PHOTOS: A Look At International Mr. Leather In Photos

Oh, ok

The first guy is hot, though I don’t really understand the leather thing, or running around with your butt exposed in public.

Oh, ok

@Big Daddy: Wooah no need to get defensive. Fetishes on a vanilla site unrelated to sex are asking for people to post opinions that won’t all be the most favorable.

And well pic 8 is creepy…

Well

Very hot, that first kid.

Rusty Shackleford

It’s fun.

jason

I just find this event very sad. It’s basically a money-making scheme for the leather shops. It’s sad that a fetish event has been allowed to define a same-sex orientation. We should take the gay rights notion back from the leather crowd.

Lifer

I don’t remember that episode of the Simpsons on #8

reality

@Oh, ok: Don’t let those weirdos tell you that you’re being “judgmental”. How is any of this crap apart of a healthy relationship? It all seems so retro and ridiculous. Yeah, I’d believe that gays aren’t a bunch of deviants by looking at this side show. Come the fuck on. It’s like you WANT us to be marginalized by the right wing forever. All you know is victimhood.

Oh, sorry, I meant to say, “fuck yeah, this is so hot and masc, bro. you should fuck anyone you want whether they like it or not, any way you like it, even if it spreads disease. That’s so hot and masc and gay rights-y.”

jerald

@reality: Dude, you screw guys. You’re gonna be marginalized by the radical right regardless if you wear leather or play “white picket fence” with a couple Schnauzers. Get off it. Insisting that gays conform to your fashion standard is crap. We are as diverse as the heterosexual community if not more….and thats a good thing. By the way, who are you to say what a healthy relationship is? What works for you, works for you. What sanctimonious crap.

EdWoody

I used to work with the hottie in #1. He had previously been a stripper in the DC area and was alleged to have a huge dick. I kept following him into the bathroom to try to get a peek, but I was unsuccessful. I would have thought lending him a Tori Amos remix album entitled me to sexual favours in return… But alas not.

reality

@jerald:

Stack up your leather weirdos against the picket fence gays. Who has more successful relationships? Careers? Less disease? I know you’ll want to tell me these groups have the same shot at both, but they don’t.

Thanks for the “colors of the gay rainbow” commercial, but this kind of nonsense continues to make progress difficult.

Eric in Chicago

@jason: If you find this event sad I feel sorry for you not seeing the fun and sexual freedom involved in IML. Leather people were at the forefront of fighting for gay rights, for AIDS and still are one of the biggest fundraisers for charity in the Gay Community. Leather is just one part of the gay community and isn’t it’s total definition so I don’t know where you get that.

jerald

@reality: If conformity and close mindedness is progress, I want no part of it. Your insistence that others adhere to your “higher morality” is no different than that of those you wish to be accepted by. But, those people will never accept you. You’ll be that nice queer dude who “seems so normal”but is stll gonna burn in hell for those disgusting things you do. Leather dudes don’t hold back your progress, your buying of the bullshit the right feeds you does. The leather guys don’t represent you any more than drag queens or Ted Haggard. There’s room for all of us here.

jerald

@Tone: Weirdo! 😉

jason

Eric in Chicago,

Sexual freedom? LOL. More like sexual promiscuity. Many in this leather crowd are just as sleazy and promiscuous as the straight guys who go chasing women. No different. There’s no dignity in it.

Imagine, also, the number of cows that had to die to furnish the vanity trips of these Mr Leathers. Can’t stand any of them – they are narcissistic to boot.

Nick

Frank, yeah leather bars are fun if you like muscle Marys and guys who think that they’re “masculine” but then they open up their mouths and a purse falls out!

jason

Wearing leather for looks is just as bad as wearing fur for looks.

Eric in Chicago

@Tim: Yes I meant infamous because MANHOLE was the gay bar every straight man used as a gay joke. “did you go to the MANHOLE last night?” etc

GayGOP

I’m not leather myself, but I have found several wonderful friends in the leather community. The men and women I know, gay and straight, are, I would argue, among the most charitable, kindest, and most stable sorts. You may not like their tastes, or fetish, or whatever you want to call it, but, as many above have said, the leather community truly, is one of the best communities around, whether they go to the IML/CLAW type events, or not.

Jase

@ Well: “…kid”? Are you kidding me?

Rob

Eric in Chicago-What you’re describing can be considered sex to people such as myself who are into leather and/or BDSM. I’m actually not nearly as promiscuous as people seem to think I am since it’s rare that I actually meet other men and women who are into leather and/or BDSM or certain kinks, and even then it doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re compatible or attracted to each other.

XTIAAN

can I please have 1,4,7 and 11 wrapped and sent to my room? thankyou.