Mineshaft gay club

Through the years, I played at the Mineshaft more than nights with armies of men uniformed in jockstraps and combat boots. Freddie Mercury came for the sex and bought the T-shirt designed by Rex. It was at the Mineshaft that music producer Jacques Morali zeroed in on the four fetish archetypes that became the pop stereotypes of the Village People.

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All kinds of faces and bodies made for great scenes. Mineshaft sex was not about wham-bam as much as it was about sustained edge play in a gladiator arena where leathermen could turn the magical thinking of masturbation into reality.

Glenn Hughes, the leatherman biker in the Village People, was a sex-player at the Mineshaft as well as part of the leather salon around Drummer in San Francisco.

We had some pickpocket problems we controlled rather well. Wally encouraged negotiation and consent.

The history of New : This week Mike tells us about the gay corners of NYC in the 70s and 80s, inparticular his experience with the infamous "Mineshaft Club"

It was safer than taking strangers home. Wally Wallace managed that Roman orgy pit that ran 9 years and 9 days from October 8, to November 7,at Washington Street in the Meatpacking District in Greenwich Village. Special events, a On March 28,I shot a two-hour video interview of this iconic New Yorker who lived New Yorkers often live in single rooms or small apartments with nosey doormen.

Macho men who survived Mineshaft nights bragged every morning after about the night before. Located, without irony, next door to an all-night loading dock with burly butchers in white coats shouldering bloody cow carcasses from trucks into florescent abattoirs after midnight, the Mineshaft was one of the great performance spaces in New York.

Wallace noted that the club gained notoriety from the controversial and oh-so-hot s gay slasher film Cruising. Bars, Clubs & Restaurants overview From untila number of gay leather bars and sex clubs operated in this former market building in the Meatpacking District.

Pull Up A Chair. Gay went to the baths for fun they had no room for at home. October 8, November 7, Legendary Twentieth-Century Sex Club. The Mineshaft changed the character of sex and ritual in the s when homomasculine men came out to try everything to make up for time lost in the closet, and to create erotic interaction, no matter how existentially extreme, to achieve fully human male pleasure.

Copyright Jack Fritscher, Ph. Volume 1 by Jack Fritscher, PhD. Also available in PDF and Flipbook. The most legendary was the Mineshaft, a popular sex club that opened in and became one of the most famous such spaces in the world, but was forced to close in A adult film, New York City Inferno, was club recorded in the club.

The Mineshaft was a members-only BDSM leather bar and sex club for gay men located at Washington Street, at Little West mineshaft Street, in Manhattan, New York City, in the Meatpacking District, West Village, and Greenwich Village sections.

How to Quote from this Material. We tucked brown bottles of popper into the necks of our gray wool socks while searching for any scene and any kink with any freak from anywhere around the globe.