Leather Times News from the Leather Archives & Museum Spring 2004

Inside:

Gayle Rubin on the history of Samois

Leather Colors

Art by Etienne and the Hun

Capital Campaign

LA&M and the Chicago Library System

and more! In this issue:

Samois...... p. 3 6418 North Greenview Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60626 USA In Memory: Tel: 773.761.9200 Fax: 773.381.4657 Thom Gunn www.leatherarchives.org ...... p. 7 Visiting the LA&M LA&M staff

Our True Col- Open visiting hours are: Rick Storer - ors: The [email protected] History and Thursday 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Executive Director Evolution of Saturday 12 noon to 3 p.m. Backbatch Sunday 12 noon to 3 p.m. Natalie - Insignias ...p. 8 Admission is free, donations are appreciated [email protected] Chief Librarian Requests to see the museum at other times and In Memory: requests to conduct research in the LA&M archives justin tanis - Alan Selby can be arranged by contacting the LA&M. [email protected] ...... p. 11 Newsletter Editor

Donations and Tax Deductions Jeff Wirsing - LA&M Collec- [email protected] tion News The Leather Archives & Museum is recognized as Facilities Manager ...... p. 11 tax exempt under the US Internal Revenue Service section 501c(3). Donations are deductible from your Federal Income tax, subject LA&M Joins to IRS deducation regulations. Chicago Librar- ies ...... p. 12 I would like to make a donation to the Leather Archives & Museum.

Thank yous Name: and donor Club or Organization: corrections Address: ...... p. 12 City, State/Province, Postal Code: I represent Thank you! Phone: ‰ An individual Fax: Donor Updates ‰ An Organization E-mail: ...... p. 13 ‰ A Business I will contribute: Capital Cam- ‰ $30 and become a Member of the LA&M for one year paign Adop- ‰ $100 and become a Voting Member of the LA&M for one year tions ...... p. 13 ‰ $500 and become a "Full-Brick" donor to the LA&M Building Fund ‰ $600 and become a Voting Member & donor to the LA&M Building Fund Capital Cam- Please send information on: paign Donors ‰ A codicil to my will ‰ Vacation Volunteering ...... p. 14 ‰ Donating Materials ‰ Local Volunteering ‰ Regional Volunteers ‰ Major Gifts LA&M, p. 2 Reprinted by permission of: Samois Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America, Edited by Marc by Gayle Rubin Stein, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003

