11 July 2023
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 […]
3 October 2020
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 […]
13 September 2020
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).
13 April 2020
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 […]
7 January 2017
The Hoist, London’s long-running leather and dress-code club, closed on Sunday 11 December 2016. Actually (Jan 2017) the website www.thehoist.co.uk is still online, but it has only a page to promote the same name apartments in Berlin. The venue has run for over two decades beneath railway arches on South […]
6 January 2017
The leather flag (or, better, the leather pride flag) was cretaed in 1989 by Tony DeBlase (well known American activist who died in 2000 and was, among other things, a writer, the editor of the famous magazine Drummer and the manager of leather bars). He was thrilled by the rainbow […]
5 January 2017
The ECMC, (European Confederation of Motorcycle Clubs), organizes each year two events: – ECMC AGMs: the annual meeting and conference of member leather and fetish clubs (from 1974) – BikeRun: 3 days long meeting for bikers (from 1982); Both AGM and BikeRun take place, each year, in a different location and […]
6 November 2016
Mineshaft, the legend The beautiful documentary “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures” , by Bailey and Barbato, is actually screened in a limited number of cinemas. The film, through the voices of lovers, family, celebrities, and models tells the story of one of the most original photographers of the 19th Century, […]
1 November 2016
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21 October 2016
Cuirmale (www.cuirmale.nl) is probably one of the oldest (and more interesting) websites about leather history and lifestyle based on a gay perspective. Its first version went on line in 1997 as one page website. Now it has many sections and pages with a lot of pictures and very interesting posts. […]