Lifestyles & Communities
Leather Life: A Letter to EricJames Borges
Dear EricJames, I didn’t know you, but I wish I would have been able to. I wish I could have given you hope by telling you what we have in common, how things worked out for [...]
Socially Savvy: The ‘Club’
We all have that one place we love to frequent, the space that inspires amuses or calms us. It could be as simple as the coffee shop, a nearby pub, or the public library. Perhaps [...]
Leather Life: Altered States
Sometimes your humble columnist is startled to see concepts, ideas, and practices associated with the modern-day leather/BDSM/fetish community appear in other communities, places, and times. Throughout history, humans have yearned for altered states of consciousness. And they have [...]
Leather Life: Atons Holiday Fundraiser
The Atons of Minneapolis held their traditional Holiday Fundraiser on Sunday, December 4, at the Bolt Underground in Minneapolis. There was food, drink and general merriment, along with live and silent auctions, two bootblacks, holiday photos with Leather [...]
Big Gay News
Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, and in commemoration of the occasion, the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, headquartered at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, debunks the top 10 myths about HIV vaccine research. Myth No. [...]
Skirting the Issues: My Achilles’ Heel
I walked up to the bar and caught the eye of the bartender, a fifty something man sporting a graying beard and receding hairline. “A Chardonnay, please,” I said, smiling. I was wearing an age-appropriate [...]
Behaving Bradley: [MN]Love
Organizations, corporations, clubs and individuals across Minnesota and beyond have begun the battle to defeat next year’s statewide vote to constitutionally ban same-sex marriage. One of the more clever, creative groups lending their hand to [...]
Leather Life: A Beginning and an Ending
Two local leather/BDSM events with similar names, held the same September weekend, represented a beginning and an ending. The beginning: the first Northern Lights (and Kinky Nights) regional BDSM education weekend was held in St. [...]
At the Great Lakes Leather Alliance weekend A Picture is Worth…
Wow, have I taken a lot of photographs over the years! I never realized how many until I was asked to give a leather history presentation and started going through all my photos. The presentation [...]
Leatherpage.com Returns
One thing modern media technology has done for the leather/BDSM/fetish community is to increase both the number of voices from the community and the ability of those voices to be heard. When this column started [...]
