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The Peter whines that his repeat IML reports are simply research

by: Pam Spaulding

Sun May 24, 2009 at 10:00:00 AM EDT


It's sad that Peter LaBarbera's readers and $upporters can't seem to absorb the details of alleged homosexual perversions that he carefully reports about. Otherwise, why would he continue the "research" on alt-sex events like International Mr. Leather and Folsom?

For instance, his screaming headline on IML, "If You Care about Hygiene, Don’t Stay at the Hilton Chicago Hotel — Host to ‘International Mr. Leather’ Deviant-Sex-Fest" attempts a to-date futile effort to make the IML host hotel feel some economic pain. I don't see this ever succeeding, but he's compelled to continue doing this. Why?

What these annual events do is give The Peter an opportunity to roll and revel in what he calls "grotesque and unhealthy behaviors" through his "reports." This year is no exception.  Note that he is upset at our interpretation of his repeat performances at these events is indicative of his unseemly fixation with the milieu.

WARNING: GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF HOMOSEXUAL PERVERSIONS

Hilton Profits Off Perversion: this weekend the Hilton Chicago hotel  hosts the deviant-sex-fest known as “International Mr. Leather” (IML). Given the grotesque and unhealthy behaviors that are practiced by IML attendees — including “fisting” (a “very popular practice among more evolved (kinky) gays”: Urban Dictionary) and “watersports” — we advise that people concerned about hygiene should avoid these hotels. TAKE ACTION:  Write or call Hilton Hotels (World HQ: 310-278-4321 or 800-445-8667) and tell them that due to their commitment to making big money off one of the most heinous, pornographic, deviant-sex celebrations known to mankind, you will take your consumer dollars elsewhere.

By Peter LaBarbera

Memorial Day is right around the corner (May 25th), and in Chicago that can only mean homosexual “leathermen” by the thousands taking over the Chicago Hilton Hotel for the annual twisted sadomasochistic perversion-fest known as “International Mr. Leather” (2009 logo at left). Every year, Hilton Hotels profits off of this unbelievably debauched event — as either the Chicago Hilton or the historic Palmer House Hilton hosts it. Pornographic vendors by the dozens hawk hard-core pornography in the “leather market” vendor area that runs parallel to IML.

You can read our previous photo-stories about IML HERE and HERE. Every year, Americans For Truth reminds our readers of how incredibly vile this “gay” event is, and every year homosexual activists play “Kill the Messenger” by alleging that this writer is a secret “leatherman” himself. Baseless, ad hominem attacks are apparently the last refuge of proud, pro-perversion propagandists.

If you read this edition of his bleating, he attempts to explain away the presence of heterosexuals at these events as evidence that a perversion is rubbing off on them ("Their movement is gaining adherents in the straight world"). He even asks if "the staff at Hilton Chicago will be 'joining in' on the perversions."

My question is what will The Peter learn in 2009 that he didn't find during his "investigation" for the Illinois Family Institute in 2004:

On Memorial Day weekend, the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Chicago played host to what must be one of the most perverse sexual celebrations ever dreamed up by sinful men: the "International Mr. Leather" (IML) conference.

"Leathermen" are sadomasochists (in this case, mostly homosexuals) who glory in a pseudo "macho" sexual ethic--probably to make up for their masculine deficit as sexually-confused "gay" men.

Sadistic/masochistic "leather" sexuality often includes consensual sexual violence (beating, whipping, or otherwise inducing pain as part of sex) and "consensual" degradation and humiliation between "partners."

...I decided to go down to Chicago on Memorial Day, the last day of IML, to gather evidence on this twisted event.

As you can imagine, this idea didn't go over too well with my wife. Anyway, I arrived at the Hyatt Regency, and made my way down to where the IML vendors were set up in a vast "Leather Market," which was open to the public and mentioned in the Tribune's Red Eye story.

 

Yes, I wonder what his wife, five years later, thinks about her husband's activities?

