A collection of posters, handbills, buttons and other ephemera from the gay male leather subculture in San Francisco and other major American cities, ranging from the 1960s through to the early 1990s, and encompassing the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDs era, regarded as the 'Golden Age' of leather bars.

The collection provides a vivid document of hypermasculine homoerotic iconography, represented in promotional materials for leather bars, sex hardware merchants and motorcycle clubs, and gathers together a diverse array of items, including more than 35 posters, 80 or so handbills and cards, approximately 150 buttons and pins, over 100 matchbooks, and a vintage leather biker's cap adorned with a colourful assortment of buttons dating from the late 1960s through to the early 1980s.