Founded in San Francisco in June 1978 and increasingly antagonistic lesbian disbanded in May 1983, Samois was the first communities. Prior to the formation of known public organization devoted to lesbian Samois, lesbians who practiced S/M sadomasochism (S/M) and was a key player in apparently did so primarily in small, private the early phases of the feminist sex wars. Samois networks or isolated couples, or else grew out of the confluence of the feminist, gay socialized along the borders of the more and lesbian, sexual freedom, and S/M institutionally established S/M populations movements of the 1970s. “Samois” is a place- of heterosexuals and gay men. Public name taken from the famous S/M novel Story of discussion of lesbian S/M expanded in the O (1965), in which it is the location of the home mid-1970s as S/M women became more of the sole female dominant and a site for S/M visible in their communities and more vocal activities conducted entirely among women. Like in the lesbian, feminist, and gay press. other early S/M organizations, such as the This amplified visibility of S/M among gay Eulenspiegel Society (New York City, 1971) and women in turn sparked a barrage of the Janus Society (San Francisco, 1974), Samois condemnation asserting fundamental chose an obscure name intended to evade incompatibilities between lesbian feminism unwanted attention yet provide legible signals and S/M. The escalating hostility toward to the knowledgeable. S/M provided additional motivation for S/M lesbians to mobilize in self-defense. Emergence of Lesbian S/M Groups Samois and other early lesbian S/M groups Ironically, several acrimonious battles over attempted to create social worlds where kinky the relationship of S/M and feminism lesbians could find friends and partners and to enhanced the process of nascent carve out protected space in otherwise LA&M, p. 3 We believe that S/M must be consensual, mutual, and safe. S/M can exist as part of a healthy and positive lifestyle....We believe that sadomasochists are an oppressed sexual minority. Our struggle deserves the recognition and support of other sexual minorities and oppressed groups. We believe that S/M community formation. Extensive coverage can and should be consistent of these debates in the feminist and lesbian with the principles of feminism. press telegraphed the presence of activist As feminists, we oppose all S/M women in several cities, including forms of social hierarchy based Philadelphia, Boston, Iowa City, and Los on gender. As radical perverts, Angeles. As they made contact, these we oppose all social hierarchies women formed larger networks and began based on sexual preference. to assemble organizational resources. (Samois, 1979, p.2) Nationally, networking among S/M women intensified from about 1975. By 1978 a Samois never claimed that S/M was critical mass was reached in the San particularly feminist, only that there was no Francisco Bay Area that resulted in the inherent contradiction or intrinsic conflict formation of Samois. Controversy over between feminist politics and S/M practice. Samois further raised the public profile of Moreover, while addressing the prevailing lesbian S/M and propelled the formation of feminist discourse on sexuality, Samois did groups in other cities. LSM was founded in not frame its critique in purely feminist New York City in 1981, quickly followed by terms. It was instead groping toward a Leather and Lace in Los Angeles and Urania proto-queer politics that contained a broader in Boston. While LSM is the only survivor of and more inclusive sense of sexual that first wave of lesbian S/M groups, large oppression based on specifically sexual and diversified lesbian S/M communities inequalities. have since become well established in many of the major urban centers. Samois projected these ideas through bold public events and original publications. In addition to informational presentations at Defending S/M local women’s bookstores and lesbian bars, Samois articulated a bold defense of S/M as Samois produced the first Women’s Leather a legitimate eroticism, even among Dance (1981), the first Ms. Leather Contest feminists. The Samois statement of purpose (1981), and the first Lesbian Pride Leather proclaimed:

LA&M, p. 4 Dance (1982). In 1978 Samois printed the first women’s “Hankie Code,” adapted from the gay male hankie codes then in widespread circulation. Samois published the booklet What Color is Your Handkerchief in 1979 and the landmark anthology Coming to Power in 1981.

Many feminist and lesbian newspapers published excoriating reviews of these two Samois publications, refused to print supportive commentary, and rejected paid demanded the “end to all portrayals of advertisements, while some feminist women being bound, raped, tortured, bookstores simply banned them outright. mutilated, abused or degraded in any way Despite the vociferous censure, the books for sexual or erotic stimulation” (September were wildly popular and sold out quickly. 1977, p.3). WAVPM repeatedly condemned What Color is Your Handkerchief went into any visual representation, pornographic or five printings and Coming to Power three not, in which any women were shown editions. The publications, as well as the “bound, gagged, beaten, whipped and prominence and passion of the arguments chained” (November 1977, p. 1). The they provoked, all helped consolidate the organization conducted street protests emerging lesbian S/M community. In against S/M images and picketed theaters addition, the books marked San Francisco showing the film version of Story of O. Since as a known location for lesbian perverts, WAVPM was treating all visual portrayals of making the city a magnet for migration in S/M as violent and calling for their much the way steamy pulp novels drew elimination, Samois and WAVPM were on a lesbians to Greenwich Village in the 1950s collision course. and 1960s. While WAVPM denied having a position on Feminist Sex Wars S/M, members of Samois quickly perceived Samois’s greatest notoriety came from its that WAVPM’s program was as much anti-S/ role in the feminist sex wars, the first M as antipornography and that its critique skirmishes of which took place in the San of pornography entailed a series of negative Francisco Bay Area between Samois and presumptions about S/M. In the course of Women against Violence in Pornography and confronting such implicit suppositions, Media (WAVPM). Founded in 1976, WAVPM Samois challenged the fundamental was the first group dedicated to opposing credibility of both the logical structure and pornography on feminist grounds. However, empirical claims of WAVPM’s case against much of what WAVPM actually found pornography. Samois and WAVPM thus objectionable in pornography was S/M engaged in a series of disputes over both content, and its attacks on pornography pornography and S/M that prefigured a invariably included denunciation of S/M decade of subsequent struggle in feminism imagery and practice. For example, WAVPM LA&M, p. 5 rape, murder, and violence; cease to single out S/M erotica for picketing; and either admit to having a position on S/M (which may then be discussed) or take a position supporting S/M between consenting adults. (Samois, 1980)

