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Tag Archives: Leather
Our Vast Queer Past: GLBT History Museum opens in San Francisco
Milk and miscreants, A Taste of Leather, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, clubs, AIDS, the baths, Cruising and more… an enthusiastic crowd opened The GLBT History Museum on January 13th in San Francisco’s Castro District. Curated by historians Gerard Koskovich, Don Romesburg and Amy Sueyoshi. For more on this historic event, click here.
Posted in Collecting, Drag, Leather, San Francisco
Tagged Art, Culture, Gay, Gay History Museum, GLBT Historical Society, GLBT History Museum, History, Leather, LGBT, San Francisco
Happy New Year from seminal Leather Artist Etienne!
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
Aussie Leather Electronica. Gay Skins. Loka Nunda. St. Vladimir…Can’t Think Str8 Video
“You’re driving me crazy and I can’t think str8. Be my mate.” Sexy Aussie Gay Leather themed music video produced at the Laird Hotel in August, 2010. Loka Nunda. St Vladimir. With Michael Lauer. Camera Steve Radic. Vedic Beats! Hot stuff from Down Under.
Posted in Australia, Leather, Music, Subcultures
Tagged Australia, Can't Think Str8, Culture, Gay, Leather, Loka Nunda, Music, Punk, Sexy, St. Vladimir, Video
Pulling Ourselves Up by each Others’ Boot Straps: Support Stompers
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
Fresh Foot Traffic: Got Boots?
Boots. What other item of foot ware pulls such partisan support, draws such devotees, fosters such fans? Polished, dirty, engineer, cowboy, motorcycle. Leather. Boots. These boots were made for walking. These boots were made for licking. These boots were made for dancing on the head of a pin. Got Boots? Post Pics in GH comments!
Posted in Leather, Photography, Subcultures
Tagged BDSM, Boots, Culture, Dore Alley, Kink, Leather, LGBT, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy, Up Your Alley Fair
Leather or Not? Is SF Giants’ Star Pitcher Brian Wilson Kinky? Is “The Beard” Gay?
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
Three Generations of Leather: Wet Plate Ambrotype Photo by Eric Robinson
Leather Family: Three Generations. photo: Eric Robinson
We learn from our elders and teach the young. And sometimes vice-versa. As a community that has collectively lost so many and so much in the last three decades, it is more important than ever that we pass on our best traditions to the generations coming up. It is equally important that we incorporate the fresh energy and ideas of youth into our clubs, institutions, dungeons and families. Make no mistake about it: this is a family photograph. It is a scan of a wet-plate ambrotype, a singular photo on black glass, a 19th century process turned towards 21st century subject matter. Taken by Eric Robinson as part of a project in which he made portraits of Leather families in San Francisco. July, 2010. For more on Eric, click here and here.
Posted in Art and Artists, Eric Robinson, Leather, Photography, San Francisco
Tagged Ambrotype, Eric Robinson, Generations, Leather, Leather Family, Leather Week, Wet Plate
Sights Seen at the San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Progressive Dinner
On the 11th of September, a few dozen Leathermen and some women participated in the San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance‘s annual progressive dinner. Starters were served at Mr. S Leather, soup and salad at The Powerhouse, main course at The SF Eagle and dessert at The Lone Star. The San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance is a coalition of twelve leather, fetish and motorcycle oriented clubs in the South-of-Market Area LBGT community.
Posted in Leather, Northern California, San Francisco, Signage
Tagged Leather, Mr.S, progressive dinner, SF Eagle, SFBALA, SOMA, South of Market, The 15, The Lone Star, The Powerhouse
Eric Robinson shoots wet plate Photography at Dore / Up Your Alley Fair
Photographer Eric Robinson set up his view camera and portable darkroom on 1oth and Folsom to take wet plate photographs at the Dore / Up Your Alley street fair in San Francisco. 19th century processes meet 21st century subject matter. He is in California working on a project that he began in Illinois. Click here for more on Eric. More later. [photoevent: July 25th, 2010]
Posted in Art and Artists, Leather, Photography, San Francisco
Tagged Ambrotypes, Dore Alley, Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Up Your Alley, Wet Plate
The 15 Association at Dore / Up Your Alley Leather Street Fair.
San Francisco’s 15 Association enjoyed a day at the Dore, or Up Your Alley street fair. The 15 Association is a social and sexual fraternity for men who engage in BDSM. Booth space was generously provided by Stop Aids, which has been working to prevent HIV transmission among all gay and bisexual men in San Francisco through multicultural, community-based organizing since 1985. Photoevent: July 25th, 2010, SOMA, San Francisco, CA. c. gayhighwaymen
Posted in Leather, San Francisco
Tagged 15 Association, Dore Alley, Leather, S/m, San Francisco, Up Your Alley Fair
The Gay Highwaymen 