United States
Every listing links to the organizer's own site. A city joins the search index once it has at least five active, verifiable listings.
Albany
Upstate New York's education group vets newcomers before releasing locations, so getting in starts with an email rather than a calendar.
Albuquerque
Albuquerque punches above its size, with multiple member spaces and regular socials.
Anchorage
Anchorage has one busy hub: Alaska Club Kink, a membership club with its own space (subSpace), weekly rope jams and open dungeon nights, and a Thursday munch at a local bar.
Asheville
Asheville's public scene centers on Perversions, a monthly fetish night at The Mule, plus the Elevation Rope conference in the nearby mountains each July and a ticketed FemDom society.
Atlanta
Atlanta's scene runs through organizations, leather bars and an annual convention calendar rather than a standing public venue.
Austin
Austin has one of the most active rope scenes in Texas, plus a volunteer-run community group that has met for decades.
Birmingham
Central Alabama's oldest organization of its kind runs orientations, munches and rope labs on a calendar published a year ahead.
Boise
Boise has no public kink calendar of its own; the one visible club (in Caldwell) mixes swinger and kink nights. Groups here mostly organize privately.
Boston
New England's community is spread across education groups and regional events.
Buffalo
Western New York's leather club has no clubhouse, so its monthly nights move between area bars.
Burlington, VT
We found no active public kink calendar in Burlington; older groups have gone quiet and current ones organize on private chat. Boston has the nearest full calendar.
Charleston, WV
We found no public kink calendar in Charleston; West Virginia's groups organize privately. The nearest public calendars are in Pittsburgh and Columbus.
Charlotte
Charlotte's calendar runs through a members' club west of the city and a beginner-focused rope studio in town.
Cheyenne
We found no public kink calendar in Cheyenne; most of it organizes privately. Denver, 100 miles south, has a full public calendar.
Chicago
Home of International Mr. Leather and the Leather Archives & Museum, Chicago has deep roots and an active rope and education community.
Cincinnati
Most of Cincinnati's day-to-day calendar is word of mouth; the leather organization here is the public front door to it.
Cleveland
Cleveland's scene is unusually well documented for its size, anchored by an education nonprofit running since 1995 and one of the Midwest's oldest leather bars.
Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs has a volunteer-run members' club and community center on the Westside with classes and orientations every week, and it hosts the HECK conference each September.
Columbia, SC
Columbia has a long-running leather club, the Columbia Leather Order. Most of the Columbia and Charleston scene organizes privately; Atlanta and Charlotte have fuller calendars.
Columbus
Columbus hosts several regional weekends and is the new home of CLAW.
Dallas-Fort Worth
The Metroplex scene centers on a handful of clubs and leather organizations, with a major annual education weekend each fall.
Dayton
Dayton has an art and movement studio in the Front Street Art District that holds a monthly shibari workshop. Other groups meet privately; Columbus has the bigger calendar.
Denver
Denver and the Front Range support several member spaces and a growing rope and education scene.
Des Moines
Des Moines has weekly Vortex play parties, Iowa Leather Weekend every August at The Blazing Saddle, and a long-running education group (CIPEX).
Detroit
Detroit pairs a weekly rope and kink education space with a fetish retailer that has traded here since 1983.
Fargo
We found no public kink calendar in Fargo; groups here organize privately. The nearest public scene is in the Twin Cities.
Harrisburg
Harrisburg's leather club has met since 1977 and holds a monthly Leather Night at the Brownstone Lounge. Its Keystone Capital Run comes every February.
Honolulu
Honolulu's public scene is thin: a small rope space (Nawa) and a members-only BDSM society. Most of Oahu's kink community organizes privately.
Houston
Houston's community gathers around Montrose leather bars, education groups and classes rather than a single public dungeon.
Indianapolis
One guestlist play space carries most of the Indianapolis calendar, with local clubs hosting their recurring nights inside it.
Jackson, MS
We found no public kink calendar in Jackson; the local community organizes privately. The nearest public leather scene is in Memphis.
Jacksonville
Northeast Florida's scene is built around one membership studio with a weekly calendar and its own annual expo.
Kansas City
Kansas City has three long-standing organizations running fixed monthly calendars, most of it in public bars rather than private spaces.
Knoxville
Knoxville's public scene is small: a regional rope collective with ticketed events and a long-running gay leather club. Most munches and parties are arranged privately.
Las Vegas
Beyond the Strip, Las Vegas has local leather clubs, rope classes and visiting conventions.
