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lpn1 Community Open Town Hall: Will there be an LPN (Leather Pride Night) 30?

All Friends in the Leather & Fetish Community,

Leather Pride Night has brought the New York area BDSM/Leather/Fetish community together for 29 years. Known as LPN, for short, it was a see-and-be-seen event for leatherfolk from across the country. Amust-attend for IML and ImsL, LPN’s auction, flea markets, raffles and boot-blacking raised thousands of dollars for NYC-area gay, women, AIDS and youth charities and from time-to time raised money for NSCF, legal and First Amendment movement funds. Hundreds of people volunteered, carried, built, moved and sold hundreds of garments, tickets, furniture and toys. But right now, LPN is at a crossroads.

The committee is suffering from a lack of new members. The New York leather scene has changed dramatically in the past three decades, with organizations dwindling or going defunct. Bars and clubs closing and the cost of producing LPN in time, energy and money has skyrocketed, as the actual funds made available for giving has decreased.

So what is the future of Leather Pride Night? Will there be an LPN XXX? What form or forms will it take? Who will volunteer this year? Should it just stop altogether? That’s where you come in.

At 8pm, on Wednesday, November 14, 2012, the Leather Pride Night committee will be holding an open forum & town hall to take suggestions, hear comments and, potentially, infuse new blood into this community institution.

We want to see & hear from YOU! Be there! Be heard!
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street Room 301
New York, NY 10011
8pm, on Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Facebook RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/128906223928925/

Fetlife RSVP: https://fetlife.com/events/132260

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Hi everyone:
We did have Happy Ending for Jul 4th, but we are going to something different. We’ll probably organize a group to go watch the fireworks on the Hudson. We’ll keep you posted!

Update:  Selina Fire is organizing a group to watch the fireworks. Plan on meeting beginning at 2:00 at Riverside Park South, Hudson River at 65th Street. More info, and a photo of where people are meeting are at:

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In pleasure,
Patricia Johnson, Selina Fire & Mark Michaels

 

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It’s Pride month and we’ve got the first of two line-ups to celebrate it! Join host-for-the-month and 2012 Lambda Literary Finalist Debra Hyde as we honor all things queer and colorful. Our on-going Dirty Word Draw promises prize packages bulging with wonderful books, ebooks, and other goodies so be sure to bring your favorite dirty word!

Location: Happy Ending Lounge,  302 Broome Street (Pink awning says “Xie He Health”), NYC
(212) 334-9676
www.happyendinglounge.com

Free. Casual dress.

Sassafras Lowrey is an international award winning queer author and artist who came into a gutterpunk leather community a decade ago. Sassafras is the editor of the two time American Library Association honored and Lambda Literary Award Finalist Kicked Out. Sassafras’ first novel, Roving Pack, will be released autumn 2012, an excerpt of which earned hir an Honorable Mention in the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund for Fiction. Ze tours to colleges, and community organizations across the country facilitating workshops that support LGBTQ people in telling their stories. Ze is currently editing Leather Ever After an anthology of BDSM fairy tale retellings to be released by Ravenous Romance. Sassafras lives in Brooklyn, New York with hir partner, two dogs, and two kitties. You can learn more about Sassafras and hir work at www.SassafrasLowrey.com.

Our good friend (and self-confessed “reading whore”) Jefferson curates and hosts Spill Stories: True Stories of Queer Sex, Desire and Romance as well as Bare: True Stories of Sex, Desire and Romance. (Something for everyone!) A sex educator and writer, Jefferson keeps a pseudonymous blog, One Life, Take Two, that details his life as a parent and pervert. He is a storyteller frequently seen on stages around the city and elsewhere, including The Moth, where he is a StorySlam winner.

Indigo is a black poly kinky feminist queer dyke; writer, teacher, artist and aspiring sex education/blogger. She’s about liberating the woman, questioning the man and fantasizing about all folks in between. She reads, questions, wonders, writes and hopes the art leads the way. Her blog, Indigo’s Theory, explores being in a loving poly relationship, having sex in great spaces, learning to love her skin, belly, hair, etc. and coming into her kinky queer self. Visit Indigo at http://indigostheory.wordpress.com.

D.L. King is a smut writing—and editing—New Yorker who lives somewhere between the Wonder Wheel at Coney Island and the Chrysler Building. The editor of The Harder She Comes: Butch Femme Erotica, Spankalicious, Spank! and the Lambda Literary Award Finalist,Where the Girls Are: Urban Lesbian Erotica, D. L. King also publishes and edits Erotica Revealed, the erotica book review site. The author of dozens of short stories in dozens of anthologies, she is the author of two novels of female domination and male submission, The Melinoe Project and The Art of Melinoe. Find out more at dlkingerotica.com and dlkingerotica.blogspot.com.

Be sure to join us July 6th for a second Pride line-up. Hey, when it comes to the erotic word, the celebration never ends!

Tina Horn Lesbian Sex Mafia presents Spanking with Tina Horn

Spanking fantasies are as varied as the people who enjoy them, but often stigmas keep us from safely exploring this fun, cost-free erotic activity.Some of us daydream of strict discipline, while others just enjoy any way we can get our hands on a nice ass. Join profession dominant/submissive and kinky porn star Tina Horn as she leads an upbeat seminar that will empower you to live out and take pride in your fantasies.Tops will empower themselves with the skills necessary to administer the most delicious spanks, and bottoms will learn how they can help facilitate the treatment they’ve always deserved. This class will also touch on other types of impact play such as flogging and caning, as well as basic role play and Dominant/Submissive techniques. Novices, old hands, tops, bottoms, couples, men, women, and queers of all identities and orientations are welcome and encouraged to attend. The class will include a hot live demo!

Where: LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St. (7th/8th Ave)
When: Friday, October 21, 2011; 8:00-10:00PM
Cost: $5/LSM members, $10/Non members

ABOUT TINA HORN

Tina Horn is the Smartest Ass in Show Business Today! For the past five years she has worked in the Bay Area as a professional BDSM switch. She is a performer, producer, director, and writer of queer and kinky porn. In 2010 she co-created, with Courtney Trouble, QueerPorn.Tv, which explores queer community voices and sexual expression through hardcore porn, free educational segments, and intimate identity discussions; within its first six months it won the Feminist Porn Award for Best Website. Tina has spoken and led workshops in impact play and sexual communication at Good Vibrations as well as various universities, community centers, and art galleries. Her writing has been published in numerous magazines and books, including AORTA magazine, Whore! magazine, and several Cleis Press anthologies. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Writing in NYC and cannot even begin to tell you how badly she could use a spanking right now.

ABOUT LESBIAN SEX MAFIA

Founded in 1981 by Dorothy Allison and Jo Arnone, the Lesbian Sex Mafia (LSM) is the oldest continuously running women’s BDSM support and education groups in the country. We are located in New York City, with a membership primarily in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. However, we also have members along the East Coast, across the country and even in Europe!

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.