Daily Archives: November 22, 2011

Rough House @ Steamworks – This Weekend

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Don’t forget about Rough House at Steamworks Toronto this weekend!

540 Church Street, Level 2
Sunday, November 27, 2-7pm

PLAY!
The Rough House crew takes it’s kinky demos and players to Steamworks for an afternoon leather/fetish gear party. Public play demos. Back shower water sports area. Darker club ambiance.

WIN!
A limited supply of passes to Rough House @ Goodhandy’s on Sunday, December 11 will be handed out to people dressed in leather/fetish gear.

COST:
Regular club admission fees and rule apply

WARNING:
Fuck “fashionably late;” rooms sell out early at these events

Toronto Bound Weekend – Exploratorium

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November 26th, 2011 – 1pm to 4pm
Goodhandy’s

As part of the Toronto Bound Weekend “So You Want To Be Kinky?” has organized a series of presentations. Each will run from 1pm to 4pm at Goodhandy’s, organized into different stations. Drop by and ask questions, watch demonstrations, some will also feature hands on examples.

We will have stations featuring:

  • Bondage – Presented by Lotus Lily
  • CBT – Presented by boy iain
  • Mummification – Presented by Patty
  • Percussion – Presented by Master Scott
  • Rubber Care – Presented by Fenn
  • Sounding – Master Tony

Admission will be part of the Toronto Bound weekend package or a Educational Series Pass. More information about those can be found on the Toronto Leather Pride Site. This pass also allows you access to the Bootblacking seminar at Crews and Tangos from 10am – 1pm

1:00pm to 4:00pm (doors open at 1:00pm)
Saturday, 26th of November 2011
at
Goodhandy’s
120 Church Street (2nd floor)
SW corner of Church & Richmond Streets
Toronto, ON

Admission Restricted to those 19 years of age and older.

 

TORONTO BOUND VIP PASS AND WEEKEND EVENTS INCLUDE:

·      Friday night welcome party at the Black Eagle Toronto with a client auction and more.

·      Saturday informative workshops, demos and select vendor mart.

·      Saturday night VIP catered reception with living kinky art. 

·      Key note Speaker – MASTER MIKE ZUHL from Pittsburge, PA

·      JUST DANCE – Full Fetish Dance Party at The Barn.

·      OPEN HOUSE at Oasis Auqalounge (Formerly the Club Baths) – Includes the use of facilities, outdoor heated pool, hot tub, play areas and more!

·      Sunday Closing Cigar party at The Black Eagle Toronto. 


Western Canada LeatherSIR/boy 2012

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An Eastern Canada LeatherSIR and his boys, and his Eastern Canada Leatherboy

I’m writing this on the flight from Calgary to Toronto. Waking up from a nap, I’m listening to the stewardess offer drinks. “How do you take it?”, I hear her say and the response in my head is, “Up the ass.”  *whistles*

Congratulations to Sir Marc and boy daniel/pup hoover on winning the Western Canada LeatherSIR/boy contest for 2012 this past weekend!

Sir Marc and boy daniel

Special thanks to Sir Jonathan, Sir Dakota, Ron, David and others for shuttling Sir, boy joe and myself around Calgary from to hotel, to the Eagle and various dinners. It was VERY VERY VERY much appreciated and we cannot give enough thanks to all of you!

Special thanks to the boys of Calgary and Edmonton for a wonderful dinner hosted at Sir Dakota’s (Western Canada LeatherSIR 2010)

Congratulations to Sir Scott and boy rene on their year as titleholders and now for some downtime!

To Sir Alan and pup Nitro, it was great to see both of Y/you in Calgary!  Looking forward to seeing you in Toronto in February!

Western Canada had three excellent candidates for their contest – Sir Marc on the Sir side, berith and boy daniel on the boy side.

Your contestants

I like the community spirit of the weekend with the Calgary and Edmonton communities coming together, to celebrate their representation of Leather be it through the contest, by just being out, cruising and picking up.

This is the second time I’ve had a chance to judge a LeatherSIR/boy contest. The first was Michigan LeatherSIR/boy in March 2011 as Alternate Judge. Now that I’ve spent a considerable amount of time as a titleholder, i’ve formulated questions around the things that are important to me – sex, play, community service and looking after ourselves.  That should give contestants an idea of what to expect from me.  *GRIN*

Sir Alan and pup nitro braving the cold

The weekend included

  • the meat and greet Friday night with demos
  • Saturday included two seminars – a first for the Western Canada LeatherSIR/Leatherboy weekend with Sir Scott presenting on wax (yum!) and Master Chuck and I presenting our Get Zapped!  Electrotorture and Electroplay seminar.
  • Saturday night culminated with the competition
  • Sunday was the survivors brunch – the food was great!

I highly recommend the Western Canada LeatherSIR/Leatherboy weekend if you can make it to Calgary.  Keep in mind it can be cold in Calgary – Friday hit a low of -20C (-4F) at night, but the locals will be more than happy to keep you warm.

