Liza came to power in the late 60s while attending Woodstock and has been kinky ever since. In 2002, she moved to San Francisco and jumped into the leather community with both boots. She has served as Coordinator of The Exiles and is Treasurer for and on the Board of the Bears of San Francisco. In her day job, Liza co-owns TheCompleteBear.com and TheTwistedBear.com. Liza was recently named 2009 “Woman of the Year” by the San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance.

Liza’s slave Jody, began her leather journey in 1980 as a willful yet dutiful servant. Before that she was an officer in the US Air Force (and, before that, in the Arizona Wing of Civil Air Patrol) and trailed drill teams and color guards. Shortly after coming into leather, Jody founded Leather and Lace, a woman to woman BD/DS/SM group in Los Angeles. She was a Judge for the 1990 International Ms. Leather contest and for the 2005 Mr. San Francisco Leather contest. In her day job, Jody is an attorney and a mediator. Liza and Jody, her slave, have been living together in a 24/7 M/s relationship for almost 8 years.

They are both are on the steering committee of Leather Levi Weekend, are on the organizing committee for Leather Alley at San Francisco Pride and are the producers of the Ms. San Francisco Leather contest. They hold the titles of Northwest Master/slave 2010 and International Master/slave 2011.

Master Rick, International Master 2008 and Northwest Master 2007, has been involved in the Leather community for over 10 years. He is the current board chair of Pleasure Bound, a pansexual Northern California area BDSM group, is the Founding Director of MAsT Sacramento Valley and the Northwest Regional Representative for MAsT International. In the past few years his general interest in BDSM has become focused around his heart deep passion, the Master/slave relationship. He is a member of SM Odyssey, NCSF, Society of Janus, Edges, and SF Citadel. In addition to doing presentations on the Master/slave dynamic, he is a presenter for the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom’s Legal Educational Outreach Program.

Master Rick divides his time between keeping up the ranch property and home he and slave Tina share, his hobby restoring cars, being head of his house and family, and activities that support and promote the leather community as a whole. He and slave Tina enjoy a variety of outdoor activities and believe in living life to the fullest.

International slave 2008 and Northwest slave 2007, slave Tina has been involved in the Leather community for 8 years. She is a strong woman, a dedicated mother, and an independent, successful business owner. Slave Tina is also an avid charity supporter and often uses her favorite sport, distance running, as a vehicle for both leather and non-leather charity efforts. She is the Events Coordinator for Pleasure Bound and MAsT Sacramento, a member of SubHaven, SM Odyssey, Edges, and SF Citadel. In her spare time she enjoys welding, fishing, target shooting, climbing trees, raising goats and reading and writing poetry. She defines one of her greatest personal accomplishments as having allowed herself to be who she is, and from that place, utilizing her strengths for the joy of service to her Master.

Master DJ, Northwest Master 2009, is a Trans Leatherman and identifies as queer. Master DJ has evolved into a leader for his community through his commitment to the CSPC , volunteering, leading discussion groups and serving the greater community.

He is an active member of the Center for Sex Positive Culture in Seattle and was honored as Volunteer of the Year 2003. He has been a member of several event teams and been involved with the Paradise campout produced by the CSPC. He is a Charter member of Seattle Women of Leather, a past President, and is currently a Director. He is a charter member of MAsT and currently he is co director of MAsT Seattle, a member of the NLAI, the Owner/slave discussion Group, and the Dom/me discussion Group. This year Master DJ and his slave will be producing Paradise Unbound, the CSPC’s annual fundraising Labor Day week-long campout.

Master DJ currently works as a Chemical Dependency Counselor with Homeless families, helping them learn to empower themselves. He spends as much time as possible with the Leather Community and appreciates any opportunity to help others in that community or in the 12-Step community. He enjoys tasteful coffee (has been a professional roaster), adventuring, discovering new places and meeting new people. He enjoys a blessed life with his property, slave september dragon, their two cats, Olivia and Asami, and their dog, Bruiser. Master DJ wants to thank his two Mentors: Daddy Lory and Gene.

slave september dragon, Northwest slave 2009, is a slave and identifies as queer. Like her Master, she is an active volunteer for the Center for Sex Positive Culture in Seattle. she has been a member of several event teams, has been involved with the Paradise campout produced by the CSPC, has facilitated or assisted in discussion groups and continues to welcome newcomers as an Introduction Teacher for the CSPC.

september dragon continues to serve her Community through mentoring other slaves and submissives and through involvement with the many communities that make up the greater Community. September dragon served as Membership Coordinator and Director for Seattle Women of Leather, is a member of NLAI, Mast Seattle, the sbs perspective group, and the Owner/slave Discussion Group.

dragon channels her creative energy in a variety of arts; most currently she is drawing. she also loves to adventure with Master. she adores Master DJ, to whom she is proud to belong. She endeavors to provide all the comforts she can for her Owner, eagerly serving him coffee, and knows that she is blessed to live the life she has been given.

