Special Events

23rd Annual International Ms Leather Contest & 11th Annual International Ms Bootblack Contest

This is where you get to see all the action, folks. Heck, you get to watch the head-to-head competition LIVE: contestant interviews, speeches, pop questions, hotwear and the perennial audience favorite, fantasies. Picture one stage full of smart and sexy leatherwomen parading around in their hottest outfits... and then jack up the vibe to the power of ten. NOW you're with the program.

Wanna be in perfectly shined leathers for the contest, eh? Here's where you can even get in on the action personally. Head over to the Bootblack Salon and Leather Lounge on Friday or Saturday, bring your leathers and boots and relax in the hands of this year's International Ms Bootblack competitors. They'll work some serious down and dirty magic on your boots, gear and garments. You'll get allll polished up to be the belle or beau of the ball.

And we mustn't forget about the show itself. It’s a leather contest like you’ve never seen, with another deliriously steamy opening number, a stage packed full of wicked hot fantasies featuring leatherwomen from all over, and special guest emcees who will keep your juices flowing till it’s done. It's International, dig?

Seduction - An Evening of Burlesque, Strip Tease, Lap Dancing, Drag and MORE!

Thursday, 9:00pm – 11:30pm
The Emerald Ballroom

If you were here last year, you’re still working on getting that stain out of your panties. If you didn’t make it, you’re still hearing about it from your friends. We’ll tell you up front… we’ve lined up some crazy sexy performers. From drag to stripping and lap dancing to our hometown favorite professionals, visiting special guests - we've got it all for IMsL-goers to enjoy. All tips go to our designated event charities and get this, admission is automatically included for weekend attendees or with a stand alone Thursday Only ticket! And they’ll be a cash bar, natch.

As an added bonus, bring or wear your hottest outfit(s) and a CD of your favorite tunes because you might wanna haul ass onstage during the audience participation segments... where anyone that wants to can have a chance to strut their sexy stuff onstage – we promise a VERY appreciative audience. This is the hottest opening party on the circuit!

View Seduction Poster.

Bootblack Salon and Leathercare Lounge

Friday, 1:00pm – 5:30pm
Saturday, 10:00am – 4:00pm Lower Lobby Level

Strap on your favorite pair of boots, kick back and enjoy the shine... and then buckle on your chaps for love and leathercare by another bootblack tomorrow! The IMsBB contestants compete to earn your ballot (included in your basic weekend package) during the Boot Salon and Leather Lounge hours in our downstairs lobby. (And don't forget that we encourage tipping your bootblack for excellent services rendered!)

Charity Silent Auction

Friday, 2:00pm – 7:30pm
Saturday, 12:00pm – 10:15pm (Final Bids during Intermission of the Contest)
The Gold Rush Ballroom

Where else could you get a 20-year old back issue of Drummer Magazine, a signed copy of the first IMsL poster, a dildo the size of your head AND a corset from Mama's closet? Enough said. Visit often and play fair.

Hospitality Receptions

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Seventh Floor Suite, Room 708

Please, for the love of pete, don't forget the PARTIES, people. As if our Hospitality Suite Coordinator, Red from Brooklyn, isn’t reason enough to get your ass up to our 7th floor private suite for some IMsL-exclusive parties. P’shaw.

IMsL will have many fabulous local AND national leather groups hosting some kickass soirees running from morning until late at night. Snacks! Drinks! Naked servers! Ok, not EVERY reception has naked servers but it's been known to happen. The very best of company is expected.

Speed Tricking

Friday, 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Pacific Suites Ballrooms – Lower Lobby Level

Single at IMsL? Poly and on the prowl? Speed Tricking diva Peggy Sue will run you through this fast-paced mixer to put you face-to-face with the people most likely to make your motor run. It’s like Speed Dating. But much, much kinkier.

Opening Ceremony

Friday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm (begins promptly at 7:30pm)
The Emerald Ballroom

A fast-paced hour of pomp and circumstance where you will meet this year's contestants, judges, current titleholders and visiting dignitaries. This ceremony is highlighted by our NEW Parade of Colors from the Clubs and Organizations participating in IMsL 2009. Come early to get a good seat because we go straight into...

Charity Celebrity Auction

Friday, 8:30pm – 9:30pm
The Emerald Ballroom

Do you really want to miss your chance to buy a scene with Midori herself? We didn’t think so. This is your opportunity to bid on the rights to negotiate a scene with one of twenty of IMsL's favorite personalities including: presenters, judges, entertainers, titleholders and VIP guests. You could win a weekend of leathercare from a celebrated bootblack, a cocktail hour with the leatherati, or a chance for one-on-one instruction (in just about anything, ahem) with a seasoned expert if you win in this frenzied hour of high-paced bidding.

New Special Event --- Temptation

Friday, 10:30pm-2:00am
The Emerald Ballroom

You said you wanted a dance, so we’ll give you a dance like you won’t believe. This ain’t your middle school mixer, kids… it’s a brand new Friday night event we like to call Temptation. Shake your ass on the dance floor or get naughty in a dark corner to the tunes of a special guest DJ. Cash bar including spiked fruit punch --- cause we’re kinky like that.

