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It's almost here! Friday, 27 May, 7PM: Chicago Rubbermen IML Greet The Meat Cocktail Party
Kick off your weekend right! Come, meet and socialize with rubber lovers, fans, and freaks from around the world at the Chicago Rubbermen annual meet and greet cocktail party. We're on the front lines of IML every year with one of the first and best social parties! Plus, some Rubbermen will be sliding through the crowd offering up our fun, lubed-up gear shining services. Get an extra shine to your gear before heading out for the night. The party will be in the Acapulco Room (lower level of hotel) from 7PM to 9PM with a cash bar. Admission is free. We look forward to seeing you there!
Out and About with the Rubbermen
The Chicago Rubbermen visited the Leather Archives and Museum twice in April for two great events. Taylor Buck was presented in the Guest Artist Gallery. Check out his review!:
Inspired by his background in fashion and fetish, Taylor Buck reinvents the classic homoerotic genre with his structurally modeled images of fetish-clad male beauty. His graphite and ink figures offer a subtle sensuality that is at once both intimate and powerful. Through variations of organic contours, he creates young men who embody the sexual delicacy of youth and the bold pride of the new fetish world. These are the boys of Buck’s generation, the fresh fetishists who audaciously express sex and self, unapologetically.
Unlike the classic images of the 20th century, the subjects are not framed by architectural noise – they stand alone, comfortable in their own latex and leather skins. They do not snarl or threaten, nor are they engaged in priapic sexual aggression within the seedy backdrops of a basement bar, a dark alley, a military barracks. Buck’s unique style relies in the static atmosphere of erotically charged potential, whether the subject is the lone-standing Rubber Boy, or the kinky buffet of Slave Auction #1, his subjects are sovereign figures of their own creation. With such a brave statement of self-assurance and sexual awareness, they simultaneously become the men we want to be and be with.
Buck’s generation of fashion-conscious sexual expression was never fully addressed in the classic works of Tom of Finland or Etienne – Buck gives us an unabashed series of delicately sculpted, sleek images where fetish is fashion, sex is self. If this is the promise of a fresh, self-reflective generation, a new direction for homoerotic art and the future of the kink community, then be grateful Taylor Buck has given us these indelible images.
Brian Smith, Adjunct Professor of Art History, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
On our second visit to the LA&M, we were given a guided tour of the museum. The Chicago Rubbermen also matched the admission price in a donation to the LA&M. It's true; giving feels just as good as taking!
09 July, We Turn 5! Chicago Rubbermen Anniversary Party
We're turning 5! Holy. Shit. Turns out the appropriate gift to give in year 5 is wood. Ha! No, really. Rubber has given us wood for the past 5 years so it's our turn to give back. The Chicago Rubbermen are holding a contest to see who can come up with the kinky creative ideas for our party. Let us know your ideas by email, message us on ourFacebook page, or DM us on Twitter.