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ILSb Central Plains Region

The International LeatherSIR/leatherboy producers announced that Wolftopstl and boy alahn are the new producers of the reorganized ILSb Central Plains region. The men will be co-producers of the regional contest which includes the states of Kansas and Missouri.

The 2012 Central Plains ILSb contest is hosted by Blue Max Cycle Club and will be staged at JJ's Clubhouse 3858 Market Street in St Louis on April 20 and 21. This year's competition will be for the titles of SIR and boy only as the Community Bootblack has been appointed on an honorary basis. The appointee will represent the Central Plains region at the finals in San Francisco and will be announced with the winning SIR/boy at the conclusion of the April 21 contest. 

More info at www.leathersir.com

 

ILSb/ICBB Judges Announced

The producers of International LeatherSIR, Leatherboy & Community Bootblack just announced their judges for 2012.

ILSb/ICBB will be held during Dore Alley Weekend in San Francisco, CA - July 26th - 29th, 2012 at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway. Details on this "Players" weekend are on their website.

Judges for the International LeatherSIR, Leatherboy portion of the competition are; 

• Head Judge - Master Mike Zuhl
• Sir Hugh Russell
• boy Ian McKechnie 
• Chris Meister
• Patrick Mulcahey
• Jeffrey Payne
• Rob Whelcher
• Dan Hughes

Judges for the International Community Bootblack contest are; 

• Head Judge - Queen Cougar
• Red Warrior
• Tyler Fong
• Richie Chameroy
• Wayne Brawner

 

Northern California LeatherSIR/boy and CBB Contest

Yee Haw!  The Beat Is Back! Northern California LeatherSIR/boy and Community Bootblack Contest will be held next month on February 11, 2012 at 6:00 pm.  The contest will be held at BeatBox (314 11^th St, San Francisco, CA).

Judges for the contests are:

Our Head Judge is Rod Wood, California Drummer 2000 and ILSbCBB Board Member.  Current International Community Boot Black Luna. Current International Leather Sir Alan Penrod.  Current International Leather boy, Bryson “Pup Nitro” Hankinson.  Current Mr. San Francisco Leather, Darren Bondy.  Tom Pupp, Northern California Leather Sir 2008.  Richard Sprott, San Francisco Leather Daddy XXIII and Mr. Alameda Leather 2009.  boyjean, International Community Bootblack 2007 and Northern California Community Bootblack 2007.  Alternate Judge is Ms. V, International Ms. Bootblack 2007.  

They will also be presenting the traditional Robert Davolt Award and be celebrating the Northern California Drummer and LeatherSIR/boy and Community Bootblack tradition.   

Southeast Black and Blue 2012

The producers of Southeast Black and Blue announced the dates of the 2012 contest weekend.  They have coordinated with the dates of local LGBT events in the Atlanta, GA area and have moved the dates of Southeast Black and Blue Weekend 2012 to August 10-11, 2012.  

The weekend will include the contests for Southeast LeatherSIR 2013, Southeast Leatherboy 2013, Southeast Community Bootblack 2013, and Mr. Southeast Rubber 2013 as well as other exciting events TBA.

Check out the website for more info.

ECLSb - Judging Panel Announced

The organizers of the Eastern Canada LeatherSIR/Leatherboy 2012 contest weekend are pleased to announce the panel of judges for the ECLSb 2012 contest. The contest weekend will take place in Toronto from Friday, February 17, 2012 through the provincial holiday Monday on February 20, 2012.

Serving on the panel of judges will be:

• International LeatherSIR 2011 Alan Penrod, from Atlanta (GA), who will serve as head judge
• International Leatherboy 2011 pup Nitro, from Atlanta (GA)
• International Community Bootblack 2011 Luna, from Oakland (CA)
• Eastern Canada LeatherSIR 2011 Master Chuck, from Sudbury (ON)
• Eastern Canada Leatherboy 2011 boy iain, from Toronto (ON)

Tally Master will be boy Alex Dunlop, from Toronto (ON). Judge's boy will be Pup Kalen, from Toronto (ON). Den Daddy will be Dan Madden, from Toronto (ON). Stage Manager for the contest will be Fenn, Mr International Rubber 2010, from Toronto (ON). Box Office Manager will be Gloria McIsaac, from Toronto (ON).

The ECLSb 2012 contest will be held at 12:30pm on Saturday, February 18, 2012 at Goodhandy's at 120 Richmond St in Toronto. Returning as emcee for the contest is Tom Stice, International slave 1995 and Southeast Mr Drummer 1998, of Chicago (IL). The 2012 contest theme will be "Retro". 

