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Allena Gabosch
Allena Gabosch, Executive Director of the Center For Sex Positive Culture (www.sexpositiveculture.org) (formerly known as The Wet Spot and Seattle's Sex-Positive Community Center ) has been active in the sex positive movement practically from its beginning (in fact, she's creating sex positive culture on a daily basis). She has been producing educational and social events for the sex-positive community since 1990. She is a frequent speaker on many sex-positive subjects at colleges and conferences around the United States and Canada, with an emphasis on BDSM and Polyamory. She is the festival Director for the Seattle Erotic Art Festival (www.seattleerotic.org) She is a past board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (www.ncsfreedom.org). In her less than mundane non-kinky life she is active in Landmark Education, loves theater, good food, walking around Seattle and hopes to run for Seattle City Council in a few years. In the Spring of 2008 she was appointed to the Seattle Commission for Sexual Minorities (http://www.seattle.gov/scsm/). She is a bisexual, poly switch and considers herself extremely blessed as she has a rich and full poly life, with many amazing and loving people in her "polycule".
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Boymeat
Phillip Wolf, more popularly known as Boymeat, is a 32-year-old native New Yorker. Discovering The Eulenspiegel Society (TES) at the age of 19, he quickly became an active participant and presenter in the New York SM scene. A former TES board member, he also holds memberships with the Gay Male SM Activists (GMSMA), the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) and the Leather Archives & Museum. He is also an associate member of the New York boys of Leather and active with New York’s Leather Pride Night Committee.
Best known for his outreach to the younger members of our community, he co-created the concept of The Next Generation (TNG), specialized groups serving young adults between the ages of 18 and 35 who are interested in SM. Boymeat was the co-founder of both TES-TNG and GMSMA-TNG, groups that helped kick off the national TNG movement. He also helped organize the first 3 national TNG conferences – Chickenstock in 1999, Second Coming in 2002, and TNG3: BDSM in the Big City in 2003. He has presented on TNG and other issues at multiple Leather Leadership Conferences.
Known as a SM educator, he has taught at almost every major educational event in the United States. He has taught SM, role play, fetishes, and relationships at TES Fest, Black Rose, South Plains Leatherfest, Dungeon 701-901, Portland Kinkfest, and many others. He has also been asked to teach to students at New York University and Columbia University. Finally, he presented keynote speeches at SM Odyssey’s Folsom Fringe 2007, Rio Grande Leather 2007, and TNG4: Bound for the Bay in 2008.
Boymeat is honored to have experience on the title circuit as a judge both at Ms. World Leather 2006 and South East Leatherfest 2007. In addition, he appreciates the chutzpah it takes to run for a title, having run for Gotham Leatherman 2000.
A bisexual, polyamourous switch, with a penchant for foot fetishism, incest role play and piss play, Boymeat is rumored to be the quite the sadist. An aspirational handcuff collector and leather history slut, he is the man who nerve.com said "makes the Marquis de Sade look like Pat Boone."
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Cougar
Cougar is a bred and born Texan. Twelve years of private school and
five years as Military Police in the U.S. Marine Corps helped to develop the energy "he" carries today. An out and proud Butch leatherdyke, Cougar's life took on a new dimension over the past three years as he courted and then married slave marsha and became a part of Master Jim's family.
Cougar has been active in the leather life since 1990. During this time, he has held more club memberships and titles than you're really interested in reading about. Currently, he is the Director of Operations for South Plains Leatherfest and mainlines most of his energies into that event.
Cougar's tastes are eclectic and he enjoys incorporating bits and pieces of his careers into his leather: handcuffs, chokeholds & domination come from his law enforcement days – punching, massage & cupping from his massage practice – and if anything goes wrong, he can always fall back on his EMT training.
Hobbies include: squiring his wife slave marsha about town, using every excuse possible to get out on the family's Harleys, and trying to figure out where Master Jim has left his cell phone or car keys this time.
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Dossie Easton
Dossie Easton, a long time player on the San Francisco S/M scene and well-known killer bottom, is co-author with Janet Hardy of The Ethical Slut, a guide to infinite sexual possibilities as well as The New Bottoming Book and The NewTopping Book, When Someone You Love Is Kinky (a book designed to give to outsiders to inform them about our lifestyle), and most recently, Radical Ecstasy: SM Journeys to Transcendence. She is a licensed psychotherapist working with individuals, couples and more in her private practice, with a particular interest in how SM journeys into Shadow can bring old wounds into the healing light of consciousness and and give them a shot of life force in the form of good hot sex.

An active sex radical since 1961, Dossie was a member of the first Board of Directors of the Society of Janus in San Francisco in 1974. In the eighties under the name of Hidebound Leatherware, she had a business crafting whips and restraints. Currently she makes her home in the mountains north of San Francisco, travels around to teach at conferences all over the world, and spends her nonexistent free time hiking the hills declaiming filthy poetry to the vultures and hosting outrageous pajama parties. You can check out her website at www.dossieeaston.com.
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Hardy Haberman
Since the mid-70's Hardy has been an active in the leather community and
a member of many BDSM/Fetish organizations including Dallas Motorcycle
Club, Leather Rose Society, NLA-Dallas, Discipline Corps and a founding
member of Inquisition-Dallas. Considering himself a "Pain Technologist"
he specializes in CBT and has an unusual fondness for clips clamps and
clothespins, as well as more esoteric SM play.
Professionally he is a filmmaker. His documentary on the leather
lifestyle "LEATHER" has won numerous awards and appeared in festivals
around the world, and his latest film, "Out of the Darkness, The Reality
of SM" is currently being used by health care professionals around the
world. His non-leather projects include the documentary "The Big Fair"
a look inside the State Fair of Texas, which is currently available from
National Film Network.
