Contest Hosts

Lucy Stoole, Chicago's Black Bearded Beauty, is a Windy City-based drag performer, artist & activist with an international presence. She's an Out 100 honoree, a six-time Drag Queen of the Year, and the proud owner of the popular sex- and body-positive Stoole Sample adult toy line.

A proud Chicago transplant from Venezuela, you might know him as Mr Chicago Leather 2014, the International Mr leather Den Daddy, or the Vice President at the Leather Archives & Museum. He's judged and emceed kink events across the globe – including IML, ILSb, MIR and Mr Fetish Europe. Emcee for Iowa Leather Weekend for the last 3 years and MIR International Rubber Weekend for the last 5. Producer of CODE night, the largest monthly kink social in Chicago. Passionate about technology, kink, community, and being Sir to his husdog Rowdy, Miguel believes dominance and kindness are not mutually exclusive.

Internationally tolerated chanteur, ecdysiast, producer, and horror film fanatic Noah Grey has been terrorizing the human race since they could first tightlace a corset. Known to audiences as “the Lovechild of Vincent Price and Madeline Kahn,” Noah is the creator of The Abhorrent Cinema, a frequent collaborator with Maison LaQueue and its Delirium series, and a member of the IML production team.

Thib Guicherd-Callin, a California transplant from France, is a community entertainer and fetish fashionista. Since 2024, he has been the MIR International Rubber Contest livestream host and the International Mr. Leather contest announcer, proudly bringing multilingual coverage to global audiences. Previously, he was a six-time emcee of IML/IMBB, and has hosted events around the world, including ILSb-ICBB, IM/s, M. San Francisco Rubber, "Seduction" at IMsLBB, the Leather Archives & Museum roast of IML/IMBB, and more. Back in San Jose, Thib works in library technology, performs in competitive improv, and shares life with his partner, son, and dog.