October 4, 2007

Peter LaBarbera’s Unhealthy Obsession With Folsom Street Leathermen

Buffy, who observes, “For someone who claims he’s disgusted by all of that ‘depravity’ Peter sure took lots of pictures of those naked men,” found this gem — well worth clicking and reading in full — at Pam’s House Blend:

What you’ve been waiting for - the full Folsom report from The Peter

In a multipart on-the-scene “exclusive” series — complete with photos with alleged naughty bits blacked out — on the Folsum Street Fair in San Francisco, Peter LaBarbera and Allyson Smith of Americans For Truth Against Homosexuality go into almost orgasmic detail about the BDSM going on at the event.

I kid you not, this is “Christian” oppo research gone horribly wrong. From Part One:

How do you describe the most depraved pubic event in the most depraved city in America? Well, we’ll let the pictures do the talking — with our strategically-placed black boxes so as not to reward the perverted exhibitionists who invaded the city’s streets Sunday for the “Folsom Street Fair.” The Fair is an annual street party for BDSM enthusiasts (meaning bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism — or domination/submission) held on several blocked-off city streets here, that reportedly draws hundreds of thousands of “leather” practitioners and curious spectators every year…

Apparently Peter has realized that he can no longer report on these BDSM events as homosex-only, so he couches the heterosexual behavior as an anomoly, likely caused by proximity to the homos. He describes another of his photos:

Man leads bare-breasted female slave “partner” around by a dog collar. It appears that in recent years, heterosexual perverts have joined their “gay” brethren at the “fair” in increasing numbers. Talk about a setback for women’s rights … On the flip side, women were also seen leading around their male “slaves” at the twisted “fair”…

Why are Peter and Allyson so curiously attracted to these kink festivals? I personally have no interest in them, but the fact that he had to “escalate” to do “research” on king beyond his hometown International Mr. Leather convention says quite a bit.

And never mind the idiocy of the statement that the leather scene is a “setback for women’s rights”; we want to know when Radical Righties like LaBarbera (and his cohorts in the Folsom attack, Concerned Women for America) suddenly started caring about women’s rights.