Join us tonight at @jackhammerchicago.bsky.social to kick off the weekend, and celebrate a night without rain. Finally! 7-10pm.
Leather Archives & Museum
@leatherarchives.bsky.social
A Chicago-based research archive, library and museum dedicated to the preservation of leather, kink, fetish and BDSM community history.
Join us today! The Leather Archives & Museum is renovating our building and celebrating our 35th anniversary, making this an especially meaningful time to join. leatherarchives.org/support/beco...
It’s almost Hump Day….come let that freak flag fly tomorrow, Wednesday, from 4-7pm at @chicagoeagle.bsky.social Drink specials, cigars on the patio, and some low key fun with friends. See you there!
Jack Jackson (left) was a photographer and, for a decade, served as the first and only president of The Eulenspiegel Society. The office of president was retired by TES in honor of Jack's irreplaceability. Jack died in September 1983. 🖤
Michael Rardin was the president of the Centurions, a leather club in Columbus, from 1988 to 1990. Michael died on September 26, 1990 due to AIDS related complications. He was 42. 🖤
![[Michael Rardin, 42, President (1988-1990) Centurions, Columbus, Ohio pasted away September 26 from complications due to AIDS.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyfco36opjofallgh4axztsd/bafkreic5tu26lm7oaspce4ijcovwkrup3raqinecbzp6w2dcbcmbn7vqfi)
Honey Lee Cottrell (center, photographed with Susie Bright by Mariette Pathy Allen) was a visionary lesbian photographer and filmmaker. Cottrell was a proud union member and was involved in the founding of the GLBT Historical Society. Honey Lee Cottrell died on September 21, 2015. 🖤
Peter aka Suzie Wong was a performer and activist in San Francisco. Wong was titled Grand Duchess XVI of the San Francisco Grand Ducal Family and Empress XXV of the Imperial Court of San Francisco.
Get your ass out of the house! It's autumn, the weather is chill, and winter is right around the corner. But for now, we can gear up and have some fun! Details and registration at leatherarchives.libcal.com
It’s Gear Night! Join us at Gerber Hart Library Friday from 6-9pm!
Tomorrow is Hump Day! We've got you covered with some kinky fun and education. Join us at @chicagoeagle.bsky.social for Gear Happy Hour, 4-7pm, followed by Exploring Kink at 7pm. Details online at leatherarchives.libcal.com
I recently had the pleasure of choppin it up with Musu Bangura about @heauxhistory.bsky.social, wh0rephobia, the importance of SWers in memory work, and community building for Sixty Inches From Center. You can check out the full interview on the @sixtyinchesfrmcntr.bsky.social website
Sixty Inches From Center@sixtyinchesfromcenter.org · 2w agoRebelle Cunt opens up about the origins of @heauxhistory.bsky.social, building sex worker community, and the importance of representation in an interview with musu bangura: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/the-archivis...
