Embrace. Experience. Explore.
SELF is an educational, fundraising, and social convention that supports lifestyles and relationships of consenting adults. We are four days of exploration, invigoration, and conversation. We are a domestic non-profit. SELF is a four-day event where differing communities attend and generate something more than our individual selves or communities.

SELF provides a space to explore and strengthen your sense of many communities. We engage in alternative relationships, are LGBTQIA+, allies, advocates, and people pursuing free expression of our identities as individuals and within our relationships.
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We respect individual expression and choice of our many communities. Explore your choices, your freedoms, yourSELF, your kinks, and your relationship! Explore your untapped SELF!
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SELF is the experience that opens your heart, expands your possibilities and creates more play.
SELF is looking for Virgins! You should too!
We love people new to BDSM and leather or just new to SELF! We’re ready to welcome them and have them join in our fun! SELF welcomes new people each year and this year we want all you SELF veterans to reach out and bring a virgin, or two, or twenty with you!



To encourage Virgin welcoming we’re sweetening the deal: Each virgin you bring who is registered for the full weekend of SELF will get you 1 entry into a drawing! More virgins = more chances to win! The winner will receive: 1 SELF basic package and two nights at the host hotel (a value of $500).

Virgin Raffle Rules

2023 SELF Titleholders

  Scarlett Rose - 2023 Ms. SouthEast LeatherFest Scarlett (she/her) began her journey in the kink community over 20 years ago in New York City. She started out her journey as a quiet, shy submissive who wanted to learn seemingly everything that she could get her hands on. As she grew with...

MaxInLeather - 2022-23 Mr. SouthEast LeatherFest Max started his journey when he moved to North Carolina in 2016. He started going to local play parties where he met a leather family who introduced him to the Leather lifestyle. He fell in love with the structure and chosen family that Leather...

  Apollo - 2022-23 SouthEast Bootblack Apollo (HE/HIM) is an out-and-proud queer Leatherman, a Top-leaning Switch, Primal, edge player, Sadomasochist, hedonist, kinkster & fetishist based in Orlando, Florida. He identifies as a transgender menace, polyamorous, androgynous & gender...

Mara - 2023 SE Person of Leather A long time ago at a Leather bar far far away, a precocious young Mara donned their tightest jeans, tucked up their hair into a leather baseball hat, and jumped on a subway to try to find the kind of men they lusted after on the well worn pages of their stolen...

  Master Varii & slave_neill - 2022-23 SouthEast Master and slave Master Varii and slave neill are honored to represent the Leather and M/s community as 2022 & 2023 Southeast Master/slave. Master Varii is an Indigenous covered Leather Woman and head of House of Valor. She is a...