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What’s in the Archives? Leather!

Leather in the Archives

by Gordon Richardson, with assistance from Alan Miller and Michael Holmes (photography)

Leather subculture

The leather subculture denotes practices and styles of dress organized around sexual activities. Leather culture is most apparent in gay communities and most often associated with gay men (“leathermen”), but it is also reflected in various ways in the gay, lesbian, bi, and straight worlds. Many people associate leather customs with BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sado/Masochism) practices and its many subcultures.

Gay male BDSM leather culture grew out of post-WWII biker tradition. Some men returning from the war received surplus motorcycles, leather jackets, and other military gear. Wearing jeans and a T-shirt with a leather jacket and cap riding a motorcycle created an iconic image that was adopted by the first lgbtq+ leather people. The first gay leather bars were the club houses of early biker clubs that opened later to the public. Pioneering gay motorcycle clubs included the Satyrs, established in Los Angeles in 1954; Oedipus also in Los Angeles in 1958, and the Unused York Motorbike C

The Importance Of Leather To Queer Communities

Have you ever seen a leather coat in a thrift store with a hand-done plan in the back? Have you wondered what the leather trend was all about? Or maybe you are wondering how leather relates to the LGBTQ community. We travel these questions further. 

     Leather was more than a create of self-expression for members of the LGBTQ/queer community, it was a create of protest, a way to enhance relationships, and community.  By the 1960s clothier Alan Selby who saw juvenile gay men in motorcycle wear. He was inspired and went on to find Mr. S Leather, this helped solidify the way and role of leather in the queer community. The style involved leather chaps, uniforms, harnesses, motorcycle jackets, and peaked hats. Although there was kink involved, kink organism individuals preferred sexual practices, fantasies, or non-conventional sex practices. To the leather community, it was about so much more than sexual relationships. It was about mentorship between an older gay person and a younger one. It was about having someone help you navigate the struggles of being a gay man in a time when lots of despise and so

Green’s Dictionary of Slang

leatheradj.

(orig. US gay) pertaining to leather fetishism in attire and behaviour.

In compounds

leather bar (n.) (alsoleather lounge)

(orig. US gay) a prevent frequented by leather fetishists and sadomasochistic male homosexuals.

leather boy (n.) (alsoleather gentleman, leather job)

(gay) a male leather fetishist homosexual.

leather dyke (n.) [dyke n.]

(gay) a lesbian leather fetishist.

leather freak (n.) [-freak sfx]

(US) a leather fetishist.

leather jacket (n.) [? resemblance to the larvae of the leather jacket or crane travel (‘Daddy Long Legs’)]

(N.Z. prison) a capsule of dark marijuana oil.

D. LooserBoobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 106/2: leather jacketn. a capsule of black marijuana oil.
leather queen (n.) (alsoleather Mary) [-queen sfx (2)/Mary n. (2a)]

(orig. US gay) a male homosexual who likes dressing in leather and may also enjoy sadomasochism; also attrib.

SE in slang uses

In compounds

leather bottle (n.) [? it is smaller than a leathern conveniency n. (1)]

a one-horse conveyance.

leather bum (n.)

a civil servant who is totally dedicated to work and thus never leaves their desk.

S. BeckettMur

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Leather Protocols

There is a amazing deal of confusion and mixed signals in our community about “protocols”. The protocolists decry the disappearance of our leather traditions while the loosely defined New Guards insist that new traditions are emerging and we can’t be hidebound (so to speak) by the protocols of old. As usual both sides have merit.

The leather lifestyle is by character a radical expression of our sexuality and our personality. How can you constrain radical into a set of commandments? At the same time our experience grows from tradition and we avoid creature complete outlaws by tracking a set of personally identified protocols that pave the way for our journey.

Here are a place of protocols originally position out by Brother Jerry in 2001 and are a pretty good establish point to begin either the adoption or discussion of protocols.

No touch without permission

  • This is something that is relatively recent in the past few decades, but seems to be wildly accepted across the country. Respect is given to ALL members of the community
  • Master/Dom/Daddy as successfully as slave/boy/pet. No one has the right to touch another without expressed permission. In the case of a slave/pet it

    Leatherman

    Following

    Glenn Hughes. Village Person. 1950–2001. Buried in this very outfit.

    Tobias:I need something that says, "Dad likes leather."
    Store Clerk:Something that says... leatherdaddy?
    Tobias:Oh, is there such a thing?

    — Arrested Development

    The LGBT community has a variety of subcultures and groups. One component has historical roots in the BDSM community and in biker tradition, resulting in a noticeable number of gay men wearing horseshoe mustaches and a LOT of cured animal camouflage in suggestive cuts.

    The leather tradition is generally traced back to homosexual servicemen returning from World War II. They became the biker gangs of The '50s, and the subculture grew from there. The BDSM part sort of merged in later, though it's not a bonafide requirement that a leatherman be into kink. In reality, some of the older leathermen (the "old guard") include few, if any, BDSM tendencies. Just a strict code of honor, obedience to tradition and hierarchy and a strict set of rules.

    A comparable but distinct organization are bears, masculine types with body hair, heavy-set builds, and/or "traditionally" masculine behaviour. There is a lot of overlap b

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