Presenters
The Leather Leadership Conference XIV, Great Lakes/Ontario, is pleased and excited to announce the programming selections are finalized for the Annual Conference.
The following Presenters, Educators and Community Leaders will be helping the Journey Continue:
Auburn Goddess & Her Devious
Pat Baillie
Dale Bogucki
Jake Arthur
Tony Buff
Derek da Silva
Daniel
Doc
Allena Gabosch
Graydancer
Judy Guerin
Lee Harrington
Richard Hubley
Vic Hunt
Nancy Irwin
Jerith
LdBeast
Steve Lenius & Sassy
Nina Love
Mercury
Mr. Luis
Mr. Michael
Paul NyghtOwl
Sir Jack Pearce
Glenda Rider
Dale Ross
Richard Sprott & Rob Bienvenu
Warren Williams
Dave Watt
Daddy Wendell
Mollena Williams
Tracy Wolf
Auburn Goddess and Her Devious
Auburn Landry is a highly experienced presenter both professionally and in the leather community. A certified project manager and former consultant in her vanilla career, she has presented frequently to fellow project managers, senior executives and at annual conferences over the last fifteen years. In the BDSM lifestyle community Auburn Landry and her slave Devon DeLandry have presented at numerous southeast organizations as well as regional and national events such as SELF, TESFest, LLC, Beyond Leather, Winter Solstice and DomCon Atlanta. They center all of their workshops around their secret to a fulfilled power exchange relationship – Creativity, not compromise. Learn more at their website www.AuburnGoddess.com
Devious has been kinky most of his life, with an early interest in cross-dressing and bottoming, even dabbling in self bondage for years, yet he never imagined himself a slave. A friend of hers for years, Devious asked one evening for Auburn to do him the honor of giving him birthday spankings at a social, and life has never been the same since for either of them. Over the last four years, he discovered his slaveheart and the strong desire to submit in all ways possible to his Mistress.
Pat Baillie
Pat Baillie has been kinky for 30+ years! She's a queer boy living in a poly rule and in service to her Lady. She's been Ms San Jose Leather 1995, producer of Rio Grande Leather in New Mexico, Co-President of Albuquerque Pride and on the national LLC board.
Dale Bogucki & Jake Arthur
Dale Bogucki is the Road Captain for La Fraternitie du Loup-Garou. He is also the head organizer for CampOUT an event focused on transgender inclusiveness in the Leather community.
Jake Arthur is a 40ish F2M leather daddy. Approached pre-transition by the then pledgemaster of Trident International Toledo, the seed of interest in the organized leather community was planted. Many years later due to life's twists and turns, he became an associate of Trident International through the Toledo chapter and one of the founders of La Fraternitie du Loup-Garou, the only traditional levi/leather club specifically formed to serve the needs of masculine gender outlaws in the leather community.
Tony Buff & Derek da Silva
Tony Buff is an internationally recognized activist, educator, performance artist and player in the fetish/Sm scene. In addition to performing and directing as an exclusive for Titan Media's Rough line of documentary-style fetish/Sm features, Tony is a popular presenter frequently traveling the US and Canada teaching workshops, performing demos and speaking at events like Thunder in the Mountains, ShibariCon, CLAW, the Church Street Fetish Fair and DiverCite (Montreal).
Hailing from Chicago, Derek Da Silva has made a career of pushing the edges of gay video so as to more accurately represent the diversity of safe play found in the BDSM and Sex Fight communities of which he is an active participant. Derek co-authors the Instigator magazine column “Anatomy of a Scene” with his Sir, Tony Buff.
Daniel
Daniel currently serves the Tennessee BDSM, Leather & Fetish Communities as Director of the Cookeville Munch and Event Organizer for The Siege, bi-monthly all-male play party. When given the opportunity, Daniel enjoys traveling to share his passion for BDSM, leather, and kink.
Doc
Doc is an expert in assisting adults with adapting to changes created by the normal aging process, injury, or illness. In 2009, Doc began to apply her 16 years of experience in the vanilla world of aging and disability to aging and play in the leather community.
Allena Gabosch
Allena Gabosch, kinky bisexual polyamorous switch and Executive Director of the Center for Sex Positive Culture has been producing educational and social events for the sex positive community since 1999. She speaks on sex-positive subjects at colleges and conferences around the US and Canada, with an emphasis on BDSM and Polyamory.
