Race Bannon

Race Bannon is a veteran organizer, writer, educator, speaker, and activist in the LGBTQ, leather/kink, polyamory, and HIV/STI prevention realms since 1973. He has authored two books, been published extensively, and spoken to hundreds of audiences. Race created the world’s largest kink-friendly psychotherapist and medical referral service, and led The DSM Project that helped change how psychotherapy viewed BDSM. Race also founded a groundbreaking alternative sexuality book publishing
company, was an internet radio sex talk show host, received numerous national and local awards, has appeared in numerous documentaries, is a cast member of the On Guard Cigar Salon podcast, and currently writes on various platforms.