Today is Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco: our kinky national holiday, if you will. People travel into town by the tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands to attend the world’s largest open-air street fest celebrating BDSM, fetish, kink and also LGBTQ culture. I know a lot of people that have spent weeks getting ready for the yearly fair, and at least a few people that have been planning what they will wear and do since last year.
And today it decided to rain! I don’t think that will stop a lot of people from going, and I have to say that the best Folsom I ever attended was one where it rained. Folsom’s usually a hot and sunny affair, so that year the rain cooled everything down, I was sure I wouldn’t get a sunburn (for once) and the rain had an amazing effect on fair-goers. Everyone was smiling at each other more than usual, either while getting rained on or sharing cover. It was neat. And my friend’s band played on the stage anyway – Gary Floyd‘s band Black Kali Ma played their set in the rain until the water shorted out their electric instruments, and they still kept playing in the downpour. Gary has an incredible voice and he, a gay bear Buddhist, thanked the sky at the end of his last song – which was beautiful all in itself.
Also during the rain, everyone in rubber was quite happy. The rain just slid right off, and when it would hit my latex skirt, the cool drops would feel like they were supposed to soak through, but instead the droplets went down my hips like chilled fingertips sliding lightly over my skin. It felt like I should be getting wet, but I didn’t. The magic of latex! My outfit had become a body-hugging umbrella.
Which is why The Latex Closet seems like an apt thing to share with you this weekend. It’s a new blog that I hope gets developed much more – it’s an incredibly useful blog about how to pick out latex garments so that they enhance your curves, instead of emphasizing things you might consider annoying flaws, such as turning saddlebags into curvylicious features.
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The Latex Closet is female-focused right now, but like I said, here’s hoping that the author expands this great idea into many different directions. Found on my dear friend’s 3XL’s blog, Lust, Love, Latex. Don’t miss his great ebook, Rubber Life (which also has terrific latex shopping and wearing tips).
