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Volunteering at Center on Halsted truly changed my life — and I don’t say that lightly.....
Read full article here: https://afterdarktreasures.com/blogs/everything-lgbtqia/how-volunteering-at-center-on-halsted-changed-my-life

Community is built by the people who show up — and places like Center on Halsted make that possible.

#CenterOnHalsted #ChicagoLGBTQ #LakeviewChicago #ChicagoGayCommunity #LGBTQSupport #LGBTQPride #VolunteerChicago #QueerChicago #LGBTQWellness #ChicagoPride #GayChicago #TransChicago #BiChicago #LGBTQIACommunity #GayMen #Trans #LGBTQ #BoysTown #NorthHalsted

A scene from Chicago Kinky Asians’s May Special at the Ivy when big bull @daddyshadi.bsky.social cuddles smol pup @pupdante.bsky.social while @raidensamaru.bsky.social busy practicing flogging on the side. #PupPlay #BullHood #QueerChicago

Two figures cuddle beneath exposed wooden rafters in a sunlit loft. The taller person wears a black leather bull hood with white-tipped horns, a silver nose ring, and a black tee printed with a smiling white blob. Their arm wraps protectively around a smaller companion in a black-and-white leather puppy hood-pointed ears frame their face and round eyeholes sit above glasses. The smaller figure leans in, arm lifted high to grip a rainbow-anodized carabiner clipped to an overhead anchor. Warm string lights glow against white walls, and yoga mats rest on the polished wooden floor. #LeatherGear

Last Wednesday, when a group of International Mr Leather “insiders” passed by a window exhibition titled “Leather Legacies” on display at Columbia College. Discovering this unexpected “leather territory,” Gayle Rubin, the legendary theorist and leather historian, excitedly exchanged comments with others.

Kudos to the brilliant curators who timed the show with the opening of IML.

#leatherhistory #iml46 #iml2024 #queerhistory #queerchicago