Contestant registration for ECLSb 2012 will begin November 15, 2011. Registration forms will be available at www.LeatherSIRCanada.com. Email contestinfo@LeatherSIRCanada.com for more information.

 

Northwest LeatherSIR/boy/CBB

Generic Leather Productions of Washington (GLPW) and former president Gene Romaine have decided to resign as producers of the Northwest LeatherSIR, Leatherboy & Community Bootblack Contest, effective immediately. The decision does not reflect on their continuing support for the contest or their support for the local titleholders, whom they respect greatly, according to Michael “Odie” Heaston, acting president of the Board. 

After 9 years of producing the regional contest, GLPW and Mr. Romaine have decided that it was time for a fresh perspective for the contest, as well as a need to refocus energies on building the queer kink community in the Pacific Northwest. Plans for new events and a roadshow are currently in the works, as well as deliberations on how to maximize their core mission of producing events that support the alternative sexuality community from Montana to Washington and Oregon to Alaska.

Gulf Coast LeatherSIR 2012 – A Leather E Ticket Ride

by Olivier Pratt

With so many serious and controversial discussions happening in our community these days, I thought it would be nice to write about something that’s just fun. While I agree that Leather has many MANY contemplative and important facets, it still needs to be fun. If we’re not having fun, then what’s the damn point? I can torture myself at work all day long and at least get paid for it right? Why would I do it for free? Duh? 

If I hear anymore talk about Old Guard-New Guard-Bullshit Guard, to Cover or not to Cover, or any of the key “Bingo” words; honor, integrity, community etc, I’m gonna stab my eyes out with a spork and become a nun. You don’t want to see me in nun drag, it’s not pretty. Imagine Lenny Bruce trying to be a nun, pretty fucking bizarre eh, and damn funny too! Funny as Bachmann trying to convince people she’s knows what the fuck she’s talking about.  

So on we go to Dallas, jumping head first onto the funny wagon of socially unacceptable behavior-the best kind of behavior in my book! Even if it killed me, this was gonna be an engaging, fun trip, leaving as much of life’s bullshit behind as I could. Not an easy goal, but worth a try? 

Now let me set the record straight, road trips with Sparky and I are never really normal. The word normal is highly overrated. Living normal is just not very exciting. I think if I had to choose between being “normal” and say, shitting in a bag and staring at it, the bag would win hands down. I could regale you with road stories that would shock the most hard core weathered road warrior, but another time.  

News to Abuse: Mr Midwest Leather - Illinois Leather Pride - Western Canada LeatherSIR/boy/CBB

Mr Midwest Leather

The 2011 contest is at Bad Dog Bar & Grill, St. Louis, MO on Friday, Sept. 30 & Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011.

Doors open on Friday night at 11 PM for the Meet & Greet and the contestants number drawing. Meet and Greet admission is free by the way.  Then on Saturday night the contest starts at 11 PM.  Your $10 admission includes a free beverage, the Men, the Judges, the Contest, the Live Leather entertainment during intermission, prizes and more with a wide screen TV raffle, silent auction, and jello shots.

Illinois Leather Pride

The producers of The Illinois Leather Pride Weekend and Contest sent an update on the contest and wanted to extend a big thank you to all of the Contestants and Judges for a great contest and weekend.

The winners of the contest were:

• Illinois Master/slave - Master Peter Raven and slave eveangeline
• Illinois Community Boot Black - Pup Pedro
• Illinois LeatherSIR - Sir Justin
• Ms Illinois Leather Pride - Ms Cherries Jubalie

Interview with ILSb 2011 Winners

Had a blast at ILSb/ICBB this year in San Francisco and finally had a minute to catch up with the SIR and boy winners - LeatherSIR Alan Penrod and Leatherboy Pup Nitro, both from Atlanta, GA.

These guys will be great titleholders for the ILSb/ICBB organization.  Plus they're super-involved in the local kink/leather/fetish/perv (KLFP) community in Atlanta.  And it never hurts that they're smokin' hot.

Check their two part interview after the jump

Interview with Master Olivier Pratt - ILSb/ICBB

We had a minute to catch up with Master Olivier Pratt, ILSb/ICBB Co-Executive Producer and Secretary of the Board, about all of the exciting changes.

Check out the previous post for full info and Master Olivier's interview after the jump.  Hint...there's some great stuff in the live interview that wasn't in the original news post :-)