Graydancer
Graydancer is a kink educator, activist, performer, author and enthusiast. Host of the long-running kinky podcast, "The Ropecast," he has presented at events throughout North America. He is also the creator of "Graydancer's Ropetastic Unconference Extravaganza" (or GRUE), a self-organizing event structure focusing on shared knowledge.
Judy Guerin
Judy Guerin is a well-known activist, writer, speaker and educator on issues of sexual freedom and gender expression and has been dedicated to activism on these issues for over 20 years. She is a long-time member of the BDSM/leather/fetish community and currently directs NCSF’s Consent Counts Project to decriminalize BDSM.
Lee Harrington
Lee Harrington is an eclectic artist, passionate spiritual and erotic educator, gender radical and published author and editor on human sexuality and spiritual experience with 14 years of experience in the international kink and sex positive communities. To learn more about Lee visit www.PassionAndSoul.com.
Richard Hubley
Mr. Leather Ottawa 2008 and Mama’s Canadian Knight, he started his journey into the fetish scene in 1984 with his interests in leather, protocol, uniforms and military. Member of the Ottawa Knights, the Leather Vajra Family and Mama’s Family. Was sashed MLO 2008 and placed in the top 20 at IML XXX in Chicago. Was honoured to be the first person who uses a wheelchair to compete at IML, during their 30th anniversary.
Vic Hunt
Vic has quickly involved himself deeply in the Dallas, Texas Leather community, taking on leadership positions with NLA-Dallas, it's outreach program Fresh Leather, and the International Puppy & Trainer Conference. He has gained a unique perspective on Leather through being one of its youngest leaders as well as being an FTM transsexual.
Naughty Nancy aka Nancy Irwin
Naughty Nancy (Nancy Irwin) is an SM activist and a switch who lives to have fun. To help find like-minded players and build community she has given various SM workshops locally and internationally, organized events, play parties, social groups and published incriminating articles in the queer and kinky press. Nancy is an adventurous street biker who loves the dirt and a bad dyke who will play with "others”. The Leather/SM community has enriched her life over the past 20 years. Naughty Nancy worships the Sun and waits for the next blood sacrifice.
Jerith
Jerith is incredibly passionate about volunteering and learning. That passion has led her to serve as the education coordinator for Galleria Domain 2 in Chicago for seven years, organizing 80+ educational and fund-raising events. In addition, with her husband Jim, Jerith presents classes on various edgeplay topics across the nation.
LdBeast
LdBeast (aka Rex) is a longtime member of the Middle Tennessee BDSM community, being a founder of Rose-n-thorn and operator of Gatherings – one of Middle America’s first weekly meeting fetish club/dungeons. His munch group is the largest in the area and has been meeting consistently for the last decade. He has been involved in outreach and education, both in the community and outside. He is involved in political and social activism. Currently he is working on a Masters in Education. This is his third LLC and second time as a presenter.
Steve Lenius and Sassy
Steve Lenius has been writing his Leather Life column in "Lavender" Magazine for almost 15 years and will be publishing his first book, "Life, Leather and the Pursuit of Happiness," this spring. He has worked in the fields of advertising, marketing communications and commercial publishing for over 35 years. Lenius was Chief Instigator of LLC-XI in Minneapolis in 2007.
Sassy has been involved in the kink community in Minnesota since 1998. She served as the "Vice-Instigator of Promotion" at LLC-XI in Minneapolis in 2007. Later that year she was elected to serve on the national LLC board, and was re-elected to a full term last year. She has presented at LLC-XI, LLC-XIII and at various groups in Minnesota.
Nina Love
Nina is sex advocate/educator and an active member of the BDSM community in Baltimore and surrounding areas. Before Nina emerged in the BDSM community she was a consultant & corporate trainer, with a Master’s Degree in Human Resources. Her background is in Communication and Behavior.
Mercury
Mercury currently serves the Middle Tennessee BDSM community in the role of Executive Director for CPI/The Mark in Nashville and the community at large by serving as a member of the NCSF Board of Directors. When given the opportunity, Mercury enjoys traveling with his girls, nyssa and mandi, spreading the gospel of D/s protocol and culture.
Mr. Luis
I became active in the lifestyle in the mid 70’s in Upstate New York. I have used my experiences in the vanilla world and lifestyle for various demos and lectures in the over the years, mainly concentrating on safety and the responsibility of each person in a scene and the lifestyle and general organization and leadership. Most recently, I presented a very well received, seminar on Leadership at LLC 2009.
