With events named Sophisticated OINK, The Greasy Jockstrap Party, The Mr. Iowa Leather Contest, CORNHOLED and a presentation titled “Maintaining a Healthy Hole” advertised, there were many challenges to overcome to maintain the integrity of a pulsating HARD theme in a place like Iowa! Gain knowledge as to how working with public officials and law enforcement agencies BEFORE hand, despite ill feelings towards the event, helped to ensure unnecessary and potentially humiliating problems. Plus, educating those who work in HIV/STD education, outreach, and prevention fields to better understand the Leather/BDSM/Fetish community played an extremely important role. And gain important fun tips like checking with your local GLBT media/marketing outlets prior to hiring AXEL to design a poster for an event titled CORNHOLED! A corncob sticking out of a butt hole doesn’t fair to well in more conservative parts, even with in the GLBT community!
How you will benefit from this presentation:
Attendees will better understand important issues and unforeseen circumstances that can potentially arise while planning a Leather/BDSM/Fetish event in places where that type of thing doesn’t typically happen – to avoid morphing into a “neurotic bitch” – so stressed out that not even a Caverject injection can help get a rise out of his own situation!
How this presentation will arouse you:
Phil’s witty, sarcastic, and dry sense of humor combined with his flamboyantly butch descriptive verbiage is sure to get a rise even while presenting on most serious of topics!
About the presenter:
Phil Nickerson has been an outspoken volunteer advocate for GLBT, HIV/AIDS, and Leather/BDSM/Fetish awareness and prevention issues through out the state of Iowa and the San Francisco Bay Area Communities for nearly 10 years. Born and raised in Cedar Rapids, IA, he has previously served on the Board of Directors for the Rapids AIDS Project, and the Gay and Lesbian Resource Center, both of Cedar Rapids, IA.
Phil has completed Peer Education/Sexual Network training with the STOP AIDS Project, San Francisco, CA, in the areas of Internet, fetish, and various other networks with in the MSM community. Phil has emceed several GLBT events, has a reoccurring Leather/BDSM/Fetish column published Iowa’s GLBT newspaper, ACCESSLINE, and has had guest opinion columns published in Eastern Iowa and San Francisco Bay Area newspapers.
In 2004, Phil, “Phil-thy McNasty” as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence call him, earned the titles of San Francisco Leatherboy and Northern California Leather boy, and went on to compete and finish 2nd runner-up in the boy category at the International LeatherSIR/boy contest in St. Petersburg, FL. His interests in Leather started at the young age of 8 years old, when his Father once told him to stay away from bikers because, “they like to rape and use little boys.” Phil is a masochists from the word go, always keeps his eyes on the look out for those who might appreciate the “NO PAIN NO GAIN” tattoos on his balls!