About Leather Heart (Domum Corium Cordis)
Leather Heart is “Domum Corium Cordis,” Latin for “House of Leather Heart” is a non-profit fratrem organization known as a “Leather House.” We provide service to the community through education, events, and other charitable means.
Purpose of the Organization is fratremal support, education, and charitable activities, ultimately to create safe space. The Organization structures its approach based upon three house values of Family, Integrity, and Altruism, which distill many other values, ethics, and duties often seen in the leather community:
About Our Values
Family
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Family (Latin: familia) represents nurturing supporting loyalty, trust, mentorship, tolerance, enduring love, forgiveness, and creation of safe space.
Integrity
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Integrity (Latin: integritas) represents proactive ethical behavior, honor, honesty, respect, humility, inclusion, diversity, justice, doing no harm, life-long learning and growth, admitting when wrong, conflict resolution. Important to our community are also concepts of consent and confidentiality.
Altruism
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Altruism (Latin: alteri huic) includes concepts of selfless concern for the well-being of others, service, duty. In our community this is sometimes referred to as a selfless service heart, a desire to help and educate.
About the House Colors, Crest of Domum Corium Cordis
Our house crest is unified by a trefoil knot, representing the infinite flow and interchange between the three house values and reference to the BDSM trefoil, tying the house to communities of alternative lifestyles, leather, and kink. A central heart bound by the trefoil, represents the core of this house. Colors are taken from the Leather Pride flag, with black and white colors offset to stand out on light and dark backgrounds. Family is represented by a wolf pack. Integrity is represented by scales acknowledging that the complexity of human nature and situations can be a balance. Altruism is represented by heart in hand, offering selfless service. The choice of Latin for the house name includes focus on formality of values and honors, and that Latin is a language of scholars. Letters “DCC” are subtly included with a “D” on the head of the central wolf and “C” around the eyes of the two other wolves.
The all-leather back patch in the Leather Quilt was created by leather artisan Shane Hutchinson, Abraided Leather.
We are honored that the crest of Domum Corium Cordis was accepted into @TheLeatherQuilt project by Master Varii and custodians on 17 March 2025. Thanks for letters of support in this pursuit by Master Varii, Peter Fiske, and Mufasa Ali. The Leather Quilt Project is here: https://www.leatherquilt.com/panels/domum-corium-cordis-(house-of-leather-heart). We encourage others to consider supporting the history-preserving objectives of this project by donating historic club, house, and venue patches from your area.
Education, Classes, Lectures
House of Leather Heart develops, presents, and adapts educational material for alternative communities. If you don't see something you need, contact DCC. Our classes and educational materials are listed on this website and other locaitons. If you need presentations for your community or at your event, please contact us.
Information about these can be found here: