Cybersocket on the Scene: CLAW LA Leather Getaway | Kinky Charity Fundraiser Cums to SoCal!

December 12, 2022
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Cybersocket was on the scene at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles as a sponsor of the first-ever CLAW LA Leather Getaway. CLAW (Cleveland Leather Annual Weekend) is a non-profit organization that formed in 2001 and has since raised nearly $1M for leather, LGBTQ+, HIV and other community organizations through their charity fundraising conferences. For the past two decades, the conferences have been helmed by CLAW’s Co-Founder and Executive Director, Bob Miller, who created the LA Leather Getaway as a second annual event in response to COVID lockdowns with its test run, CLAW 21, last year (read our Cybersocket recap here).

CLAW doesn’t host your typical charity fundraising event. The five-day LA Leather Getaway was designed around its 8000-square foot darkroom outfitted with gloryholes, slings, fuck benches, beds, private corners and wide open areas that hundreds of men of different ages, races and body types filled each night of the weekend!

With back-to-back CLAW events occurring from morning to after dark (and some private room parties going into the early mornings), here are just a few of them from the weekend:

Kink Skills Education and Kink Speed Dating on subjects like BDSM, Assplay and Pups & Handlers
Vendor Mart with Black Friday sales
BDSM Play Parties
Sex Parties (like the infamous Horse Market)
ABDL Playground
Socials (including for CLAW First-Timers and Cigar Afficionados)
Leather Family DinnersKinky Art Show
Bound & Beautiful live art exhibit
Community Services like COVID & Monkeypox vaccinations and 12-Step meetings
DILF powered by Cybersocket “Damn Daddy” Tea Dance
Strip Bingo (hosted by our fabulous drag queen contributor, Jordan Jayro)
Leather Celebrity X’s & O’s (where Cybersocket Director, Alexander, slayed the crowd as Center Square!)
Kinky Kabaret closing event

Don’t forget to tune into Cybersocket’s new podcast Out of the Kennel: Kink, Fetish & Queer Life co-hosted by me and my pup, Cazden Hunter (aka Pup Fable). We support CLAW’s charity fundraising efforts each episode and have interviewed Bob Miller plus attendees Colton Reece (CLAW 21) and “The Butt Doctor”, Dr. Carlton (Education Presenter at CLAW LA Leather Getaway).