Safety is a funny little concept, isn’t it? Raise your hand if it doesn’t occur to you very often to think of how safe you might be in your current environment. If your hand is up, congratulations– you found a place in which you don’t feel the incessant need to look over your shoulder. It […]
Picture it: 11 p.m. on a warm summer night in the small town of Dickinson, North Dakota. It was July 20th, 2007. I was arriving at my local Walmart Supercenter to join the line of excited shoppers waiting to snag their copy of the final installment of the Harry Potter series at its midnight release […]
We live in a time when connecting has never been easier—but feeling truly connected can feel harder than ever. We scroll, we like, we comment. We react. We retweet. We share. We DM. But somewhere in all of that noise, the signal—real connection—can get lost. That’s the heart of a powerful piece we just read […]
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I’ll never forget sitting alone on my sofa in my darkened apartment late Tuesday night, November 5, 2024. The map of the United States was projected on my television screen. With every passing minute, it bled more and more red– mirroring my sinking hopes for the future. A friend of mine called me at some […]
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Gear up for a night of leather, legacy, and fierce fashion as we stream live from The Anvil, Phoenix’s premier leather bar! It’s the BLUF Social, hosted by Arizona Men of Leather, and we’re capturing all the arrivals, the looks, and the full red carpet energy. 📺 The YouTube stream will be embedded here once […]
This weekend, the leather and kink communities came together in the heart of Phoenix to celebrate something truly powerful—brotherhood, connection, and the crowning of a new titleholder who represents it all. The Mr. Anvil Phoenix 2025 Weekend, hosted by the Arizona Men of Leather (AML), brought clubs and kinksters from across the Valley to The […]
