On Sunday, April 15th, the Trident International WIndy City hosted the 5th Annual Cupcake Wars at Touché in Chicago. This year’s event benefited the Broadway Youth Center. The Broadway Youth Center (BYC) of Howard Brown Health is a haven for LGBTQ youth and young people experiencing homelessness or housing instability. Here they seek refuge and community…
Pup Pawlympics was a result of conversations Iowa Puppy 2018,Mal Orion (who is also the producer) had with other pups in Iowa as he was coming out as puppy. They felt there wasn’t a community here and he wanted to be part of changing that impression. Mal wanted to do something that was less…
MINNEAPOLIS — Mr Twin Cities Leather Sponsored by Twin Cities Leather and Latte celebrated it’s 5th Year Anniversary on February 15th, 2018 with an amazing weekend of inclusion, love, and leather. From the Twin Cities Leather and Latte website: At Twin Cities Leather & Latte, we value the diversity of all community members. We…
WATERFORD, Mich. — The Dark Side of Kink started out as a large annual event that was created to cater to everyone in our community, not just small pockets like some of the smaller events, with 480 people attending the first event. In Michigan there are not many places to buy leather or fetish apparel, with some bars hosting pop up retailers or underwear shops. In fact if you Google leather shops in Michigan you will only find one other store currently offering fetish apparel. So Sir Jay, the current GLLA-MI Handler, decided to venture into the retail market, to make fetish apparel available to a community in need of a location to find their leather and fetish needs.
MADISON, Wisc. — Mr. Wisconsin Leather began with a simple motto: ‘UNA SEMPER IN ALTIORIBUS’ – ‘TOGETHER ALWAYS HIGHER’…and with each year, we continue to work to elevate ourselves to a higher and higher standard, making MRWL not just another Leather Event, not just a Celebration, but a symbol of who we are, what we stand for,…
LasciviousJane is no stranger to the international leather community. “I have been kinky and identified as a leatherdyke for around 20 years, however had a hard time finding a community. In the past 10 years I discovered a kinky community mostly through performing as a burlesque performer or model at events, but it wasn’t until a couple years…
Meghan, hailing from Louisville, Kentucky, took to bootblacking early in her leather career. “From across the room, I saw the Resident Bootblack working on a man’s vest and it was so erotic to me. It ended up turning into almost a scene. From that night, I knew this was what I was meant to do.”…
CLEVELAND – The home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hosted Cleveland Leather Awareness Weekend (CLAW) for the twelfth year at the end of April with its biggest crowd yet. More than 600 leatherpeople from across the Midwest and beyond gathered in downtown Cleveland for the event. CLAW is completely volunteer run with all money raised going…
DES MOINES – With the outside temperatures in single digits who knew such a hot weekend would be found in Des Moines Iowa? Leathermen, pups, handlers and fetishists from around the country converged at the host bar Blazing Saddle for what was billed as “Seven Hot Men, Five Bars, One Night.” Iowa leather events producer…