Outside his filmmaking, he is a gay activist, author & speaker on
aspects of the SM/Leather scene. His books "The Family Jewels, A guide
to male genital play and torment" published by Greenery Press and "More
Family Jewels", Playing With Pain" and "Soul of a Second Skin" published
by Nazca Plains Publishing are available at bookstores everywhere. He is
currently co-chair of the NLA-Dallas and Circle Leader of "Shouts In The
Wilderness" leather circle at the Cathedral Of Hope in Dallas. He also
does a killer kinky magic act!
He was awarded NLAI's Man of the Year award in 1999 and the NLA-I
Lifetime Achievement award in 2007. Since April, 1995, he and his boy
Patrick have been living together in Dallas with their Feline Mistress
Elvira and newcomer Jack-The-Cat.
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Lolita Wolf
Lolita Wolf is a native New Yorker, who discovered the BDSM scene back
in the late 80's when "online" meant being on the phone sex lines. She
is an activist who defends the sexual freedom for all consenting adults,
spreads the word about BDSM, sex and poly, and helps the community grow
and flourish. Yet her goal remains "to have fun." Lolita has many
specialties including bondage, impact play of all sorts, hot wax, fire
play, poly relationships, social skills, communication and negotiation,
CBT, violet wands, etc. Lolita has presented workshops for organizations
and events across the country, including TES, GMSMA, Black Rose, Living
in Leather, South Plains Leatherfest, Thunder in The Mountains, Portland
Kinkfest, Frolicon, Dark Odyssey and many others. She has also presented
seminars at Columbia, Yale, NYU, Bard and Rutgers Universities. She is
well-known for a fun and entertaining style that packs a lot of
information into a short class. Lolita is an Emeritus Board Member of
both The Eulenspiegel Society (TES) and Leather Leadership Conference.
She is a former Chair of Lesbian Sex Mafia, an honorary member of GMSMA
and an Associate Member of New York boys of Leather. She is active with
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and Leather Pride Night. Her
awards include the 1996 and 2000 Northeast Region Pantheon of Leather
award, 1996 NLA Order of Merit award, 1997 NLA Lifetime Achievement
award, Gloria Brame's Kinky Hall of Fame award, the 1998 Barry Douglas
Community Service award, the 1999 DefendersNY Founders Award, the 2000
LA&M Leatherfolk to Watch Out For, the 2001 Black Rose Vaughn Keith
National Educator Award and the 2002 Diabolique Ball Community Service
Award. Lolita was honored to be a Judge for International Ms. Leather in
1995, MAL Bootblack 2002 and GLLA Bootblack 2004. She was keynote
speaker at Beyond Vanilla 2001 and SM Odyssey's Folsom Fringe 2007. Her
writing has appeared in On Our backs and Prometheus magazines and she
has authored two books: Spanking and CBT in a Nutshell. A six year old
Princess who lies about her age, Lolita manages to stir up shit and get
her own way (most of the time). She is part of a far-ranging leather
family and considers herself a versatile opportunist. Her website,
Lolita's Predictions & Predilections can be found at
http://www.leatheryenta.com/
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Mark Frazier
Mark Frazier is a co-owner of South Plains Leatherfest and the International Master/slave contest. He also is a co-owner of the International Leather Sir/boy and Community bootblack contests. In Jan 2008, he retired after 13 years of owning the Dallas Eagle and Dallas Woody's Sports and Video Bar.
Mark has been heavily involved in the BDSM scene for over 20 years and has been an active and very visible part of the local, regional, national and international leather scene as an activist, player, judge, educator and producer of events and contests. He has proudly given over 1500 educational BDSM workshops since beginning his BDSM journey..
Mark has held various leather titles ranging from State and Regional to International. He also has held positions on numerous prominent local to national boards.
Mark has been awarded many awards over the years including: Pantheon of Leather's Man of the Year, Pantheon's Reader's Choice Man of the Year, Lifetime Achievement Award – NLA International, Pantheon's South Central Award and Pantheon's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Mark'song term club and organization memberships include NCSF, NLA-International, NLA-Dallas, Discipline Corps and an Associate Member of CHC.
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Midori
Writer and lecturer on a wide range of sexual topics, Midori has a
degree in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and
vast indispensable experience as a pioneering San Francisco sex
educator. A regular advice columnist for Men's Health, Midori has
appeared on HBO and BBC, and has been featured in Vogue, Playboy, Der
Spiegel, Cosmo and more. Multifaceted, she is a skilled photographer and
artist in Japanese rope, presenting to art institutions such as
Tanzquartier, Vienna and Das Arts in Amsterdam. She's the author of the
bestselling books "The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage" and "Wild Side
Sex". Long time sex positivity activist from the Bay Area and active in
various aspects of the leather community since the early 90s, she was
awarded Pantheon of Leather Woman of the Year 2003, Pantheon of Leather
Northern California Regional Activist Award 2005. She's also been
granted Sainthood by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in 2007.
Learn more about her projects at www.PlanetMidori.com
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Ms. Twisted
As a clinical social worker, Ms. Twisted may be the only leatherdyke
paid by the State of Texas to teach SM 101 to the mental health field!
