Melbourne Rubber

🚨 Applications are now open! 🚨

Do you have what it takes to become Melbourne Rubber 2026?

As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Slick Week, we're looking for the next Melbourne Rubber titleholder to represent and inspire our community.

Open to contestants of all genders, the Melbourne Rubber Competition celebrates the passion, creativity, and diversity of Melbourne's rubber community. Across three judged rounds, you'll showcase your personality, knowledge, and love of rubber before an esteemed panel of local and international judges.

Whether you're a long-time community member or considering stepping into the spotlight for the first time, we'd love to hear from you.

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Ready to take the stage?

👉 Submit your application today via the link. If you have any questions, get in touch.

https://forms.gle/Hp2V9adXL8LMoZcr5

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Don't just be part of Slick Week. Be part of its history.

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DEMASQUE MAGAZINE / ISSUE 31 📚 [JUN-AUG 2026] ⛓️ COVER REVEAL

Our Issue 31 cover artwork series features model Jemma Joy as shot by 💜

This upcoming edition is set to release on June 25th [at our quarterly Issue Launch Party] and will be available in print and digital versions via our webshop from the following day. The issue will also be available in-store at Eagle Leather from the following week.

~ issue launch party details ~
🗓️ Thursday 25th June
🕰️ From 7.30PM
💒 Avalon The Bar, Fitzroy
👠 Come casual or dress to impress / fet-wear encouraged

~ with entertainment by ~
🪢 Sh***ri by Himboy
🖤 Fe**sh Burlesque by Winter Greene
🪩 Hot babe beats by DJ Hayley .png

🎟️ All event info + ticket info can be found via the link in bio or direct via www.demasquemagazine.com

Demasque’s upcoming edition is set to release on June 25th [at our quarterly Issue Launch Party] and will be available in print and digital versions via our webshop from the following day. The issue will also be available in-store at Eagle Leather from the following week.

~ issue launch party details ~
🗓️ Thursday 25th June
🕰️ From 7.30PM
💒 Avalon The Bar, Fitzroy
👠 Come casual or dress to impress / fet-wear encouraged

~ with entertainment by ~
🪢 Sh***ri by Himboy
🖤 Fe**sh Burlesque by Winter Greene
🪩 Hot babe beats by DJ Hayley .png

🎟️ All event info + ticket info can be found via the link in bio or direct via www.demasquemagazine.com

📸 Issue 31 cover artwork series featuring model Jemma Joy as shot by / stay tuned for the official cover reveal ⛓️

A heartfelt thank you to all of you for your rallying words of support on our post this last week. It's been an incredibly tough time, and all of your comments and shares have lifted us up and given us hope!

Since our last post, the sign has been erected out the front. It is a ridiculous size and it covers almost half of our street facing, making us appear closed.

Just a reminder: WE ARE OPEN!

Trade has almost halved for us over the last 48 hours since the sign went up, so to say we appreciate all of your support is an understatement. It's going to be a very tough few months ahead.

Tomorrow should be a celebratory time for Eagle, with the Yarra City Council's Q***r Lives Here campaign launching from the front of our shop, it's all quite disconcerting to be honest ☹

The Age reached out to us for comment last week about the sale of the building that houses our store. Here’s an excerpt from their article:

"World-renowned fe**sh shop Eagle Leather will have to start looking around for a new eyrie after its landlord put the Abbotsford building up for sale... It’ll be a wrench for Eagle Leather, which has been selling and manufacturing leatherwear on Hoddle Street since 1994. It’s operated out of No. 80 since 2010.

For Eagle Leather it’s the old story about gentrification, compounded by the significant but fragile long-term q***r subculture in Abbotsford. But it also has a link to the area’s working-class past, which was dominated by tanneries. Eagle is one of the few remaining businesses in Abbotsford to process leather. Overseas shoppers – some famous – regularly drop in to Eagle Leather, which is on an LGBQTI tourist map, writing their signatures on the shop’s brick wall."

You can read the rest of the article here: https://www.theage.com.au/business/companies/we-offered-to-buy-it-q***r-fe**sh-shop-eagle-leather-must-look-for-a-new-eyrie-20260507-p5zupo.html

Article by Nicole Lindsay, photos by Joe Armao.

Lots of love to all of our supporters # #

Meet the Aussies competing in Mr International Leather 2026 QNews LGBTIQA+ News

DOUBLE PASS GIVEAWAY

Provocation returns tomorrow night at and we’re giving away a DOUBLE PASS to Intensive Care.

Think dark dance floors, rooftop energy, medical fe**sh, latex, performances, play spaces, DJs and a crowd that always delivers.

To enter:
🖤 Tag the friend you want to bring
🖤 Follow the page
🖤 More tags = more chances

Winner announced 10AM Friday 15 May.

Dress theme:
Medical fe**sh, black, chrome, latex, uniforms or your own version of clinical chaos.

Doors open 9PM.
Come dressed for the night you want to have.

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