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International Mister Leather (IML) is an international conference and contest of leathermen

Leather subculture

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held annually in May since 1979 in Chicago, Illinois.

The International Mister Leather conference spans several days, and includes the International Mister Leather competition, as well as other events, such as speakers, socials, themed dance parties and a leather market. Most, but far from all, attendees are gay men. BDSM

BDSM

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enthusiasts also have a presence at the event.

IML is an independent contest in that there is no contract or formal connection with feeder contests. To qualify, IML contestants must either be the winner of a bar, local or regional leather contest or be sponsored by a leather bar, business, club, or organization.

IML's forerunner was the 1970s "Mr. Gold Coast" bar contest held at Chicago's Gold Coast leather bar, owned by Chuck Renslow and his then-partner, Dom Orejudos. As the "Mr. Gold Coast" contest became one of the bar's most popular promotions, it expanded to a larger venue in 1979. Along with the change of venue came a change in name to International Mr. Leather.

Since 1993, a second contest, the International Mister Bootblack Competition, has been added to the IML program.

In May 2009, the Leather Archives and Museum

Leather Archives and Museum

The Leather Archives & Museum , based in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, USA, has much information and details on the beginning of the leather subculture and BDSM community...

announced that IML would be placed in a trust, with profits from the event benefiting the museum.

In July 2009, IML announced that "it will no longer allow participation in the IML Leather Market by any entity which promotes barebacking or distributes/sells any merchandise tending to promote or advocate barebacking."

IML contest criteria

First, all contestants are judged in a preliminary round. Second, the top 20 contestants from the preliminary round move on to become IML finalists. In each round, there are nine judges and two tally masters.

Preliminary round

The preliminary judging consists of two parts:

The preliminary interview, up to 8 minutes in length and held in private, which accounts for 60% of the preliminary score.
Stage presence and personality at a Saturday "Pecs and Personality" event, which account for 40% of the preliminary score.

The highest and lowest scores by judges for each contestant in each part are dropped, and the contestant's remaining seven scores are added together. The 20 contestants with the highest combined scores are announced as finalists at the Sunday IML contest event.

In case of a tie for 20th place, the dropped scores are added back for the two tied contestants. If that does not resolve the tie, then each of the nine judges must vote for only one of the two contestants.

No scores from the preliminary judging are carried forward.

Final round

Each of the 20 finalists is judged at the Sunday IML contest on a scale from 0 to 100 in this order:

Leather image, which accounts for up to 40 points.
Presentation skills, which account for up to 40 points. Each contestant must give a short speech.
Physical appearance, which accounts for up to 20 points.

The highest and lowest scores for each finalist are dropped, and the remaining seven scores are added together. The finalists with the top three scores are the second runner-up, first runner-up, and winner, International Mr. Leather.

In case of a tie for the winner position, the dropped scores are added back for the two tied contestants. If that does not resolve the tie, then each of the nine judges must vote for only one of the two tied contestants.

