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18 BLACK TRANS LIVES MATTER<br />
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22 MORE THAN ENOUGH<br />
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24 WHAT MAKES A MAN<br />
MINORITIES OPPRESSING MINORITIES<br />
26 LA PRIDE FESTIVAL<br />
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12 <strong>THE</strong> TALK<br />
14 <strong>THE</strong> NATION<br />
16 <strong>THE</strong> CITY<br />
20 <strong>THE</strong> ROSTOW REPORT<br />
36 <strong>THE</strong> TRANSACTION<br />
38 <strong>THE</strong> SHARE<br />
48 <strong>THE</strong> ART<br />
54 <strong>THE</strong> EVENT<br />
58 <strong>THE</strong> MUSIC<br />
30 A SENSE OF BELONGING<br />
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Jack Thompson became<br />
the first trans man of<br />
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 />
OF COLOR <strong>2019</strong> JACK THOMPSON, SECOND RUNNER<br />
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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THAT DON’T BELIEVE<br />
I’M MAN ENOUGH TO<br />
BE ON THIS STAGE… IF<br />
YOU’RE ENOUGH FOR<br />
YOU, <strong>THE</strong>N YOU ARE<br />
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I’M JACK THOMPSON,<br />
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TRANSGENDER, HIV<br />
POSITIVE MAN AND I<br />
AM ENOUGH.”<br />
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 />
who someone is or identifies<br />
as. The only person who has<br />
permission to identify you is<br />
yourself.<br />
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sunday, june 30 • 2:00 to 5:00 pm<br />
featuring a hosted bar, delicious bites, and three rooms of non-stop entertainment<br />
SF PRIDE FREE COMMUNITY CALENDAR<br />
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Night starring Emma Thompson and<br />
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Is Not Berlin (International Centerpiece),<br />
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Game (Documentary Centerpiece) which<br />
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authentic gender amidst national scrutiny;<br />
and Straight Up (Breakthrough Centerpiece),<br />
a sharp and witty Los Angeles-set comedy<br />
written/directed by and starring newcomer<br />
James Sweeney.<br />
For the complete lineup for the <strong>2019</strong> Outfest Los<br />
Angeles <strong>LGBTQ</strong> Film Festival visit www.outfest.org.<br />
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