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OLD GUARD: A Leather History

By: Vincent Andrews
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Summary
 For decades, Leather people have passed down stories about the Old Guard. Its traditions, protocols, rituals, hierarchies, and codes of conduct have become part of the history taught to newcomers entering Leather, BDSM, and kink.But how old is the Old Guard?Vince Andrews, author of The Leather and BDSM Handbook, returns to a subject he has studied, taught, and written about for years to ask a deceptively simple question: Where did the traditions we now call Old Guard come from?Beginning in the gay bars, motorcycle clubs, and sexual networks from which modern gay Leather culture emerged, Andrews follows the history through early leathermen and their clubs, Leather literature and pornography, S/M and BDSM, protocol and etiquette, the AIDS epidemic, and the eventual debate between Old Guard and New Guard.Along the way, the writings and experiences of Larry Townsend, John Preston, Geoffrey Mains, Tony DeBlase, Guy Baldwin, Gayle Rubin, Joseph Bean, John Weal, and others are returned to their own time and examined alongside the surviving historical record.Were the rules really rules? Was there a hierarchy? Did Leather inherit its protocols from the military? Were traditions passed from one generation to another? When did people begin calling any of this Old Guard?The stories have been told for decades. This book goes looking for their history.Written for longtime Leatherfolk, newcomers discovering Leather and BDSM, and anyone interested in gay, queer, kink, or sexual history, Old Guard: A Leather History follows the people, places, publications, and practices behind one of the Leather community's most enduring stories.©2026 Vincent Andrews (P)2026 Adynaton Publishing
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