Ms. T remains committed to helping mental health professionals
understand leather sexuality as one aspect of healthy human sexual
behavior. Her current interests include preserving safe Queer Space in
today's leather community. Since there is no lesbian-only space for
leatherdykes in Texas, she and a few partners-in-crime spend their spare
time trying to encourage and preserve leatherdyke culture. If Ms. T won
the lottery, she'd build a clubhouse where she'd teach dykes SM skills,
encourage them to share our rich leather traditions, and provide a safe
play to play for lesbians who are exploring their leather sexuality. Her
leather history includes co-chair for NLA-Dallas; founding member of
Inquisition-Dallas; original faculty member for The boy's Training Camps
and The Master's Retreat; lifetime member of NLA-Dallas and Bound by
Desire; co-producer of the film, "Out of the Darkness: The Reality of
SM" and NLA-International Woman of the Year in 2000. Ms. Twisted
resides in Austin, Texas where she's known mostly as a perverse little
Redheaded Top!
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Olivier Pratt
Olivier originally hails from Nancy, France and moved State side in the
mid 70's. He was introduced to the Leather lifestyle 12 years ago and
since then he has traveled that path learning and experiencing all that
he can. He celebrates and lives his life with his partner of 13 years
John. He is a founding and active member of the Oklahoma Leather Guard,
Co-Chair of NLA-OKC and Associate member of T.U.L.S.A.. He has produced
and promoted numerous contests, benefits and runs throughout the state
of Oklahoma. He is the current International LeatherSIR 2007 and has
held the Titles of South Central Leather SIR 07, Oklahoma Leather SIR
06/07 and Tulsa Mr. Leather 05. Olivier is a Dominate Pig Top with
switch interests on certain occasions. His interests lie in Spanking,
Flogging, Biting, Pits, Wax Play, Electricity, Water Sports, CBT, TT,
Interrogation, Domination/Humiliation, Vampirism, Cigars, Caning,
Bondage, Abduction, Ritualism, Spirituality and the Lifestyle and more.
His education and accreditations include; BA's in Philosophy/Comparative
Religions & Psychology from the University of Hawai'i, Ordained
Deacon for the Roman Catholic Church and is a practicing eclectic
Trinitarian Wiccan. He has presented & hosted classes/seminars/talks
at Tribal Fire, Tulsa Mr. Leather, Oklahoma Mr. Leather, KCLU, Leather
in the Woods, South Plains Leatherfest, GLLA, Beyond Vanilla, Leather
Camp, TDS and MAL. He is part of Mama's family as Mama's Tulsa Bear and
has been nominated in the past for the Pantheon of Leather Awards for
the South Central Region, Forbearer and Man of the Year. All things
aside, he believes that a Leather person is someone who has a deeply
ingrained passion for all things in life, willing to test their own
limitations with respect, dignity and insatiable curiosity. His desire
is to help lead other people in our lifestyle to a better understanding
of their own innate Leather heart in a journey of kinky self discovery.
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Roger of Shotgun
Roger is a fifth generation Californian who was raised in a family that was way 'beyond liberal.' When he came out as a homosexual at age 11.... then 12, then 13 and 14 (it took a while to be taken seriously) he found he was not the only gay person in the family. Eventually he found he wasn't even the first in the family into S&M. The game of 'Cowboys and Indians' had a definite bent towards bondage and genital torture for the young sadist and there are several boys from the old neighborhood who are probably still in therapy. In fact, they might well forbid their kids from playing 'Cowboys and Indians' unto their own fifth generation.
In later years Roger was working (playing?) as a sex-worker specializing in, what a surprise, genital torture. Like some of the previous generation of South American dictators his standard answer to the question "And what do you do?" is "I torture men for a living." After doing one-to-one sexual education for years...uh, many years...well, for decades, ...OK, for many decades, already!, Roger started Shotgun Video in 1993. It is a man-to-man adult video company that specializes in documentaries of real sexual torture for pleasure (and otherwise) between consenting and occasionally visually arresting adults. He currently shoots between four and eight new titles per year and is always looking for tough and muscular victims with much more will-power than sense....but then, aren't we all? Roger also likes to show off the creative sexual imaginations of other Tops and is excessively available to discuss this. He also lectures, directs, performs, pillages and tiptoes or stomps his way through the tender nervous systems of beginners to advanced players, groups, and many whose mobility is somewhat impaired.
All of Rogers's activities are done within the ground rules of informed consent, safer sex, no physical danger, damage, or drugs, also leaving out kids, animals, and sadly, women. Roger regrets not being 'one of the lucky ones', a true bisexual, but is happy to be mad about men and nuts about nuts. He claims to be safe but insane, and is sticking with that story. He can be reached at SFBuiltTop@aol.com or if you are within earshot, which you probably are considering the size of his mouth.
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Sharrin Spector
Body modification artist, teacher and vendor, Sharrin Spector has been active in the BDSM community for the last 20 years. Her passions include blood, rattan canes and being on the receiving end of excellent service.
Sharrin has taught for numerous organizations including Black Rose,Thunder in the Mountains, Dark Odyssey and IMsL. When not traveling, she lives in a non-traditional poly triad in Oakland, CA.
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Sir Top
Sir Top holds the title of SE Master 2007, is a leather dyke and has been active in the lifestyle for 9 years as a Dominant and Master. She is in a very successful 24/7 M/s relationship with Her collared slave bonnie since 2002. Sir Top loves educating and feels that this last title year has provided her with much needed growth that now allows her to pay it forward in her teaching. Sir Top has resided in Central Fl for 25 years and was a nurse on the heart team. She is now retired from her field although she still has a strong precision for needles and creative needle play. Although Sir Top has dabbled in writings, her first published article came out in Feb 2007 issue of Power Exchange Magazine, An Alternative Lifestyle Publication and she is currently putting together a leather dyke publishing to be coming out soon.
