I'll be at GMSMA's Leatherfest this weekend at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center from 3-9pm. I'll be giving a workshop on Sensationalized Sex from 4:15-5:30pm - it's a look at the past 10 years of NCSF's media activism, and the strategies we've developed to combat the way the media encourages the stigma about alt sex. I'm bringing copies of the Concerned Women for America's press release about My Viscious Valentine in 2002, when they declared the event hazardous to the health and reporters repeated their lies. I'll also bring the Missouri State Senate resolution that barred BDSM activities in the state - which NCSF got shelved. Plus much more!

I love GMSMA because my earliest activist mentors were members - Barry Douglas, Bruce Marcus and David Weinbaum. GMSMA was the first group I asked to join NCSF when I formed the organization. I knew if GMSMA didn't get involved, I didn't have much of an idea. But they did, and have been staunch supporters ever since.

I'm also one of only three women who are members of Gay Male SM Activists. I was given an honorary membership in the late 90s along with Lolita. Jo Arnone, Leather Pride Night's auctioneer for decades, is the other honorary member.

Speaking of LPN, while you're at GMSMA's Leatherfest, check out the Leather Pride Night Flea Market! This is the first year we're having our infamous Flea Market at Leatherfest instead of LPN in June. But since we moved to Splash! for the big auction, there's no space to produce the Flea Market at the same time. I love the Flea Market - you can't get better deals anywhere.

I hope to see you there!

Tags: bdsm, ncsf