Mr. Michael
Mr. Michael has been host of the Louisville Munch since late 2007. Through web outreach and word of mouth, the group has grown to 100+ attendees each month. He is also co-administrator of the BDSM social networking site LifeKink, a growing worldwide BDSM and Leather portal.
Paul NyghtOwl
Paul NyghtOwl is a member of TES, BR and GMSMA, an accredited dungeon monitor, a cane maker, author and kink educator. He has taught at most of the New York BDSM organizations, and given presentations at BR 2006 and 2008. This is his first time presenting at Leather Leadership, and his third conference.
Sir Jack Pearce
Sir Jack Pearce has been a familiar face in Leather scene for over twenty years. As a BDSM advocate and player, this human resources specialist enjoys hosting, producing and judging Leather and Bootblack competitions, presenting a variety of workshops, and holds memberships with Spearhead Toronto, MLTC, The Rochester Rams, and Delta International. Playfully deemed the "Godfather of Bootblacks", Sir Jack was proud to be the first ever Bootblack Toronto to win an International leather title. He was also honored with the Brotherhood Award at IML, the Pantheon of Leather Canadian Regional Community Service award and a MLTC Impact award.
Glenda Rider
Glenda Rider dates her participation in the "organized scene" back to the National Lesbian Conference held in Atlanta in 1991. Connections were made there which led to her becoming the first woman to hold an Eagle Bar title as Ms Baltimore Eagle 1992. She has served on the Board of Directors of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) and as Coordinator of FIST- Females Investigating Sexual Terrain. She is also a member of the Emeritus Board of the Leather Leadership Conference. Glenda owns Play House Studios in Baltimore which is 4500 square feet of play space (including many different fantasy spaces) which is decorated with her large fetish art collection. She is also the Owner/ Producer of International Ms Leather – www.IMsL.org.
Dale ‘Butch’ Ross
Dale ‘Butch’ Ross is a professional therapist/counselor (in his own private practice for 25 years, with an emphasis on Gay clients), was a founding member of LIFE-Detroit (Leather Institute For Education – Detroit), is an associate member of Chicago Hellfire Club, as been active in the Leather and Gay communities for 40 years, and was Mr. Detroit Leather 1983. He has also been involved in AIDS community work since the ‘80’s and served on four AIDS speakers bureaus.
Richard Sprott & Rob Bienvenu
Richard Sprott is the Executive Director of CARAS (Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities), a nonprofit designed to promote scientific and scholarly research on BDSM sexuality, polyamory and other forms of negotiated non-monogamy. Richard has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from UC Berkeley. In 2009, he was chosen as Mr. Alameda County Leather 2009, a title produced by the Alameda County Leather Corps. He was also one of the co-chairs for the local organizing committee for the Leather Leadership Conference in 2008 in San Francisco.
Rob Bienvenu, Ph.D., is a sociologist who lives in the Washington, DC area. His research addresses history, health, and policy issues affecting sexual minorities, with focus on strategies for inclusion and positive change.
Warren Williams
Dave Watt
Passionate about reducing the stigma of HIV, Dave currently works in HIV prevention and is the creator of "Mr Friendly," a symbol to raise HIV awareness. He was honored with the title of Mr Michigan Leather 2009 and serves on the CLAW board. He has completed many food fetish presentations, countless HIV classes and enjoys flogging "newbies" at leather events while flagging donut holes on his left.
Daddy Wendell
I'm a leatherman from Seattle, Washington. I was Seattle Leather Daddy 2003 and NW LeatherSir 2006 and now I'm on the board of directors for Seattle Men in Leather and Leather Leadership Conference. My partner is Hobbit, International Ms Leather 2008.
Mollena Williams
Mollena Williams is a SF based NYC born and raised writer, actress, BDSM Educator and Executive Pervert. Active in BDSM since 1996, she speaks at BDSM events across the US and is Ms. San Francisco Leather 2009. A founding member of Crowded Fire Theater Company, she blogs on http://mollena.com.
Tracy Wolf
Tracy Wolf serves as Secretary for the S.F. Bay Area Leather Alliance, and Volunteer Coordinator for the Exiles. She has been an active volunteer, demonstrator and teacher in Los Angeles and San Francisco. She holds a culinary degree and is excited that LLC has come to her home state!