Sir Top is co-chair for adopt the Master/slave room for the Leather Archives and Museum, member of the Leather Archives and Museum, NLA-I, NCSF and SPICE. Sir Top is the producer of Beyond Leather, Director of MAsT S.Fl and the owner of Florida LeatherSIR/Leatherboy. Sir Top has presented at Kinky Kollege, Black Rose, Floating World, Sinsation in Leather, APEX Summer Bash, Great Lakes and many more.
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slave bonnie
slave bonnie holds the title of SE slave 2007. she is a femme gay female slave to her Master Sir Top. Although she was born and raised on Long Island, NY, she has been living in Fl for the last 20 years. slave bonnie has been part of the lifestyle since the late 1970's (for fun in fetish) and has found her place as a slave since 2002 with Sir Top. Today she has a successful private practice as a neuromuscular specialist in pain management. In the early 80's she was a supporter of The Eulenspiegal society (now known as TES) of NYC.
slave bonnie is the producer of Beyond Leather, Director of MAsT S.Fl., owner of Florida LeatherSIR/Leatherboy, co-chair for adopt the Master/slave room for the Leather Archives and Museum, member of SPICE, NLA-I, NCSF and the Leather Archives and Museum. slave bonnie has presented at Kinky Kollege, Black Rose, Floating World, Sinsation in Leather, APEX Summer Bash, Great Lakes and many more.Please contact us at BeyondLeather@gmail.com.
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Sparky
Pup Sparky came into the lifestyle via his friend and leather brother,
Brian Wilson - South Central Leather boy 2006. It's from the love and
support of his leather family that he has been able to learn and grow as
a leather person. Pup play, houndstooth and duct tape are but a few of
his passions as well as food. Pup attends culinary school to fetch his
inner Chef. His experiences and story are just beginning... Sparky
holds the titles of International Leather boy 2007, South Central
Leather boy 2007 and Oklahoma Leather boy 2007. He has presented &
hosted classes/seminars/talks at Tribal Fire, Tulsa Mr. Leather,
Oklahoma Mr. Leather, KCLU, GLLA, Beyond Vanilla, Leather Camp, TDS and
MAL. He is part of Mama's family as Mama's pup Sparky. Whenever in
doubt, Sparky lets his own inate pup guide him through the mosh pit that
is life.
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Vic
Vic started her Leather journey in the early 1980's. She identifies as
a butch, poly, switch, opportunistic sadist and singletail lover. A
recovering Baptist (those who know, just nod) she now enjoys the things
only entertained in fantasies as a youth.
This journey has taken many educational roads, from Samois of old in San
Francisco to now a member of the Sacramento Valley Leathercorp in
California. Three time teacher at the Palm Spring's women's weekend of
fun called DESIRE as well as IMsL 2007 and 2008, for the Exiles and
LARAWW, Vic mostly teaches one on one.
Vic lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountians and makes a
living creating beautiful kitchens and baths of tile and stone.
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Cecelia
Cecelia was introduced to the lifestyle more than 15 years ago in Washington state. She identifies as Leather, and for clarification will add that she is an assertive heterosexual female, sometimes submissive (usually not) pain slut bottom with slave tendencies - currently single. Originally a member of the Triskelli Guild, she was active in the greater Seattle area for several years. Cecelia moved to Washington DC in time for BR X (the first ever BR Event.) and was active in Black Rose, Strictly Social, and several other groups in the area. She found her way to Texas in 2000, and was the collared slave of Master David Brown of Fort Worth for many years.
Cecelia has been an active member of a number of groups in the DFW area, including Different Strokes, NLA-Dallas, The Power Exchange, and MAsT:DFW. She served on the board of several of them and was a founding member of MAsT:DFW. She has also been a long time member of several international organizations. She has been delighted and honored to have the opportunity to present classes and workshops for many groups and events over the years around the country. She is also a signed language interpreter and enjoys providing this service when possible. Currently unowned, Cecelia moved to Houston in 2007, and is becoming an active member in her new local community, as a member of MAsT:Houston, ERoS, and SAF, among others.
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Celeste DeVaneaux
Gay leather-woman, charity fundraiser, discussion group moderator, organizational speaker, social event organizer, educator/presenter, outreach coordinator, interviewee, facilitator and consultant for research projects, successful plaintiff against the federal government for harassment and retaliation based on sexual orientation and involvement in BDSM, gay and leather advocate, writer, keynote speaker, contest judge, education coordinator, contest producer, entertainment producer, contestant coordinator, stage manager, emcee, performer, mediator, mentor, protester, member of Mama’s Family, a Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Sprite, IMsL Staff Member of the Year, and Faith Fancher Survivor Award recipient and more… proof-positive you don’t need a sash to contribute…
Key areas of interest… gay, leather, M/s, D/s, psychology, advocacy, education
Question I hear most frequently… Are you a top or bottom (Master or slave)?
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Malik
Since 1999, Malik has been pursuing his interests in BDSM/Leather lifestyle through local, regional and national organizations and activities. Over the years, his beliefs in Leather lifestyle have been strengthened with its many similarities with Sufism. He has served his club, Tulsa Dungeon Society since 1999 in many capacities from a member to president of the club. He is a proud member of Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seeking Association (T.U.L.S.A.) and NCSF.
Malik has been honored to share his views in presenting classes on Erotic Single Tail Play, Knife Play, Canning, Master/slave Dynamics, Blood Play and Spiritual Cutting. He has presented classes for TDS, Twisted Temptation, Delightful Dungeon, Pantheon, Rio Grande Leather, Black Beat, Spanksgiving, Beyond Vanilla, Beyond Leather, NLA-Houston, Camp Gaea and Tyler BDSM Group.
