This weekend has been a bit eventful. Firstly, it’s the longest I’ve been back in Toronto since March 2019, two weeks in a row! This gives me an opportunity to get out. Getting out I did.
Thursday started with checking out Home Turf, hosted by Jeremy Feist, Mister Leather Toronto 2016; which is a once a month Leather night at The Black Eagle. Normally I would not go out on a school night but I made a commitment to myself and by virtue of talking to others, I’m making good on that commitment.
It was a fun night of all kinds of guys in Leather, guys playing and, more importantly, a diverse age range. It felt good being out in that kind of space again in my own city.
Friday, my boy came over for the weekend to stay. I am a fortunate Sir and he a fortunate boy with both of us living close by and in the same city. Quite a few of us are not as fortunate – saying that from first hand experience as my own Sir lives 5 hours away by car.
Fridays usually involve us coming down from the week, having dinner, light banter and sleeping!
Saturday usually runs some degree of errands. The boy was wanting a pair of boots and we decided to head downtown with him driving. We made the mistake of stopping at Northbound before the boot shop and never got to check out boots because he picked up his first piece of rubber and a nice thigh harness bag.
The Toronto Rubberman meet was that evening at The Eagle and that’s where we headed with Master Scott’s boy charles. What a fun night and a group of friendly people in all kinds of rubber gear including pups and full gear fetishists.
Sunday morning starts with my usual three coffees and breakfast served by the boy. He goes to prepare for Rough House whilst I get prepared mentally, and then we trade places in the bathroom.
We headed downtown. Rough House is, I think, Canada’s primary mens only BDSM play party. There are lots of pansexual parties in the Greater Toronto & Hamilton area, but very few in the gay community. It has been going for years and is a gem and pulls in all kinds of kinksters from rubbermen, leathermen, pigs, doggos and pups. I’ve gone off and on for years.
After working the boy over to both our mutual satisfaction, we head back home, meet up with Scott and three of his subs and go to dinner.
This week starts our preparation for MAL. While I have been travelling a lot with gear, Scott hasn’t and we decided to pull out what he has and put together a few ensembles.
My night ends with my usual good nights to my Sir, my boy, seeing, virtually, a pup I handle off to the airport to see his Sir and Daddy in the States, and then writing an email to my Sir about the weekend.
All in all, I’m glad I got out to explore what Toronto has these days. It’s very unfortunate that the kink and fetish community has slowed down somewhat, but I also feel there is the potential for resurgence. Essentially a retraction happens, people reorganise, new energy enters the picture and something fresh and new happens.
I won’t lie, I miss the November Mr. Leather Toronto event; people descending on Toronto from all over for not just another contest weekend, but also for the chance to learn at the educational seminars, the social aspects and the hooking up.
Thursday can’t come soon enough! I am genuinely excited for MAL.