IML contest winners

IML #	Date	IML winner	Winner's preliminary title or sponsor	Winner's city	Field of contestants	Contest's Location and Host Hotel
1	1979-05-20	David Kloss	Mr. Leather Brig	San Francisco, California San Francisco, California San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...	12 men from 6 U.S. states	Grand Ballroom of the Radisson Hotel
2	1980-05-10	Patrick Brooks	Mr. Leather Australia	Sydney, Australia	18 men from 7 U.S. states and Australia	Grand Ballroom of the Radisson Hotel
3	1981-05-09	Marty Kiker	Sponsored by The Brig & The Phoenix	San Francisco, California San Francisco, California San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...	36 men from 3 countries including 11 U.S. states	Park West
4	1982-05-08	Luke Daniel	Mr. Drummer	San Francisco, California San Francisco, California San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...	46 men from 14 U.S. states and Canada	Park West
5	1983-05-07	Coulter Thomas	Mr. Texas Leather	Houston, Texas Houston, Texas Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...	44 men from 15 U.S. states and Canada	Park West & Allerton Hotel Allerton Hotel The Allerton Hotel is a 25-story 360 foot hotel skyscraper along the Magnificent Mile in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois. It was the first building to feature pronounced setbacks and towers resulting from the 1923 zoning law...
6	1984-05-27	Ron Moore	Mr. Leather Colorado	Denver, Colorado Denver, Colorado The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...	30 men from 14 U.S. states and Australia	Park West & Allerton Hotel Allerton Hotel The Allerton Hotel is a 25-story 360 foot hotel skyscraper along the Magnificent Mile in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois. It was the first building to feature pronounced setbacks and towers resulting from the 1923 zoning law...
7	1985-05-26	Patrick Toner	Mr. Chaps San Francisco	San Francisco, California San Francisco, California San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...	27 men from 3 countries including 14 U.S. states	Park West & Allerton Hotel Allerton Hotel The Allerton Hotel is a 25-story 360 foot hotel skyscraper along the Magnificent Mile in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois. It was the first building to feature pronounced setbacks and towers resulting from the 1923 zoning law...
8	1986-05-25	Scott Tucker	Mr. Philadelphia Leather	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...	28 men from 14 U.S. states	Park West & Lake Shore Hotel
9	1987-05-24	Thomas Karasch	Mr. Leather Europe	Hamburg, Germany	31 men from 3 countries including 14 U.S. states	Park West & Days Inn
10	1988-05-29	Michael Pereyra	Mr. Leather San Diego	San Diego, California San Diego, California San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...	42 men from 3 countries including 20 U.S. states	Clubland at the Vic & Executive House Hotel
11	1989-05-28	Guy Baldwin Guy Baldwin Guy Baldwin, M.S., born 1946, is a Los Angeles-based psychotherapist, author, activist and educator specializing in issues of particular relevance to the BDSM and leather communities, and more generally in issues relating to non-heteronormative practices...	Mr. National Leather Association	Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, California Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...	48 men from 22 U.S. states and Canada	Clubland at the Vic & Executive House Hotel
12	1990-05-27	Mark Ryan	Mr. Boston Leather	Boston, Massachusetts	42 men from 3 countries including 22 U.S. states	Clubland at the Vic
13	1991-05-26	D Cannon	Mr. CC (of Palm Springs)	Hollywood, California	50 men from 3 countries including 24 U.S. states	Clubland at the Vic & Executive House Hotel
14	1992-05-24	Lenny Broberg	Mr. San Francisco Leather	San Francisco, California San Francisco, California San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...	56 men from 22 U.S. states and Canada	Aragon Ballroom Aragon Ballroom (Chicago) The Aragon Ballroom is the name of a ballroom in Chicago, Illinois.Located on West Lawrence Avenue approximately five miles north of downtown in the Uptown neighborhood, it was built in 1926 and designed in the Moorish architectural style with the interior resembling a Spanish village and named... & Executive House Hotel
15	1993-05-30	Henri ten Have	sponsored by Motor Sportclub Amsterdam (MSA)	Amsterdam, Holland Amsterdam Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...	51 men from 5 countries including 23 U.S. states	Aragon Ballroom Aragon Ballroom (Chicago) The Aragon Ballroom is the name of a ballroom in Chicago, Illinois.Located on West Lawrence Avenue approximately five miles north of downtown in the Uptown neighborhood, it was built in 1926 and designed in the Moorish architectural style with the interior resembling a Spanish village and named... & Congress Hotel
16	1994-05-29	Jeff Tucker	Mr. San Jose Leather	San Jose, California San Jose, California San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...	43 men from 5 countries including 21 U.S. states	Congress Theater Congress Theater The Congress Theater in Chicago, built by Fridstein and Company in 1926 for the movie theater chain of Lubliner and Trinz, is a surviving example of a movie palace. It features ornate exterior and interior design work, in a combination of the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance styles.The... & Congress Hotel
