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Chicago Rubbermen during Chicago Pride THIS WEEKEND
JUNE 23 – Chicago Rubbermen Bar Night at Touche
Our Pride Month bar night is Saturday, June 23 at 11PM at Touché Chicago! Sounds like we’re getting a lot of out-of-towners for the weekend, too. (Here’s a map – on-street parking is pretty easy up that way…) We look forward to seeing you there!
JUNE 24 – Chicago Rubbermen in the Chicago Gay Pride Parade
You are invited to participate in the 2012 Chicago Gay Pride Parade! David Boyer of Touche Chicago has invited us to join them on their float as they celebrate the diversity of gay groups in Chicago, including the Chicago Rubbermen. If you are interested in joining us, send an email to chicagorubbermen@gmail.com and we’ll provide you with the information. Boyer will be providing the float with space for our banner and coolers – be sure the bring water and wear sunscreen! We hope to see you on Sunday, June 24 at 12PM! We’ve covered the cost of participation so all you have to do is join us for the fun! Following the parade there will be a beer bust and cookout at Touché Chicagoafterward. All are welcome to join either or both events.
There is so much going on in June and July, look for another newsletter in a couple of weeks!
Until then, stay shiny, rubbermen 🙂
Mr S Locker Room Anniversary Party
Mr S Locker Room Anniversary Party
Saturday, June 23, 2012
2:00pm until 6:00pm in PDT
Come down to Mr. S Leather on Pride Saturday and help us celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the Mr. S Locker Room. If the free beer and food doesn’t do it for you, maybe the sexy guys helping us out will entice you to come down. DJ Ken Vulsion/Honeysoundsystem will be spinning and yes, there will be drinking games again. Come on down and check out all our new gear including ES and Addicted and get that Pride outfit ready!
Hope to see you all there.
Click on the Photo to be taken to the Facebook Event Page.
Chicago Rubbermen News
March with the Rubbermen for Pride
Chicago Rubbermen
CHICAGO – Gay pride and rubber combine for June and July for the Chicago Rubbermen!
CHICAGO – Gay pride and rubber combine for June and July for the Chicago Rubbermen!
JUNE 24 – Chicago Rubbermen Join the Gay Pride Parade
You are invited to participate in the 2012 Chicago Gay Pride Parade! David Boyer of Touche Chicago has invited us to join them on their float as they celebrate the diversity of gay groups in Chicago, including the Chicago Rubbermen. If you are interested in joining us, send an email to chicagorubbermen@gmail.com and we’ll provide you with the information. Boyer will be providing the float with space for our banner and coolers – be sure the bring water and wear sunscreen! We hope to see you on Sunday, June 24 at 12PM! We’ve covered the cost of participation so all you have to do is join us for the fun! Following the parade there will be a beer bust and cookout at Touché Chicagoafterward. All are welcome to join either or both events.
JULY 14 – Chicago Rubbermen 6th Anniversary Party
We are turning six this year! Come join us for a night of socializing and shiny rubber at Touché Chicago (it’s like we’re regulars now!) on Saturday, July 14 starting at 10:30 PM. Touche is offering drink specials for us that evening – We’ll be giving away cash, a gift certificate to Shel-don Leather here in Chicago, Illinois, and some great rubber gear from one of our very own rubbermen from over in Michigan. (Special shout out: Thanks for your donation, Bill!) **SPECIAL NOTE** If you live out of state, are unavailable on the 14th, or otherwise cannot join us, you can participate, too! Just send us an email to chicagorubbermen@gmail.combeginning with the words “I like rubber because…” and you’ll be entered to win a rubbery prize, too! Winners of the email drawing will be notified by email. *(no purchase necessary valid offer if you like the shiny only valid if you’re alive and not a zombie)*
JULY 20-22 – Mister Midwest Rubber
Work is already underway for this summer’s Mister Midwest Rubber contest, hosted each year by Touché bar. Save the date(s): Fun kicks off on Friday, July 20, contest on Saturday, July 21, and Beer Bust on Sunday, July 22! Interested in competing? YOU could be the next Mister Midwest Rubber! Head over towww.touchechicago.com for more information and to find the contestant application.
