Vol. 46 No. 2 (1998)
Research Article

Children of the Satyrs: Naming Patterns Of Leather and Levi Clubs

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  • Robert B. Marks Ridinger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/nam.1998.46.2.97

Published 1998-06-01

Copyright (c) 1998 Maney

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Abstract

Abstract

The organizational names selected by members of the networks of social clubs organized since 1954 by gay and lesbian practitioners of leathers ex have received little attention from social science researchers. Their origins are reviewed and relationships to mainstream and subcultural norms explored.

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