High Shine: 15 Years of International Ms Bootblack Trailer (2015)
"Sometimes activism comes in a tin of boot polish"01 January 2015Factual87 mins
In the dark corners of America’s leather bars, amid the cruising and tricking leather daddies, boys and S/M play pigs, you can often find a bootblack hunched over, lovingly cleaning a patron’s boots for not much more than tips that pay for their shining supplies. Increasingly, that boot black in the backroom is woman.
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