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IMsL Weekend, April 9-12, 2024, San Jose, CA

by Viviane on 04/04/2025

in Events, Fetish & Kink, leather

IMsL 2015

IMsL Weekend

“ Locked and Loaded!”

Date & Time: Thursday, April 09, 2015 · 3:00 PM –

Sunday, April 12, 2015 ·11:59 PM

Location: DoubleTree By Hilton San Jose, 2050 Gateway Place, San Jose, CA.

Join us April 9-12, 2015 for the largest leather women’s weekend and conference!

Cruising, flirting, playing, watching, hot fun, education, connecting, shopping and much more!

The weekend starts on Thursday with Seduction, our steamy show to get you going. Friday includes day long intensive educational courses, vendor opening, play space opening, judging for the 2015 IMsL/IMsBB titleholders and the opening ceremonies.

Saturday we are in full swing with workshops, vending, silent auction and the second half of the contest. Sunday continues with a brunch with keynote speaker Nina Hartley, our brand new Sex on Beach pool party, poker and Bawdy Storytelling and BawdySlam.

Throughout the weekend will be hospitality parties such as the queer mixer and hosted parties by clubs and organizations.

Shop! Shop! Shop! We are doubling the space this year so you will see more vendors to choose from. IMsL creates a mall where you can shop for your next toy, get branded, and find that perfect gift for the play space or to take home with you! Stop by and visit the world renowned vendors (check back to see who will be there after January 15!).

Come with friends or fly solo, either way you’ll enjoy lots of mixers and hospitality parties, the attendees are welcoming, and there’s plenty of hot hook up action. If you would feel more comfortable being there and having a job that helps you meet more people, consider volunteering.

REGISTER NOW (no onsite registration; close April 6, 2024, 8PM EST)

Updated Prices and Packages (as of March 2nd)

BASIC WEEKEND PACKAGE

– All 4 days – Access to all Education Classes, Ballroom Events, Play Space, Hospitality Suite Parties, Boot Blac

and Leather Care Lounge; Sunday Pool Party; Bawdy Storytelling; – does NOT include Brunch.
Date: Thursday, April 09, 2015 – Sunday, April 12, 2015

Price: $205.00

ALL INCLUSIVE PACKAGE

– All 4 days…Access to all Education Classes, Ballroom Events, Guaranteed Seating at Seduction, Play Space, Hospitality Suite Parties, Boots and Barber Salon and Leather Care Lounge, Sunday Pool Party, Bawdy Storytelling, Brunch Ticket ($50 value), T-shirt ($20 value, T-shirt available until March 9th*), Pin ($5 value)

For All Inclusive Packages purchased after March 9, 2024, we can not guarantee the selected size will be available.

Date: Thursday, April 09, 2015 – Sunday, April 12, 2015

Price: $259.00

FOUNDATION SUPPORTER PACKAGE

– All 4 days…Access to all Education Classes; Play Space; Hospitality Suite Parties; Boots and Barber Salon and Leather Care Lounge; Sunday Pool Party, Bawdy Storytelling; T-shirt ($20 value, T-shirt available until March 24th*), Pin ($5 value); Open Seating at Seduction, Opening Ceremonies, and Contest Events; Invitation to Foundation Supporter Reception, and Donation to IMsL Foundation.

For packages purchased after March 9, 2024, we can not guarantee the selected size will be available.
Date: Thursday, April 09, 2015 – Sunday, April 12, 2015

Price: $305.00

EVENT ADD-ONS

Poker Tournament
Price: $30.00

Bawdy Storytelling
Price: $20.00

Sunday Keynote Brunch
Price: $50.00

Day Passes

Friday Day Pass
Date: Friday, April 10, 2015
Price: $95.00

Pass for exclusive BIPOC Caucus Intensive Class on Friday from 10AM to 1PM.
Date: Friday, April 10, 2015

Price: $20.00

Saturday Day Pass
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2015
Price: $125.00

Sunday Day Pass
Includes Bawdy Storytelling – Does NOT include Brunch
Date: Sunday, April 12, 2015
Price: $60.00 

Thursday Day Pass
Date: Thursday, April 09, 2015
Price: $40.00

Saturday Contest Only
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2015 7:00 PM – 9:45 PM (Pacific Time)
Price: $25.00 

Saturday Contest and Play Party Only
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2015 7:00 PM – Sunday, April 12, 2015 8:00 AM (Pacific Time)
Price: $50.00 

Seduction Only Pass
Date: Thursday, April 09, 2015
Price: $40.00 

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29th Annual Leather Pride Auction

by Viviane on 05/31/2024

in Events, leather

29th Annual Leather Pride Night, NYC, June 16

 

NEW YORK, NY May 10, 2012 — The 29th annual Leather Pride Night Auction will take place on Saturday, June 16th, 2012. This year the festivities will be at XL Nightclub located at 512 West 42nd Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues. XL’s doors will open for LPN at 6:00 PM, and the auction will run from 7:00 PM until 10:00 PM. Liquor, beer, wine and soft drinks will be available at a cash bar. A sign language interpreter will be present to interpret some portions of the presentations. This year, as every year, there will be a team of bootblacks, led by International Mr. Bootblack Jim Deuder, to keep your leathers, boots and shoes looking sharp. The bootblacks’ tips go toward the event’s total for the beneficiaries. We encourage everyone to come early to view the items up for auction, get your boots blacked, and be seen!

