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A BRIEF HISTORY OF LEATHER AND THE GAYS
It’s generally assumed that leather culture got s start the 1940s, as an offshoot to post-World War II motorcycle clubs that began poppg up around the same time. Gays had flocked drov to large ci followg Blue Discharg om the army, a way of removg homosexuals om service, as dishonourably dischargg and imprisong gays beme impractil wh the huge number of recs durg WWII. It led to large groups of homosexuals ci like Los Angel, San Francis and Chigo. * gay leather culture *
Give to me your leather, take om me my gays…. The gay esystem has a rich taxonomy of subcultur that all somewhat stem om one Adam(4Adam)’s rib – the leather muny. Gays had flocked drov to large ci followg Blue Discharg om the army, a way of removg homosexuals om service, as dishonourably dischargg and imprisong gays beme impractil wh the huge number of recs durg WWII.
It led to large groups of homosexuals ci like Los Angel, San Francis and Chigo. Gays who viewed themselv as butch and mascule were drawn to the look.
Gay-foced motorcycle clubs began appearg the 1950s, like the LA-based Satyrs Motorcycle Club and Oedip Motorcycle Club.
GAY LEATHER SCENE TON DOWN FROM HARD-CORE TO DRS-UP
By the 1970s, Tom of Fland (full name Too Val Laaksonen), a – you gused – Fnish artist, was able to qu his job and pursue his homoerotic art full time. Orejudos, who was also known by the nom plume Etienne, was another homoerotic artist, who, along wh Gee Quatance, spired Tom of Fland’s work. It, along wh Febe’s, opened 1966 and led an flux of leather bars and gay tablishments to the area.
Many a 2000s thk piece would ope on the ath of the gay bar (was Grdr and Craigslist that did ? Did we even need gay bars anymore?
To save this piece of San Francis gay history, the bar was purchased by a -operative of lol artists who now n (cludg Drag Race alum Honey Mahogany).