Baldwin, Rubin, Bean, and Weal describe the Old Guard differently. I compare their accounts with Fiske and Townsend to trace how Leather customs were remembered, organized, and passed on.
Old Guard: A Leather History arrives October 15, 2026.
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Leather history lives in adult magazines: interviews, photos, ads, and community debates. Alongside oral tradition, those pages help trace how the story of the Old Guard developed.
Old Guard: A Leather History • Oct. 15, 2026
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What exactly is the “Old Guard”?
Ask ten Leatherfolk and you may get ten different answers: protocols, dress codes, mentorship, military influence, motorcycle clubs, bars, titles, positions, rules, and traditions. What emerges is a complicated, fascinating history of Old Guard.
Why write a book about the “Old Guard”?
The term has become so familiar in Leather culture that it carries generations of stories, practices, and assumptions about where our history came from.
I wanted to explore that history through the surviving record.
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OLD GUARD: A LEATHER HISTORY is now available for pre-order!
📖 Ebook: $12.99
📚 Print: $17.99
🗓️ October 15, 2026
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Hard core prisoner, Yosef has decided to make Jaime his reluctant, yet personal slave. It becomes a power play from beginning to end, and there can only be one winner. How will the loser know when he has lost?
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Sometime later, Nick meets Jesse, who turns out to be Violet's twin brother. Nick and Jesse have a brief affair, but Nick still hankers after Violet. The final confrontation proves you cannot trust anybody.
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Hamish has no pretensions concerning his placement among the echelons of English society until he is introduced to a world beyond his wildest dreams.
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Hard core prisoner, Yosef has decided to make Jaime his reluctant, yet personal slave. It becomes a power play from beginning to end, and there can only be one winner. How will the loser know when he has lost?