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Contents:

• GAY LEATHER STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• LEATHER GAY - NAHKAHOMO
• GAY MEN LEATHER STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS
• GAY BIKERS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• GAY LEATHER GEAR

GAY LEATHER STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

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LEATHER GAY - NAHKAHOMO

Leather bars were sprgg up major ci and simultaneoly, seems, pneerg gay motorcycle clubs were formed: the Satyrs, tablished Los Angel 1954; Oedip, also tablished Los Angel 1958; the New York Motorbike Club and early San Francis clubs, cludg the Warlocks and the California Motor Club, started as well.

GAY MEN LEATHER STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Although fetish clothg is no longer a unique exprsn of the Queer world, there is a wily regnized parallel between the creased visibily of Gay and Lbian inti and superficial fetish ntemporary culture, transformg somethg that was ially the prerogative of sexual activi limed to the scene, later seen more extensively popular culture or any se transcend by lumari.

The whole of fashn, startg om the big brands to fast-fashn, has for some time vampirized the s of the imagary leather that origally belonged to the homosexual muny, still returng today outfs that are parad practilly all the great menswear brands. Colton Hayn jt paid homage to legendary homoerotic artist Tom of Fland by postg pics of himself wearg an all-leather outf to his Instagram recently, and let's jt say we're ready to ri wh Colton anywhere he wants to take the Arrow and Teen Wolf alum looks great wolfed out ont of the mera (he's set to appear the new, recently-announced Teen Wolf movie on Paramount+ alongsi his old -star Tyler Posey), we have to say we prefer when he's sportg leather rather than of Fland immortalized an entire homoerotic look for gay men via his inic drawgs and pictur.

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak.

SiegedSec, a self-scribed group of gay furry hackers, took s skills to state ernments late June, breachg agenci across five stat and releasg a wealth of data.The stat targeted on June 27 were Texas, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and South Carola. Demonstrators rallyg support of creatg an ethnic studi partment at Harvard dispted an ice cream social Harvard Yard hosted Tuday afternoon by Universy Print Clde Harvard Yard event was part of a tr of ice cream socials around the Universy’s mp on Tuday, markg the begng of Gay's tenure as stops at the Harvard Medil School's Countway Library and the Bs School's Schwartz Pavilln, Gay greeted Harvard affiliat the Yard, chattg and takg, Gay pos for a photo taken by her chief of staff, Kathere O'Dair.

”Rawal add that is “more important than ever” that the Universy creat an ethnic studi ncentratn, given the June 29 Supreme Court lg that clared Harvard’s race-nsc admissns polici the event, Gay entered Massachetts Hall, where her new office is loted. It is now jeopardy even wh the gay movement, as gay men and lbians are more and more drawn to a moralizg that chim wh homophobic stereotype, wh a wizened utopianism that nf our matury wh marriage to the law, and perhaps most sidly of all, wh the privatizatn of sex the fantasy that mass-mediated belongg uld ever substute for the public world of a sexual culture.

GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS

Meanwhile, mastream lbian and gay activism grew more stutnalized and creasgly emphasized morate requts for civil rights—as the 1993 March on Washgton—while leather, bisexual, and trans people ntued to ph for cln the movement (Warner, 1999). In 1979, the “Gays Unr 21” ntgent SF mand to have their rights taken serly by both straight and gay adults, who were “acceptg straights’ posn that young people have no sexualy, ” and “excludg om the larger gay muny” (Gays Unr 21 Contgent, 1979). The origs of gay leather the Uned Stat are somewhat unclear, but popular acunts discs a wave of gay men who were discharged om the ary followg World War II, bed wh a rebell, mascule image of black-clad motorcycle gangs the 1950s (Addison, 2012).

