Southeast Leatherfest

SouthEast LeatherFest (SELF) is an annual adult fetish event for the BDSM, leather, and kink communities based in the United States’ Southeast and centered in Georgia with regional and smaller related events held throughout the year.

History

SouthEast LeatherFest (SELF) was started in 1995 by Jack Stice, International Master 1995. It was concepted as a BDSM, Master/slave event to welcome all sections of the SM communities, highlighting on the Leather. Modeled after International Mister Leather and Drummer SELF added classes to this model. It began as a 2.5 day event with a bar crawl Friday evening and classes hosted on Saturday. Since 1995 has been one of the largest sex education and BDSM education events in the southeast region of the United States openly supporting underground kink, fetish, BDSM, sex-positive, Master/slave, and Dominant/submission communities.

This event for the first time in Atlanta history brought together the straight and LGBTQIA+ communities. They worked together which had not previously happened at BDSM and Master/slave events in the area. While there had been events in the region for gay men, this was the first event to have all communities present. SELF is a charitable event that has donated approximately $290,000+ to charities and scholarships over the years. Some of these charities are the Leather Archives & Museum, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Carter/Johnson Library, and many more. Jack Stice was the founder of this event and the “Jack Stice Memorial Community Service Award” was given in his honor annually.

SouthEast LeatherFest (SELF) holds classes given by nationally known educators from across the country, holds a multiple spokesperson contests, and has various other activities for that promote community and pride. SELF is held in June in Atlanta. SELF spokesperson titles are referred to as Mr. SouthEast LeatherFest, Ms. SouthEast LeatherFest, SouthEast LeatherFest boy, Southeast Bootblack, Southeast Person of Leather, and SouthEast Master/slave, and in the past it was the home of the International Master and slave contest until 2001 and a number of titles. For all titles produced at SELF historically, please see: https://secure.seleatherfest.com/contests/titleholder-history

Lady Catherine G. has worked in various capacities on the event since the 90’s and produced SELF since 2004. She has led the organization to expand its educational and social offerings. SELF, as of 2023, offers 200+ educational and social opportunities over four days. SELF is attended by 850+ persons a year and growing.

SELF started mini-grant program in 2007 which is a new program to invest regional money into local groups by funding speakers and educators to be brought to local communities that might not be able to afford it otherwise. This program was closed in 2011.

SELF has been nominated for “Pantheon of Leather Large Event of the Year” in (2005 – 2007) which means that this event has stood out from the other 100 events though independent peer review to be noted as one of five events that has been providing outstanding community service.

In 2014, SELF was the first leather contest in the country where a portion of each title contest was digital voting by the weekend participants. This continues to this day.

SELF has been reviewed and has supported the Leather Archives and Museum, a library/museum/archives pertaining to Leather sub culture, fetishism, Sadomasochism, and alternative sexual practices. The geographic collection scope is worldwide and includes all sexual orientations and genders. SouthEast LeatherFest is owned and produced by Catherine Gross. It is administered by a board of volunteers annually.

Current Titleholders : 2024

Mr SouthEast Leather Fest — Sir Andrew

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Sabrina Hypnotica

SouthEast BootBlack — Keriis

SouthEast Master/slave — Master Aaron and slave jennie

Past Titleholders

2023

Mr SouthEast Leather Fest — MaxInLeather

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Scarlett Rose

SouthEast BootBlack — Apollo

SouthEast Person of Leather — Mara

SouthEast Master/slave — Master Varii and slave neill

2022

Mr SouthEast Leather Fest — MaxInLeather

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Ms. Mia Rose

SouthEast BootBlack — Apollo

SouthEast Master/slave — Master Varii and slave neill

2019-2021

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Choc Trei [stepped down on December 31, 2020]

Southeast BootBlack — Mycalyne

SouthEast Person of Color — Idris Dior

SouthEast Leather Fest boy — Quazi

SouthEast Master/slave — Sir Luke and His victor

2018

Mr SouthEast Leather Fest — Sir Bradford

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Choc Trei

SouthEast BootBlack — Tidbit

SouthEast Person of Leather — Iamar Kinhawk

SouthEast Leather boy — Quazi

SouthEast Master/slave — Master Blue and slave Sheri

2017

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Tig

SouthEast BootBlack — Coco

SouthEast Person of Leather — ABizzy

SouthEast Master/slave — Master IceDog and slave Ravyn

2016

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Tig

Mr SouthEast Leather Fest — Timothy Lee

Southeast BootBlack — Ms Tori

SouthEast Person of Leather — ABizzy

SouthEast Master/slave — Master Bella and slave Rooks

2015

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Jennifer Deese

Mr SouthEast Leather Fest — Timothy Lee

Southeast BootBlack — Friday

SouthEast Person of Leather — Autumn East

2014

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — slave Pat

Southeast Master/slave — Kevin & slave Feyrie

2013

Mr SouthEast Leather Fest — Optimus

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Flossie

SE BootBlack — Madeline Sparkles

SouthEast Leather Fest boy- boy River

2012

Mr SouthEast Leather Fest — OB

SouthEast Leather Fest boy — boy Andy

2011

Mr SouthEast Leather Fest — Ejay

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Angel Propps

SE BootBlack — boy Dave

SE Master/slave — Master Dan and slave Melissa Archived 2013-12-30 at the Wayback Machine