After a lovely dinner at Calgary’s Sky 360 restaurant, Master Chuck, boy joe and myself crashed for the night, waking up to play in the hotel in the morning (rubber sleep sacks, edging and CBT anyone?  Yes please!) and pack up for our flights back to Toronto and San Francisco.

Thank you once again Alberta and Western Canada for your hospitality!

The Centre of the Leather Universe

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There was an article, recently, about Toronto being the most hated city in Canada.  Well, I’ve got a big beef to pick with the media.  The anti-Toronto rhetoric has got to stop.  Period.  It’s ridiculous.

You’re probably going to ask, what does this have to do with Leather?

Over the past week, Sir and I have travelled to both Ottawa, Ontario and Calgary, Alberta for Mr. Leather/M. Cuir Ottawa and Western Canada LeatherSIR/Leather boy.

At both events, we each received a fair bit of anti-Toronto rhetoric relating to Toronto being the centre of the Leather universe in Canada.

What kind of ridiculous crap is this?

Case 1: In the first case, I was talking to a Leatherman about running for either Eastern Canada Leatherboy (as I know him as a boy although he is taking on subs) or even as LeatherSIR when he is ready.  His response to me was that it was a Toronto title and that there was no interest in having others from outside of Toronto.

Pardon me?  With the current Sir from Sudbury, a previous boy from Hamilton and another previous boy, I believe, from Montreal this is a Toronto-centric title?  I believe the title is called “Eastern Canada” because it encompasses the whole region from Ontario eastward including the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and the province of Newfoundland & Labrador.

Now that said, in our title year, Sir and I have only been able to travel between Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, Sudbury and North Bay – but I know we would love to help spread the word to Quebec, and we have made some new contacts there.  I’ve fantasized about about seeing if we can do some form of bath house night at Sea Dogs in Halifax (Rough House @ Sea Dogs, anyone?).

Admittedly, beyond Halfax, we’re not aware of Leathermen in New Brunswick, PEI or Newfoundland.  Despite being a Newfoundlander myself, unfortunately I’m not connected in the gay scene in Newfoundland as it’s been 13 years since I’ve been back to The Rock.  I have done a bit of poking and prodding online without much success.

So – despite the fact that our step-down is in February, and we’ve not done and gotten to everywhere we wanted to – I know I am committed to seeing what can be done in the Maritime and Atlantic provinces to raise awareness of the title where appropriate.  I am also looking into some teaching opportunities in Quebec – where, I must add, that I have taught my Batter Up: Intro to CBT course.

I also plan on attending several pride parades in Ontario, next year – especially if my replacement for ECLb cannot attend to represent.  I will have a lot more time this year, than I did last year.

ECLSb is not a Toronto-centric title.  The contest just happens to be in Toronto.

If you want to run and you’re from outside of Toronto, GREAT!  Sign up today at LeatherSIRCanada.com!

Case 2: During this past weekend, Sir was apparently accosted by someone complaining about Toronto being the so-called centre of the universe.

Please!  You’re talking to the wrong Titleholders about this and Sir is from Sudbury which is four hours north of Toronto!

Personally, if I thought Toronto was all that and a bag of chips, I’d never leave this city, I’d have a Sir in this city, and I probably wouldn’t go north of Bloor, west of Yonge, east of Parliament and south of Queen St for fear of a nose bleed.

Personally, I love getting out of this city.  I love the fact that my Sir lives 4 hours north of Toronto.  I love that my favourite bath house is actually a 45 minute drive away – yes, I drive to Hamilton occasionally to go to the baths.  I like getting into the country.

Yes, Toronto has a critical mass of gay people, Leathermen and kinky people. It has one of the larger leather events in Canada, but we also recognize that, in the East, Ottawa and Montreal also have significant Leather populations and many of us travel to at least MLO and many to MCM.

I look to Calgary and Edmonton as being the Leather centres of Western Canada with Vancouver rising up again – together that’s a phenomenal force! Edmonton in particular really has caught my attention seeing what many of the younger men have done to build up their community with EPIG (Edmonton Players in Gear) and other events such as Kink Kamp.  Events such as Rubbout in Vancouver.  All of these I want to get to when I can.

When I travel to Master Scott’s home town of Port Alberni, BC – seriously, the reaction I get from people when I tell them I’m from Toronto, that “Oooh!  You’re from Toronto!” reaction…  As if I’m some city slicker big shot.

Honestly, I can do without it.

Never put your own city down because I happen to come from Toronto and say something to the effect of, ‘Wow, and you were willing to come to our city from Toronto!”  I’m there because I want to be there, to share myself, to share my experiences, to connect with other like minded people – and vice versa – to learn from you, get experiences with you, etc…  Not because I’m some big shot with attitude.

The bitching about Toronto being the centre of the universe… Do you hear me complain about Alberta for whatever inane reason the media chooses to bitch about?

You won’t hear me complain because it’s tiresome and honestly, it’s rude.

Your community may be smaller, but it’s just as valid as any other larger or smaller community.  Whatever I can do to be supportive, I’m more than willing to help out.