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bipolarber -> RE: If you had the opportunity to be in a BDSM article... (6/23/2008 7:18:06 PM)
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During the late '80's and early '90's, the PEP chapter I was on the board of was approached by several papers about doing peices on us, and on the growing popularity of the BDSM scene. I still carry the clippings in my scrapbook, partially as mementos of a better time, but also as a grim reminder of how the straight, conservative world will portray you.
Although one local "news and arts weekly" paper presented us and our activities as something positive in the age of AIDS, the more mainstream papers did the usual hatchet peices on how we were probably the cause of that plauge.
Before putting yourself out there, for all the world to see, do your research on those who are writing your story. Find out if they have a social, or political axe to grind.
We're not the only ones who seem to garner this sort of... (I think Prinsexx used the right word) marginalization from the media. The subcultures of science fiction fandom, of Wicca, of alternative sexuality of any stripe, have been abused as fodder for "fluff" journalisim. (Even alternative energy proponents, until recently, have been made to look like fools... of course, in their case, that has changed with the sudden, desperate need for what they have to offer.)
I advise extreme caution, if you are being courted for being the centerpeice of such an article.
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