New today in our Reading Library, a copy of a speech I delivered to the Leather Leadership Conference in 2009. It remains relevant today — which is a damn shame. If anything, laws against consensual adult sex have grown harsher under this administration. After rolling back LGBTQ rights and targeting Read more…
History is what happens while you’re doing something else– and it
may not be until years later that you discover what you did
was “historic.” When i agreed in mid-1983 to be part of a committee
of GMSMA (Gay Male S/M Activists) charged with drafting a
new “statement of identity and purpose” for the two-year-old
organization, i had no idea that the lasting significance of our
work would be reduced to a single phrase: “safe, sane, and
consensual S/M.”