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I'd be surprised ...
... if he doesn't constantly wear out the "scare-quote" key on his computer.  He must go through those on a weekly basis.

He could save himself a lot of typing time if he could set up some sort of macro for scary words, but so many words are scary to him it would take forever to program that.

Maybe he should skip the individual words and just put scare-quotes around every entire post he writes -- that would not only be faster, but more accurate.  Then he could put the time he saves from typing scare-quotes into pursuing his leatherman hobby.


What his wife thinks?
Maybe that her arm is getting pretty gawd-awful tired from all the "at home research whipping sessions" in the dungeon, er, master/slave, um, master bedroom...

That the chain-rattling has given her permanent migraines and ringing in her ears...

And all this "research" absolutely KILLING the rug, what with all of his mess and then on his hands and knees scrubbing the stains...

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Peter, Purveyor of Porn to Fundie Closet Cases.
Give Peter money, and he'll keep you supplied with a running supply of verbage with which to self flagellate. Does it come in a glossy edition?  Does he?

...I decided to go down to Chicago on Memorial Day
Pam, I think you have a typo here.  I'm pretty sure the original read
...I decided to go down on Chicago on Memorial Day
I didn't realize he was so service-oriented!

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[ Parent ]
Can an inflatable wife's arm get tired?


Cynic, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.  
-Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


[ Parent ]
QScribe
You owe me a keyboard!

[ Parent ]
What a wide open invitation that is
...I decided to go down to Chicago on Memorial Day, the last day of IML, to gather evidence on this twisted event.

Without giving in to the temptation to be oh so crude and rude, I wonder what "evidence" he is gathering and what method he is using to collect it?


I just hope he plays safely....

we wouldn't want him to spread anything around!

[ Parent ]
The Leather Market
I was at the Leather Market Friday and Saturday.  When Pete refers to "IML" he really means the Leather Market (aka Leather Mart).

For those not familiar, IML is a series of events and parties over the weekend, culminating with the International Mr. Leather contest on Sunday night and victory party afterward.

As someone who lives here, restaurants and retail shops love this weekend. It brings in a boatload of $$$$ to the local economy. Restaurants are packed with lines out the door.  And not just in the gay areas. I mean downtown too. After leaving the leather market, I went to Starbucks next door before getting on the subway. Parents with kids in baby strollers mixing with the leather guys and bears buying their Venti Caramel Macchiato's. Nobody cares and everyone gets along.  That's the truth.

As always is the case each year, the crowd was friendly and well behaved.

In fact, each day I saw a uninformed Chicago police officer socializing with the attendees, with one perusing toys that need batteries.

The hotel staff was totally cool!!  In fact, I had lunch with a friend of mine (former porn star JC Carter) and the waitress told us that IML people were nicer to her than business travelers, who are sometimes condescending to her because she's "just a waitress".

The leather guys and bears are more down to earth that just about anyone I know.

Aside from being a self-loathing closet case, Peter LaBarbera is a pathological liar when it comes to providing an accurate description of Chicago's IML weekend.


Third Biggest Conference in the US?
At least that's what someone told me. The bar tab alone probably runs into the millions of dollars - we're talking thousands of men, and quite a few ladies, paying hotel prices for drinks. That's why the hotels compete to host the event - they know the money they'll earn.

[ Parent ]
The leather community is, for the most part, AWESOME
Yeah, there are assholes everywhere you go. But the wonderful thing about the leather community is that if you get a reputation for being a rude, indiscreet, selfish asshole, no one wants to play with you anymore. And who wants to drive away their playmates?

Seriously, I feel safer socializing at a fetish party or dungeon event than I do going to Señor Frog's on Saturday nights. The leather community has rules of etiquette and manners, and unlike in a vanilla straight bar, at a leather event, no really means no.

God save ornery old queens! - kevinchi


[ Parent ]
Patriots Unclear On The Concept
Nobody forced the Hilton to host IML. Hotels compete for conventions, and if the leatherfolk didn't prove to be profitable customers Hilton wouldn't have made the deal. I believe this state of affairs is called "Free Market Capitalism".

