Monthly Update: August

Hello!

This email is coming from the board of the Rocky Mountain Leather Alliance. You are receiving this email because you filled out our interest form or have otherwise engaged with RMLA. (If you are not interested in receiving these emails, please find unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of this message.)

Thanks so much for expressing your interest in getting involved with the group’s efforts. We’ll be sending periodic updates here about what the organization is up to, and how you can get involved.

UPCOMING EVENTS

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Rough Play at Trade

(CANCELLED DUE TO BACK ALLEY Friday, August 19, 2022, 9pm-2am)

Friday, September 17, 2022, 9pm-2am

Every third Friday of the month, we’ll be providing demos and tastings at Trade, to give folks an opportunity to learn and ask questions about various kink activities.

Back Alley, Denver at Trade

Saturday, August 27, 2022, 2:30pm-8pm 

Sunday, August 28, 2022, 2:30pm-8pm 

Our annual outdoor fetish fair is returning as a two-day event!

Join us as we take over the Trade Bar’s parking lot, where you can hang out with other kinksters in your best fetish gear. There will be community vendors, demos, tasters, local groups, games, and entertainment. You won’t want to miss this! 

This bar caters to the gay crowd, but this event is open to ALL KINKY COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

Back Alley After-Party at Studio Friction

Saturday, August 27, 2022, 8:30pm-late

Wound up after a full day of kink demos, buying cool new gear, and seeing friends in the community? Stop by Studio Friction for a queer sex/BDSM party! 

Further details forthcoming.

CALLS FOR INVOLVEMENT

Back Alley

We are looking for volunteers to help us make Back Alley a reality. Please e-mail us at volunteer@rockymountainleather.org if you have any interest in volunteering during Back Alley to help us raise money to invest back into building and strengthening the leather, kink, and BDSM community in Colorado.

In particular, we are looking for:

 – Kink Skills performers (e.g. flogging, electro, bondage; tops or bottoms) for demos or tastings.

 – Beer Bust pourers

 – Coordination volunteers (for setup, teardown)

 – After-party volunteers

If you volunteer and you represent another group with the community, we intend on disbursing some proceeds to other groups in the area, partially based on involvement. So, if you are a member of another organization in the area, and you volunteer for our events, we’ll work with you to donate funds back to your organization.

If there is another way you want to be involved with RMLA — whether it is participating in board meetings, help getting your own group off the ground, a partnership, or a request for a donation, please send us an e-mail at board@rockymountainleather.org.

FUTURE PLANS

We are still working to bring back GRUNT, our monthly dungeon party for all individuals who identify as men. We will post more information about this as it becomes available.

We are looking into different options for how we can achieve our mission statement and build up the leather, BDSM, kink, and fetish community in Colorado and in the Rocky Mountain region. After Back Alley, Denver, we are going to begin exploring different options for providing education, play spaces, and social events.

If you have feedback for us or want to be involved in any point in the process, don’t hesitate to reach out to the board at board@rockymountainleather.org (or me personally at dbarnes@rockymountainleather.org) to make your voice heard.

Thanks!

Daniel Barnes

President, Rocky Mountain Leather Alliance

dbarnes@rockymountainleather.org

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