Friday, August 7, 2009

Leather Weekend

I don't want to rub it in, but it's great living in a major city. There are eight private dungeons in the area. There are over a dozen real-time munch groups and hundreds of kink related groups. Fetlife, collarme and alt.com still lead as the major connecting websites for kinksters and at least once a quarter there is a leather convention in town.

This weekend - I will find myself at International Olympus Leather www.internationalolympusleather. com presenting a workshop on Friday night, then LA Radical and Wicked Women (LARAWW) party on Saturday night and Sunday munch with LA Dommes and subs http://lads-la.com/.

And yet with all the opportunities to indulge, I still want my freedom to express myself! Which is why the work of groups like Woodhull and NCSF have become more of my leather focus. Many of us still have to worry about what we will lose if we are outed and I have again learned the rhetoric of "Let Freedom Ring" does not apply to me and that makes me mad.

More to come.