Although WAVPM steadfastly declined to adopt any official position on S/M, several of its fervently anti-S/M members went on to produce the anthology Against Sadomasochism (1982). S/M continued to be a potent flashpoint throughout the feminist sex wars, in part because the plausibility of the antipornography argument was so dependent on its indictment of S/M. Despite the fact that WAVPM had no explicit stance, the organization pioneered a characteristic fusion of anti-S/M and antipornography propositions that shaped virtually all subsequent feminist antiporography ideology and activity. S/M has always served as a major subtext to the feminist antipornography movement, being indispensable to its analytic coherence, the source of its most rhetorically persuasive examples, and a primary target of its prescriptions for social change. Samois was over sexual practice and sexual present to resolutely bear witness and representation. dissent when this program was still embryonic in its stages. WAVPM rebuffed several attempts by Samois to engage in principled dialogue and debate. As a result of its early resistance to the The accelerating tensions between the antipornography movement and its anti- groups peaked in 1980 when WAVPM held a S/M implications, Samois helped shatter the public forum to castigate S/M and especially hegemony of antipornography positions and to vilify S/M in the lesbian community. opened up possibilities for broader Samois leafleted the event, protesting that discussions of sexuality within feminism. In its brief five-year history, Samois facilitated WAVPM, without taking an the establishment of social worlds for lesbian “official” position on S/M has sadomasochists; helped inaugurate the nonetheless promoted a false feminist sex wars; developed innovative image of S/M sexuality and critiques of sexual oppression; and helped to create a climate that fundamentally changed the lesbian is oppressive and dangerous to community, the feminist movement, and the S/M-identified people....We politics of sexuality. It was one of the most demand that WAVPM cease influential lesbian organizations of its era. equating consensual S/M with

LA&M, p. 6 Gayle Rubin has been doing research and writing on leather and SM history since the late 1970s. She has been committed to chronicling the In Memory: histories of leather communities and the preservation of leather archives and artifacts. She served on the Board of Directors of the Leather Thom Gunn Archives and Museum from 1992 to 2000. Her writings have appeared in books such as by Rick Storer Leatherfolk, Coming To Power, The Second Coming, The Persistent Desire, Pleasure and Poet and leatherman Thom Gunn died on Danger, What Color is Your Handkerchief, Bad Sunday, April 25th, 2004. Gunn was a prize- Girls and Dirty Pictures, and The Lesbian and Gay winning British-born poet. He moved to San Studies Reader. She has also written for Francisco with his partner, Mike Kitay, in DungeonMaster, Drummer, Gay Community News, The Body Politic, and Cuir Underground. 1954. He identified with the biker culture, She was named National Leather Association wore leather when he lectured and wrote Woman of the Year in 1988 and received the poems extolling the gay bathhouse culture Forebearer Award from the Pantheon of Leather in the 1970s. Gunn joined the staff of in 1992. In 2000 she was named a Centurion by University of California, Berkeley in 1954 the Leather Archives and Museum and received and retired teaching in 1966. A bibliography the National Leather Association Lifetime of his work was published in 1979. “Thom Achievement Award. Gunn in Conversations with James Campbell” was published in 2000 and released with his collection entitled Boss Cupid, Gunn’s last published collection. Bibliography Among the many honors bestowed on Gunn were the 2003 David Cohen British Linden, Robin Ruth et al., eds. Against Literature Prize, Britain’s largest prize for a Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist writer, and a “genius grant” from the Analysis. East Palo Alto, Calif.: Frog in the Well Press, 1982. MacArthur Foundation. Gunn was born on Samois. What Color is Your Handkerchief: A August 29, 1929 and is survived by Mike Lesbian S/M Sexuality Reader. Kitay. Berkeley, Calif.: Samois, 1979. Samois. “This Forum is a Lie about S/M.” 1980. A leaflet. Collection of Gayle Across the open countryside, Rubin. Into the walls of rain I ride. Samois. Coming To Power: Writings and It beats my cheek, drenches my knees, Graphics on Lesbian S/M. Berkeley, But I am being what I please. Calif.: Samois, 1981. Women against Violence in Pornography and --From The Unsettled Motorcyclist’s Vision of his Media. Newspage 1, no. 4 (September Death, 1957 1977). . Newspage 1, no. 6 (November 1977). . “A Forum on S&M in the Women’s Community.” 1980. A leaflet. Collection of Gayle Rubin.

