Today was the day I deserved a treat. Hence this matt black horsehide cap from
@butcherei_lindinger here in Berlin. I first encountered leather, in the gay sense, in my visits to Amsterdam in the seventies.
@rob.leather.official opened his first store there and I discovered it almost immediately, and made friends with him as a young twink. I insisted on trying everything on, even the cockrings, and he called me a "naughty boy". I can't remember the first thing I bought there. Perhaps it was trousers, or more likely a jockstrap: everything was made to measure. He also had an amazing gallery space, where I first saw all the names we know today, starting with
@tomoffinlandfoundation . During the
@generalidea_ residency at
@de_appel in late 1979, I went to the same leather bar seven nights a week. I was unstoppable. Our video TEST TUBE was refused by the arts channel for which it had been commissioned. But we showed it at the
@canadianpavilion at the
@venice.art.biennale instead a few months later. Congratulations to
@abbasakhavan and the
@natgallerycan for this year's Pavilion, by the way, 46 years later!
#leatherdaddy
