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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. I finally decided to do something about it.

Reflecting our diverse brothers within, people like Mike are showing the full colors of the leather community. GEORGE Being a gay man who’s now nearing 60yrs of age, and who came out in NYC in the 80s, wearing leather always takes me back to my early years when I would go to the Saint At Large events at Second Avenue and to underground spaces like the St Marks Baths and The Anvil.

I wear something leather every day of my life.

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The future is looking for history, for identity, and for belonging. Muir cap crowns the head and as worn hands slide into gloves, a man is transformed, the reckoning of a Leatherman. The harness encompasses the heart that has struggled for identity and visibility, adorned with a vest shielding it from the elements and provide a canvas to mark its history.

My fascination with the leather community is something that has been brewing beneath the surface all of my adult life. Leather is who I am”. Visibility means everything. Is this project partially a sexual exploration for you?

MR: Yes. For all of my adult life, I suffered from the toxic shame of being a gay man. Enter Mike Ruiz, with his professional background, Mike has an opportunity that many do not: help share and enlighten so many people with what it is to be a Leatherman.

Each leg stands tall; one rooted in history while the other walks towards the future. MR: My intention initially was self-exploration and muscle but the more that I learn about the history and protocol of the leather community, the more I become invested in documenting the generations of men who have contributed so much to the LGBTQ community.

It is a history with much strength in our virtues and have had to forge a new community from the ashes of the AIDS crisis, which decimated an entire generation. Mr. Leather Shop presents the ultimate in Gay Leather Gear. From the very first time that I picked up a camera, photography has been a powerful catharsis for a myriad of emotional and psychological issues.

Sixteen months of pandemic-induced celibacy gave me the opportunity get in touch with what it was that I really wanted out of sex. Boots that have stood in the seedy, the sleazy, the sexy, and subversive cultures long misunderstood, are buffed to a military polish.

Our custom-made men's leather uniform is designed to make a statement. To be a Leatherman is to be an individual within a collective. It celebrates our collective affinity towards the use and wearing of leather, all the ways we use it, and how it defines us and who we become while gay it.

May you enjoy this project, and hope it promotes conversations, builds understanding, and echoes the belief that there is more that unites us than divides us. He understands what it means to carry that namesake as a brother of leather, and the responsibility that comes with it.

They will define the 21st century look, as leather evolves and blends with rubber and neoprene, each leather their own story and their own journey. Upload your creations for people to see, favourite, and share. There is honor to respect those who have paved the present we have now, and a duty to strive forward to assist men coming into their fop gay. Brotherhood is more than lip service, it is represented in actions towards acts of service, education, and inclusion.