21 November 2021

Bye Neri

On Wednesday, November 17, our dear friend Neri left us. Neri was a prominent figure in the Italian and the European leather & fetish community. He was elected Mister Leather Italia in 2016 and, during his reign, he travelled extensively all around Europe to promote the Italian fetish community. He […]
4 October 2021

Interview with Igor, Puppy Italy 2020

We interviewed Igor, Puppy Italia 2020, to speak about his long “year” as a titleholder and the future of the Italian puppy community. Here’s what he told us…   We are at the end of your title year, a very long year due to the pandemic. If you look back […]
3 October 2021

BDSM and Fetish at Venice Film Festival

A sexual adventure of domination and submission turns into an intimate dialogue between two generations which, starting from lost loves and AIDS, leads to a subdued, passionate cry of life. La dernière séance Written and directed by Gianluca Matarrese, La dernière séance ( The last chapter ) was presented at […]
26 September 2021

Leather Club Roma – Fetish Season 2021-2022

In October the new fetish season of Leather Club Roma will start! After a long break due to Covid-19 pandemic, this season will be full of events!
11 October 2020

Ignacio Goitia: when fetish breaks into art

The exhibition The universe of Ignacio Goitia at the Instituto Cervantes (Rome – Piazza Navona) has been extended until December 31st.
11 October 2020

Fundraising for quick HIV tests

Why a fundraising? Fortunately, seropositivity is no longer a sentence but a condition with which, thanks to medical care and therapy, one can live with having a very high quality of life. However, more than half of HIV diagnoses in Italy occur when the disease is already in an advanced […]
3 October 2020

lcroma.com: 20 years of online fetish community

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).
21 August 2020

Interview with Mister Leather Italia and Mister Rubber Italia 2019… and 2020

We spoke with Cosimo e John, respectively Mister Leather Italia and Mister Rubber Italia 2019, whose titles were extended to 2020. They talked about their fisrt year as mister and their hope for the future, considering such an uncertain moment for the Italian and international fetish community. Title, date of […]
10 August 2020

Solidarity Project

This Covid-19 emergency period, which has now lasted for many months, has created and is creating many difficulties also for “our” traditional premises, which – after having been closed for a long time – find themselves able to open only for a few customers.
22 April 2016

Mister Leather Italy 2016

This year Mister Leather Italy 2016 election is celebrated in Rome. The contest is organised, as usual, by Leather Club Roma and Leather Friends Italia, this year in collaboration with Leather and Fetish Milano, to choose the Italian representative of Leather Community, who can take part in international and European events […]
19 September 2016

The Birth of ECMC

The ECMC (European Confederation of Motorcycle Clubs), founded in 1974, is the European confederation of gay leather & fetish clubs. This article deals with its foundation and first steps and with the social and cultural context in which that birth took place. The birth of ECMC (1974) is part of […]
19 September 2016

Leather Club Roma – Autumn Tour

Autumn Tour: This autumum Leather Club Roma will visti two European clubs: the Spanish one and the just born Nice one [hr2] We start the Autumn Tour during the weekend on  November 4th-6th,   in Benidorm, thanks to the invitation of Luis, current Mister Leather Spain, to participate to the parties for the […]
19 September 2016

How is the leather world changing?

In a very interesting  interesting post on New York Times, reblogged by “our” Marco, Michael Musto analyzes the changes in the USA leather world and fetish community. The title of the article “ Gay Leather Scene Tones Down From Hard Core to Dress-Up ” highlights the author’s thesis: the gay leather scene […]