Vince Andrews was an influential writer, editor, and cultural documentarian within the gay Leather and BDSM community. Active primarily from the 1970s through the 1990s, Andrews played a significant role in preserving Leather voices during a period when the culture relied heavily on independent publishing, zines, and small-press anthologies for self-representation.

His work focused on Leather sexuality, power exchange, erotic ritual, and community identity, presenting these subjects as lived cultural experience rather than pathology or spectacle. Through both fiction and nonfiction, Andrews helped legitimize Leather as a distinct sexual culture with its own internal ethics, language, and traditions.

Notable Works
• Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics, and Practice — Editor and contributor; a landmark anthology exploring Leather sex, identity, and politics from within the community.
• In Leather — Editor; a widely circulated collection of Leather-themed erotic fiction.
• Contributions to various Leather journals, zines, and small-press publications.

Dates Active

• Approximately the 1970s–1990s
• Primary publications appeared from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s.

Legacy
Vince Andrews is remembered as part of the foundational Leather author-historian lineage, alongside figures such as Larry Townsend, Pat Califia, David Stein, and Hardy Haberman. His editorial work helped ensure that Leather people documented their own culture, preserving erotic, political, and historical perspectives that might otherwise have been lost.