Your guide to 2015 fetish events

Looking for this year’s fetish festivals and events, look no further. The big events kick off this weekend and run until Halloween, including the well-known Folsom Street festival in San Francisco to fetish week in London. Fans of festish will already know about their local event, but we thought a survey of many of the big events would be worth sharing.

May

Amsterdam: May 14-18, 2015
Amsterdam Fetish Pride: Parties, demonstrations, sales and more make up the famous annual gay fetish weekend for leather, rubber, uniform, sportswear, skin, harness, boots & jocks. Amsterdam also hosts an also Leather Pride weekend in late October.

June

NYC: Sunday, June 21, 2015
Folsom Street Festival East: brings the famous SF treat to the East coast just ahead of NYC Pride. And as it’s in late June, expect to get hot and sticky (because of the humidity… what were you thinking)!

July

London: July 12-19, 2015
London Full Fetish Week: for several years Recon has hosted the London Fetish Week with most of the big events on the final weekend including more than five parties (Full Fetish on Saturday for everyone plus themed events for single fetishes except leather… and personally we’d like to see a party just for leather).

September

Berlin: 12-13 September, 2015
Folsom Europe: Berlin plays host to Folsom Europe, except with a little Berlin style. Woof.

San Francisco: Sunday, September 27, 2015
Folsom Street Fair: one of the best and original fetish fairs, Folsom may only last one day, but it’ll be worth it.

October

Amsterdam: October 22-26, 2015
Leather Pride Amsterdam: one of the biggest gay leather events on the calendar – and not to be missed, including the main party, Damage.

Palm Springs: Oct 29-Nov 1, 2015
Desert Leather Pride: summer might be over but things are still hot in Palm Springs where they will be ‘turning up the heat’.

2016

We missed Belgium’s leather pride, which happens each year in February, but mark your calendars for Leather Pride Belgium