternoon that this year’s event has been canceled. It is with sadness that the Producers and Board of Directors of Folsom Street East have to announce that the 17th annual Folsom Street East Street Festival this June is going to be cancelled. Though we continue to receive support for this community-building and …

Clip description: Until the year 1971, being gay in Finland could land you in jail for years. There was a boy born in 1920. In his childhood, he drew pictures of naked men. While drawing, he wore only leather boots. As a young man, he fought in the war and had sex with his fellow soldiers, both Finnish and German. …

Courtesy of the Saint At Large, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to this year’s Black Party Expo, the two-day run up to the most famed gay dance party in the world. This year’s Expo includes a performance by popular house music artist Billie Ray Martin, who takes the Roseland Ballroom stage on Friday night at 9PM. The Black …

Totally not office-friendly unless you work at Nasty Pig.

Also from James Franco and also debuting this weekend at Sundance. Via press release: Director Christina Voros and producer James Franco pull back the curtain on the fetish empire of Kink.com, the Internet’s largest producer of BDSM content. In a particularly obscure corner of an industry that operates largely out of public view, Kink.com’s directors and models strive for authenticity. …

Yesterday Diocese of Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprocki testified against same-sex marriage before the Illinois state Senate. His testimony came just days after he was forced to put one of his own kinky priests on leave for calling 911 to get help to free himself from handcuffs and a mouth gag. NO SEX UNTIL MARRIAGE! Below is the letter Paprocki is …