Leather men gay

To be a Leatherman is to be an individual within a collective. While we hold traditions that are stemmed from a long history with struggles both within and outside the gay community at large, we know the future belongs to the youth, the pups, the kinks.

Beyond the sensual masculine appeal of leather, wearing leather boots, accessories and gear is an expression of ones identity with the leather community. The gay male leather culture began to emerge in the late ’s out of the post-WWII biker culture.

Besides all the rough housing, carousing, and general man-on-man sex splendor at Palm Springs Leather Pride, there is a task. Everyone has to surface from the cloud of cigar smoke and poppers.

The hypermasculinity and ruggedness that leather promotes appealed to those dissatisfied with stereotypes depicting gay men as effeminate.