Fakir Musafar
by Susan Stryker, Director, GLBT Historical Society
Happy Holidays!
Pictured here is Fakir Musafar, a driving force behind the popularization of
piercing and tattooing over the last few decades. He's gracing the front
of the December 1981 issue of Growing Pains, the newsletter of the
Society of Janus, one of the earliest social/support groups devoted to leather and S/M.
It was founded as a mixed-gender group in 1974 by the late Cynthia Slater,
and is still an important point of entry into the leather community for many
isolated individuals. As this document suggests, the countercultural chic
that piercing, tattooing, and other forms of body modification enjoy
today has its roots in queer community.
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