Malik and his slave Cathy have been together for more than 6 years and in a committed Master/slave relationship for more than 5 years. They are proud to represent their regional area as Southwest Master/slave 2008.
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Master Barton
Master Barton is a heterosexual poly male slave owner residing near Houston, Texas. He has actively been a part of the BDSM and M/s community since 2000. In that time, he has participated in numerous groups and given dozens of classes throughout the Southeast. Furthermore he has taught at many Leather conferences over the years including SPLF, SELF, Beyond Vanilla, Masters Retreat and LLC. Master Barton has led the Houston chapter of MAsT since 2002. He has also established a BDSM loaner library with over 200 titles in it for his local groups.
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Master Konrad
Master Konrad (Southwest Master 2006) has been actively involved with power exchange relationships and SM for most of his adult life. He lives in a major Southwestern city in a live-in M/s relationship with his slave Melissa, with whom he runs his business and is jointly raising their young daughter. He has a particular affinity for conquest and resistance play, cross-examination scenes, the erotic aspects of combat sports and canes (the cane being one of the most versatile, powerful and under rated of all SM tools). That being said, he views any and all SM activities as useful in achieving altered states, developing intimacy and deepening power exchange.
Master Konrad has had several occupations and avocations over his life, some of them too tedious, others too potentially embarrassing, to mention here. Currently he is the senior partner in a small law firm. He is a trial attorney and court certified mediator, specializing in Criminal Defense. As a Special Victims prosecutor and later the 'special assignments' prosecutor for a large district attorney's office he handled many kink related crimes and prosecutions of adult businesses. Later as a private attorney his clients have included adult businesses and those charged with alleged crimes arising from kink/SM related activities.
He is the Executive Director of MAsT International, a member of several local leather, lifestyle and kink related organizations and presents and judges locally and around the nation. He also teaches martial arts and law related classes to community and law enforcement organizations.
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Master Larry & slave barb
Master Larry and slave barb have been together since 1982. They are
pleased to have grown their relationship from "vanilla with a swirl" to
a full on, dedicated 24/7 Master/slave relationship. Before entering the
scene, Master Larry was a professional musician, slave barb his roadie
and guitar tech - proving that service comes in all forms. They've been
active in the scene since their first event, TES30 in their home state
of New Jersey.
Together they have presented for TES Queer Sig, Domsubfriends (DSF) and
South Plains Leatherfest to name a few. They are members of MAsT Metro
NY, MAsT Central NJ, TES, DSF, LA&M, NCSF, The Free Speech Coalition
and associate members of New York boys of Leather. Master Larry has
served as facilitator of MAsT Metro NY and is currently Director. Master
Larry and slave barb are the 2006 Northeast Master / slave. In February
2007 Master Larry and slave barb were graced with the honor of becoming
the 2007 International Master and slave pair.
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Master Obsidian
Master Obsidian has been involved in the BDSM community for over 2 decades. He has served on the board of GWNN (The Group with No Name) in Austin, Texas and is the moderator of Black BEAT Texas and also Chapter Director for MAsT Austin. He has been honored to serve as mentor to novice Dominants and has presented at various events nationwide on such topics as Protocols, Dominance and the Inner Critic, Knife Play, TPE and Dominance and Authenticity. He is Master and Owner of slave namaste. With an extensive background in the field of diversity management he has a passion for encouraging others to take the red pill. He is into making furniture and/or beautiful instruments of torture out of wood.
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Master Rick
Master Rick, International Master 2008, has been involved in the Leather community for over 10 years. He is the current board chair of Pleasure Bound, a pansexual Northern California area BDSM group, is the Founding Director of MAsT Sacramento Valley and the Northwest Regional Representative for MAsT International. In the past few years his general interest in BDSM has become focused around his heart deep passion, the Master/slave relationship. He is a member of SM Odyssey, NCSF, Society of Janus, Edges, and SF Citadel. In addition to doing presentations on the Master/slave dynamic, he is a presenter for the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom’s Legal Educational Outreach Program.
Master Rick divides his time between keeping up the ranch property and home he and slave Tina share, his hobby restoring cars, being head of his house and family, and activities that support and promote the leather community as a whole. He and slave Tina enjoy a variety of outdoor activities and believe in living life to the fullest.
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Master Taíno
Master Taino has been active in the Leather community since the early
nineties. He is a member of Defenders Leather Levi Club since 1993,
SigMa since 1994, MAsT and Men of Discipline since 1999 and Black Rose
since 2005.
Master Taino's Leather Family and household includes slave david and
slave bobby. His Immediate Family includes several former slaves that
are close to His heart. His Extended Family includes a group of Masters,
Daddies and Sirs as well as slaves and boys from all across the country
and overseas.
He founded MTTA, Inc, a non-profit organization that runs Master Taino's
Training Academy, the Master/slave Conference, and the Washington, DC
chapter of MAsT. He has presented workshops around the country since
2001.
Master Taino has a very comprehensive website: www.mastertaino.com. He
can be reached at Master@mastertaino.com.
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Melissa
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Sir Stephen
Sir Stephen has been actively involved in the BDSM and Master/slave
communities for over 12 years. He is currently a member of The
Eulenspiegel Society (TES), Dom sub Friends (DsF), and The National
Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF). He is an officer of MasT: Metro
NY, and Director and Founder of MAsT: Central NJ.
In 2005 founded the Mid-Atlantic Masters' Forum - now an annual event.
