"I'm Antoine Dorsainvil, and I don't give a fuck if you got a problem with brothers into pegging and Black female domination, I like what I like, and if you hassle me about it, I will whoop your ass," said the big and tall, burly young Haitian man. The brother stood there, angry-faced, loudly addressing some haters. They'd crossed the line as far as Antoine was concerned, and Antoine wasn't about to let it slide.
As the onlookers gawked, Antoine Dorsainvil walked away, Black and proud, after putting the so-called haters in their place. Just another day in the town of Vanier, Ontario. In this neighborhood full of Haitians, Arabs, Asians and others, old-fashioned values met the grim reality of modern life in the Canadian Capital, and sometimes it led to clashes, especially over questions of identity and sexuality.
"Damn, it's bad enough so many weird White folks are into that BDSM shit, now brothers from the Caribbean islands got to be into it too, this is a fucked up world," someone said, and the other naysayers nodded in agreement while watching the haughty young Haitian man walk away. This didn't have to go down the way that it did, but in this life, certain things simply cannot be avoided, especially when nosy folks are involved...
The nosy folks in question were a group of young Black men, all of them local, who started teasing their neighborhood buddy Antoine Dorsainvil about certain things they'd seen on his Facebook news feed. It started as a bit of teasing at first, and they expected Antoine to downplay it and laugh it off. Well, Antoine wouldn't back down and things escalated quickly. Things were going to be really awkward the next time they saw the burly young Haitian man, that's for sure.
Antoine headed to his apartment located a few blocks from the Loblaw's Supercenter on Mac Arthur Avenue. He'd gone to Tim Horton's to get his morning coffee and ran into some bozos who got on his case for being part of a Facebook group advertising Black Female Domination for Black men. BDSM was fast-spreading in the Black Canadian community, and naysayers were trying their best to shame brothers and sisters into quitting it, but it was not working.
Antoine had taken many steps toward exploring the world of BDSM. At first, he found it a daunting challenge to attend the mostly white munches where everyone was over forty, and quite full of themselves. Little by little, Antoine began reaching out to other Black folks in the BDSM lifestyle. He began attending all-Black munches and later, play parties. After doing some exploring, Antoine discovered that he was a switch. Sometimes he liked to top, other times he liked to bottom.
