title: Things visible and invisible: the Leather Archives and Museum.
abstract: This paper explores the reasons underlying the relative absence of research on the leather/levi community in gay and lesbian studies and summarizes the history and special collections of Chicago's Leather Archives and Museum.
authors.affiliation: Information Library Services, Northern Illinois University, USA.
authors.forename: Robert B Marks
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Ridinger
mesh_terms: D001109:Archives; D002641:Chicago; D003020:Clothing / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D009144:Museums; D012961:Sociology