Free Onle Library: In honor of LGBT history month: Gay Leather History. by "Liberty Prs"; Women's issu/genr studi Gay men Appreciatn
Contents:
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LEATHER AND THE GAYS
- IN HONOR OF LGBT HISTORY MONTH: GAY LEATHER HISTORY.
- WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY LEATHER PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
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 origin *
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.
IN HONOR OF LGBT HISTORY MONTH: GAY LEATHER HISTORY.
When I burst through the closet doors, my first expensive purchase was a leather harns. I wanted to f , and knew the harns was a staple garment for gay men. But how did we get here? How has the leather harns bee such a veted and symbolic garment among gay men? Unfortunately, the harns, like much of leather history, is one of myth and legend, and very ltle is ncretely rerd. * gay leather origin *
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). It has no documented history, so IN spoke wh experts and nsulted the archiv to trace the leage of one of gay culture’s most popular garments…. I wanted to f , and knew the harns was a staple garment for gay men.
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY LEATHER PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
* gay leather origin *
How has the leather harns bee such a veted and symbolic garment among gay men? “As far as I know, there is no history of harns, ” Gayle Rub, a leather historian and anthropology profsor, wr me, addg that there were harns around the time IML, an annual leatherman ntt and nference, began 1979. So when the war end, they sought sanctuary motorcycle clubs where they met others who shared a like-md disaffectn wh the nformist culture of post-WW2 the spac, leather clothg was everywhere, signallg a masculy allurg to gay men who were weary of beg picted as effemate.
His highly masculized, homoerotic art went hand hand wh the emergence of the gay leather scene.
“Gay men jt pied what they saw, ” Erickson explaed to IN.