Club Submission

About this place Club Submission

Club Submission is Tampa's leather and cruise bar, operating in the Ybor City district where the neighbourhood's tradition of alternative culture creates a natural home for the leather community. The bar hosts themed leather, fetish, and bear nights and provides the darkroom and cruise-oriented infrastructure that the leather community requires and that mainstream gay bars do not offer. The Ybor City location is logical — the neighbourhood's historical identity as a space of working-class radicalism and counter-cultural organisation aligns naturally with the leather community's tradition of claiming and maintaining its own spaces. The crowd is the leather bar crowd: primarily gay men, ranging from dedicated leather community members to curious visitors who have heard about the bar and want to experience the scene. The atmosphere is welcoming in the specific way of the leather bar tradition: defined codes of behaviour, respect for the space and its community, and a genuine welcome for those who arrive in the spirit of the community rather than as spectators. For visitors whose interests run to the leather and cruise end of Tampa's gay scene, Club Submission is the relevant destination.