Mike Talley said his family back home in Tulsa, Okla., disowned him, and it wasn’t just because he was gay. He was also into leather. “Leather was over the line,” he recalled. “Thirty days later, I was living in San Francisco, and I had found home.”
And like many gay men who sought refuge in The City in the ’80s, he wound up at the Eagle Tavern, a quintessential leather bar that shut its doors — at least for now — on Saturday night, after 30 years as an institution.
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Sure, they sound like a rather well-known mosquito repellent. But Off! is actually a new punk-rock supergroup whose new blast of hardcore adrenaline – the self-explanatory “First Four EPs” release on Vice – could stun a cupboardful of cockroaches dead on sheer sonic force alone.
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