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Navek Leatherman
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Quote from Sex Positive by Elisa Glick (in Feminist Review No 64, 2000). Photo from Rubber Nurse Vol 1 No 2 (1975).
White woman with long blonde hair, wearing a white mid thigh dress and black pants holding a leash attached to a collar on a white man on his hands and knees looking up. Text: [In both its feminist and queer incarnations, pro-sex theorists and practitioners contradict their own logic by idealizing the subversive potential of transgressive practices that dislocate and displace the dominant. As Ferguson asserts about pro-sex feminism, the pro-sexuality paradigm is based upon the following claim: ‘Sexual freedom requires oppositional practices, that is, transgressing socially respectable categories of sexuality and refusing to draw the line on what counts as politically correct sexuality’ (1984: 109). This refusal ‘to draw the line’ actually remains within the schema of sexual hierarchy and value that sex radicals set out to critique in the fiŽrst place: pro-sex theory leaves intact the notion that some sexualities are more liberatory than others, and the most liberatory ones of all should serve as the foundation for a politics of resistance. Although many pro-sex theorists have objected to the ranking of sexual practices enacted by radical feminists – arguing instead that no sex act can be labeled as either inherently liberating or essentially oppressive (Sawicki, 1991: 43; Echols, 1992: 66) – the pro-sexuality movement suggests that transgressive sexual identities and practices offer a privileged position from which to construct a truly radical sexual politics.]
December 15, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Fun group photo towards the end of the second Tom's Hide Out promo shoot for 2025. Can't wait to share some of the photos we got, these guys all look amazing!
December 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Living in Leather VIII, Houston, 1993. From the Thomas L. Gross collection at the LA&M. #LeatherEvents #LeatherCommunity
Four people wearing leather posing together in front of a blank wall. Two femininely dressed, two masculine. One holding a water cup with a nose ring, one wearing a large silver cross.
December 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Mark S. Smith was the founder of Second Skins, a leeather resale shop in Seattle. He was described as a generous advocate for justice and diversity.
Mark is white and has a mustache. He is wearing a white T-shirt and leaning against a bookcase. Text: [Mark S. Smith died of complications from AIDS in Florida on December 13, 1994. He was born in Upstate New York, attended college in Buffalo, NY and lived in Key West, Fla. and New York City before moving to Seattle. In the last one-and-a-half years of his life, Mark realized his great goal to own a business. He was the founder and original owner of Second Skins, a resale leather shop, which failing health forced him to sell this spring. Mark was a strong advocate of justice and diversity, not only of sexual orientation and gender, but also of class, color, and opportunity. His acts of personal generosity will long be remembered by his friends, and by all of those who benefited from his private, often anonymous, gifts. Mark's friends will also miss his outrageous, irreverent sense of humor and his unflagging loyalty. A memorial service will be announced at a later date. Donations in Mark's memory may be made to Chicken Soup Brigade and Bailey-Boushay House.]
December 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Cover of On Our Backs (Summer 1987). The LA&M is missing several issues of OOB including Summer 1984, Winter 1984, Spring 1985 and Winter 1985. Do you have them? 🎁
Cover of a magazine with a blue toned photograph of two white women. One woman has a faux mohawk and many earrings, and is biting the shoulder of another woman, leaning over and looking up at the camera, wearing a collar with short 80s hair.
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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David Golonka owned a custom leather shop called The Noose with his friend Merrill Saldes. He served as president of the Pocono Warriors and was a former member of the Gay Male S/M Activists.
David is white, has a short beard, large sunglasses, is mostly bald and has a chain around his neck. Text: [David Golonka Dies. David Golonka passed away on December 5, 1992 from AIDS-related causes. For the past ten years, David was a highly visible and active member within the New York leather/SM community. Along with his friend, Merrill Saldes, he formed a partnership and in 1983 they opened The Noose, one of New York City's best custom leather/SM shops. Aside from the very personal and individual attention customers received, The Noose has always conveyed a feeling of involvement and commitment to the community, and it gave David the opportunity to participate both personally and professionally. As a leader within the community, he was always supportive, receiving numerous awards throughout the years from New York's gay and leather/SM organizations. He would always volunteer both his time and energy on behalf of the leather community and, whenever asked, would donate items from his store or prizes for contests and fundraisers or benefit auctions to raise money for gay and AIDS-related causes.
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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andyconboi.bsky.social
sitting on business 💖

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December 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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danchet007.bsky.social
Sunkissed
October 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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The IMBB Elements of Competition are officially here!

