Living In Leather Awards
List of Winners
President / Vice Pres Award
List of Winners
Club / Chapter of the Year Award
List of Winners
STEVE MAIDHOF AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL OR NATIONAL WORK
COMING SOON, visitors will be able to click on the names of the winners to see their profile page with bio and photos.
1987
Anthony F. DeBlase, a.k.a. Fledermaus - SM writer, editor, and educator. The originator of Dungeon Master and also the second publisher of Drummer, Mach and other titles in the early 1990s. In 1989, he created the Leather Pride flag.
1988
Alan Selby (Mr S) - Leather maker, businessman, and activist. A founder of, and tireless fundraiser for, the San Francisco AIDS Emergency Fund. The "Mayor of Folsom St."
1989 (two winners)
Pat Califia - SM writer and activist. A longtime writer of The Advocate's Sexpert advice column and many other sex and SM-positive articles and books. A co-founder of Samois.
Geoff Mains - Author of Urban Aboriginals and other significant volumes on gay male SM sexuality. This was the first posthumous award.
1990
Chuck Renslow - Leather businessman and activist. Co-founder of Kris studios in 1950, Chicago's famous leather bar, the Gold Coast in 1960, and the International Mr. Leather contest in 1979. In 1992, the originator of The Leather Archives & Museum.
1991
Steve Maidhof - Founding Daddy of the National Leather Association. Gayle Rubin and Tony DeBlase presented this award to him, in his hospital bed, shortly before he died of AIDS-related infections.
1992
Pat Bond - founder of The Eulenspiegel Society, 1971, in New York City. This was the first SM positive organization in the world, and it welcomed persons of both sexes and all orientations.
1993
Fakir Musafar - A lifelong advocate of body modification in it's most extreme, and of spiritual rituals of transcendental pain, such as those exhibited in the video "Dances Sacred and Profane" and discussed in Research volume #12, "Modern Primitives".
1994
John Preston - Writer/pornographer. The author of Mr. Benson and many other erotic and SM explicit stories. He went on to become one of the best known, and most widely respected, gay male writers in America. But he was always proud to be a pornographer. John died of AIDS-related infections a few months before the award was presented.
1995
Larry Townsend - Activist, writer, editor, and publisher. Author of The Leatherman's Handbook in 1972, the FIRST publication to deal with SM activities on a real-life, non-fictional, basis; as well as an author of many stories and novels. He is the editor/publisher of a series of SM publications that have provided opening venues to many SM writers.
1996
Bob Flanagan AKA Supermasochist
1997
George Cameron
1998
Joseph Bean
1999 (two winners)
Bill "The Hun" Schmeling
Hardy Haberman
2000 (two winners)
Man Of The Year Award (Co-winner) - Spencer Bergstedt
Man Of The Year Award (Co-winner) - Mark Frazier
2001
Man Of The Year Award - Dean Walradt
2002
Man Of The Year Award - Lou Molnar (President NLA Ft. Lauderdale)
2003
Man of the Year (Co-winner) - Steve Johnson
Man of the Year (Co-winner) - Gary Park
2004
Man of the Year - Owen Eckert (Columbus)
2005
Man Of The Year Award - Owen Eckert
2006
Man of the Year - Rafe (Columbus)
2007
Man of the Year - Xander/ Sir Dallas (Dallas)
2008
Man of the Year - David Templeton (Oklahoma)
2009
Man of the Year - Mr. David Henery (Dallas)
2010
Man of the Year - Daddy Mikey (Atlanta)
2011
Man of the Year - Jeffrey Payne
2012
Steve Maidhof Award - Jeffrey Payne (NLA-Dallas)
2013 Rolled into 2014
2014
Steve Maidhof Award - CandiAnne Colucci Shafer (NLA-Independent)
2015
Steve Maidhof Award - Tyesha Nicole Best (NLA-Independent)
Steve Maidhof Award - Rich Hunt (NLA-Independent)
2016
Steve Maidhof Award - Pat Machate (NLA-Independent)
2017
Steve Maidhof Award - Jubi Arriola-Headley (NLA-Independent)
2018
Steve Maidhof Award - Gloria Clough (Treasurer)
2019 - NAME CHANGE TO LIL AWARDS
Steve Maidhof Award - Will be pushed to 2020 to ensure all award nominations and selections take place at the same time.
2020
Steve Maidhof Award - girl alayna