He is currently working with others to establish an instructional entity
for Masters and slaves - the Master/slave Development Center.
Sir Stephen is proud to be the holder of the titles of International
Master 2005, and Northeast Master 2004. He has been nominated in 2006,
2007, and 2008 in various categories for the Pantheon of Leather Awards.
He has presented on numerous occasions, individually, jointly with slave
catherine as well as others, and on panels.
He identifies as Lord of the Manor modeling his management structure
after the style of a Victorian Household, with a strong spiritual
foundation.
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Skip Chasey (a/k/a Master Skip)
Master Skip heads a family of spiritually grounded leatherfolk in the
City of Angels, where he is a practicing spiritual director and
certified Grief Recovery (TM) counselor and also earns a living as a
missionary among the savages of Hollywood. He is a co-producer of the
Southwest Leather Conference ("The Leather Family Gathering") and a
co-founder of People of Leather Among You ("PLAY"), a social and
educational group for Southern California men and women interested in
the integration of spirituality and leather/fetish sexuality. In 2000
Master Skip addressed a crowd of almost one million people at the
Millennium March on Washington, and since then he has given the keynote
address and presented more than a hundred programs on the spiritual
dynamics of SM and D/s relationships at noteworthy leather events
throughout the US and Canada.
From 2001-2007 Master Skip was a core instructor for the Butchmanns
Experience, a recurring weekend retreat at which hundreds of leathermen
and women experienced profound personal growth. He presently serves on
the Theologies Team for Metropolitan Community Churches and on the board
of directors for Butchmanns, Inc., a non-profit educational organization
dedicated to self-actualization through the mindful use of physical
practices and the conscious exchange of personal power for spiritual
awareness.
Master Skip and his pup Tim are the subjects of the award-winning
documentary film Pup as well as featured articles in the "Sex and
Spirit" issue of Nerve.com magazine and Power Exchange magazine, and he
and his slave Rick are two of the subjects of the upcoming book on gay
male Master/slave relationships currently being written by slave david
stein. He is a past recipient of the Lee Montague Memorial Award for
Outstanding Community Service from Avatar Club Los Angeles, where he is
an active member; was named "Best Trainer" at the 2002 International
Puppy Contest; and in 2005 was honored with the Pantheon of Leather
Community Choice Award.
In his own words, "Blood may be thicker than water, but leather is
thicker than blood."
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slave catherine
slave Catherine has been honored to serve in the Household of Sir
Stephen for 12+ years. She feels slavery is a radically different way to
live her life that is fulfilling, productive and exciting. She is very
glad she said "Yes" to the call.
slave catherine is very humbled to be the holder of the titles of
International slave 2005, Northeast slave 2004 & 2007 slave Heart
Award, 2008 MAsT Member's Choice Award for Presenter Of The Year.
Her current organizational affiliations include: MAsT: Central NJ;
MAsT: Metro NY; MAsT: Philadelphia; NCSF; Art Of slavery; DsF; TES and;
NYC slave Forum.
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slave Cathy
slave Cathy has been a member of Tulsa Dungeon Society, TULSA and NCSF. She has co-presented with Malik at Twisted Temptation, Delightful Dungeon, Rio Grande Leather, Pantheon, Black Beat, Spanksgiving, Beyond Vanilla, Beyond Leather, NLA-Houston and Tyler BDSM Group. She has served her club TDS in many capacities as member at large and vice president. She also co-chaired and then chaired the TDS Demo and Discussion Days.
Most days she stays busy taking care of her master who, according to her, lacks patience. (He disputes this). She represented her regional leather community as Ms. Great Plains Olympus Leather 2006. She is proud to also represent the community as Southwest Slave 2008.
She is co-owner/producer of Mr. and Ms. Great Plains Olympus Leather Contest (GPOL) with her master. She is also co-owner of Alternative Lifestyle Food Pantry whose motto is "Take Care of Our Own". She has been encouraging other clubs and organizations to open alternative lifestyle food pantries in their areas. She is co-owner of Xpressions, a local dungeon/community center in Tulsa.
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slave marsha
Slave marsha, International slave 2001, has been involved in the leather/SM community for many years, and has been in service to Master Jim for going on 12 years. Although she identifies as a Femme leatherdyke, her desire to serve transcends sexual orientation, making it possible for her to happily serve a gay leatherman. She is grateful her Owner honors all of her identities – so much so that he conducted a Union Ceremony in 2006 for her and her romantic soul mate, Cougar, a Butch leatherdyke. Since early 2007, Master Jim, slave marsha and Cougar have lived together as a leather family.
Over the past 10 years, slave marsha has presented seminars and keynote speeches at hundreds of groups and events all across the country on both Master/slave relationships and on issues specific to leatherwomen, and she has been honored for her work in the Master/slave community with several awards. Slave marsha is one of the co-owners of South Plains Leatherfest-International Master/slave Weekend and the International Master/slave Contest.
In addition to serving her Owner and teaching in the community, slave marsha loves riding her 2005 Harley Davidson Softail Deluxe and being treated like a princess by her handsome Butch.
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slave namaste
slave namaste has counseled women and taught about embracing submission for 12 years. She brings this knowledge into her relationship serving as Master Obsidians' 24/7 TPE slave as well as to counseling and aiding in the development of other slaves in the lifestyle. Her writings on surrender and absolute slavery have been featured in print and online. She is Founder and co-moderator of various lifestyle groups, one geared specifically for slaves in TPE relationships and another for Austin Area Ladies in Kink. She is into Domestic Service, Protocols, and The Art of Surrender.
