Resources
San Francisco Bay Area (sexual and social)
- Butch Femme Socials
- Society of Janus (*we have a membership reciprocity agreement with them)
- The Pacific Center A lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning community service center in Berkeley.
- Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County
- San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center
- Billy DeFrank Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center, San Jose
- Rainbow Women’s Chorus, San Jose
- Santa Clara County Leather Association
- San Francisco Defenders Spiritual based Leather Club (men & women)
- Alameda County Leather Corps
- San Francisco Girls of Leather
- Center for Sex and Culture
- Wicked Grounds
Other Women’s S/M Groups
- Lesbian Sex Mafia (New York) (*we have a membership reciprocity agreement with them)
- Bound by Desire (Austin) (*we have a membership reciprocity agreement with them)
- F.I.S.T. (Females Investigating Sexual Terrain) (Baltimore/Washington DC)
- Mob New England
Mixed S/M Groups and Other Resources
- Northwest Leather Celebration
- Orange Coast Leather Assembly
- Threshold (LA’s mixed group)
- The Crucible Washington DC’s Only BDSM Nightclub
- The Portland Leather Alliance
- Black Rose (*we have a membership reciprocity agreement with them)
- Club X San Diego’s pansexual leather/ SM/ fetish group
- NLA (National Leather Association)
Domestic Violence Resources
Online Kinky Periodicals
Other Good Resources
- Lesbian.Org Promoting Lesbian visibility on the web
- The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
- Kink Aware Processionals
- BDSM – The Local Scene: USA An extremely wide array of resources. Heavy on advertising, but worth it.
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender Historical Society
Workshop or Education-oriented
- Cleo Dubois Academy of SM-Arts (San Franisco)
- Leather Leadership Conference
Contests
- Ms. SF Leather
- International Ms. Leather
- NW Master/slave contest
- International Mr. Leather
- Thunder in the Mountains (Denver)
Kinky Events Around the Country
- The BDSM Events Page A fairly comprehensive listing of groups & events