• To establish and maintain a national/worldwide communication, information, education and support network for sisters and brothers of the leather/SM/fetish community.
  
  
• To promote with power and pride the right of all adults to engage in safe, sane and consensual sexual expression
  
  
• To increase communication and understanding among women and men in the leather/SM/fetish community
  
  
• To facilitate political activism, visibility, and education in order to destroy stereotypes, misconceptions, and media misrepresentation about the leather/SM/fetish family in the community at large
  
  
• To provide, through our publications, educational material, and Living in Leather conferences, a forum for the sharing of knowledge, viewpoints and practices of a diverse network of women and men
  
  
• To build, strengthen, and defend individuals, organizations, publications and businesses within our community, especially against threats to their freedom of expressions, freedom of the press, right to free association and the right to equal protection under the law
  
  
• To develop outreach to women, people of color, transgenderals, the deaf, the physically challenged, and other minorities who have been traditionally discriminated against or poorly represented in the leather/SM/fetish community
  
  
• To fight for decriminalization of all sexual acts between consenting adults
  
  
• To preserve a record of our history, culture and traditions
  
  

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