Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Queer Studies, Sexuality, BDSM, LGBT, Sexuality, BDSM, Gay Culture, Sexual Politics
ISBN: 9781938884009
Publisher: Daedalus Publishing
Published: 2013-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

* Like GMSMA, LSM owes its start to the gay press. Around the time Brian's letter appeared in GCN, Jo was working for the company that published Christopher Street and was about to launch the New York Native. Several free display ads in the Native, plus word of mouth among Dorothy and Jo's friends, were enough to get a critical mass of S/M dykes together. When I heard about their new organization, I called Jo and set up a dinner meeting so the four of us — she, Dorothy, Brian, and me — could compare notes. I'll always remember that dinner. Each pair of us arrived wondering what we could possibly have in common with the other pair; we left feeling we had met ourselves in a mirror. It was the first time in my life I had been able to talk about sex with a woman and feel understood — and feel that I had understood her.

** It wasn't pure altruism, however, as GMSMA quickly became a prime source of recruits for these clubs and their own events, such as CHC's annual Infernos and the Warriors' Whitewater Weekends. (The dungeon at Whitewater Weekend in 1981, during GMSMA's first year, is where I finally came out into S/M in a big way, thanks to several sensitive and understanding topmen, but especially one visiting CHC member, the late Chuck Barrow, the most seductive of painmasters. I realized many of my longtime fantasies in a couple of days — and won the "Biggest Oar" trophy in the process. But that's another story!)

† For many men the "finishing school" in their S/M development is CHC's Inferno, which annually draws more than 250 men from around the world to experience and leam about S/M in two intensive four-day sessions (to meet increased demand, the second session was added in 1990). Granted, Inferno is still by invitation only, but with CHC associate members in every state and many foreign countries, most of them active in other groups such as GMSMA, it's not hard to get your name put on the invitation list.

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