A few years back the Concerned Women of Amerika tried to shut down a BDSM event in a suburb of Chicago because it was booked into a hotel chain where they held their own conventions, which shocked and appalled them. This turned into a Shoot Self In Foot moment. The reason the organizers booked into that hotel was that the one they'd planned on using was in the midst of a big remodeling project that went through the weekend the group wanted, so they switched from Hotel A to Hotel B. When CWA put the pressure on, Hotel B caved and reneged on their signed contracts with two weeks to go, so it looked as if the Bigoted Lunatics Concerned Women had won. But when the management of Hotel A heard about what happened, they came to the rescue! They rescheduled the remodeling around that weekend, tidied things up for us, and the event went off on schedule! Makes me proud to be an American.


[ Parent ]
just a thought
would some just invite him tot the event, so he can get laid... He wants to there, since he is talking about in great detail.. He wants to young and wanted again...

However, if he does show up and have fun, some make sure you get on film.. for later use..


It's not Kill The Messenger
It's
"The lady doth protest too much"

Covering the event every couple years -- I could see.  But covering it every year?  Who else does that?  LGBT Magazines, Leather/Rubber/Fetish columnists and magazines/newspapers/bloggers -- in other words SUPPORTERS.

Detractors tend to stay outside these things, protesting, they don't generally go inside (you're no longer undercover, not anymore) to try to expose anything multiple times.  It's not like the event drastically changes every year.  How many times do you need to write "and then I went over to the industrial grade buttplug vendor table..."

It's like he keeps pulling a turd out of his pocket and saying "Look, isn't this awful!!!!"  The first time, okay, the second time, okay maybe. (side note, it's not that I personally think fetish = disgusting, I was just trying to think of something that most people would recognize as offensive.  It wouldn't work if I'd used say, an ice cream cone instead)

But if you keep doing it, it stops showing how grossed out you are, and how vile it is, and it becomes obvious that you enjoy showing people a turd.

Peter either is secretly a fetishist himself and his "coverage" is merely a not-so-clever excuse - or -  He enjoys being offended.  I think it's the latter.  I think he gets a thrill out of looking at things that offend him.  That righteous anger can be quite a high.  There's a reason why they call it "getting all worked up".  He's excited by looking at "perversion".  He's even more excited about going back to write it and seeing the responses from other scolds and virtuecrats.  I'm sure he'd love to go up to little old ladies, show them some pictures, say "isn't this offensive?" and bask in their shock and indignation.

No, I don't think it's as obvious as him being a leather enthusiast, I think he gets off on being offended.  On being a tourist in a naughty naughty world that he can judge and condemn.  It totally gets him hot to be knee deep in fetishists.  It's the same reason people watch scary movies and ride roller-coasters.  Fear isn't fun, but the rush, the excitement, the shock, the surprise, that's the fun part. He's like a kid who keeps liking a 9-volt battery, the first few times -- you're learning what it's like, after that, it's something more.

 


Agreed
The more he protests, the more homo he looks.

And good point on the number of attendances Pam.

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So he's an anti-fetish fetishist?
That makes my brain hurt.




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look at it this way
At the heart of it, he's a masochist.  His choice of masochistic activities is to go deep into an alien world that completely offends him.  

remember those priests who went about wacking themselves on the back with thorny branches and whips and paddles?  It's like that.  


[ Parent ]
Getting off on being offended?
No, I don't think it's as obvious as him being a leather enthusiast, I think he gets off on being offended.  On being a tourist in a naughty naughty world that he can judge and condemn.  It totally gets him hot to be knee deep in fetishists.  It's the same reason people watch scary movies and ride roller-coasters.  Fear isn't fun, but the rush, the excitement, the shock, the surprise, that's the fun part. He's like a kid who keeps liking a 9-volt battery, the first few times -- you're learning what it's like, after that, it's something more.