Uniform Party

Friday, 10:00pm – 12:00am
Seventh Floor Suite, Room 708

Don't miss the Uniform Party hosted by the Dyke Uniform Corps Friday 2200-2400 in the Hospitality Suite.

Uniform Party hosted by the Dyke Uniform Corps (D.U.C.) What’s hotter than a bunch of women and men showing up to party in uniform? Nothing we can think of.

Join the Dyke Uniform Corps for a scorching hot party Friday night in the Hospitality Suite. Try an MRE if you dare, whether it’s your late night snack or edge-play for your bottom. Join us in your sexiest uniform or just come to enjoy the view. You’ll be glad you did.

Outgoing Titleholder Roast

Saturday, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Seventh Floor Suite, Room 708

IMsL 2008 Hobbit and IMsBB 2008 Q are stepping aside - but not before we roast our terrific titleholders with our favorite stories from their title year! Come one and all to our Titleholder Roast to celebrate the 2008 reign of both Hobbit and Q. You know you've got dish... bring it!

23rd Annual International Ms Leather Contest & 11th Annual International Ms Bootblack Contest

Saturday, 8:30pm – 11:30pm (Begins Promptly at 9:00pm)
The Emerald Ballroom

Boots and Cigars Party

Saturday, 11:30pm – 2:00am
Seventh Floor Suite, Room 708

It's a hot smoky party IMsL-style with cute bootblacks, hot boots and hotter ash. Our exclusive and very private 7th floor Hospitality Suite and tented balcony belong just to us, our stompers and our smoke. Ahhhhhh.

Brunch

Sunday, 10:30am – 12:00pm
The Emerald Ballroom

We know you’ll be up late Saturday night doin’ your thing, so instead of Early Bird Breakfast we serve Brunch. You can show up early to see a fantastic slideshow of the weekend's events, courtesy of Rich Trove. Or, grab your seat first thing and scarf down all that is breakfast buffet goodness while it's still steamin' hot. We’ll meet the new IMsL and IMsBB and wish them well, laugh a little with Skeeter our Brunch emcee and listen to a powerful Keynote Speaker. It’s worth hauling yer butt out of bed for, we promise – and yes, we’ll have both specialty cocktails and coffeeeeeeeeee.

Keynote Speaker - Shine Louise Houston

Sunday, 10:30am – 12:00pm
The Emerald Ballroom

“There is power in creating images, and for a woman of color and a queer to take that power… I don’t find it exploitative; I think it’s necessary.”
-Shine Louise Houston
Director and Producer, Pink and White Productions

As the pioneering producer and director of Pink and White Productions, Shine has always had unique vision. Graduating from San Francisco Arts Institute with a Bachelors in Fine Art Film, her works have become the new gold standard of adult cinema. During a 5 year position at the women-owned, sex toy purveyor Good Vibrations, Shine recognized an underserved demand for authentic woman and queer made porn. Shine’s films have been recognized as the next big wave of women produced porn and have been internationally screened from Berlin to New Zealand.

Dedicated to producing sexy and exciting images that reflect today’s blurred gender lines and fluid sexualities, Pink and White Productions creates porn that exposes the complexities of queer sexual desire. After achieving international acclaim and winning the First Annual Feminist Porn Awards’ Hottest Dyke Sex Scene, Pink and White Productions continues to advance the world of adult entertainment with its newly released Crash Pad Series.

Step into the steamy world of butches, bois, femmes, transfolk and more as you get a first hand look at what goes on behind the closed doors of the notorious hot bed of queer sex in The Crash Pad Series. With so much focused placed on the authentic passion between two (or more) bodies, it’s no wonder why people can’t stop talking about The Crash Pad Series. Pink and White Productions takes pride in offering some of the most diverse and alluring representations of the erotic body.

BIGGER AND BETTER SLUT! with Dossie Easton (& Janet W. Hardy, maybe)

Sunday, 12:30pm – 2:30pm
Seventh Floor Suite, Room 708

Come celebrate the spanking new edition of Ethical Slut, revised, expanded (25% sluttier!) and with exercise for you to develop your slut muscles. Dossie (and Janet, maybe) will talk about their new work and host a discussion of the joys and dilemmas of being a big old Slut. Advance copies of Ethical Slut the Second will be available for purchase and to be signed by the authors.

Wind Down Party

Sunday, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
The Eagle Tavern

To wind down San Francisco-style, come bid IMsL Weekend adieu with us at the bar local leatherfolk call home - we like to call it The Eagle Tavern. A short cab hop away from the host hotel, join us at this infamous SF institution before we say "See You Next Year!"

AfterGlow Party

Sunday, 10:00pm – 1:00am
Seventh Floor Suite, Room 708

Last year’s party saw new hook-ups, raunchy story telling and even a self-fisting demo. Stay. Just one more night.