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LadyPact -> RE: -=Gender bending is an innate part of leather - but which counts most, physical or mental?=- (8/17/2013 9:12:48 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DesFIP
The gay leather community may accept gender bending now, but 40 years ago it was a very different story. And many gays still don't accept bi males.
True, but in a lot of cases, we het folks weren't exactly all that welcome forty years ago, either.
There is a concept that some leather folks (of which I am of the same thinking) that is sometimes called the "generations of leather" that is more apt to describe how the leather culture has adopted changes. The basic line of thinking on this is, as times changed and protocols changed, there were, for each generation of change, an old guard and a new guard. In other words, those who wanted things to stay the same (old guard) and those who were supporting change (new guard). The first major one, of course, being "dykes on bikes" (sorry, but that was the term then) having the same right to earn club leather as men. The old guard opposed and what got termed new guard recognizing the contribution of lesbian women during the hardest part of the AIDS crisis, when it was called GRID back then. (Before My own leather journey even began.) Some of the "old guard" accepted change and others would go what is often called "underground" because they stayed with the old ways and other folks were "ruining leather".
This happened over and over again with all of the generations. Each era of acceptance of certain categories of folks into the leather culture brought an old guard and a new guard. That's why, when people ask Me if I'm old guard, I always reply how can I possibly be? It's het chicks like me who have been accepted who wouldn't even be here if the "generations of leather" hadn't happened.
I'm probably pretty much off topic now. Sorry about that.
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