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Frequently Asked Questions
Why?
The Leather Pride Night Auction was established in 1982 to raise funds at an annual auction in New York City to benefit Heritage of Pride, the producers of the annual Gay Pride Parade. In addition to HOP, LPN donates funds to organizations which create, promote, and support projects that benefit the s/m-leather-fetish community or further the rights of adults to any private sexual expression that is safe, sane and consensual.
How?
The LPN Committee was created by Gay Male S/M Activists and soon expanded to include the rest of the s/m-leather-fetish community, with two voting representatives from each NYC-area organization that is a not-for-profit, educational and social group. Current Sponsoring Organizations are listed on the Committee Page. Affiliate Sponsors are not-for-profit organizations within the NY community.
Who?
The Leather Pride Night Auction has donated nearly $60,000 to Heritage of Pride, Inc. since 1982. Over another $100,000 has been donated to the following beneficiaries:
- Ali Forney Center
- Audre Lorde Project
- Bronx Lesbian and Gay Health Resource Consortium
- Callen Lorde
- Carmen.s Place
- Community Health Project
- Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Blue Ribbon Campaign
- Empire State Pride Agenda
- Feminists For Free Expression
- Friends in Deed
- Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
- Gender Identity Program at the NYC Center
- GMSMA Legal Defense Fund
- Hetrick-Martin Institute
- Hocutt-Ferguson PWA Assistance Fund
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Services Center NYC
- Little Sisters Bookshop Legal Fight
- National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
- National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute
- NYC Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project (AVP)
- New England Leather Alliance Paddleboro (Attleboro) Defense League
- S/M-Leather Outreach Committee of the National March on Washington
- Spanner Defense Fund
- Stonewall ’94
- Sylvia.s Place
- Scarleteen
- Youth Enrichment Serices Y.E.S.
- Teens Prepared for Life, Inc.
- The Center’s Capital Campaign Fund
- Tristate S/M-Leather-Fetish Contingent for the March on Washington
LPN Raffle proceeds have been donated to:
- Breaking Ground, a youth group of Unity Fellowship Church
- Lesbian & Gay People of Color Steering Committee
- Sister-to-Sister Project of PWAC
- Northern Lights Alternative Children with AIDS Project
- Self-Help for Women with Breast Cancer (SHARE)
- Leather Archives & Museum
- Lesbian Herstory Archives