Michigan Leather Pride Weekend has been in existence since late 2019, after the dissolution of the Great Lakes Leather Alliance regional contest and its associated Michigan feeder, GLLA-MI, produced by SIR Merrill.
Our inaugural contest weekend in 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID19 pandemic. In November 2021, a one day education and party event was held, without a title contest. MLPW was proud to host a COVID19 booster clinic at its 2021 event, continuing a long tradition of leather folks being at the vanguard of public health advocacy and awareness.
October 2022 will mark our first year hosting the Michigan title contests for Sir, boy, Ms. and Bootblack as well as hosting the inaugural contest for Michigan’s first non-binary title, Mx. Michigan Leather Pride.
Michigan Leather Pride Community Bootblack 2023: Chris
Mx. Michigan Leather Pride 2023: Seq 2022: Dr. Femme (inaugural)
Michigan Leather Pride Sir 2023: Daddy Jay 2022: Mr. Frankie
Previous titleholders under the GLLA-MI event are as follows: LeatherSIR 2004 - David Feaster 2005 - Robert Burgin (Great Lakes LeatherSIR 2005) 2008 - SIR Merrill (Great Lakes LeatherSIR 2009, 2011) 2009 - Danny Catalon 2012 - Sir Papa Bear (Great Lakes LeatherSIR 2012) 2013 - SIR Mark Eddy (Great Lakes LeatherSIR 2013, International LeatherSIR 2014) 2016 - Sir Mitchell (Great Lakes LeatherSIR 2016) 2017 - SIR Jay (Great Lakes LeatherSIR 2017, International LeatherSIR 2018)
Leatherboy 2004 - Don Snyder 2005 - Don Snyder 2006 - Chris Glassburn 2008 - Ed Urbany (Great Lakes Leatherboy 2009) 2011 - Jim Coleman (Great Lakes Leatherboy 2011) 2015 - boy Bradley 2016 - boy mike 2017 - boy hank
Community Bootblack 2008 - Trooper (Great Lakes Bootblack 2009, 2010) 2013 - pup Itus 2015 - Elisa (Great Lakes Bootblack 2016, International Ms Bootblack 2017)