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Avenue Queer—home is in the Bushwick streets
At Pink Metal, Nikki Sweet debuted her new single for a crowd huddled around a laptop on a barstool.
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Grief is no match for a crystal-embellished heel
Credentials: I'm in bed but it's okay because I own a fabulous shoe.
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The secret bathhouse rave where the sluts, gays, and A-listers schvitz under one roof is back this summer
On August 23, Steamroom is coming back to Brooklyn.
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The thinking man's porn star
At 78, Veronica Vera reflects on five decades of kink, feminism, art, and rebellion.
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She’ll kidnap you and read you The Communist Manifesto in her dungeon
Paula Dreidemie, a Barcelona-based dominatrix, runs a dungeon out of a storage unit, where men pay to be dominated, degraded, and assigned homework.
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Ugly hot shoes for stomping around NYC in the summer
Credentials: I walk everywhere and hate how my legs look in most shoes.
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I'm not a photographer. I just want to take photos in exchange for money.
Apparently you can get paid—in cash and on time—for taking photos. What about the months-long game of begging people for the money they owe you? It's…
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