The leather BDSM scene encompasses power play, dressing up, role-playing, non monogamy and all these other sexualities outside the norm. Before the leather world I was interested in these kind of things but never found an avenue to actually explore it.
I think people look at the LGBTQ community within so many different perspectives and we have so many options that I feel what ends up happening we get sucked into this heteronormative idea of coupling up. I feel like the leather world has given me so many different examples of how you can be fulfilled sexually, emotionally and mentally as opposed to this dominant narrative of being assimilationist.