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13 April 2020

In memory of Daniel Dumont

Daniel Dumont, a leading figure in the European and international gay fetish community, passed away on March 22, 2020 at the age of 61. Born on February 24, 1959 in Ressaix (Belgium), Daniel was known in the Leather & Fetish Community with the nickname Daddy Schtroumpf (Papa Smurf), due to […]

13 September 2020

Brief history of Fetish Pride Italy in pictures

This year Fetish Pride Italy, launched in 2014 by Leather Club Roma, will reach its eighth edition. We decided to briefly reconstruct its history by selecting, for each edition, three images from those created to promote the event (flyer, poster, playbill, featured images and more).

3 October 2020

lcroma.com: 20 years of online fetish community

Since its birth in 1999, the Leather Club Roma had a website, initially on geocities and then, since 2000, on the lcroma.com domain. There were the early days of the web and the site used technologies that would later be abandoned but which were then real avant-garde : flash, frontpage as […]

11 July 2023

History and evolution of the leather harness

Origins The origins of the harness can be traced back to ancient civilizations that utilized leather (a flexible and durable material) for military purposes and to control animals. Even today, leather harnesses are used as horse harnesses and headstalls, and more rarely, as full-body harnesses for attaching vehicles to animals […]