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Come, they told him…

So glad that somebody finally put those lyrics to obvious and very good use! Just in time for Christmas, CineKink alumnus Bryan Jackson give us Little Taiko Boy リトル太鼓ボーイ, mixing cultures and holiday traditions to present a shiny and colorful take on wrapping gifts...

’S&M Judge’ to open CineKink NYC

>The CineKink “Season Opener” selection for our seventh annual film festival, CineKink NYC, running February 16-21, 2010, will be the US premiere of the award-winning drama, S&M Judge. Directed by Flemish filmmaker Erik Lamens and based on a celebrated Belgian incident, the film tells...

>Forget Kanye…’I’m Polyamorous’ on MTV!

>Slightly lost in the ongoing hub-bub over Kayne West's outburst on the Music Video Awards, this week MTV True Life premiered an episode, "I'm Polyamorous," that follows young polyamorous sorts in both NYC and the Carolinas. Diana Adams, one of these sorts, writes of...

>Taking it to the White House

>CineKink alumni director Scott Bloom (CineKink '06 & '08) reports that a copy of his amazing documentary, Call Me Troy, was handed off to Michelle Obama during yesterday's meet-up with LGBT community leaders. A profile of gay rights activist and founder of Metropolitan Community Churches,...

>I am a sex worker.

>This PSA was created by the first-ever participants in Speak Up!, a new training program presented by Sex Work Awareness.It's great to see sex activists taking up media tools and producing their own representations!...

>And the winner is…

>Slightly delayed by the lingering effect of--and subsequent recovery from-- our ever-popular AfterGlow Party, here at long last are the CineKink awards for 2009!"CineKink Choice" - AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS CineKink Choice awards, which go to feature-length works in competition during the festival, were determined by...

>No, no, please, oh yes… I mean NO!

>No on Prop 8, that is! And with just one week left before the votes are tallied, here's a way to get into the fray while making sure that both activist and libidinous urges are fully sated. For one day only--Tuesday, October 28--Comstock...

>Slap on your leathers and come on down!

>CineKink @ New York Leather Weekend - TONIGHT!As part of NYLW, a weekend-long celebration of NYC's almost-back-to-burgeoning leather scene, we're presenting 'Give and Take,' a kinky collection of shorts that probe, prod and play with the dynamics of sexual control and submission. Assume the...

>It’s 10 pm. Do you know where your children are?

>Amazing but true, but give the Midwest Teen Sex Show a few key concepts, some colorful props and several feet of rope and they manage to convey in the space of several minutes what it takes many a fetish-friendly documentarian - self included - a...

>Action Alert! Contact CBS and support Swingtown

>Conservative media watch-groups and religious political extremists are already hard at work trying to get Swingtown pulled from the air. While we don't necessarily like to send them traffic, from the America Family Association there's this and from the Parents Television Council we have...