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.
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- GAY MEN, ADULTERERS PUBLICLY FLOGGED ACEH, INDONIA
- ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA
GAY MEN, ADULTERERS PUBLICLY FLOGGED ACEH, INDONIA
* gay men being whipped *
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. 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.
ABDUCTN, BEATGS, ELECTROCUTN: GAY MAN SCRIB TORTURE CHECHNYA
(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. Vio: Indonia to make gay sex illegal as a wave of relig fundamentalism sweeps the untry.