sex. culture. community.
everybody thinks of folsom as the leather thing. the leather thing is way older than folsom. it comes from the motor clubs. after the war you had all these guys who'd been through it together and c...
If you have followed YH for a bit, you know that we're huge CRJ stans over here. Seriously. If you know us personally and have been to any of our pregames, you know this. Carly has a new album that...
Editor's note: This piece was written before New York State lawmakers introduced the Public Health Modernization Act, a bill to repeal the AIDS-era ban and make bathhouses legal again. We wrote t...
We posted a simple question. Why the thong? The answers came back funny, filthy, tender, and defiant, and together they make a better case for it than we ever could. So we are handing the piece ove...
Long before the culture made room for us anywhere else, a thin strip of sand off Long Island did. A history of the place that let gay men be the majority, shaped who we became, and carried us throu...
Confessions II is out today, and it was built for a room full of men who came to move. The h*rny scale verdict: a 10, no notes.*Let us not bury it. Madonna is back on the dance floor, the record is...
The loudest weekend of the year, fully present. It is more than possible. It is kind of the move.Pride can feel like it runs entirely on alcohol, and if you are sober, newly or for years, the weeke...
Every June the same fight breaks out. Here is why the leather, the harnesses, and the pups belong there more than the corporate floats do.Like clockwork, it arrives. Sometime around the first week ...
A field guide to one of the gay community's most joyful, most misunderstood, and quietly most liberating subcultures.Walk into the right bar on the right night and you might spot them. Someone in a...
There is a moment every June when someone, somewhere, asks why we have to be so much. So loud. So shirtless. So sweaty at 2am on a sidewalk in heels that should be illegal. So feral. Here is the an...
International Mr. Leather has been living its life publicly, loudly, and without apology since 1979. And if you're not paying attention, you're missing one of the most consequential queer instituti...
Bimbofication is a kink. A subculture. A whole aesthetic universe, depending on who you ask. At its core, it's the fantasy, or in some cases the active practice, of transforming into something soft...
We posted this on Bluesky a couple weeks ago: "plz stop thirsting over AI 'models' — there's plenty of hot real humans. thank you." Some agreed. Some got defensive. A few sent AI thirst traps i...
We turned a physical preference into a personality type. It’s time to drop the script. In queer spaces, language moves fast. Sometimes we adopt labels so quickly we forget to check if they actually...
