Leather and Fetish Events
Here you’ll find major leather and fetish fairs, pride weekends, and travel options that gather leathermen from around the world in one place. This is the place to look when you’re ready to plan a trip, experience a big event for the first time, or build a holiday around leather community.
Austin Kink Weekend / UNITED STATES
https://www.instagram.com/austinkinkweekend/
Austin Kink Weekend is a four‑day BDSM, leather, and kink festival in Austin, Texas, featuring workshops, title contests, parties, and a vendor market, and bringing together kinksters from across Texas and beyond to learn, play, and connect.
Beyond Darklands / BELGIUM
https://darklands.be
Beyond Darklands is an intense five-day festival in Antwerp that brings the global leather, fetish, and kink community together for a real, alive, and immersive experience, celebrating a bold new era of connection, play, and self-expression.
Chicago Leather Pride Weekend (CLPW) / UNITED STATES
https://www.chicagoleatherpride.org
Chicago Leather Pride Weekend (CLPW) is a multi‑day celebration of leather, kink, and fetish in Chicago, created to kick off Leather Pride Month, raise awareness of the local leather community, and fundraise for the Leather Archives & Museum—welcoming all gender identities and all expressions of kink and fetish.
Cleveland Leather Annual Weekend (CLAW) / UNITED STATES
https://www.clawinfo.org
Cleveland Leather Annual Weekend (CLAW) is one of the world’s premier leather, fetish, and kink gatherings, a nonprofit-run weekend of workshops, parties, and community-building that raises funds for charity while celebrating education, play, and leather family.
Cologne Leather Pride / GERMANY
https://www.xtreme-cgn.de/cologne-fetish-pride/
Cologne Leather Pride is a multi‑day leather/fetish programme during Whitsun, run by Rheinfetisch; anchors the city’s fetish‑pride scene, alongside Cologne Pride.
Easter Berlin Leather Fetish Week / GERMANY
https://blf.de
Easter Berlin Leather Fetish Week is an annual Berlin event week with leather and fetish parties, socials, and contests around Easter.
Fetish Week London / UNITED KINGDOM
https://www.fetishweek.com
Fetish Week London is a yearly London-based program of fetish parties, social events, and workshops for kink and leather communities.
Folsom Europe / GERMANY
https://folsomeurope.berlin
Folsom Europe is a street fair and weekend of leather/fetish events in Berlin inspired by the original Folsom Street Fair.
Folsom Street / UNITED STATES
https://www.folsomstreet.org
Folsom Street is a San Francisco nonprofit that produces leather and fetish events, including the Folsom Street Fair, and supports LGBTQ+ communities.
Folsom Street East / UNITED STATES
https://www.folsomstreeteast.com
Folsom Street East organises New York City’s leather and fetish street fair and related events supporting local LGBTQ+ and kink charities.
International Mr. Leather (IML) / UNITED STATES
https://www.internationalmrleather.com
International Mr. Leather (IML) is a multi‑day leather, kink and fetish weekend held each May in Chicago, bringing thousands of people from around the world together for contests, parties, workshops and an enormous vendor market.
Leather Pride Amsterdam / THE NETHERLANDS
https://www.leatherpride.nl/
Leather Pride Amsterdam is an annual fetish weekend in Amsterdam with leather parties, socials, and community events.
Leathermen Travel
https://leathermentravel.com
Leathermen Travel is a travel company creating group trips, tours, and event packages tailored to leathermen and the fetish community.
Los Angeles Leather Pride / UNITED STATES
https://www.laleatherpride.com/
Los Angeles Leather Pride is Los Angeles’ annual leather week, bringing together the kink, leather, and fetish communities for contests, bar nights, dungeon parties, and a flagship Mr LA Leather competition.
Manchester Leather Weekend / UNITED KINGDOM
https://www.manchesterleathermen.com/manchesterleatherweekend/2026/saveTheDate
Manchester Leather Weekend brings leathermen and their admirers together in Manchester for a packed weekend of socials, parties, city tours and community events.
Mid-Atlantic Leather (MAL) Weekend / UNITED STATES
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MALWeekend/
Mid‑Atlantic Leather (MAL) Weekend is a Centaur Motorcycle Club–produced leather and kink weekend in Washington, DC, bringing together thousands of leathermen, kinksters and queer folks for parties, socials and the Mr Mid‑Atlantic Leather contest each January.
South Plains Leatherfest (SPLF) / UNITED STATES
https://southplainsleatherfest.com/home.html
South Plains Leatherfest (SPLF) is a major leather, M/s, and kink weekend in Dallas, Texas, offering cutting‑edge education, play parties, hospitality suites, vendor markets, and cigar socials, and serving as the home of the International Master/slave and International Person of Leather contests.
Up Your Alley / UNITED STATES
https://www.folsomstreet.org/up-your-alley
Up Your Alley is San Francisco’s unapologetically hardcore leather and kink street fair, held each July in the SoMa neighbourhood by Folsom Street.