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StableNews #47 - 01/16/2025
Welcome to 2025 - on the agenda this time is...
- The personal note from the StableWrangler
- First Events for 2025
- CLAW Cleveland Leather Annual Weekend
- Brand New 2025 Pin Designs
- Friendly Reminder
1. The personal note from the StableWrangler
I hope you all had a smooth transition into 2025.
Of course, I know a few—in fact, a whole city—did not have a good start to the new year when, on January 7th, the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles began. So my first thoughts, best wishes, and even prayers are going to all who have friends, buddies, family, and chosen family in that area.
As I mentioned in our last Newsletter, this January, I took off from the event schedule to take my time to scout new locations for you to bring HorseMarket closer to (your) home. And in fact, I am still in the midst of it. I cannot reveal any new city as of now, but I am hopeful that I can soon announce more locations and cities that will host HorseMarket in 2025.
So far, my travel schedule has brought me to eight cities and will continue until mid-February.
As fun as it is to host these events with and even more for you—scouting is real work and kind of exhausting lol.
Behind the Scenes: Even maintaining events in cities where we already have an established venue has become challenging these days. But we will have some fun events this year—I am sure of that. All your wishes that are coming in almost daily make it all worth it! So, I will keep scouting and hopefully surprise you with some new and old locations.
If you want to read some of the Community Feedback and also how it helped me make my decision, please click on this
But let's start with the first events in 2025 - which is almost a new city!
2. First Events for 2025
I just returned from Los Angeles, where I visited not only the Los Angeles venue that will host our upcoming LA events but also the venue in the Valley. While I was already familiar with both locations, I felt it was important to spend time in the city myself to get a real sense of how things are right now.
After receiving so much feedback from the community, visiting LA in person helped me connect with the situation and feel confident about moving forward. And now, I’m excited to announce that we’ll kick off this year with two events (well, basically four) in Los Angeles:
- February 28th and March 1st: Held in a safe and welcoming space in Downtown LA (DTLA). While some might have concerns about the area, I can assure you that this part of DTLA is much safer—even at night—than other parts of the city. I personally visited the venue multiple times, during the day and at night, and felt completely safe.
- March 7th and 8th: A San Fernando Valley Club Edition, hosted at The Lair Playground in Canoga Park.
These events mark the start of something special for LA, and I can’t wait to welcome you there!
3. CLAW Cleveland Leather Annual Weekend
After CLAW announced the changes they needed to make, I can now share updates about CLAW / Cleveland HorseMarket this year. But first, I want to stand up for the CLAW Team. They faced a hard challenge when the 2024 Host Hotel failed to uphold its promise and refused to provide them with a new contract for 2025. This meant they had to find a new host hotel—a recurring issue in recent CLAW history. Many hotels are increasingly reluctant to host events involving sex education. Hotel after hotel has declined, saying, “You can book rooms, but no sex education in our ballrooms.”
I think CLAW's new concept can work—but it’s up to us, the community, to support them by attending. Most of the classes and activities will now be inside the I-X Convention Space.
The CLAW organization believes, as do I, that if we show them we can behave and be excellent guests, the Convention Center might reconsider and allow more than just education in their halls next year.
So please, support CLAW and the community by attending and being what we are: GREAT GUESTS!
When it comes to HorseMarket during CLAW, we are still actively working on securing a play space in Cleveland. The CLAW Team and we are exploring several options and remain committed to making it happen.
Stay tuned for updates, and in the meantime, mark your calendars for April 18th and 19th!
4. Brand New 2025 Pin Designs
During his sabbatical, the Stable Master isn’t taking it easy—in fact, he’s been busy working on brand-new pin designs!
Two of them are available RIGHT NOW. After the Top/Bottom slider proved so popular, we decided to create a new one that’s very similar:
Check out the brand-new DOM / SUB Slider Pin—perfect for showing off your preferences!
And the Top / Bottom slider is now back in stock!
Since you all loved the Mystery Pins Series so much, we’re thrilled to announce a new addition to the lineup: the much-requested JockStrap Pin! As with all Mystery Series, there are 10 colors PLUS a Golden Pin. If you’re lucky enough to find the Golden Pin Jock, you’ll win a Golden Ticket to any HorseMarket event of your choice! Simply follow the instructions on the leaflet included with the Golden Pin to claim your ticket.
When we package the pins, all colors are mixed randomly, so we have no idea which one you’ll get! The odds of receiving a Golden Pin remain, as always, 1 in 70.
We love seeing what you do with your pins and where you put them! Share your pictures or videos with us, and we’ll feature them on our channels. And don’t hold back 😈—after all, we’re not on Instagram!
- SideNote: Even more Pins are coming, the Pups Pins have been so successful there is one more Pup Pin and some naughty Pins coming very soon. We would have them ready by now - but we are anal about quality, so we rejected them and redesigned them. So stay tuned for more Seyx pins soon!
5. Friendly reminder:
Only a few days left for $10 off the new HorseMarket Video #2!
The presale for Number 2 of our Horse Market Video Series runs until the movie’s release on January 24th! Don’t miss your chance to grab it at the discounted price before it’s out.
Thank you so much for your time—I truly appreciate it. I hope to see you soon, whether it’s when I check you in at an event or during my travels to your city. Don’t hesitate to say hi and connect!
Martin, StableWrangler
Danke Schön!
If you feel overwhelmed,
please speak to a therapist and make sure you are in good care!
Burn out is real!
Also, COVID & MonkeyPox are coming back stronger. We had some mPox scares in our last PDX Event - so make sure you get tested and vaxxed!
Talk to your healthcare professionals for their recommendations!
Remember to get tested regularly, and have healthy responsible sex.
Stable Wrangler Martin
Stable Master Matt
And to those supporting our events, give some love to our sponsors:
Twitter: @Pig_load , @Squarepegtoys
Web: PigLoad.com/HorseMarket
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