Poster Session Groups
Bizarre Bazaar
This coffee and retail shop also hosts several leather community meetings and discussion groups on a monthly basis. Future plans include hosting small play parties.
Kinky Book Club
This Twin Cities book club meets monthly to discuss both fiction and non-fiction books related to the leather lifestyle. The club meets in a private home and has been in existence about five years.
Kinky Cookie Bakers
The Minnesota Kinky Cookie Bake is an annual vanilla family event of kinky people held the weekend before Thanksgiving each year. Together the bakers produce thousands of cookies and holiday goodies to share. They auction off gift baskets as charitable fundraisers. Children of community members join in to mix, roll, cut out, frost, decorate and count. This non-kinky event allows people to build friendships in a safe environment.
Knights of Leather
Knights of Leather, founded in 1985 as a women’s SM club, became a Minnesota-based pansexual organization in 2000 for those who are actively involved or seriously interested in BDSM lifestyles and activities. Members are proactive about the lifestyle; they frequently demonstrate and teach at leather functions and present to college groups and other social and political organizations (leather and non-leather alike) about leather/BDSM/kink culture. The club hosts a monthly dungeon party and an annual BDSM weekend (Tournament, now in its 19th year), and provides ongoing social and educational activities to its members, associates, and the BDSM community at large.
Leather Triptych
Atons of Minneapolis, MN Storm Patrol and Corn Haulers L&L of Iowa make up this trio of regional leather clubs. The Atons, founded in 1972, are among the oldest leather fraternities in the US. The MN Storm Patrol is more recent addition to the Twin Cites club community. Their brethren to the south, the Corn Haulers, recently celebrated their 30th anniversary. All are members of the Midwest Area Conference of Clubs (MACC).
Leather Archives & Museum
LA&M engages in the compilation, preservation and maintenance of records and memorabilia related to the history of the leather community and related lifestyles. In addition to archives and activities in Chicago, the LA&M serves our international community by preserving historic material from leather communities around the world. LA&M maitains traveling exhibits, and provides email and telephone research assistance.
LLC, Inc. Board of Directors
Meet the Leather Leadership Conference Board! Learn all about LLC, Inc. Get information on hosting an LLC in your city or on applying for election to the LLC Board (elections are coming soon). Learn who the LLC Board is, what LLC and the board does, how we do it, and what exciting things are coming soon from LLC, Inc.
Lodge of Athenor
A Twin Cities organization, Athenor is loosely based on the structure of a Masonic lodge. The lodge works D/s on a group level rich in ritual and mystery. It also explores the energy created by SM and D/s.
Minnesota Kinky Crafters
Not all community groups in the Twin Cities area are kinky by virtue of the activities pursued. Kinky crafting is a way for people to share their creative sides and talk about their days, families and activities while bonding over a common interest. The group meets informally at a vanilla coffee house. Gatherings are arranged via group emails and may have three to nine attendees. Activities shared include knitting, crocheting, embroidery and other crafts. The group is a repository of many skill levels in different handicrafts. It offers folks a way to meet community people in a friendly, relaxed environment with no particular agenda or discussion topic. Sometimes discussion is purely vanilla “yarn talk.”
Minnesota Leather Pride
Minnesota Leather Pride began in 1992 as a beer bust celebration at the Gay 90’s the Sunday afternoon of Gay Pride. Commemorative dog tags were introduced in 1995. In 1998 the event expanded to a whole weekend of events. This was also the first year the group had a booth in Loring Park. In 2002, the event expanded to a weeklong celebration that included workshops and roundtable discussions. In 2003 Floggapalooza began at the Bolt, another local bar. The event is produced yearly with the participation of 10 to 12 leather and kink groups. For more information visit www.mnleatherpride.org.
Minnesota Power Exchange
Minnesota Power Exchange focuses on its mission as a communication conduit and serves the community with a large annual charitable barbecue.
Minnesota Stocks, Debentures, and Bonds
MSDB is a for-profit, Minnesota-based organization for people who are actively involved or seriously interested in BDSM lifestyles and activities. MSDB provides social and educational activities and information to its members and to the BDSM community at large.
MinKY
MinKY is a pansexual organization based in the Twin Cities. Its aim is to reach people between the ages of 18 and 35 to help them make informed decisions about their lifestyle choices through educational classes and recreational gatherings.
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
NCSF is the only national organization committed to creating a political, legal and social environment in the United States advancing equal rights of consenting adults who practice alternative sexual expression including BDSM/leather/fetish, swinging and polyamory. The poster provides current information about the individuals who serve in the organization and the services provided for constituent communities.
New England Leather Alliance
NELA, formerly known as NLA-New England, is an organization dedicated to making a safe place in the world for all leather/fetish/SM people through education, advocacy and charitable giving. It is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the support, education and political organizing in New England. It is a diverse pansexual group of adults who share a common interest in leather, SM and fetishes, and those who want to be active in building community. Members are women and men, transgendered folk, heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual, married and single, young and old. They hail from MA, NH, CT, ME, RI and VT. NELA supports the statements of purpose of NLA-I and applies them to local issues. The group hosts monthly classes and outings, produces the semi-annual Fetish Fair Fleamarket and publishes newsletter and more.
Ophoenix Design
Ophoenix Design is an exciting new design studio specializing in home interiors and dungeon design.
The Royal Order of Husketeers
Created by Charger, the family of Husky, Husky Junior, Huskette and Junior have given many members of the community seemingly endless hours of pleasure and camaraderie. Those with a personal connection to Husky are consensually bonded to the Royal Order and must learn the anthem written for him. Anyone can be a Husketeer, provided they complete the initiation into the Order. The Royal Order and its shenanigans speak to the local flavor of the community. Husky is on permanent display at the Museum of Sex in Manhattan, New York. Junior has usurped the throne in Minnesota.
San Francisco Leather Community
The San Francisco leather community consists of diverse groups that work together to meet the growing needs of those interested in leather, BDSM, kink and alternative lifestyles. Groups include gay leather and traditional male motorcycle clubs, a woman-to-woman SM club, the second-oldest BDSM organization in the country, a first-class dungeon facility and growing leather center, a producer of leather street events including the largest street leather event in the country, community activist groups and other organizations that serve the needs of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals, straights and other colors of the rainbow both in the Bay Area and beyond.
Tea and Strumpets
Tea and Strumpets was founded in Minnesota almost ten years ago and modeled informally on a San Francisco group. The group has been holding teas in private homes using the female dominant/goddess model, with male submissives in service for Sunday afternoons of tea and naughtiness.
Woodhull Freedom Foundation
The Woodhull Freedom Foundation and Federation (WFF) works through research, advocacy and public education to affirm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right. The Foundation addresses law, government policy and corporate practices that restrict sexual freedom and discriminate against people on the basis of their consensual sexual expression. WFF seeks to mobilize diverse communities, write model legislation, build alliances, change public attitudes and advocate for freedom of speech and sexual expression.