2025 Absolution
Check out photos from Absolution: Back in the Habit by Megan Williams, IGT Images.
2025 Naughty Playground
After a twelve-month hush, when the queer kink scene in Las Vegas felt like it was holding its breath, PROUD & Kinky swung the doors wide open on June 20, 2025, and reminded us exactly why we missed them. Find the full event photo gallery below, or, to read the article about this event in PROUD & Kinky magazine, visit: Naughty Playground.
Naughty Playground 2025
After a twelve-month hush, when the queer kink scene in Las Vegas felt like it was holding its breath, PROUD & Kinky swung the doors wide open on June 20, 2025, and reminded us exactly why we missed them. Their triumphant return, aptly titled “Naughty Playground,” took over The Usual Place and packed it with more than 230 revelers, each ready to rekindle the raw, electric magic that only a well-run, radically inclusive play party can conjure.
The Fuckball was Fucked So Hard it Split
Recently, I exhibited my art piece, “The Fuckball,” at a festival, and it was destroyed. For those of you who don’t know what this is, I am an artist, and I created a 6-foot-tall, colorful, latex inflatable ball covered in 12 penetrable vulvas (and one not-so-secret butthole). The Fuckball represents the objectification of female sexuality, but it has multiple layers of meaning and has existed in a variety of forms as a piece of art.
PrideStyle Wrestling
On a Saturday night in downtown Las Vegas, Main Street buzzes with energy; bars are packed, neon signs glow against the desert night, and music spills from open doors onto the sidewalk. But once a month, that energy takes on a different kind of charge inside Swandive, one of the city’s hottest small venues. That’s when PrideStyle Inclusive Pro Wrestling takes over, turning the nightlife hotspot into a roaring arena of body slams, sequins, and unfiltered queer joy.
My Journey into Sex Work
My journey started in 2020 during lockdown. I turned 40 a few weeks into the shutdown. Locked in the house with my partner, feeling scared, lonely, frustrated, and invisible. I had been around sex workers, swingers, polycules, queer folx, and other open-minded people for years. Watching how they seemed comfortable in their own skin. And I wasn’t. I was insecure about my body, my weight, and my age.
Consent
Consent should be enthusiastic, freely given, informed, specific. A clear and voluntary choice. An agreement made with your voice. Well, that sounds nice, with so much clarity we’ll avoid all that vulgarity of being misunderstood or seen as not so good.
5 Questions with Saint Anique
How does your kink identity influence your creative work? I've been making art my whole life, but the intersection of kink and creativity for me is where I started performing. When I started in burlesque, I was exposed to an entire world of queerness and kink I'd never experienced before. It changed my entire life overnight and put me on the path to piecing together exactly who I am and what I want. I feel that all of my creative work is informed by this, either directly or indirectly.
5 Questions with Jonny
What message do you hope your work sends to other queer kinky people, especially those just starting to explore? My work is ultimately a love letter to queer kinky people, especially those just starting to explore. I want it to say: you are not alone. There’s power and beauty in discovering your desires, even if the world tries to shame them. I hope my art gives permission to feel, to want, and to play without apology.
5 Questions with Kitty L. Gore (he/him)
What themes of BDSM, power exchange, or sensuality show up in your art most often, and why? My art showcases my versatile interests. I believe that sensuality is the main driver of my artwork. Without this idea of the power exchange of dance or sex or both, much of my writing, performance, and physical art wouldn’t exist.