2010

Mr SouthEast Leather Fest — Phantom Blue

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Amber

SE BootBlack — Margaret

SE Master/slave — Master Rick and slave Gypsie

2009

Mr SouthEast Leather Fest — Nefarious

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Miss Rae

SE BootBlack — Margaret

SE Master/slave — Master Tom and slave Linda

2008

Mr SouthEast Leather Fest — Henry Loyd

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Miss Bettie

SE BootBlack — Girl Commando/boy Andy

2007

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Solitaire

SouthEast BootBlack – Q

SouthEast Master/slave — Sir Top and slave Bonnie

2006

International Master/slave — Mistress Suzan and slave Ziggy

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Solitaire

Mr SouthEast Leather Fest — Matthew Cary

2005

SouthEast Master/slave — Master Tom and slave Linda

SouthEast LeatherFest Boy — Boy Tala

2004

Ms SouthEast Leather Fest — Girl Kim

SouthEast Leather Fest Boy — Grant Lam

2003

SouthEast Leather Sir — Richard Gray

SouthEast Leatherboy — Michael Waugh

Ms Leather Pride — JD

2002

International Master/slave — Master Scott and Slavette

Ms Leather Pride — Chance

SouthEast Leather Sir — John Derrek

SouthEast Leatherboy — John Mark

2001

International Master/slave — Master Jim and slave Marshal

SouthEast Mr Drummer — Daryl Fox

SouthEast Drummer Boy — Paul Ferreira

Ms Leather Pride — Chance

2000

International Master/slave — Steve Sampson and Kirk

SouthEast Mr Drummer — Larry Cottrill

SouthEast Drummer Boy — Bruce Tidwell

Ms Leather Pride — Samantha Claar

1999

International Master/slave — Khiki Cavannarro and Samantha

Ms Leather Pride — Paula Smith

SouthEast Mr Drummer — Shawn Couch

SouthEast Drummer boy — Boy Chris

1998

Ms Leather Pride — Sybil King

SouthEast Mr Drummer — Tom Stice

SouthEast Drummer boy — Gregory Kornman

1997

SouthEast Mr Drummer– Martin Ellis

Ms Leather Pride — Victoria Gayton (Ameritus Award)

SouthEast Drummer boy — Boy Von Sumrall

Mr. Georgia Leather — Joseph Blair

Ms. Georgia Leather — Miss Patt

1996

SouthEast Mr Drummer — Bob Jacobs Harris

SouthEast Drummer boy — Rory Teasdale

Mr. Georgia Leather — Leonard Sewell

Ms. Georgia Leather — Khiki Cavannarro

1995

SouthEast Mr Drummer — Ricardo A M Ware

SouthEast Drummer boy — Patrick Langone

1994

SouthEast Mr Drummer — Kevin Drewery

SouthEast Drummer boy — Dale Calloway

1993

Mr. SouthEast Leather — Darryl Flick

Mr. SouthEast Drummer — Barry Bishop

SouthEast Drummer boy — Owen Griswold

1992

Mr. SouthEast Leather — Kevin Drewery

Mr. SouthEast Drummer — Bart Girton

SouthEast Drummer boy — Eric Hayes

1991

Mr. SouthEast Leather — Wes Decker

Ms. SouthEast Leather — MP Breslin

Mr. SouthEast Drummer — Vance Reger

1990

Mr. SouthEast Leather — Chuck Higgins

Ms. SouthEast Leather — Diane Suissa

Mr. SouthEast Drummer — Bernhard Zinkgraf

SouthEast Drummer boy — Michael Feinstein

References

External links

Southeast Leatherfest

Verboten Magazine

Interview with Producer Catherine Gross SELF 2014 Leatherati.com reporting

Catherine Gross on KinkyCast.com for SouthEast LeatherFest Special Edition

Southeast conference of clubs origin of Southeast Leatherfest

Article on the ground breaking changes at SELF 2014

2014 Judges Announced

Post-Contest 2012 in Leatherati.com

SouthEast LeatherFest 2012

Leather Archives and Museum Review

Damron Calendar Archived 2007-05-21 at the Wayback Machine of events

2007 list of judges Archived 2007-05-19 at the Wayback Machine

Leatherati Article 2012 event

The GAVoice