Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building - a 1980s gay leather bar LARP

Cruising for Sex in a Burning Building is a larp about intimacy and community connection through kink, set in Chicago's underground gay Leather scene in the 1980s under the shadow of the AIDS epidemic.

When your most-familiar forms of sexual expression have become dangerous, alienating, unfamiliar can you learn to share your heart’s deepest fears and desires? At this bar the music’s pulsing beat and the burning heat of other men’s bodies call to you. Beautiful boy, when the clock strikes midnight are you going hard or going home?

In this larp players use a variety of embodied meta-techniques to stand in for BDSM play, reaching for the sensations and emotions their characters do. Play is an emotional mix of discovery and anxiety as characters decide how to re-enter BDSM and whether to forsake the exchange of body fluids.