17	1995-05-28	Larry Everett	Mr. Oklahoma Leather	Collinsville, Oklahoma Collinsville, Oklahoma Collinsville is a city in Rogers and Tulsa counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and a part of the Tulsa, Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was named for Dr. A. H. Collins, an engineer and surveyor who first surveyed the land that became this community...	50 men from 6 countries including 26 U.S. states	Congress Theater Congress Theater The Congress Theater in Chicago, built by Fridstein and Company in 1926 for the movie theater chain of Lubliner and Trinz, is a surviving example of a movie palace. It features ornate exterior and interior design work, in a combination of the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance styles.The... & Hyatt Regency Chicago Hyatt Regency Chicago The Hyatt Regency Chicago is a Hyatt hotel on East Wacker Drive in Chicago, Illinois. The hotel operates over 2,018 guest rooms in two different towers which were constructed in 1974 and 1980. The towers are connected by both an above-ground skyway and an underground concourse... Hotel
18	1996-05-26	Joe Gallagher	Mr. Leather New York	New York, New York	49 men from 6 countries including 25 U.S. states	Congress Theater Congress Theater The Congress Theater in Chicago, built by Fridstein and Company in 1926 for the movie theater chain of Lubliner and Trinz, is a surviving example of a movie palace. It features ornate exterior and interior design work, in a combination of the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance styles.The... & Congress Hotel
19	1997-05-25	Kevin Cwayna	Mr. Minnesota Leather	Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...	53 men from 5 countries including 24 U.S. states	Congress Theater Congress Theater The Congress Theater in Chicago, built by Fridstein and Company in 1926 for the movie theater chain of Lubliner and Trinz, is a surviving example of a movie palace. It features ornate exterior and interior design work, in a combination of the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance styles.The... & Congress Hotel
20	1998-05-24	Tony Mills Tony Mills Tony Mills, M.D., is an American physician who specializes in treatment of HIV and AIDS.In May of 1998, he won the title of International Mister Leather, publicly coming out as HIV-positive one day later.-Education and medical career:Dr...	Mr. Mid-Atlantic Leather	Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....	62 men from 7 countries including 24 U.S. states	Congress Theater Congress Theater The Congress Theater in Chicago, built by Fridstein and Company in 1926 for the movie theater chain of Lubliner and Trinz, is a surviving example of a movie palace. It features ornate exterior and interior design work, in a combination of the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance styles.The... & Congress Hotel
21	1999-05-30	Bruce Chopnik	Mr. Rocky Mountain Leather	Denver, Colorado Denver, Colorado The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...	52 men from 5 countries including 23 U.S. states	Congress Theater Congress Theater The Congress Theater in Chicago, built by Fridstein and Company in 1926 for the movie theater chain of Lubliner and Trinz, is a surviving example of a movie palace. It features ornate exterior and interior design work, in a combination of the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance styles.The... & Congress Hotel
22	2000-05-28	Mike Taylor	Mr. Heartland Leather	Columbus Columbus, Ohio Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city... & Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...	60 men from 7 countries including 25 U.S. states	Congress Theater Congress Theater The Congress Theater in Chicago, built by Fridstein and Company in 1926 for the movie theater chain of Lubliner and Trinz, is a surviving example of a movie palace. It features ornate exterior and interior design work, in a combination of the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance styles.The... & Congress Hotel
23	2001-05-27	Stefan Müller	Bavarian Mr. Leather	Munich, Germany	63 men from 7 countries including 27 U.S. states	Congress Theater Congress Theater The Congress Theater in Chicago, built by Fridstein and Company in 1926 for the movie theater chain of Lubliner and Trinz, is a surviving example of a movie palace. It features ornate exterior and interior design work, in a combination of the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance styles.The... & Palmer House Palmer House The Palmer House Hilton is a famous and historic hotel in downtown Chicago.-History:There have been three Palmer House Hotels at the corner of State and Monroe Streets in Chicago.... Hilton Hotel
24	2002-05-26	Stephen Weber	Mr. Texas Leather	Dallas, Texas Dallas, Texas Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...	66 men from 7 countries including 28 U.S. states	Congress Theater Congress Theater The Congress Theater in Chicago, built by Fridstein and Company in 1926 for the movie theater chain of Lubliner and Trinz, is a surviving example of a movie palace. It features ornate exterior and interior design work, in a combination of the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance styles.The... & Hyatt Regency Chicago Hyatt Regency Chicago The Hyatt Regency Chicago is a Hyatt hotel on East Wacker Drive in Chicago, Illinois. The hotel operates over 2,018 guest rooms in two different towers which were constructed in 1974 and 1980. The towers are connected by both an above-ground skyway and an underground concourse... Hotel
