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A Leatherman’s Natural Environment

Flashmob Nov 2013Spotted on the Streets of Bristol

Like any creature, Leathermen are men of habit. During these colder, darker nights it’s not uncommon to spot Leathermen flocking together and cruising the streets of town, looking for like minded souls.

These darker […]

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FOCUS: Community Matters

LeatherWest’s Magazine introduces you to FOCUS - where guest writers give us their take on all things leather and opinions that concern the leather community in the West.

Guest writer, Nigel Whitfield, BLUF’s webmaster, writes how “community matters” and where BLUF Bristol is embracing ‘get up and get-on-with-it’ action to create community […]

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Bumper Leather Weekend

 

BLUF come to Bristol for its fourth outing, promising their biggest attendance of fully clad and big booted leather guys on Saturday. Sunday sees GEAR Bristol holding a special leather themed night at their regular monthly event.This weekend is a bumper one for leathermen in the West, […]

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BLUF Birthday Bash in Bristol

BLUF Bristol celebrates its 2nd birthday this October!

It’s also the 16th anniversary of BLUF’s foundation, launched as an internet-club back in 1997 and seeing the first BLUF party in San Francisco in 1998.

BLUF Bristol has built a reputation as one of the most social and fun full-on leather nights in […]

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Homage to Tom - London Exhibition

Chris Malford reports on a rare opportunity to see original Tom of Finland artwork.

Just as the ‘Leather Season’ is traditionally at its quietest, the opening of Keep Your Timber Limber exhibition in London sees this Summer’s leather opportunities being described as “super radical and fierce”, to quote the exhibition’s curator Sarah McCrory.

Within a collection of eight artists brought together where […]

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