MR CHICAGO LEATHER 2025 CONTEST WEEKEND

Steven Crespo is Mr. Eagle Wilton Manors 2024, and the current IML 2024 first runner up. He was born and raised in Puerto Rico, and has lived in the USA for the past 28 years. He's a clinical genetics scientist, with a love for natural bodybuilding and antiques, and enjoys multiple kinks, like fisting, water sports, BDSM, pits, but electro really sparks his interest! Steven takes active part of local Leather dinner socials, Leather Cocktails events, and is part of the Fort Lauderdale Cigar Men Club. He creates fundraising events and volunteers for local LGBTQ+ organizations, the Florida AIDs walk, and is  working towards creating fetish awareness, and education to the local LatinX community, voter registration efforts, and give a voice to those  without power, our LGBTQ+ youth. Photo by Randy Addisson.

 The Goddess is an author, international educator, and covered Master with a quirky sense of humor. As International Ms. Leather 2024, the first BIPOC Ms.Texas Leather (2023), and second IMsL of Asian descent, she champions inclusion and activism. She served as Founding Board Member and past President of Onyx Pearls Lustre Southwest and Directrix of MAsT Austin, alongside her three devoted slaves. A proud member of the oldest BIPOC Matriarchal Leather family, she inspires through teachings on sustainable authority-imbalanced dynamics and navigating female-led relationships. The Goddess calls for unity, active voting, and collective action to protect and advance the rights of marginalized communities worldwide. musicians.

Vince Jay, Mr. Chicago Leather 2024, represents the leather community through volunteering, activism, and fundraising for non-profit organizations that ensure food security, housing, and medical access for individuals living with HIV/AIDS and those within the Trans & BIPOC communities.  In the last election cycle, Vince served as a Deputy Registrar, assisting citizens to register and vote in local and state elections. He has volunteered at the LA&M, and recently at Folsom Europe with other titleholders collecting donations to aid the Leather/Kink community abroad.

He is a Member of BLUF, Co-Founder of the private social Kink and Leather group The Loading Zone in Chicago, and is the founder of a local design and construction firm. He was a top 20 finisher at IML 46, has served as a Tallymaster for the Leatherman of Color 2024 contest, Judged for Mr. Eagle Wilton Manors 2024,, and will be judging Mister Colombia Leather 2025. Hobbies and interests include world travel, scuba diving, tattoos, fitness, cycling, and exploring wild places. Skills include cooking, welding, design, and foreign languages. Kinks and fetishes include bondage, ropes, boots, impact play, head shaving, group play, domination, uniforms, wrestling, and leather gear of many kinds.

Phobos is born to lead. With his military and correctional background, he is a strong believer in taking responsibility for your actions.  He was born and raised in Chicago Illinois, where he discovered, and became a part of the Leather and Kink community via his membership in ONYX.  He has held the national title of Leatherman of Color (2023), and is the Historian of ONYX Midwest (2023 - 2024).  Phobos also leads online discussions concerning mental, physical, and sexual health of members of the LGBT+ community while offering and encouraging free at-home STI testing kits.  Phobos looks forward to exploring more about his favorite hankies (Magenta and White), bondage, and watersports.  Phobos is an amateur tailor in leather and jocks while also building up his skills in creating media that expresses kink and fetish through dance.

Atlas (he/him) is a bootblack and leatherboi. He’s adopted from China, ethnically Vietnamese and Dai, raised in Chicagoland, polyamorous, queer, transmasc, and 100 pounds of pure muscle. He has a black belt in Shotokan karate; a B.A. in playwriting; and a minor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. After graduating college in NYC, he returned home to Chicago and dove into the Leather community boots first. Aside from bootblacking, he practices impact, rope, pet, little, knife, and needle play. He flags hunter green on the left in the streets and on the right in the sheets. Atlas has taught at the Galleria Domain 2, Twisted Tryst, and the Gerber/Hart Library. He is a proud member of the Leather Solidarity Collective, a national organization committed to celebrating POC Leatherpeople, social justice reform, and advocacy. You can find him every second Friday of the month, currently at the legendary Baton Show Lounge, as a Women, Trans, and Non-Binary Leather Bar Night house bootblack.

AmMar started his leather journey when he lived in Milan,Italy.  His first leather experience was at Milan’s leather bar “Company” when a guy dropped to his knees and started licking AmMar’s leather boots while jerking off. And at that moment AmMar got hooked. Moving to Chicago a couple of years later, AmMar found Touchè bar to be similar to Company in Milan. He felt home at Touchès leather scene and that encouraged him to compete for MCL 2009 and earring the title. And being a middle eastern who fled his county for being gay, AmMar helped other LGBTQ members from the Middle East finding safety by guiding them to the right way of living in and outside the Middle East. AmMar also recruited many leather guys  to compete for MCL and some of them earned the title as well.