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This is Doris Pollas, the cofounder of the organisation now known as lgbt+ Denmark which by being founded in 1948 is one of the oldest ongoing queer organisation in the world.

Doris lived in a farm in Jutland as a child. She was always butch and figured out she was a lesbian in her teens. When she heard about a club in copenhagen where boys kissed boys and girls kissed girls she went just some months after and it was through that club she started a paper connecting queer people all up to seventies and co founded lgbt+ Denmark.

She is now 97 years old and wishes for every queer person to have an as loving and accepting family as she did.

Leather as ancestry and heritage in queerness

Leather as spirituality, pain and pleasure and transcendence

Leather as community

Leather as animalness

Leather as holiness

Leather as communion with our Ancestors

Leather as written in blood and death

Leather as written in love and joy

Leather as written in dirt and lube

Leather as "Don't forget where you come from"

Leather as "Remember where you're going"

Leather as poetry in pain and power

Leather as reclamation

mä olen kieltään lipova liskomies

mä oon jeesus-lapsi ilman maariaa

Mä olen onnen kerjäläinen