Tag Archives: leather

Illinois Catholic Priest Calls 911: “Help! I Can’t Get Out Of These Handcuffs!”

The 911 operator in Springfield, Illinois fielded an unusual emergency call from the local Catholic church in late November.  The story was published yesterday by the Illinois Times. The pastor of St. Aloysius church on Springfield’s north end has been granted a leave of absence after he called 911 from the rectory and told a dispatcher that he needed help …

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Real Bad Party Raises $200K For Charities

Real Bad, the annual volunteer-run closing party for Folsom Street Fair, raised a record $200,000 this year for its beneficiaries. Via press release, here’s where the money will go: AIDS Emergency Fund: A provider of financial resources to prevent homelessness and add stability to the lives of those disabled by HIV/AIDS. Alliance Health Project: An organization that brings the skills …

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Bill Donohue: Why Do Attendees Of Folsom Street Fair Only Mock Catholics?

“Last Sunday, homosexuals paraded around naked in the streets of San Francisco at the annual Folsom Street Fair. There were no arrests. They did more than walk the streets nude—they beat each other with whips. The leather/fetish homosexuals led each other around like dogs with metal collars; they set up booths where visitors could get flogged; they sold hard-core pornography; …

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Huge Crowds For Folsom 2012

Did anybody get attendance figures for this year? More photos here.

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The History Of A Kinky Retailer

As Folsom Street Fair approaches, Chelsea’s kinkwear outlet Nasty Pig has published a history of their company. Even if you’re not in the scene, you might be interested in how leather fashion has evolved over the last couple of decades. Also interesting is that Nasty Pig has been sued for spoofing Absolut and Major League Baseball. Naughty photos at the …

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SF Eagle To Reopen

Via the website: It will take a couple of months to do the much-needed repairs and upgrades that the property requires, but some upcoming events are already in the works prior to the opening of the bar. Please check this website periodically for new announcements coming soon. The bar and patio located at 398 12th Street has long been a …

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TAMPA: Venue For GOProud’s Homocon 2012 Hosts Monthly Fetish Sex Parties

Ybor City’s Honey Pot, the venue for GOProud’s Homocon 2012 event during the GOP convention, also hosts monthly fetish sex parties. Interesting. And we are already know that the Honey Pot is just three gay skips from the “discreet rear entrance” of the local bathhouse, which is offering free admittance to RNC attendees. GOProud’s Chris Barron says he doesn’t give …

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Folsom Street Fair 2012

This clip is a couple of months old, but I only just noticed it last night while enjoying one of them there “this is why homos must be put to death” knuckle-dragging sites. It cracks me up, truly, how wild-eyed wingnuts get about a once-a-year, six-hour event. Meanwhile, they have nothing to say about the nation’s thousands of titty bars …

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When Raquel Met The Leathermen

Gothamist has dug up a vintage 1980 television dance sequence in which Raquel Welch encounters some stereotypical New Yorkers on the subway. Jive-talkin’ blacks! Hot-blooded Latinas! Dancing leathermen! All the boys are gay gay gay, of course.

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Slave To The Schism

Gotham’s tabloid readers are getting a look at the straight S&M scene via a New York Post accounting of a female slave who has been busted for stalking her former master after a tumultuous breakup. Unlike the bondage novice in the hit book “Fifty Shades of Grey,’’ the longtime fetish slave of a Manhattan investment banker yesterday told The Post …

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NEW YORK CITY: Chelsea Condo Owners Seek To Close Folsom Street East

New York City’s Folsom Street East Fair is this Sunday and Jeremiah Moss reports that the owners of luxury condos nearby have petitioned the local community board to end the fair. Moss’ site Vanishing New York has a quote from a resident: Residents from several surrounding buildings have passed fliers asking our residents to write to the Community Board to …

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Mr. Michigan Wins IML 2012

Details.

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CHICAGO: Labor Controversy As Leather Event May Cross Host Hotel Picket Lines

The 34th annual International Mister Leather convention is taking place this weekend in Chicago, where attendees at the host hotel could potentially face a picket line over a long-running union labor dispute. The Hyatt Regency Chicago, site of the recent competitions, has been at the center of a bitter a contract fight with workers represented by the union UNITE HERE …

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Swag Tuesday

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. Advance tickets to the Black Party Expo and Black Party XXXIII are available here. Enter to win Expo tickets by commenting on this post. Only enter once …

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New Date For Folsom Street Fair

Peter LaBarbera’s favorite freak festival is changing its date for the first time in decades. Blame Larry Ellison. Next year’s fair will take place Sunday, September 23. Organizers opted to move the festival, which draws hundreds of thousands of people each year, to avoid a scheduling conflict with Oracle OpenWorld, which will run September 30 through October 4. Demetri Moshoyannis, …

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Tweet of The Day – Porno Pete

Porno Pete isn’t too grateful to Jesus’ General, who says he’s leaving Pete his chaps when he gets raptured on May 21st. I’m leaving my leather chaps behind. I don’t have any room to carry them, and I’m afraid that if I wear them, my ass will get frostbitten as I’m raptured through the upper part of the atmosphere. That’s …

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Noisy Neighbors

After buying a new condo, a San Francisco man is upset because he wasn’t warned in advance that his downstairs neighbor is into noisy leather sex. And now he can’t let his ten year-old son move in. Hagerty said all was well until he announced that he intended to remove the carpet and padding in his unit to help with …

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TONIGHT: Save The SF Eagle Meeting

As I noted yesterday, San Francisco’s venerable Eagle Tavern is scheduled to close at the end of the month. Tonight community activists will meet to discuss “strategies for fighting the Eagle’s closure, as well as the ongoing crisis of loss of gay property ownership in San Francisco and the continuing erosion of our iconic gay bar scene.” Facebook event page …

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SF’s Eagle Tavern To Close

Readers are emailing this weekend to report that staffers at San Francisco’s Eagle Tavern are telling patrons that the iconic Sunday beer bust hangout will be closing in two weeks. Last January a local website reported that the building was for sale and provided the below rendering of what may be built at that location. Man, I’m gonna miss that …

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Slick It Up

Probably NSFW.

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