Leatheratti Town Hall this Sunday

Hi Everyone-

I wanted to invite you all to join us at the online Leatheratti Town Hall meeting this sunday at 5:00 PM PDT. The topic is What's Up with BDSM Education? Looks to be a fun discussion. I have reposted their info below and you can link to Leatheratti here.

What's up with BDSM Education?

Join us for the next Leatherati Town Hall - Sunday, August 5 - 5 PM Pacific

"What's up with BDSM education?" is our topic for this edition of LTH.  For better or worse, many of us out there have attended classes on flogging, bondage, power exchange or other BDSM topics.  Maybe you even teach classes or produce an event with an education track.

This is a don't miss event with special guest panelists Race Bannon, Gloria Brame, Hardy Haberman and Princess Kali.  Leatherati Town Hall happens on Sunday, August 5, 2012 at 5 PM PDT on Leatherati.com, click on the tab for Leatherati Voices.

Upcoming Leatherati Town Halls include:

    September 2 - Abuse in the Leather/Kink/Fetish Community
    October 7 - Too Many Titles?
    November 4 - Gay/Het Separatists

Bootblack 101

On Wednesday July 11th we will be having our first education / discussion night. Bootblack Mike from Minneapolis, Minnesota will be in town as our guest showing us how to bootblack.  As many of you know your boots are the foundation to your leather journey and it is very important to take care of them. Mike will show us the in and outs of taking care of your boots and leathers. Please join us on Wednesday, July 11th at 7:00 PM at Club Try-Angles for this great learning session, and bring your boots. 

Leather & Gear Night Update

Hey Everyone, just an update for tonight, If you bring a gift card to a national retailer and donate it to boy kris, TryAngles will wave the cover charge.  Please help boy kris recover from the house fire he had a few weeks ago where he lost about everything he owns.
Love To You All
boy darin

Leather & Gear Night

Hello Everyone

Leather & Gear Night is coming up this Friday, July 6th at Club TryAngles. We know it will be hot so please have fun with your gear just keep state law in mind.  (We know boooo).  

We are going to be having a fundraiser again with "Split the Pot"  last time we raised over $100 and split it with the winner.  We are asking for a donation of 1 ticket for $1 or 6 tickets for $5. As always the pot is split with the winner at midnight.  Donations go into the Rocky Mountain Leather SIR/boy & Community Bootblack Travel Fund.  This fund is created for those that want to compete but can't afford it due to financial restraints. 

This Leather & Gear Night is the send off party for Crieg & Darin,  please come out and wish Sir Creig and boy darin good luck as the head off to San Francisco to compete at International Leather SIR/boy. 

If anyone wants to compete for 2013 Rocky Mountain Leather SIR/boy & Community Bootblack, please get with Sir Creig or boy darin, they are still looking for people to compete.

Finally in August we would like to do a membership run, Please consider becoming an official member of Wasatch Men & boys of Leather (WaMboL). Applications will be available starting at our August Gear Night.  Funds from membership dues go to support the club, purchase club patches, pins and fund additional activities including play parties, and educational and discussion classes. 

Thanks Everyone For Your Support!

Inaugural Boy Auction 2012

Hey Leather and gear kinksters. I am so excited to announce our first annual Boy Auction will be held at Club Try-angles on June 1st, to help raise funds for our Utah titleholders to head to San Francisco to compete in the 2012 International LeatherSIR and boy contest.

The event will begin at 8:00 PM with bidder and boy registration. Boys volunteering to be auctioned are asked to be able to commit to the night of the event and at least an hour on either saturday or sunday with their winning bidder at the Pride Festival. I want to emphasize you are NOT obligated to have any type of sexual contact with your winning bidder. You are merely arm candy and we don't want you to put yourself into any type of uncomfortable or unsafe situation at all. That said, what you do with your winning bidder is up to you.

Here is how it will work: boys or Sirs can pre-register as a volunteer Auction Block item by emailing me SirCreig@utahleather.org with the following information

A Good face picture (Gear pic preferred but not required)
Your Legal Name
Your Stage name if you have one or want one
Phone number or email address (For club officers to contact you only)
Some kink interests
A brief bio or some fun facts about you
Anything else that you think can win you the highest bids

We would like to post your picture and bio, and Stage name on this website if you are comfortable with that so that people can start saving up for their favorite boy.

