Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow
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Both B&W ($24.99) and full-color ($79.99) editions available. A
prominent Chicago gay activist and entrepreneur is the subject of
an in-depth biography, Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow, by
journalists and authors Tracy Baim and Owen Keehnen. The book
contains more than 300 images, including murals and drawings by Dom
Etienne Orejudos, posters for International Mr. Leather (IML), and
photos from the Gold Coast, Pride Parades, IML contests, physique
magazines and more. The book is published by Prairie Avenue
Productions, 414 pages, $24.99 black and white (ISBN 1-46109602-2),
$79.99 color (1-46111908-1). It is available on Amazon.com. Living
as an openly gay man in 1950s Chicago was no easy task. For Chuck
Renslow, that was only his first of many bold moves. Just out of
high school he began what was to become a six-decade empire,
starting more than two dozen businesses in Chicago, as well as a
few in other cities. He has owned bars, discos, photo studios,
health clubs, bathhouses, gay magazines and newspapers, hotels,
restaurants, and bookstores. Throughout it all he dealt with Mafia
and police payoffs, anti-gay political policies, harassment from
censors, and even controversy within the gay community. In the
mid-1950s, after having a portrait and then cheesecake studio,
Renslow began experimenting with beefcake photography and began
Kris Studio. With his longtime lover, the artist Dom Orejudos aka
Etienne and Stephen, at his side, Renslow created Kris Studio a
leader in male physique photography, resulting in such magazines as
Triumph, Mars and The Rawhide Male, producing thousands of erotic
images as well as several films. In 1959 Renslow took over the Gold
Coast Show Lounge and transformed it into one of the most lowdown
libidinous gay leather bars in the world. With Etienne's murals
adorning the walls, a leather/Western/uniform dress code for
patrons, and a dark Pit that featured all sorts of goings-on, the
Gold Coast set the standard for raunchy kink and gay sexual
liberation. It was the birthplace of motorcycle clubs and sex
groups, but above all a place for people to meet, connect, and
explore themselves and their sexuality. The Gold Coast was also the
birthplace of the first leather contest, which in the span of a few
short years evolved beyond the bar's capacity and became
International Mr. Leather in 1979. More than three decades later,
it continues to be one of the world's most popular gay events.
Renslow was also one of the pioneers in taking a bathhouse beyond
merely the borders of a mere sex club. Man's Country became
something truly unforgettable in the 1970s - a
sex-and-entertainment complex with a variety of rooms, shops, and a
Music Hall that attracted top names touring in the K-Y circuit,
from Sally Rand to Wayland Flowers to Rusty Warren and Charles
Pierce. Renslow was a dynamic force in Chicago politics under
mayors starting with Richard J. Daley, and he ran to be a delegate
for Sen. Ted Kennedy's 1980 presidential run. He danced with
another man at a 1977 inaugural ball for Jimmy Carter. Renslow
helped protest against unfair policies, fought censorship and
entrapment, and battled Anita Bryant. He even served as a field
contact for the pioneering work at the Kinsey Institute, as well as
performing sexual acts for Kinsey researchers. He knew
entertainment celebrities from Marlene Dietrich to Rudolf Nureyev,
from Divine to Grace Jones, and from Sylvester to Quentin Crisp. In
their heyday Chuck Renslow's annual White Parties were celebrations
beyond compare. When Chicago's gay community faced the loss of its
newspaper, Renslow bailed out and ran GayLife. He also co-founded
the Leather Archives & Museum (with Tony DeBlase). Through it all
Renslow has also been Daddy of the Family, a unique created group
of lovers, tricks, and friends who were bound by sex and oftentimes
love and by a goal of providing comfort and support to one another.
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