boy Ian – International Leatherboy 2010, boy iain – Eastern Canada Leatherboy 2011 and I will have our own float for the 2011 Toronto Pride Parade.
If you’re one of the readers of this blog be sure to look for us.
The float will be hard to miss.
Out on Church St. Courtesy of Paul Ciantar.
I am frequently asked why I live in a smaller community in Northern Ontario, and how I could possibly live a full Leather life with the closest Leather bar 5 hours away.
Imagine waking up with a river steaming outside my door.
Imagine coming up to a skulk of eight foxes on the centre line of a road with the pups playing in the sun.
Imaging waking up a black bear sprawled out across the highway waiting for the next sandwich.
Imagine seeing a young cub sitting on his ass playing in the muck.
Imagine seeing a yearling bull strutting his stuff knowing he will fuck for the first time in the fall.
Imagine the excitement of a boy when he sees a Sir online who is coming to his community of 100 and is looking for a boy to serve for the night.
Imagine the look on his face when he is kneeling in front of his first fully clad Leather Sir.
Imagine his first deep breath of Leather and Sir.
Imagine a boy traveling 3, 5, 7, 12, even 16 hours to be with his new Sir.
Imagine a boy’s first flogging, chained between two trees, with only his Sir, the stars, and the howling of a pack of wolves under a full moon.
Imagine a boy signing his first contract in the presence and support of his new leather family.
Imagine that boy becoming a Sir and having boys of his own, passing on my Leather DNA.
Imagine that boy becoming a slave pegged to the ground, branding iron in the fire, and his ass in the air waiting to be marked by his Master.
I do visit the bigger cities and stir up a fuck of a lot of fun with my boys and slaves, but if you ask why I don’t move to a bigger city, I’ll just smile and tell you about my journey as a small town Leather Sir.
Master Chuck
Eastern Canada LeatherSir 2011
A s part of our ongoing 201 level workshop series, on July 17th, 2011, SYWTBK will present “A Round Table With Doms & subs” (doors at 130pm, seating is limited). We have gathered 5 fairly well known Doms (Tops/Masterss/Sirs/etc) and 5 subs (slaves/boys/bottoms/etc) to discuss their journey, life, and love of the BDSM lifestyle. We invite those in attendance to challenge our panel and ask the questions that have gone unanswered up until now. (This workshop will be split, with our Doms up first, followed by a short break, then our subs.) or (This workshop will be one panel, and will be in one continuous forum for your convenience.) Come prepared, do your homework, research any or all of the names below and have your specific questions ready.
Our panel will include:
Master Chuck Once a boy, Master Chuck at 50 now lives his life, 24/7, as the patriarch of his very large multi generational Leather Family that combines HOT play, daily life and growth. There is never a dull moment. As a covered Master he holds himself to a high standard of integrity, manifesting itself in the basic traditional Old Guard principles of Honour, Trust, and Respect. To him, submission is a precious gift that Doms should accept with humility, then use BDSM as a tool to reach the subs inner core as they embrace their submission. He gives back to and helps develops his community through high level activism and with the educational seminars he delivers. Master Chuck is proud to represent his community as Eastern Canada LeatherSIR 2011
Master Peter After growing up on a working ranch in Southern Alberta, Peter simply changed one kind of chaps for another. After realizing he was not only gay but into Leather in the early 1980’s Peter began to discover the community of Leather Folk. After moving to Toronto, Ontario in 1994, Peter found a welcoming and accepting community. He joined the Board of Directors of Mr. Leatherman Toronto Competition Inc. (MLTC) in 2000 and served on the Board until the end of 2007. In 2001, Peter was made the Chief Judge of MLTC and continues to serve in that position. He is also a member of the So You Want To Be Kinky Committee which puts on the annual seminar program during the MLT weekend along with the “So You Want to Be Kinky” education program which stages seminars on a quarterly basis. He has also served as a judge at many local, national and international competitions such as IML 2009. Along the way he also served as Tally Master for ABW for 3 years. In November of 2007, Peter was awarded the MLT John Stephen Basset Leather Pride Award for his contributions to the development of Leather Pride. He has been in a Master/Slave relationship for nearly 13 years with his slave cub. Cub was also Bootblack Toronto 2005. Believing in the traditional values of the Leather Community, Peter believes very strongly in giving back to the community more than the community has given him.
