date: Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
time: 07:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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 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.

Happy 2012! The end of 2011 was great for the SFgoL.

SFgoL had our annual elections! Our 2012 officers are President- Leland Carina, Vice President- Kate McKinley, Secretary- ava, Treasurer- Angel, and Sergeant at Arms- Pink. Two members at large were also voted in- Zed and Zabet.

We expanded our Mentor/Mentee program. People of all genders and identifications are invited to sign up to mentor our girls. Please contact Angel (nrthangel1970 at yahoo dot com) to start the process of being paired.

Our VP Kate organized a successful work-day for the Center for Sex and Culture.

Summer has been holding a pre-meeting meet-up every month to provide a space for social time before our business meetings.

Zabet organized an educational program with WOMAN Inc. We are excited about creating an ongoing relationship with their organization.

We’re working together with International Ms Leather Weekend to help them promote IMsL locally. Zed is heading this up. We’re excited to be bronze sponsors. We’ll be stuffing packets again—come out and help us!

We attended and volunteered for Alameda County Leather Corps Santa Slave Auction in support of our girl Kate who is Ms ACLC 2011. Two girls were auctioned off!

For the Leather Alliance Volunteer Appreciation party ava coordinated 15 volunteers! We very much enjoyed offering service and socializing with volunteers from the greater community.

ava also spearheaded a volunteer effort with 20 girls and supporters to help clean the new SF Citadel space.

Last, but certainly not least, we have new SFgoL pins! Please find a girl to buy one. There are Leather girl Pride flags as well as “I heart SFgoL” supporter pins.

On August 19th come dance with us at Debauchery at the White Horse in Oakland.

SFgoL is so happy to be bronze sponsors of Northwest Leather Celebration. We will be hosting the Meet and Greet on May 18th.

We look forward to continuing to contribute to the Leather community in 2012!

Leland Carina
President SFgoL

date: Thursday, January 5th, 2012
time: 07:30 PM to 9:30 PM
where: Chase Bank community room
address: 2112 15th Street at Sanchez St. in the Castro

Our first meeting of 2012!

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 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.

Join us Friday, December 30th 2011 11am~5pm at the NEW Citadel space 363 6th St. (between Folsom & Harrison)

Help clean the new Citadel space in preparation for the Wonderland fundraiser!
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We will be washing walls/windows, sweeping and vacuuming, picking up stray screws and nails, and anything else they may need to be done. Turning it from a construction zone to a presentable play friendly space!

Everyone is welcome to join us! Who doesn’t want to get down n’ dirty with some hot leather girls

Wear something you don’t mind getting dirty in…and don’t forget your layers!

Contact ava@sfgol.org with any questions

date: Thursday, December 1st, 2011
time: 07:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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 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.

On October 6, 2011 the following officers were voted in at the Annual Business Meeting for the San Francisco girls of Leather.

• President - Leland Carina
• Vice President - Kate McKinley
• Secretary - ava Schmidt
• Treasurer - Angel
• Sergeant at Arms – Pink

date: Thursday, October 6th, 2011
time: 07:30 PM to 10:00 PM
where: Chase Bank community room
address: 2112 15th Street at Sanchez St. in the Castro

This month marks the one year anniversary of when we voted in our official bylaws!
October is our Annual business meeting where our officer elections will be held!

This meeting is mandatory for those Full Members who joined under Option B.

Our monthly business meeting is 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 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.

San Francisco girls of Leather (SFgoL) September President’s report

It’s been another great month for the SFgoL!

The end of August brought Balls to the Walls– a Leather community softball game organized by Jessie Vanciel, Daddy Ray Tilton, and Leland Carina. With major thanks for funding by the Leather Alliance and Shawn Kinnear, the event was a success with close to 40 attendees! Queen Cougar called out the sunshine with her beautiful rendition of the National Anthem and Daddy Vick kept everyone fed with pizza. Arnell and ava won MVP’s for their high-spirited participation. Kate took some hot photos of the fun antics, including spanking at bases!

Our member Summer has been hosting a pre-meeting meet up for a few months now. This is quickly becoming a tradition and provides a great place for new girls to meet some members of the group more informally than at the monthly meeting.

We had our fourth official SFgoL slumber party! This time we were fortunate to be able to hold it at the Center for Sex and Culture. It proved a great venue, thank you to Kate for securing it for us. The staff was so friendly and accommodating; they set up a huge pile of dog beds for us to cuddle on. We watched 70’s cartoon porn, played games, and ate way too many cupcakes. Epic!

Directly following the slumber party a group of our girls went to serve lunch at Glide Church soup kitchen. Thanks to our member Jess for organizing this. We will be working with Glide again in the future, as the girls had a very good time.

The Alan Spafford Progressive Dinner was very well attended by our girls with about 10 of us showing up! We had an excellent time visiting all the businesses and socializing with people from other clubs and the greater community.

If you haven’t seen it yet, please check out the article about our club in the BAR! We had such fun hanging out with Scott Brogan for the interview! Here’s the link: http://www.ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=leather&article=178

We also walked in Mama’s Leather Walk! There’s a photo in the BAR (thanks to Scott Brogan again!) of us holding the girl colors high and proud, here’s the link: http://ebar.com/artscolumns/artcolumn.php?sec=leather&article=182

Folsom Weekend, the SFgoL hosted a discussion and play demos for Mission Control’s party called Velvet, with thanks to Kate for organizing. We were also a sponsor of Venus’ Playground (VP) at Folsom Street Fair. We volunteered for a number of shifts. Our member Sailor has been working with VP for some time and we thank her for coordinating this.

SFgoL is so excited to have officer elections coming up in October! It marks the one year anniversary of when we voted in our official bylaws!

Much love,
Leland Carina
President SFgoL

date: Thursday, September 1st, 2011
time: 07:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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 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.

The San Francisco girls of Leather (SFgoL) are so happy to welcome ava as our new Secretary and Angel as our new Treasurer!

We are also proud to report that we now have 30 full members! We are excited that without fail every month we have new girls who are attending their very first meeting.

August brought a successful end to our toiletry drive. Since we had already overwhelmed La Casa de las Madres with the generous donations from the Leather community, we dropped the remaining 9 boxes off to Women Organized to Make Abuse Nonexistent, Inc. (WOMAN Inc.) This marked the start of a new relationship between WOMAN Inc. and the SFgoL. Our member Z is taking lead on organizing volunteer opportunities. During August we helped stuff gift bags and staffed their volunteer appreciation party.

Our mentor/mentee program within the SFgoL is going so well that we have decided to expand it! We are welcoming members of the Leather community to contact us if they would like to offer mentorship to one of our girls. If you have something to offer, whether it be a BDSM skill, organizational know-how, or lessons on Leather history please contact us at info@sfgol.com to be paired with a girl!

Many of our girls attended the San Francisco Slut Walk to march in solidarity with people who have been victims of sexual assault.

At Leather-Levi Weekend we joined forces with the Exiles to create a stop during the Saturday evening cocktail party. We brought juice and champagne (pink, of course!) and the Exiles provided tasty chocolate treats.

We attended the Alameda County Leather (ACL) contest in support of our girl, Kate, who ran and won the title of Ms ACL 2011! We are so proud!!!

On August 27th we are participating in Balls to the Walls Leather Softball Exhibition and Social organized by Jessie Vanciel, Leland Carina, and Daddy Ray Tilton. The SFgoL are so excited to socialize with boys who might be interested in being part of the San Francisco boys of Leather and everyone else who comes to hang out. The National Anthem will be sung by Queen Cougar. Beth Downey and Deborah Isadorah Wade will be umpires.

We have an upcoming slumber party (girls and potential girls only!) at the Center for Sex and Culture on September 9th. Directly following we will be serving lunch at Glide soup kitchen.

Make sure to look for us at Venus’ Playground during Folsom!

I’m so proud of our club and everything that we are working on!

In Leather,
Leland Carina
President, SFgoL