Rik Lee and Alan Guttirez at the opening of Tough Love. Show-n-Tell with artists and collectors on Sunday, September 16th. Bring something to share! Art in the background by Michael Palmer, Dennis Kennedy and Jim Leff.
Tag Archives: Leather
Sight seen at Tough Love: Rik and Alan and Hot Gay Art!
Posted in Art and Artists, Collecting, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., iPhone, Leather, Men, Military, Photography, San Francisco, Subcultures, Youth
Tagged Art, Center for Sex and Culture, Dennis Kennedy, Gay, iPhone photography, Jim Leff, Kink, Leather, Michael Palmer, San Francisco, Tough Love
SF Eagle to Re-Open!?
It’s been over a year now, and the City of San Francisco has been without one of its iconic Leather bars, The SF Eagle. This site’s most popular post ever heralded its loss. In a city where real estate is at a premium, the expansive patio had for years provided a big outdoor space where Old Leather and New Gear, club brothers and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Queers of all spots and stripes and even friendly str8 hipsters and visiting moms could all relax, if not quite mix. For the last year, a group of die-hards has occupied other bars for monthly Eagle in Exile events. Now, it seems, the bar is set to re-open…under gay ownership. There has been a lot of weird back-room politics on this one, and there was a moment when it appeared that the place would be delivered to straights. And now?
The New SF Eagle states on their website:
“It will take a couple of months to do the much-needed repairs and upgrades that the property requires, but some upcoming events are already in the works prior to the opening of the bar. Please check this website periodically for new announcements coming soon.
The bar and patio located at 398 12th Street has long been a special place, not only to the LGBT community, but to the entire community for decades, not to mention the live music community as well. We just couldn’t let such a historic place like this disappear!
We will continue to host fundraisers for all the organizations from the past, as well as welcoming new ones to make the S.F. Eagle the pride of our community once again.
We look forward to seeing all of you very soon!”
Well…Cool! Looking forward to the re-opening with (guarded) optimism!
Eagle Poster by Uyvari, 1981. This poster, and lots of other hot, hard art will be on display at the Tough Love exhibit in San Francisco during the month of September. Cum out and see sum!
Posted in Art and Artists, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., History, Leather, Men, Northern California, San Francisco, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Subcultures
Tagged Art, Culture, Eagle, Gay, Gay Bar, History, Leather, politics, Real Estate, San Francisco, Tavern, Uyvari
Johnny Harden by Kabbaz at Tough Love!
This hot portrait of Johnny Harden is acrylic on shaped plywood. Circa 1983 by Kabbaz. From the collection of David Barnard, this big boy measures 37″ x 37″ and will be on display in September 2012 in San Francisco at Tough Love
Sight Seen at Dore #UpYourAlley Fair: Hot boy cool tats!
This must be the place! Horny bone ink rules, ok? Dore Alley / Up Your Alley fair. San Francisco 2012. For a cool slide show from last years fair, click here. For human pups at play, here. Courtesy SF K-9 Unit. That would be the kinky crew, not the special tactical unit of the SFPD…
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Human Animals, iPhone, Leather, Men, Photography, San Francisco, Sexy Holidays, Subcultures, Surveillance, Youth
Tagged BDSM, Culture, Dore, Gay, Ink, iPhone photography, Kink, Leather, Pup Play, San Francisco, Tat, Tattoo, Up Your Alley
Black pony slave licks Bear Boots at #UpYourAlley Fair
Black pony slave licks Bear boots. Wins a title here. Talks about his kink for race play here and here. Happy Dore, boy…
Posted in Human Animals, iPhone, Leather, Photography, San Francisco, Subcultures
Tagged BDSM, Bootlicker, Culture, Dore, Gay, Leather, Race Play, Slave, Up Your Alley
Is “The Beard” a Furry Fancier? SF Giants Pitcher dates Sasquatch!
One of this blog’s most popular posts asked whether San Francisco Giants pitcher Brian Wilson is gay and kinky. Click here. He’s been known to offer “sugar” to the mysterious leather-clad “Machine” and now he seems to be dating Sasquatch. Are they one in the same? The Beard and the Squatch showed up together for the ESPY Awards. Is the bearded pitcher advocating furry sex for butch guys? Hey, there were furries (or “plushophiles”) at IML this year. That would be International Mr. Leather, not the Illinois Municipal League. I’m not saying having furries at a Leather event is a good thing or a bad thing…but it IS a thing! For Brian Wilson at the Beef Bar, click here.
Jackhammer Bear
Bear friend shot in Mendocino County. Vintage T-Shirt from the former Jackhammer bar in San Francisco.
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Beards, Collecting, Facial hair, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Human Animals, iPhone, Leather, Men, Mendocino County, Photography, San Francisco, Signage, Subcultures
Tagged Bara, Bear, Beard, Gay, Gay Bar, iPhone photography, Jackhammer, Leather, San Francisco
Leathers in Mozambique
From the small volume Scouts in Bondage and Other Violations of Literary Propriety. Edited by Michael Bell, a proprietor of secondhand books from the “ancient coastal town” of Lewes, England. Scouts is a collection of amusing covers, this one from 1959 is subtitled “An Adventure Story for Boys.” What? That’s what Neo-colonial crypto-homosexuality was called in the middle of the 20th century…
Posted in Africa, Collecting, England, Europe, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., History, Leather, Literature, Military, SCANDAL: Politics, Crime, Revolution and More., Youth
Tagged Adventure, Art, Books, boys, Colonialism, Culture, Edward M. Christie, England, Gay Gaze, Leather, Literature, Michael Bell, Mozambique, Pop Culture, Wordplay
Hot Draw! Mark I. Chester hosts Gay Men’s Kinky Sketch Group in San Francisco
Hosted by Mark I. Chester, an institution in the San Francisco gay art scene for a long time now. Best known as a photographer, Chester is also an underground artist who opens his SOMA studio to regular life-drawing sessions, including the monthly Hot Draw! – Devoted to fans of kinky gay male erotica. Themes of power, control, submission, fetish, gear, S/m and kink galore dominate at these events. Pictured here is Dan Becker’s quick sketch of artist Richard Bolingbroke’s sub bear paul on all fours. That would be Bolingbroke’s boot: good bear! More on Hot Draw! here. Interested in getting your hot self in front of Chester’s hot camera lens? That can happen, too. Information here.
Posted in ANIMALS: Human and otherwise..., Art and Artists, GAY GAZE: Visual Culture, Photos, Art, Comics, Film, Objects, etc..., Leather, Men, North America, Photography, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Subcultures
Tagged Art, BDSM, Bear, Boots, Culture, Dan Becker, Erotic, Gay, Homoerotic, Hot Draw!, Kink, Leather, Male, Mark I. Chester, Photography, Richard Bolingbroke, San Francisco, Sexy, sub bear
Power Runs in the Family…
Yes. It does. Sign seen on Market Street in San Francisco.
The Gay Highwaymen 