Judges & Tallys

Meet Rush (Hi/Him). Rush is the current International Rubber Ambassador MIR 28 and former Mr. San Francisco Rubber 2024. He stands at the forefront of the vibrant Rubber and Pup scene as a San Francisco Rubber Weekend coproducer and Alpha pup in the SF Service Pets.

Rush organized numerous rubber events in San Francisco throughout the year, one of the most significant being the San Francisco Rubber Weekend. He has also coordinated the rubber contingent for the SF Pride Parade and rubber activities during the calendar years, including Folsom and Dore Alley rubber events, museum and restaurant takeovers, and others.

When the Puppy Hood is on, Rush works raising funds for LGBTQ+ non-profit organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area alongside his pack, the SF Service Pets. Together, they aim to build a stronger community for all while organizing events that support the growth of the Pup community.

Rush identifies as a rubber pig who loves gear and anything skintight, from sports gear and spandex to tactical uniforms and leather. If you wear TNs, you've caught his eye. He enjoys exploring and learning more about different kinks, having a big preference for bondage, impact, role-play, and WS, among others.

BondageCoach ran the Toronto Rubbermen (TORN) Club for ten years (http://www.torontorubbermen.com), hosting monthly rubber night at the Black Eagle Toronto. His friendly and welcoming demeanour helped many kinksters to explore rubber in a safe environment and brought diversity to the kink community. He enjoyed coaching and mentoring other kinksters to navigate their identities.

Thanks to the mentorship of the late Rubber Jason, MIR 16, he taught him to welcome everyone in the room, in particular, shaking hands with newcomers. You can find him on @BondageCoach on X or Recon. He now resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Elizabeth Davis aka MsKitty Black she/they, is a dominant switch, involved in kink, fetish and Leather personally and professionally since 1998 in Dallas, Detroit and now Ft Lauderdale. She's organized, volunteered, played and taught in many great cities and events all over the country. She loves heavy, edgy play, sharing knowledge, pick-up play and myth busting kink dogma and Leather history.

By day, she offers burnout prevention training and coaching for providers, through the non-profit Moving Forward Wellness. Serving all, the focus is on those on the front lines of nonprofits, social services and behavioral and primary health. MFWC also offers ask-me-anything classes for providers on TLBGQ+, kink and ethical non monogamy.

The Goddess is an author and international educator with a unique brand of irreverent humor. This covered Leather Master is a founding board member of Onyx Pearls Lustre Southwest and Directrix of MAsT Austin.

An ordained minister, International Ms. Leather (IMsL) 2024 and first BIPOC Ms. Texas Leather, she is honored to own three incredible force multipliers: Dr. Bob, his BBG and Slave Sill. The second IMsL of Asian descent after a fifteen year gap and humbled to be half of the first pair of International Titleholders with the powerhouse IMBB Spank Cake, she is blessed to be a member of “The Family,” the oldest BIPOC Matriarchal Leather family.

She is honored to continue to be invited to present on her passion: sustainable female-led dynamics. She urges our community to work together to passionately defend our kin who are under attack, actively protect and advance our rights world-wide, exercise our right to vote in the countries we can and exert the power of our united voices to effect change.

Jack Thompson (He/Him), also known as Exile ONYX is International Mr. Leather 2019! He is a founding father of ONYX Northwest. He represented Mr. May 2018 and Mr. January 2022 for the Bare Chest calendar of San Francisco, and was Leatherman of Color 2019.

He was recently a contributor to the book project titled “Surviving Transphobia”. An anthology by transgender and gender nonbinary celebrities and experts on endurance during times of severe hostility as well as times of amazing triumphs.

He is currently a bartender at Mixers in Baltimore Maryland. Where he runs the Eagle in Exile leather social every Sunday. An event to promote fundraising, support and a sexy time for the leather community of Maryland. He is the producer for the Mixers Leather contest and he is also the creator and Dungeon Master for Adventures in Leather (AinL). A fundraiser where leather community titleholders play D&D for charity.

A proud biracial, transgender, HIV-positive, Leatherman and Alpha wolf.

Remember that if you are enough for you, then you are enough.

Kevin Murphy is a prominent figure in Ireland’s leather and kink communities, known for his advocacy and leadership. He held the title of Mr. Leather Ireland in 2015, representing the country at International Mr. Leather (IML) in Chicago, where he came 1st runner-up.

Not one to sit on his well-used laurels, Kevin wasn’t content just sashaying around in gear — he had a vision. So he co-founded OinK (Out in Kink), which sounds like a petting zoo but is actually a fetish club where the animals walk on two legs and nobody’s wearing pants. Their signature event, The Pig Pen, is now the biggest kink night in Ireland — which is cute, considering it started as “let’s throw a party where everyone’s safe, seen, and maybe slightly sticky.”

So what more can be said about Kevin, the man who said “visibility matters,” then turned himself into a walking thirst trap with a moral compass? He’s out here preaching consent and community while on Instagram dropping more straps than wisdom, and reminding everyone that consent is sexy but being thirsty in DMs is eternal (@wilderdrop, if you're feeling brave).

If you’d like to know more about OinK, just head over to @OutinKink or OutinKink.ie. But fair warning — you will learn things you can’t unlearn. And you might see Kevin in more leather than a biker gang on payday.

Martin is board member of MLC Munich since 2022 - one of the oldest and largest European Gay Fetisch clubs. After first contact with Rubber in 2008 he started actively engaging within the queer kink community with volunteering as bartender at MLC Munichs club location „UnderGround“. From 2011 to 2017 he played a tremendous role in opening the kink world to youngsters by creating a party format FetishU33 dedicated to create safe spaces for young people to develop their kinks and confidence to attend major events and parties.

Having lived in Boston MA for 1.5 years in 2017 and 2018 has brought him into contact with the New England Rubbermen (now New England Rubber Club) and MIR. Since then intercontinental contacts and good practice sharing has become one of his priorities. Martin is happily married with Helmut and both enjoy their open kink relationship.

Martins main play kink is Rubber, but over time spandex, leather and dog play made it into his list of kinks as well.

Kai K. (he/him) is a queer, transmasculine kinkster, leatherman, and suit and haircut fetishist based in Chicago. He currently serves as Secretary of the Chicago Hellfire Club, is a member of Windy City Pups and Handlers, and is the founder of the Midwest Suit and Tie League. A regular at local kink and gear events, Kai is almost always spotted in full gear coverage.

Passionate about community-building and activism, Kai is involved with several Chicago-based grassroots organizations. Professionally, he is a licensed clinical social worker, sex therapist, and educator whose work centers kink, sexual shame, and queer intimacy. His therapy practice focuses on queer, kinky, and non-monogamous adults, and he regularly contributes to academic work on trans, queer, and kink-affirming clinical care.

Outside of kink spaces, Kai is an avid martial artist, gaymer, cat dad, and an enthusiastic fan of the Wienermobile.

Mxtress “Aura” Polaris, (Fae/It pronouns) has been a Chicago resident as of 2 decades now. Faer is currently working as a construction engineer, and working on building protected bike lanes on the South Side.

It has been involved in the gear/kink scene since 2008, it is a former MWR titleholder, a kink educator and having worked with and on numerous Midwest based gear enthusiast organizations. Currently faer is on the board for Chicago Fetish Weekend and a member of WIN-PAH.

Faer has used its platform to help spread rubber across the Midwest and the country, often being known to dress willing individuals at a bar. As a neurospicy queer Trans person, faer strives to help other individuals feel welcomed into all spaces, whether that is a job site or a back room.