Whenever there is change, it’s a great opportunity to reflect on the past and look ahead to the future. With Mr LeatherWest 2016 making way for the next holder of the title, it is a good time to look back on what has been achieved and to look to the possibilities ahead. Dave [...]
As LeatherWest celebrates its fifth birthday, it’s a good enough time as any to reflect on the past few years and to celebrate all that has been achieved. LeatherWest started in August 2011 as a way of highlighting and publicising the gay leathermen’s community in the south west of the England and south Wales. [...]
Going along to the second Leather Social: Cardiff, Phil S’Berg “finds where you get a mix, you get a buzz” and the afternoon makes him recall a classic 1970’s Leatherman’s Handbook. The streets of Cardiff were thronged with cyclists, spectators and with quite a lot of lycra on display as the city played host to [...]
Some of the guys enjoying the Leather Social: Cardiff. Image courtesy of The Eagle Bar, Cardiff (all rights acknowledged). On 17th April 2016, a new chapter was begun in story of Leather Wales and the Rise of the Leather Dragons with the establishment of The Leather Social: Cardiff. The Leather Social is [...]
LeatherWest reporter Sam Benger reports on the next step in the campaign to build a Leather Wales by going out on the road to meet people at Cardiff's watering hole for Leather men. During 2015, there's been an upsurge in the profile of the local leather community in the West. With Bristol firmly established as [...]
Guest writer, James, a leather man in Reading, inspired by 'Leather On Parade' at Prides across the LeatherWest region this Summer, makes a call for leather men to gather for a first ever organised leather presence in Reading. Having seen the growing leather presence at other pride festivals across the West this year in Birmingham, Bristol, [...]
Picture courtesy of and copyright of Huw Dale Photography, 2014. All rights reserved. On the eve of Pride Cymru in Cardiff, Neil Mr. LeatherWest in making a call for leather men to stand proud, stand tall and help to build a leather community in Wales, relates a personal story of his very own leather [...]
Leathermen of Wales and the West and getting ready to parade with lots of leather pride on Saturday. LeatherWest's Tom Bristol reports that there's a visitor from Amsterdam on his way to support local leathermen. Nick Dawson elected as Mr XXX Amsterdam 2015. Pic copyright of Rene Zuidervelt, 2015. All rights reserved. Last night's leather [...]
Leather men are set to march in the Welsh capital, Cardiff for Welsh Pride. And there may be some mayhem with 'Dragons Leather' on the loose, writes reporter LeatherWest Sam Benger. [No_toc] Leather selfie! Courtesy of and copyright of Huw Dale Photography, 2014. All rights reserved. Leather Dragons. Copyright of LeatherWest, 2014. [...]
Dynion Leather cael eu gosod i orymdeithio ym Mhrifddinas Cymru, Caerdydd ar gyfer Pride Cymru. Ac efallai y bydd ychydig o hwyl gyda'r 'Dreigiau Lledr' ar y rhydd, yn ysgrifennu gohebydd LeatherWest Sam Benger. [no_toc] Leather selfie! Llun trwy garedigrwydd a hawlfraint Huw Dale Photography, Cedwir 2014. Pob hawl. Dreigiau Lledr. Hawlfraint [...]
