< BACK TO QUILT Monarch Z House Monarch Z was founded in 1999 by Ms. Marilyn Zerquera. After several years, it went dormant and was reestablished 2015. It is an intergenerational, blood oath sworn, chosen family whose members are presently all POC and reside throughout Southeast Florida. They develop their individual lives knowing they are not alone. What affects one can affect them all. They show reverence to those that paved the leather path before them and gentleness to those that are trying to find their way. Knowing with care and guidance a caterpillar can emerge as a butterfly. The Monarchs are lifetime learners who believe service is at the heart of Leather. Collectively or individually, at the time of this application, they host/moderate 5 monthly groups in Southeast Florida. Most teach at a local and/or national level. The family’s nonjudgmental accepting atmosphere encourages individual growth. The Monarchs are committed to live a life that upholds their family traits of love, service, generosity, respect, and integrity. 00226 Home: Miami, Florida USA Status: Active Founded: In 1999 by Marilyn Zerquera Panel History: Added in-person at Beyond Leather XVI on Saturday, May 18, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida USA. Links: Fetlife Profile Other Details: N/A Have details about this panel that are not listed? We need you! Email the Historian . Previous Next

< BACK TO QUILT Cougar Pride Patch/flag design was created for Gypsie Windfeather-Ferris, the founder of Leather History Conference and SE slave 2010. To the best of our knowledge she is the only one to have the patch or use the flag. 00166 Home: N/A Status: N/A Founded: N/A Panel History: N/A Links: N/A Other Details: N/A Have details about this panel that are not listed? We need you! Email the Historian . Previous Next

< BACK TO QUILT F.I.S.T. F.I.S.T. (Females Investigating Sexual Terrain) is a leather/BDSM, service, educational, and social organization centered on women, based in Baltimore with members nationwide. F.I.S.T. is open for membership to people who feel a connection to and a desire to participate in the women’s leather community. This includes: women (transgender and cisgender), intersex persons, transgender persons, genderqueer persons, gender non-conforming persons, genderfluid persons, agender persons, and non-binary persons who feel they have a place in the women's BDSM community. Our Associate memberships are not gender limited. We have memberships available for all genders. Our language and understandings continue to evolve. We seek to create a leather club that is radically welcoming while simultaneously holding space for our history. To that end, we will be continually working to use more inclusive language. But as our goal is to center women while being inclusive of others who identify with women’s community, all mentions of “women” in F.I.S.T. materials and communications should be interpreted inclusively to apply equally to include all identities described above. The panel carries F.I.S.T.s original backpatch with the Baltimore/Washington DC location indicator. F.I.S.T. was started in 1993 as a direct result of the March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights in 1993 where a small group of leatherwomen decided there was a need for a women's leather/BDSM educational and social backpatch group in the area. That need still exists. 00194 Home: Baltimore, Maryland USA Status: Active Founded: 1993 Panel History: Added in-person at SouthEast LeatherFest 2023 on June 8-11, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA Links: Website - Fetlife Group - Fetlife Profile - Twitter - Facebook Group (Private) Other Details: Have details about this panel that are not listed? We need you! Email the Historian . Previous Next

< BACK TO QUILT Trident Knights (SC) The Trident Knights were a pansexual, Leather/Levi club based in Charleston, South Carolina. The club’s purpose was to provide for the promotion, support, and development of the Leather/Levi community through hospitality, camaraderie, social and educational issues that were vital to the community at large. Their home bar was Patrick's Pub and Grill at 1377 Ashley River Road in Charleston, South Carolina. 00047 Home: Charleston, South Carolina USA Status: Active Founded: On August 29, 1993 “by a small group of individuals who shared the beliefs and interests of the leather community.” Panel History: N/A Links: N/A Other Details: N/A Have details about this panel that are not listed? We need you! Email the Historian . Previous Next

