Tag: leather

San Francisco Resumes Famous Gay Leather Festival

A gay leather kink festival in San Francisco is finally back after a pandemic hiatus. The famous street fair called “Dore Alley” or “Up Your Alley,” is a leather and fetish event that is commonly compared to to the Folsom Street Fair—California’s third-largest single-day and outdoor spectator event—as well as the world’s largest leather event and showcase for BDSM products and culture. Kinky games and street vendors selling leather apparel including chokers, collars, whips and bondage kits are common at the venue, which mostly attracts gay men out of any demographic.

A sound stage was also set up for festival-goers to get sweaty dancing in their leather gear. “I like to think of it as the biggest leather block party,” the Executive Director said. In 2020, both the Up Your Alley Fair and Folsom were canceled as a result of the pandemic—so this year, the festival was more spread out than usual to allow people to safely roam around.

Feeling kinky? NiteFlirt is right Up Your Alley!

Check out more about a gay leather festival in San Francisco: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11073419/San-Francisco-gay-leather-festival-went-ahead-despite-monkeypox-state-emergency-California.html

Meet the Fetishists Who Like to Dress Up as Puppies (and Bone)

There’s a new documentary called “The Secret Lives Of The Human Pups” that explores the unusual world of “puppy players,” a subset of the BDSM community that finds pleasure in dressing up and pretending to be dogs. “Puppy play” attracts a wide variety of people, but most are gay men with a interest in leather and crawling around on the floor like a dog. According to the Guardian, the kinksters get a sexual thrill out of behaving like puppies, including playing with chew toys, eating out of bowls, and wearing dog-masks.

While the fetish play probably often leads to boning, one human-puppy named “Kaz” explains that his interests are more innocent. “People automatically jump to the conclusion that this is gear we wear to have sex. I used to get asked awful questions like, if I liked having sex with dogs,” he said. “But it’s certainly not that, and it’s not always sexual. Members of my pack, we spend a lot of time together at home just being dogs.” Another man who’s spent almost $6,000 on transforming himself into a dalmatian named Spot likes the way the ear scratches, belly rubs, ball chasing and treats allow him to “disappear.” We say, run, Spot, run—toward your kinky puppy play!

Looking for something “unusual” yourself? We can make you feel as happy and free as a dog catching a frisbee here!

Check out more about the fetishists who like to dress up as puppies here: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/documentary-secret-lives-of-human-pets-puppy-play_us_5745da94e4b055bb1170e4b6

NEWS: NYC High Line vs. NYC Fetish Festival 

I guess luxury-housing trumps a fetish festival in the Big Apple.  For those not familiar, the NYC High Line is a section of the old elevated New York City railroad that runs along the lower West Side of Manhattan, which was reconstructed and now is an “aerial greenway.”  This historic area will soon be the home of new high-end condos.  Unfortunately, due to the construction in the High Line community, the Folsom Street East Festival will be cancelled after 16 years. 

This event is “ the largest outdoor fetish street festival on the eastern coast, which brings thousands of sexy kinksters out onto the streets of New York City on a summer afternoon to celebrate sexual diversity and expression.The now-defunct Gay Male SM Activists (GMSMA) held the first Folsom Street East in 1997. Named after the famous Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco, the block party was an instant success, bringing our S/M-Leather-Fetish brothers and sisters together for a great celebration, while raising money to support worthy causes.”  I wonder if it’s BYOW, bring your own whip?

Sadly, it seems as though some New Yorkers are on board, and are welcoming the community building that will take place in the High Line neighborhood. Clearly there is a shortage of luxury cribs in NYC, riiiiiiiiight.  Fear not, there is a bright side to this story, looks as though the fetish fiesta might be making a comeback next year. No venues revealed, but don’t go throwing out your ass-less chaps and gimp masks yet. Folsom Street East announced on their website, “THANKS FOR 16 GREAT YEARS CELEBRATING SEXUAL FREEDOM WITH THE FOLSOM STREET EAST STREET FESTIVAL, AND WE HOPE TO SEE YOU BACK ON THE KINKY STREETS OF NEW YORK CITY IN 2014!”

I hope to see the Folsom Street East Festival back in action, let freedom ring!