Why handcuffs and submission may lead to even more LGBT liberation The Advocate The people have spoken: gay is OK. The recent election gave us political and legislative victories for the LGBT community, including same-sex marriage in three states and Tammy Baldwin, the first openly gay U.S. Senator. On television …
Please contact The Advocate and protest their removal of their Op-Ed by Jill D. Weinberg entitled “Kink as The Next LGBT Rights Frontier: Why handcuffs and submission may lead to even more LGBT liberation” posted on December 17, 2012. The comments were very negative against kinky people and demanded …
Huffington Post What has James Franco been up to lately, you ask? The 34-year-old actor is set to publish a poetry book in 2014, but we’re more interested in a recent collaboration with San Francisco filmmaker Travis Mathews. Their film, “Interior. Leather Bar,” will premiere at Sundance New Frontiers program …
By Tiffany D. Jones, M.A. In BDSM, a slave/master contract is an important element to ensure that parties know and understand their respective rights and responsibilities within the context of their consensual relationship. Further, as experienced practitioners of BDSM well know, the drafting, negotiation, execution, and enforcement of such contracts …
Where Ivy League kink comes from. Newsweek Last week, national media outlets were titillated by the news that Harvard University had formally recognized a student-run BDSM group (short for bondage, domination, and sadomasochism). The idea of buttoned-up Crimson coeds discussing their fondness for fetish challenged the conventional image of the …
Huffington Post … I soon received an email from Rebecca Nagle from FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, a feminist activism effort that promotes awareness about rape culture, informing me that Pink Loves Consent is not an official Victoria’s Secret PINK line, but rather an effort by FORCE to promote awareness about …
by Bo Blaze On June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village, NYC, a group of gay customers took a stand against police harassment and the Stonewall Riots began. These riots, are now largely regarded as the catalyst for the LGBT, civil rights movement in the United States. …
Huffington Post KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A woman accused with her husband of forcing a teenage girl to be a sex slave for years in their mobile home pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal conspiracy charge in a deal contingent on her being sentenced to probation. Marilyn Bagley, 47, admitted …
Kansas City Star The wife of a Missouri man accused of brutalizing and sex trafficking a young woman confirmed Thursday that the woman was a minor when the sexual activity began. Marilyn Bagley made the admission in court records filed with her guilty plea to a single count of conspiracy …