Oct 152017
- Slave david stein, with whom I collaborated on Our Lives, Our History, passed away on October 11th, 2017. Among many other accomplishments, david coined the phrase “Safe, Sane and Consensual.” He was a great guy and I’m sad to see him go.
- How Leatherdykes helped change feminism, by Samir S. Patel, in Atlas Obscura
- Back2Stonewall has an article on NYC’s legendary Mineshaft leather bar
- As does the Village Voice on NYC’s Vault BDSM club
- Jack Fritscher’s account of the origins of the Folsom Street Fair, Leather’s Burning Man
- And another history of the Folsom Street Fair
- And yet another of the Folsom Street Fair
- Short biography of Cleo Dubois and Fakir Musafar
- San Franscisco’s Armory, formerly the headquarters of the Kink.com online porn empire, moves to the next phase of its existence
- The Rolling Stones’ notorious “Black and Blue” bondage-themed ad campaign in the mid-70s
- Review of Professor Marsten and the Wonder Women, about their kinky and poly triad
- Profile of GB Jones, a Canadian artist who draws what Tom of Finland would have drawn in he was a lesbian.
- Review of Richard Perez Seves’ book on fetish pioneer Charles Guyette