Rubber tip: You can tell who is wearing a rubber jock at the Pride Parade by the tell-tale sweat stains on their shorts 😉 Stay shiny, rubbermen!
Sidenote: Thanks out to CHICAGO DEN. With the amazing weather and “Midsommarfest” festival going on in Andersonville this weekend, I was far too lazy to do anything more than copy and paste from their blog. 😉
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International Mr. Leather competition to include two gay weddings in 34th year
International Mr. Leather competition to include two gay weddings in 34th year
Full article HERE in Red Eye Chicago magazine.
Well done, Canada!
*NEW*- IML 2012 Vendor Market Info
Breaking News: Vendor Market Day Pass Update!
Update Leather Market Day Pass
Non-weekend Package holders will need to get a daily wristband to enter the Vendor Market. Day Pass registration is in Columbus Hall, Gold Level at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Suggested daily donation is $5 and wristbands are color-coded for each day of IML.
An all-weekend “Pride Pass” is also available for a donation of at least $10. (Not $25)
“Pride Pass” holders will receive a coded wristband allowing market entry all weekend and a certificate good for $25 off a Weekend Package for IML 2013. These passes will be available in the Day Pass area.
All net proceeds of Day Pass and “Pride Pass” donations benefits The Leather Archives and Museum.
All attendees to IML events must be at least 21 years of age and carry a government issued ID.
ALSO– The Official IML 2012 Schedule of Events is available HERE.
CLAW review by “WolvesPerv”
Check out a great review of “WolvesPerv’s” experience at CLAW this year. Kicking myself for not making it to this event, yet again due to work.
Click on his HERE to see the review.
New England Rubbermen
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: rubberranter@gmail.com
Rubber Rebounds in New England
A fetish community turns out as RubberJason takes the title of Mr. New England Rubber
BOSTON (April 12, 2012) – The world of rubbermen contests began in Boston with the Mr. Vulcan competition two decades ago. Now, New England is reclaiming its place as a hub of the rubber-kink community. More than 100 kinksters turned out as 37-year-old Jason Lynch, (aka, RubberJason) donned the sash of the 2nd annual Mr. New England Rubber.
In the eyes of many, the event marked a sea change for the region’s rubber fetish community. Rubber and latex fetish have long been a minor component of kink culture, especially in the leather-dominated Northeast. However, the last year has witnessed a growing number of rubber enthusiasts at organized fetish events—and has spawned the new organization, the New England Rubber Men, which has more than 50 members despite having formed a mere five months ago.
“I can’t say how proud I am of the enormous response we’ve seen in such a short amount of time,” said Lynch, who is one of the founding members of the New England Rubber Men. “I think there are a lot of guys in this area who have been a little intimidated to show their rubber-kink side. Now, they’re finding out that this area’s fetish community is a big and welcoming place…and they’re more than happy to show up.”
And, they’ll have plenty of new opportunities to do just that. Along with first-runner-up GloveBoy, second-runner-up Clark Longhammer, and last year’s winner Nochmal, Lynch and the New England Rubber Men will host several rubber events around New England including various demos and social get-togethers.
“I think we’re at the start of something big in New England—something that will open the kink community to a much bigger group, “ said Justin Eddy (SirJustin), owner of the MNER contest and International Mr. Deaf Leather 2011.
Lynch will now have an opportunity to represent the New England rubber community on an international stage by donning the MNER sash (which was designed by latex fashion icon, The Baroness) at the 16th annual Mister International Rubber Contest in November in Chicago. He has big waders to fill, however. Mr. New England Rubber 2011, Nochmal, took first-runner-up at the competition.
Supports have little doubt that the self-proclaimed “cub” will be a favorite at the competition. He was selected by a panel of judges comprised of well-known personalities within the rubber community: G-man, Mr. International Rubber 2011; Richard Nordin (Nochmal), Mr. New England Rubber 2011; Bob Roberts, Mr. American Rubber 2012; Miss Corvette, Ms. FLAG 2011; along with Brian Conway and Patrick Pierson (Pleep), two popular contestants from the Mister International Rubber 2011 contest.
More Photos and Video from the Contest can be seen HERE.
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I miss London…
Thank you to Kilker Leather for sharing this photo.