Master Scott is a gay male “bear”, dominant switch, and has been doing BDSM play for more than 20 years. He is a proud member of the Leather Family headed by Master Chuck. Scott was recently honoured by being presented with his Master’s cover by Master Chuck and his leather family. He is honoured to be pinned into Mama’s Family as “Mama’s Canadian Body Bear”. Within the community Scott has been active in teaching others various BDSM related skills, particularly his passion of percussion play (spanking, flogging and caning). Scott has been partnered in an open relationship for almost 14 years to a D/s-switch MasterC’s boy Iain – currently Eastern Canada Leatherboy 2011. Scott is blessed to have a collared submissive in slave-pup Kalen. Scott also acts as a mentor to a number of other boys, cubs and slaves. Scott is currently in the process of switching careers and is completing studies in a healthcare field.
Master T’Hayla Ferguson has been teaching in Canada and the USA for the last 15 years on a wide range of BDSM and M/s topics, including but not limited to: Master/slave relationships, self esteem, spirituality, cutting, piercing and other nasty sadistic shit your slave will love you for. Mastery is not so much a choice as a calling for T’Hayla – one which fulfills so many deep needs. Victoria Windsor Victoria Windsor found the leather community 19 years ago by looking for it. She’s known singe age 8 that she was different. Finding kink opened her eyes, finding Leather opened her world, and she can never go back.
Victoria was the recipient of the Central Canada Olympus Leather 2008, the co-Chair of the So You Want To Be Kinky Education Committee, have taught throughout North America, and currently serves as the Executive Producer of Toronto Leather Pride (formerly MLT). She holds dear the close relationships she has made in this group, and loves having a leather heart.
boy alex is a local bootblack and active member of the queer leather community in Toronto. Soon after finding life in leather, boy alex met some friends who introduced him to D/s and service oriented dynamics. He then attended the boys Training Camp in Dallas Texas and learned more about these concepts and how to apply them. Since then, he has experimented with and been involved in several service based relationships and contracts. boy alex has also taken on various service oriented roles in his community. boy alex has taught workshops and sat on discussion panels about D/s and service at several leather events in the US such as the boys Training Camp, and also South West Leather Conference in Phoenix and South Plains Leatherfest in Dallas.
cub Originally from Winnipeg, Ron began his leather journey in 1985. He was a long-time member of the Winnipeg Leather Levi Club as well a founding member of C.L.U.B Winnipeg. In February of 1998 he met his future Master, Peter to whom he became a collared as a slave under a lifetime contract and was given the name cub in November of that year he move to Toronto to begin fulltime service and in 2000 cub began volunteering with MLT. In 2003 cub along with several fellow boys formed the Toronto boys of Leather, a group that was intended to provide support for other submissives, and to provide assistance to other groups and organizations in the leather community. cub served as President of TboL until 2007 and remains involved in an advisory role. In 2005 cub won the title of Bootblack Toronto. While competing at the International Mr. Bootblack in Chicago of 2005, cub was humbled to be the first Canadian to receive the Brotherhood award. cub was pinned into Mama’s Family as Mama’s Canadian cub in 2006. In 2007, cub was honoured to receive MLT’s Courtland Forsey Award. slave gillian slave gillian is happily submerged in her 24/7 M/s relationship. Living a powerful and fulfilling enslavement has been an exciting and challenging experience. Among many things gillian loves being Master’s majical assistant and demo bottom at workshops. gillian and her Master regularly attend Toronto’s Perspectives on Power group.
Master C’s boy iain Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland and raised in the Greater Toronto Area, Eastern Canada Leatherboy 2011, boy iain has been collared to Master Chuck since 2004. Growing up, he knew he was interested in pig sex, oral service, piss and Bearish men and has since learned to enjoy the pleasure of pain, submission and domination, boot worship, cock and ball torture, tit torture, rubber, mind fucks; and the eroticization of safe sex. In 2009, boy Iain was the recipient of an Eastern Canada LeatherSIR/Leatherboy Community Builder Award in recognition of the impact of his involvement in the Toronto and Eastern Canada Leather community. He promotes play, education and believes that as a community we should be connecting with other people face to face and flesh on flesh.
Master Scott’s slave-pup Kalen is a 25 year old, gay submissive. He is a service oriented slave who enjoys domestic chores as well as other service as needed. On the pup side he identifies as a husky pup named Bandit and has a fondness of “borrowing” socks. He has also dicovered a love for bondage and percussion play. slave-pup Kalen was born in Toronto but was raised in Sudbury Ontario, and now currently resides in Brampton. Kalen was collared as Master Scott’s slave-pup in June 2010. Kalen is also proud member of Master C’s leather family of which he is the youngest member.