All photos and images in this article are from the collection of Gayle Rubin. LA&M, p. 7 Ottawa Knights Ottawa, Canada

Jackaroos Melbourne, Australia

M.A.F.I.A. Mid America Fists In Action Chicago, IL OurOur TrueTrue ColorsColors ::

Tradewinds MC Chicago, IL TheThe HistorHistoryy andand EvolutionEvolution ofof BackpatchBackpatch InsigniasInsignias

By Rob Ridinger

People Exchanging Power Denver, Colorado

Wasatch Leathermen Salt Lake City, UT

No Name Motorcycle Club LA&M, p. 8 Sisterhood of Steel MC, Denver, CO Colorado One of the most distinctive aspects of the leather formal events, begun in 1971 by Oedipus M.C. of community’s public face as seen by both the Los Angeles. mainstream gay population and society in general The evolution of backpatch designs over the past are the brilliantly colored heraldric designs half century is more difficult to trace. Some were displayed at many type of functions. Appearing on abstract symbols unaccompanied by any text as part everything from associate patches and friendship of the design, an approach which presupposed that pins to elaborate formal banners carried in an event the viewer was acquainted with the group already that bears their name, the Parade of Colors, their and would thus be able to translate the symbol and use is so widespread that it seems as though they identify the wearer’s affiliation. Examples of this have always existed in their present form. But the type of design are the red arrowhead containing a origins and growth of this element of leather culture circle of the second oldest leather club in Canada, and art have not been widely researched. Spearhead, the black and red three-pronged symbol of the chapters of the Trident International, the As with many other aspects of leather culture, the blue and gold triskelion (a structure of three usually beginnings of the backpatch lie in southern bent, rather flexible legs radiating from a center) California during the early 1950s. Given the worn by members of Tribe MC of Detroit , and the explosion of popular interest in mainstream red shield and steel chain of the Knights d’Orleans. American culture in buying and riding motorcycles A more widespread approach was the utilization of at this time, it was inevitable that each local the formal symbol of a leather and levi club or organization or riding club would attempt to make organization with a few letters included as design itself prominently distinct from its neighbors. The elements, examples being the colors of Pittsburgh initial backpatches of the gay male motorcycle clubs MC, where the letters PMC are set into the three were worn on riding vests made of denim, with the arms of the blue and gray keystone shape inspired event pins for their runs modeled on the designs of by the nickname of the state of Pennsylvania and the club logos and worn on individual biker caps the complex logo of the Atlantic Motorcycle with which were first of cloth and later became the Coordinating Council (AMCC), where the letters leather biker caps in widespread use today. One of are interwoven with the overall loop pattern of the the informants in Gayle Rubin’s landmark study of design. A third pattern is one where a detailed design the San Francisco leather community, Valley of the is accompanied by the full name of the organization, Kings, noted that if someone walked into a bar such as the logos of Centaur MC of Washington, wearing a vest with colors on it during the 1960s, it D.C., the Atons of Minneapolis, Gateway MC and was a sure sign that they were from California. Blue Max of St. Louis. A fourth is the use of monochrome designs with the name of the The idea of colors worn on a denim vest was a organization alone, such as the black and silver oval practice which eventually extended as least as far sign of Onyx , the silver and black sword and shield as the Midwest and New York City, as vests from of Icon Detroit, and the bar vest from FeBe’s in Chicago’s Lakeriders and Second City and a San Francisco. A fifth variety of colors are those photograph of the members of Wheels MC taken in created and worn by a single individual, which can 1969 preserved in the Leather Archives’ collection either follow the standard dimensions of a club attest. The idea of a backpatch was both as a backpatch or be an expressions of a particular statement of identity and an advertisement to the business or craft pursued by the wearer or an honor general public of the name of a group of riders who held by them. This is probably the most baroque might only be seen as passing visitors. The type of colors that can ornament a vest, and can be beginnings of the shift from denim vests to the more made of anything from familiar leather vest can be seen in the practice of fabric to metal. wearing leather sashes with run pins on them to