Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art Astronautics & Space Science and the shifting terrain of

and the shifting terrain of adolescence

with a deadly music of their own

in the hope that someone back home might still be listening

a lifelong insomniac

But that's not going to be so easy

Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art Astronautics & Space Science and the shifting terrain ofWhat are the archives of gay and lesbian leather histories, and how have contemporary artists mined these archives to create a queer politics of the present? This book sheds light on an area long ignored by traditional art history and LGBTQ studies, examining the legacies of the visual and material cultures of US leather communities. It discusses the work of contemporary artists such as Patrick Staff, Dean Sameshima, Monica Majoli, AK Burns and AL