25	2003-05-25	John Pendal	Mr. Hoist	London, United Kingdom	58 men from 5 countries including 25 U.S. states	Congress Theater Congress Theater The Congress Theater in Chicago, built by Fridstein and Company in 1926 for the movie theater chain of Lubliner and Trinz, is a surviving example of a movie palace. It features ornate exterior and interior design work, in a combination of the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance styles.The... & Palmer House Palmer House The Palmer House Hilton is a famous and historic hotel in downtown Chicago.-History:There have been three Palmer House Hotels at the corner of State and Monroe Streets in Chicago.... Hilton Hotel
26	2004-05-30	Jason Hendrix	Mr. DC Eagle	Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....	58 men from 5 countries including 23 U.S. states	Congress Theater Congress Theater The Congress Theater in Chicago, built by Fridstein and Company in 1926 for the movie theater chain of Lubliner and Trinz, is a surviving example of a movie palace. It features ornate exterior and interior design work, in a combination of the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance styles.The... & Hyatt Regency Chicago Hyatt Regency Chicago The Hyatt Regency Chicago is a Hyatt hotel on East Wacker Drive in Chicago, Illinois. The hotel operates over 2,018 guest rooms in two different towers which were constructed in 1974 and 1980. The towers are connected by both an above-ground skyway and an underground concourse... Hotel
27	2005-05-29	Michael Egdes	Mr. Ramrod	Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fort Lauderdale, Florida Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, on the Atlantic coast. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010...	52 men from 6 countries including 25 U.S. states	Navy Pier Navy Pier Navy Pier is a long pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan. It is located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community area. The pier was built in 1916 at a cost of $4.5 million, equivalent to $ today. It was a part of the Plan of Chicago developed by architect and... Skyline Stage & Hyatt Regency Chicago Hyatt Regency Chicago The Hyatt Regency Chicago is a Hyatt hotel on East Wacker Drive in Chicago, Illinois. The hotel operates over 2,018 guest rooms in two different towers which were constructed in 1974 and 1980. The towers are connected by both an above-ground skyway and an underground concourse... Hotel
28	2006-05-28	Bo Ladashevska	Mr. Leather Montreal 2006	Montreal, Quebec, Canada Montreal Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...	51 men from 5 countries including 18 U.S. states	Chicago Theatre Chicago Theatre The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1921, the Chicago Theatre was the flagship for the Balaban and Katz group of theaters run by A. J. Balaban, his brother... & Palmer House Palmer House The Palmer House Hilton is a famous and historic hotel in downtown Chicago.-History:There have been three Palmer House Hotels at the corner of State and Monroe Streets in Chicago.... Hilton Hotel
29	2007-05-27	Mikel Gerle	Mr. Los Angeles Leather 2007	Los Angeles, California Los Ángeles Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...	53 men from 5 countries including 23 U.S. states	Chicago Theatre Chicago Theatre The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1921, the Chicago Theatre was the flagship for the Balaban and Katz group of theaters run by A. J. Balaban, his brother... & Palmer House Palmer House The Palmer House Hilton is a famous and historic hotel in downtown Chicago.-History:There have been three Palmer House Hotels at the corner of State and Monroe Streets in Chicago.... Hilton Hotel
30	2008-05-25	Gary Iriza	Mr. Palm Springs Leather 2008	Palm Springs, California Palm Springs Palm Springs is a desert city in CaliforniaPalm Springs may also refer to:* Palm Springs, Florida* Palm Springs, Hong Kong, a residential development in Yuen Long, Hong Kong* Coachella Valley, also known as the Palm Springs area...	51 men from 6 countries including 21 U.S. states	Hyatt Regency Chicago Hyatt Regency Chicago The Hyatt Regency Chicago is a Hyatt hotel on East Wacker Drive in Chicago, Illinois. The hotel operates over 2,018 guest rooms in two different towers which were constructed in 1974 and 1980. The towers are connected by both an above-ground skyway and an underground concourse... Hotel
31	2009-05-24	Jeffrey Payne http://www.iml2009.com/	Mr. Texas Leather 2009 http://mrtexasleather.com/	Dallas, Texas Dallas, Texas Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...	54 men	Hilton Chicago Hotel
32	2010-05-30	Tyler McCormick	Mr. Rio Grande Leather 2010 http://www.riograndeleather.org/	Albuquerque, New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...	52 men	Congress Theater Congress Theater The Congress Theater in Chicago, built by Fridstein and Company in 1926 for the movie theater chain of Lubliner and Trinz, is a surviving example of a movie palace. It features ornate exterior and interior design work, in a combination of the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance styles.The...
33	2011-05-29	Eric Guttierez	Mr. Leather Europe 2011	Paris, France	53 men	Harris Theater

