Guy Baldwin

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Guy Baldwin
Parent(s)Oa Baldwin and Carolyn Baldwin

Guy Baldwin, M.S. (b. 1946) is a Los Angeles-based psychotherapist, author, activist, and educator specializing in issues of particular relevance to the BDSM and leather communities. He maintains that inclusion of non-injurious elements of sadomasochism (bondage, flagellation, domination, submission and others) in a consenting sexuality does not itself indicate or confirm mental illness or psycho-sexual dysfunction.

In 1982 Baldwin created a database of professionals who knew about and were not prejudiced against kink and BDSM. It is now managed by the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom as the Kink And Poly Professionals Directory.[1][2]

Baldwin has written three books, as well as numerous articles for such magazines as Drummer, Frontiers, Checkmate, International Leatherman, and The Leather Journal.[3][4][5]

He is openly gay.[6]

Leather titles

In 1989, Baldwin held two leather titles: Mr. National Leather Association[7] and International Mr. Leather.[8] He is the only person to have held these two titles in the same year.

Awards
  • 1994: Received a Pantheon of Leather West Coast Regional Award[9]
  • 2000: Named a Centurion by the Leather Archives and Museum[5]
  • 2001: Received a Pantheon of Leather Lifetime Achievement Award[9]
  • 2004: Inducted into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame[10]
  • 2007: Received a Pantheon of Leather Forbear Award[9]
  • 2008: Awarded the Leather Leadership Award by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force[11]
  • 2009: Received the first ever Guy Baldwin Heritage Award, from the Master/slave Conference[12]
  • 2010: Received the Berman/Schaffer Award from Christopher Street West[13]
  • 2010: Received a citation from the West Hollywood City Council
  • 2012: Inducted into the Leather Hall of Fame[14]
  • 2016: Received a Tom of Finland Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award[15]

Conferences
  • 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2019: Special guest at the Master/slave Conference[16]

Bibliography

Baldwin is a prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction related to BDSM. Baldwin authored a monthly column in Drummer magazine from 1986 to 1993. The column was later compiled in his book Ties that Bind (1993).

Books
  • Guy Baldwin (1993). Joseph W. Bean (ed.). Ties That Bind: The SM/Leather/Fetish Erotic Style: Issues, Commentaries and Advice. Daedalus Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-881943-09-9.
  • Guy Baldwin (1993). The Leather Contest Guide: A Handbook for Promoters, Contestants, Judges and Titleholders. Daedalus Publishing Company. ISBN 1-881943-08-9.
  • Guy Baldwin (2002). SlaveCraft: Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude—Principles, Skills and Tools. Daedalus Publishing Company. ISBN 1-881943-14-3.

Essays
  • "A Second Coming Out." Frontiers Magazine (1990). Reprinted in Thompson, Mark, ed. (1991). Leatherfolk: Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice. Boston: Alyson Publications. p. 328. ISBN 978-1-55583-186-8.
  • "Old Guard": Its Origins, Traditions, Mystique & Rules, "Drummer Magazine" (150). September 1991. Cite journal requires |journal= (help) in Rear View Mirror.
  • "Our Public Relations Suck". Drummer Magazine (150). Summer 1994..
  • "Radical Rite" in Taormino, Tristan and David Arron Clark, ed. (1996). Ritual Sex. New York: Masquerade. ISBN 978-1-56333-391-0.
  • "The Old Guard: Classical Leather Culture Revisited". International Leatherman. 1998..
  • "Unintended Consequences". The SandMUtopian Guardian (30). 1998.
  • "ON LEADERSHIP: The Path Less Traveled". International Leatherman (22). 1999.
  • "The Secret Life of Master and slave". International Leatherman (23). 1999.

Short Fiction
  • "Recollections 8709". Mach. 199.. Reprinted in Bean, Joseph W., ed. (1997). Horsemen: Leathersex Short Fiction. San Francisco: Leyland Publications. ISBN 978-0-943595-69-6..
  • "Lord of the Snow" in Ford, Michael, ed. (1996). Happily Ever After: Erotic Fairy Tales for Men. New York: Masquerade. ISBN 978-1-56333-450-4..
  • "Recollections: Yer it!". Powerplay 6 & 7. May–August 1995. Reprinted in Bean, Joseph W., ed. (1997). Horsemen: Leathersex Short Fiction. San Francisco: Leyland Publications. ISBN 978-0-943595-69-6..

Introductions and Forewords
  • Foreword by Guy Baldwin, M.S., Bannon, Race (1993). Learning the Ropes: A basic guide to safe and fun S/M lovemaking. Los Angeles: Daedalus Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-881943-07-5.
  • Foreword by Guy Baldwin Bean, Joseph (1996). Leathersex Q&A: Questions About Leathersex and the Leather Lifestyle Answered. Los Angeles: Daedalus Publishing Co. ISBN 978-1-881943-01-3.

Interviews (in print)

References
  1. David M. Ortmann; Richard A. Sprott, Ph.D., executive director of CARAS (Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities); co-author, Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities (15 November 2012). Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 137–. ISBN 978-1-4422-1737-9.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. https://www.kapprofessionals.org/
  3. Leather History Timeline Archived 2010-04-22 at the Wayback Machine at the Leather Archives and Museum
  4. Baldwin, Guy; Bean, Joseph W. (1993). Ties That Bind: The SM/Leather/Fetish Erotic Style: Issues, Commentaries and Advice. Daedalus Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-881943-09-9.
  5. Baldwin, Guy (2002). SlaveCraft: Roadmaps for Erotic Servitude--Principles, Skills and Tools. Daedalus Publishing Company. ISBN 1-881943-14-3.
  6. "Guy Baldwin NLA Houston Keynote Speech - Leatherati Online". Leatherati.com. 2011-04-17. Retrieved 2020-01-01.
  7. National Leather Association
  8. International Mr. Leather by year Archived 2009-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Pantheon of Leather
  10. "Making the Connection: Guy Baldwin | San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance". Leatheralliance.org. 2012-02-12. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
  11. "20th National Conference on LGBT Equality". Archived from the original on 2010-04-30. Retrieved 2010-05-01.
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-08-11. Retrieved 2013-08-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-07-01. Retrieved 2013-08-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. "Leather Hall of Fame". Leather Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
  15. https://tomoffinlandfoundation.org/foundation/Events/images_2016/art_fair_images/Festival_2016_Program02_PostFest_Print.pdf
  16. Master/slave Conference
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