Celebry Fashn Photographer Mike Ruiz Turns His Foc To the Gay Leather Communy - #GAYNRD

Contents:

• GAY LEATHER STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• CELEBRY FASHN PHOTOGRAPHER MIKE RUIZ TURNS HIS FOC TO THE GAY LEATHER COMMUNY SAVAS ABADSIDIS FEBARY 13, 2022SHARE NEW JERSEY BASED PHOTOGRAPHER MIKE RUIZ, WHO HAS BEEN FEATURED ON AMERI’S AND CANADA’S NEXT TOP MOL, RUPL’S DRAG RACE, ALONG WH DOZENS OF OTHER TELEVISN APPEARANC, HAS STARTED AN ONGOG SERI TO HIGHLIGHT THE BETY AND DIVERSY OF THE LEATHER MUNY TO SHOW THAT ’S NOT ABOUT JT WEARG LEATHER OR KKY SEX.THE ONGOG SERI’ GOAL IS TO SHE MORE LIGHT ON A COMMUNY THAT HAS CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO LGBTQ HISTORY     LEATHER IS AN OUTER MANIFTATN OF AN NER TTH. WE AREN’T LEATHERMEN BEE WE WEAR LEATHER; WE WEAR LEATHER BEE WE ARE ALREADY LEATHERMEN. WE JT WANT OTHERS TO SEE SO THEY N KNOW TOO. EDGEACRDG TO RUIZ: “IT’S ABOUT A MUNY OF MEN WHO FORM A VERY STRONG BROTHERHOOD WH A RICH HISTORY ROOTED MUNY SERVICE AND CLN DATG BACK TO THE 60S. THE MORE I LEARNED, THE MORE I WANTED TO KNOW. I FIGURED THE ONLY WAY TO GET AN ACCURATE ACUNT WAS TO GO TO THE SOURC.”
• GAY LEATHER GEAR

GAY LEATHER STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Our visn: to accurately reflect the gay leather scene while tg rears about fetish and kks that are unrreported or Matt SpikeThis photo om issue 218, which will e out October 2020, celebrat the 1st year anniversary of the Dmmer reboot. PHOTO: IntaGloveThis seri by IntaGlove, om issue 217, acpani a Q&A wh him about the bondage and gay leather scene Kuala Lumpur, which is where he ris.

The inic artist, who amed the cultural gay male gaze of the late 20th Century, drew his imagery. “Like many gay men, I have pretty much formed my whole inty around the inography of Tom of Fland. I’m now my late fifti, so I me of age an era when many men still felt a strong need to overpensate for beg gay.

CELEBRY FASHN PHOTOGRAPHER MIKE RUIZ TURNS HIS FOC TO THE GAY LEATHER COMMUNY SAVAS ABADSIDIS FEBARY 13, 2022SHARE NEW JERSEY BASED PHOTOGRAPHER MIKE RUIZ, WHO HAS BEEN FEATURED ON AMERI’S AND CANADA’S NEXT TOP MOL, RUPL’S DRAG RACE, ALONG WH DOZENS OF OTHER TELEVISN APPEARANC, HAS STARTED AN ONGOG SERI TO HIGHLIGHT THE BETY AND DIVERSY OF THE LEATHER MUNY TO SHOW THAT ’S NOT ABOUT JT WEARG LEATHER OR KKY SEX.THE ONGOG SERI’ GOAL IS TO SHE MORE LIGHT ON A COMMUNY THAT HAS CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO LGBTQ HISTORY     LEATHER IS AN OUTER MANIFTATN OF AN NER TTH. WE AREN’T LEATHERMEN BEE WE WEAR LEATHER; WE WEAR LEATHER BEE WE ARE ALREADY LEATHERMEN. WE JT WANT OTHERS TO SEE SO THEY N KNOW TOO. EDGEACRDG TO RUIZ: “IT’S ABOUT A MUNY OF MEN WHO FORM A VERY STRONG BROTHERHOOD WH A RICH HISTORY ROOTED MUNY SERVICE AND CLN DATG BACK TO THE 60S. THE MORE I LEARNED, THE MORE I WANTED TO KNOW. I FIGURED THE ONLY WAY TO GET AN ACCURATE ACUNT WAS TO GO TO THE SOURC.”

I had a lot of toxic shame surroundg beg gay that spilled over to my sex life. “The leather muny is still relatively margalized, even wh the gay muny self, bee they don’t unrstand , much like I didn’t for a long time. “Now that the gay muny has bee more tegrated to mastream society, we don’t have our neighborhoods and our meetg plac anymore, to the extent that we did when we really need them.

You n be an out gay person and go to a straight bar, but as a leatherman you really need to have a specific environment to go to orr to feel safe and to exprs yourself.

They are the most acceptg men and women the gay muny. Although has changed a ltle over the years, mastream gay culture still tends to be youth orientated, whereas the leather muny has always celebrated the daddy figure, whout dimishg the younger on, and all kds of body typ and all ethnici and rac are weled whout beg fetishized. "I've stggled for so long wh varyg gre of shame about everythg om beg gay to my sexual proclivi to body perceptn, " Ruiz says.

GAY LEATHER GEAR

" So, why do the prence of leathermen and other kksters at Pri still ffle some gay feathers?