The Huffington Post By Alexander C. Kaufman Starbucks baristas who’ve long been forced to hide their tattoos may soon be able to show off their ink. In an internal email to employees last week, Starbucks said that it’s reviewing its dress code, including its long-standing policy forbidding workers from displaying …
Televisa USA is adapting the book trilogy with ‘Dallas Buyers Club’s’ Rachel Winter The Hollywood Reporter by Lesley Goldberg  Has the small screen found its own Fifty Shades of Grey? Televisa USA (Lifetime’s Devious Maids) has acquired TV and digital rights to Anne Rice‘s best-selling book series The Sleeping …
Montana Kaimin by Hannah-Laura Rudolph BDSM isn’t a black and white topic. There are 50 shades of grey in between. “Fifty Shades of Grey” is an erotic romance novel featuring bondage/discipline, dominance/submission and sadism/masochism, known colloquially as BDSM. A local BDSM community member said the books are great for encouraging …
YourTango By Ky Henderson Everything you wanted to know (but were afraid to ask) about S&M. Even if you’re not sure what S&M actually entails, the letters alone probably conjure up vivid images: Whips and chains, leather and latex, a tubby guy named The Gimp tugging on his leash as …
Edmonton Journal By Fiona Buchanan  EDMONTON – An unusual Edmonton group is seeking to raise awareness about their unique formula for blissful romance. Polyamory Edmonton is a group of people that practise consensual, non-monogamous relationships. They are in the process of becoming a non-profit organization and want to educate …
Time by Denver Nicks Can a survey of one dating app’s users be explained by the Big Apple’s kinkiness?   More than Chicagoans, more than Houstonians, more than Los Angelenos, single New Yorkers are on the hunt for long-term relationships. (News to us, yes!)   That’s according to a …
By Scott Adkins A 32-year-old Seymour, Indiana man is accused of raping and beating his wife after forcing her to sign a “slave contract,” WFIE-TV reported on Thursday. Kenneth Eugene Harden is accused of 38 counts of battery, criminal confinement and rape. He reportedly married the woman just over a …
Washington, DC – NCSF is disappointed with the decision against Gregory T. Miles, Lance Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps, by the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals, which upheld the convictions of consensual attempted sodomy and indecent acts. As NCSF previously stated in its Amicus brief, accepted by the Court in …
by Siouxsie Q When I was a young queer, my local coffee shop was crucial to my existence. The coffee wasn’t important; it was the community there that mattered. It was the place I took my first girlfriends on dates and the place I played music in front of an …
Patheos by Yvonne Aburrow  Z Budapest’s latest hate-filled screed makes me really angry. [Update: actual link to actual comment] It was feminists like Budapest who made it hard for people, especially feminists, to come out as kinky in the seventies, eighties, and nineties. With their statements that you are …
