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Mister Leather Europe (MLE) is a pan European contest of leathermen held annually around October in Europe; it's organized by the ECMC, European Confederation of Motorsport Club, and hosted each year by a different member club[1].[2].

The first known contest was held in 1985 in Stockholm, Sweden; the winner was David Risenborough. [3].

MLE contestants must either be the winner of a local or regional ECMC club leather contest. Winners are usually sponsored to attend the International Mister Leather contest in Chicago the following May.

The current titleholder is Pieter Claeys[4] from the Netherlands.

MLE Contest format

The contest take place during the ECMC AGM, tha Annual General Meeting of ECMC clubs, hosted each year by a different club. The AGM weekend program schedules [5] [6]:

Friday:

  • welcome party (with contestants introduction);

Saturday

  • (afternoon) Conference of the ECMC clubs;
  • (night) Gala Dinner;
  • (night) Mister Leather Europe Contest;

Sunday

  • (morning) Farewell Brunch

Usually, as in 2008 and 2009[7], the contest is composed of two rounds:

1. On stage interview and appearance.

2. Fetish show

Scoring

Scoring varies from year to year and is decided by the host club.

Generally there is an aggregate score from the judges and the audience.

In 2010, the host club, Frankfurter Leder Club announced that "The Jury is composed of one judge from each Club sponsoring a Contestant, plus one judge of the FLC and the current president of the ECMC AGM. Each judge will vote for all the Contestants but not for the one sponsored by his own Club. The votes will range from 1 (lowest) to X (highest); X being the numbers of Contestants. The public vote by the audience will be publicly announced and counted twice. It will therefore range from 2 (lowest) to 2X (highest); X being the numbers of Contestants. The votes will be added to the score of the jury. In case of a tie, the Jury will vote again between the leading Contestants for the final ranking. In this case, the vote of the Jury will be exclusive and final and will not be subject to the audience judgement."[8]

MLE contest winners

MLE Year Date MLE winner Winner's preliminary title or sponsor Winner's city Field of contestants Contest's location Host Club
1985 ? David Risenborough [3] ? ? ? Stockholm, Sweden ?
1986 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
1987 ? Thomas Karasch[9] ? Hamburg, Germany ? ? ?
1988 ? Vincente Jimenez[9] ? Barcelona, Spain ? ? ?
1989 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
1990 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
1991 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
1992 ? A. J. Steigenberger [9] ? [? ? ? ?
1993 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
1994 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
1995 1995-11-05 Antonio Sanchez [10] ? Madrid, Spain ? Amsterdam, Netherlands MSC Amsterdam
1996 ? Dario van der Lundin Videla[11] ? ? ? Brussels, Belgium MSC Belgium [12]
1997 ? Stein Losnegaard[13] ? ? ? Manchester, England Manchester Super Chain, Motor Sports Club (MSC-MSC)[12]
1998 ? Rob Scheers[11] ? Antwerp, Belgium ? ? ?
1999 ? Peter Wallace[14] Mr. Leather SLM-Olso Göteborg, Sweden ? København, Denmark SLM Copenaghen
2000 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
2001 2001-10-06 Maurizio[15] Mr Leather Italy Varese, Italy ? Stuttgart ?
2002 ? Fernando Manzali[16][17] Mr. Leather Italy Mantova, Italy ? ? ?
2003 ? Saad Mr Baltic Battle Stockholm, Sweden ? MS Cap San Diego, Hamburg MSC Hamburg
2004 ? Roberto Menichetti ? ? ? ? ?
2005 ? Christian Roger ? ? ? ? ?
2006 ? Simen Enersen Mr Leather Denmark Aarhus, Denmark ? ? SLM Oslo
2007 2007-09-27 Martin Cedergren [18] Mr Baltic Battle Stockholm, Sweden 5 Gamla Tryckeriet, Stockholm SLM Stockholm
2008 2008-10-18 Ralf Lauritzen Rasmussen [19] Mr. Leather Denmark Copenhagen, Denmark 6 Universal Hall, Berlin BLF Berlin
2009 2009-10-03 Pieter Claeys [4] Mr. MS Amsterdam Amsterdam, the Netherlands 5 RistoTheatre, Rome Leather Club Roma
2010 2010-10-02 ? ? ? 9 Tanzhaus West, Frankfurt FLC Frankfurter Leder Club

The next contests are due to take place October 2010 in Frankfurt[6] and October 2011 in Copenhagen[20].

