Flash Back Gallery - Smokeout
Smokeout Las Vegas has given the entertainment capital a terrific event for close to two decades and is hosted by the Desert Brotherhood Motorcycle Club and LUC Las Vegas and has been at the Alexis Park Resort the whole time. Now it is moving to the Tuscany Suites Resort and Casino the weekend of August 25-30.
Scroll down to Flash Back Gallery to see photo from each year and a link to Smokeout 2021 for registration and hotel reservations.
Flash Back Gallery - International Olympus Leather
International Olympus Leather was founded in 1996 by The Leather Journal with its first contest being held at the Landmark Hotel in Metairie, LA where Daddy Flo and Ron Hendon became the first International Olympus Leather titleholders. Since then, the contest has been held in Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, San Diego and Chicago. Dave Rhodes sold the contest to Vonn Tramel in 2016. Scroll down to see photo from each year.
Flash Back Gallery - Pantheon of Leather
The Leather Journal began giving community service awards in 1988 and formed the Pantheon of Leather Awards show in late January, 1991 in Los Angles and Circus Dance Club. Pantheon of Leather has made its way around the USA with visits in Orland, Houston, New Orleans, Chicago, Los Angeles again, Atlanta and Dallas. 2020 was on hiatus due to the Pandemic and a new date is still undecided.
Flash Back Gallery
Southwest Leather Conference
The Southwest Leather Conference was held in late January in Phoenix, AZ. It was known as the "Woo Conference" due to its emphasis on spirituality in particular. This photo is of a drumming corps which played at the main events on Friday and Saturday nights in 2011. Southwest Leather Conference included workshops, classes, spiritual meetings and services for a variety of faiths, Southwest Master slave contest, group dinners, cocktail parties, an awesome hospitality suite, a limited vendor mart and huge play parties on Friday and Saturday nights. Scroll down to see all 45 photos.
Flash Back Gallery - Motor Sport Amsterdam's 25th Anniversary
Dave Rhodes' first and only trip so far to Europe brought back many memories including Motor Sport Amsterdam's 25th Anniversary and the ECMC Annual General Meeting European Council of Motorcycle Clubs in the Netherlands. Nearly 2,000 hot men from all over the planet descended on land of Vincent van Gogh for a weekend of revelry and partying. Scroll down for our 33-photo gallery. At the invitation by International Mr. Leather 1993, Henri ten Have,I made the trip.
Links to all Dave Rhodes' Hump Day posts
Now you can read all of Dave Rhodes' Hump Day news blogs with links to them on this page.
Scroll down to see what you like. They are listed in chronological order with the most recent being at the top.
Flash Back Gallery: Mid Atlantic Leather - 1993 to the present
One of the top Leather club runs is Mid Atlantic Leather Weekend produced by the Centaur Motorcycle Club of Washington, DC. It's main double feature is Leather Cocktails on Saturday nights and the Mr. Mid Atlantic Leather Contest on Sunday afternoons. Big are the vendor market, Saturday and Sunday night dances, club-sponsored parties, announcements of the IML judges, great food at the host Hyatt Regency, tourism and dining in the nation's capital. Oh, and the virtually all-day, all-night lobby crowd, Scroll down to see what photos The Leather Journal has from over the years.
Flash Back Gallery - 1993 March On Washington
Bill Clinton had only been in office a few months before the 1993 March On Washington occurred in the nation's capital. The 1993 March On Washington saw almost 1,000,000 LGBT, friends and allies from all over the United States, its territories and several friendly countries on April 25, 1993. President Clinton was not there, but Hillary was and she delivered a proclamation. Politicians and leaders spoke on The Mall, and Leather made a huge presence, just as it had in the 1987 March On Washington.
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