Crafting the Self: Kink, Culture, and Becoming with Race Bannon

What wisdom does experience give that theory never could?

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Starting in 1973, Race Bannon has at various times been an organizer, writer, publisher, educator, commentator, leader, speaker, and activist in the leather and kink communities as well as in the LGBTQ rights, polyamory awareness, and HIV/STI prevention realms.

Race’s accomplishments include:

• Co-founder of Kink Aware Professionals, a referral service dedicated to providing the community with a listing of psychotherapeutic, medical, legal, and other professionals who have stated that they are knowledgeable about and sensitive to diverse expressions of sexuality.

• Leader of The DSM Project that began to change how psychotherapy professionals view kink sexualities.

• Author of the bestselling Learning The Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun BDSM Lovemaking.

• Founder of Daedalus Publishing Company, the first company dedicated to publishing nonfiction leather/BDSM/fetish books.

• Prolific writer; former sex advice columnist.

• Former producer and host of the first kink internet talk show, Bound To Talk.

• Past Board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF), Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities (CARAS), NLA International, and Avatar Club Los Angeles.

• Co-founder of NLA Los Angeles.

• Member of Chicago Hellfire Club, The 15 Association, and Society of Janus.

Race is currently on the Board of Governors for the Leather Hall of Fame and has been inducted into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame. He is featured in the documentaries Vice and Consent, Out of the Darkness: The Reality of S&M, and Folsom Forever.

Race is also a popular speaker who has delivered numerous speeches including keynote addresses at many events.

He has been awarded:

• 1991 and 1993 Southern California Regional Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award

• 1995 Large Nonprofit Organization of the Year Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award, The DSM Project, as Project Leader

• 2006 National Leather Association International's Lifetime Achievement Award

• 2010 Mister Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement Award (Man), Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award

• 2011 Philip M. Turner Lifetime Achievement Award

• 2013 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Leather Leadership Award

• 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Co-Man of the Year (tie)

• 2015 “Key to Folsom Street Fair” from Folsom Street Events in recognition of service to the community

• 2016 NorCal/Northwest Regional Pantheon of Leather Award

• 2016 Southwest Leather Conference Leatherman’s Heart Award

• 2018 Race Bannon Advocacy Award from NCSF

• 2021 Palm Springs Pride Spirit of Stonewall Lifetime Achievement Award

• 2022 Anomaly Certificate of Appreciation, presented at FROST Gala

• 2022 The Academy SF Diane Jones Solidarity Award

Race is currently working on a documentary and book project, Kink Is My Superpower, about the world of kink, BDSM, and fetish.

Over the course of seven years, Race published 165 columns as the leather columnist for the Bay Area Reporter, America's longest continuously published and highest circulation LGBTQ newspaper.

Early on, when pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was first introduced to prevent HIV infection, Race was a national advocate for its adoption and community uptake.

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Race was a founding Steering Committee member for the SF Bay Area Queer Nightlife Fund (QNF), a nonprofit collective of nightlife organizers, producers, entertainers, venue owners, and nonprofit community leaders working to provide resources and opportunities to promote and support those in queer nightlife in the San Francisco Bay Area during the pandemic—distributing $400,000 in grants to struggling queer nightlife workers.

Race is especially proud to have been sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, bestowing upon him the name:
Saint Daddy Daedalus, Seriously Sensual Scribe and Sentinel of Sound Minds and Sadomasochism.

Race is one of the authors and editors of a new book, Kink Is, highlighting kinksters from around the world, published by Unbound Edition Press and now in its 4th printing.

Learn more about Race Bannon and his work:

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https://www.unboundedition.com/product/kink-is-divine-deviance-collective-anthology/
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https://kinkismysuperpower.com/
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