Little Rock
Little Rock's visible scene is a North Little Rock gay bar with a monthly Leather Night and Pup Night. Munches and play groups here organize privately.
Los Angeles
Spread across the basin, LA mixes dedicated play spaces, leather shops in Silver Lake and West Hollywood, and a busy class circuit.
Louisville
Louisville's community has met continuously since 1997, almost entirely through one munch group and its offshoots.
Madison
Madison's public kink night runs monthly out of an alternative music venue on the east side; the rest of the scene organizes privately.
Memphis
Memphis's one public space is a Black-owned dungeon and workshop venue serving the Mid-South.
Miami & Fort Lauderdale
South Florida's scene leans on Wilton Manors leather shops, rope studios and social groups.
Milwaukee
Milwaukee mixes an education-first erotic boutique, a ticketed social club and a daytime kink festival that centers people the scene often overlooks.
Minneapolis & St. Paul
The Twin Cities have an unusually dense network of leather and kink organizations for a metro of their size.
Missoula
Missoula punches above its size: a queer-led kink group with a busy Pride kink series, plus a monthly munch and a kink conference from a local therapy collective.
Nashville
Nashville's community center runs classes, munches and forums on a membership model, and asks newcomers to start with a munch.
New Haven & Hartford
Connecticut's public scene: queer-centered munches in Meriden and around the state, and Tethered Together, a large rope convention in Stamford each spring.
New Orleans
New Orleans blends a historic leather community with visiting conventions.
New York City
New York's scene runs through organizations and studios that rent space rather than through standalone clubs, so the calendar matters more than any one address.
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City's scene is small and member-run, with a regular coffee social for newcomers.
Omaha
Omaha's public calendar is thin: a monthly themed play party, with the rest of the community organizing out of sight.
Orlando & Tampa
Central Florida's I-4 corridor shares clubs, munches and one of the country's larger fetish conventions.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia pairs a compact Gayborhood leather scene with several independent event spaces and boutiques.
Phoenix
The Valley's scene is anchored by a long-running education nonprofit and an active leather community.
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh's community organizes around leather pride events and a small number of clubs.
Portland, Maine
Maine's scene is concentrated in Portland: a rope studio running since 2017, a queer play party series, and a sexuality boutique twenty years in the Old Port.
Portland, Oregon
Portland hosts KinkFest each spring and keeps a year-round calendar through member clubs and education nonprofits.
Providence
Providence has a members' club in a converted mill and a producer running queer and leatherdyke gatherings alongside it.
Raleigh & Durham
The Triangle's activity concentrates in Durham, where a twice-yearly warehouse fetish party is the scene's main public event.
Richmond
Richmond's kink and poly socials run on weeknights out of a Shockoe Bottom nightclub, after the city's rope organization wound down in 2025.
Rochester
Rochester supports a volunteer-run education nonprofit and an erotic arts festival with a workshop track that draws from across the region.
Sacramento
Sacramento's main public event is an annual leather celebration; the year-round calendar mostly runs down the road in the Bay Area.
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City's leather group publishes a calendar running into 2027, using rented venues around town rather than a space of its own.
San Antonio
A smaller, tight-knit scene with member clubs and leather associations.
San Diego
San Diego has the deepest rope-teaching bench of any city its size, with several independent studios alongside a long-running membership club.
San Francisco Bay Area
SoMa's leather district anchors one of the oldest and most organized scenes in the country, with long-running education groups on both sides of the bay.
Seattle
Seattle's community is built around member-supported nonprofits with a strong consent-education tradition.
Sioux Falls
We found no public kink calendar in Sioux Falls; the local group organizes privately. The nearest public calendars are in Omaha and the Twin Cities.
St. Louis
St. Louis runs its leather scene through the bar calendar, and two clubs here publish their dates further ahead than almost anyone.
Syracuse
Syracuse has an annual leather and kink weekend each March run by a regional leather club, and a queer, kink-friendly dance party at Gilded Club every month or two.
Tucson
Tucson punches well above its size: a volunteer nonprofit here leases its own venue and runs play parties weekly.
Tulsa
Tulsa's public calendar is mostly annual: the Scissortail Leather Conference each September and a yearly fetish burlesque show. Most other groups organize privately; Oklahoma City has the year-round dungeon.
Washington DC & Baltimore
Two cities, one scene: long-standing education nonprofits in DC and member-run spaces up the parkway in Baltimore.
Wichita
Wichita hosts Wicked Women Weekend, a spring convention for dominant women and their submissives. Local munches and a women-led group organize privately.