ADVOCATE - Nasty Pig Turns 25: A Timeline of the Fashion Brand's Queer Evolution
"It has been 25 years since David Lauterstein and his partner Frederick Kearney first founded Nasty Pig in response to the gay stigma that spurred from the AIDS epidemic. The brand has come a long way, growing from a $50 investment to a global name in apparel -- one that has had its own indelible role in influencing the worlds of kink, fetish, queer, and even high fashion."
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"I was terrified of coming out of the closet in 1992 because being gay seemed pretty fucking scary thanks to AIDS. Despite all the safe-sex messaging, the idea that being intimate with another man ...
"I was terrified of coming out of the closet in 1992 because being gay seemed pretty fucking scary thanks to AIDS. Despite all the safe-sex messaging, the idea that being intimate with another man ...