Time Line 1993

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Books Published

• "On the Safe Edge", A Manual for SM Play by Trevor Jacques with Dr. Dale, Michael Hamilton, & Sniffer
• "Different Loving" - The World of Sexual Dominance and Submission by Gloria Brame et al.
• "SM: Sensuous Magic", A Guide for Adventurous Couples by Pat Califia.
• "The Arena" by John Preston.
• "My Life as a Pornographer", and Other Indecent Acts by John Preston
• "Exposed, Big Shots, and Beast of Burden", three collections of short stories by Aaron Travis
• "Leatherwomen", edited by Laura Antoniou - the first collection of women's sadomasochistic fiction since "Coming to Power".
• "The Marketplace", a modern SM/erotic novel, by Laura Antoniou (Masquerade edition)
• "The Magazine of a Sadomasochistic Club": The Tie that Binds by Rick Houlberg is published in the "Journal of Homosexuality", Vol. 21 (1/2). This is the first known content analysis of such a publication. [wd]
• "Lewd Conduct": a collection of short stories by John W. Rowberry.
• "Peter Thornwell" by Torsten Barring.
• "Ties That Bind" by Guy Baldwin, a compilation of his columns from Drummer and other publications.
• "The Leather Contest Guide" by Guy Baldwin.
• "Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist" published by REsearch as Vol. 1 in the People Series.
• "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do", The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society by Peter McWilliams.
• "Le Phallus, Sacred Symbol of Male Creative Powe"r by Alain Danilou in French. English edition 1995.
• Mark Thompson's "Leatherfolk" is published in German as Lederlust -- Der SM-Kult. [wd]

Clubs and groups formed

Formation of Icon Detroit; Long Island Ravens; Journeyman of Syracuse; South Texas Leather Men, Corpus Christi; Suncoast LLC, St. Petersburg FL; Tartarus, St. Louis; and Trident International Windy City, Chicago. Cycle MC and Wheels MC merge in NYC.

Events

1993

Sodomy laws in the Republic of Ireland were repealed. See Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform

1993

Los Angeles Police raid the San Diego home of Lee Baldwin, who produced, directed, and starred in his own line of gay SM videos. Police confiscate Ass Play, a video that includes several fisting scenes, and several others. Baldwin is convicted and sentenced to 547 hours of community service and fined $3000.

1993

"Sports Illustrated" rejects an Adidas advertisement because it featured a Canadian soccer team wearing nothing but their athletic shoes, despite the fact that thanks to artfully arranged hands, heads and soccer balls, not one team member showed more flesh than the average female model does in SI's notorious annual swimsuit issue. [Hooven 95]

1993

Jeff Chiofolo is named American Leatherman.

1993

Chris Muller is named Internaational Mr. Deaf leather.

1993

John Ferrari is named Mr. Vulcan Rubber.

1993, Feb. 14

The Lesbian Avengers erect a paper-mache sculpture of Alice B. Toklas beside the statue of Gertrude Stein in Bryant Park in New York City. [TOL]

1993, Mar. 5

Tam von Hohenzohllern & Kit Terkel are selected as second International Master & Slave at contest in Orlando.

1993, Mar. 6

The Leather Journal's Pantheon of Leather awards ceremony is held in Orlando. Woody Bebout and Kay Hallanger were named Man and Woman of the Year. Other awards are: Business person - Kevin Drewery; Business - The Hun/Bill Schmeling; Club - Outer Limits; Not for Profit Organization - AIDS Emergency Fund of San Francisco; Forbearer - Dom Orejudos; Lifetime Achievement - Chuck Renslow; Publisher's - Wane Griffith; Reader's Choice - Joseph Bean & Woody Bebout (tie) & Kay Hallanger; International - Andy Anderson; Regionals

Southeast - Janet Blevens; South Central - Chuck Higgins; Rocky Mountain - Pat Sanchez; West Coast - Race Bannon; Midwestern - Bryan Smith; Eastern - Barry Douglas; Canadian - Bill Houghton.

