Research Essay, Race Bannon

This assignment is not an essay, Master just wanted a brief overview (I have been assigned two names this week), the "short list" so to speak. I'm not sure if all of his accomplishments and history can be compiled into a short list and i would like to post personal interests and such as well if I can find them.

Race Bannon joined the gay leather community in 1973. He is a dominant male, and has been in a triad relationship for over 16 years. He loves rope and bondage and has written a bestseller on the topic, called Learning The Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun SM Lovemaking.  A lot of the classes that he teaches and information I've seen on the books he's written seem to be focused on teaching beginner skills or info. Also interesting to note is that his books are not solely for gay leather but for the pansexual community as well. (Which is awesome!) He has won numerous titles, taught hundreds of classes, written 2 books, changed the way the kinky community operates (DSM Project and the KAP Project), started a publishing company, and is currently a director or board member of several main groups, websites, and clubs. This guy is amazing.

I'mm going to try and put the accomplishments in chronological order, that should be a great picture!!

1973 Joined Gay Leather Community
1986ish Founded KAP (Kink Aware Professionals) (Directory) organized this list of kinky professionals that Guy Baldwin had started collecting.
1991 Southern California Master titleholder (along with Mike Pierce, as Southern California Master and slave 1991 contest winners).
1991 Southern California Regional Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award, 1991
1992  Wrote/Published  Learning The Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun SM Lovemaking
1992 - Founded and Edited Daedalus Publishing Company
1993 Southern California Regional Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award, 1993
- 1994 Led The DSM Project to change the way the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) categorizes it's definitions of mental illness in relation to kink  (can't find much on this group, surprisingly, as it was the subject I was the most interested in!)
1995 Large Nonprofit Organization of the Year Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award, The DSM Project (Race Bannon, Project Leader), 1995.
(Info hints sometime in the 90s) Co-Founder and Board member of National Leather Association Los Angeles.
2001 Deadalus Publishing Company was acquired by Overstock.com
2001 Featured in Out of the Darkness: The Reality of S&M A Documentary produced by Hardy Haberman
2005 Featured in Vice and Consent, a documentary Vice and Consent (winner of Best Documentary at the CineKink Film Festival in New York)
2005/ Jan 2006 Turned over KAP (Kink Aware Professionals) to NCSF National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
2006 National Leather Association International’s Lifetime Achievement Award 2006.
2010 Mister Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement Award (Man) Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award, 2010
2011 San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Philip M. Turner Lifetime Achievement Award 2011
2013 Received National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change 2013 Leather Leadership Award

Current 2013
Current Board of Directors member and Social Media Director for the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom.
Current Board of Directors Chair for Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities (CARAS).
Current member of Board of Governors for the Leather Hall of Fame.
Current Advisory Board member for The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance.
Current member of the Chicago Hellfire Club.

(Can't find a date: Website) Past Board member of National Leather Association International and Avatar Club Los Angeles.

(Can't find any info on this) Produced and Hosted  Bound To Talk (Kinky Internet Talk show)  
(Can't find a date or advice column) Written many articles on sexuality and a former sex advice columnist.

IMPORTANT notes of changes to DSM III - V on paraphilias



Resources Used:

http://bannon.com/bio/
http://bannon.com/kap/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus_Publishing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kink_Aware_Professionals
http://www.leatherati.com/2013/01/race-bannon-receives-leather-leadership-award/
http://www.daedaluspublishing.com/titles.htm
https://ncsfreedom.org/press/blog/item/ncsf-press-release-race-bannon-joins-ncsf-board-of-directors.html
http://67.159.222.79/interviews/racebannoninterview.htm
http://leatherhalloffame.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Leather_Association_International


With all the information I have on the subject, it maybe be prudent to write an essay on the changes in the past DSM books regarding sex, paraphilias, homosexuality etc. and how these are important and affect our day to day lives.