Pantheon of Leather XX
Awards Nominations 2010

Nominations Are Now Closed

The Pantheon of Leather Community Service Awards
will be presented in an Academy Awards-style format at the
Hilton LAX in Los Angeles, CA the weekend of August 12-15

The entire Leather community is invited to participate in the first round of the awards process by submitting nominations electronically. Properly submitted nominations will be passed on to a Nominations Committee which will select Nominee Finalists which will then be sent to a Selection Panel composed of individuals who received awards in 2009. This panel will vote and decide the winners.

Who Is Eligible
Any member of the Leather community is eligible to win awards with the exception of those who have received a Pantheon of Leather award in the past three years. The selection panel will determine winners based on community service in the last year. Club officers, organizers, business owners, titleholders, behind-the-scenes workers, philanthropists, writers, columnists, authors, artists, producers, Leather/latex artisans and the like are sought as nominees. We are looking for nominees who have made contributions that have directly affected the Leather community in a positive way.

Who Is Not Eligible:
Anyone who won an award in the last three years is not eligible to win ANY award this year.

One of the changes in that Pantheon of Leather Community Awards program effective this 20th Anniversary year is that award recipients are not eligible to receive another Pantheon award for three years. This is to prevent a revolving door of winners and opens it to a broader base of the Leather community.

For the complete list of people who are ineligible to win an award, CLICK HERE
This list will open in a separate window so that you may easily refer to it while filling out the nominations form.

The Selection Panel
Members are preceded by the honor they received in 2009 are:

Man of the Year Bill Hoeppner from Fort Lauderdale, FL
Woman of the Year Mistress Cyan of Hollywood, CA
Lifetime Achievement Award Joey McDonald of Chicago, IL
Community Choice Award (Woman) Slave Tami of New Castle, DE
President's Award Cecilia Tan of Cambridge, MA
President's Award Rich Stadtmiller of Fremont, CA
Couple of the Year James "Tug" Taylor and Brian Kuerze of Wallingford, CT
Canadian Award Jack Pearce of Toronto
Florida Regional Award Woodie Barnes of Safety Harbor
Great Lakes Regional Award slave garrett of Indianapolis, IN
Mid Atlantic Regional Award Rik Newton-Treadway of Baltimore, MD
Midwest Regional Award Phil Nickerson of Minneapolis, MN and now residing in San Francisco, CA
New England Regional Award Joe Barlow of Boston, MA
Northeast Regional Award Ira C. Smith of New York, NY
Northern California Regional Award Demetri Moshoyannis of San Francisco, CA
Northwest Regional Award Axel of Seattle, WA now residing in Los Angeles, CA
Rocky Mountain Regional Award Lauren Ide of Mesa, AZ
Rocky Mountain Regional Award Linda "Bootpig" Hall of Chandler, AZ
South Central Regional Award Mark Frazier of Dallas, TX
Southeast Regional Award Donald Palmore of Louisville, KY
Southern California Regional Award Rev. Dr. Robert Shore-Goss of Sun Valley, CA.
 

Community Choice Awards Decided By Popular Vote
The Community Choice Man and Woman awards are decided by popular write-in vote, not by the selection panel. You can vote in either or both the Community Choice categories, even if you do not nominate anyone in the other categories. You may only vote once in each Community Choice category.

Deadline For Nominations
We must receive your nominations by no later than February 28, 2010. Nominations received after that date, or nominations that do not include the required information, will not be considered.

2010 Pantheon of Leather Nominations and Awards Schedule

Nominations open on January 1, 2010

Nominations close on February 28, 2010

Nominations will be reviewed by the Nominations Committee and Finalists will be selected between March 1 and April 30.

Finalists will then be contacted between May 1 and May 10, asked if they wish to accept the nomination, for correct name, and to supply a short biography of their choosing.

The nomination acceptance deadline will be May 15.
Accepting nominees will have until June 10 to submit their bios.

Nominations will be announced at International Mr. Leather in Chicago, IL.

The selection panel will vote to select award recipients in July.

The awards will be presented at Pantheon of Leather the weekend of August 12-15 at the Hilton Hotel LAX in Los Angeles, CA
 

Frequently Asked Question - Click Here

For additional information on the Pantheon Of Leather Awards, or information on Weekend Packages for attending the awards, visit
http://www.theleatherjournal.com/pantheon

If you have questions about the Pantheon of Leather, contact The Leather Journal at tljandcuir@aol.com.
Their website is www.theleatherjournal.com.