Lolita Wolf's Predictions & Predilections

People really liked yesterday’s photo from last year’s Leather Pride Night, so I have decided to post an LPN photo every day until the event.  (Still need volunteers!)

SEX WORKERS OUTREACH PROJECT-CHICAGO PRESENTS-
An intriguing exploration of the Asian massage parlor industry in Providence, RI

“HAPPY ENDINGS?”
in support of SWOP-Chicago
presented by Clarisse Thorn
and hosted by the Leather Archives & Museum
Film Screening and Post-Screening Discussion

Friday, June 12, 7PM
Leather Archives & Museum
6418 N. Greenview (at Devon)
Chicago, IL  60626
(773) 761-9200
$5-10 suggested donation to SWOP-Chicago

Rhode Island: the only state where prostitution is decriminalized.  It had been over 25 years since five prostitutes sued the state of Rhode Island for selective prosecution and prostitution laws were removed from the books, when documentarians Tara Hurley and Nick Marcoux turned their cameras on the underbelly of “The Renaissance City”.

Watch the drama unfold in Asian massage parlors across Providence as Mayor David Ciccilline pushes to close the prostitution “loophole”. Follow Heather, a Korean immigrant, over two years as she manages the
massage parlor.  Learn about the women who work in the spas.  Hear from the police who arrest them.  Watch the fight for and against the legislation.  The film includes subtitled interviews with Korean women
who work in the spas, clients who frequent the spas, police, politicians from 1980 and today, local news footage, local radio call-in shows, and “voiced” reviews from internet escort review boards.  Read more, watch the trailer, and see clips from the film at http://happyendingsdoc.com.

Just recently — May 2009 — prostitution is in the process of being criminalized again in Rhode Island.  Come out, watch the documentary, and talk about it afterwards.  What do you think about sex work?  Is the change in Rhode Island law fair or unfair?  Delicious snacks will be served, and discussion will follow!  This is a benefit for the Sex Workers Outreach Project, and we’re requesting a $5-10 donation from attendees.

KinkForAll has a new website. Very user-friendly. Be sure to check out the resource page.

Audacia Ray is teaching a Human Sexuality course at Rutgers. Her syllabus is on line and it rocks! I wish I had had her as my teacher back when I took Human Sexuality in college.

Viviane has the round-up of everyone’s blog posts about Sex 2.0.

Great video from Graydancer on how to do Hair Bondage.

If you spend over $200 at Purple Passion, they will give you a free ticket to Leather Pride Night.  Great idea!

A very fabulous evening at Happy Ending Lounge last night.  Hosted by Carol Queen as a fundraiser for San Francisco’s Center for Sex & Culture, the evening featured a great line-up of readers.

Carol Queen reading from my favorite story of hers,
Leather Daddy and the Femme.

Rachel Kramer Bussel

Elizabeth Wood reading from Patrick Califia’s

Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex.

Audacia Ray reading from a performance piece (work in progress).

Sinclair wowed us all with hot poetry.

The 26th annual Leather Pride Night Auction will take place on Saturday, June 20th, 2009. This year the festivities will be at Splash! at 50 W. 17th Street. SPLASH!’s doors will open for LPN at 6:00 PM, and the auction will run from 7 PM until 10:00 PM.

Leather Pride Night is sponsored by nine NYC S/m-leather-fetish organizations:
Gay Male S/M Activists, Iron Guard BC, Lesbian Sex Mafia, MAsT Metro NY, MetroBearsNY, New York boys of Leather, OnyxNY, Pariah’s MC, The Eulenspiegel Society and many committed individuals. We’re also joined by the Imperial Court of NY.

This year, Leather Pride Night will donate the 2009 Auction proceeds to: Carmen’s Place, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, By The Grace of George The Pitbull Angel Fund, and as is customary, an annual donation to Heritage of Pride, the producer of New York’s annual Pride March.

Tickets for Leather Pride Night are $15 in advance, and $20 at the door. Because this is a fundraiser, everybody pays (even me and the other committee members). If you need a scholarship, let me know and I will give you a ticket at no cost.