< BACK TO QUILT House Of Sir Top We are a 17 year house, formed of leather and a mix of fetish, committed to integrity, honor, family and loyalty. Our commitment is to be in service to all of the communities we are involved in and to pass on knowledge of leather history. Sir Top and slave bonnie hold the Master/slave 2007 Southeast title, were awarded the Jack Stice Community Award 2009, Leather Archives & Museum Chuck Renslow President’s Award 2010, and Pantheon Couple of the Year Award 2010. 00234 Home: Winter Haven, Florida USA Status: Active Founded: In 2007 by Sir Top Panel History: Added in-person at Beyond Leather XVI on Saturday, May 18, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida Links: N/A Other Details: Have details about this panel that are not listed? We need you! Email the Historian . Previous Next

< BACK TO QUILT Butchmanns Butchmanns, Inc. was a 501c3 non-profit educational organization dedicated to self-actualization and the ending of suffering. Butchmanns facilitated and fostered spiritual growth and transformation by providing grants and educational opportunities to those often wrongfully stigmatized for their sexual expression, non-traditional relationships and/or unconventional spiritual practices. Butchmanns promoted the use of physical practices and the conscious exchange of personal power for spiritual awareness. We recognize all life-affirming spiritual paths as valid, affirm all mutually beneficial relationships as inherently sacred, and embrace adults of every age, race, body type, physical ability, sexual orientation, and gender identity. The Butchmanns Experience is an intensive educational weekend designed to provide an opportunity for self-discovery in pursuit of self-actualization. The event includes hands-on training in basic SM practices, protocol and rituals, and a view of leadership and obedience through the lens of Master/slave dynamics. Butchmanns Experience allows us to explicitly visit areas that challenge and soothe us for the purpose of identifying who we are. Happiness comes from living authentically. When we are ready to be who we truly are, we encounter the next step on our path. The emphasis of activities is on personal transformation and growth and includes intentional flogging, ritual temporary piercing, the call to serve and be served, and transformational mummification. These activities are further explored through in-depth discussions. The environment is structured to encourage safely entering new experiences, with the instructors and staff supporting each individual?s unique experience. The Butchmanns Experience continues the spirit and tradition of the nationally known Butchmanns Academy. The Butchmanns Experience were held at various locations across the United States and it's instructors were from all over the United States as well. 00003 Home: N/A Status: Butchmanns, Inc was dissolved by its board of directors on December 6, 2020. In the wake of Butchmanns, Inc. dissolution; Butchmanns Experience was handed over to Master Bob Blount, The Leather Quilt Project was handed over to Master Blue and his slave sheri, and Southwest Leather Conference to Master Malik. Founded: “Butchmanns SM academy was founded in 1994 in Thermal, California, as a Gay Male SM training academy, by Master Steve Sampson. The core founding instructors include Master Steve, Slave Master Mike McDade and Master Skip Chasey.” Panel History: N/A Links: Website - Fetlife Group Additional Reading: BUTCHMANNS HISTORY THE FULL JOURNEY By SlaveMaster Other Details: Have details about this panel that are not listed? We need you! Email the Historian . Previous Next

< BACK TO QUILT APEX (Arizona Power EXchange) & APEX 20 (1988-2008) The Arizona Power Exchange (APEX) is a not-for-profit corporation that provides education, social opportunities, and support for adults who are interested in Bondage and Discipline; Dominance and Submission; and Sadomasochism (BDSM) who value individual responsibility, integrity, confidentiality, and respect for self and others. APEX provides on-going forums for education and practice of BDSM and opportunities for like-minded individuals to socialize, explore and learn in a respectful and dignified environment. APEX welcomes all sexual orientations, consensual relationships, and risk-aware BDSM and sexual practices. 00041b Home: Phoenix, Arizona USA Status: Active Founded: In 1988 by Bert Cutler, Nadine Cutler, and Catrina Panel History: N/A Links: Website - Facebook - Twitter - Fetlife Group - Fetlife Profile Other Details: This panel was to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Arizona Power EXchange (APEX). Have details about this panel that are not listed? We need you! Email the Historian . Previous Next

