Welcome
The PLA is an all-volunteer 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization formed in 1998, whose mission is focused on the education and awareness of alternative lifestyles. PLA serves the greater Portland metro area and SW Washington.
Mission
PLA's mission is to serve our community through classes, workshops, social gatherings, discussion groups, and community outreach/support. With proceeds going to groups such as Bradley Angle House, Leather Archives & Museum, Our House, Esthers Pantry, Cascades Aids Project, Planned Parenthood, Sexual Minority Youth Roundtable XXX (SMYRC), and more. These also include partnership and coordination with aligned organizations including Center for Sex Positive Culture, Oregon Leather Pride, and others.
Join Us
We host a variety of events each year ranging from Educational Workshops and Charity Fundraisers to Kinkfest! View our Code of Conduct and Party Rules.
Benefits of being a PLA member include:
- Discounts to hands on and how to workshops.
- Access to PLA members only Play Parties.
- Discount on registration for Kinkfest.
- Participation in the annual election of PLA Board Members.
Join the PLA!
Portland Leather Alliance is the largest membership based BDSM organization in the Portland Metro Area but can't put on the events and workshops it does without volunteers. Since PLA is a volunteer based organization it needs the help from our community to make these events happen from the simplest monthly workshop to Kinkfest.
You can now sign up to be a PLA Member Online using your debit/credit card. You will need to provide proof of your age at your first PLA event, so please remember to bring your photo ID with you. You can also update or renew your existing PLA Membership as well. You will need to know your password, which if you forgot you can reset from the same page. Check out the Join Page for more information.
Support the PLA
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News and AnnouncementsArchivist PositionThe PLA is currently seeking a person to serve as Archivist. This is a paid position.
- Report to and assist the Secretary.
- Assist or take minutes for the PLA Board meetings
- Take minutes for all committee meetings and report them to the board and secretary to be included in their minutes sent to the membership.
- Digitize all historical PLA records from as far back as 1990 so they can be made available to membership
- Assist in the proper distribution of PLA Board meeting minutes.
- Keep minutes of all membership and Board of Directors meetings and preserve them as digital and paper records.
- Maintain attendance records for meetings, individually for Board members and totals for membership and community members.
- Responsible for storing and maintaining documentation of all meetings (written, audio, video, or other) in designated document storage in a structured and organized manner.
- Log and document any reciprocal agreements with other organizations.
- Log and record any special offers for PLA membership agreements with businesses.
- Coordinate monthly with the bookkeeper to preserve any contracts or other relevant historical documentation.
- Preserve monthly finance reports with the monthly minutes.
- Review the Treasurer's Office and preserve any relevant documents or conversations in the PLA Archives.
- Create and maintain succession documents for the position, including workflow, contacts, etc., for incoming and future Archivists.
- To preserve the history of Oregon kink and the birth of PLA by editing and maintaining a Wikipedia article so that information ca
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Interested persons should contact the board at board@portlandleather.org
Click here for more details. Getting Involved
Portland Leather Alliance is the largest membership based BDSM organization in the Portland Metro Area but can't put on the events and workshops it does without it's dedicated volunteers. Since PLA is a volunteer based organization it needs the help of people from the community to help make all the events happen from the simplest monthly workshop, to the 3-day conference known as KinkFest.
To learn more about volunteer opportunities, contact volunteers@portlandleather.org.
Some ways to be involved:
- Provide Feedback! - PLA does everything it can put on the best events we can, but we can't make events better without feedback. We always welcome constructive feedback on events, processes, and of course ideas for new events. There are a few ways to give feedback to the PLA. A) Contact us directly though our website. B) Tell your local board members your thoughts so they can bring the ideas and feedback back to the rest of the board. C) Come to the board meetings and share your thoughts in person. This is the best way to get heard and have discussion about new ideas. PLA Board meetings are the first Tuesday of the month and open to everyone.
- Volunteer! - PLA needs help throughout the year from simple tasks like distributing flyers and promotional information to tasks like Dungeon Monitoring, and presenting at workshops. Anyone can volunteer to help PLA, and it is a great way to feel like a bigger part of the community, and meet new people. There is also something special about getting to stand back and look out at a group of Kinky friends all having fun and knowing that you were a part of making it happen.
- Take on an Official Role - besides all the board positions PLA has other roles that need full time volunteers through the year. These can be things such as volunteering on a committee, helping organize our storage, or distributing flyers. You don't need to be a board member to take a more active role in the organization, so if you have something you are skilled at and think that it could help PLA, feel free to contact us about it.
- Talk to others about PLA - If you like PLA events, tell others! PLA is committed to connecting to the local community. If you find people that don't know about PLA, or don't know how to contact PLA for get involved, share this information with them.
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Upcoming Events
Subscribe to the PLA Calendar
Please note that the address of the PLA calendar changed December 10, 2021. You will need to subscribe to the new calendar.
It's easy to subscribe to the PLA calendar.
- From Google Calendar, click on the + icon next to Other calendars
- Choose Subscribe to calendar
- Type in pdxleatheralliance@gmail.com in the Add calendar box
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