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slave Rick
Since 2003, slave Rick has presented programs on the spiritual dynamics
of BDSM at noteworthy leather events and conferences throughout the U.S.
and Canada.
slave Rick is a full-time civil servant, a part-time college instructor,
a massage therapist, a retired Science of Mind practitioner and a
licensed, practicing psychotherapist working with clients primarily from
the BDSM community.
Through his slavery as well as spiritual practice, slave Rick has
discovered this "road less traveled" to be a path to authenticity,
liberation and Self realization. he has great passion for supporting
others in awakening to a life of peace, joy and true freedom from
suffering.
slave Rick was recently the recipient of the 2007 SWLC "Leatherman's
Heart Award," given annually to a male-identified individual within the
leather/fetish/bdsm community who, in the opinion of the SWLC producers,
is an exemplary model of authenticity and integrity.
First and foremost, however, he is by grace in service to his beloved
Master Skip.
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slave Tina
International slave 2008, slave Tina has been involved in the Leather community for 8 years. She is a strong woman, a dedicated mother, and an independent, successful business owner. Slave Tina is also an avid charity supporter and often uses her favorite sport, distance running, as a vehicle for both leather and non-leather charity efforts. She is the Events Coordinator for Pleasure Bound and MAsT Sacramento, a member of SubHaven, SM Odyssey, Edges, and SF Citadel. In her spare time she enjoys welding, fishing, target shooting, climbing trees, raising Fainting Goats and reading and writing poetry. She defines one of her greatest personal accomplishments as having allowed herself to be who she is, and from that place, utilizing her strengths for the joy of service to her Master.
Master Rick and slave Tina are honored to have been selected to represent our community as the International Master and slave 2008 and previously held the Northwest Master and slave 2007 title. They have been Master and slave for 4 ½ years and have been married for nearly 3 years. They have presented seminars at many community venues, MAsT, NCSF, and for major events including Leatherwoods, IMsL, and smOdyssey.
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slave ~she
slave ~she is a bisexual poly female slave honored to be serving her Master Barton for the last 8 years. She has been actively participating in the BDSM and M/s communities since 1998. slave ~she is an active member of many clubs and organizations in her new home state of Texas as well as in the neighboring state of Louisiana . slave ~she has spent the last 6 years giving and assisting in kink education throughout the southern tier of states and been fortunate enough to attend and teach at numerous BDSM conventions, conferences and submissive specific intensive weekend retreats. Some of the teaching venues included SPLF, SELF, Beyond Vanilla, boy's Training Camp and submissive journey weekend.
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IM/s Contest Judges
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Cecelia
Cecelia was introduced to the lifestyle more than 15 years ago in Washington state. She identifies as Leather, and for clarification will add that she is an assertive heterosexual female, sometimes submissive (usually not) pain slut bottom with slave tendencies - currently single. Originally a member of the Triskelli Guild, she was active in the greater Seattle area for several years. Cecelia moved to Washington DC in time for BR X (the first ever BR Event.) and was active in Black Rose, Strictly Social, and several other groups in the area. She found her way to Texas in 2000, and was the collared slave of Master David Brown of Fort Worth for many years.
Cecelia has been an active member of a number of groups in the DFW area, including Different Strokes, NLA-Dallas, The Power Exchange, and MAsT:DFW. She served on the board of several of them and was a founding member of MAsT:DFW. She has also been a long time member of several international organizations. She has been delighted and honored to have the opportunity to present classes and workshops for many groups and events over the years around the country. She is also a signed language interpreter and enjoys providing this service when possible. Currently unowned, Cecelia moved to Houston in 2007, and is becoming an active member in her new local community, as a member of MAsT:Houston, ERoS, and SAF, among others.
Malik
Since 1999, Malik has been pursuing his interests in BDSM/Leather lifestyle through local, regional and national organizations and activities. Over the years, his beliefs in Leather lifestyle have been strengthened with its many similarities with Sufism. He has served his club, Tulsa Dungeon Society since 1999 in many capacities from a member to president of the club. He is a proud member of Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seeking Association (T.U.L.S.A.) and NCSF.
Malik has been honored to share his views in presenting classes on Erotic Single Tail Play, Knife Play, Canning, Master/slave Dynamics, Blood Play and Spiritual Cutting. He has presented classes for TDS, Twisted Temptation, Delightful Dungeon, Pantheon, Rio Grande Leather, Black Beat, Spanksgiving, Beyond Vanilla, Beyond Leather, NLA-Houston, Camp Gaea and Tyler BDSM Group.
Malik and his slave Cathy have been together for more than 6 years and in a committed Master/slave relationship for more than 5 years. They are proud to represent their regional area as Southwest Master/slave 2008.
Master Konrad
Master Konrad (Southwest Master 2006) has been actively involved with power exchange relationships and SM for most of his adult life. He lives in a major Southwestern city in a live-in M/s relationship with his slave Melissa, with whom he runs his business and is jointly raising their young daughter. He has a particular affinity for conquest and resistance play, cross-examination scenes, the erotic aspects of combat sports and canes (the cane being one of the most versatile, powerful and under rated of all SM tools). That being said, he views any and all SM activities as useful in achieving altered states, developing intimacy and deepening power exchange.
Master Konrad has had several occupations and avocations over his life, some of them too tedious, others too potentially embarrassing, to mention here. Currently he is the senior partner in a small law firm. He is a trial attorney and court certified mediator, specializing in Criminal Defense. As a Special Victims prosecutor and later the 'special assignments' prosecutor for a large district attorney's office he handled many kink related crimes and prosecutions of adult businesses. Later as a private attorney his clients have included adult businesses and those charged with alleged crimes arising from kink/SM related activities.