1993, Mar.

Amy Marie Meek of Omaha becomes the 7th International Ms Leather at the contest in San Francisco.

1993, Apr. 24

The second ASM Leather Conference is held in Washington DC during the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Rights.

1993, Apr. 24

Jad Keres and other members of the American lesgian SM-group Female Trouble Philadelphia launch a study on violence against lesbian sadomasochists at the ASM Leather Conference during the "March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Rights" [wd]

1993, April 25

Third gay rights march on Washington, D.C. starts with an estimated 300,000 participants.

1993, May

The German SM-group SMAGK is formed in Karslruhe. By 1995 it will have about 15 members. [wd]

1993, May

National Leather Association opens international office in San Francisco and hires first paid staff member.

1993, May 28

Leather Archives and Museum opens its first display of collected materials during the International Mr. Leather weekend in Chicago.

1993, May 28

Publication of the first edition of this Leather History TimeLine edited by Anthony F. DeBlase.

1993, May 29

Leather Archives and Museum holds it's first membership meeting in Chicago during IML.

1993, May 30

Henri Ten Have from the Netherlands is selected as the 15th International Mr. Leather at the Arogon Ballroom in Chicago.

1993, May 30

David Morgan is selected as the first International Boot Black during the IML contest in Chicago.

1993, June 23

Lorena Bobbitt, for whatever reason, used a kitchen knife to slice off her sleeping husband's penis, which she tossed into a grassy field. It was recovered and, through the miracles of modern surgery, reattached. In their separate trials both John and Lorena Bobbitt were acquitted.

1993, Aug.

The German AG SM & Oeffentlichkeit publishes the first edition of the SM Adressbuch, a yearly collection of mostly heterosexual SM-resources and addresses. More than 3,500 copies will have been sold by August 1995. [wd]

1993, Aug. 12

Trident International Windy City founded by John Schultz, Rob Ridinger and Ed Luisi. (RR)

1993, Aug 17th-19th

Lifestyles 20th Anniversary Convention held at the Riviera Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada

1993, Sept. 8-13

Chicago Hellfire Club hosts Inferno 22 in Douglas MI. David Clare and Stephen Shorle jointly receive the Caligula award and Anthony Kohut the J. Paul Eaton award.

1993, Sept. 9

The first leather/sm/fetish munch in Oregon is held at the Cornelius Pass Roadhouse in Hillsboro. 19 people attend including Patti Beadles who, as Kris Asber, had posted the infvitation for the munch to alt.sex.bondage. Within the next two days she had founded the pdx.abs mailing list and shortly thereafter the group started having munches on a weekly basis at the Blue Moon saloon in Portland. As of this printing they still do.

1993, Sept. 25

Graylin Thornton of Sacramento is selected as the 14th Mr. Drummer, during the Leather Pride Week contest in San Francisco. Spot Gilea, also from Northern California, was named Drummerboy of the Year.

1993, Oct. 8-10

NLA's Living In Leather VIII conference was held in Houston. Peri Jude Radecic keynote speaker. Lifetime Achievement Awards to Fakir Musafar and Dorothy Hajdys. Mark Frasier & Artemis Silver Owl both from Dallas, are named Mr. & Ms NLA.

1993, Nov.

The German sociologist Thomas A. Wetzstein publishes the results of a study on the German SM-subculture in "Ssadomasochismus - Szenen und Rituale". The findings support the concepts of Spengler and Weinbert. About 38% of the respondents are women. The results are not published in English and receive no notice outside of Germany. [wd]

1993 - November 30

Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue, Don't Harass policy goes into effect in the United States armed forces.

1993, Dec. 31

Death of Samuel Moris Steward, 82. Instructor in SM to Chuck Renslow, Alfred Kinsey, and many more; recognized writer under his own name, and as Phil Andros. recognized artist under his own name, and as Phil Sparrow, tattoo artist.

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