Year of the Rabbit
Happy New Year 4079! Rabbits signify virility in many Asian cultures because of their notorious propensity to breed. Vigor! Ardor! Potency! That’s about what “Dead Rabbits” meant in 19th c. NYC. Not such a strange name for a street gang after all. It would translate to “straight-up fucker” in today’s lexicon. I am DEAD serious.
Posted in China, Comics, Sexy Holidays
Tagged Art, Bara, China, Chinese New Year, Comics, Gai Comi, Gay, Kink, Lunar New Year, Manga, Rabbit, Sexy, Year of the Rabbit
Leather Shooter Shot!
Hey, Rich! What? Snap! Caught! Usually, Rich “Trove” Stadtmiller is on the other side of the lens. Over the last half decade, he has put together a “Rich Treasure Trove” of Leather images. His archive of almost 150,000 digital photographs is available at the Rich Trove website. This was taken on the occasion of Master Morris Taylor‘s 80th birthday party at the SF Citadel, the City’s premier community dungeon. In the background are the colors of The 15 Association.
Posted in Art and Artists, Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Subcultures
Tagged 15 Association, Art, BDSM, Culture, Gay, Kink, Leather, Morris Taylor, Photography, Rich Stadtmiller, Rich Trove, San Francisco
Bare Bears at Chaps Inn. photo: R. Christian Anderson
“This is where the Men stay!” They like us and we like them. Ian and Stewart, the two English chaps behind the punnishly named Chaps Inn in Palm Springs run a great desert get-away for Leathermen, bears and other masculine gay men. Salt water pool, spa, St. Andrew’s cross, slings, cage, lots of hooks and lots of kinky hot naked friendly men doing what we do in the desert sun. The chaps blogged about The 15 Association’s annual August mini-run here.
Posted in Leather, Southern California, Subcultures
Tagged Bears, Chaps Inn, Culture, Gay, Kink, Leather, Palm Springs, Sexy, The 15 Association
Happy New Year! Everyone knows seminal Leather artist Tom of Finland, but there were a lot of other artists who were his contemporaries and who worked in a similar vein. One of the other stars was “Etienne” – the nom d’art of Chicago-based Leatherman Dom Orejudos. Read Durk Dehner’s article on his work at the website of the Leather Archives and Museum. Tom and Dom had a mutual admiration society as artists, and maintained a correspondence. And The Texan recalls that back in the day Etienne was “a big old bottom.” Here’s his rendition of a very festive holiday party. Bottoms up and best to All in the New Year!
Other sexy holiday posts from the past year: Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, World Aids Day and Christmas.
Posted in Art and Artists, Comics, Leather, Subcultures
Tagged Art, BDSM, Chicago, Culture, Dom Orejudos, Etienne, Gay, Kink, Leather, Leather Archives and Museum, Sexy
…and that is nice. See who has been sliding down this boy’s chimney. But, Santa…please don’t spare the rod! What? It is Good for the boy! Merry Hairy Bears!
Posted in Photography, Sexy Holidays
Tagged Art, BDSM, Christmas, Culture, Gay, Kink, Santa, Santa Claus, Sexy
We do like our Boots. We also really like our small, gay community businesses. This economy is rough on both. This season, consider a gift certificate from Stompers Boots. This staple of the San Francisco Leather scene is as much a community center as a business, as famous for their Dore and Folsom fair BBQs as for their spectacular inventory of boots. Jack Nojazzhands has posted an appealing plea on YouTube.
Posted in Leather, San Francisco, Subcultures
Tagged BDSM, Business, Culture, Gay, Kink, Leather, LGBT, Stomper's Boots
Posted in Leather, Photography, Subcultures
Tagged BDSM, Boots, Culture, Dore Alley, Kink, Leather, LGBT, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy, Up Your Alley Fair
Just For Men Wilson. B-Weezy. Flicker. Mental Assassin. The Beard. Whatever you call him, Giants star pitcher Brian Wilson is as much a performance artist as he is an athlete. But what does it mean? The look: tattoos, mohawk, shaved head, thick beard, torn t-shirt, pinky ring, a cock-ring worn as bracelet, always close at hand. The attitude. The friends. Who is The Machine? A neighbor who comes by for “sugar” as he quips to the startled interviewer Chris Rose? His team-mate Pat Burrell playing an elaborate prank as suggested by some internet commentators? And what about the gear? Described as wearing a “gimp outfit” by some in a reference to Pulp Fiction, the man in the leather harness, jockstrap and hood in the background of this video would look right at home in a private dungeon or at the SF Eagle on a Sunday afternoon. But then…so would Wilson. So the question, still open, is: “Is he or isn’t he?” Is he playing a character? Or is he really…one of us?
Posted in Baseball, Leather, San Francisco, Strange News, Video
Tagged BDSM, Brian Wilson, Gay, Kink, Leather, performance art, SF Giants, The Beard, The Machine
Posted in Leather, Northern California, San Francisco
Tagged BDSM, Donna Sachet, Folsom Street Fair, Homo Genii, Jok Church, Kink, Leathersex, San Francisco, Stomper's Boots
The Gay Highwaymen 