FRIDAY

6:00pm - 7:00pm
Registration

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Welcome 
                                              KEYNOTE ADDRESS
                                                Guy Baldwin

8:00pm - 10:00pm
Meet and Greet
   Social

hor d'oeuvres provided by LLC-III


Mornings: coffee, tea, juices, donuts & bagels provided by LLC-III, 
          lunch & dinner is not provided,     
          
SATURDAY

9:00am - 10:30am
Organizing a Leather Group and Keeping It Growing
Mentoring: What we can learn from what the Old Guard knew
Pumping Up Your Media Skills
The Pen is Mightier Than the Whip: The Power of the Printed Word
Relationships in the S/M Community

11:00am - 12:30pm
Volunteers - we can’t do it without them!
POC Issues
Presentation and interview skills
We Are It: Leather, SM, and the Radical Right
Community Bonding Behavior

(lunch)

2:00pm - 3:30pm
Reaching Out to the Next Generation
Leadership Skills for Community Leaders
Communicating on the Internet
LeatherFuck - a model for community work
Play Party Rules & Enforcement

4:00pm - 5:30pm
Deaf & Hearing: Work & Play Together
Educating Titleholders about S/M
Leather Law
Leather Community Legal Issues
Whipping Up Successful Leather Events

Saturday  4:00 pm— 5:30 pm
People of Color in Leadership and Outreach
LLC Hospitality Suite
Lucky Choi, Coordinator

A practical workshop/discussion for People of Color, and for others on
POC-related projects,  to gain new insights into solving leadership and
outreach issues that are specific to our ethnicities, cultures and
environment. During the process, we will assess current attitudes and
methods; discuss development options, and define the support that we need
from our communities and organizations.



SUNDAY

10:00am - 11:30am
What the hell is Safe, Sane & Consensual?
SM vs. Abuse Policy Institute

(brunch)

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Leather and S/M History - Knowing It, and Knowing How To Save It

2pm - 3:30
Plenary Session: Ongoing Project Reports and Participant Feedback

ORGANIZATIONAL & GROUP DEVELOPMENT

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Organizing a Leather Group and Keeping It Growing

Peter Fiske
Jonathan Krall
Karen Anderson
Fred Vaselenak

Everything you need to know: basics, coalition-building, governance issues,
and outreach.

This discussion will focus on the basics of starting a leather group, the
difficulties of coalition-building, especially across
cultural/orientational boundaries, advanced group-governance issues, and
outreach techniques.  Multiple viewpoints will be given and group
discussion will be strongly encouraged.  A textbook, The Black Rose Guide
to Organizing and Operating  a Leather Group, will be provided.

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Whipping Up Successful Leather Events 

Gary Virginia
Steve Gaynes
Audrey Joseph
Alan Selby

Learn the ropes from four of San Francisco's top event producers.  From
simple bar events to street fairs and concerts, the panelists will offer
basic guidelines for successful leather event production.  Topics include
planning, time lines, budgets, legalities, promotion, pricing, volunteers,
follow-up and more.  Q & A to follow presentation.

Steve Gaynes - 	Involving the Media
Audrey Joseph -	Working With the Big Dogs
Alan Selby - 	Cultivating Volunteers and In-Kind Support
Gary Virginia - 	Success is in the Details

Moderator:  Gary Virginia



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Volunteers - we can’t do it without them!

John Weis

From envelope stuffers to board chairs, volunteers are the lifeblood of our
organizations.  We’ll look at ways to recruit, motivate and retain
volunteers at all levels of commitment.

John Weis is chairman of Gay Male S/M Activists, co-chair of the
Anti-Violence Project’s Advisory Board and a member of the Manhattan
Borough President’s LGBTST Advisory Council.    Through his work with
these organizations and others, he’s fighting to make the world a safer
place for those exploring the sexual frontier.

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Reaching Out to the Next Generation

Karen Anderson
Kryi Connelly
Tyler Green

A panel discussion on outreach to the younger generation entering the
scene.  Who are these 20-somethings?  How can we utilize them?  What are
their strengths? And most importantly, how do we help them become leaders
in our ever expandng community?  Audience interaction is welcomed and
encouraged.


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Deaf & Hearing: Work & Play Together

Daniel Sonnenfield

Linking communities: leather, Hearing, and Deaf

Presenters: Daniel, a person (TBD) who's interpreted leather events, a
person (TBD) who has produced leather events accessible to the Deaf/HOH

Agenda (rough):
1) ADA, Deafness & the leather community
2) Deaf culture: a quickie
3) Working together
4) Communications Access Network: a model for other areas
5) Playing together
6) Resources and Tips

We anticipate that in a panel format there would be ongoing 2-way
discussion between the panel and the audience.