See also

References

  1. ^ "Hides Across the Water: The History of Western European Leather, in Leather Times. News from the Leather Archives and Museum, summer 2004, pag. 3" (PDF). LAM. Retrieved 2010-05-18. (in English)
  2. ^ "Ecmc official website". ECMC. Retrieved 2010-05-18. (in English)
  3. ^ a b "Internationa Mister Leather Contestants by Year". IMRL. Retrieved 2010-05-18. (in English) - The 1985 contestant table reports David Risenborough as Mister Leather Europe organized by ECMC in Stockholm Cite error: The named reference "ECMC3" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b "Pieter from Holland is the Mister Leather Europe 2009". LeatherClubRoma. 2009-10-04. Retrieved 2010-04-28. (in English)
  5. ^ M. Fusillo, Le Ragioni del Cuoio (Leather explanations) in Pride, n. 123, September 2009 (in Italiana)
  6. ^ a b "AGM 2010". Frankfurter Leder Club. Retrieved 2010-04-28. (in English)
  7. ^ "Mister Leather Europe 2009 Gallery". LeatherClubRoma. 2009-10-04. Retrieved 2010-04-28. (in English)
  8. ^ "Mr. Leather Europe 2010 Application". Frankfurter Leder Club. 2010-09-02. Retrieved 2010-09-30. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help) (in English)
  9. ^ a b c "Hides Across the Water: The History of Western European Leather, in Leather Times - News from the Leather Archives & Museum, Summer 2004, pg.5" (PDF). LAM. Retrieved 2010-05-10. (in English) Cite error: The named reference "aj" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  10. ^ "Leather History Timeline (year 195)". LAM. Retrieved 2010-05-10. (in Englis)
  11. ^ a b "Hides Across the Water: The History of Western European Leather, in Leather Times - News from the Leather Archives & Museum, Summer 2004, pg.5" (PDF). LAM. Retrieved 2010-05-10. (in English)
  12. ^ a b "International Mister Leather Contestants by year (year 1998)". {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help); Text "http://www.imrl.com/history/viewyear.php" ignored (help) (in Englis) Cite error: The named reference "msc" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  13. ^ "Ny norsk seier i laerhomoEuropa (New Norwegian Victory in Mister Leather Europe)". 1999-09-07. Retrieved 2010-05-10. (in Norwegian)
  14. ^ "Ny norsk seier i laerhomoEuropa (New Norwegian Victory in Mister Leather Europe)". 1999-09-07. Retrieved 2010-05-10. (in Norwegian)
  15. ^ "The new Mr. Leather Europe is from Italy E' italiano il nuovo Mr. Leather Europe". gay.it. 2001-10-11. Retrieved 2010-05-17. (in Italian)
  16. ^ "IML Diary October 2003". pawscave. 2003-10-06. Retrieved 2010-05-17. (in English)
  17. ^ "Mr. Leather 2003 comes from London E' londinese Mr. Leather 2003". gay.it. 2003-05-27. Retrieved 2010-05-17. (in Italian)
  18. ^ "Martin valdes till Mr Leather Europe". QX.SE. 2007-10-01. Retrieved 2009-04-29. (in Swedish)
  19. ^ "Ralf blev Mr Leather Europe 2008". QX.SE. 2008-10-20. Retrieved 2009-04-16. (in Swedish)
  20. ^ "Ecmc Calendar". Ecmc. Retrieved 2010-04-28. (in English)
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