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We have an awesome line-up of Judges for this year's Sydney Mr. Leather Competition!

SYDNEY MR. LEATHER JUDGE 2023

KINK PERFORMER

HE/HIM/HIS

Aaron entered the world of Kink through the doors of Icebox. Hellfire was his initiation into a world of pleasure, pain, leather and fun.

His formative years of discovering both his queer and kink identities took place in the dark depths of Phoenix, The Oxford hotel, the infamous Lions Den parties and SLPA (Sydney Leather Pride Association) events.

This led him to enter the kink performance space and to discover a love of needles, hooks and all things blood. Performing needle & flesh suspension shows at venues including the Sydney Hellfire Club and Qbar. Also performing with the hairy boy burlesque group, FURLESQUE.

After years of volunteering, in 2010 he became the youngest ever president of SLPA, and proudly brought Inquisition back to the DOME.

Aaron has judged numerous kink events including; Australia and New Zealand Mr Leather, Australian International Power Exchange, The first joint Mr & Mrs Leather Competition and the International Testicle Cooking Championships in Serbia.

Aaron cruised the seedy clubs and dark dungeons of Berlin for a year. After returning home he has spent the last ten years proudly flaunting his cowboy and latex fetish gear at clubs across Sydney. Modelling for the ACON "How Hard" campaign and subbing at Kink workshops, joining kink / relationship discussion panels and proudly wearing his purple hankie everywhere, if he has pants on!

SYDNEY MR. LEATHER JUDGE 2023

STUDIO KINK

SHE/HER

SYDNEY MR. LEATHER JUDGE 2023

DJ BUCK NAKED/ACTIVIST

Born in 1965 and native to Sydney, Lloyd is of a generation that came of age with the arrival of AIDS. Becoming a man became irrevocably fused with the death of men whose brotherhood was important to our wider family. Those who lived through that time will remember the fear that was always present and the courage and guts of those that galvanised and re-built community around fighting back against AIDS. Lloyd was in the thick of it. From ACT UP activist to Albion Street hotline to ACON staffer and first client services officer at BGF to the establishment and leadership of the then PLWHA (NSW), Lloyd’s was a constant , tireless and reassuring presence in a time of darkness and uncertainty.

He had tech and music running in his veins and was one of the first to in the sector to understand the opportunity it provided in helping organise their back office so they could lobby, disrupt, campaign and agitate more effectively. He switch his first professional computer on in the mid-80s and spun his first discs then too - characteristically drawn to English new wave which used the latest tech to make sound. But music took a back seat in the 90s as the AIDS crisis gripped Sydney and decimated the community. But the deep dark beat was never too far away.

He soon realised that the brethren referred to in Urban Aboriginal or in Larry Townsend’s novels were gone. Elders were dying so quickly they were unable to pass on their generational conventions, ethics and etiquette. Lloyd and a radical group of mates recognised that the knowledge must not be completely lost and set about figuring out how to reclaim and share our combined SM wisdom. He joined Sydney Leather Pride (SLPA), which at the time was dysfunctional and set about transforming it. He started the first SM Education Program which was hugely successful. He managed S(A)X Fetish store on Oxford St for six years turning it from a “leather” store to a full fetish experience. AND he built and ran one of the biggest and best equipped dungeon spaces in Australia.

In the 90’s he launched Australia’s first gay and lesbian PR Company “Out Communication”. His consultancy work with Roche Pharmaceutical’s HIV portfolio included launching the first Australian protease inhibitor and viral load test, two medical advances that transformed the course of AIDS. He also proposed breaking new ground with SLPA’s premier Leather party “Inquisition” by being the first to holistically collaborate with the AIDS Council seamlessly integrating the Kinky Safe Sex Campaign into the fabric of the party theme – the “7 Deadly Sins” was supported by “Sin Safely” (did we mention he also DJed and did a bondage show on the main stage).

While he has a remarkable professional and kinky side - it is as his DJ alter ego, Buck Naked, that most people will recognise him nationally and indeed internationally. In his own words, “Buck’s music style is deep, dark and dirty. It uses African, tribal, house and jazz rhythms and synthesized, electric and acoustic sounds. Most of all Buck ‘s specialty is to deeply connect with his dance floor and fuck its brains out.” And that’s an understatement.

Buck has been leaving dance floors begging for more from Palm Springs to Lismore since Frank Zammit’s infamous SubCulture parties. A regular at Mardi Gras, Buck’s finest hour may well have been the legendary all night set he played in the Horden Toilets at Mardi Gras 1998 and the infamous set he played at the Gay Games Black Party.

SYDNEY MR. LEATHER JUDGE 2023

SYDNEY MR. LEATHER 2015

Into role play, ass play, rough, cum, sweat, piss, hairy bellies, ff and anything sleazy legal that doesn’t burnt too much!

Tim has a long history with the LGBTQI+ community. He has managed gay bars and clubs including The Oxford Hotel, managed multiple Mardi Gras parade entries, Fair Day Stalls, organised safe sex sluts and drug rovers for events.

He was the Business Development / Account Manager at Star Observer, Australia's longest-running publication for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities.

Volunteering for decades at ACON assisting with Events and fundraising, the SAM Project (Sexually Adventurous Men), Bingay, Mardi Gras, advocating for mental health and Prep treatment.

Tim worked as the Strategic Relationships Manager at National Pride In Diversity. Assisting Diversity and HR professionals in the area of LGBT inclusive strategies, awareness, employee network/resource group implementation, advice, support and training. Contributing through business to the social inclusion agenda in Australia, to promote the health and well-being of LGBT employees by creating inclusive workplaces and minimising mental health issues associated with stigma and discrimination.

Tim won the title of Sydney Mr. Leather 2015, representing Sydney at IML (International Mr. Leather), proudly coming in the top 5!