27 April 2017

Pills of Joy: Mister Rubber Italy 2017’s interview

Let’s start from the beginning… How should we call you? Gennaro, Gen, Joy, Joy Gen? Please tell us as this is a doubt many of your fans have Ahahahahahahhaha well, we are really starting from the abc! So… I have always loved signing as “Gen”, because everybody calls me Gennaro […]
7 January 2017

London Fetish Club THE HOIST closed at the end of 2016

The Hoist, London’s long-running leather and dress-code club, closed on Sunday 11 December 2016. Actually (Jan 2017) the website www.thehoist.co.uk is still online, but it has only a page to promote the same name apartments in Berlin. The venue has run for over two decades beneath railway arches on South […]
5 January 2017

The complete list of ECMC AGMs and Bikeruns

The ECMC, (European Confederation of Motorcycle Clubs), organizes each year two events: – ECMC AGMs: the annual meeting and conference of member leather and fetish clubs (from 1974) – BikeRun: 3 days long meeting for bikers (from 1982); Both AGM and BikeRun take place, each year, in a different location and […]
26 November 2016

Mister Leather Spain 2017 – Diary of a great election

On November 5th, the election of Mister Leather Spain 2017 was celebrated in Benidorm. In the following lines, you will find a brief summary about everything you would have known but nobody has told you yet… maybe Benidorm is a small town located between Alicant and Valencia, a sort of […]
6 November 2016

Mineshaft, the most legendary and ‘infamous’ crusing bar

Mineshaft, the legend The beautiful documentary “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures” , by Bailey and Barbato, is actually screened in a limited number of cinemas. The film, through the voices of lovers, family, celebrities, and models tells the story of one of the most original photographers of the 19th Century, […]
23 October 2016

Funny interview with Mister Leather e Mister Rubber Italy

Imagine a Tuscan guy (ie Mister Rubber Italy) trying to interview a true Neapolitan with eloquence (ie Mister Leather Italy). And suppose that, between jokes and jokes, slowly is the Neapolitan guy to interview the Tuscan one… Well, this is the result: leather and rubber, family and friends, favorite dishes […]
21 October 2016

Cuirmale – Leather History from gay perspective

Cuirmale (www.cuirmale.nl) is probably one of the oldest (and more interesting) websites about leather history and lifestyle based on a gay perspective. Its first version went on line in 1997 as one page website. Now it has many sections and pages with a lot of pictures and very interesting posts. […]