As this weekend’s gay pri paras rise to new heights of rpectabily, The Daily Beast go off the beaten path to attend “Leather Pri Day,” an old-school, X-rated y of outrageo behavr.
Contents:
- NIGERIANS PUNISHED WH PUBLIC WHIPPG FOR GAY SEX
- NIGERIA TRI TO ‘SANIZE’ ITSELF OF GAYS
- RON DESANTIS CONSIRS SUG BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-GAY BOYTTS BEE WHY NOT?
NIGERIANS PUNISHED WH PUBLIC WHIPPG FOR GAY SEX
* is whipped gay *
30 Kky Terms Every Gay Man Needs to Know. If gay life was a giant ballroom (and kd of is), kky leathermen have been lgerg the back, the shadows, for generatns. Long before hookup apps like Grdr and Scff, gay and bisexual men seekg sual sex wore lored handkerchiefs their pant pockets ditg what kd of sex they were seekg and whether they were a domant/top or submissive/bottom.
NIGERIA TRI TO ‘SANIZE’ ITSELF OF GAYS
Four men om Nigeria were forced to adm to havg gay sex, which led to them beg arrted and then publicly whipped as punishment. * is whipped gay *
The lor is pretty extensive and clus var kks and fetish, and is still ed today by gay clothg brands like Nasty Pig and CellBlock 13 — and, obvly, by kky gay men. This cisn--like the cisn to remove homosexualy as a tegory 1973--was a big step toward the societal acceptance of people whose sexual sir aren't tradnal, or vanilla, as 's lled S & M circl.
I found the gay muny people who tend to lean toward leather and kk were people that didn’t box themselv to where they grew up and stay there. They were there to celebrate “Folsom Street East, ” also known as Leather Pri Day, the annual street fair put on by the Gay Male SM 's where I met 72-year-old Joe Regan, a rint of the neighborhood, as he was pullg on a pair of yellow bber boots and gettg thgs properly suated his jockstrap. ”Of the dozen or so atten I spoke to—om Frank Parker, a 45-year-old Ohan who works nstctn leather spenrs; to men leather kilts sellg cigars; to “Nipple Dad, ” a mastay of Chelsea—the nsens was this: In an creasgly nformist gay world, the socially owned-upon displays of sexualy takg place here reprented a rare opportuny to openly experience homosexualy as the illic, wanton, ge subculture once was.
RON DESANTIS CONSIRS SUG BUD LIGHT OVER ANTI-GAY BOYTTS BEE WHY NOT?
Bee when NYC Pri Day, the ma event of Gay Pri Week, tak over the cy this weekend wh over a ln atten, will look very different om this Leather Pri bacchanal.
” He noted that imagery of leather boys has often ed to monize gay men. “The gay movement was a sexual-revolutn movement, " he ntued, "and to shun the sex part of the sexual polics of a sexual revolutn is a ltle short-sighted and naïve.
(Which gave me pse to wonr: What would my seventh-gra gym teacher do if he knew that his gff sistence on jockstraps was so sync wh a fashn fetish popular among gay men? “I thk there’s an ia wh the mastream gay movement of sayg, 'OK, we need to get mastream society’s acceptance. [RELATED: "30 Kky Terms Every Gay Man Needs to Know"]Our relatnship had started more than a year earlier wh tense monthly BDSM play ssns.