category: ‘art’

The Sex Positive Photo Project does Masturbation May

Around here every month is masturbation month, but we do love anything that celebrates healthy sexuality and helps to counter the shame that continues to surround masturbation. And there are so many lovely projects that come out of Masturbation May! I was so excited to see Violet Blue’s post about the Sex Positive Photo Project’s [...]

Gender Fusions 7

This queer performance event, hosted by Columbia College is now in its 7th year of awesomeness. This year its featuring one of my absolute favorite artists, Lenelle Moise (crush!), among many others. Check it out…
Heralded as “a queer performance spectacle of sacred and mighty proportions” that celebrates the “fierce spirit of the queer community,” [...]

Searah’s Museum of Screwy Sex Toys

After years of collecting crazy sex toys and whatnot, Early to Bed’s owner Searah has stared a virtual museum of all these nutty finds. Some funny, some creepy some just downright offensive. You can check them out here!
(Like this site, The Museum is pretty much not safe for work.. unless you work here)

Salacious Release Party

[ May 26, 2011; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Come help us celebrate the release of issue #2 of Salacious Magazine!

Join SALACIOUS Magazine and Early To Bed as we celebrate “SALACIOUS #2: Voyeurism,” the magazine’s sophomore debut. Sweet music, snacks, drinks, local performances, and sexy schmoozing amongst sexy local toys! Magazines go for a PARTY-ONLY rate of $15.

Thursday, May 26
7 pm [...]

Vintage Condom Wrappers

Who would ever think to sell condoms in paper wrappings? Apparently they did in the 1930’s and 40’s, but they are difficult to find because people would just throw them out in an embarrassed hurry. Its a shame because they had some pretty stellar ad art on them. Check out this gallery.

Call for Submissions: Bound to Struggle - Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet

Bound to Struggle - Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet
Volume 5: PRAXIS
Call for Submissions – Deadline May 1, 2011
PURPOSE: To create a ‘zine that brings together the words and images of a diverse group of practitioners of both kink and radical politics
Here’s some questions to get you thinking-
Does radical politics inform how you do kink? [...]

Leather Queen

Want to support a local, queer, and kinky interdisciplinary performance artist AND get sex toys on the cheap? When you donate $25 or more to Miss Tamale’s latest project, you’ll receive a coupon for 20% off anything at Early to Bed.
Here’s the project:
Leather Queen tells the story of Tamale’s journey as she prepares to [...]

I am the Queen

As long as I’m on this event kick, here’s one more for you to check out and then I swear I’ll find something else to write about…
I’ve recently become interested in the Puerto Rican Cultural Center’s HIV/AIDS initiative project, Vida/SIDA.  The mission of Vida/SIDA is “to educate, advocate, and empower Chicago’s Puerto Rican community by [...]

Call for Submissions: Bodies of Work - Transgender, Transsexual and Gender Variant Art and Literature Magazine

Bodies of Work
Transgender, Transsexual and Gender Variant
Art and Literature Magazine
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS * PLEASE POST WIDELY
We, the editors, are three trans artists who believe art and literature are two of the most vital parts to our world today. At this moment, there is no magazine which brings all transgender, transsexual and gender variant writers and [...]

We are everywhere this weekend!

We are always happy to donate gifts to various fundraisers and events and the events we get asked to donate to or partner with are always super cool. In the next week alone you can win something from early to bed or see us at the following events:

Night Lab: The Science of Sex and Attraction [...]