I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ninety percent of the people who come to my stores have no idea I don't work with leather.
To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.
As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.
Pretending that the fashion industry isn't in part based on leather would be quite stupid of me, but at the same time, there is another way of doing things - even outside of leather. I don't use PVC either, for example, because it is harmful.
I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.
I have always loved beautiful leather objects, especially the detail that goes into designing them both inside and out.
I think I was probably looking for gay role models when I was younger, before I even knew or thought I was gay. I didn't really make the connection that they were gay, but I felt drawn to them because they were going against the grain, and I knew there was something that they had that everybody else didn't have. It was an edge.
I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
I love leather. I'm very much a leather jacket, leather trousers kind of girl.
We should eat less meat - all of us - and we should use less leather. I mean, that's reality.
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