A very slick time at MIR 2012 in Chicago, IL.

This weekend in Chicago, Il, the Mr. International Rubber (MIR) competition and event turned 15 years old.  Fifteen years is a great milestone for any event in our community and I am so happy to see it prospering.  Not only was the event itself a huge success in attendance numbers, but also the people there were having the time of their lives.  The entire event was held at Chicago’s amazing LGBTQ center, The Center on Halstead in the heart of Boystown.  The Center not only houses an Internet Café and meeting rooms for those that need them, but also a full service gymnasium and theater style auditorium.  The MIR crew comes in every year and turns the entire gymnasium into one large Rubber & Kink playground for the attendees.  Including a huge vendor mart and demo area for Rubber bondage demos.

Friday evening kicked off with the “Greet the Meat” cocktail reception for everyone to get the chance to meet the judges and contestants that were going to be showing off for the weekend.  Then we all made our way into the auditorium to get the contest underway.  There were eight contestants this year from around the globe.  Longtime emcee, Eddie Hibbs (Disco-Eddie) kicked off the contest with an introduction of the contestants and a pop question.  Later in the evening this was followed by the much anticipated return of the “Wet Rubber Fantasy” section.  The crew brought out a fully functioning shower rig and the contestants re-enacted their fantasy under the “warm” water (Yeah, I’ve been in that rig – it aint that warm LOL) while Eddie read their written fantasy aloud.  There were certainly some of the fantasies that made me want to just rub one out I can assure you of that!

Saturday afternoon the contestants and judges began their interview process while upstairs in the gymnasium the kink continued.  Some awesome bondage demos were going on in the play area.  The Chicago Puppy Patrol hosted a great pup romp that was a lot of fun.  Mummified boys got drug around by their ankles like sleds LOL.  Everyone was certainly having a great time. 

For the first time the MIR crew put together some workshops for people to participate in.  I was very proud to have been asked to participate in a Panel discussion on “Building your Kink Community” alongside my great protégés Reid Dalgleish from Vancouver and Tynan Fox from Minneapolis.  To quote a dear friend from Atlanta “Holy crap when did I become one of the adults.”  A huge thanks to Topher for organizing this and letting me participate.

Saturday evening we kicked off the final part of the MIR 2012 contest with the always fun “Grab Bag” and on stage question.  The grab bag portion is where each contestant is given the chance to select a bag of unknown toys (combination from $1.00 store and vender mart) and has to use each of them on the demo bottom provided.  That poor boy was covered in everything from pudding to syrup to mustard, and had been violated with mousetraps, rubber bands, forceps, dog toys, etc.  He was having so much fun that he had a few “wardrobe malfunctions” during the evening and parts just kept popping out of his small rubber shorts WOOF!!!!  Never gotten that much of a show at a contest before.  There was even a game to guess how long it would take for a huge inflateable rubber suit to explode from being over-inflated LOL.

At the end of the night the new MIR 2012 and runner up’s were named as:
MIR 2012 – Si (Mr. Rubber UK)
First Runner Up – Richard (Mr. Rubber New England)
Second Runner Up – Gary (Mr. Toronto Rubber)

Great job to all eight contestants you each did a great job and I look forward to seeing what each and everyone of you do with the rest of your title year.

To Si, welcome to the International Titleholder Family, please let me know if you need anything at all, I am only a phone call, Facebook, Recon, Grindr, Scruff, or e-mail away LOL.

Now SIR Alan and I are headed back home to enjoy some time at home with slave scott for the next few days before heading off to Calgary Canada for the Western Canada LeatherSIR/boy contest later this month.  I’ve never been and I’m super excited!