The Leather Archives & Museum — located in Chicago — is celebrating non-normative intimacy and art with a new monthly screening series, the 2023 Fetish Film Forum, which includes “Querelle” and “Cruising,” among others!
More information about the film series, including dates and times and ticket purchasing, available here.
The official Leather Archives & Museum website is here
Learn more about Dom Barbudo — and leather and BDSM — at this Master’s extensive website, https://dombarbudo.com, which is in Portugese, but if you use the Google Chrome browser you can read in English or another language.
Check out these pictures from “The Hotel Hookup,” a shoot from the Bound Gods archives — subscribe to KinkMen and get ALL the content no matter how long ago it is from:
A leather convention is happening in the hotel. Leather men are everywhere. Cruising. S&M (Stand and Model). Trent Diesel spots his dom and quietly walks to his room. Spencer Reed likes what he sees and follows. Hearts are beating fast. Adrenaline is rushing as Spencer pushes Trent on the bed and takes off his leather.
Spencer puts his man in leather bondage and eats his sweet ass. When Trent warms up, Spencer uses electricity on Trent’s cock, thighs and hole. Trent squirms in full bondage. He screams as he gets fucked while completely tied up. Spencer controls Trent’s orgasm until it gets out of hand, and Trent showers his load all over the hotel room.
Video of this shoot here
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Check out these vintage pictures of Colt Thomas, who was the winner of the International Mr. Leather contest back in 1983! According to Facebook postings from leather pioneer Peter Fiske and Leather Archives Executive Director Gary A. Wasdin, today would have been Colt’s 61st birthday. Colt died in 1992.
The pictures below of Colt are re-posted here (without permission) from Facebook and from various sites on the Internet.
“Coulter came to IML as Mr. Texas Leather,” Mr. Wasdin wrote today on Facebook. “There were 44 contestants that year, and the devastation of AIDS was growing. Coulter embodied the IML ideal. He was top of his class in medical school, while traveling and fundraising during his title year. He became muse to many artists, and is one of the few models captured in works by Etienne, Tom of Finland, The Hun and photographer Jim Wigler.”
Official IML website is here
A very good book by Peter Fiske is available here
Chuck Renslow, the Chicago gay pioneer who founded International Mr. Leather and much more, recently died at age 87. The moderators of the weekly “GAY USA” program — TV’s weekly LGBT news hour — paid tribute to Chuck in their 7/5/17 broadcast.
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Windy City Times obituary here
Gay USA website here
The beloved Chuck Renslow, a longtime fixture of Chicago’s gay community and the founder of the annual International Mr Leather event, has passed away.
Article here
By ty dehner
Just go with it.
That was the text I received as I was walking home from the bus stop after work. I waited for another but there wasn’t one.
“???” I replied in the text, but there was no reply.
The text came from my ex. He had moved out of the area 4 years ago and we called it quits but remained friends online. Back East he had gotten in with a group of gay kinky cops and on occasion shared some of their adventures with me. There was one guy that seemed to be the leader that was intense in what they did to their captives. The lead one even had a full-time dog that he kept in full heavy leather. The dog didn’t work and lived most of its time in a cage.
I never really got into the dog scene that guys seem to go for. I’m older and I felt it was a younger guys thing. I was more traditional leather, biker, or rubber gear and being a slave or owned object.
Arriving at my home, I entered the front door and began my routine of getting casual and fixing dinner. As I cooked and ate I kept thinking back to that text, what the hell did it mean? I haven’t been playing much in the past couple of years focusing more on work. Plus, hadn’t found anyone that was aggressive and confident of my ex. He knew what he wanted and he had no qualms of doing it with me. He really controlled his world and me. He left to deal with some family issues and just never returned.
Each year at IML the Leather Archives hosts recently published kink authors at its table in the vendor mart. Good news for guys who are into superheroes, bondage and fetish gear — “How To Kill a Superhero” author Pablo Greene will be participating on Friday and Saturday! You can stop by and meet this guy in person.
Leather Archives IML page here.
Official ‘How To Kill a Superhero’ site here
Metalbond Q&A with Pablo Greene here
Sample chapters of the books here
