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. [...]
LeatherWest reporter Chris Malford reports on BLUF Bristol, who are busy making preparations for the first ever UK Leather Pride®. Now organising their tenth meet to come to the City, the full-on Leather men's club is also celebrating their fourth birthday. BLUF Bristol will be four years old at UK Leather Pride, so it seems timely for the group to enter into [...]
Guest writer, James, a leather man in Reading, inspired by 'Leather On Parade' at Prides across the LeatherWest region this Summer, reports back from the first ever organised leather presence in Reading, where he was invited up on-stage to address five thousand festival goers. Well what can I say! Where do I begin? I made the call [...]
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 [...]
Belgium Leather Pride is an outstanding success once again. The annual leather fest, now in its sixth year, took place last weekend and LeatherWest was there along with a loyal bunch of troopers representing the south west region. Situated in re-purposed hangers along Antwerp's dockside, Darklands is the world’s only indoor gay fetish festival and lies at the heart [...]
First UK Leather Pride Dates Confirmed. The organisers for UK Leather Pride, to be held in Bristol, have confirmed the dates for this year's 'leather fest' for 6th-8th November. However, there has been change, reports Sam Benger. Originally planned for early October, UK Leather Pride say they moved dates back a month to the first weekend of [...]
Cerebral, Europe's leading fetish magazine with over 100,000 readers a month. Eyes turn to Bristol The New Year opens with LeatherWest's Bristol Leather Weekend featured in a leading leather and fetish magazine for all Europe. Sam Benger writes that "Leather in the West" is attracting attention from across mainland Europe and further consolidates [...]
Following the success of the first ever Bristol Leather Weekend, official photographer for the event, Neil Page Creative, has provided a first advanced set of evocative first images. Deep in texture, capturing a comprehensive range of men, moods and events, Neil produces a rich subtext of masculine leather culture. Taken over the entire weekend, starting from the Welcome Party [...]
Sam Benger reports on Leatherwest releasing the official video trailer for the forthcoming first ever Bristol Leather Weekend in October. Befitting a 'Leather Pride' event, the video evokes an urban setting not out-of-place for Bristol and pays homage to the City as a global hotspot for Urban Street Art. "We're paying homage to Bansky", says LeatherWest's Black [...]
LeatherWest reporter Chris Malford reports on BLUF Bristol, who have announced two events for the first ever Bristol Leather Weekend. Now organising their seventh meet to come to the City, the group have also announced their first dining event. BLUF Bristol will be three years old at the Leather Weekend so it seems timely for the group [...]