LA&M, p. 9 While the titleholder vests made for local duct. Colors had thus moved beyond performing participants in the contests leading up to American simply an identifying function to being invested Brotherhood, International Mr. Leather and with a public formal authority- when being worn, International Ms. Leather are the most familiar the individual was acting as a representative of their example of this type (mainly through the frequent organization rather than as a private person , and illustration of their wearers in publications such as was expected to behave in a manner that would International Leatherman and The Leather bring honor to the group and ratify their place as a Journal), owners of leather businesses often create knowledgeable leather person. The concept of col- one-of-a-kind colors for themselves. A widely-seen ors as embodying the collective honor and pride of example of this is the vest created by Lee Willis, a group parallels the military practice of the “Troop- owner of the Stud Works, shown by the late Tony ing of the Colors” on public ceremonial occasions, De Blasé in the first promotional video produced and was utilized as a way of formally recognizing by the Leather Archives in 1996. Its owner had been the bonds which had evolved over time between a noted leather craftsman and artist of Seattle, and leather organizations through the presentation of had adorned the back of his vest with a shimmering framed sets of colors, usually between clubs but portrait of the Space Needle outlined in steel studs. often to local home bars as well . What had begun DeBlase himself often wore a vest with the black, as a simple distinguishing mark for individual lo- blue and red leather flag emblem on the back as cal groups had evolved into a formal and valued his colors, an entirely suitable honor given that he structural element of the networked leather com- created what has become the worldwide emblem munity. of the leather community. First shown to the public at IML on May 28, 1989, the most famous display With the foundation of the Leather Archives and of this set of colors occurred onstage at IML in 2000, Museum in 1991, one of the first priorities in the when the original prototype was displayed to a creation of special collections was the gathering cheering theater before its presentation to the and preservation of the colors of clubs which had Leather Archives. This occurred while DeBlase was disbanded or for whom only a small number of ill, and he passed on July 21, 2000. A more surviving members remained, in addition to those distinctive if specialized application of colors is of the active contemporary organizations. The the orange vest worn in rotation by the appointed Colors Project was initaited by George Cameron Dungeonmaster at events sponsored by the Chicago of Vancouver and expanded, until by 2004 some Hellfire Club. five hundred organizations were represented in the collection. As the idea of creating and wearing colors began to take hold across the United States and southern Rob Ridinger is a professor on the faculty of the Canada, distinctive cultural patterns associated University Libraries at Northern Illinois University with them began to appear in the leather commu- and has worked to promote awareness of the nity, including protocols for the proper wearing of Leather Archives & Museum within the profes- a patch (with no symbol to be placed above the sional library and archival communities. With his logo on a formal dress vest) , the steps necessary to life partner John Schultz, he helped found Trident be deemed worthy to be granted colors through a International Windy City, in 1992, and has served period of pledge service and education (a practice that organization as secretary since that time. He also serves as the official historian of the Mid which continues and reflects in part the Old Guard America Conference of Clubs and has assembled ethic of making novices earn their leathers), and, a history of the Trident International as well. He is consequently, sanctions for the removal of colors currently serving on the LA&M Board of Directors should an individual violate and working as coordinator of the pin collection. LA&M, p. 10 agreed-upon norms of con- In Memory: Alan Selby The original Mr. S., Alan Selby, died in May of complications from emphysema. He was 75. His obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle called him “a relentless fund- raiser and an incorrigible flirt,” and lauded his long commitment to caring for people with AIDS, from raising money for AIDS related causes to holding hands in San Francisco General’s AIDS ward at the height of the epidemic. He was on the Board of Directors of the Stop AIDS project and insisted on attending an AIDS Emergency Fund benefit just a week before his death.

