Leather Meets Lace Fundraiser for Generation Rescue at Playboy Mansion
On October 4th members of the Motorcycle Charity Associates will host the 2nd Annual Hollywood Leather Meets Lace Ride. The event begins at 9:00 am PT on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame. Motorcycle enthusiasts and celebrities will join together to ride for Generation Rescue to support families and children with autism.
Later that evening, the event will move to the famed Playboy Mansion where Jenny McCarthy, board member, spokesperson and mother warrior for Generation Rescue will host the 2nd Annual Leather Meets Lace event. Full details on the event are at the Generation Rescue events page.
LOS ANGELES, Sept 25, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Members of the Motorcycle Charity Associates, (M.C.A.) were asked about their concerns this year and where they felt the most assistance was needed for their charitable efforts. An overwhelming decision to recognize Autism as the nation's fastest growing developmental disability came to the forefront of the discussion. With more children facing diagnosis with autism this year than cancer, diabetes, Downs Syndrome and AIDS combined and receiving less than 5% of the funding provided to other childhood disorders, M.C.A. knew where to focus.
On October 4th, M.C.A. will host the 2nd Annual Hollywood Leather Meets Lace Ride benefiting Generation Rescue. The foundation is an international movement of scientists, physicians and parent-volunteers researching the causes and treatments for autism and helping more than 20,000 children begin biomedical treatment. The event begins at 9am on Hollywood Blvd's Walk of Fame, motorcycle enthusiasts and celebrities will join together to ride for Generation Rescue to support families and children with Autism. Later that evening, the event moves to the famed Playboy Mansion where Jenny McCarthy, board member, spokesperson and mother warrior for Generation Rescue will host the 2nd Annual Leather Meets Lace event.
"Jenny McCarthy has made such an impact in so many lives through her work as an author, activist, spokesperson and board member of 'Generation Rescue' that we felt compelled to continue to raise awareness and funding for this amazing foundation," states Billy Gordon, founder of M.C.A. "What more meaningful and beautiful place to bring her message than the Playboy Mansion, among friends and fellow supporters?"
Last year MCA brought the fantasy of charitable giving to the Playboy Mansion with the inaugural Leather Meets Lace charitable event. This year, the tradition continues as Motorcycle Charity Associates, Inc (M.C.A.) continues to strategize, market and coordinate fundraising events for worthwhile 501 (3) charities throughout the year.
"Generation Rescue will forever be in our hearts and on our minds as we dedicate our efforts this year to the future of children diagnosed with Autism." Gordon remarks. Generation Rescue is letting the world know that there are effective medical treatments today and more are being researched.
For further information, please visit http://www.motorcyclecharity.org
nhokkanen said: "I'd love to see a Playboy investigative article exposing the seamy political underside that's keeping children injured by vaccines."
Hmm - I wonder if that includes.. um.. "playmates" for Merck et. al insiders.. :)
Karen said: "I grieved that Rick Warrens of this world can know enough to support aids orphans in Africa, but lay silent when government plays God with our kids."
Could we perhaps get Rick Warren on board? The only "church support" I'm aware of is the Methodists' anti-mercury stance.
"Or James Dobson fighting tooth and nail for embryonic stems but ignore a raging epidemic!"
Especially ironic (or maybe not) given the possibility of stem cell treatment for autism. IMO this is still even more "anecdotal" than biomed, but then how many kids have been treated? 10?
Where the heck is the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine on this one?
Jim
Posted by: Jim Witte | October 05, 2008 at 10:54 AM
Oh please, please Jenny invite all the warrior fathers!
Posted by: Keith | October 03, 2008 at 07:08 PM
Kathy I am so with your comment, except that I will lump in with that the evangelical church.
The people of family values who claim to be Prolife. (Don't flame me, I am one.)
How Christians can look the other way,
leave families in isolation,
ignore fetal tissue or toxins hostile to the womb in vaccines,
not taking a stand, is beyond me.