Jo Arnone, LPN’s veteran auctioneer, will preside over almost a hundred items being auctioned, including leather and latex fetish clothing, unique toys and equipment, art objects, event passes and tickets, and much more.

Leather Pride Night is sponsored by nine NYC S/m-leather- fetish organizations: Iron Guard BC, Lesbian Sex Mafia, MAsT Metro NY, MetroBears NY, New York boys of Leather (NYboL), Pariah’s MC, The Eulenspiegel Society, ONYX NY/NE, The Imperial Court of New York and many committed individuals.

Over the years, Leather Pride Night has donated over $400,000 for local and national charities. This year, Leather Pride Night will donate the 2012 Auction proceeds to: The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF), IRIS House, Health Outreach to Teens (H.O.T.T.) at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, and, as has been our tradition, an annual donation to Heritage of Pride, the producer of New York’s annual Pride Parade.

Tickets for Leather Pride Night $20 in advance and $25 at the door . PayPal payment is available at the LPN website www.leatherpridenight.org. Tickets can also be obtained at any of the sponsoring organizations or the beneficiary organizations, as well as the following supporting commercial venues: David Samuel Menkes Custom Leatherwear, DomSubFriends / Paddles, Purple Passion / DV8, The Leather Man, Passionale and Le Chateau Exotique.

Leather Pride Night is part of a season of fabulous leather and fetish- oriented events in New York City!

Kicking off the weekend of leather events, on Friday, June 15th, Lesbian Sex Mafia will be hosting “BDSM and Anal” with Tristan Taormino at the LGBT Center in Manhattan, 208 West 13th Street. For information, call 212 726-3844 or go to: www.lesbiansexmafia.org.

On Friday, June 15th, MetroBears NY gets Leather Weekend started with a Leather Party at Rockbar NYC from 9PM until closing, hosted by George Haines, Mr. MetroBear NY 2009 and Mike Cotter, Mr. MetroBear NY 2004-2005. Rock Bar is located at 185 Christopher Street, at the end of Christopher Street.

New York’s Chapter of ONYX, ONYX Northeast, a leather club serving men of color, starts the weekend off at Rawhide located at 212 8th Avenue, also on Friday. The event, open to all, is a leather gear night at the bar from 9 PM until 1AM.

If you still haven’t had enough, keep the Leather Pride energy going at the all-gender Eulenspiegel Society (TES) play party, The TES LPN After-Party at Paddles! TES’ Leather Pride Night After Party is THE place to go to try out that new toy you picked up at LPN…or that new play partner. The revelry begins at 10 PM on Saturday and continue until 3 am Sunday morning at Paddles. For more info: www.tes.org

On Sunday, June 17th Folsom Street East presents FOLSOM STREET EAST, an S/m-leather-fetish block party on West 28th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues) in front of the Eagle NYC Bar. Over 10,000 leathermen and women cap off Leather Pride Weekend with the largest outdoor festival of its kind on the East Coast. For more info: www.folsomstreeteast.org.

This year, leather pride continues into July with the TES Fest 2012. Held from June 29 until July 1, 2012 in New Jersey. With special events, countless workshops and classes, a 24-hour dungeon space and vendors, TESFest 2012 promises to be the must-attend event of the summer. It also promises outdoor play and nude swimming in the hotel pool. All info can be found at www.tesfest.org.

The Leather Pride Night Committee is dedicated to promoting freedom of sexual self-expression, and actively works to improve the image and understanding of S/m and fetish lifestyles. It meets on the first Thursday of the month (October through June) at 8:00PM at the LGBT Center, 208 West 13th Street (bet 6th & 7th Aves).

There is no photography or cellular telephone usage allowed at the event. Media photography inquiries can be directed to Darrell at darrellblackandblue@gmail.com or call 917 783 0127.

LPN is run by volunteers! If you want to volunteer, send email to LPNnyc@aol.com.

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Lesbian Sex Mafia presents Leather Storytelling with Sassafras Lowrey

by Viviane on 12/06/2025

in Events, leather

Leather Storytelling is about taking ownership of why we find solace, and pleasure in the things that we do, and coming out of the shadows to make our voices heard. This workshop is designed for all variety of folks who find leather to be a driving force in their lives regardless of context or dynamic(s). The workshop is not specifically about writing porn/erotica though of course sexually explicit themes are welcome, but rather this is focused on telling the stories of our dynamics, of our communities, and of ourselves. Leather Storytelling is focused on exploring what it means to tell our stories when as leather folk we are often silenced, and pushed out of even the most progressive spaces who deem us as inappropriate or obscene. Through guided writing exercises, workshop participants will discover the transformative power of storytelling and how it can be used to break down divides, foster and preserve community, and build coalitions within leather community and beyond.