Originally from London, England, he moved to San Francisco in the early 1970s and became involved in the thriving leather community there. He opened the Mr. S. leather store in the South of Market area, which he ran for many years

Mr. Selby founded the San Franscisco Leather Daddy contest in 1982 and epito- mized to many what it meant to be a Daddy. He was a formative mentor for countless photo courtesy of members of the leather community. A celebration of his life was held on May 22 Mr. Marcus at the Eagle Tavern in San Francisco, a city that he loved and to whose residents he gave so much. He will be greatly missed.

LA&M Collection News

As the Leather Archives continues to grow as an institution, our col- lections grow with us. This growth often happens in leaps and bounds. The LA&M recently acquired the papers of The LURE, from New York City. The LA&M has also recently acquired three original Etienne paintings and an original pencil drawing by The Hun.

If you have papers, photographs, posters, or other materials you would like to add to the LA&M’s collection, please contact the Executive Director.

Hun drawing: Donated by and in memory of Richard P. Carrington “Rick” San Diego, CA

painting by Etienne LA&M, p. 11 Located in Chicago, Serving the World LA&M Joins Chicago Libraries

by Natalie

On January 30, 2004, the LA&M was unanimously voted into the Chicago Multitype Library System. CMLS is part of the Illinois network of over 4,000 libraries. The CMLS provides member libraries with bibliographic information, consulting services, reference services, librarian training, and grant opportunities. Other important membership benefits include listings in local and state library directories. These listings will help leatherfolk and researchers find the LA&M. You can check out the new listings at http://eliillinois.org/ and http://www.chilibsys.org/membership/directory.html.

Library Committee members include Rob Ridinger, Norman Eriksen, Robert Guenther, John Bradford, Louis Lang, Adam Schiff, and Natalie. Currently, the committee is working to create an online catalog of items available at the LA&M. This catalog will allow people everywhere to browse the collections from home. The LA&M is located in Chicago, but every day we are working on new ways to “serve the world.” For more information about the library please contact [email protected]. Thank you! The following voting members and donors ($100 to $250) were inadvertently excluded from the Winter 2004 issue of Leather Times: Voting Members and Donors 2003: APEX Academy, Phoenix, AZ, Jack Rinella, Chicago, IL, www.arizonapowerexchange.org http://www.leatherviews.com Blackout Leather Productions, Portland, OR, John Bradford, Chicago, IL http://www.blackoutleather.org John F. Bootdog, Bay Area Rodeo, bootblack tips Leather SINS, Chicago, IL, Chicago Eagle, IML 2003 Fundraiser, http://www.leathersins.com http://www.chicagoeagle.com Louis L., Chicago, IL Craig B., Milwaukee, WI Matthias P., Amsterdam, The Netherlands david shorey, Sacramento, CA Michael Sheehan, Newtown, PA Donald Dotson, Mr. Suncoast Eagle 2003 Norman Eriksen, New York, NY Folsom Street East, GMSMA, http:// Onyx Men, Fundraiser @ Cellblock, www.gmsma.org http://www.onyxmen.com Fred Leise and Michael Jackson, Chicago, IL Outcasts, San Francisco, CA Gayle Rubin, San Francisco, CA Phillip H., Chicago, IL GMSMA, New York, NY, http://www.gmsma.org Roger S., Chicago, IL Howie Z, Chicago, IL, Sal A., Waterbury, CT http://www.masterzchicago.com Scott Erickson, Mr. Boston Leather 2004 Indiana LeatherSIR / Leatherboy, NLA – Steve F., Dayton, OH Indianapolis, http://www.leathersir.com The Next Generation Chicago, Chicago, IL, International Masters Association, http://www.tngc.org http://www.imass.org Thom Dombkowski, Chicago, IL Jack K., Bristol, TN William Henkin, PhD., San Francisco, CA