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International Mister Bootblack Competition

The International Mister Bootblack (IMrBB) Competition runs throughout the IML weekend. Contestants are given a location in the IML Leather Market at which they perform bootblacking

Shoeshiner

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services. Weekend ticket package holders (as well as judges, contestants, and vendors) are each provided with a bootblack ballot which is redeemable for one shine by the bootblack of the voter's choice. Bootblacks are free to shine the boots of any person, regardless of whether that person has a ballot, although it is made clear that the ballots are the means by which the winner will be determined. Tipping is not required, but is quite common.

The bootblack contestants work during the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of IML during the time that the Leather Market is open, a total of approximately 20 hours over three days. In previous years, the bootblacks were allowed to shine boots and collect tickets at all times during the weekend. Since 2001, the bootblack contestants have established a gentlemen's agreement at the start of the weekend that they will not shine boots or accept ballots except during the established competition hours. This agreement was conceived to give the contestants the freedom to take time to enjoy the weekend without feeling the pressure to always be bootblacking.

At its inception in 1993, the competition was properly titled the International Bootblack Competition, and both men and women were allowed to compete. In 1998, it was announced that the competition would be changed to the International Mister Bootblack Competition and that a separate competition solely for women would be held at International Ms. Leather. This change was made largely because it was commonly held that women had a significant disadvantage competing for ballots from the mostly gay male IML attendees, who often base their bootblack selection at least partly on their sexual attraction to the bootblack. Since 1999, competitors for IMrBB are restricted to persons over the age of 21 who can provide a valid government-issued form of identification that identifies them as male.

The winner of the International Mr. Bootblack Competition is announced (along with the first and second runners-up and the winner of the Brotherhood Award, on which the IMrBB competitors vote and which is roughly analogous to the Miss Congeniality Award from various traditional beauty contests) at the Sunday contest, immediately following the announcement of the top 20 IML finalists.

In recent years, largely because of coordination of the contest by David Hawks, International Mr. Bootblack 2000, the Bootblack Competition has begun to develop adjunct activities. A IMrBB party is held in a hotel function room on Saturday night, offering food, music, and a silent auction, the proceeds of which go to the travel fund of the winner. Likewise, during the competition hours in the Leather Market, volunteers man a table to answer questions and sell IMrBB Travel Fund pins, which also adds to the travel fund. These sources of revenue have provided the various titleholders with significantly more money to aid their travel to distant events during their title years. The money is controlled by the contest coordinator, and any access to the funds must be accompanied by proof of the travel outlay.

IMrBB Contest Winners

Date	IMrBB winner	Winner's preliminary title or sponsor	Winner's city
1993-05-30	David Morgan	DC Eagle	Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
1994-05-29	William Shields, Jr.	Chicago Eagle & Chicago Hellfire Club	Chicago, Illinois
1995-05-28	Tim Cousins	DC Eagle	Washington, D.C.
1996-05-26	Todd Nelson	The Cuff	Seattle, Washington Seattle, Washington Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
1997-05-25	"Driller"	SF Eagle & Daddy's Bar	San Francisco, California San Francisco, California San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
1998-05-24	Matthew Duncan	Centaur MC	Washington, D.C.
1999-05-30	Robert Ehrlich	DC Eagle	Washington, D.C.
2000-05-28	David Hawks	Centaur MC	Washington, D.C.
2001-05-27	paksen	Centaur MC	Washington, D.C.
2002-05-26	Michael Lanzini	The Lure	New York, N.Y.
2003-05-25	Richie Chameroy	Daddy's Bar & Powerhouse Bar	San Francisco, California
2004-05-30	Alan Tunstall	The Barracks Bar & Avatar Club	Los Angeles, California Los Angeles, California Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
2005-05-29	"BooBoo"	Great Lakes Leather Alliance and Laws Leather	Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
2006-05-28	Benjamin Palmer	PumpJack Pub & Priape Vancouver	Vancouver, British Columbia Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
2007-05-27	"Spot"	Great Lakes Leather Alliance	Lansing, Michigan Lansing, Michigan Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located mostly in Ingham County, although small portions of the city extend into Eaton County. The 2010 Census places the city's population at 114,297, making it the fifth largest city in Michigan...
2008-05-25	"Bootdog"	Alameda County Leather Corps	Oakland, California Oakland, California Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
2009-05-24	"McG"	Mr. Leatherman Toronto	Toronto, Ontario
2010-05-30	Tim Starkey	Boston Ramrod	Boston, Massachusetts
2011-05-29	Jim Deuder	NYC Bootblack Roundtable, Leathermen NYC, and the Eagle NYC	New York City, New York

Footnotes

1. 1. 1. 1. External links
        
        Official International Mr. Leather site
        
        IML Winners
        
        International Mr. Leather 2009: Jeffrey Payne
        
        International Mr. Leather 2008: Gary Iriza
        
        International Mr. Leather 2007: Mikel Gerle
        
        International Mr. Leather 2005: Michael Egdes
        
        International Mr. Leather 2004: Jason Hendrix
        
        International Mr. Leather 2003: John Pendal
        
        International Mr. Leather 1996: Joe Gallagher
        
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