< BACK TO QUILT Pin Panel 8 In 2019, the decision was made to remove pins and dedicated pin panels from the quilt. The weight of the pins and the damage their pinbacks were doing to the other leather panels made this decision necessary to protect the health of the quilt, but these pins and dedicated panels were important and have been lovingly preserved and put in a display at the Carter Johnson Library. 0 Home: Status: Founded: Panel History: Links: Other Details: Have details about this panel that are not listed? We need you! Email the Historian . Previous Next

< BACK TO QUILT Paragon Cooperative & Club Paragon Cooperative for Literacy, Informed Consent, Knowledge & Sustainability, Corporation! We are a Non-Profit doing business as Paragon CoCo, with a demographic of diverse people, that will turn into the teams, and departments and Leaders working together toward a common goal. We are providing representation, equality and equity for marginalized populations, Black &/or Indigenous &/or Persons of Color (BIPOC), in core areas impacted by structural discrimination with a focus on Sustainable Green Energy, Rural Cooperative Farming & Live-Work Affordable Housing. We are a grassroots Lifestylers developing solutions that will impact the globe, starting in the South East, USA. We also are at the intersection of stigma and discrimination as LGBTQ &/or Two Spirited humans and our fierce Accomplices. The barriers we face put us in a deeply socially disadvantaged category and we are bypassed for collaborations and fundraising. Our project(s) now seeks to model solutions that are repeatable from planning through deployment for those that face disparate treatment &/or impact. We are recruiting members. We have voting and non-voting categories, and no one is turned away for lack of funds due to our sponsorship program. 00220 Home: Plains, Georgia USA Status: Active Founded: 2021 by Dionne 'Choc-Trei' Henderson Panel History: Added in-person at SouthEast Leather Fest, June 15, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Links: Fetlife Profile - Website - Facebook Other Details: Have details about this panel that are not listed? We need you! Email the Historian . Previous Next

< BACK TO QUILT MAsT: Tucson N/A 00035M Home: Tucson, Arizona USA Status: Defunct, no longer listed as an active chapter on the MAsT International website as of November 24, 2022. Founded: N/A Panel History: N/A Links: N/A Other Details: N/A Have details about this panel that are not listed? We need you! Email the Historian . Previous Next

< BACK TO QUILT ONYX PEARLS New York/Northeast Onyx Pearls New York/Northeast is an organization that addresses issues specific to Women of Color (Black, Latinx, Asian/Pacific. Islander, and Indigenous) who choose to discuss/participate in the Leather/BD/SM/Fetish lifestyle. We provide support and education while developing friendships and empowering sisterhood and safety for women. This is key to achieving our goals. All women 21 years old and older are welcome regardless of gender identity or expression. Although the ONYX PEARLS is a club for Women of Color, we also welcome all female-identified friends, those of the trans, GNC/NB experience, and loved ones. We strive to be a social, educational, leather, BD/SM, and fetish lifestyle club. 00204 Home: New York USA Status: Active Founded: By Goddess Roze in 2008 Panel History: Added in-person at Master/slave Conference in College Park, Maryland USA the weekend of August 31 - September 4, 2023 Links: Fetlife Profile - Fetlife Group - Website - Facebook Other Details: Have details about this panel that are not listed? We need you! Email the Historian . Previous Next

< BACK TO QUILT MAsT: Washington DC MAsT is committed to demystifying M/s, D/s, and other power exchange relationships for those in the leather/fetish/BDSM community and, on a greater level, to correcting the misinformation and combating the denigration that often occurs in our larger societies with respect to such relationships. This chapter is restricted to male Masters and slaves of any sexual orientation (gay, bisexual or straight) as well as male-identified transgender individuals and those who identify themselves as queers. 00068M Home: Washington, D.C. USA Status: Active Founded: In February 1999 by Master Taíno Panel History: N/A Links: Website Other Details: N/A Have details about this panel that are not listed? We need you! Email the Historian . Previous Next