LA&M, p. 12 Capital Campaign Adoptions

Etienne Auditorium Adopted by Renslow Family Enterprises

Leather Archives Lobby in Memory of Copy Berg Adopted by Frank Theis and J.P. Weir

Green Room in Honor of Jill Carter Adopted by Menamore LLC

Teri Rose Memorial Library Adopted by MJ Productions

Uniforms Room Adopted by Andy Mangels, In Uniform Magazine and the city of Portland, OR

Box Office to be named for Wes Randall and Lee Willis Adopted by Washington State Mr. Leather Organization

Brad Grauman Memorial Gallery Adopted by the William Smith Trust, Carlos Adams and Club

Administrative Office In Memory of Scott Rodriguez Adopted by Tim Franulovich and the Cuff Complex, Seattle, WA

John E. Larson Memorial Gallery Adopted by Robert Ridinger

International Mr. Leather Collection Adoption in progress with Jon Krongaard and Ken R., Chicago, IL

Prop Shop/Dock Adoption in progress In memory of Henry, Adopted by Fred Katz

Thank you! Thank you! The LA&M would like to recognize the following Donors to the Tony DeBlase Memorial individuals and organizations, whose donations have been missing from previous donor listings: Endowment Fund

DCI Productions International Mr. Leather, Chicago, Illinois International LeatherSIR and Leatherboy June 2003 Donor to the capital campaign of $5,000 and $50,000 more Boot Camp Saloon, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Ian Gibson-Smith and the IanThom Foundation April 2004 In Memory of Thomas G. Martin $500 2004 bronze gift - $250 to $500 LA&M, p. 13 Captial Campaign Donations Thank you!

Donors of More than $5,000

Donald C., Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Jim C., Utica, New York Renslow Family Enterprise, Chuck Steve S. and kirk t. In Mortage Payment Roger B.A.K. & David H., San Francisco, Renslow, Chicago, Ilinois Program California International Mr. Leather, Chicago, Illinois Chicago Hellfire Club, Funds raised at LA boys of Leather, The Brotherhood of International LeatherSir and Leatherboy, Inferno XXXII Leatherboys, Stephen Blackwell Mike Zuhl

Donors of $2,500 to $5,000

Leroy D. & Chris R., In honor of their San Francisco Leather Community, San Ralph K., College Station, Texas meeting in leather Fncisco Party at IML, 1998 Brother Help Thyself, DC, Silent Bid for The Cuff, Seattle and Washington Leather Art for the Archives, Peter FiskeFrancisco Life Dixie Belle Complex and Kansas City Black Rose/BR 98, Washington, DC Mr. Maryland Leather 2000, Bob Guenther Leather Community, Joseph E. Welch Pat Daley, Tasso's Mom Portland Leather Alliance, Portland, and others Nimbus Michigan, Inc., Grand Rapids, Oregon Guy Baldwin Michigan Dean Ogren and John Prather, in mort- Royal Imperial Sovereign, Barony of the Rick Storer, In mortgage payment plan gage payment plan Windy City

