Leather Archives & Museum: 25 Years
The official catalog celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Leather Archives & Museum. The catalog features essays, collection photographs, and highlights over the LA&M's institutional life. The official catalog celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Leather Archives & Museum. The catalog features essays, collection photographs, and highlights over the LA&M's institutional life.
they negotiate, play, and live a BDSM, kink, and/or Leather lifestyle. There are many ways for anyone to negotiate, with themselves and others, how to create a lifestyle and/or scene that works for them. My source material does not provide concrete answers to the questions raised in the previous paragraph, but it does provide a wide variety of perspectives from people of colour that I look forward to exploring more fully in my thesis. [2] My research at the LA&M has also led me down another somewhat controversial path – although since when has anyone been adverse to a little controversy, right? Almost by accident I came across a number of sources relating to the infamous Dallas Conference of ’88, [3] and instantly my interest was sparked. Again, I have been confronted with a number of contradictory voices in the archive, but what emerges is a number of conflicts between men and women, gays and lesbians, urban and rural, the East Coast and the West Coast, and those who belong to official leather organisations and those who do not. Newslink by the GMSMA has some particularly interesting articles on the topic, and they show how heightened emotions were following the conference. Similarly, correspondence in the Joseph Bean Papers is highly charged. My goal here is not air dirty laundry for its own sake, but to analyse how these clashes reflected and contributed to the landscape of the leather community in the late twentieth century. Occurrences such as the Dallas Conference of ’88 offer me, as an historian, an opportunity to see what various stakeholders in the community considered vital, and how these views influenced further development in the scene. I want to thank the LA&M, and especially Rick Storer and Jakob VanLammeren for their support. Resources such as the LA&M are rare, and to be treasured – thank you for making my cross-hemisphere pilgrimage possible. Yours in Leather – Lily. Notes [1] Lenius, Steve. “New Book about Black Men in Leather.” Leather Life column for Lavender Magazine, Issue #108. July 16, 1999. Accessed via the web on 2015-03-25. [2] For additional information regarding PoC in Leather, visit Dark Connections, the Carter/Johnson Leather Library, ONYX and their annual anniversary party Blackout. [3] See Joseph Bean’s article series on the Dallas Conference ’88 in issues 35, 36, 37 and 39 in The Leather Times. 70
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