That's certainly valid.  I think it goes beyond that, though.  It's not just that this perversion offends him, it's that THIS perversion offends him - in other words, being "pleasantly shocked" by the leather fetishism on display is just the flip side of the coin from "aroused."  Being shocked is what allows him to experience the whole "perverted display" without admitting to himself that he's enjoying it.  REALLY enjoying it.

I think this syndrome applies to a lot of the anti-gay crowd, if not all of them - they just can't help looking at how awful, awful, awful all these perverted gay activities are, OVER and OVER and OVER again.  They're just lying to themselves about WHY they want to look, over and over and over again.


[ Parent ]
right
As I said in a post above, it's like masochism.

Instead of whips - it's leather daddies, and instead of beating himself with those whips, he walks around amongst them excitedly getting "offended".


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Dolt.
It's only "ad hominem" if the personal attack is assumed to disprove an argument. I don't think anyone ever said that.

I think people are simply pointing out how weird and excessive it is that he is completely obsessed with gay fetish subcultures.

Well-deserved ridicule does not violate logic.


"it's only research"...
is an expression people who are committing a wrondoing say when they can't admit what they were doing is wrong.

Good Point!
Perfect example:  Japan's whale hunt.  "Research"...BS!

[ Parent ]
Funny, I never realized he had a wife - I guess she's convenient to pull out
and mention while you're complaining about how people mis-interpret your ritualistic devotion to covering other people's ritualistic devotions.

And it's not that we're wearing off on the heteros - we learned it from the celibates - the priests.  Who learned it from the Inquisition.  Which means people like Dick Cheney


The part that made me laugh
"As you can imagine, this idea didn't go over too well with my wife. Anyway"

Guess he had some excuse to tell her or she has just given up trying to make him understand how it looks when he goes. Every. Freekin'. Year.


Peter...I know leather men, and you are NO LEATHERMAN
You cupcake are a voyeur.
A creepy judgemental voyeur.
An ugly troll voyeur.
But never a leatherman.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


How many weekends with YOUR kids and wife have you WASTED?
You don't get those back, and your family is the ones who suffer.
Have you stopped ONE MOMENT of any gay having ONE MOMENT of fetish enjoyment, by your persistant grumbling and snatching photos?
NO

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
Here Petey
I understand the fascination, but you don't have to bother those NOT BOTHERING YOU.
Stay right at your keyboard in your own backyard and ENJOY.
  http://gayleathermen.files.wor...

  http://www.gaydarnation.com/im...

  http://musingsbyvern.com/wp-co...

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Just to be fair, womyn can do leather/ fetish VERY HOT too
   http://lesfriendly.com/wp-cont...

  http://dyn.ifilm.com/resize/im...

   http://thebeautybrains.com/wp-...

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
Last Refuge?
Baseless, ad hominem attacks are apparently the last refuge of proud, pro-perversion propagandists.

Don't worry Petey.  You're the gift that keeps on giving.  You always seem to provide new material for us to attack you on.  You're so thoughtful!  


She's not into leather, huh?
As you can imagine, this idea didn't go over too well with my wife.

I'm sure she wasn't too happy to find out about her husband's neurotic obsession with gay sexual practices.


If it means new jewelry...
Yes, I wonder what his wife, five years later, thinks about her husband's activities?

I'm sure that once she discovered that The Peter can persuade some of the sheeple whom he offends to send in money, she learned to embrace "tolerate" it.

Maybe she enjoys having this creep out of the house for a day.


Peter's Porn Swapmeet
Remember that last year, Peter photographed a shelf of heterosexual fetish video titles, and then he posted the photos on his website, lying and claiming they were gay titles.  

If I remember correct, BTB looked these up and discovered they were all hetero titles.

Just a heads-up, because you know our favorite homosexual aficianado will be up to his old tricks again this year.


The Peter is growing!
I, for one, think The Peter is maturing and growing!  Notice he writes "Homosexual Perversions," as to imply that just because a person is a homosexual it doesn't necessarily mean that person is a pervert.

