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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the Saint-At-Large (NSFW) this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to the 32nd annual Black Party (NSFW), the longest-running and most famous leather dance party in the world, which this year stars DJ Boris of Berlin, DJ Manny Lehman, and legendary house music pioneer DJ Danny Tenaglia. Advance tickets are on sale here. Also on sale are …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the Saint At Large (NSFW) this week’s Swag Tuesday prizes are two tickets each to the major events that bookend next week’s Black Party Weekend (NSFW), Friday and Saturday’s Black Party Expo and Sunday night’s closing party, After Black: Asylum. Black Party ExpoFriday, March 18th – 5pm – 1amSaturday, March 19th – 12pm – 7pm Billed as “Behind …

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TRAILER: Black Party 2011

The 32nd annual Black Party (NSFW) rolls into Manhattan’s Roseland Ballroom on March 19th. Here’s the trailer (NSFW) for this year’s party, where the theme appears to be human cloning. Sexy human cloning.

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SAN FRANCISCO: Real Bad Party Donates $180K To LGBT Community Groups

This year’s Real Bad party, the closing event of Folsom Street Fair, raised a record-breaking $180,000 for local LGBT and HIV/AIDS groups. Via press release: Five selected LGBT health and community service organizations are sharing the funds raised, which include 100 percent of the money collected from general admission ticket sales. The beneficiary organizations are Maitri, the only residential care …

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SAN FRANCISCO: Real Bad Party Announces 2010 Beneficiaries & DJ

Grass Roots Gay Rights West, the producers of the annual post-Folsom Street Fair party Real Bad, have announced the beneficiaries of this year’s event. This year’s worthy organizations: The National AIDS Memorial Grove, San Francisco Suicide Prevention, Project Open Hand, Visual Aid (services for artists living with AIDS), and Maitri (residential end-stage care for people with AIDS.) To date, Real …

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Watching The Defectives

Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the sixth 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. My apologies to those that have read it before. Have a wonderful …

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Folsom Street East: Sunday, June 20th

New York City’s annual leather street festival, Folsom Street East, is next Sunday, June 20th. Inspired by San Francisco’s legendary Folsom Street Fair, FSE was founded in 1997 by former Gay Male S/M Activists (GMSMA) chair John Weis and a cohort of similarly-minded New York City leathermen. “I thought that having a fun day in the sun for the SM/leather …

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Disabled Trans Man Wins IML 2010

Tyler McCormick, a disabled trans man from New Mexico, has won the 32nd Annual International Mr. Leather. In the short clip below, the top three winners are announced.

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No Bareback Porn On Sale At IML

The International Mr. Leather convention has followed through on their vow to ban the selling of barebacking porn at their vendor mart. Via Chicagoist: “For many years, our organization has always preached the importance of safe- sex,” explains [IML coordinator RJ] Chaffin. “It has been on the lips of many people, [the fact that] we speak out on safe-sex, but …

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Folsom Street Fair’s 2010 Poster

Folsom Street Fair has released this year’s poster. From their press release: This year, the official Folsom Street Fair poster was inspired by both the film The Usual Suspects and the 2009 police raids on gay bars like the Atlanta Eagle and The Rainbow Lounge in Ft. Worth, Texas. In light of these recent events, the organization felt it was …

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Black Party 2010 @ 8:00am

Here’s 30 seconds of Black Party 2010, as viewed from the balcony of the Roseland Ballrooom just after 8am this morning. (Warning, the audio is VERY bad. It didn’t seem that loud where I was standing, but my little digicam just freaks out over heavy bass. So turn this DOWN.) I’ll probably post a fuller review later in the week, …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the Saint At Large, today’s Swag Tuesday prizes are tickets to this Saturday’s 31st annual legendary Black Party, the most famous/infamous gay dance party in the history of the world. The party takes place at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan, just off Times Square. This year’s Black Party DJs are Hector Fonseca, Paulo, and Ana Paula. Popular NYC …

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SF Eagle For Sale

A reader sends us this rendering of a proposed building for the site of the SF Eagle, which is for sale. According to commenters on the linked item, the owner will retain the Eagle’s sister bar, the Hole In The Wall. Will the SF Eagle relocate, should a buyer be found? Insiders, weigh in please. I’ve had some fantastic times …

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Mister Marcus Dies At 77

Bay Area Reporter columnist Marcus Hernandez, known internationally to the leather community as Mister Marcus, has died at the age of 77 after a prolonged illness. His snark and gossip-filled column ran in the BAR for 38 years. The cause of death was complications from diabetes and arteriosclerosis. Mr. Hernandez was known to his legions of readers by his pen …

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Just Call It The Vanilla-Packing District

Remember the amusing flap of last month in which guests of the Meatpacking District’s Standard Hotel were performing sex shows and porn shoots from the floor-to-ceiling windows of rooms overlooking the High Line Park? Remember how the Standard had been encouraging such performances on their Facebook page? Well, it turns out that’s a one-way, hetero-only ride down Vanilla Street. Via …

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REAL BAD Announces Beneficiaries & DJ

The organizers of Real Bad, the all-volunteer charity dance event that closes Folsom Street Fair every year, have announced this year’s beneficiaries and DJ. Grass Roots Gay Rights West (GRGR/West), producers of the annual REAL BAD fundraising party which follows San Francisco’s world-renowned Folsom Street Fair, today announced the beneficiaries and DJ for REAL BAD XXI. Four LGBT health and …

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More Harassment Of Texas Gay Bars?

In what some patrons are describing as a continuing harassment of Texas gay bars, yesterday the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission closed the Dallas Eagle during its grand re-opening due to the presence of a minor. TABC agents had visited the club earlier in the evening and forced the suspension of sales because an inaccurate address on the liquor license. (The …

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Peter LaBarbera Lies For Jeebus. Again.

In a piece instantly lapped up by wingnut sites like World Net Daily and others, leather-fascinated closet case Peter LaBarbera has trained his beady pig-eyes for the first time on NYC’s Folsom Street East. Sending an undercover cameraman into the paid-admission only event, Porno Pete has again published photos of unsuspecting fairgoers, making the ridiculous claim that “hundreds of fully …

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Slideshow: Folsom Street East 2009

Despite the intermittent showers, the folks at Folsom Street East pulled off another huge success, with Chelsea’s W. 28th mobbed at times from end to end. As per usual, there was a guy with a snake, a guy with a parrot, and just to shake up tradition – a guy with a weasel. Also: drunk boys, leather boys, and pony …

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Folsom East Umbrella Fair Today

As you can see, we’re due for another wet Folsom East Fair today, but the forecast only calls for a half-inch of rain all day, so at best we’re probably only gonna get sprinkled on. When it started raining last year, the 10,000 or so folks in attendance had nowhere to run, so we all just covered our beers and …

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