The LAPD raid the Black Cat 1967 (beatg patrons and pturg one bartenr’s spleen), a Homophile Effort for Legal Protectn fundraiser at the Black Pipe 1972, and the Mark IV baths “slave ctn” fundraiser for gay chari 1976: an effort which volved roughly a hundred officers, two helipters, a dozen vehicl (Los Angel Leather History, 2021; Rub, 1982b; S. Cg distorted media bigotry, fagbashg, and “the opprsn of our liftyle wh the larger gay/lbian muny, ” Brian O’Dell found New York’s Gay Male S/M Activists (GMSMA) 1980, and the Lbian Sex Mafia (LSM), a New York lbian S/M group, was found the followg year (Rub, 2015). Marc (1986) scribed police harassment of “leather fags” San Francis, LAPD nducted a seri of raids of leather bars 1988 (Los Angel Leather History, 2021), and 1987 Operatn Spanner began Bra: an effort which would ta hundreds of gay men and charge dozens of nsensual players wh “asslt” and “unlawful woundg”—16 were nvicted and eight imprisoned (S.

Although members of New York’s Gay Liberatn Front ntt claims of her centraly Pri’s origs (San Francis Bay Tim, 2021), there is documentatn of her marchg the 1980s (Unknown, 1980s, 1987) and servg on the anizg mtee for the 1987 March on Washgton (S/M-Leather Contgent, 1987). In January of 1970, Perry had officiated a weddg ceremony for two lbians (Warner, 1999), led 250 homosexuals a march for police reform LA (Los Angel Leather History, 2021), and a hunger actn on the steps of the LA Feral Buildg for gay rights (Los Angel Leather History, 2021). Cycle MC (a NYC gay motorcycle club) participated New York’s first Pri para 1970 (Hardy, 2003b; Los Angel Leather History, 2021), and a leather-clad motorcycle briga ro Harleys Los Angel that same year, which “tend to shock straight spectators to silence” (The Advote, 1970).

GAY BIKERS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

By 1986 the Society of Jan, the Outsts (a lbian S/M group) and the 15 Associatn (a gay male S/M group) joed forc an official S/M muny ntgent (Rub, 2015), fieldg more than a hundred marchers and nng a booth at Civic Center plaza (Bay Area SM Communy, 1986, 1987). Ste (2021) argu that para anizers the early 1990s mostly disuraged BDSM marchers om displayg whips and chas, or engagg overt BDSM displays, and while Memphis went so far as to ban mors om any event even scribg sadomasochism (not to mentn homosexualy!

A flurry of articl explored the dynamics of assiatnism vs radil exprsn, of Branis’ inty as a trans dyke vs the predomantly cis gay men who opposed the performance, and of the difference between an east ast leather culture eager for tablishment acceptance vs a wt ast leather culture which embraced rebell self-exprsn. In the US, the moral panic of the “Lavenr Sre” and McCarthye purg of homosexuals durg the 1950s ma this activism hazardo, and homophile anizatns proceed ( very broad terms) wh assiatnist utn: nouncg gay men’s “swish” mannerisms and pursu of sex. Misters om the Council held a prs nference followg the event and lled out the police partment, the ACLU fend the victims, and meetgs between police and homophile activists “dramatilly curtailed” police harassment (Armstrong & Crage, 2006; Penngton, 1988).

This was no refully planned, super-straight picketg monstratn of 20 or 30 overdrsed and severely middle-class homosexuals; nor was a p-out, like the “mass meetg” held by a self-styled homosexual lear unr the Arch Washgton Square Park—plete wh hymn-sgg, speakers, and an dience of 40 or 50 tourists om Peoria…. ” In tratn, Craig Rodwell, Fred Sargeant, Ellen Broidy, and Lda Rhos proposed a change at the Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) Philalphia: that the Annual Remr be moved to New York Cy on the anniversary of the Stonewall rebelln, and that be open to all ag and manners of drs (Bce, 2016; Sargeant, 2010).

GAY LEATHER GEAR

Organizers leveraged the works and mailg lists of lol homophile anizatns as well as the nascent gay prs to cement the importance of Stonewall, and reached out to homophile anizatns across the US to plan the first Pri march (Armstrong & Crage, 2006; Bce, 2016).

