Disability has always existed in Leather.

It existed in our bars, our back rooms, our clubs, our households, and our mentorship lineages—often quietly, often without language, and frequently without accommodation. Its absence from formal record is not evidence of exclusion, but a reflection of how much of Leather history was preserved through lived experience rather than written acknowledgment.

People with disabilities have served as mentors, titleholders, bottoms, tops, dominants, submissives, leathermen, leatherwomen, and Leatherfolk whose contributions shaped the culture long before accessibility was a public conversation. What was once adapted informally—through trust, negotiation, and mutual responsibility—now deserves to be named, respected, and preserved.

Leather is not defined by a single body type, physical capacity, or neurological expression. It is defined by values: consent, honor, accountability, discipline, service, and earned trust. Disability does not diminish these values, nor does it weaken authority, submission, or presence. It simply requires intention.

This page exists to recognize, document, and affirm the presence of people with disabilities in Leather—past, present, and future—without spectacle, pity, or exception. Adaptation is not a deviation from tradition; it is how tradition survives.