Leather Folk

Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice

Edited by Mark Thompson
Alyson Publications 1991, 2001

“Six Decades of Shadow Dancing: The 1960s –
Artist Chuck Arnett: His Life/Our Times“

An Essay by Jack Fritscher

Contents

THE LEATHER TRIBE

• The Hanged Man — by Scott Tucker
  
• S/M: Some Questions and a Few Answers — by Carol Truscott
  
• Her Body, Mine, and His — by Dorothy Allison
  
• I Get Real: Celebrating My Sadomasochistic Soul — by Tina Portillo
  
• A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: Notes on the Materialization of Sexual Fantasy — by Michael Bronski
  
• S/M and the Psychology of Gay Male Initiation: An Archetypal Perspective — by Robert H. Hopcke

SIX DECADES OF SHADOW DANCING

• 1940s … Dr. Kinsey Takes a Peek at S/M: A Reminiscence — by Samuel M Steward
  
• 1950s … One Among Many: The Seduction and Training of a Leatherman — by Thom Magister
  
• 1960s … Artist Chuck Arnett: His Life/Our Times — by Jack Fritscher
  
• 1970s … The Catacombs: A Temple of the Butthole — by Gayle Rubin
  
• 1980s … S/M’s Copernican Revolution: From a Closed World to the Infinite Universe — by David Stein
  
• 1990s … Black Leather Wings — by Mark Thompson

THE BODY BECOMES POLITIC

• A Second Coming Out — by Guy Baldwin
  
• Snapshots of Desire: Surviving As a Queer Among Queers — by Eric E Rofes
  
• I Am Your Frankenstein — by Wickie Stamps
  
• Swastika Toys — by Arnie Kantrowitz
  
• What Happened? — by John Preston
  
• The Limits of the S/M Relationship, or Mr. Benson Doesn’t Live Here Anymore — by Pat Califia
  
• The View From a Sling — by Geoff Mains

SPIRIT AND THE FLESH

• A Meditation on Religion and Leatherspace — by Rev. Troy D. Perry
  
• Living in Leather: An Inner Journey — by Gabrielle Antolovich
  
• The Spiritual Dimensions of Bondage — Joseph W. Bean
  
• Fantasy, Fetish, and the Goddess — by Dianna Vesta
  
• I Am the Leatherfaerie Shaman — by Stuart Norman
  
• An Interview with Purusha the Androgyne — by Mark Thompson
  
• Sacred Passages and Radical Sex Magic — by Ganymede
  
• Magical Masochist: A Conversation with Fakir Musafar — by Joseph W. Bean