Pony identifies as a “trans POC leathermxn” from East L.A., an unincorporated city that’s primarily Latino. when he first started looking for community in the ’90s-most of them dominated by cis gay men.
He says that the leather scene was “like a natural calling,” for him but that he was intimidated by most of the spaces he found in L.A. Pony Lee, one of the founders of Cruise, says the mixture of atmospheres is intentional. Bettie eventually began to remove the needles one at a time from the inside of her subject’s mouth, and blood did run down their face, but, a model of efficiency, Bettie licked all of it off.* I watched, mesmerized, wondering if and when the piercee would bleed. Onstage, Bettie Bondage, a self-described “Kinkucator” and “sadist,” is piercing whiskers into a person’s face with needles. Inside, things are a little more intense. “As a lesbian- or dyke-looking person in there, I was mainly invisible.”
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Guys will definitely be getting busy at that party. This is an annual party with tons of porn stars and rentboys and a nasty, sexy vibe.
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