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I've oft told this story over the years - but during the first Bondcon in Queens, NY - just after the 9/11 attacks...the Crowne Plaza hotel was being used by both BDSM producers and models - while in another convention area they were hosting an understandably somber blacktie 9/11 memorial ceremony for firefighters (it seemed surreal to see violin players walking through the crowd playing softly).
By the end of the night, many of the firefighters (and wives) started drifting over to the bondage convention to mingle with the BDSMers. More surrealism. And I still remember some of the rather unusual conversations that took place between the mostly vanilla firefighter people and the bondage producers & models.
Typically the people who attend Bondcons have an active interest in BDSM. But that night was a really weird mix of vanilla (but respectful) people and industry folk.
I'll never forget how several firefighters took time to thank the convention organizers for intentionally re-locating the convention in New York (it was originally scheduled for Connecticut)...and providing a brief distraction to the tragedy.
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