Tag Archives: leather

Watching The Defectives

Gentle readers, I’m rerunning my annual Pride rant for the fifth 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 Update

Those perverts at the Folsom Street East fair asked that I post this updated flyer and mention that I’ll again be a “celebrity” judge at the 5:30pm porn star contest. If you recall or were there, the last time I judged the contest…well, let’s just say that no photos were appropriate for this here website thingy. The fair takes place …

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Sunday In NYC: Folsom Street East

This Sunday over 10,000 kinksters, friends, and looky-loos will crowd Chelsea’s W.28th Street for the 13th Annual Folsom Street East Fair. Performers this year include Billboard Top Ten recording artist Sylvia Tosun, as well as Peppermint, Reina, Guy, the Johns, Kissy Kamikaze, The Imperial Court of New York, Noa Tylo and Fredrick Ford. Porn producer extraordinaire Chi Chi LaRue will …

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From Finland’s Green Party

(Via – Queerty)

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Daily Grumble

Two weeks ago my beloved Dugout inexplicably and officially became the Ramrod. Out went the jukebox so skillfully curated all these years by DJ Superdaddy. In came go-go boys, a leather shop, and a live DJ with a love for Britney and Madonna. Heavy, heavy sigh. A poster on the door gives the impression that “Ramrod has come back!” to …

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PhoboQuotable – Matt Barber

“Oh, those fun-loving little sadomasochists. They do enjoy their, um, slapstick, don’t they? I’m flattered to have made such an impression. Comedy aside, though, forgive me if I find the specter of a fussy little mob of queer CPAs, I.T. geeks and interior designers in buttless leather chaps pointing at me shrieking ‘There he is! There he is!’ a little …

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SF Police To Crackdown On Dore Alley Fair

San Francisco police have met with the organizers of the Up Your Alley Fair (better known to some as Dore Alley) to warn they will will not tolerate public sex at this year’s July event. The fair is considered the smaller, more local version of the famed Folsom Street Fair. Via Bay Area Reporter: The stepped up enforcement against lewd …

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VIDEO: Black Party 2009

ABOVE: One minute of the Black Party’s dance floor, shot at approximately 4:15am. The clip starts out a bit dark, but an explosion of strobe light madness brightens things up immensely.BELOW: My beloved Farmboys arrived shortly after noon, but I never found them as the crowd had scarcely lessened since my arrival around 2am. Below is Father Tony’s photo montage/video. …

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Craig Wins, Ted Eiel Spins

This week’s swag winner is Craig, who iPhoned us his photo from the locker room of his gym upon receiving notification of his win. Craig and a friend will attend Afterhours, DJ Junior Vasquez’ closing set at Black Party XXX (NSFW). Advance tickets for Black Party XXX are available online; tickets for Afterhours are $50 and available at the door …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the Saint-At-Large, today’s swag prize is two tickets to Afterhours, DJ Junior Vasquez’ closing performance at Rites XXX: The Black Party. Junior takes the stage at 10AM and is scheduled to play until 2:45PM (although he is rather famous for going long.) Tickets for Junior’s Black Party set will be $50 and available at the door only; admissions …

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Stephen & Snakes

Our most recent Swag Tuesday winner is Stephen, who will be attending Rites XXX: The Black Party courtesy of the Saint-At-Large. Interestingly, Stephen will not be bestowing his other ticket on his boyfriend. Party in the balcony! I kid, I kid. Advance tickets are available online here. RELATED: The promoters have asked me to mention that despite what this year’s …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the Saint-At-Large, today’s swag prize is two tickets to Rites XXX: The Black Party, the 30th annual installation of the most legendary gay dance party in history. Black Party XXX takes place Saturday, March 21st at Manhattan’s Roseland Ballroom in Times Square. This year’s Black Party DJs are Eddie Elias, Boris, and Junior Vasquez. View a special (NSFW) …

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Peter LaBarbera Hates Everybody Equally

Porno Pete LaBarbera is determined that no one in United States be allowed to enjoy sexual freedom. To that end, he’s now turned his piggy lust-filled eyes to the straight world’s cavalcade of kinkster and swing events, calling on his erect-for-Jeebus followers to deluge an Ohio hotel with complaints about a planned swinger/SM party. In his latest missive, LaBabera’s tongue …

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Leather Limericks

I forgot to post a short story yesterday, but in honor of the MAL brouhaha, here’s a few leather limericks I posted here in 2004. Slave wrote of his love and his prideAt being seen on the town by Sir’s sideHe wrote of chance and of fateAnd of finding love lateSir’s one word response: ‘Unsubscribe’ —- Top9 planned it all …

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Wingnuts Win, Doubletree Hotel Cancels MAL Party

Apparently due to pressure from Peter LaBarbera of the Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, the Doubletree Hotel in DC has reportedly canceled tonight’s sex party to be held in conjunction with Mid-Atlantic Leather. I can’t confirm this independently at the moment, but several JMG readers have reported getting emails from the party’s organizers announcing the cancellation. LaBarbera has another post …

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Wingnuts Demand End To MAL Sex Party

Well, this was inevitable. Thanks to Porno Pete LaBarbera and his endless enthusiasm for and attention to the sex lives of leathermen, wingnut sites such as Free Republic and WorldNetDaily are lighting up today over LaBarbera’s ::shocking:: finding that there will be a sex party during Mid-Atlantic Leather. Which, you know, is totally our coming communist dictator’s doing. From the …

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Obama Spokesman: The President-Elect Will Not Be Attending Mid-Atlantic Leather

Somebody at ABC figured out that the Obama inauguration happens a couple of days after the 25th Annual Mid-Atlantic Leather (MAL) Weekend in DC and wondered if the President-elect would be dropping by. Thousands of tourists pouring into Washington, D.C. for President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration will be sharing the nation’s capital with a few thousand predominantly gay leather fetishists, in …

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Real Bad Donates $160K

The staff of the 20th anniversary Real Bad party held their check presentation ceremony last night where they donated a record-setting $160,000 to five LGBT charities: AIDS Legal Referral Panel, GLBT Historical Society, Dimensions Clinic, openhouse, and The Positive Care Center at UCSF. Real Bad is the fantastic closing night party of the Folsom Street Fair put on by Grass …

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This Weekend In NYC

Well, look at that. JMG reader favorite Eric Leven is the covercub for the second annual New York Leather Weekend, which starts Friday. Lots of events: a bar crawl, a street fair, a dance, etc. I can’t vouch for any of it as I was out of town last year. Their site mentions vendors and food at the street fair, …

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You Will Obey

Lots of you sent in photos of the Leather Obama image seen all around Folsom Street Fair on Sunday, with some calling it disrespectful and others just finding it amusing. Go here for a totally NSFW gallery of Folsom goings-on. And of course, mansex-obsessed Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality has begun his annual posting of the nekkid …

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