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Following the pattern forged by BGLT activists before them, BDSM advocates created groups like the NELA and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) in response to what they call widespread social and legal persecution. Like BGLT activists, they made the courts their battleground and education their weapon...
...tailors her work and professional life around SM. She doesn’t apply for jobs that don’t know of her sexual preference. A social worker, she has made a career at La Red, a domestic violence support center. In her spare time, she volunteers at NELA, organizing meetings with doctors, police officers and social workers—anyone who might be likely to come into contact with BDSM and not know what it is—where she explains that SM relationships are usually consensual, not forms of domestic violence or abuse...
...focus our education programs on those groups that have the greatest chance of a negative interaction with our community,” says NELA Chair Vivienne Kramer. “We appeal to them to not enforce the laws. The truth is, laws are selectively enforced—regardless of what they...
When news of Paddleboro reached Kramer, she sent the NCSF, which she also chairs, onto the scene. A political organization based in Washington, D.C., NCSF focuses on the same issues as NELA, but with a broader perspective...
...following year, the BGLTSA held another SM forum during its “Gaypril” programming. This time, Sabrina Santiago moderated a discussion among several other NELA associates...