Why gays like this style?
>>41381976Gay today don't. Gays decades ago did. But the answer boils down to "macho"
>>41381976it was derived from the popular movie tropes and biker subculture that were big in the immediate post-war era, which happened to be the same time American gay culture was really starting to be a thing.
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>>41381976masc4masc relationships are the most bizzare and interesting thing to me and i don't understand them at all. i literally only understand love when there's a big one and a little one (im the little one). I am a slave to heteronormativity
>>41381976Something to do with post wwii era and masculinity being associated with greasers and Biker‘s. Most of the guys that were into it died of aids.“There’s nothing hotter than the feeling of leather on my skin, it’s peak masculinity,” he says. Max, who was first drawn towards leather five years ago, also associates it with manhood. “It’s just so fucking masculine,” he explains. “The more masculine I’ve become over time, the more I’ve been into it. When I wear leathers, it feels like my exterior is reflecting my interior. It’s weighty too: the opposite of something light, diaphanous and feminine.”Source:”https://www.anothermanmag.com/style-grooming/10715/the-sexy-secret-history-of-leather-fetish-fashion”
>>41385333>I MUST BECOME PURE LEATHERSounds like a super villain monologue.
