2017 is approaching fast, and it’s time to start putting together the Minnesota Leather Pride theme for 2017. This theme is the foundation for design, marketing, and events for the year. Because MNLP’s mission is to celebrate, honor, nurture and facilitate the leather/kink/BDSM community, we want to hear your suggestions for a theme. We have […]
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June Pride Month reaches its peak this week with the Twin Cities Pride Festival and Ashley Rukes GLBT Pride Parade this upcoming weekend. Minnesota Leather Pride will have a large booth in Loring Park, on our sponsoring groups will serve as hosts throughout the weekend. We invite our kink and leather family to come hang […]
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In our busy world of social media and instant everything, it is too easy to miss upcoming events and activities in our communities. Minnesota Leather Pride is making it easier to find Minnesota and regional leather and kink events by gathering what we see and publishing it in our monthly Flashmail events emails. If you […]
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American Leather Story: Finding My Queer
Republished with permission © Copyright Michael Holt When I was young “queer” was a slur, slang for homosexual, and that’s the only meaning it had. Pretty much all of society was very homophobic. We used “queer” to emphasize the difference between us normal people and those dreadful homosexuals. Except I wasn’t quite one of the […]
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2016 MNLP Weekend Wrap Up
Congratulations to the amazing contestants – Sir Roman, boy Bolt, Angie, and Syn! We are so proud of all of you! Congratulations to Aurora, boy Woody, and Sir Ivan on a great year as the inaugural titleholder! Minnesota Leather Pride Weekend 2016 kicked off early on Friday night at the Meet & Greet in Mason’s. […]
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The organizers of Minnesota Leather Pride Weekend contest, April 1-3, are proud to announce the 2016 contest judges.
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This year we are pleased to announce that in an effort to expand our inclusiveness and serve the needs of our entire community, we have removed all government-ID gender requirements for all of our title contests. So long as a person self-identifies as a Sir they are welcome to compete for the Sir title, if […]
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Less than a week after winning the International Leatherboy 2015 title, we sat down with Tim at Steve Lenius’s home to interview him about his leather life.
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Ryan Brown tells us how he got into the leather community through the gear nights at eagleBolt Bar, how he got his first harness.
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The Atons interviewed founding member Jim Courtney in 2010. They have shared this video interview with us.
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