Richard Rodriguez

Rich Rodriguez lives in South Florida and works in the real estate business. His leather journey began as a child seeing leather-clad 1970s gay men in the VA/DC area … masculine guys who stopped in as customer’s in his mother's convenience store, and increased in significance while attending law school in NYC in early 1990’s with the LURE and Eagle providing significant meeting and education venues.

Artists such as Etienne/Stephen, The Hun and Tom of Finland helped capture and indelibly define for him the hyper-masculinity of the leather and uniform culture. Today, in addition to the leather way of life, he enjoy a variety of aspects within the community, including serious exploration of real military and other uniforms and love of BDSM.