Registration for GLLA 2012 Is Now Open
The Tradition Continues
Keynote Speaker for GLLA 2012
Hardy Haberman
Since the mid-70's Hardy has been an active in the leather community and a member of many BDSM/Fetish organizations including Dallas Motorcycle Club, Leather Rose Society, NLA-Dallas, Discipline Corps and a founding member of Inquisition-Dallas. Considering himself a "Pain Technologist" he specializes in CBT and has an unusual fondness for clips clamps and clothespins, as well as more esoteric SM play.
Professionally he is a marketing specialist and filmmaker. His documentary on the leather lifestyle "LEATHER" has won numerous awards and appeared in festivals around the world, and his latest film, "Out of the Darkness, The Reality of SM" is currently being used by health care professionals around the world.
Outside work, he is a gay activist, author & speaker on aspects of the SM/Leather scene. His books "The Family Jewels, A guide to male genital play and torment" published by Greenery Press and “More Family Jewels”, Playing With Pain” And “Soul of a Second Skin” published by Nazca Plains Publishing are available at bookstores everywhere.
He was awarded NLAI's Man of the Year award in 1999 and the NLA-I Lifetime Achievement award in 2007 he received the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Leather Leadership award.
Since April, 1995, he and his boy Patrick have been living together in Dallas with their Feline Mistress Elvira and troublemaker Jack-The-Cat.
Contest Winners for 2011
Standing: Sir Charles, Great Lakes Master 2011, Pandora, Great Lakes Ms Leather Pride 2011, Sir Josh, Great Lakes LeatherSIR 2012, Gabriel, Great Lakes Bootblack 2011
kneeling: slave jackie, Great Lakes slave 2011, boy jim, Great Lakes Leatherboy 2012