In 2012, the Library is traveling to these events:
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Viola M. Johnson to receive National Gay and Lesbian Task Force 2012 Leather Leadership Award
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 — The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force announced today that Viola Johnson will receive its 2012 Leather Leadership Award, to be presented at the Task Force's 24th National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change. More than 2,500 leaders and activists are expected to attend the conference, which will be held in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 25-29, 2012. More ...
Read Vi's acceptance speech here.
See pics from the conference here.
The Carter/Johnson Leather Library is a collective history of various communities who have chosen to live and love differently. The Library, a 501(c)(3) (pending) organization, is chartered to bring this history to the communities that it serves. As the only library of its kind, it is our mission to create an interactive relationship with the stories from the past and the present and link them to future generations. The Library collection includes thousands of leather, fetish, S/m, kink and alternate sexuality books, magazines, posters, art, newspapers, ephemera and memorabilia dating back to the 1700's. The Carter/Johnson Library is designed to put people in touch with their history by allowing them to hold it, read it, smell it and know it.
The Carter/Johnson Leather Library, a non-profit 501(c)(3) (pending) organization, is a traveling collection of thousands of books, magazines, posters, art, club and event pins, newspapers, event programs and ephemera showing Leather, fetish, and S/M erotic history. The Library includes:
- Rare books dating as far back as 1701
- Flagellation tracts from the 1700’s
- A special section of limited editions from European and American publishers dating back to the 1800’s
- Classic works of Von Sacher Masoch, De Sade, Trocchi, Rabelais, Boccaccio, and Ellis
- More modern writings of F.C. Campbell, Dolcet, Reage, Prescott and Vassi
- Serialized books such as Bizarre
- Autographed copies from many modern writers and modern educational classics from Nazca Plains Publishing.
You will also find:
- Original copies of “Bizarre Magazine,” “Erotique,” “Fantastique and Physique Pictorial” from the 1940 and 1950’s
- Early editions of “London Life,” magazines of special interest such as the first article on S/M in a major publication
- The “Life Magazine” showing the Chuck Arnett mural of leather men
- The Arrest of Monique Von Cleef
- Complete collections of “Black Leather in Color,” “The Leather Journal,” “Dungeon Master,” “Drummer,” “Cuir,” “Body Play” and many other magazines of the last five decades.
You can also relax in the library for hours watching DVDs of “The Story of O,” “The Pet,” “A Tour of the Leather Archives and Museum with Dr. Tony DeBlase,” “Kinky,” “Piercing Visions,” “Blood Sisters,” “Tattoo,” “Out of the Darkness,” “The history of the Satyrs Motorcycle Club,” event DVDs and other titles to numerous to name.
Note: We do not engage in the sale of books, magazines, publications, etc. However, we may be able to help you find what you're looking for. Please feel free to contact us regarding your inquiry.
