My Leather Life

I had a blast this last weekend at IML34 in Chicago! It was so great to meet old friends and make new ones. It is funny, most the gay community do not accept Leather folk, and I just don't understand that? We make up such a small percentage and they look down upon us? Leather folk are always and I mean always there for you. If I needed help and I needed it right now, I could pick up the phone right now and make an emergency call and I would have some of Leather brothers and sisters right there.

this Richard Savvy Mr Sydney Leather 2012

One great thing I have to say, is that the BDSM lifestyle has gone mainstream! With the book 50 shades of gray. I hope most people read it and see the love and the compassion on in it and not all the S&M sex in it. I hope it opens their eyes and see the love we all feel for each other.

I don;t think people understand how loving and how much money is to be made from the Leather community. I think I heard someone say it was going to be right around 60 million for the city of Chicago. That is a lot of money! Sponsorship this were was Miller Lite beer and Orbitz. Some big names there. Plus the hotels bid on where it is going to be each year. They all want the contact.

Eric International Mr Leather 2011

The BDSM community does a lot of fund raiser for all kinds of places. My Best Friend Mike Prater has done a lot himself. I am sure he raised over $10,000 in the past 2 years. Never asking any thing for himself. We are a caring and giving group of people. I wish evryone would take the time and go to one of these leathr events and just see what is going on and all the good they are doing.

Mike Prater Mr Mid-west Leather 2011 (my best friend)

Please if you have the time, read, get to know someone, talk to someone about the Leather community and don't be narrow minded about it and just think about all the kinky sex, ther is so much more!

My History in Leather

In April 2004, I won the Indiana Leather Sir contest held at the 501 in Indianapolis Indiana. I found this pic of me from the Leather Journal and wanted to post it.  

I am thinking about running for another Leather title, after I got home for IML34. I miss that feeling of the brotherhood with my Leather Brothers and also my Leather Sisters.

Leather History

On May 28, 1989: Tony DeBlase presents his design for a leather pride flag to the audience at International Mr. Leather, the first time the flag is presented to the public.

Also on this day in 1993, The Leather Archives and Museum opens its first display of collected materials during the International Mr. Leather weekend in Chicago.

Family by choice

You are my family, but we don’t share blood.


You are my family by choice.


The most powerful bond is the one that we choose.


I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.

You are my sister and you are my brother.


We are the closest of kin.


You are the one I can call in the night,


and know that you’ll wake with a grin.

When trouble shows up and grief’s close behind,


your words and your love keep me strong.


It’s you who would sit by my hospital bed,

and love me a beautiful song.

You Intend for the world to be gentle to me,


and you Vision my life full of Peace.


We are joined in a way that is foreign to most,


and I pray that it never will cease.

This is America

I have been called many things over the years. A few of the more “polite”: Liberal, Socialist, Leftist, Progressive, Democrat, Independent. But I am simply a messenger of information. 

How can America be a described as a “republic” as it originally was thought to be, if the Republican party demands we are run by “majority rule”, better understood as “mob rule”, which is actually how a “democracy” is run, the very ideology they claim to hate and the reason why many of them try to demonize the Democratic party by calling it the “democrat” party, in hopes people will see a correlation? If we were allowed to run America as a “mob rule”, (think majority making all decisions even if negative for the minority), woman would never have been allowed to vote, as was the case when the majority in New York years ago voted against allowing this, and how the majority in the country voting against allowing black people equal rights as white people, and as in many examples through out America’s history where the majority did not want to allow the minority (woman, blacks, immigrants, gays, the disabled, etc) to have the same rights, freedoms and protections under the law.