Leather Archives & Museum
The Leather Archives & Museum is a community archives, library, and museum located in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Founded by Chuck Renslow and Tony DeBlase in 1991, its mission is making “leather, kink, BDSM, and fetish accessible…Photo: Skvader, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: archives and museum of the Leather subculture
- Also known as: “Leather Archives and Museum”
- Address: 6418 North Greenview Avenue, Chicago, IL 60626
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Gerber/Hart Library and Archives and St. Mary Eritrean Orthodox Church.
Gerber/Hart Library and Archives
Library
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The Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, founded in 1981, is the largest circulating library of gay and lesbian titles in the Midwestern United States. Located in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, it houses over 14,000 volumes, 800 periodical titles, and 100 items in the archival collection. Gerber/Hart Library and Archives is situated 990 feet northwest of Leather Archives & Museum.
St. Mary Eritrean Orthodox Church
Church
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St. Mary Eritrean Orthodox Church is situated 1,200 feet southwest of Leather Archives & Museum.
St. Ignatius Catholic Church
Church
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St. Ignatius Catholic Church is situated 1,400 feet northeast of Leather Archives & Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rogers Park and Edgewater.
Rogers Park
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Rogers Park is the northern border of Chicago — the wild-eyed inheritor of uninhibited lakefront, swamps become beaches, and the beauty of Chicago bricks.
Edgewater
Suburb
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Edgewater is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the North Side of Chicago. It is 6 miles north of the Loop.
Lakewood Balmoral Historic District
Neighborhood
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The Lakewood Balmoral Historic District is a historic district in the Edgewater community area of Chicago, Illinois. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 12, 1999.
Leather Archives & Museum
- Categories: erotic museum, LGBT museum, LGBT archive, building, tourism, commercial building, and tourist attraction
- Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.99864° or 41° 59′ 55″ northLongitude
-87.66834° or 87° 40′ 6″ westLevels
1Open location code
86HJX8XJ+FMOpenStreetMap ID
way 209953009OpenStreetMap feature
building=commercialOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q1435136
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Leather Archives & Museum” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Leather Archives and Museum”
- French: “Leather Archives and Museum”
- German: “Leather Archives and Museum”
- Italian: “Leather Archives and Museum”
- Japanese: “レザー・アーカイヴ&博物館”
- Persian: “موزه و مرکز بایگانی چرمپوشی”
- Portuguese: “Leather Archives & Museum”
- Spanish: “Museo y archivos Leather”
- Spanish: “Museo y Archivos Leather”
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