Here are a few more pictures from “The Last Night,” an exhibition at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art running until January 5, 2020. These pictures are of various helmets that are on display, part of the various suits of armor.
More information about this exhibition is available here.
Tonight (Columbus Day Eve) is another bondage play party, right here in NYC! Go check it out!
Click for New York Bondage Club website here
Shown here is foot combat armor made for Giuliano de’ Medici, as a gift from Maximilian I, on display as part of “The Last Night,” an exhibition at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art running until January 5, 2020. This armor dates back to the year 1515. It includes a metal codpiece, which, according to the museum, is a rare thing to have survived all this time!
You can hear an audio description of the armor shown here — and the codpiece — by clicking here.
Complete exhibition overview here.
Special thanks to my kinky friend David for telling me about this exhibition!
If you are in NYC or are going to be visiting, check it out and let me know what you think!
There will be a celebration of the life of Andrew Harwin this coming Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019, from 3 to 5 p.m., at the LGBT Community Center in New York.
Andrew, who was a friend and mentor to so many, was a member of Inferno, Delta, GMSMA and many other organizations. He was one of the organizers of Folsom Street East here in NYC. He is greatly missed.
If you are a local guy who wants to check out the bondage scene, or if you are an out-of-town visitor looking for some fun, be sure to visit the New York Bondage Club, which meets for play every Sunday night.
Men of all ages, shapes and sizes and — all experience levels — are welcome. You can join in on the action, or you can just watch! You owe it to yourself to go at least once!
Check out their website get more information, and to see some of the action that goes on:
I recently finished “My Leather Life: Early Years” by Peter Fiske, narrated by Thomas V. Peterson, and I can’t recommend this book enough!
It’s available for purchase on Amazon.
Peter is one of our most passionate and loving of leather elders, who is well known in gay s/m circles as an expert in flogging and whipping. For anyone interested in learning more about this topic — as well as anyone who wants to understand more in general about who we are as kinky folk and where we came from — this book is highly recommended!
Peter shares personal stories of growing up in New York City and discovering a sexual interest in bondage and spanking at a young age. He also tells of serving in the military in the segregated South and finding leather sex at a dirty movie theater in Times Square. All of this takes place pre-Stonewall! Speaking of Stonewall, Peter was also a patron of this famous bar and tells of being present at three different raids before the famous rioting took place in late June 1969.
Peter was also active in the leather scene in San Francisco, meeting many of the “old guard” leather men of the day and joining a back patch club and attending leather runs. Peter later became active in brotherhood organizations, including The 15 Association, the Chicago Hellfire Club and Delta.
“‘My Leather Life’ reads like porn, but it is my life,” Peter shared in a recent posting on Facebook.
“All of our stories matter. Mine is no different than any of my readers,” Peter continued. “I have been lucky to live at the center and to find love. If you take one thing from my book, it is that it’s in your power to live authentically and to find your love and your friends. Drag queens told me that in the 60s. Be real. You can be real too. All it takes is courage and a glad heart.”
The group picture shown in this blog posting is in the book and is also from Peter’s Facebook page. The caption states that it is from the Folsom Fair in San Francisco in September 1991 and shows, from left, Shadow Morton, Coulter “Colt’ Thomas (who was the fifth International Mr. Leather and Peter’s lover), Sky Renfro, Peter himself, and John.
I absolutely loved reading this book. I’m inspired not only by Peter’s passion for leading an authentic life but also of his stories of standing up for those being discriminated against, including men of color, drag queens and those who are transgender.
But for me the most moving passages were those in which the author describes the way he plays. When Peter flogs or whips a bottom in a leather scene, he does it as an act of love.
We should all be more like Peter.
Andrew Harwin, who died recently, was a member of Inferno, Delta, GMSMA and many other organizations. He was one of the organizers of the popular Folsom Street East block party here in NYC. There will be a memorial service for Andrew on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019, from 3 to 5 p.m., at the LGBT Community Center in New York. It will be a wonderful opportunity to reminisce, to connect with those who knew and remember Andrew, and to help celebrate his life.
Civil rights activist and best selling author David Mixner speaks about gay rights, the state of our union, growing up country, developing his political chops and sex.
Wed, July 24, 2019
6:00 to 9:00 PM
554 West 28th Street
Free tickets available here
