#lgbt leather history

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: Coming To Power: Writings On Lesbian S/M - Edited by members of SAMOIS

Note - This book contains very problematic and triggering content and I would not recommend it

[numnum-num]

Glenn Hughes from the Village People in "Can't stop the Music" (1980)

[dykearchiving]

Graphite drawing by G.B. Jones "Tom girls"

[sweatermuppet]

1978 San Francisco Gay Day Parade

[lawofcollage]

This is the leather and rubber pride flags! While not always LGBT+, these communities have been heavily intertwined with ours throughout history and cannot be ignored, especially when these pride flags are some of the older ones in our community.

Leather, Rubber

[helpmeimblorboing]

Seeing queer people denigrate the leather subculture or trans people is so WILD cause honey, you wouldn't have half the rights you do if those people didn't exist

[unhingedfemmecontent]

LESBIAN HISTORY BOOKS pls boost

Female Husbands : A Trans History - Jen Manion

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America - Lillian Faderman

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community - Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedey

Sappisteries: A Global History of Love Between Women: Leila J. Rupp

Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985 - Lesbian History Group

After Sappho- Shelby Wynn Schwartz

Public Faces, Secret Lives - Wendy L. Rouse

Lesbian Literature - Jodie Medd

It Came from the Closet - Joe Vallese

[transsexualfiend]

More queers become sexually radical challenge 2024

[halogen2]

"B is for Bartender - Bear bar trannie Matt Rice" (1997) from the digital transgender archive

[midnightcowb0ys]

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: A Decade Of Sydney Mardi Gras - Photos by Elio Loccisano

[butchqueersapphic]

a still from the movie “Bound” (1997)

[numnum-num]

Dirk Borgade in "The Singer not the Song" (1961)

[sweatermuppet]

ad for The Locker (formerly The Locker Room), a leather bar in Houston, Texas. published in an Aug 1976 issue of The Nuntius

[lawofcollage]

This is the leather and rubber pride flags! While not always LGBT+, these communities have been heavily intertwined with ours throughout history and cannot be ignored, especially when these pride flags are some of the older ones in our community.

Redbubble: Leather, Rubber

Threadless Pride Collection

Looking for a collection of pride flags year round? Check out my Coffee Table Book of Pride Flags full of fun queer art here!