Beyond Vanilla 35 LEGACTY Keynote Speaker
Mark Frazier has been involved in the Leather and Kink Lifestyle for over 4 decades.
He is passionate about his chosen lifestyle.
Mark considers himself an activist, historian, educator and practitioner of various BDSM techniques. In his 40+ years in the community, he has been honored to teach at over 800 events on 2000+ topics at local national and international events.
Mark has owned leather and gay nightclubs, been a Leather Titleholder, sat on the boards and maintained memberships on numerous local, regional, national, and international organizations.
He was the founder/owner of the Dallas Eagle, Dallas Woody’s, Discipline Corp Dallas, Flesh and Fantasy Weekend, SouthPlains Leatherfest / International M/s contest and was a previous owner of International LeatherSir, Leatherboy and Community Bootblack Event Contest Weekend.
He has produced events, such as Living in Leather, Southplains Leatherfest weekend including the International Master/slave Contest, The Mr. and Ms. Southplains Leather Contest, Gulf Coast Drummer and Southplains LeatherSir, Leatherboy and Community Bookblack Contests, International LeatherSir, Leatherboy and Community Bootblack Contests, Mr. and Ms. Texas Leather Contests, and The Mr. Dallas Eagle contest, just to mention a few.
In addition to producing, he has also judged many (many, many) local, regional, national, and international contests.
In 2000. Mark proudly participated in creating the Internationally known Documentary, “Out of the Darkness – The reality of SM” which has been used as a reference by universities in their human sexuality classes, referenced in child custody cases and as a tool to dispel the myths SM as a dysfunctional lifestyle.
As a recipient of numerous accolades and lifetime achievement awards, he continues to be involved while holding true to the ideas that one person can make a difference.
NLA Dallas holds a special place in Mark’s heart. He served a Co-Chair in 1991-92, Mr NLA-International in 1993 and President on NLA International in 1994-96. He is excited about returning to one of the places his organized journey began 36 years ago – NLA-Dallas and Beyond Vanilla
