Leatherman

2023 gave me a chance to truely  reconnect with my Leather past. When I was in my late teens I met an amazing man. Yes he was several years older but I loved him. Perry was a Leatherman and a rough and hard Top, not that common for a Vietnamese gay man in the 80's.  I was in love with him. We were together for a few years. Unfortunately for what was also common for the 80s gay community and which hit the leather community pretty hard was AIDS and it took Perry from me. Perry introduced me to leather, a community I am still proud to be a member of. 

Over the years I have always remained part of the leather community but also remained on the mostly in the BDSM Kink Community.

I was honored to serve for a few years as the LADs Liaison and Representative to the Los Angeles Leather Coalition. It was a privilege when Master George invited me to be part of the security and dungeon monitor teams at the Los Angeles Leather HEAT conference for the few years that event occured.  I always felt it was an honor being the security at the Southern California Leather Gathering every year prior to COVID and my move to Arizona. 

Now in Arizona it is not only a privilege and an honor to be a member of the Arizona Men of Leather but has been an enriching experience from the friends I have made to the events I have been able to participate in that have helped strengthen the club but also helped us, as a group, to help LGBTQIA groups, Like Arizona's only grouphome/fosterhome for LGBTQIA youth who have been abandoned by their families or who have escaped abuse by their families. 

I am proud to be a Leatherman and a member of the Leather Community