He is the Executive Director of MAsT International, a member of several local leather, lifestyle and kink related organizations and presents and judges locally and around the nation. He also teaches martial arts and law related classes to community and law enforcement organizations.
Master Obsidian
Master Obsidian has been involved in the BDSM community for over 2 decades. He has served on the board of GWNN (The Group with No Name) in Austin, Texas and is the moderator of Black BEAT Texas and also Chapter Director for MAsT Austin. He has been honored to serve as mentor to novice Dominants and has presented at various events nationwide on such topics as Protocols, Dominance and the Inner Critic, Knife Play, TPE and Dominance and Authenticity. He is Master and Owner of slave namaste. With an extensive background in the field of diversity management he has a passion for encouraging others to take the red pill. He is into making furniture and/or beautiful instruments of torture out of wood.
Master Wolf
Master Wolf is a trans-masculine butch leather dyke and head of a spiritually oriented leather family in the Indianapolis area. Master Wolf came into the leather lifestyle via the gay male leather community in the late 1970's, and is committed to passing these traditions and values to new generations. He is also deeply involved and invested in spiritually-based SM practices and M/s relationships as a seeker, a teacher, and a healer.
Master Wolf spent many years working as a management consulting executive, specializing in building cohesive teams, systems, and processes. Many of the philosophies and practices he employs in his leather family draw on this expertise, as well as on his post-graduate studies in Radical Psychology.
Master Wolf is a co-founder and leader of Andromeda Indianapolis, an educational and social club for women and transfolk in the Indianapolis area. He has presented workshops on BDSM 101, knife play, wax play, mummification, dungeon etiquette, and contracts & negotiations for Andromeda and other local and regional groups. He is currently developing workshops on "Impact Play for Disabled Tops" and "Impact Play as Energy Exchange and Healing."
Master Wolf is also a charter member of NLA Indianapolis, where he serves as Webmaster and leads the BDSM and Spirituality special interest group and the Spirit of the Whip e-list (www.bdsm-spirituality.com).
slave barb
slave barb is a sassy, queer, non-submissive girl who loves being owned by her Master – in other words – she’s a conundrum. slave barb has taken a path with her Master that’s lead from the streets of NYC, to being His roadie and guitar tech to being Northeast slave 2006 and International slave 2007.
As an Associate member of the New York boys of Leather, she is happiest serving her community and causing mischief. she is currently in training as a SoulCollage Facilitator, learning to merge her Art with Leather Spirituality through the use of SoulCollage cards.
Vic
Vic started her Leather journey in the early 1980's. She identifies as
a butch, poly, switch, opportunistic sadist and singletail lover. A
recovering Baptist (those who know, just nod) she now enjoys the things
only entertained in fantasies as a youth.
This journey has taken many educational roads, from Samois of old in San
Francisco to now a member of the Sacramento Valley Leathercorp in
California. Three time teacher at the Palm Spring's women's weekend of
fun called DESIRE as well as IMsL 2007 and 2008, for the Exiles and
LARAWW, Vic mostly teaches one on one.
Vic lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountians and makes a
living creating beautiful kitchens and baths of tile and stone.
IM/s Contest Emcees
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Randal J. Kinnear
Randal has served his community as an activist, fundraiser performer and auctioneer. He received a bachelors and Masters degree in Theater performance and design from Oklahoma State University. He has worked in television , commercials and film. He toured with eleven National theater companies and taught communications at the University level.
Randal is a past president of the Tulsa Uniform and Leather Seekers Association and served in various other capacities for that organizations. He was a four year member of the Board of Directors and Vice President for the Ms. World Leather organization. He is a member of the Flesh and Fantasy Board in Dallas, Texas. For nine years he has served as a director for South Plains Leatherfest as their Fundraising coordinator and their community charity director. He started the “ADOPT-A-BEAR" Program for Bryans House. He is a volunteer and contestant liaison with Cleveland Leather Awareness weekend in Cleveland , Ohio and has assisted that organization and their amazing fundraising efforts. Randal was a part of the first AIDS fundraiser in the bible belt of Tulsa, Oklahoma . Since 1985 Randal has lost over 350 friends to the AIDS Virus and has raised over half a million dollars for AIDS Related charities.
He has received many community service awards but is most proud of his 2003 Pantheon of Leather Man of the Year award and the 2005 Flesh and Fantasy Man of the Year Award he received for his service to the community.
Randal served his community as the International Leather Sir 2006. He is now a Co- executive Producer of the contest.
slave marsha
Slave marsha, International slave 2001, has been involved in the leather/SM community for many years, and has been in service to Master Jim for going on 12 years. Although she identifies as a Femme leatherdyke, her desire to serve transcends sexual orientation, making it possible for her to happily serve a gay leatherman. She is grateful her Owner honors all of her identities – so much so that he conducted a Union Ceremony in 2006 for her and her romantic soul mate, Cougar, a Butch leatherdyke. Since early 2007, Master Jim, slave marsha and Cougar have lived together as a leather family.
Over the past 10 years, slave marsha has presented seminars and keynote speeches at hundreds of groups and events all across the country on both Master/slave relationships and on issues specific to leatherwomen, and she has been honored for her work in the Master/slave community with several awards. Slave marsha is one of the co-owners of South Plains Leatherfest-International Master/slave Weekend and the International Master/slave Contest.
In addition to serving her Owner and teaching in the community, slave marsha loves riding her 2005 Harley Davidson Softail Deluxe and being treated like a princess by her handsome Butch.