We are very excited to be on the cover and featured in the SF Bay Guardian! An incredible article about SFgoL and the Leather/BDSM community written by Amber Schadewald
SF Bay Guardian featuring the SF girls of Leather article
All photos by Jeffery Cross
girls and supporters,
First and foremost, we are so happy that the SF Bay Guardian published a cover feature on the SF girls of Leather! The article is so well-written and researched. I find it heartening in relation to the SFgoL, but also for Leatherwomen and our community in general. See the photos and get a link to the full article! If you are in San Francisco– look for the print edition this week! Huge thanks to Amber Schadewald, Mirissa Neff, and Jeffery Cross.
Over the last couple of months, we’ve been busy as usual!
May kicked off with our first ever self-produced fundraiser! Thank you to everyone who came out to play with us. BIG thanks to the SF Citadel for the donation of the space. We made a profit of over $700 dollars which will help us fund future projects. With the bit of seed money, we expect to be able to provide better service. Great job to our VP Kate for taking lead, and to so many of our girls for putting in a lot of hard work to make that event run smoothly.
Mr. S Leather invited us into their back production shop for a work day. We were very happy to be of service to a business that dresses our community so well! (And we didn’t mind the overwhelming smell of leather as we cleaned. Yum.) We’re looking forward to more workdays there in the future.
We also had a social “takeover” night at the SF Citadel. It was a great chance to socialize with each other and our supporters. We’d like to repeat this, so keep an eye out!
We had a very fun jaunt down to Redwood City for Rainbow Skate night. Thanks to Zed for keeping us roller skating!
With thanks to Angel, we were Bronze sponsors of Northwest Leather Celebration (NWLC). This gave us the opportunity to host the meet and greet, opening the contest weekend. It was a wonderful way for us to reach out to a new group of people. We are so proud of our Sargeant at Arms, Pink, for winning the title with her Master, Daniel Basse!
Speaking of Pink, the SFgoL is so very excited to have our first baby on the way! Huge Congratulations to Daniel and Pink! They are expecting a baby girl in October. We have added “I heart SFgoL” baby onsies to our supporter merchandise! (http://www.cafepress.com/SFgoL_supporters)
June brought another SFgoL slumber party. We had a lot to celebrate! June was the one year anniversary of this group’s incarnation! Looking back over the last year it is so overwhelming to realize how much we have accomplished and how much we have learned.
Chris Raisbeck (aka Sister Jezebel of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence) generously lead us in a team building workshop. Chris asked us questions about the importance of working in groups and gave us the space and opportunity to openly praise each other. It was a great opportunity to take stock of how far we’ve come and to also look to the future.
Pride weekend was incredible! We marched in the parade– out and proud– with the Leather Contingent. We also had a table at Leather Alley. We took the opportunity to hand out our new business card size membership and supporter cards. We got quite a lot of interest and hope to see a boost in membership.
Speaking of Pride– the same day that we were marching in San Francisco, our new sister group, the Seattle girls of Leather (SgoL) were marching in Seattle! I’m so heart-warmed and excited to see them starting strong. If you know girls in or near Seattle, please let them know! Their group is being spearheaded by Candace Cantrell. I’ve been so impressed with her leadership and respect toward our group as she works on getting SgoL going.
We have many exciting things coming up in the months ahead! We can’t wait to see our supporters out at Up Your Alley, Leather-Levi Weekend, Folsom, and all the events in between!
Deep love,
Leland Carina
President SFgoL
date: July 7, 2011
time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
where: Chase Bank community room
address: 2112 15th Street at Sanchez St. in the Castro
This is our monthly business meeting, held the first Thursday of each month. It is open to all Leather girls– members and those who think they might want to join. Come check us out!
Please be aware that we will be voting on and filling the positions of Secretary and Treasurer during this meeting.
If you would like any items to be included in the agenda please email Leland@sfgol.org one week prior to the meeting.
Please note that the bank will be closed, the community room is to the right of the main entrance. You are welcome to park in the lot for the duration of the meeting.
