{"id":11590,"date":"2017-05-04T19:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkmince.com\/mood\/2017\/05\/04\/leatherarchives-our-countdown-to-international\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T06:27:10","slug":"leatherarchives-our-countdown-to-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/04\/leatherarchives-our-countdown-to-international\/","title":{"rendered":"IML 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"716\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tumblr_opdrdkPehz1r5cmcjo1_1280-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tumblr_opdrdkPehz1r5cmcjo1_1280-1.jpg 716w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/tumblr_opdrdkPehz1r5cmcjo1_1280-1-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/leatherarchives.tumblr.com\/post\/160264769927\/our-countdown-to-international-mr-leather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leatherarchives<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our countdown to International Mr. Leather continues with 1980<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having started late in the first year, there was a determination not to get off to a late start in 1980. \u201cWhat if we\u2026\u201d conversations were all around, but the hardest thing was the realization that the first IML had been a smashing success. What do you do, Chuck and Dom asked each other, to top that? What do we do to improve on it? On top of such \u201cgotta succeed\u201d feelings, they had to deal with the fact that Patrick Batt, the Gold Coast manager in 1979 who had been the go-to man and the get-it-done guy, was no longer on the team. He had gotten into a disagreement with Chuck over an incident at the bar. The result for him was that he was free to attend IML without having to do anything. For IML, it meant rethinking, reinventing and finding new ways. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/International-Mr-Leather-Inc-220555721291160\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Mr. Leather, Inc.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>leatherarchives: Our countdown to International Mr. Leather continues with 1980 Having started late in the first year, there was a determination not to get off to a late start in 1980. \u201cWhat if we\u2026\u201d conversations were all around, but the hardest thing was the realization that the first IML had been a smashing success. What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/04\/leatherarchives-our-countdown-to-international\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IML 1980&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71515,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions\/71515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}