For a kinkster, the upcoming International Mr. Leather is a beautiful event. Kinky folks of all stripes make lifelong friendships at the competition and community event — and sometimes fall in love.

Latinos browse the artwork at the CLAW L.A. convention on November 28th at the Hotel Indigo in Downtown Los Angeles. (Yair Lopez / For DeLos) On the Friday night after Thanksgiving, a hotel room on ...

Gage Ryder took home the title of Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather 2026 this past weekend during the iconic Mid-Atlantic Leather (MAL) Weekend, held annually in Washington, D.C. Ryder ...

A remarkable event took place on December 1 in the National AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park as part of the 22nd Annual World AIDS Day Observance. The San Francisco leather community was ...

I've wanted to write this column for a long time. It's a subject near and dear to my heart. How do we best build community among those of us who strongly identify with some variation of "leatherperson ...

Trell Walters is more than just a guy who looks hot in leather. Walters holds the title, Mr. Connecticut Leather 2023, a contest linked to unconventional sex and to the LGBTQ community. But holding ...

Saturday night in Las Vegas was the 90th annual Miss America. The winner was a sweet 17-year-old blonde from Nebraska. Sunday afternoon at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill was the 26th annual Mr. Mid ...

When Palm Springs resident James Holjes was 6, he saw Rob Halford on the back of one of his father's Judas Priest records dressed in leather. It became a defining moment in his life. Holjes recalled ...

You can find plenty of gay bars in Dallas’s Oak Lawn neighborhood. One of the few remaining lesbian bars in the country, Sue Ellen’s, is there, as well as an energetic shack known as the Tin Room.

On the Friday night after Thanksgiving, a hotel room on the 17th floor of the Hotel Indigo in Downtown Los Angeles was transformed into a leather dressing room. About a dozen friends crowded around a ...