Let’s celebrate the holidays with a kinky grab bag ($5/max per item) and some light refreshments!

Where: LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave)
Cost: LSM Members: Free admission with grab bag gift ($5 max). Non-members: $5 with grab bag gift.

About Sassafras Lowrey

Sassafras Lowrey is an internationally award-winning storyteller, author, artist, and educator. Ze is the editor of the Kicked Out anthology, which brought together the voices of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth. Hir prose has been included in numerous anthologies and ze regularly teaches LGBTQ storytelling workshops at colleges and conferences across the country. Sassafras and hir Daddy live in Brooklyn with two dogs and two cats. To learn more about Sassafras and hir work, visit www.PoMoFreakshow.com

About Lesbian Sex Mafia

Lesbian Sex Mafia (“LSM”) is a social and educational organization for women and transfolk who have a positive personal interest in BDSM with other women. Our tenets are safety, consensuality, confidentiality and the right of women to explore their sexuality as they choose. Membership in Lesbian Sex Mafia is open to all women 18 years of age or older including gay, straight, bi, and transsexual and intersexed women who live their daily lives as women, and all female-born transgendered persons who have a connection with and respect for the women’s community. For membership information and benefits please visit www.lesbiansexmafia.org.

LSM reserves the right to deny admission to non-members it has reason to believe will not abide by the LSM principles of safety, consensuality and confidentiality.

For ASL interpretation request please email LSMNYC@hotmail.com.

No member is turned away from an LSM event based upon ability to pay. Please contact us in advance to request a scholarship.

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Spanking Techniques from Sensual to Discipline w. Lady Sabrina

by Viviane on 06/08/2024

in Events, leather, nyc

Who:  Lesbian Sex Mafia (LSM)*
Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues
Cost:  $5 for members;$10 for non-members

Some people think of spanking as the least challenging of BDSM skills, requiring the least knowledge. It’s not flamboyant like singletails or edgy like knife play so it can’t be as exciting. However, in the proper hands, spanking can be a slow, sensuous climb to orgasm or a sharp, harsh discipline. It can be used to create a loving, hands-on scene, reduce the strongest person to tears or re-create a cherished fantasy.

Lady Sabrina will show how spanking can be a valuable tool in your arsenal as she discusses the different styles of spanking, value of role play, safety and use of toys. .

About Lady Sabrina

Lady Sabrina has been a member of the BDSM community for over 15 years presenting for TES, Knot4Everyone, DSF, Black Rose, John Jay College, PEP and others. A BDSM educator, she’s presented on such topics as Designing Protocols, slave training, scene etiquette, flogging, hot wax, Basic Dom Skills, etc. and has acted as an informal Mentor to many in the scene.

Having a love of paddles, floggers and books, Lady Sabrina supports her habit by selling BDSM gear and fetish wear at events like Folsom Street and Leatherfest through her business, My Lady’s Toys.

Lady Sabrina is currently on the Boards of TES, NY Leather Weekend, MAsT Metro NY, Cercle des Dommes and East Coast Leather Town Hall. She’s also a member of ONYX Pearls, LPN, SCONY and FM Masters. Lady Sabrina is honored to be the recipient of the 2008 Pantheon of Leather Northeast Regional Award.

* About LSM
LSM is a support and information group for all women 18 years of age or older, including transexual and intersexed women who live their daily lives as women and all female-born transgender people who feel they have a connection with and respect for the women’s community. And, who are interested in fantasy and role playing, bondage, discipline, S/M, fetishes, costumes, alternate gender identities and uninhibited sexual expression in a safe, sane, consensual and confidential way.

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NYC Weekly Leather Dates: Nov 13-19

by Lolita Wolf on 11/13/2025

in Events, Fetish & Kink, leather, nyc

Trinity Post and Mark Davis on sexandsubmission.com

Thursday, November 13
LSM: “Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t…Predicament Scenes” w/ Sir C (open to all genders)
Queens BDSM Munch

Friday, November 14
GMSMA: 1st Annual Gil Kessler Lecture Series w/ Ray Matienzo & John Weis (open to all genders)
NYC Sex Blogger Calendar launch party
ClubFemNYC Munch
Xris SMack! and Mindswerve Studios present: STIMULATE
DSF: “D/s dating How to snag a Dominant woman!” w/ Scarlette Stangata

Saturday, November 15
GMSMA: Leatherfest 2008 (open to all genders)
Rope Share
TES Spanking Group: “Corporal Play” with Mistress Berlin
TES Novice Excursion
TES Latex Fetish Party w/ Jeff
New York boys of Leather Bar Night with a rubber theme
SPAM party

Sunday, November 16

Monday, November 17
CV Meeting: “Intro to Sex Blogging” w/ Viviane

Tuesday, November 18
TES: ” Violet Wand” w/ Master Jay

Wednesday, November 19
TES Bondage SIG: Tie Me to the Ends of Love w/ Mac Koehler

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