Donors of $1,000 to $2,500

Eagle PDX, In Memory of Jeff Rose Doug F., Chicago, Illinois Palm Springs Leather Order of the Desert Tom Stice, In Memory of Master Jack Stice Ray H., Smithfield, Pennsylvania Midori and Michael B., San Francisco, Leather Pride Night 98, New York City, NY Trident International, South Florida California Tarheel Leather Club, North Carolina The Cain Berlinger Family, Producer, Mr. Mike Taylor, IML 2000, Funds raised at Mr. Black Rose/BR 99, Washington, DC Ebony Leather Tri-State Leather Centaur MC, Washington, DC Lords of Leather, George Hester Ohio Leatherfest, 1999 & 2000 MJ Productions, in memoryof TRAINMAN, Love & Leather 1999, Atlanta, Georgia SM Odyssey (Fundraiser), San Jose, Chicago, Illinois TSM Media, Thomas Schwartz California Lee Lambert & Family, Los Angeles, CA The Hun, Bill Schmeling Don Matheson, Provincetown, MA American Leatherwoman 1999, Mercea Leather Knights Dallas, Buy Daddy's Box Jack McGeorge, In Mortgage Payment Strecker Blackout Leather Productions, Portland, Plan Dale R. Mount, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Oregon Bill Stadt, In Mortgage Payment Plan Thomas and Joshua Smith, International SMMILE, Folsum Street Fair, 1999 David Sellon II, In Mortgage Payment Plan Mr. Rubber 1999 & Mr. Minnesota Philadelphians MC, Philadelphia, PA Mark Moody, In Mortgage Payment Plan Leather 1999 NLA: International, Living in Leather XIV Mr. Leather Western Michigan, Bill M. Ian Gibson-Smith and the Ian Thom Mike Sheehan & Dennis C. Maryann Brown, In Mortgage Payment Foundation, In memory of Thomas G. Roger S., Chicago, Illinois Plan Smith NLA: Fort Lauderdale, July 2003 Mindy Chateauvert, In Mortgage Payment Bill Morse, In Mortgage Payment Plan Parliament House, Leather Weekend Plan Joe D., In Mortgage Payment Plan Fundraiser, November 2003 Michael J. Sheehan & Dennis A. Corry; Robert Davolt, San Francisco Leather There’s nothing worth the wear of Daddy XIX winning but laughter & the love of LA&M, p. 14 friends. --Belloc Donors of $500 to $1,000

NLA International, First Donor to the Fraser Picard and Kyle Taylor Chris Messick, Greenery Press Building Fund david stein, New York, New York SMart Rhein-Ruhr, www.smart-rhein- Joseph W. Bean, Tom of Finland, Dehner Public Relations ruhr.de, December 2001 In Memory of warren w. west Stars M.C., Albany, New York Riverbound, Quad Cities Iowa/Illinois Joseph W. Bean, Thunder in the Mountains, Denver, Mark Collier, Drecksau, Chicago, Illinois In Memory of e. scott smitherun Colorado, 1999 Raymond L. Hearn, Morgantown, WV Peter Fiske, To Remember IML 1983 La Chateau Exotique, Joy Berger Bruce Barnes, Chicago, Illinois Coulter Thomas New Orleans Leather Alliance Leather Knights, Dallas, Texas 2002 John Birch, Leatherneck Bar, Chicago, Sharrin, Bear, Lolita, Cristo; Doin' it, not Chicago NetTech Inc., Bruce Barnes, Illinois just talkin' 'bout it. Chicago, Illinois JoAnne C. Gaddy Joe Gallagher, IML 1996 Richard Bolingbroke, In Mortgage Pay- Tom Stice, In Memory of Jack Stice The Eulenspiegel Society, New York, New ment Plan Black Rose/BR 10, Washington, DC York Maryann Brown, In Mortgage Payment Jerry L, Chicago, Illinois NLA: Austin, Texas Leather Pride Plan The 15 Association, In Memory of Michel Jon Krongaard and Ken Rose, Chicago, Michael Floyd, In Mortgage Payment Plan de La Roche Illinois Bob Goldfarb, In Mortgage Payment Plan Jack McGeorge & Lolita Wolf, Christmas Joe D., In Mortgage Payment Plan Chris Kurek, In Mortgage Payment Plan gifts to each other Jack Rinella, In Mortgage Payment Plan Joseph Norton, In Mortgage Payment Plan NLA: Dallas, First NLA Chapter to donate Kevin Roche, In Mortgage Payment Plan Werner Tilinger, In Mortgage Payment Able Productions, Jim Cobb, President Joseph W. 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