Life After IML - April 2005

Photo credit: Dave Harris

The greatest service a leather titleholder can give to the community is to know when to stop talking. Don't have anything of value to say? Then let go of the microphone and walk away from the stage! I think it's time I followed some of my own advice.

Fortunately there are lots of NON-titleholders who have wonderful things to say. One of them is Laura Antoniou, who gave the keynote speech at South Plains Leatherfest last February. I was lucky enough to be in the audience and her speech was funny, though-provoking, intelligent and challenging all at the same time.

Laura has kindly put a transcript of her speech online. It misses the heckles, ad-libs and her outrageous delivery, but enough of the good stuff remains that it's worth reading it for yourself. So please use the time you've saved from my column this month to click on the link below:

Laura Antoniou's Keynote Speech

I promise it's worth it.




Best wishes,

John Pendal
International Mr Leather 2003