Bill Hoeppner

International LeatherSIR Leather boy
      Community Bootblack Co-Executive Producer
Pantheon of Leather Man of the Year 2009

Bill became an associate member of The Philadelphians MC and at that time began his work as a volunteer for non-profit organizations, supporting the community through fund raising.

Bill was the Co-Founder of Positively Sober, a Ft. Lauderdale support group for sober people living with HIV/AIDS and in 2007 helped to create Clean Sober Leather (CSL), an online support group for sober leather men and woman struggling with staying sober today in the leather community.

He is a supporting member of The Leather Archives & Museum, Chicago, Illinois; he has served as President of the Board for Bound South, Inc., The Leather Masked Ball, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and is one of the founding members of the South Florida boys of Leather. He was honored to have received The Pantheon of Leather Man of the Year 2009 award and also to serve as a judge for International Mr. Leather 2011.

This journey has given him people he will always call friends and others who have become family.