Tynan Fox want more spaces for kink in Minnesota gay community. Featured in Savage Love last week, Fox’s blog is an example of the growing frustration folks into BDSM are feeling as traditional spaces for kink — such as the Minneapolis Eagle — become less kinky and more mainstream. Fortunately, Fox is working with the Eagle for a Gear Night this Saturday, Feb. 13th.

Fox gives a run-down of the event:

The Dress-code is ENFORCED to access “The Underground”, so wear your leather, rubber, spandex, sports gear(hockey, football, etc), boots, or anything else kinky you can come up with. This is REQUIRED for entry downstairs! And wearing something kinky might just result in gropage, molestation, or other promiscuous activities. Trading and trying on each other’s gear is also highly encouraged.

The Eagle has been promoting two specials for the night as well: $9 Beer Bust from 9pm-Close in the underground only, and also some kind of Best Daddy and Best Boy contest. Don’t really know what the latter entails, but if I drink enough, I’ll enter ANY contest. 🙂

Fox also talks about kink in the Midwest and how in some ways a smaller community is a more vibrant one.

And in the Midwest, you have to travel a lot of the times to get to somewhere where the kink IS. As another friend put it, “I don’t understand you Midwestern kink-epicenter types. It’s like you guys say, ‘No beach? Let’s just tie each other up.'” There’s some truth there. When you have to arrange travel and ride in a car or fly for three or four hours to get somewhere to spend a night, a day, a weekend, or whatever to do the things you get your rocks off thinking about every day, there’s one mantra that I think we all tend to share.

Make it count.

And I do.