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Richard was saying the leather scene can be tricky for black men. I took note that butt plugs are kind of shaped like darts it looked pretty easy to slip one past the goalie. "We have chapters in Chicago, Atlanta, DC, LA-all over the country." The target was a poster board of an anatomically correct gentleman bending over. “It’s a leather club for men of color and people who like to be associated with men of color," he said. Richard, 54, a Manhattan physician (he declined to elaborate), handed me three black rubber plugs, and told me about Men of ONYX as he held two of my plugs so I could toss. At the Men of ONYX booth, I decided to give the Butt Plug Toss a whirl. Here at Leather Pride, on the other hand, you’d be hard pressed to find an investment bank or airline in corporate sponsorship. A representative of NYC Pride recently boasted that if one were to categorize the more than 300 groups participating, church groups would have the largest presence. Bud Light, Skyy vodka, Delta, Continental, Kiehl’s, Whole Foods, and JP Morgan Chase all have floats in this year’s parade. NYC Pride Day, like many other pride parades across the country, has become more and more respectable with each passing year. Of the dozen or so attendees I spoke to-from Frank Parker, a 45-year-old Ohioan who works in construction in leather suspenders to men in leather kilts selling cigars to “Nipple Dad,” a mainstay of Chelsea-the consensus was this: In an increasingly conformist gay world, the socially frowned-upon displays of sexuality taking place here represented a rare opportunity to openly experience homosexuality as the illicit, wanton, fringe subculture it once was.īecause when NYC Pride Day, the main event of Gay Pride Week, takes over the city this weekend with over a million attendees, it will look very different from this Leather Pride bacchanal. I wouldn’t wear this anywhere except at a sex club normally.” This one of those days where you can let it all hang out. “I’m basically a top," he said, " though I will play man-to-man with a lot of guys, and I really enjoy it. I asked him what Folsom Street East-the tag pays homage to the original, much larger Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco-meant to him. This is all one piece of rubber, no seams.” “I’m wearing a yellow rubber jock that the guy down there makes," he said, gesturing down the street. It's where I met 72-year-old Joe Regan, a resident of the neighborhood, as he was pulling on a pair of yellow rubber boots and getting things properly situated in his jockstrap.
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They were there to celebrate “Folsom Street East,” also known as Leather Pride Day, the annual street fair put on by the Gay Male SM Association. Vargas and 7,000 others had turned the far west Chelsea block into a little slice of their own personal paradise, far over the rainbow from Ohio, Kansas, or any other place where the sight of men in leather jockstraps would hoist the eyebrows of the town matrons. I found that the leather community was more honest, more worldly, more in touch, and that’s where I gravitated to.” I found in the gay community people who tended to lean toward leather and kink were people that didn’t box themselves into where they grew up and stay there.
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In Ohio, he said, "you had to be white and have 2.3 kids to fit in. He was wearing a black leather jockstrap, red bolero jacket with epaulettes, leather mask and top hat-last Sunday on West 28th Street in Manhattan. He had to squat down on his stilts to talk to me. Please note that this event is not intended for children and Nickelodeon Universe will not be open.Click the link below for advanced tickets:Pre-event, $40.00Group rate, greater than 7, $36.00Gate, $45.“I escaped Ohio when I was 19," said Dale Vargas.
#Gay pride day 2009 free#
This event is a unique night of fun, rides and entertainment.As an added bonus – advance ticket prices are $5.00 less than general admission and include FREE PARKING, so don’t miss the chance to be part of Pride Night 2009, when over 3000 family and friends meet:Regular Kings Island season passes are NOT valid the night of the event. Time: 06:00 pm - 12:00 amPride Night proceeds help to cover the yearly operating expenses of the Community Center.