Before Obama, DC welcomes leather fetishists

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6513999&page=1


Thousands of tourists pouring into Washington, D.C. for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration will be sharing the nation's capital with a few thousand predominantly gay leather fetishists, in town for their annual convention.

Next January 16th, 17th and 18th brings the 25th annual Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend to Washington, D.C. Hosted by the city's Centaur Motorcycle Club, "a group of men with an enthusiastic interest in motorcycles, leather and other men," the event is expected to draw between 2,000 and 3,000 attendees, according to spokesman Larry Barat.

Obama's swearing-in on Tuesday, Jan. 20, is expected to draw between 500,000 to four million people. Many will likely arrive the weekend prior to sightsee and attend inaugural balls and other parties.

Leather Weekend attendees wearing their gear in public may provide visitors in town for the inauguration with something to talk about back at their hotel, but in general inauguration planners say they don't expect the overlap to be an issue.

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Why am I so terribly amused by this?

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He already has the goatee. Hahaha! Of course, I must say I cannot condone leather, being a vegetarian. However, I have no problem with pleather.

I suspect I know where Sen. David Vitter and soon-to-be former Sen. Larry Craig might be......

In their dreams.

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Apologies to Tony Orlando and Dawn......

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was the year that International Mr Leather (http://www.imrl.com/) and the Promise Keepers (http://www.promisekeepers.org/) held their conventions the same weekend in hotels just a couple blocks apart.


I bet there was some late-night sneaking going on. But only in one direction. :evilgrin:

It is fucking hilarious