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Watching leathermen subscribers aging out of the Hollywood leading man ideal and, growing heavier and hairier in the process, Drummer began making a sexy fetish of maturing secondary sex characteristics of body hair, beards, weight, and muscle mass.

Several early leather bars opened and closed in the s in New York. To complicate matters further, there is the question of how to define a leather bar. Tom of Finland, who was 19 when the Nazis bombed Finland, said that enemy uniforms were his first turn-on and inspiration.

These bars preceded the Gold Coast in Chicagowhich is frequently cited, erroneously, as the first leather bar. Sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Sigmund Freud classified sadism and masochism as pathological perversions. The police often shut them down and they would simply open in another location.

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The Brando biker became an archetype— wearing jeans, t-shirt, and a Schott Perfecto leather jacket, and a cloth biker cap. San Francisco? How did straight World War Two veterans on motorcycles beget gay leather bears who begat gay daddies who begat bears who begat leather-daddy-muscle bears?

I immediately went to Munich where the nearest leather subculture existed. Embracing all shapes and sizes, we celebrate the diversity that makes our community so special. The same might be said about the “incredible lightness” of being Bear. Sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Sigmund Freud classified sadism and masochism as pathological perversions.

Questions about the first leather club, leather bar, and whether there were official early protocols also remain murky. Building on leathermen, Drummer editors added their first daddy bear inplacing a Mapplethorpe bear on the cover. Step into a world of leather, good vibes, and endless camaraderie as we come together to revel in the joy of being ourselves.

Straight outlaw bikers positioned themselves as marginal, oppositional rebels. How did straight World War Two veterans on motorcycles beget gay leather bikers who begat gay daddies who begat bears who begat leather-daddy-muscle bears? Into these military roots, gay men stirred discipline, ritual, and style into their own lifestyle creating bike clubs of their own.

Images, posters, lobby cards, book jackets, record sleeves, and other art thumbnails on Iconic LGBTQ, The Art of Gay Style are lower-resolution versions of original art. Some of the earliest s were in New York City and gay California.

Who was the first self-identifying bear? Its history is often forgotten, eclipsed by San Francisco. It helps to recall that the pioneer leathermen who were in their late-twenties and thirties in the s, while the Vietnam War raged, were born as s and s war babies who grew up imprinted by action men in uniform.

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Leather, as a concept, rises from the mists of pre-history, with archetypes of conquerors and captives, and memes of masters and slaves, in literal and existential tableaux of sublime power and human bondage. Bears, Bikers and Mayhem is the ultimate gathering of like-minded individuals in a body-inclusive male identifying space.