It is heartbreaking hear stories of families told they need to discipline more, get their house in order or the absolute worse... that their child is suffering a demonic attack.
I want to scream when I see "Is your child fully vaccinated?" on church nursery forms.
I grieved that Rick Warrens of this world can know enough to support aids orphans in Africa, but lay silent when government plays God with our kids.
Or James Dobson fighting tooth and nail for embryonic stems but ignore a raging epidemic! Defending vaccines????
It is sickening.
While I can't say I support Hugh Hefner one iota, I can say I understand why Jesus hung out with the tax collectors and prostitutes.
I do know this for sure, Generation Rescue has spared families I know a living, breathing, hell on earth.
I had a Mom call me today who drove from one state away to meet with me. I have the high privilege of being her Rescue Angel. Her daughter is recovering and doing really well now. Many times she drove 3 hours to get answers over state lines.
So any money raised to help kids like this is a blessing, even coming from the most unlikely places.
Posted by: Karenatlanta | October 03, 2008 at 03:39 PM
Correction-- mom informs me that her mother knew Grace Hefner in Chicago, not Cleveland.
My mother, like Hefner, was raised very conservatively. But then she she spent years doing nude studies in art school and Hef did what he did and she always thought that bit of family lore was hilarious.
You're so right Nancy. Seeing our children turned into a poison receptacle for profit gives a measure of what is *truly* offensive.
Kim-- now that's a showbiz story. Larry, Mo and Curly were sort of the Jim Carreys of the day (his early oevres). They might support the cause were they around, maybe especially because of where the charity gala is currently being held, lol.
Posted by: Gatogorra | October 03, 2008 at 01:43 PM
I am a mother of a son who has responded extremely well to biomedical interventions and chelation. I think Jenny is awesome and all she's done for all kids is immeasurable. She's changed the course of autism awareness.
I hope when the truth is finally proven, all TV networks, all pharma loving companies can be even more ashamed of their greed and biased reporting as the WWE, Playboy, and Motorcycle Charities embraced generation rescue (in turn our beautiful children's health and future) before them ...
However many years after the Simpsonwood transcript was *uncovered* ... our biggest supporters are WWE, Playboy and Motorcyle Charities????? no offense to anyone - I thank you and applaud you for standing by the truth and our kids - but damn it all .. it's a sad day in America when the only organizations standing up for for our kids who are being neurologically damaged every single day in their pediatrician's office ... are WWE, Playboy and Motorcycle Charities. If I hear one more *medical expert* get on a major network and say another study proves no link between vaccines and autism, I'll puke.
Posted by: Kathy | October 03, 2008 at 01:24 PM
Thanks for sharing your family lore, Gatagorra! Great story. Yes, like another southern California icon says, it's a small world after all.
Gotta admit it's taken me a few years to appreciate the importance of freedom of expression, even if the message offends some. You put down the magazine, NBD. It's not like vaccines -- the offense is inside your body and mind in physical form. And irretractable without treatment.
I'd love to see a Playboy investigative article exposing the seamy political underside that's keeping children injured by vaccines.
Posted by: nhokkanen | October 03, 2008 at 12:28 PM
Well, that's the best story ever, Gatagorra. Hugh Hefner as a baby! Um, my grandmother knew some of the Three Stooges. Does that count for anything? LOL!
KIM
Posted by: Stagmom | October 03, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Funny how things happen. My grandmother and Hugh Hefner's mother were close friends in Ohio in the 1920's-- both pretty brilliant women apparently.
And that's how my mother became Hefner's first "playmate". There's a photo of my mother and Hugh Hefner as infants sitting in the same pram together holding their matching toy "binkies"-- bunnies. Who knew that one-- my mother-- would have two grandchildren who developed vaccine injuries and the other would defy the orthodox view to support a trail-blazing organization which sought to inform the public about these injuries, their treatment and prevention.
If building a bunny empire was what it took to put some clout behind that support, it's all come around in an interesting way.
Posted by: Gatogorra | October 03, 2008 at 12:00 PM