Drummer Magazine – “Tough Shit” (Early 1980s) Born from the leather underground, Drummer magazine was the definitive voice of gay leather, kink, and radical masculinity from the 1970s through the ’90s. In the early 1980s, they released a now-iconic T-shirt with two blunt words across the chest: “Tough Shit.” Equal parts provocation and pride, it captured the raw, uncompromising spirit of the leather scene at a time when queer visibility meant defiance.
