Lesbian Sex Mafia
| Formation | 1981 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Jo Arnone and Dorothy Allison |
| Headquarters | New York City |
| Website | https://lesbiansexmafia.org/ |
The Lesbian Sex Mafia (LSM) is a support and education group for all queer women, as well as nonbinary, genderqueer, and transmasc people interested in BDSM, leather, fetishes, costumes, etc.[1][2] Founded in 1981 by Jo Arnone and Dorothy Allison, it is located in New York City.[2]
LSM works "to organize for [women's] sexual desire as strongly as we have tried to organize for our sexual defense".[3] The name was deliberately chosen "in the same spirit of humor as the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorism Society."[4][5]
History
[edit source]LSM organized a "Speakout on Politically Incorrect Sex" rally at the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality.[6][7] The group was also a subject of a documentary by the German filmmaker Monika Treut, Bondage, the first of four films in the Female Misbehaviour series.[8][9][10]
In 1993, Pride Night by LSM, The Eulenspiegel Society, Excelsior MC, GMS/MA, and NLA: Metro New York received the Large Event of the Year award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards.[11]
In 1996, LSM co-founder Jo Arnone received the National Leather Association International’s Jan Lyon Award for Regional or Local Work.[12][2] In 2005, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards, and in 2010 she received the Mr. Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement Award (Woman) as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards.[13]
Membership
[edit source]Membership in LSM is open to queer women, nonbinary, genderqueer, and transmasc people over the age of 18. To become a member, one must fill out an application, pay an annual due, and become an LSM Pledge. Next, the pledge must attend an LSM Orientation/Safety Procedure Meeting. Active members may vote in business meetings, officer elections, officer recall, by-laws revisions and disciplinary proceedings. The organization is led by an elected Board of Officers.[14]
See also
[edit source]References
[edit source]- ↑ Pat Califia (1988). The Lesbian S/M Safety Manual. Lace Publications. ISBN 978-1-55583-301-5.
- 1 2 3 "About Us – Lesbian Sex Mafia". Lesbian Sex Mafia. Lesbiansexmafia.org. Retrieved 2020-05-03.
- ↑ Abrams, Kathryn (1995). "Sex Wars Redux: Agency and Coercion in Feminist Legal Theory". Columbia Law Review. 92 (2): 304–376. doi:10.2307/1123232. JSTOR 1123232.
- ↑ Moira, Fran (1982). "Politically Correct, Politically Incorrect Sexuality". Off Our Backs. 12 (6): 22–23. JSTOR 25774474.
- ↑ Allison, Dorothy (2013). Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature. Firebrand Books. ISBN 978-1-4804-2660-3.
- ↑ E. J. Graff, "Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature", The Women's Review of Books, September 1, 1994. Copy available here .
- ↑ Carla Frecerro, "Notes of a Post-Sex Wars Theorizer", in Marianne Hirsch and Evelyn Fox Keller, eds., Conflicts in Feminism (Psychology Press, 1990), ISBN 978-0415901789, p. 311. Excerpts available at Google Books.
- ↑ Dawson, Leanne; Treut, Monika (2014-09-02). "Same, same but different: filmmakers are hikers on the globe and create globalisation from below". Studies in European Cinema. 11 (3): 155–169. doi:10.1080/17411548.2014.972710. ISSN 1741-1548. S2CID 191498162.
- ↑ Monika Treut, "Female Misbehavior", in Laura Pietropaolo and Ada Testaferri, eds., Feminisms in the Cinema (Indiana University Press, 1995), ISBN 978-0253345004, pp. 113ff. Excerpts available at Google Books.
- ↑ Gerd Gemünden, "How American Is It? The United States as Queer Utopia in the Cinema of Monika Treut", in Scott D. Denham, Irene Kacandes, Jonathan Petropoulos, eds., A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies (University of Michigan Press, 1997), ISBN 978-0472066568, pp.342ff. Excerpts available at Google Books.
- ↑ 🖉"Pantheon of Leather Awards All Time Recipients - The Leather Journal". www.theleatherjournal.com. Archived from the original on 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
- ↑ "List of winners". NLA International. 2019-03-14. Archived from the original on 2020-01-03. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ↑ "Pantheon of Leather Awards All Time Recipients - The Leather Journal". www.theleatherjournal.com. Archived from the original on 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
- ↑ "Become a Member | Lesbian Sex Mafia". lesbiansexmafia.org. Retrieved 2018-10-03.