Thunder in the Mountains
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NEW DATES FOR 2021 Denver, CO – July 16-18 2021
July 17 - 19, 2009
Friends:
We are ready to start a new year and announce the information for Thunder in the Mountains 2009. As some of you may have learned last year, this year’s event will also be hosted by the Crown Plaza Hotel DIA (the old Holiday Inn DIA) on the dates of Friday, July 17 thru Sunday, July 19, 2009. Because we understand that economic conditions in the U.S. remain uncertain, the membership fees will continue exactly the same as in prior years:
Standards of Behavior
Each year in the text of this website, I discuss the standards of public behavior that we expect of our attendees at Thunder. And each year some of the long-time attendees tell me I sound like I am lecturing a bunch of kids. If you feel like I am lecturing you when reading my caveats, please understand that I reiterate these rules each year mostly for the newbies and inexperienced among us, but I also want everyone (new and old alike) to realize how important our good conduct remains to our ability to continue to host our event in Denver each summer. It takes only one incident (unintended or not) to create a firestorm that can get us closed down. So, please read through these rules and take no offense at their tone. I am only trying to keep us alive as an event.
Even though the Crown Plaza DIA is renting rooms only to Thunder members on the nights of Friday and Saturday (July 17 & 18) please be aware that there may be people in the hotel for various other reasons (staff, maintenance, non-scene guests, restaurant patrons, etc.). We would ask that you please be respectful of their sensitivities and their sense of morals. No matter how strongly we may believe in our own moral codes, it is not up to us to make these judgments for others. Our continuation in this hotel may depend upon how well we are received by all people in the hotel.... staff and others alike. So please be friendly and respectful to everyone.
As I said above, for many this sort of discussion about standards of behavior is no longer even necessary. Most of us have been to events all over the country, and we understand that our behavior in public venues reflects upon our entire community across the nation. But there are always those people, however, who feel it is proper and necessary to push the envelope and to try and shock those outside our community. So for those people, let me reiterate --- at Thunder we maintain a basic, common-sense approach to public behavior, dress, and decorum. That means specifically that there will be no exposed genitals or women’s breasts, no groping, no lewd behavior or scening in the public areas, and there will be no walking of slaves or subs through the public areas of the hotel on chains, ropes or other bondage equipment. This means that when you go to the restaurant to eat or when you decide to walk through the lobby area on your way to a demo, vendor space, or play party, PLEASE remember that you are in a public area and that non-scene staff and other citizens may be present. If you are wearing fetish wear that is risqué, cover up until you get into the secure membership-only areas. Your behavior in this regard, whether in Denver or elsewhere, reflects significantly upon our ability to continue booking these great hotels for our leather events. We ask your cooperation here not only because it helps to keep our event open, but because behaving in a civilized manner in a public area is the right thing to do.
I’d like to state the simple and time-tested behavioral standard we attempt to impose as permanent Thunder policy: “If you would not wear it or do it in front of your own grandmother, do not wear it or do it in the public areas of Thunder in the Mountains."
There are members of the hotel staff who ARE offended and who do not think this sort of thing is either cute or funny. Please respect their sensibilities as we expect them to respect ours. Thunder staff members will assist you if you have any questions about what may or may not be proper, but I truly believe that all of you know on an intuitive level what is proper and what is not. A good rule of thumb to use is this: “If you have questions about whether something is proper or not, it probably isn’t." Don’t do it! Use your head and follow its lead. You will usually not be wrong! At Thunder, we remain proud that our event continues to have an absolute minimum of rules imposed by Thunder staff and administration. We can make this claim because Thunder is a gathering where we have some of the most experienced and mature players in the country attending. We want our event to be seen as the one event in the nation where all attendees (both novice and experienced) can feel at ease and feel relatively free to choose for themselves at any one time the proper course of action in public or scene behavior. Such freedom of choice, like all freedom, carries with it a great burden of responsibility, however, and we want to trust the real players who attend Thunder not only to step up to the plate in this regard but to encourage and set an example for the novices and less experienced players who may attend Thunder for the first time. We make or break our national leather events by the way we act as individuals, and we hope to prove ourselves capable as continuing as a part of this premiere event. This year we hope to have another GREAT gathering with the best presenters in the country coming together with the best players in the country, and we hope to see you here.
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