As a switch, Angela di Tenebre brings the perspective of both top and bottom to her teaching. She has held leadership roles with the Society of Janus, SFCitadel, LLW, and other Bay Area leather organizations. As part of EduKink, Angela has taught for a broad spectrum of leather education programs, ranging from Janus’ XPlore Series to Leather Leadership Conference (LLC-12). EduKink's Newcomers Series, now in its eighth year, has helped hundreds of people enter the world of kink safely and comfortably.

Outside the kink community, Angela has lectured on BDSM for the National Sexuality Resource Center’s Summer Institute at SFSU and is a Distinguished Lecturer and SAR faculty member for the Institute for the Advance Study of Human Sexuality. She and her partner were recognized by the Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas for their contributions to the field of sexology/erotology. In her vanilla profession, Angela has been a corporate trainer for more than 15 years.

Iain has a fetish for creating and organizing kinky events. He co-founded EduKink and Primal. He owns and runs the DogNPony annual conference, and is Coordinator for the Society of Janus. He has worked on several advisory boards, including SF Citadel and LLC-12. He runs approximately 60 events/year, including teaching a different Paideia playshop and a different Newcomer's Series class each month. He likes to train new leather leadership, if they've got the masochism for the job.

Iain also presents kink in the academic and vanilla worlds at places like IASHS, SFSU, NSRC, BFC, Mensa, and UN-Reno. With his remaining time he's usually busy with a pair of floggers, fire toys or extending the range of sensation play.

Master Bob

Master Bob, Northwest Master 2006 and Deputy Director of MAsT International, calls the Portland and Willamette Valley kink communities home and is an active member of Portland Leather Alliance, MasT: PNW, Portland Dom’s Group, Dungeon Monitors Association, and South Valley BDSM Group. He serves as the Deputy Director of MAsT International, is a faculty member for The Butchmann’s Experience and is a member of the Butchmann’s Board of Directors. In his professional life he runs his own personal motivation business, www.SolutionMentoring.com and is a certified life coach specializing in relationship and personal growth issues.

In and out of the leather community he is passionate about helping others to live more joyful and fully authentic lives, and has established and organized fun and supportive environments for his community, moderated and facilitated discussion groups, mediated conflicts, participated on panels, and presented interactive workshops on various topics ranging from M/s dynamics to S/M technique to “Conversations on Spirituality and Sexuality”. While he understands that being out is a luxury not everyone can afford he feels fortunate to be able to choose this path for himself and his slave because he feels modeling wholeness by telling the truth about who and what we are, despite the perceived risks, is an act of authentic leadership to which he aspires. It is his hope to honor both our unique differences and our shared common experience, building bridges of understanding both within our local leather communities and within our larger circles of influence.

slave jan

slave jan, Northwest slave 2006, began her slave journey when her head finally caught up with her heart and has been happily in service to Master Bob ever since. They began the shift from a floundering, ho-hum “equal partnership” twelve-year marriage to a negotiated power dynamic relationship at the turn of the millennium and slowly over a year and a half’s time found themselves spirit led to living a consensual M/s lifestyle. Currently she is a member of the Portland Leather Alliance, Portland “Bad Girls”, MasT: PNW, subRosa, and is a faculty member for The Butchmann’s Experience. She assists in producing Leatherwoods and co-hosts the Albany and Corvallis Munches. Through moderating discussions, participating on panels, presenting workshops, writing and sharing other expressive arts she helps others to explore and celebrate their own unique paths to self discovery.

Patrick and his slave patrick

About Patrick and patrick: Patrick Mulcahey has presented on M/s, leather and BDSM topics for the Leatherman's Discussion Group, the Society of Janus, Leather Alley at S.F. Pride, the Sacramento Valley Leathercorps, and the Master-slave Conference in Washington, D.C. He is a proud member of the 15 Association, MAsT and Janus. He lives in San Francisco with his slave patrick, and may be better known to FetLife members as "MrEasy." At an age where he thought life had finally settled down, slave patrick found himself coming out again: this time it was leather. It's been quite a ride. Thanks to the love and guidance of some extraordinary souls he finds himself walking the path of slave, collared to a loving Master who has a habit of driving him wild with desire on a regular basis. slave patrick is a member of Janus and The 15 Association and is currently the membership director for MAsT, International. Oh, and he's a grandpa.

Master Taino

Master Taino has been active in the Leather community since the early nineties. He has a Leather Family and household. He is the owner of slave david and slave paul. Other members of the Family are Master J (Senior Master) from Arlington, VA, Sir Rossfrom New York City, Sir Silas from Virginia Beach, VA, and Sir Greg from Indianapolis (Junior Masters).

He founded MTTA, Inc., a non-profit organization that runs MTTA Academy, a Mentors Service, the Master/slave History Project (www.mtta-programs.org), as well as the annualMaster/slave Conference (www.masterslaveconference.org) . He is a member of Defenders Leather Levi Club since 1993 and served as President for three years (2002-2005). He also founded MAsT Washington in 1999, one of the oldest chapters.

