Hernandez attended hundreds of leather contests as a judge and reporter. Hernandez died on October 8, 2009 at age 77. 🖤
Leather Archives & Museum
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A Chicago-based research archive, library and museum dedicated to the preservation of leather, kink, fetish and BDSM community history.
![[Michael Rardin, 42, President (1988-1990) Centurions, Columbus, Ohio pasted away September 26 from complications due to AIDS.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyfco36opjofallgh4axztsd/bafkreic5tu26lm7oaspce4ijcovwkrup3raqinecbzp6w2dcbcmbn7vqfi)
![White man and woman kissing. Text: [This form of making love allows me to experience complete trust and to joyfully acknowledge all of my sexual and emotional needs. To me, the beauty of SM is in its paradoxes: Through the intensity of pain, we give ourselves more completely to each other than in perhaps any other way; through the exploration of fantasy, we are more honestly ourselves than at perhaps any other time.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyfco36opjofallgh4axztsd/bafkreiaedhdeulhzowvbuphd4teqg2bmtdcpa2s5yk3yi726sv2ejhuuji)
![[Ces Williams 1945-September 6, 2018. The beloved Ces Williams passed away in early September due to a long time illness. Ces cofounded the Women's International Leather Legacy weekend and is a past Ms Texas Leather.
Her list of accomplishments and accolades are long. A celebration of life was held for her at the Ripcord in her home town, Houston, TX on Saturday, September 8.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyfco36opjofallgh4axztsd/bafkreielpm7mn7htbsfvvm3mkshcryhnepwdsyl2mwgp76ca6olrrepmbu)
![White woman with gray hair and purple schoolteachers outfit and wooden cane. Text: [Punishment within the legal system is deliberate and purposive, an impersonal and almost automatic mechanism that is used for calibrating behavior. In contrast, punishment within sadomasochism has no purpose other than to fulfill the subjective desire for punishment by the participants themselves. It is deeply personal, sometimes sexualised and nearly always divorced from all but the flimsiest conception of wrong-doing. Sadomasochism's revelation that punishment is not necessarily the by-product of wrong-doing, and that punishment is something that can be desired and enjoyed, threatens a juridical order based on the use and threat of negative punishment to control wrong-doing.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyfco36opjofallgh4axztsd/bafkreie3bwhr4spiz2cn3jqi6rigp55zr2xsxj5hnzlzlqryfdjm4fet4y)
![[Philip A. Hunt died on August 31, 1995 of complications due to AIDS. In 1990, Hunt joined the Tarheel Leather Club (TLC) where he was a Member at Large. His contributions to the club were immeasurable. He entertained at many fundraisers and every run until 1993. From 1992-1993 he was the choral director for Hoke County High School, where, when counseling gay students, he was reprimanded and then fired. Hunt had suffered with AIDS since 1994. Music was the focus of Philip's life and he brought joy to many through his performances.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyfco36opjofallgh4axztsd/bafkreibwpzdsqdrcd3dlna57jcxmfpjbzq5zms2zqaxbndojv5vyjpk5vq)
