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Home » Leather Archives & Museum

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Posted inAgenda

AIDS Diva, AACM Great Black Music Ensemble, and more

by Micco Caporale and Kerry Reid October 1, 2022October 1, 2022

Gerber/Hart is partnering with the Leather Museum (6418 N. Greenview) for a free screening of AIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman. Connie Norman was a trans woman who advocated for her fellow HIV-positive community in Los Angeles in the late 80s and early 90s. AIDS Diva is a documentary that follows her work, not […]

Five actors in drag as the Golden Girls. One holds a flogger.
Posted inTheater Review

These girls are still golden

by Albert Williams September 21, 2021October 15, 2021

Hell in a Handbag’s Golden Girls parody sexes it up at the Leather Archives & Museum.

Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago’s gay grandaddy of tattooing

by Micco Caporale June 24, 2020August 18, 2021

How Cliff Raven changed the city’s ink culture forever

Posted inArts & Culture

Drawn together

by Tony Peregrin February 18, 2020August 18, 2021

The Hun’s homoerotic art—which inspired generations of gay men with its sex-positive themes—finds a new home at Chicago’s Leather Archives & Museum.

Posted inArts & Culture

Six visual art shows that made 2019 bearable

by S. Nicole Lane December 17, 2019August 18, 2021

2020 has some big shoes to fill.

Posted inFilm

CineKink is back with another lineup of raunchy films

by S. Nicole Lane November 14, 2019August 18, 2021

The sex-positive film festival is making a stop at the Leather Archives & Museum.

Posted inArts & Culture

Last night at Man’s Country

by Aaron Gettinger and Brittany Sowacke January 3, 2018August 18, 2021

The pioneering gay bathhouse’s 13-hour final hurrah

The Leather Archives & Museum's bar exhibit "regular," Randy, watches over a collection of nightlife artifacts.
Posted inNews & Politics

Zoom in: Rogers Park

by Jake Malooley May 19, 2014August 18, 2021

Miles from the downtown campus of International Mr. Leather, the Leather Archives & Museum is Chicago’s year-round BDSM hub.

Posted inNews & Politics

A Kink in the Campaign

by Hunter Clauss November 19, 2009August 19, 2021

If his challenge to Deb Mell’s nominating petition succeeds, state rep candidate Joe Laiacona just might run unopposed in the Democratic primary. But can a leather master actually win in the general election?

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