In 2011, Master Taíno received the Pantheon of Leather’s “Man of the Year 2011 Award” and the “Master Steve Golden Paintbrush Award 2011” at the Southwest Leather Conference. He also has been honored with the "Jack Stice Memorial Award 2010" at South Plains Leather Fest, the “Black Rose Vaughn Keith National Educator Award” in October 2009, the DC Leather Pride "Community Service Award 2009”, the Pantheon of Leather’s “Mid-Atlantic Regional Award 2007” and the “Lifestyle Achievement Award 2004” at Together in Leather.

Master Taíno has a very comprehensive website: www.mastertaino.com. He can be reached at Master@mastertaino.com

boyjean

boyjean has been involved in the Leather life for over 16 years and
has identified as a boy for as long as he can remember. he has the
privilege and honor of serving his Sir/Daddy and regards service as a
passion that comes from the heart. boyjean serves the Leather
Community as a board member of Leather Traditions, coordinator of the
International Community Bootblack contest with International Leather
Sir/boy, and held the titles of Northern California Bootblack 2007,
and International Community Bootblack 2007.

Maestro Stefanos and Chey

This dynamic couple has been part of the BDSM and Fetish Scene for more then a decade and teaching for more than half a decade. Stefanos has also been a student of fencing and martial arts for 20 years. He is perhaps best known as the lusty and controlling mind behind Bondage-a-Go-Go's dungeon space every Wednesday night in San Francisco, as well as host of Master's Den and Bent at the SF Citadel. As Purveyors of Perversion, he and his wife Chey have taught classes for individuals, couples and groups at many venues, including SF Citadel, Minnesota Bondage, Pleasures of the Heart, Society of Janus, SF Swinger's Convention, Fantasy Makers, Playboy TV and Magic Theatre. Stefanos' holds the title of Mr SF Citadel 2010. His favorite scenes have included dodging flying lamps and mirrors, with an aftermath of trying to get bite marks out of his leathers.

Master Scott

Master Scott is an old school leatherdyke. She is both a Master and Daddy and enjoys the energy that belongs to each of these persona. Her leather focus revolves around practicing and honoring the traditions and protocols she learned from her mentor over 34 years ago. Although a fairly low profile person, Master Scott genuinely enjoys teaching on subjects which are close to her heart. She also enjoys one on one training and mentoring of leatherdykes who are committed to improving their understanding of leather history and the subtleties of D/s interactions.

Some of Master Scott's other passions in life are reading, collecting and smoking good cigars, teaching others about cigars, blues music, and of course, having her boots shined. She has a weakness for service oriented leatherdyke submissives and slaves who love traditions and old school protocol. Master Scott is happily married to her wife of over 24 years and is the head of her leather family, the Dragon Tear Tribe, most of whom have been sharing life's highs and lows together for over 14 years.

Master George and slave bren

Southwest Master and slave 2011

Master George first became aware of the Leather lifestyle in New York City during the late 1970s. He identifies as Leather/BDSM Bi Master/Daddy. slave bren has been following her slave path for 12 years, she relocated from Canada in 2003 to live as a slave under the care and authority of Master George. slave bren identifies as Leather, pansexual slave girl, she was collard to Master George in 2008; they have been together for 8 incredible and astonishing years.

Master George is currently the 2009/2011 Coordinator of the Threshold Society INC., a pansexual community center/dungeon in the greater Los Angeles area. He is the founder of Los Angeles Brothers In Dominance (2004) a local support group for those who actively live as male Dominants.

slave bren is currently the Education and Publicity chair for the Threshold Society, she is a major player in the producing of Bizarre Bazaar, kinky Valentine, two major fundraiser for the Threshold Society. She is the humble founder of the Los Angeles sisters in submission support group for those who actively live as female sub/slaves (2004) she is a voting member of the Los Angeles Leather Coalition. Slave bren can often be found doing publicity for groups all over the south western region and is happiest when serving Master and her community.

Together Master George and slave bren have been hosting one of the largest D/s discussion groups in Los Angeles for the past 3 years. Recently they have started the Master/slave Circle a discussion group for those who actively seek out others who live the Master/slave dynamic and wish to learn more. They passionately work on a daily basis to help create history in the leather M/s BDSM community and hope to encourage others to follow in their footsteps. They currently serve as Southwest Master and slave 2011.

tomo

tomo is a slave with a deep passion for devotion and surrender; she is honored to be in service to Ms Rhonda. She identifies as a butch leatherdyke and has been in the leather community for over fifteen years.

tomo is a martial arts instructor with over twenty-five years of teaching experience. She has been greatly influenced as a slave and instructor for the leather community not only by her extensive physical training in martial arts techniques, but also by the deep D/s roots of her traditional Japanese martial arts background. As a professional educator she values conveying knowledge and has presented at numerous national events and for many local groups, too. tomo often shares her experience by mentoring as related to the M/s and D/s lifestyles and she served as a judge for the 2010 International Master/slave contest. As a founding member of the Dyke Uniform Corps (D.U.C.), she often speaks publicly on wearing uniforms as a fetish. She is currently a producer of International Ms Leather and International Ms Bootblack and is a member of MAsT Metro NY, MAsT Sacramento, the Lesbian Sex Mafia and TES.

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