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FOF #2568 – You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party

When it feels like nobody wants to come see your show in the club, it’s natural to want to set the world on fire. In a perfect world, everybody Wang Chungs Tonight. But for some folks it’s their party and they will cry if they want to.

Our guest today is writer Roman Harrington who’s been rabbeling and rousing on social media by challenging some of the party people on who and who shouldn’t be welcomed to the party.

Posted in: Podcast, Writers 6 years ago 0

FOFA #2071 – Trixie Mattel’s Poker Face

Trixie Mattel may be famous now but we knew her way back when. Well, since October of 2014 when we first interviewed her.

Listen as we test Trixie’s poker face about wether she got on RuPaul’s Drag Race and her two month long illness she endured this past summer. Cough Cough.

Posted in: Classic Podcasts, Drag Queens & Kings, Podcast 9 years ago 4

FOF #2103 – My Year as Mister Leather

It’s been a whirlwind year for leatherman Miguel Torres, the adorable Venezuelan hunk who got to represent the Windy City as Mr. Chicago Leather 2014. His reign is now coming to an end and is now ready to sashay away with his sash.

Today Señor Cuero Miguel Torres joins us to take a look at his year in leather and WOOF! he’s fallen in love, and takes us for a walk on his new relationship as a pup handler.

Posted in: Interviews, Podcast 9 years ago 5

FOF #2071 – Trixie Mattel’s Poker Face

Trixie Mattel was born at a midnight showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show where she played Trixie, the character that lip syncs the opening credits.

Trixie’s intense contouring gives her drag look a demented cartoon character appeal and her performance echoes the kitschiest parts of pop culture. So why is she considered the black sheep of Milwaukee’s drag scene?

Listen as we test Trixie’s poker face about a certain reality TV series and her two month long illness she endured this summer.

Posted in: Drag Queens & Kings, Interviews, Podcast 10 years ago 1

FOF #1982 – Butch Up that Walk

Every Memorial Day weekend thousands of leather folks from around the world gather in Chicago for the International Mr. Leather contest and conference.

The contest traces its roots back to the Mr. Gold Coast Chicago leatherman contest that was organized a year after the Stonewall riots.

Today we’re joined by Mr. Chicago Leather 2014 Miguel Torres and his friend Chicago gay nightlife photographer extraordinaire Anthony Meade whose alter ego is the she-larious Sister Bitch, a Sister of Perpetual Indulgence.

Posted in: Interviews, Podcast 10 years ago 4

FOF #1428 – Mister Leather Europe’s American Vacation

Although leather as a sexual fetish came from gay men’s appreciation for the masculine independence of the 1950s American biker culture and films, Europeans took it to new heights with the super sexual imagery of the artist Tom of Finland.

Today we’re chatting with the very cute Martin Cedergren, Mister Leather Europe 2007 who Marc just happened to run into at Hollywood Beach, our local Gay Beach.

Posted in: Interviews, Podcast 13 years ago 10

PHOTO: Getting Frisky

It was great to hang out in the bars after Chicago’s 2011 Pride Parade, mostly because it seemed like the whole town was exhausted from the joyful revelry. Afterwards, we got a little frisky in the basement, here’s the photographic result.

Posted in: Hunks, Images 13 years ago 5

PHOTO: Chris Colfer in Rolling Stone Magazine

Always looking fabulous, Glee’s Chris Colfer posed for a photo with a bunch of tough leather guys for Rolling Stone Magazine. Isn’t he too young to be drinking a cocktail in a bar? In real […]

Posted in: Culture & Style, Images, People, Television 13 years ago 0

VIDEO: Sexual Fetish and Leather – Mistress Melissa

We take our gal pal Melissa Young to IML (International Mr Leather) contest and sexual fetish expo to poke around to see what kind of crazy hijinks we can find.

Posted in: Culture & Style, Video Podcast, Videos 14 years ago 1

IML and the Generation Gap

After tonight’s Black & Blue Ball at the House of Blues, International Mr. Leather weekend, or IML, will be over until next year.  If you haven’t heard yet, Tyler McCormick, a disabled trans man from […]

Posted in: Culture & Style, Events, Topics, Travel 14 years ago 14