Leather Pride Night 2011
NYC’s 28th ANNUAL
LEATHER PRIDE NIGHT AUCTION
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
NEW YORK, NY June 5, 2011 — The 28th annual Leather Pride Night Auction will take place on Saturday, June 18th, 2011. This year the festivities will be at Arena, 135 West 41st Street (Google Maps). Arena’s doors will open for LPN at 6:00 PM, and the auction will run from 7 PM until 10:00 PM. Liquor, beer, wine and soft drinks will be provided at a cash bar. A sign language interpreter will be present to interpret some portions of the presentations. This year, as every year, there will be a team of bootblacks to keep your leathers, boots and shoes looking sharp. Bootblack tips go toward the event’s total for the beneficiaries. We encourage everyone to come early to view the items up for auction, get your boots blacked, and be seen!
Jo Arnone, LPN’s veteran auctioneer, will preside over almost a hundred items being auctioned, including leather and latex fetish clothing, unique toys and equipment, art objects, event passes and tickets, and much more.
Leather Pride Night is sponsored by eight NYC S/m-leather- fetish organizations: Iron Guard BC, Lesbian Sex Mafia, MAsT Metro NY, MetroBears NY, New York boys of Leather (NYboL), Pariah MC, The Eulenspiegel Society and ONYX NY/NE and many committed individuals.
Over the years, Leather Pride Night has donated over $300,000 for local and national charities. This year, Leather Pride Night will donate the 2011 Auction proceeds to: The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Trinity Place Shelter, the Carter / Johnson Leather Library, the Youth Enrichment Services at The Center and as has been our tradition, an annual donation to Heritage of Pride, the producer of New York’s annual Pride Parade. Tickets for Leather Pride Night are $15 in advance, and $20 at the door. Tickets can also be obtained at any of the sponsoring organizations or the beneficiary organizations, as well as the following supporting commercial venues: David Samuel Menkes Custom Leatherwear, DomSubFriends /Paddles, Purple Passion / DV8, The Leather Man, Passionale, Le Chateau Exotique and Come Again.
Leather Pride Night is part of a season of fabulous leather and fetish- oriented events in New York City.
Kicking off the weekend of leather events, on Friday June 17th, Lesbian Sex Mafia will be hosting a talk by Laura Antoniou, “Tell Me Want You Want, What You Really, Really Want” at the LGBT Center in Manhattan, 208 West 13th Street. For information, call 212 726-3844 or go to: http://www.lesbiansexmafia.org/.
Immediately following Leather Pride Night on Saturday, MetroBears NY and Rock Bar will be hosting an after party from 10 PM on at Rock Bar, 185 Christopher Street, at the end of Christopher Street. LPN attendees will receive a free special drink or shot with their LPN ticket stub.
If you still haven’t had enough, keep the Leather Pride energy going at the all-gender Eulenspiegel Society (TES) play party, The TES LPN After Party at Paddles! Our Leather Pride Night After Party is THE place to go to try out that neat new toy you picked up at LPN…or that cute new play partner. The revels begin at 10 pm on Saturday and continue until 3 am Sunday morning at Paddles. For more info: www.tes.org
On Sunday, June 18th Folsom Street East presents FOLSOM STREET EAST, an S/m-leather-fetish block party on West 28th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues) in front of the Eagle NYC Bar. Over 10,000 leathermen and women cap off Leather Pride Weekend with the largest outdoor festival of its kind on the East Coast. For more info: www.folsomstreeteast.org .
This year, leather pride continues into July with the 40th Anniversary of TESFest ‘11. Held on July 1-4, 2011 in New Jersey. With special events, over 100 classes, a 24-hour dungeon space and vendors, TESFest ’11 promises to be the must-attend event of the summer. It also promises outdoor play and nude swimming in the hotel pool. All info can be found at www.tesfest.org .
The Leather Pride Night Committee is dedicated to promoting freedom of sexual self-expression, and actively works to improve the image and understanding of S/m and fetish lifestyles. It meets on the first Thursday of the month (October through June) at 8:00PM at the LGBT Center, 208 West 13th Street.
There is no photography or cellular telephone usage allowed at the event. Media photography inquiries can be directed to Grant at grantinastoria@hotmail.com
LPN is run by volunteers! If you want to volunteer, send email to LPNnyc@aol.com
Fetlife RSVP: http://fetlife.com/events/53496