CHECK OUT RICK CASTRO - PALM SPRINGS LEATHER WEEKEND- OCT 26TH/27TH

RICK CASTRO- LEATHER GAG 2015    HORSE BIT 2015

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 RICK CASTRO

 ART BOOTH @

 THE BARRACKS

INFERNAL

SWAP & CRUISE ALLEY

RICK CASTRO- TONY WARD AS BIKER 1996    WESTERN EXTERMINATOR 2012

OCTOBER 26TH

6PM TIL 2AM

OCTOBER 27TH

8PM TIL 2AM

RICK CASTRO- MR LA LEATHER 2014 MR. IML 2016

THE BARRACKS

67625 E Palm Canyon Dr # C7, 

Cathedral City, CA 92234

RICK CASTRO- HEAVY METAL ADONIS 1992

RICK CASTRO- LEATHER BLINDFOLD 2007 THE WEB 2003

RICK CASTRO- BLAQ ROK 2015 MY DUNGEON SLAVE 2015

MASCULAR MAGAZINE

check out my editorial in the new issue of MASCULAR MAGAZINE featuring 

INTERNATIONAL MR. LEATHER~ PATRICK SMITH

you can download the new issue for free @~

mascularmagazine.com

  

                            MR. INTERNATIONAL LEATHER 2015: EQUESTRIAN

THE TITLE OF INTERNATIONAL MISTER  LEATHER  HAS CHANGED ALOT OVER THE YEARS.

THE BDSM, LEATHER & FETISH COMMUNITIES GAIN POPULARITY EVERY YEAR.

THE 21ST CENTURY IS ALL ABOUT FETISH.

PATRICK SMITH'S PERSONA INSPIRED ME.

 IF YOU MEET HIM OUT OF HIS LEATHERS, YOU'D THINK HE'S A WHOLESOME YOUNG MAN. WELL HE IS, EXCEPT HE'S THE MAN OF THE 21ST CENTURY. 

HE KNOWS WHAT HE WANTS AND MAKES NO APOLOGIES ABOUT SEXUALITY.

 PATRICK PROUDLY REPRESENTS THE INTERNATIONAL LEATHER COMMUNITY, AND ALSO DOES PERSONAL OUTREACH FOR GAY COMMUNITIES IN

 UGANDA & THE UKRAINE, WHERE LGBTQ PEOPLE HAVE NO RIGHTS.

FOR OUR SHOOT, I ENVISIONED A STABLE FOR PATRICK WITH HORSEYS 

GRAZING  IN THEIR CORRALS. WAITING FOR HIM TO COME RIDE THEM.

PATRICK SADDLES UP HIS EQUINES AND HITS THE ROAD FOR  A LATE AFTERNOON RIDE. ONCE HOME, PATRICK LIGHTS UP HIS PIPE FOR A SMOKE.

THAT REALLY TAKES THE EDGE OFF THE DAY.

 PRODUCED & PHOTOGRAPHED~ RICK CASTRO

MODELS~ PATRICK SMITH- MR. IML

HORESY~ MOSES BERNASCONI & KEITH HUNTER

LEATHER SHORTS,  BOOTS & SHOES~ RICK OWENS

HORSEY MASK~ KEITH HUNTER

LEATHER CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES~ MR. S

SADDLE & CROP COURTESY~ ROBERT SIDES

LOCATION~ ANTEBELLUM HOLLYWOOD

TOM'S BAR~ 2013

once again ANTEBELLUM will have it's annual art booth @ 
TOM'S BAR
here are all the details~

tom of finland foundation presents~
TOM'S BAR

22ND annual commemoration of TOM OF FINLAND
on daddy' day~ sunday~ june 16th
2pm till 5pm
art booths by
MICHAEL KIRWAN
ANTEBELLUM 
STEVEN H. GARCIA
E. SALVADORE HERNANDEZ
LALO UGALDE
MIGUEL REYES
HECTOR SILVA

silent auction
contests & prizes
dancing studs

donation $10
FAULTLINE BAR
4216 melrose ave
los angeles, CA 90029
MORE INFO~

RICK IN NM- DAY 4

(tom wearing eaymond's devil paper mache- mask)

raymond & i are still @ the RIO GRANDE LEATHER WEEKEND.
this afternoon MISTRESS AMY hosted a seminar called-TEA SERVICE- MASTERS & SUBS. of course i am very excited. mistress amy asked me to please bring my tea submissive. i have to tell her that sadly i unfortunately do not have one. earlier that morning raymond's friend TOM comes by to visit and ends up hanging out all day, (and night) so i ask him if he will be my TEA BOTTOM. tom says he would be happy to, so at 3:30pm on the dot me & my new tea bottom tom make our way to the TEA SALON. mistress amy goes thru the formal protocol of tea & tea service- do's & don'ts. a first edition of emily post's proper etiquette prominently displayed on her tea table setting. mistress amy's class doesn't really tell me anything i don't already know, but it was fun and she looked great in her victorian tea wear. i also loved her antique tea china.


later that evening i am chatting with a guy named TROLL. he looks like the character- Simon Bamford, from HELLRAISER.
if you don't know what i'm talking about, i've posted a visual-

(simon banford)


(troll)

i asked him why he's called troll and he responds, "that's what happened when i was on my knees at one of these events."

troll is very good with ropes so we compare bondage images etc. I ask troll where he is from, and much to my chagrin he says TRINIDAD, COLORADO! i ask him if he know's that it's
SEX CHANGE CAPITAL OF AMERICA.


trol responds, "actually it is sex-change capital of the world. WOW! apparently troll knew Dr. Stanley Biber, (he also informed me he recently passed away) the surgeon responsible for the popularity with sex-change operations, and said there was a running joke with the locals that goes like this-
Dr. Biber, has a graveyard in his backyard. all the tombstones read- DICK.

(the late- dr. stanley biber)

later that evening raymond comes running into our room and announces, "next door they have this fat lady on the bed with a chocolate cake on her stomach and everybody is eating off her." i asked raymond if he took a photo. he says the crowd didn't allowed him to. not to be mean or anything, but there is a disproportionate amount of very large women @ this leather festival. they are all squeezing themselves into corsets. raymond says they look like snow cones.