From the Windy City Times….
The Chicago Hellfire Club is one of the most mysterious organizations within the LGBT community, but, as the private gay men’s club prepares to celebrate its 40th anniversary starting this November, club president Roger Scheid sat down for an exclusive interview. He spoke with the Windy City Times’ Ross Forman about the Hellfire 13′s members, memberships, practices and attitude toward transgender people, among other topics.
The Chicago Hellfire Club is one of the oldest, and certainly one of the leading, BDSM ( bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism ) leather organizations in the United States.
There are about 400 members, including 70 who live in the Chicagoland area. Members are as young as 21 and some are in their 70s. The group is commonly referred to as Hellfire 13 after its 13 original founding members—and one of the 13 is still alive and active in the organization.
“It’s a safe place to come and play, a great place to learn,” said Roger Scheid, in his fourth year as president of the club. “We are a private gay men’s club that believes in practices of a leather lifestyle, including BDSM; that’s the common bond that brings the group together.”
Typical Hellfire activities include flogging, bondage, wrestling, rubber gear, water sports, master-slave, daddy-boy, role-playing and more. Scheid said many club activities are fetish-driven.
Continue reading – Windy City Times
The club’s website is http://hellfire13.org/
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