Way to go Peter!  Keep up the good work!  Perhaps you'll finally take that leap out of the closet you so desperately want to take.  Join us.  All the cool kids are doing it.


"Masculine Defecit"
"Leathermen" are sadomasochists (in this case, mostly homosexuals) who glory in a pseudo "macho" sexual ethic--probably to make up for their masculine deficit as sexually-confused "gay" men."

**********

Which is why Peter has a couple of these "leathermen" outfits of his own.

And we know Peter isn't "masculine".  Nor is he feminine.  He's just IMO "un-remarkable".  

I find it most hilarious that Peter shown his leathermen outfits and a "room full of gay porn" to this "ex-gay" named Wade Richards - shortly after this incident, Richards became "ex-ex-gay".  

Ever since, Peter has been accusing Wayne Besen of "re-recruiting Wade", but I believe the REAL issue is LaBarbera is upset that he entrusted an "ex-gay" into his secret fetish world, only for Richards to be treacherous.

I have no "secret stash" of porn & stuff, but I'm sure it would make my blood boil if I shown a friend, only for them to turn around and report back to everyone all the freaky stuff I owned.  


The Peter needs his titillation twice a year
In the Spring at IML, and in the Fall at Folsom Street.  It's enough to keep him "charged" the remainder of the year.  What a mess he is!

matter of preference
Music, art, and sex are all matters of preference.   Personally I'm not that into "trading spit" (some call it kissing).  So what would Moses think of a DVD with Metallica soundtrack and Chi Chi dancing?  Who cares?  It's 2009!!!

I was at the IML Leather Market, and I never saw The Peter
Yes, I saw plenty of peters -- security is strict, IDs are carefully scrutinized and NO ONE who is not of age is allowed anywhere near the vendor area, so nudity and very near nudity was pretty common -- but I never did see The Peter. How sad: I was hoping to get his autograph.

That said, I was very impressed with it all. It was run like a trade show (pardon the pun); other than the merchandise and most vendors' lack of dress, it could have been the Seattle Home and Garden Show, complete with scheduled workshops and demonstrations of the newest... uh, landscaping techniques. There was a dizzying array of goods for sale, from leather and chain mail to porn to "bearaphenalia" to porn to home dungeon furniture to porn to paint-on latex to porn. My companion was joking about my style of "farmer fetishwear" -- I have a thing for denim and flannel -- when we come around a corner and find a vendor that specializes in denim fetishwear such as jackets, vests, even chaps! In a few weeks, when my credit card bill comes, I'm not going to be a happy camper, but I will be the proud owner of a pair of crotchless, assless jeans.

Very funny story: I was in Chicago this weekend for Bear Pride, a separate event that spun off from IML 15 years ago. I took the airport shuttle to the host hotel, along with six other passengers. All of the others were attending the international conference of the Loyal Order of Moose. They were were from Kentucky, Tennessee and South Carolina, and I could tell from their conversation about church and God and politics and the "moral degradation" of society that these weren't just southerners; these were rednecks of the archetypal kind. As we went around downtown Chicago dropping people off, it turned out that several of this group were staying at one of the convention's overflow hotels... the Hilton, host hotel for IML.

I nearly peed my shorts trying not to laugh out loud. I would have dearly loved to have gone with them into the lobby of the hotel, just to see the look on their faces when they realized where they were and what they would be dealing with for the whole weekend.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même merde.


thanks for sharing the moose lodge story, I got a good laugh.
BTW I heartly recommend the bears in Chicago....mmmmmmm
great memories from that town. I've also heard Dallas has a pretty fun Bear Round Up, but I've never gone there.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
as for Bear fetish wear, brown leather suspenders over a hairy chest, needs nothing else


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
I also got a pair of black leather suspenders
My friend insisted that I remove my t-shirt and put on the suspenders and vest. Along with the denim shorts that I was wearing, I fit right in. "Farmer fetish" indeed.  

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même merde.

[ Parent ]
I don't understand...
...how, with all the coverage on the blogs, this guy manages to wander around IML without being noticed.  

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