Lifestyles & Communities
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 – December 1, 2011
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 [...]
Leather Legacies
Two leather/GLBT activists leave us It has been sobering and sorrowful to learn recently of the passing of two significant GLBT and leather activists—George Wong of Los Angeles on June 6, 2011, and Roger “R.J.” [...]
It Takes a Village to Raise a Drag Queen
I imagine the feeling I have following Pride each year is rather similar to the one felt by Santa Claus after Christmas: exhausted, gratified, and grateful to get the heck out of drag for a [...]
“International” Mr. Leather, Indeed
This year’s International Mr. Leather (IML) contest showed once again how truly “international” it has become. Eric Guttierez, Mr. Leather Europe 2010, was chosen the new International Mr. Leather on May 29. In his speech [...]