Goodhandy’s 120 Church Street (2nd floor) SW corner of Church & Richmond Streets Toronto, ON Admission $10.00 at the door Restricted to those 19 years of age and older
As many of you know, I’m a member of Fet Life and in particular a group called Masters Only. Recently a question was asked, “What do you think is required to achieve Mastery?
The following is my reply with additional thoughts on the matter.
To me, Mastery is a journey. The question then is, when does one become a Master while on this journey? As someone once said if you walk like a duck , quack like a duck, and act like a duck… you may just be a duck?? Others may see you as a Master and cover you as one, but for me it was not untill I saw for myself and accepted it did I become a Master. This happened after speaking with another Master about my struggles of aceptance and he sated the obvious, “find a way to evaluate yourself against what you think is a well rounded Master…you may be supprized”.
When doing my self evaluation I use the individual lines, and ask myself what percentage of the time is this true. I realize that I’m not perfect but in order for me to accept the meaning of the cover, I feel I need to put in to practice some lines at least 80%, most 90%, with some lines involving safety 100% of the time.
Although this is a work in progress I’m now noy 90% comfortable with my personal self-evaluation criteria.
As readers of this blog may know I have a very large leather family, of which I’m the patriarch. Some of my subs are also Doms with subs of their own. I’m also now finding this to be a great tool for setting up of training priorities with all future SiTs or MiTs
If you have any other suggestions I would love to hear from you:
Finally getting around to setting up galleries heres the first from CLAW 10.
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For more information on the CLAW weekend see my post
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This year I will be one on the headliners for Tease 2011, and will be presenting four workshops.
TEASE is an ANNUAL Pan-Sexual, Pan-Kink, outdoor Canadian Alternative Lifestyle Educational Camping Convention. Open to all adults, 18 years old and above; Singles, Couples, Triads, Quads, Families, Poly, Swingers, Monogamous, Celibate, Straight, Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Curious, Complicated, or Uncertain, from around the world – located on – Kink Friendly – Private Land, close to Barrie, in lovely Ontario, Canada.
5 days and 4 nights of wild fun and quality education, with; Workshops, Hands on Demos (Xploratorium), Hot Tubs, fun BDSM Games, drumming circle, a 15′ tall Wicker Man (ceremony), The King’s Fantasy Masked Ball, Dom/sub charity auction, Socials, nightly Play Parties (with multiple Play Areas), bonfires, free door prizes, as well as camping with and meeting new friends.
TEASE 2011 includes a non-mandatory “THEME” for each night; details of, Ichi-Yoru (First Night), Inferno, Tribal, and Carnival; can be found on the INFO page.
TEASE is a PRIVATE, Pre-Paid Registered Members ONLY event – and is run “AS THOUGH IT WERE A” not-for-profit Community Educational Event; brought to you by the BDSM London Munch, Dark Angel’s Lair (DAL) of London, and EHBC/KNaNO (of Kitchener).
TEASE is more fun than should be legal; come join us – for Canada’s LARGEST Canadian Camping Convention.
My trip to CLAW10, my second CLAW, started with my normally submissive Ford F150 having a will of it’s own, with the radio starting and stopping, and the wipers only responding to my commands when in park. The truck will be sent the the non submissive truck re-education centre (my local Ford dealership) on Tuesday.
The rest of the weekend went better than planned.
Upon arriving at CLAW, I went straight into our volunteer fundraiser with boy iain, my slave David, David German (Mr. Michigan Leather 2011), the Grand Rapids Rivermen, Dave Watt, MR. Friendlies Father and several volunteers that were assigned to us.
Our volunteers
– The Bears Out of Hibernation party, which my boy and I managed and also hosted. With under one weeks notice, we came up with some unique activities that had not yet been done in Cleveland, let alone the Leather Stallion.
The first was Leather Bear Base Balls 
– boy iain was secured to the railing of the ministage outside with ducttape. Due to the cool temperature boy iain was in his union suit with his jock hanging out. Of course it was hard to keep the locals away.
For $3 the contestants got 3 balls and with a Nerf Bat had 3 tries at hitting him in the balls.
There were many close hits but no hits on base until the 4th contestant who got a home run and growl of approval.
The second activity was the very popular Bear Pick Me Up Raffle. For this, our sales team of 3 volunteers kept boy and I busy most of the night.
