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Resources

Womxn’s Leather/BDSM/Kink Groups Beyond the Bay

Our reciprocal organizations:

  • Bad Girls of Portland
  • Bound by Desire | Austin 
  • Lesbian Sex Mafia | New York
  • F.I.S.T. | Baltimore/Washington D.C.
 

Other organizations:

  • Austin girls of Leather
  • Dyke Uniform Corps (International)
  • Mid-Atlantic Onyx Pearls 
  • Onyx Pearls NY Northeast
  • ONYX Pearls Southern Leather
  • Portland Girls of Leather 
  • San Diego girls of Leather
  • Seattle Women in Leather
  • Twin Cities girls of Leather 
 

Womxn’s Leather Groups/Events in the Bay Area

  • San Francisco Girls of Leather
  • Hitchin’ Bitches
  • Dykes on Bikes
  • Dyke Uniform Corps (DUC)

San Francisco Bay Area Leather and Kink:

  • San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance
  • Society of Janus*
  • San Francisco Defenders | Spiritual based Leather Club (men & women)
  • Alameda County Leather Corps
  • Santa Clara County Leather Association
  • Cleo Dubois Academy of SM-Arts | San Francisco
  • Wicked Grounds | Kink Cafe and Boutique
  • Erobay | Community BDSM Events Calendar
  • Transform 1060
 

Regional Contests and Events

  • Folsom Street Fair
  • Desire Leather Women Unleashed
  • Ms. San Francisco Leather
  • Ms. Sacramento Leather
  • International Ms. Leather/Ms. Bootblack
  • Mr. San Francisco Leather
  • Northwest Leather Celebration | Sacramento
  • Up Your Alley  (aka Dore Alley)
Recovery
  • Bay Area Sober in Leather
  • Substance Abuse Help for LGBT People
Domestic Violence
  • National Leather Association Domestic Violence Project
  • Community United Against Violence | Since 1979
  • CORA
Online Kinky Periodicals
  • Cuir Underground
  • The Leather Journal
  • Lolita’s Predictions & Predilections
  • Leatherati
Other Good LGBTQ Resources
  • San Francisco Sex Information | Warm line
  • San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center | Offers a variety of resources to the community: health, employment, legal, immigration, youth, senior
  • Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Transgender Historical Society | Queer history museum
  • The Pacific Center | An LGBTQ community service center in Berkeley.
  • Butch Femme Socials
  • Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County
  • Billy DeFrank Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center | San Jose
  • Rainbow Women’s Chorus | San Jose
  • Lesbian.Org | Promoting lesbian visibility on the web
  • HealthLabs.com | Private lab testing offering support to the LGBTQ+ community; recently releasing trans-hormone testing.
Kinky Events Around the Country
  • The BDSM Events Page | A comprehensive and reliable listing of upcoming leather events
  • American Brotherhood Weekend  | New Orleans
  • Leather Leadership Conference
  • Kinkfest  | Portland
  • CLAW  |  Cleveland
  • Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend (MAL)  | Washington, DC
  • International Mr. Leather & Int’l Mr. Bootblack| Chicago
  • International Olympus Leather Weekend  | Augusta
  • Leather Reign  | Seattle
  • South Plains Leatherfest  | Dallas
  • Southwest Leather Decadence | Phoenix
  • SouthEast LeatherFest | Atlanta
Mixed BDSM Groups and Other Resources
  • The Portland Leather Alliance
  • Club X | San Diego pansexual leather group
  • Threshold Society* | LA pan group
  • The Crucible | DC  BDSM nightclub
  • Black Rose*
  • National Leather Association
  • The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
  • TASHRA
  • Kink Aware Professionals | Through NCSF
 
 
 
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