Most volunteer slots are only one hour which is a short time for a four hour event.  Volunteering enhances your experience of LPN ands gives you a chance to be part of the action and to meet people.  In addition, this year, all volunteers will receive an LPN 2009 Volunteer cloisonne pin.  These pins are earned, not sold.  A real status symbol!

Here’s where we need help:

Load in Splash with Sigrid, Tip et al, 1-2:30pm
2 people

Location Set-up with Grant, 1- 3pm
4 people

Literature, raffle and silent auction tables Set-up with Grant, 3-4pm
1 person

Setup the Raffle Table with Sigrid, 3-5PM
1 person

Auction Setup with Cubby, 2-6pm
2 people

Handling auction items at Table with Cubby
6:45-8:30  1 people
8:30-10pm  1 person

Backstage helping presenters dress – report to LaRubia and Doc
8:30-10pm  1 person

Silent Auction with JiffE
9-10  3 people

Will Call Assistant – help Lady D with items from auction after bid
8-9  1 person

Ticket takers with Mark & Catelynn
7:30-8:30  1 person
8:30-9:30 1 person

Box Office with Mark & Catelynn
8-9  1 person
9-10 1 person

Food Assistance with Lady Sabrina
Replenishing the food and utensils when it runs low
Ensuring that the dining area is neat and clean
6-8pm  1 person
8-10pm 1 person

Raffle Table Staff with Daddy Sal
9-10 1 person

Raffle Ticket Sales with Daddy Sal
6-7:30 5 people
7:30-8:30  4 people
8:30-9:30 6 people

Security with Jake
5:30-7pm   2 people
7-8pm  4 people
8-9pm   4 people
9-10pm  5 people

Location Breakdown, with Nayland
9:30pm-10pm  2 people

Please send your first, second and third choices to me.   And let me know if you have any questions!

Lolita Wolf

26th Annual Leather Pride Night
Saturday, June 20, 2009
6pm- 10pm At Splash!, 50 West 17th Street (between 5th and 6th Aves), NYC
Sponsored by GMSMA, Iron Guard,
LSM, MaST:MetroNY, MetroBearsNY,
OnyxNY, NYboL, Pariah’s MC and TES
http://www.leatherpridenight.org
$15 in advance, $20 at the door

Saturday June 6 was a gloriously sunny day to head down to Asbury Park, NJ for Foreplay, a BDSM-Leather-Bear block party.

Kathryn, Boymeat and Grant work the NCSF/Leather Pride Night table.

In addition to helping out at the table, Jake also set up his barber shop.

Grant brought his flogger.  Boymeat put it to good use.

Aftercare.

The titleholders posed for a photo op.

Cowboi Jenn is the new Mid-Atlantic Leatherwoman.

Master Larry and slave barb.

Lady D and Anna.

Lisa bootblacked.

Kyle is the new Northeast Community Bootblack.

I bought $10 of raffle tickets from Master Tony and slave susan.
I won two prizes!

Boymeat and Kathryn show off their new shirts from NeedlePlay Designs.

Troy Rusnack was one of the performers.

I took a video of Marshall’s performance.

Thanks to the movers and shakers behind this event:
Sal Susino, Dion Daly and tom harrison

Dame Amanda has informed us that Mike Berkowitz has passed. “After putting up a ferocious battle which was successful for longer than anyone thought it could be, mike’s liver has failed and he left us late this afternoon.”

Mike helped the Leather Pride Night committee for many years.  He would distribute our palm cards all over the NYC Metro area with his truck.  He would help us bring our stuff from storage to LPN and back again.  He was always great to work with and he will be missed.

A memorial in his honor is being planned.  Details when I get them.

Boymeat, Kathryn and I are hitting the road for NJ Foreplay today!  We’ll be staffing a table for NCSF and Leather Pride Night.  Come by and say hi.

Nayland really likes bees.

Carmen Stark, Winter Sky and Mark Davis on sexandsubmission.com

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