{"id":36903,"date":"2018-09-16T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkmince.com\/mood\/2018\/09\/16\/peterbootsnyc-gay-leather-scene-tones-down\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T01:24:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T06:24:55","slug":"peterbootsnyc-gay-leather-scene-tones-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/16\/peterbootsnyc-gay-leather-scene-tones-down\/","title":{"rendered":"From Hard-Core to Dress-Up\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Gay Leather Scene Tones Down From Hard-Core to Dress-Up\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

By Michael Musto, The New York Times, December 22, 2015<\/i><\/p>\n

On a warm Saturday night in November, about 800 gay men wearing harnesses and other items made of leather gathered at Brut<\/a>, a party held at Santos Party House in Lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Mostly in their 20s and 30s, the men danced to pounding house music, flirted in an intimate lounge below the dance floor and ogled two beefy go-go men gyrating on boxes. Shirts came off, but leather harnesses stayed on all night, as Brut bills itself as New York\u2019s only monthly leather party.<\/p>\n

But if the party was introducing the leather scene to younger gay men who had never heard of the Village People, it also underscored a social shift: The leather scene has lost much of its overt sadomasochistic edge, and is now more about dressing up.<\/p>\n

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The leather scene used to occupy a very visible part of gay culture. In the 1960s through the early \u201980s, men in leather caps and chaps could be seen strutting about Christopher Street, looking as if they had emerged from a Tom of Finland<\/a> illustration by way of a Marlon Brando movie still.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeather became metaphoric for claiming masculinity,\u201d said Michael Bronski<\/a>, a gender and sexuality studies professor at Harvard University and author of \u201cA Queer History of the United States.\u201d \u201cThese guys were baby boomers who\u2019d been told that being gay meant being a sweater queen or being fluffy or effeminate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gay leather bars dotted Manhattan, with names like the Spike, Rawhide, the
Ramrod and Badlands. And during the city\u2019s annual gay pride parade, wearers of leather played a prominent role. Indeed, the annual Leather Pride Night party was one of the parade\u2019s main sources of funding.<\/p>\n

Continue reading on the New York Times website.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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