Petrelis Files

NYT Showcases BDSM
Leatherwoman in Pics & Words

The Old Grey Lady reveals some of her black-and-blue interests with this profile and fabulous b/w pics of NYC leatherwoman.

Brava to both the Grey Lady and the Leather Lady for showing the NYTimes.com readers a non-vanilla person, proud of her alt sexuality and flaunting it, fabulously. We've come a very long way from the dark days when the paper wouldn't use the term gay when writing about homosexuals of all sorts, if they deigned to cover us at all.

Check out the pics of and words from Lolita Wolf, described as "The Kinky Lover," who "[f]or 22 years [...] has been active in New York's B.D.S.M. scene - bondage, domination, sadism and masoschism."

Lolita would be most welcome at the Folsom and Dore Fairs, and I wager she's been to one or two of them, and was quite popular.