In 1970, The GAA’s Street Theatre Submtee argued that sce gay liberatn’s aim was to produce a culture where rpect is afford to those wh unnventnal sexual exprsn, the most effective thg to do was to champn the most unnventnal type of homosexual: homosexual transvt. The 1970s immediately followg Stonewall was a perd of mass sexual experimentatn the major urban ci where gay life flourished—explorg pleasure multiple forms, and different patterns of relatnship, many different venu, challengg the reproductive and monogamo norms of the culture, throwg light on what had been a dark secret, nfed to shameful silence, the all too recent past.

One rult was an explosn of public sex amongst gay and bisexual men, snas, backrooms, parti; another was a flowerg of life experiments, as the 1969 generatn explored new typ of relatnships, new ways of livg sexually, challengg taboos around bodi, age, genr appearance, promiscuy, partnership, and love. Sexual liberatn was for many the sence, the very meang of gay liberatn, and later years many survivors of that first generatn lamented new emphas wh the movement on lbian and gay parentg, same-sex marriage, and chosen fai as an abandonment of that foundg spiratn. In 1977 a nservative Christian aln onted by Ana Bryant (a sger and brand ambassador for the Florida Cs Commissn) lnched a mpaign to repeal a recently-passed civil rights ordance Da County which prohibed anti-gay discrimatn hog, employment, and public acmodatn.

The “Save Our Children” mpaign argued that the ordance vlated Bryant’s relig eedom, revived long-standg views that homosexuals were dangero and immoral, and synthized a new moral panic that gay schoolteachers would “nvert” and “sexually molt children” (Endr, 2009; Rosky, 2021; Si, 1977). But nowadays, they said, there’s veloped “an attu of tolerance … based on the unrstandg that homosexuals will keep their viant activy to themselv, will not flnt their liftyl, will not be allowed to preach their sexual standards to, or otherwise fluence, imprsnable young people.

Further, they are pletely turned off by what they see the way of lewd and lasciv nduct on Castro, Polk, and Folsom Streets as well as at Land’s End and Buena Vista Park, where several Gay men (and women) display their private and more often sexual si public.

In a 1978 terview wh the Bay Area Reporter, Dianne Feste held San Francis gays rponsible for the urse of the natn generally and for San Francis’s populatn cle particular, blamed sadomasochists for “imposg their valu” on others, and plaed that the gay muny had failed to set reasonable standards for public behavr:32. If we n monstrate that we n bee a sound, stable, secure muny where everybody n live—not wh one imposg their human rights on another but wh a sense of digny, livg a full and nstctive life—then we will make easier for Gays throughout the Uned Stat.

Marc (1979) sardonilly observed, San Francis’s Gay Freedom Day Commtee had been acceptg donatns om leather & public sex stutns for years: Boot Den, The Black & Blue, Leather Forever, Leatherworld, Liberty Baths, The Steam Works, Sutro Baths, and the 21st Street Baths were all sponsors of Pri. The loust cheers went up as a few banners passed by: those of the New York Cy Parents of Gays, the Lbian Herstory Archiv, the Gay Daddi, the Coaln for Gay Deaf Rights, the Gay Advote Newspaper, which hand out balloons sayg “Let Go and Live, ” and the leather‐jacketed marchers of the Eulenspiegel Society, which advot sadomasochistic relatnships. A mon sense of sexual opprsn held people together at first the gay liberatn movement, but was soon obv that a mon label obscured a range of sexual needs and sir, wh different social, cultural and polil ntexts, posns, and emergg subjectivi and ways of life… Gay liberatn, far om dissipatg inty, spired a dynamic explosn of new inti that shaped the post gay liberatn perd.

Although leather people were nstctg an creasgly sophistited and visible subculture wh new symbols, acts, and stutns, social nservativ and anti-porn femists phed gay society to engage a sort of cultural gatekeepg: cidg who, exactly unted as gay.