I want to personally thank them for starting me off slowly with smaller bear customers in the 180 to 250 pound range and building up to 320 lbs. The activity was for me to pick up the Bear up off the ground in such a way that I was able to distract them with a ball masssage while boy iain measured from their balls to the ground. In the case of the CBT bottoms there was also some ball working going on.
A happy customer
The prize was a admission to an all-inclusive Leather-Bear Run and the Mr. Northern Ontario Bear competition – August 18 – 25, 2011 and $170 in gas money to get there. Thank you to the Sudbury Northern Ontario Bears for the donation of the prize.
Winner of the raffle draw. What a leather Bear!
We were able to raise over $500 for CLAW charities that night.
Looking forward to seeing boy Donnie up at the run. Just to be sure he would come, I gave him a privite intiation to Northern Leather Bear sex WOOOOOF. Nice ass boy!
Saturday started with the customary blow job, then on to breakfast and the seminars.
The first was a seminar that looked at the impact the banning of bare backing videos has had on some. Despite my nearly 20 years of HIV/AIDS/HEPC advocacy work the workshop was very educational and resulting in a few news friends who see the role we can all play in understanding why people want to bareback. It also helped break down the stigma I have been feeling when being invited to play parties where condom users such as myself are as welcome to attend as non-condom users. A big thank you to Mr. Friendly’s Dad, Dave Watt, for facilitating this.
The next seminar was lead by a very interesting Master Taino who leads a training academy for slaves and Masters. His wealth of life experience as the Master of his house and his willingness to share it is much appreciated. After the private one on one discussions we had re our own families I certainly felt a familiar and kindred spirit.
A highlight I neglected to mention on the Friday night fundraiser was when my former boy/Master in training walked in with his collared boy Scott. 
We had dinner together on Saturday.
For those of you who know me, I’m old guard in philosophy. On Saturday, our dinner was followed by a private family-only de-collaring of my boy cam. The ceremony consisted of boy cam’s boy Scott with both his hands on his SIR’s shoulders as a symbol of his family standing behind him in his journey to becomming a Master. With my boy on his knees, the collar was removed and his lock was moved to his left side as a sign of my leather DNA that will follow him as we continue our relationship as Leather brothers. His collar will be kept and as a tradition in my family a link will be incorporated into his cover when he becomes a Master. Thank you for your service boy. I know you will do me and our family proud in all you do and teach your boys and slaves.
This Saturday was my “being responsible” night, being very tired and faced with a 10 hour drive home back to Sudbury with my misbehaving sub from hell – my Ford F150.
Sunday began with boy iain’s birthday spanking, followed up with counted riding crop onto the nicely warmed up red boy butt.
Happy 37th birthday boy
One of my favorite wake-me-ups at event is when 5 boys of leather arrived in their jocks and harnesses with their offering of coffee.
A Sir's eye view
boy's eye view
Life is tough - Thank you boys for helping me get up.
I tend to do vendors markets on the last days when they are slower and the vendors have more time for their customers. This vendors market was obviously full of kinkters who live and love their products. The men of Stompers boots are a perfect example getting to know their clients and their needs before selling their products.
A special thanks to the many vendors that make my Christmas shopping so easy for my slaves and boys. Thanks to one of the vendors, I’m no longer reluctant to pack my whips for air travel. You know boys, this means trouble.
Before leaving I was able to also get some one on one time with Master John Weal. My introduction to him started with my complaint about his book costing me too much money, as I keep buying them and giving them away as gifts. Recently boy iain gave me a copy of The Leatherman’s Protocol Handbook: A handbook on “Old Guard” Rituals, Traditions and Protocols book that very well describes what “Old Guard” was, and was not. It also explains how Master John, like me, has implemented “Old Guard” values with a modern twists. Our private chat was inspirational and showed me that a seemingly strict “Old Guard” Master is foremost human and a loving dominant to all he and his family serve.
I quite often get asked what about the dungeon parties? I seldom play in public places. The are two main reasons for this:
As for my Ford F150 – it did behave. I wonder if it was the whips.
To the many new friends I have made, thank you all. Yes, Cleveland ROCKS
boy iain and I will hosting the Bears out of Hibernation Party (CLAW) featuring the “Bear Cave” on the patio. The Leather Stallion Saloon – 2205 St. Clair Ave. –
216-589-8555 Of course we will be kicking it up a notch or two with some leather bear anticts. Hope to see you there.
This year’s party will include an evening of Leather Bear related anctics:
This is an official CLAW Bar Night – hope to see you there!
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