We’re excited to share the full breakdown of what contestants can expect as they prepare for the International Mr. Bootblack experience. 🧵👇
December 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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realclearfetish.bsky.social
Go and check out @timo-of-finland.bsky.social and our honest conversion ❤️
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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gingerdadbod.bsky.social
It’s #SmallBusinessSaturday, check out my small business, LeatherDaddy! I make all of my plant-based skincare, home fragrance, and eau de parfum by hand!!
LeatherDaddySkin.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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The episode is now out. Thank you from the bottom of my heart @realclearfetish.bsky.social for having me, and for creating this podcast
🖤💙❤️🤍
November 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Quote from How To Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic by Douglas Crimp (in AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism ed. Douglas Crimp, 1987). Photo from Honcho (Jan 1989). #Honcho #HIVAIDS
Close up of a white man, hang on his hip, jeans unbuttoned, shirt tugged up. Text: [One curious aspect of AIDS education campaigns devised by advertising agencies contracted by governments is their failure to take into account any aspect of the psychic but fear. An industry that has used sexual desire to sell everything from cars to detergents suddenly finds itself at a loss for how to sell a condom.]
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Highwaymen TNT in 2001, from the Vern Stewart collection at the LA&M. Highwaymen TNT is a leather club that was founded in 1978 in Washington DC. #LeatherCommunity
20 people, seven black and 13 white, wearing a uniform of a light blue shirt with a patch on each shoulder, leather vest, some with many pins, navy pants, and a black tie.
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Paul & Wendy - our superstar leather makers are finishing of a batch of Scottish kilts, Roman kilts & mini skirts today ✨
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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In today's newsletter: Three Donelan cartoons we can't share on instagram 🔞 Subscribe here autoerotica.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Quote from On Becoming a Leatherwoman by Michele A. Buchanan. Photo by Efrain J. Gonzalez from Buchanan's collection at the LA&M. #LeatherWomen
Michele is a Black woman with a serious expression and short hair. She is wearing pearls and a floorlength robe or dress with a V-neck and stiff collar. She is sitting on a floral patterned chair next to a candelabra. Text: [When you are no longer willing to be someone else and live someone else's life in return for respectability, when your mind and your body are so changed that both a kiss and a blow can make you vibrate, when you find yourself on the street in plain clothes in a strange city and you see a man or woman dressed in leather and you meet that person's eyes and nod, and that person nods back, then you have become a leatherwoman.]
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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butchdick.bsky.social
That time I nailed a jock to the wall and drew it!

Prints @ ButchDick.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Today on this day in 1982, The Border Riders MC and the San Francisco Eagle had a Chicken Fundraiser for the Kaposi's Sarcoma Foundation, with chicken, a beer bust, and surprises.
Illustration of an eagles head. Text: eat chicken at the Eagle. 12th and Harrison. To Benefit Kaposi’s sarcoma foundation. Sunday, November 21, 1982. 3 to 6 PM. Five dollar donation includes chicken and beer bust plus surprises. Sponsored by border riders MC.
November 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Tammad Rimilia aka "The Gentleman Barbarian" published essays and instructional guides about bondage, the kink community and other topics online throughout the 1990s.
White man wearing black tshirt and jeans ties white rope in a full body harness around a standing white woman
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Rich Demarest was a member of the Cycle Runners MC and former member of the California Motor Club. He also served as secretary/treasurer of The Forum of San Francisco. Demarest was titled King of Leather II 1990-1991.
Rich is white, middle-aged, and has a bright smile. He is wearing a button up plaid shirt, and a leather vest with round pins on the lapel. Text: his majesty, rich demarest.
November 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Quote from Consensual Sadomasochism by William A. Henkin and Sybil Holiday (1996). Photo from Lashes Collection No 3 (1986).
White woman riding on a standing man’s back, using a custom-made backpack metal harness. She is wearing a loose long sleeve shirt, leather pants, and a riding helmet, and holding up a crop. He is white and wearing a horse mask. Text: [Everything you enjoy in a scene that is not essential to your purpose in being there is a want, so after you know what you need you might prioritize your wants as well, from those that are very, very strong to those that are passing fancies.]
November 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Steve Maidhof co-founded and served as the first president of the National Leather Association, which he was inspired to organize after competing at International Mr. Leather in 1986 alongside NLA co-founder Billy Jefferson.
Steve is white, has a brown mustache, is wearing plaid, and a leather vest and leather pants and cap. He is sitting at a bar in front of a large Christmas tree beside two women with large 1980s hair. One is wearing a stop aids shirt. Someone is reaching to touch Steve’s shoulder.
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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One of my favorite ONYX play parties..Join us..
onyxnorthwest.bsky.social ONYX NORTHWEST @onyxnorthwest.bsky.social · Nov 12
This Saturday we our having our last play party of 2025. We are partnering with The 15 Association to bring you POWER PLAY, a party to drown yourself in BDSM, Fetish and Kink.

Buy your Tickets now: forbiddentickets.com/events/onyx-...
November 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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If you’re a kinkster in the Bay Area and don’t have plans, I hope to see you at this tonight!

The one and only Midori and @graylinthornton.bsky.social discuss their Cultural Trauma Play Scene

7pm tonight, tickets at link below. See you there?

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RSVP to LLS | Graylin & Midori discuss their CTP Scene | Partiful
The ONYX Northwest Education Committee is proud to present the continuation of our Leather Lab Series! Our goal is to help each of you sharpen your knowledge, deepen your experiences, and confidently ...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM