Mark Frazier has been heavily involved in the BDSM scene for over 20 years and has been an active and very visible part of the national leather scene for the past 20 years as an activist, player, judge, educator, and producer of events and contests. He is the co-owner of SouthPlains Leather Event as well as the International Master / slave contest, Mr Texas Leather Contest, and the International Leather Sir/boy & Community Bootblack Contests. In 2007, he retired after 13 years of owning the Dallas Eagle and Dallas Woodyâs Sports and Video Bar. He has been awarded many awards including: Pantheon of Leather's Man of the Year 1996, Pantheon's Reader's Choice Man of the Year 1995, 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award â NLA International, Pantheonâs South Central Award for 2004, Pantheonâs Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.  He is a proud long-term member of NCSF, NLA-International, NLA- Dallas, Discipline Corps and an Associate Member of the Chicago Hellfire Club. I had the pleasure of meeting Mark through a mutual friend while travelling to Dallas for business. While munching on nachos over a Mexican dinner, Mark talked with us about all sorts of varied topics.  When it came to discussing play piercings and blood sports, it was fun watching the shock on our unusually attentive wait staff's faces.  He also mentioned having produced a documentary film a few years back.  I told him that I was eager to take a look... and I'm sure glad I did. "Out of the Darkness," which runs about 37 minutes long, was a video response to comments made by a mental health professional who deemed the leather lifestyle to be sick and perverse.  The goal of the film was to disprove that medical professional's theory that people who engage in our kinks are inherently dysfunctional.   This video was a labor of love for those who made it.  It was created for individuals within and outside our lifestyle, in hopes that it would better help others to understand our lives a little more.     This video has been used all over the world-- the US, Canada, Europe and Asia-- and has been viewed by court systems, police departments and human sexuality classes at universities.   I am absolutely THRILLED to share this video with you in its entirety (and my apologies to those of you who were unknowingly subjected to long download times as a result-- but I hope you'll find that the wait was worth it).For a change, we're not being exploited or sensationalized.  Our lives and kinks are portrayed in a rational, level-headed way.  Instead of SM being demonized, our issues and concerns are represented honestly and reasonably.  And how nice to see diversity represented in terms of gender, orientation and race!   I hope you find this video useful, helpful, and thought-provoking.   If so, I also hope you will consider making a donation to the Leather Archives and Museum in its name "Out of the Darkness" on the LA&M website, through their online store. http://www.leatherarchives.org/giftshop/ Happy viewing, and I look forward to your comments about this video!   Regards, Scott  

[ Tue, 8 Jul 2008 15:02:00 GMT ]

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