On the night of the event, we will have each boy sign an agreement that basically states that you are doing this on your own free will and it's to raise funds for a non-profit and in no way is a contract for sexual activity or ownership. Bidders will sign a similar agreement.

Bidders will be able to buy "boy bucks" for use of "buying" their boys. We cannot take cash bids for the auction. Bidders will need to purchase "boy bucks" from the Auction registration table.

Then we will encourage our boys to mingle with the club guests, other boys and sirs etc, and then at 11:00 We will be opening up the auction block. Each boy will be introduced and shown off for bidders to fight over. We encourage all boys to wear whatever gear they feel will get them the highest dollar. All boys must comply with Utah law when it comes to dressing for this event. (Butt crakes covered, no cock hanging out etc, email me if you have questions about what's appropriate or not.) I will tell you that from some events we have seen in the past of this nature, the boys tend to like to undress a little as the bidding goes on to reveal a harness or rubber tank etc. Have some fun with this but keep it appropriate. The club has been so good to us and we want to be able to continue having fun events like this.

Once a boy has been auctioned, they will meet their winning bidder at the Auction Registration table where the bidder will hand over their boy bucks. I emphasize again, we CANNOT and WILL NOT accept cash bids. Please make sure you have adequate "boy bucks" on hand before completing your purchase. We ask that boys then spend the remainder of the evening at the bar with their winning bidder and we encourage the boys to arrange to spend an hour or so with their winning bidder at either the Pride Festival on Saturday or the Sunday Parade.

If you aren't able or feel uncomfortable being "sold" at auction, that's fine we can still use your help. We will need some volunteers to help with the running of the auction manning the check-in etc so please please let me know if you want to help and we will find a place for you. We are also going to need everyone's help getting the word out about this event. 100% of the proceeds will go to the Rocky Mountain LeatherSIR/boy and Community bootblack travel fund.

I am so excited for this event and hope to see all of you there. Please let boy darin or myself know if you have any questions and lets make this a great event for all.

Brothers always
SIRCreig
2012 Rocky Mountain LeatherSIR

Leather & Gear Night

Hey Everyone, just a reminder for those who are not going to Smokeout this weekend, It is our monthly Leather & Gear Night. Friday, April 6th, 10:00 PM at Club Try-Angles. Hope you all can make it out to this great event. What would you guys think about adding a demo night to our Leather & Gear Night in May? Let us know.

boy darin

I have updated the WaMboL Events Calendar. If you have an event you would like to submit to the calendar please email me at boydarin@utahleather.org

WaMboL Gear Night

Hey everyone its Leather & Gear Night this Friday, March 2nd. Dress in your favorite leathers or fetish gear and come have some fun. If you don't have gear come anyway and meet your fellow leathermen and gear heads. :-)

An Important lesson learned the hard way

So angry right now. So I am a member of the Utah Kink group on Fetish zone. We've had a member there who is now facing legal trouble from a scene where he went out of his range of skills and abilities and ended up injuring the sub. I cannot stress the importance of the following statement:

IF YOU DON'T KNOW A SKILL SET, DON'T REPRESENT YOURSELF AS KNOWING IT JUST FOR THE SAKE OF PLAY.

A good Dominant or submissive for that matter communicates to their partner an accurate account of what their experience is and both partners mutually agree before the scene is even set up what expectations are and what risks are involved. As a Dominant in the scene, I make it very clear what I will be doing and what my limitations are. It is our RESPONSIBILITY as Leatherfolk to let a submissive know when we are not able to help them explore something and help them to find a responsible and educated person to help them with that. You will build a better rapport with your sub and the rest of the community if you do that. You by no means are expected to know and be fluent in every aspect of play so don't try to be.

I promise that no Master will ever claim to know everything about anything. Please please please be careful in your play to keep things fun and safe. If you have any questions don't be afraid to ask someone in our community. We will never judge you or think differently of you for wanting to learn.

This poor guy now has possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars in reparations he will need to pay because he was not up front about his abilities to his partner. Accidents do happen, and we try our best not to let them happen, but please do what you can to be safe and understand and communicate the risks with your partner. I'd hate to have this sub scared to try another scene again because some ass hat decided to portray himself as more experienced than he really is.