Women of Drummer comes from a movement of badass Leather dykes. Women who played, flirted, fucked, laughed, challenged expectations, built community, and made room for us to be fully ourselves. It is also a play title, and I never wanted to carry it so seriously that I forgot that.

That evening, I stepped into the heart of Atlanta’s leather scene: a dedicated gay plaza with not one but two leather venues—Barking Leather and the Atlanta Eagle.