Welcome to the home of BLUF, the Breeches and Leather Uniform Fan Club. BLUF is a club for men who enjoy wearing breeches and leather uniforms. Founded in 1997, there are now over 4,000 members worldwide, and many of them meet in person at BLUF events.
On the BLUF menu, you can find out more about the club. The Community menu has our calendar of events and blog, while on the Info menu you can find many useful resources, including other clubs, vendors and venues around the world.
BLUF is one of the world's biggest communities for men into leather uniforms, with members in dozens of countries and around 100 events every year. Joining BLUF gives you access to our whole site, where you can meet other guys seriously into leather, create a profile, and become part of our community. We maintain a strict dresscode, which you can read about here.
Joining BLUF is free and open to men who meet our dresscode requirements. The site is run by volunteers, and owned by BLUF Ltd, a not-for-profit company based in the UK.
Leathermen Scotland - Glasgow social
Glasgow, 10 September 2023
Leathermen South
Brighton, 26 August 2023
Leather Cruise at Underground
London, 18 November 2023
Approved! Frankfurt Fetishparty
Frankfurt (Offenbach), 23 September 2023
BLUF DC hosted two events during Mid-Atlantic Leather 2023: our annual BLUF MAL Social on Sunday, 15 January and a GEARED UP opening party with the DC Boys of Leather, the DC Rubber Social, and the DC Fisting Social groups. Our adopted host bar Trade (1410 14TH ST NW, Washington, DC) was gracious enough to host these fine gentlemen, and BLUF members from Washington, the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia packed the bar for both events. We cannot wait for MAL 2024!
Also, please attend for our monthly BLUF DC socials at Trade. We look forward to meeting you.
--Sir Will (#2811) and boy Jeff (#3511)
Une soirée mémorable le 9 décembre dernier pour le souper et la soirée de Noël de BLUF Montréal, le Père Noël avait envoyé les cadeaux. A memorable evening on December 9th for the BLUF Montréal Christmas dinner and party, Santa Claus had sent the gifts.
When the Backstreet closed, a number of items were donated to the Museum of London. You can now read a history of the club on the museum website.
Content warning: this post contains references to depression, anxiety, substance abuse, domestic violence, suicide.
On the fifth of March, 1991, my twin brother died. Some of you will already know this; it's not a secret, and indeed it was something I talked about in a Fireside Chat video recorded a few years ago.
What I've talked about less is the effect that had on my mental health; it's fair to say that it somewhat blighted my twenties with depression, I'm sure that it, at times, made me not an altogether pleasant person to be around.
And anniversaries, or big news events, can sometimes bring a lot of feelings flooding back. That can manifest in things like anxiety - you probably wouldn't believe how much I sometimes dread attending BLUF events - or self-medication through injudicious use of alcohol.
But, on the whole, I've been lucky. I've been able to access help and, at times, proper medication when I've needed to, and after over thirty years, I'm reasonably good at managing these things. Not everyone is so lucky.
Many of us have, as we grew up, been told that "boys don't cry" or "real men don't show emotion" -
…BLUF's website isn't just for our members. You'll find plenty of information available to non-members too, including our listings of leather and fetish vendors, leather venues, and local leather clubs, around the world.
The BLUF events calendar features events worldwide, organised by a wide range of clubs and other groups, and as well as BLUF topics, our blog often includes posts of general interest to the leather community.
Members of BLUF also have access to our online magazine, which includes reports from BLUF events, exclusive photo galleries, and even short stories written by other members. The member forum provides places to share tips or ask for help on a range of topics, incuding For Sale and Wanted sections, travel advice and more.
On your BLUF profile, you can even let people know if you have a guest room, or can show them round your city, and our sophisticated search tools can help you find a bed in a city, or even someone who's into the same things as you, with a playroom, who rides a bike and speaks German.
We're committed to keeping BLUF membership free, with all members getting all the functions of the site. BLUF is funded by donations and sales of BLUF merchandise. Members who donate to BLUF qualify for the BLUF card, which gives discounts at a range of vendors, including Boxer, Clone Zone, Fetish Freak, Mister B and Regulation.
