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So it was a really great place for us to be, and it has turned into a really nice community there.
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Flogging is a problem is Massachusetts because it is technically considered assault, even if it is consensual. It was just not really happening before, and Boston is not really a city that embraces diversity. We supported Mikey and helped precipitate a renaissance. He took it over, moved the bar to the different location, and it has been success ever since. Mikey, who was the bar manager, saw an opportunity. So, we stuck with it, and kept promoting and recruiting, and it got to the point where you could barely even move in there on one of our bar nights. You know, the community was very active and out-there. There were maybe twenty people there on a Saturday night, and I’m thinking to myself, “How is this place staying open?”Īnd there was like eight of us from the Northeast Leather Family, which was part of my home title, and we were the only ones in leather! And I was like, “Oh my god, this is a leather bar?” And I come from the Washington DC-Baltimore area where leather was huge. Let me tell you, that first bar night was a little scary on my end. The first time we went into the bar, we were like, “Can we do demos? Can we do, you know, do whatever,” whatever we could think of to get people out at night and get people in the club with some sort of leather presence. But we kept at it and started doing monthly bar nights. At first, the former owner of the Eagle gave us a luke-warm reception.
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We didn’t really have a place to actually meet. Sir Rick: Well, in 2011, I was the Northeast LeatherSIR along with my partner who was Northeast Leatherboy. Kevin: Why does New England need another title? What are you hoping this contest will do for the leather community in New England?