![]() Hatred, and outright dismissal of communities you know nothing about, is the most aggressively anti-LGBT thing I can imagine. Be humble, and always assume you have more to learn. Just because you don’t know the history, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. She co-founded the first lesbian BDSM group in Portland, along with her partner, Sashie Hyatt. Over his shoulder is Judy Tallwing McCarthy, a Native American woman who was part of the leather community from 1959. National Leather Association Contest, or simply gathering as spectators.Ī flyer from 1989, rallying the leather community to march in a Stonewall anniversary protest.Ī photograph from 1988: Tony Deblase, the creator of the leather pride flag, and a gay man, embracing a fellow member of the leather community. Here is a photograph from 1987: three queer women entering into the Ms. Here is a photograph from 1998, displaying the leather pride flag, the bear gay pride flag, and the rainbow flag. The leather community is more diverse and nuanced than you perhaps know, but that is no reason for you to shit on a community you don’t understand. I have seen cis gay and bisexual men standing shoulder-to-shoulder with trans men, all of them united by their leather community roots. It is not offensive to the LGBT+ community in any way. The leather pride flag represents an expression of self which is inherently queer, and a community which has been around for generations. Please fuck off if you’re not going to learn the actual history of pride.Īnd don’t fucking out your hate in our tags, asshole. The leather community is essential to the queer community and has a long and rich history. They are still the ones chasing away cops and corporations from smaller pride events and those that aren’t sanctioned by Wells Fargo. Leather daddies were the ones chasing away cops when they tried to arrest us for being queer in public back when Pride Parades were illegal in the US. The leather community is responsible for pride. It’s older then you are, it’s older then I am. It has been at almost every single US pride parade and protest in history. ![]() The leather pride flag is the second oldest pride flag. Can we like…get rid of the so-called leather and rubber “pride flags” ? it’s honestly ridiculous and offensive to the lgbtq community.
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