Photo: advocate.comFetish · since 1979
IML: the world's biggest leather gathering, a long weekend in Chicago with the contest at its centre and parties every night.
International Mr. Leather has drawn the global leather and fetish community to Chicago every Memorial Day weekend since 1979. The contest is the reason it exists, the hotel and the leather market are the daytime, and the city's fetish parties run their biggest nights around it.