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Audrey Joseph

March 24, 2022

Audrey Joseph is best known as an American record executive, nightclub owner and manager, and LGBT rights activist. Leather-Related Work Joseph produced the dance stage at the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco for many years. She hosted the first leather subculture contests in San Francisco. She was also a producer of the event International Ms. Leather; specifically, after the first International Ms. Leather contest,… read more »

Australian Bear Titleholders

November 23, 2022

Australian Bear Titleholders Title Year First Last Title 1997 Randall Robinson Mr Australasia Bear 1997 1998 Paul Bear Mr Australasia Bear 1998 1999 Dale Kruse Mr Australasia Bear 1999 2000 Malcolm Sporsen Mr Australasia Bear 2000 2001 Michael MacPherson Mr Australasia Bear 2001 2002 Glenn Dale Mr Australasia Bear 2002 2003 Cenk Suphioglu Mr Australasia… read more »

Australian Leather Pride Flag

December 18, 2023

The Australian Leather Pride Flag, a variant on the original leather pride flag design by Tony DeBlase, was created in September 1989 by Mr. Laurie Lane, four months after DeBlase presented his “proposed design idea” for the original leather pride flag on May 28, 1989, at International Mr. Leather. The Australian variant includes the black-blue-white stripes… read more »

Australian Leather Titleholders

March 29, 2024

Australian Men’s Leather Titleholders Title Year IML Year IML Class First Name Last Name Title 1979 DNC N/A Noel Smith Mr Sydney Leather 1979 1980 DNC N/A Charles Jovonovsky Mr Signal Cowboy 1980 1980 1980 N/A Phil Ainswoth Mr Signal Leather 1980 1980 1980 DNC Volka Usow Mr Leather Sydney 1980 1980 1980 DNC Robert… read more »

Australian Leatherman Contest

March 8, 2022

Australian Leatherman Contest Contest The Australian Leatherman Contest is a leather contest that has been held annually in Australia since 2016. International Mr. Leather Weekend 2016 in Chicago was the setting for the announcement of the new Australian Tradition: Australian IML Alumni band together to launch a new, independent National Leather Contest series that is… read more »

Australian Queer Archives

September 27, 2023

The Australian Queer Archives (AQuA) is a community-based non-profit organisation committed to the collection, preservation and celebration of material reflecting the lives and experiences of LGBTIQ+ Australians. The Archives was established as an initiative of the 4th National Homosexual Conference, held in Sydney, in August 1978, and is based in Melbourne, Victoria. In 2020 members… read more »

Ayzad

March 4, 2022

Ayzad Author Educator Ayzad (born 1969) is an Italian author and kink educator, publicly involved since 2004 in many educational initiatives including the first lecture on BDSM at an European Federation of Sexology Congress in 2008, university seminars about kink and erotic power exchange culture, and training for legal and health professionals. Among his works,… read more »

Baltimore Leather Association of the Deaf (BLADeaf)

August 1, 2022

Baltimore Leather Association of the Deaf (BLADeaf), the first deaf leather club in America, was founded in 1986. Its original name was Maryland Lambda Alliance of the Deaf and it had three name changes before its name was changed to BLADeaf. It was founded by Elwood C. Bennett, Scott Wilson, and Harry “Abbe” Woosley, Jr. According to BLADeaf,… read more »

Bars: The Evolution

March 8, 2022

Photo credit: Sabino Paulicelli Photography Bars: The Evolution Post author:Admin Post published:May 2, 2021 By Cory David, Mr. Eagle Wilton Manors 2020/2021 Today’s leather culture evolution started in the 1950’s biker clubs/bars. In the beginning Levi™, leather, and uniform, was the norm with today embracing old and new guards alike. In my November 2020 article about… read more »

BDSM

March 14, 2022

BDSM, a term first recorded in a Usenet post from 1991, is a combination of the abbreviations B/D (Bondage and Discipline), D/s (Dominance and submission), and S/M (Sadism and Masochism, sometimes also abbreviated SM or called sadomasochism). To practice BDSM means to engage in consensual bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism, and/or masochism. The leather culture denotes practices and styles of dress… read more »