Rich Dockter was a leather community organizer and advocate for HPV vaccination. Dockter was a co-owner and producer of Thunder in the Mountains. He volunteered for the Missing Children Department of the Denver Police and Hey Denver, an STI/HIV testing facility. Dockter died on September 20, 2016. 🖤
Happy birthday, Chris and JimEd! Chris Burns and his lover JimEd Thompson, photographed on the cover of Drummer by Jim Moss, were born on September 17th and 18th. JimEd and Chris both suffered AIDS related complications and died on June 21, 1988 and February 26, 1995 respectively. 🖤
Geoff Ferguson worked in finance and was an LGBT activist. He served on the board of the Gay Male S/M Activists and was a representative on the NYC Community Council of Lesbian and Gay Organizations. Ferguson died on September 13, 1987. 🖤
David Morgan competed in the first International Mr. Leather contest and was titled the first International Mr. Bootblack 1993. He was sponsored by the DC Eagle. Morgan died of AIDS-related complications on September 14, 1995. Photo of David from the Vern Stewart collection at the LA&M. 🖤
Dyree Wiley aka Resilience ONYX Pearl was a founding board member of ONYX Pearls Lustre Southwest and served as treasurer. Resilience died on September 12, 2021. 🖤
Osada Eikichi was an influential Japanese rope bondage performer. He started performing kinbaku in the mid 1960s and was credited with popularizing erotic SM shows at strip theaters. Osada died on September 12, 2001. 🖤
Bill Schmeling, aka The Hun, was an erotic artist and former Lutheran minister who made his home in Portland with his partner Roland Bynum. He was a full time artist from the 1960s until his retirement in 2008. Bill died on September 12, 2019. 🖤
Harold E. Cox was a professor of history, co-founder of Delta Brotherhood International, editor of Checkmate, and a majority shareholder of the LURE bar in New York. Cox was made an honorary member of The 15 Association. Cox died on September 8, 2021 at the age of 90. 🖤
Fetish figure drawing tonight at 7pm central. Join us in person, or online via zoom. Details and registration at leatherarchives.libcal.com
Photo of Laura Goodwin and Bill Miranda Salzman from the LA&M. Quote from Bound to be Free: The SM Experience (1996) by Charles Allen Moser and J. J. Madeson.
![White man and woman kissing. Text: [This form of making love allows me to experience complete trust and to joyfully acknowledge all of my sexual and emotional needs. To me, the beauty of SM is in its paradoxes: Through the intensity of pain, we give ourselves more completely to each other than in perhaps any other way; through the exploration of fantasy, we are more honestly ourselves than at perhaps any other time.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyfco36opjofallgh4axztsd/bafkreiaedhdeulhzowvbuphd4teqg2bmtdcpa2s5yk3yi726sv2ejhuuji)
Tonight at 7pm! @chicagoeagle.bsky.social Free and open to all!
Joe Mastrapasqua was a former president of Tampa Leather Club, founder of Florida Leather n Fetish Pride, and the co-founder and executive producer of the International Puppy Contest. Joe died on September 6, 2018. Photo of Joe from the Leather Journal. 🖤
Another hump day already? Join us Wed for Gear Happy Hour, and bondage class. make that booty stand up and take notice with some amazing rope work! happy hour starts at 4pm and bondage starts at 7pm. A limited amount of rope will be provided. @myfroghashat.bsky.social @chicagoeagle.bsky.social
Ces Williams aka Master Ces was the president of Women in Leather International and co-founder of Women's International Leather Legacy Weekend. She was a Ms. Texas Leather titleholder. Williams died on September 6, 2018. 🖤
![[Ces Williams 1945-September 6, 2018. The beloved Ces Williams passed away in early September due to a long time illness. Ces cofounded the Women's International Leather Legacy weekend and is a past Ms Texas Leather.
Her list of accomplishments and accolades are long. A celebration of life was held for her at the Ripcord in her home town, Houston, TX on Saturday, September 8.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyfco36opjofallgh4axztsd/bafkreielpm7mn7htbsfvvm3mkshcryhnepwdsyl2mwgp76ca6olrrepmbu)
Quote from Cuts and Criminality: Body Alteration in Legal Discourse by Theodore Bennett (2015). Photo from Phoenix No 22 (1985).
![White woman with gray hair and purple schoolteachers outfit and wooden cane. Text: [Punishment within the legal system is deliberate and purposive, an impersonal and almost automatic mechanism that is used for calibrating behavior. In contrast, punishment within sadomasochism has no purpose other than to fulfill the subjective desire for punishment by the participants themselves. It is deeply personal, sometimes sexualised and nearly always divorced from all but the flimsiest conception of wrong-doing. Sadomasochism's revelation that punishment is not necessarily the by-product of wrong-doing, and that punishment is something that can be desired and enjoyed, threatens a juridical order based on the use and threat of negative punishment to control wrong-doing.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyfco36opjofallgh4axztsd/bafkreie3bwhr4spiz2cn3jqi6rigp55zr2xsxj5hnzlzlqryfdjm4fet4y)
