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36 <strong>THE</strong> TRANSACTION<br />

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Jack Thompson became<br />

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color to win the title<br />

of International<br />

Mr Leather<br />

last month.<br />

BY VICTOR MELAMED<br />

Jack<br />

Thompson, the<br />

reigning Leatherman<br />

of Color <strong>2019</strong>, beat<br />

out 67 other titleholders last month to win<br />

International Mr Leather (IML) <strong>2019</strong> on<br />

Sunday, reported out.com.<br />

The occasion, hosted in Chicago as<br />

it has been each year over the 41-year<br />

history of the competition, marked the<br />

first time a trans man of color had won<br />

the title.<br />

He was accompanied on the platform by<br />

Mr. Leather Ireland <strong>2019</strong> Fionn Scott who<br />

was the second runner up and Mr. San<br />

Francisco Leather <strong>2019</strong> Jawn Marques<br />

who was the first runner up.<br />

This year’s IML was the second to occur<br />

after the death of event founder Chuck<br />

Renslow. The weekend-long convention<br />

and competition hosted thousands of<br />

queer people for the well attended vendor<br />

mart, dance parties, Kink U classes, and<br />

more, reported out.com.<br />

Over the span of the competitions,<br />

contestants gave a variety of speeches,<br />

many touching on how the outsider status<br />

of being fetishists make the community<br />

revolutionaires, and how community members<br />

must and have embraced that. Some<br />

also touched on SESTA/FOSTA, a bill<br />

passed by Congress last year and signed<br />

by President Trump to curb online sex<br />

trafficking, that also ended up limiting the<br />

L-R: FIRST RUNNER UP MR. SAN FRANCISCO LEA<strong>THE</strong>R<br />

<strong>2019</strong> JAWN MARQUES, IML WINNER LEA<strong>THE</strong>RMAN<br />

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UP MR. LEA<strong>THE</strong>R IRELAND <strong>2019</strong> FIONN SCOTT<br />

“<strong>THE</strong>RE’S PEOPLE IN<br />

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abilities of sex workers.<br />

Jack Thompson, however, made an<br />

outsized impression, reports out.com.<br />

During the physique competition where<br />

contestants show off not only their<br />

body but their confidence, he wore a<br />

Transgender Flag jockstrap.<br />

During his speech he said: “There’s<br />

people in this room right now that don’t<br />

believe I’m man enough to be on this<br />

stage…If you’re enough for you, then you<br />

are enough. Period.”<br />

“I’m Jack Thompson,” he continued,<br />

“and I’m a proud biracial, openly transgender,<br />

HIV Positive man and I am enough.”<br />

At Cleveland Leather Awareness<br />

Weekend in April this year, Thompson<br />

told Out that he was initially afraid that a<br />

rumored IML policy would bar him from<br />

competing. That policy was said to require<br />

all contestants to have a male gender<br />

marker on their government issued ID.<br />

Thompson was assured by IML organizers<br />

that this was never a policy of the event.<br />

Thompson’s win follows the win of<br />

Tyler McCormick who was the first trans<br />

man to win International Mr. Leather in<br />

2010. The occasion also marks the first<br />

time that two members of Onyx have won<br />

the sash in a row. James Lee took home<br />

the IML sash in 2018 while Lucky Rebel,<br />

who is also a member of Onyx, was his<br />

IMBB (International Mr. Bootblack).<br />

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No one has the right to dictate who someone is or identifies as.<br />

The only person who has permission to identify you is yourself.<br />

BY GABRIEL GREEN<br />

“IT IS EXTREMELY<br />

DISHEARTENING WHEN<br />

PEOPLE, WHO KNOW<br />

WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO<br />

BE OPPRESSED BY <strong>THE</strong><br />

MAJORITY, FEEL IT IS OKAY<br />

TO OPPRESS O<strong>THE</strong>RS<br />

BECAUSE <strong>THE</strong>Y ARE<br />

DIFFERENT.”<br />

Jack Thompson, Mr Leatherman Of<br />

Color <strong>2019</strong>, is the newly crowned<br />

International Mr. Leather <strong>2019</strong>.<br />

Jack Thompson is a proud biracial<br />

transman. In his IML speech Jack<br />

said “My whole life, I’ve been told that<br />

I am not enough. Not black enough, not<br />

queer enough, not smart enough, not<br />

strong enough. Hell, there are people in<br />

this room right who don’t think I’m man<br />

enough to be allowed on this stage…”<br />

As person who is a multi-racial gay man<br />

of color, his speech resonated with me. My<br />

whole life, I have also been told that I am<br />

not black enough, not strong enough or<br />

man enough simply for being gay.<br />

These messages came from the<br />

community I grew up in and more<br />

so from my mother who shortly<br />

before I came out to her (and later<br />

kicked me out for being gay) told<br />

me, “If you’re gay, people won’t<br />

see you as a man anymore, they’ll<br />

just see you as male.” My mother<br />

later became an educator at the<br />

University I went to and taught her<br />

students about the marginalization<br />

of Black women in America.<br />

Not a day had passed after<br />

Jack had received his title<br />

when someone decided<br />

to express his opinion<br />

on Facebook about<br />

the win,<br />

writing: “I am happy for the winner, BUT<br />

it is International MR Leather. He identifies<br />

as a man. But not born a man. I feel that<br />

decision is politically motivated… Unless<br />

he has fully changed all parts, I feel that the<br />

decision is politically unacceptable.”<br />

His opinion harkened back to the sentiment<br />

my mother has about gay men:<br />

“You’re not a real man unless you (fill in<br />

the blank).”<br />

It saddens me that in this day and age,<br />

that people, especially those who are in<br />

a marginalized group, tend to marginalize<br />

those in another group they don’t<br />

understand.<br />

It is extremely disheartening when<br />

people, who know what it feels like to be<br />

oppressed by the majority, feel it is okay to<br />

oppress others because they are different.<br />

In the <strong>LGBTQ</strong> community, we as gay<br />

men specifically have been told we are<br />

disgusting, sinners, ungodly, abominations,<br />

filthy, not worthy of love, not worthy<br />

of God’s love, along with a whole host of<br />

other slurs.<br />

More importantly we are told we are<br />

“not man enough” or “real men” based<br />

on our sexuality. We know how hurtful<br />

and painful it is to have these things<br />

said about us. To have these things so<br />

ingrained in us that it creates shame and<br />

low-self esteem, which takes years for a<br />

lot of us to overcome before, and especially<br />

after, we come out.<br />

Given our experience, how can we then<br />

do the same to someone else, who is<br />

brave enough to share with us who he is<br />

and live his truth?<br />

It’s okay not understand someone when<br />

we are not in their shoes and walking<br />

their walk. But it is certainly not okay<br />

to tell them they are not enough,<br />

not a real man/woman or deserving<br />

of the accolades they received<br />

because of their gender identity.<br />

No one has the right to dictate<br />

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as. The only person who has<br />

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yourself.<br />

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Los Angeles Band Of Brothers,<br />

President of Bears LA and<br />

Executive Producer at Green<br />

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