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On December 7th, the erotic reading series Between the Covers will host contributors and examine E.L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy at the Happy Ending Lounge.
Featuring contributors to Smart Pop’s latest title, Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey , this diverse group includes:
- Reading Series Host: Lori Perkins, editor of Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey, publisher of Riverdale Avenue Books, and editor of 20 erotic anthologies
- Laura Antoniou, author of the long-celebrated BDSM series, The Marketplace
- Susan Colón, romance novelist and O, The Oprah Magazine contributor
- Sherri Donovan, matrimonial lawyer
- Melisa Febos, memoirist and author of Whip Smart
- Megan Frampton, romance novelist and Heroes and Heartbreakers romance blog moderator
- Louise Fury, literary agent
- Catherine Hiller, author and PhD
- Debra Hyde, winner of the 2011 Best Lesbian Erotica Lambda Literary Award for her BDSM tale Story of L
- D.L. King, erotic romance author and BDSM lifestyle participant
- Hope Tarr, PhD, historical and contemporary romance author
When: Friday, Dec., 7th, 8:00 PM
Where: Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street (bet. Forsyth and Eldridge. Pink awning says “Xie He Health Club”)
Admission: FREE
About Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey
In Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey, 50 writers—from romance and erotica authors, to real-world BDSM practitioners, to adult entertainment industry professionals—continue the conversation with sections on Fifty Shades as erotic fiction, sexual empowerment, fanfiction, and pop culture.
“Fascinating examination of E.L. James’s Fifty Shades trilogy . . . Love Fifty Shades or hate it, this engaging and eclectic read has a little bit of something for everyone.”
—Publishers Weekly starred review
E. L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy has fascinated and seduced millions of readers. In bedrooms, in book clubs, and in the media, people can’t stop talking about it!
About Between the Covers and Smart Pop
Between the Covers reading series spotlights authors and their works with readings, door prizes, and endless enthusiasm for all things erotically edgy. Hosted by publisher and editor Lori Perkins, the series happens the first Friday of the month at Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street, New York, New York.
Doors open at 7:00 pm. for socializing.
Reading begins promptly at 8:00! Between the Covers is a 21-and-older event.
Website: http://betweenthecovers.
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Rituals are a key part of any D/s relationship, whether we acknowledge them or not. From casual kisses as the door to formal slave poses, ritual objects such as collars to slave contracts, the BDSM world is rife with concepts of ritual- but what is a ritual? What are the levels of ritualistic interaction we have between one another? Let’s look at rituals for day to day life (including how to get out of work or parent space), sacred time, intense connection, erotic play, solidifying relationships, changes within our relationships, and the taboo subject of the devastating loss of a relationship or its natural end. From terminology to developing your own code of ethical interaction, this class covers a bevy of styles and types of interpersonal reactions.
Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave), New York, NY
Date/Time: Friday December 21, 2012, 8:00-10:00 PM
Cost: LSM Members: $5/Non Members: $10
Fetlife RSVP: https://fetlife.com/events/137594
About Lee Harrington
Lee Harrington is an internationally known spiritual and erotic educator, gender explorer, eclectic artist and award-winning author and editor on human sexuality and sacred experience. He is a nice guy with a disarmingly down to earth approach to the fact that we are each beautifully complex ecosystems, and we deserve to examine the human experience from that lens. He’s been traveling the globe (from Seattle to Sydney, Berlin to Boston), teaching and talking about sexuality, psychology, faith, desire and more, and has no intention to stop any time soon. He has been an academic and an adult film performer, a world class sexual adventurer, an outspoken philosopher, is a kink/bondage expert, and has been blogging about sex and spirituality since 1998.
His books include “Playing Well With Others: Your Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Negotiating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities” (with Mollena Williams), “Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond,” “Shibari You Can Use: Japanese Rope Bondage and Erotic Macramé,” the “Toybag Guide to Age Play,” and “Shed Skins: Journeying in Self-Portraits.” He has also worked as an anthology editor on such projects as “Rope, Bondage, and Power” and “Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink,” while contributing actively to other anthologies, magazines, blogs and collaborations internationally. Check out the trouble Lee has been getting into, as well as his regular podcast, tour schedule, free essays, videos and more over at www.PassionAndSoul.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 http://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.
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 http://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.
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.
Tristan Taormino leads you through the world of all things anal and kinky in this class about how to incorporate kink into your anal sex and anal sex into your kink. She’ll cover a wide variety of topics, including: the ins and outs of anal penetration; extended butt plug wearing and butt plug bondage; creating scenes around the psychological aspects and power dynamics of anal play; using consensual force safely; an introduction to enema play; plus, an extensive Q & A—ask her anything!
Where: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave), NYC
When: Friday, June 15 , 2012; 8:00-10:00PM
Cost: LSM Members: $5/Non Members: $10
When: Friday, June 15 , 2012; 8:00-10:00PM
Cost: LSM Members: $5/Non Members: $10
About Tristan Taormino
Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, sex educator, college lecturer, and feminist pornographer. She is the author of eight books, including The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge, which features chapters written by some of the best kinky educators in the country (forthcoming in March 2012). She is the editor of twenty-three anthologies including Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica and Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch/Femme Erotica, which won a 2011 Lambda Literary Award and the 2011 Samois Anthology Award from the National Leather Association: International. She is also founding editor of the award-winning series Best Lesbian Erotica. She runs her own porn production company, Smart Ass Productions, and is the director/producer of Rough Sex, a series that explores women’s real kink and BDSM fantasies and features performers like Madison Young, Dylan Ryan, Claire Adams, Sasha Grey, April Flores, Adrianna Nicole, Sinnamon Love, and Jiz Lee. Rough Sex has garnered a Feminist Porn Award, several AVN Award nominations, and two Audience Awards from The CineKink Film Festival. She has been in the BDSM scene for nearly two decades and taught, keynoted, and emceed for over one hundred kink organizations and events around the world, including Black Rose, Boys Training Camp, CAPEX, Desire, FIST, The Floating World, IMsL, Kinkfest, Leather Leadership Conference, Living in Leather, MOB New England, NLA Columbus, Pacific Friction, South Plains Leatherfest, TES, Thunder in the Mountains, Winter Wickedness, and Xplore Berlin. She has been honored with the Vaughn Keith National Educator of the Year Award from Black Rose, a nomination for Pantheon of Leather Businessperson of the Year, and the Lesbian Sex Mafia Appreciation Award. She has a wide variety of kinks, but mostly loves her boy Colten, D/s and service, sharp things, organization, and anal fisting. Visit her on the web at Puckerup.Com and TristanTaormino.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 http://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.
