History, it is said, is written by the winners.  More, though, it is written by the survivors.  Those who survive get to tell their stories; those who do not survive have their stories lost.

The leather community is rife with survivors.  Survivors of AIDS, of course, but also those who have survived all the drama brought upon us by ourselves and by others.  Those who remember the early bike clubs.  Those who can run down a list of two dozen leather clubs in their local city which have come and gone.  Those who have owned bars, started leather businesses, run leather clubs.  And every year, some of these survivors are lost.

All of us have stories.  Maybe you weren’t a mover or shaker, a pillar of the leather community.  Maybe you don’t have enough stories to fill a book, or the time or desire or skills to write one.  That’s what SoundsKinky: A Leather Oral History is about.  Tell us the stories you have, and let us share them with everyone else.

Yes, on the surface, referring to a test-based website as an “oral” history seems odd, but our goal is to present these stories – large and small – as told by the people who lived them, or as told by those who heard them from the people who lived them.  As we go along, SoundsKinky will incorporate photographs, sounds clips, and even video to accompany the stories and sometimes to tell them.

To see the most recently added story, click on STORIES.  For a listing of all the stories, grouped according to the people or groups involved, the places the stories occurred, the events at which the stories happened, and the dates covered, click on INDEX.  For answers to questions you may have about this site, click on QUESTIONS.  And for how you can help with SoundsKinky, either monetarily or through volunteer efforts, or just for general contact information click on CONTACT.