Leather & Fetish Pride Netherlands reaches its 30th edition and runs in Amsterdam from Thursday 15 to Monday 19 October 2026. Our event page describes the week. Since then the organisers have published the schedule, and this is what it holds.
Thursday: the opening on the Warmoesstraat
The official opening is at Eagle Amsterdam, Warmoesstraat 90, from 20:00 to 23:00: a few words from the community and a toast to thirty years. Entry is free. Before that, Bears Amsterdam on the Sint Jacobsstraat holds a free kick-off with drinks and bites from 17:00 to 20:00. A few doors from the Eagle, Dirty Dicks runs an XXL edition of its Golden Shower party from 20:00 to 03:00 for EUR 8, and The Cuckoo's Nest on the Nieuwezijds Kolk has an 80s and 90s leather night from 20:00 to midnight. The Mister Leather candidates meet the public at Spijker Bar on the Kerkstraat the same day.
Friday: Mister Leather Netherlands and Meltdown
Bootblacks polish boots and leather at Bears Amsterdam from 16:00 to 19:00. From 17:00 the Dutch Rubbermen hold their drinks and games at Prik on the Spuistraat, with a pub quiz at 18:30 that raises money for LGBT Asylum Support and a chance to meet the Mr Rubber Europe candidates and judges. The Mister Leather Netherlands 2027 election follows at Akhnaton, Nieuwezijds Kolk 25, from 20:00 to 23:00, decided by a jury and a public vote together. Later that night comes Meltdown, the one new event this year: a joint party by four collectives, Kinky Hub, Bear Bash, Damage and Headrush, that runs until 05:00.
Saturday: Mr Rubber Europe and Invasion
The Mr Rubber Europe 2027 election, hosted by the Dutch Rubbermen, runs from 20:00 to 22:00, doors at 19:00, at Undercurrent/IJland on the NDSM wharf in Amsterdam Noord. Invasion, the main party, follows in the same place from 22:00 to 05:00. It is men only and keeps a strict dress code: leather, rubber, uniform, army, sportswear, neoprene, PVC, pup gear, harness and skin are all accepted, street clothes are not. Tickets are sold online, and the weekend pass works out cheaper than buying each event separately.
Getting to Noord
Take the free ferry from the back of Amsterdam Centraal to Buiksloterweg. It runs around the clock, and from the landing it is about five minutes on foot to the shuttle stop. Free shuttle buses leave every 20 minutes, starting half an hour before each event opens and running until the last guest has gone.
Shopping during the week
Several gear shops on the Kerkstraat and the Reguliersdwarsstraat run discounts from Thursday to Sunday. Black Body on the Kerkstraat takes 15 percent off a leather and sportswear line, and some shops tie their discount to a valid event ticket, so keep it on your phone.
Amsterdam and the Netherlands
Nearly all of this happens within a few streets of the old centre. Our Amsterdam page lists every bar, club, sauna and shop we carry in the city. The Netherlands scores 63.82 on ILGA-Europe's Rainbow Index. In 2001 it became the first country to open marriage to same-sex couples. More on our Netherlands page.
If you are staying longer, the Coming In Week in Arnhem, 82 km away, runs from 11 to 18 October.