Mr. NE Rubber 2012
Contestant entry deadline March 26th
Contestant application can be downloaded at
www.MrNER.com
**No Cover**
All Fetishist are welcome!!
Schedule
*Friday March 30th- 10pm
Meet and Greet night at The Alley
(www.thealleybar.com) 14 PI Alley,Boston,MA.
*Saturday March 31st- 10pm
2nd Annual MrNER 2012 contest at Ramrod
(www.Ramrod-Boston.com) 1254 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
*Sunday April 1st- 4-7pm
Tea Dance at Ramrod
(www.ramrod-boston.com) 1254 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
Church Street Merchants Axe Fetish Fair
This is some very sad and frustratining news. Major support to the Flash Mob that showed up last year despite the changes. That took serious courage. Stick with it, guys. Let them know you feel alienated.
Summer in the Church and Wellesley Village is about to get a little less kinky now that members of the local business association have decided they will no longer host the Church St Fetish Fair.
FULL ARTICLE HERE.
Recon Booth @ IML Leather Market 2012
If you haven’t already caught it on the website yet, above is the Logo for the “Recon Booth at IML Leather Market 2012“. By RSVPing, you will be able to see who else is attending IML 2012 and start planning your “Dance Card”.
Remembering Mr. Marcus Hernandez
This is a great collage video dedicated to Marcus which was shown at IML. I’m really happy it made it to YouTube. He was a special guy. I admired the work and involvement he had in the community as well as the people that are his family. I only knew him from social circles at events and only met the guy once, when he was playfully drunk at a party and shared some special words with me which were… “Get the fuck out of my way, Twink”.
(I’m told if you knew him, it was a joke).
Mr. Marcus Hernandez, a fixture in the leather community and at so many IML’s over the years. Remembered fondly at the 32nd International Mr. Leather Competition in Chicago. May 2010.
INDIANA Event: “Diversity, Tolerance & Acceptance”
Check out the Facebook Event page HERE.
Welcome Home
MYSTERY SOLVED.
Yesterday’s viral photo sensation that seemed too-good-to-be-real turns out to be authentic. Thanks to some apparent detective work by Joe Jervis, we now know the returning Marine was Brandon Morgan, greeting his partner, Dalan Wells. He’s written: “To everyone who has responded in a positive way, my partner and I want to say thank you. Dalan, the giant in the photo, can’t believe how many shares and likes we have gotten on this. We didn’t do this to get famous, or something like that. We did this cause after 3 deployments and four years knowing each other, we finally told each other how we felt. As for the haters, let em hate…to quote Kat Williams, everyone needs haters, so let them hate. We are the happiest we have ever been and as for the whole PDA and kissing slash hugging in uniform…it was a homecoming. If the Sergeants Major, Captains, Majors, and Colonels around us didn’t care…then why do you care what these random people have to say? In summation, thank you for your love and support. I received a lot of friend requests off this. I don’t just accept requests so if your request was because of this post, message me and let me know. Goodnight all, and Semper Fi.” Thank you for your service to our country, Sir, and to both of you for having the courage to live and love out loud.
(from a Facebook post)
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How IML Contestants see themselves
Leather in the Desert
Click on the Logo for more information.
Heads Up Folsom Street Fair attendees…
Well, this sort of sucks.
Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco was recently announced to have a different date than it’s usual end of September. The new date is…
Sunday, Sept 23rd.
“Normally, the Folsom Street Fair is held on the last weekend in September. However, in 2012, that weekend is the same as Oracle Open World. We have received word from our partners in the hotel industry that many of the city’s hotels are already completely sold out for that weekend”.
I hope the date change doesn’t affect attendance overall. It’s certainly not the organizer’s fault.
Spread the word!
Mr Missouri Leather 2012
Anyone else attending? *CLICK HERE* to be taken to the official website.
Or *CLICK HERE* to be taken to the Facebook Event Page.
There’s also a great write up about the history of Mr Missouri Leather HERE courtesy of Vital Voice.
The Leather Identity Project
The Leather Identity Project . Check this out. The results are going to be very interesting.
Also, Keep in mind that the word “LEATHER” encompasses all forms of kink and lifestyle including Rubber, Sports Gear, etc. So, yes… even you in the Raccoon Mascot (furry outfit)… your opinion is of value to the Project!