Communication Access Network website at: http://www.queernet.org/can/

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

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Mentoring: Handing Down History and Tradition

Master Carla
Jack Rinella
Ms. Cynthia

The responsibilities of mentoring and being out.

A lively discussion encompassing "Old Guard", "New Guard" and "Between the
Two", our panel members will speak on their personal approach to mentoring
and helping others within our community, while passing on our community
Traditions and History. Join us as we share and discuss differences and
similarities. Audience participation is encouraged and vital.


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Leadership Skills for Community Leaders

Jack McGeorge

Join us as we review the skills and characteristics necessary to be an
effective community leader. Jack McGeorge (Black Rose, Washington, DC)
shares the secrets of effective group leadership.

Leadership is more than winning an election or a contest. Leadership is
determining what has to be done, inspiring people to help get it done and
being able to effectively communicate a vision of where the organization is
going. This workshop will help you develop the skills to be an effective
leader.



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Community Outreach, Development & Issues for POC

Lucky Choi

A discussion workshop focused on creating  dialog and movement within and
amongst POC groups, as well as with the community-at-large. Topics may
include: L/SM/F support groups for POC: Relevance, viability  and
development; Inter-racial and cross-cultural dynamics within and between
organizations; POC in the L/SM/F media, in erotic art, and in HIV outreach:
How's our visibility?; Cultural barriers in POC leadership development;
POC alienation and racial stigma in the L/SM/F community; Creating role
models for ourselves; Mono-ethnic vs. multi-ethnic groups.

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People of All Colors Together in SM

Graylin Thornton
Lucky Choi
Mindy Chateauvert

A multi- racial panel will meet in an open forum to discuss issues
concerning people of color during SM play. The panel will also discuss
issues of leadership concerning people of outside the SM playroom. The
conference attendees will be encouraged to participate as panelists address
these issues. We might talk about things like: Playing traditional and
nontraditional roles of ethnic dominance. Racially segregated play parties
and SM organizations. Inter-racial and inter-cultural dynamics within and
between organizations. Recognizing cultural barriers in the personal
development of a POC Leather leader/activist. POC alienation and racial
stima in the leather/SM/fetish community.
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Edge Play: Anti-Racism in the SM Politics

Mindy Chateauvert

This workshop explores the ways that racism shapes our consciousnesses as
political activists and as players. The discussion will consider ways that
whites can work more effectively with people of color by examining myths,
stereotypes and expectations we have about each other.  The workshop is
open to all, but particularly designed as "safe space" for whites to
discuss racial attitudes.

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Issues of People of Color  (Policy Institute)

Mindy Chateauvert, Moderator

Reports form various groups and individuals, creation of policy  to help
increase dialog and involvement of POC in the L/SM/F community.
- Focus: Ground-breaking work in the acknowledgment of long-time issues
and in taking steps toward their resolution together, as a community of all
colors.
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Educating Titleholders about S/M

Joe Gallagher
Max Steiner
Schelli Dittmann

The Presentation will focus on educating non-player titleholders about S/M.
Not all Titleholders are S/M players. If your local titleholder is not,
here's how to educate them.

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Making our kinky families work.

Michael Bettinger
rodtney ross

Purpose: To enable the leaders of the kink community to be more effective
leaders by reducing the stress at home and therefore be better able to
handle the inevitable stresses that come from working with others in
organizations.

Description: Healthy family and intimate relationships are difficult to
maintain for those in the mainstream.  But for those in the
kink/fetish/leather community, we have the added stress of trying to make
our families and relationships work well in a world where few guidebooks to
the problems we face and where there is little support or understanding
from the mainstream community.  This workshop will focus on some of the
unique issues individuals and families in our community  face.  The
specific focus will depend upon the needs of those attending the workshop,
and this will be assessed at the beginning of the workshop.  Some possible
topics include

•	24/7 relationships: fantasy versus reality
•	authenticity: how real is real?
•	monogamy and open relationships: which is best for you?
•	menage a trois (or quatre, cinq or six)
•	abuse: when it is real
•	parenting: what to tell the kids
•	where reality and fantasy collide


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MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

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Presentation and interview skills

Lenny Broberg
Gary Virginia

We will address how to use the print and video media to assist us in the
education of non-leather communities.

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Leather on the Internet: Threat or Menace?

Race Bannon
Roger BA Klorese
Jack Rinella
Papa Tony


Straight from their monitors, Race, Roger, Tony and Jack will present
their experiences on-line with a great deal of time for questions and
answers. They've managed websites and list services, chatted, and been
electronic long enough to have come up with problems, solutions, and
questions to inform and entertain any geek or newbie.

Is the Internet good for kinky sex? Come and find out. Here's your chance
to go cyber in a real time and space continuum.

