There have been years when I've gone to every party, every show, every club thing possible.. and when I'm not working any of the events, it's really easy to cover it all .. but when you're in the middle of it, it's a little harder so this year I wasn't able to post my annual rundown of all the Pride events happening, but you all found Broadway Bares and the Sea Tea and Jackie Beat and everything else all on your own, right? Right.
I have to say that despite being a little stressy, this Pride was one of the best - thanks to a lot of folks for contributing to the fun of it all. It all started on June 15th with the Will Clark Show's salute to Folsom East where we featured XXX stud Kennedy Carter. You can read the blog post about that by clicking here. We raised a few hundred dollars, heard Robyn Young rap and her beatboxers do their thing and it was a real good time.
That Saturday night Mike Dreyden and I convened on the Eagle for a contest at 12:30 in the morning. Now you know what you're getting when you run a contest at 12:30 in the morning at a leather bar the night before Folsom Street.. and man, the patrons did not disappoint. And I mean that getting three hot frisky contestants was a snap, conning them to do the most outrageous thing - fake a cum shot with a compressed can of whipped cream - was a breeze and then spending a couple hours making the rounds talking about the street fair was good hot gay fun (and I mean that how it sounds btw). I got to bed at oh about 5am with a big smile in at least two places on my body. (kidding - or am I? Only the guy who dressed me at Folsom on Sunday afternoon knows for sure>.....)
And speaking of Folsom Street, it was a huge success and if you were there you had as much of a blast as I did hearing Kylie Edmond and the ladies from the Imperial Court perform as well as all the other fabulous performers... and then of course oh yeah, there was that pie eating contest thing which I oh yeah won. :)
I was introduced to the guy who ate the whipped cream out of my ass so much at the last minute that I forgot his name immediately but you know, the ecstacy by which he cleaned my clock (and by "clock" I mean "ass") would have driven it from my mind anyway. No wonder we won. It was less about my round muscular ass (if I do say so myself) as it was about my 'tops' voracious ass eating ability.
I think the best part of the Folsom East experience wasn't seeing the hundreds of friends and fans packed up and down W. 28th Street, but seeing all the interested, intrigued tourists lined up on the Highline. The second leg of New York's latest outdoor recreation area just recently opened and naturally a street fair full of leathermen and leatherwomen was too compelling to ignore... and to everyone's credit, there didn't seem to be any verbal bashing about us kinky queers at all.. maybe there was but we didn't hear it.... and my fondest hope is that maybe some couple visiting hoping to catch MAMA MIA and eat at Red Lobster saw something that they liked, something that flipped a kinky switch inside them and maybe something that will remind them that they don't have to do the same old boring vanilla sex all the time - that there's a very very wide band of sexual options available to them. And you know what, if just one of those folks got a little wet or rocky in their Gap shorts, then hell, isn't that an awesome thing? To expose someone to something they didn't know was a turn on for them? I think so, it's kind of one of the things that I literally live for. I wish for everyone to check out all their sexual kinks and twists...
Anyway, a big THANK YOU to JocksByRJ who provided hot leather jocks for the contestants to wear as well as an incredible $100 gift certificate for the winners (I will be making a purchase soon!) and to the Leatherman who also also donated cock rings and some other leather bits and pieces as well as $100 gift certificate. Ironically, it was just a few weeks ago when I was in the Leatherman pricing out constructing a new leather jockstrap around the codpiece I've had since 1994 (and worn in a number of movies). They're prices are super reasonable but the timing was off (it was just before IML) but now, well, I can get it done and use the gift certificate. See how things work out?
After Folsom was over, I was off into the night first off to rest and have dinner (and sober up after like five Jack and Cocks.. uh er Cokes). And here's to coming back next year!
Thank you so much, Will...for the nice mention! Happy to make whatever you order.
Victor at jocksbyrj.com
Posted by: Jocks By RJ | July 05, 2011 at 10:50 PM