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Pumping Up Your Media Skills

Mr. Marcus
Robert Davolt
Gary Virginia (Moderator)

Have you ever wondered how certain leaders get quoted in the media, have
their events pubilcized, or always seem to get their letters to the editor
published?  Learn from three veterans the inside scoop to advancing your
organizational or personal goals in the mass media.  Panelists will share
their expertise on writing news releases, cultivating media relationships,
submitting articles and letters for publication, publicity strategies,
image building and more.  Written samples, impromptu case studies and Q & A
will follow the presentations.

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IV.ACTIVISM

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The Pen is Mightier Than the Whip: The Power of the Printed Word

Mistress Catrina
Tyler Green

I'll be talking about letter-writing to both elected
officials and newspapers and the need to be out to do that. Catrina will be
talking about the subject I tackled at LLC II: briefing books.

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Leather Community Legal Issues

Lenny Broberg
Peter Fiske
Rose Vergara

A cop, a lawyer and a layman present several issues that need to be
addressed by local leather communities, including:  How to Deal with the
Police, How to Evaluate Calls for Help from the Community, Outreaching to
the Police and Anti-Violence Projects on the Differences between SM and
Abuse, and Pending Legislation and Court Cases.

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LeatherFuck - a model for community work
LeatherFuck: An innovative tool to bring leather folk together and make
playing hotter and safer.

Jed Herman
Jim Reisig
Darlene Weide

This workshop will present a model for organizing leatherfolk around HIV
prevention and healthy communication.

LeatherFuck is a new and successful program that helps build a safe and hot
leather community.  LeatherFuck deals with issues specifically relevant to
queers identified with the leather community and for those wanting to learn
more about it.  Through this small group model, topics such as power, pain,
risk negotiation, safety, boundary crossing, switching can be honestly
addressed.


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Community Bonding Behavior

The art, science and pure drudgery of working with (not against) each other.

Keith Truitt
Laura Goodwin
Simon James
Lt. Michele Lish

Networking, care and feeding of your coalition, flogging your inner esprit
de corps, personal empowerment, how the Portland police work with the
Leather community, more.

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We Are It: Leather, SM, and the Radical Right

Gayle Rubin

SM and Leather are increasingly becoming a target of radical right wing
rhetoric and mobilization. This anti-SM focus emerged out of several other
areas of right wing activity, including movements against pornography,
civil equality for homosexuals, and responses to AIDS. It has become an
especially effective and salient tactic in attacks on gay rights. But SM is
also being used to raise money for right wing organizations, stir up
hysteria about sex education, and even to attack university courses,
programs, and conferences. Some conservative policy intellectuals are
conducting on-going surveillance of SM and leather events to gather
material with which to attack us and to make their own propaganda more
interesting. This workshop will provide background, history, and
information on right wing activity in the hopes of promoting a more
informed and community wide conversation on how best to respond.

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EXTRA

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Leather Law

Tom Rodgers
Richard Ferguson

Leather Clubs:  The advantages of organizing as a non-profit corporation
and what type of non-profit organization.
Leather Leaders and Writers:  The advantages of registering your writings
with the copyright office at least 4 times a year.
Leather Couples:  Legal Alternatives to Slave Contracts and the
enforceability of Such.
Assault and Battery and Slavery:  Problems of criminal charges and civil
suits from relatives and disgruntled bottoms.
Leather Fetishes and Problems:  Police uniforms, guns, illegal weapons,
badges.
What to expect if you get involved in a civil law suit concerning the above.
What to expect if you become a criminal defendant concering the above.

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Play Party Rules & Enforcement

Peter Fiske
Joseph Bean

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Leather / SM history (report) 

Alan Selby
Joseph Bean
Willie Walker


SUNDAY

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What the hell is Safe, Sane & Consensual? (policy forum)

Race Bannon

A moderated policy forum at which attendees will discuss the various
aspects of the credo "safe, sane, and consensual" and how it affects our
community.

Safe, sane, and consensual has been our community's credo for some time
now. But its definition varies and its guidelines mutate depending on the
sector of the community and the individuals involved. This moderated policy
forum will encourage a dialogue and discussion to attempt to arrive at a
consensus concerning the various issues surrounding safe, sane, and
consensual.

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SM vs. Abuse Policy Institute

Susan Wright

Participants will gather to review and edit the current draft of the "SM
vs. Abuse" Policy Statement. The current draft statement is a compilation
of community feedback on the SM vs. Abuse statement released by LLC II in
1998. This statement will be used to educate law enforcement and social
services professionals to understand the difference between abusive
relationships vs. SM.

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Plenary Session: Ongoing Projects Report and Participant Feedback

John Weis
Steve Koenig