Harvey John "Jack" McGeorge II (September 29, 1949 – August 18, 2009) was a Marine, a

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Specialist, and a munitions analyst for the

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Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (

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), as well as being a frequently recognized regional leader for

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advocacy and education. In 2000, on the strength of his published work and demonstrated expertise, McGeorge was offered the opportunity to defend his knowledge of the weaponization of biological and chemical agents before a panel of the Academic Council of the State Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology in

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, for which he was awarded an

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. He was a founder of Black Rose, an officer of th
Leather Leadership Conference
a Director of the

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, and a Chairman of th
Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities
McGeorge died in August 2009 as a complication of

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Controversy

Over Thanksgiving weekend, 2002, an article in the ''

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'' publicly highlighted McGeorge's leadership in the

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and

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community. McGeorge had made no attempt to conceal his involvement in the BDSM and leather lifestyles; his full name appeared prominently on websites, and he said as much to the Post and other media. He did, however, offer his resignation to

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, hoping to preserve the credibility of his organization (the

Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, called

) before the weapons inspections in Iraq. Blix refused to accept McGeorge's resignation. Later, Hua Jiang, spokeswoman for U.N. Secretary General

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, said that being into BDSM was no more likely to be a cross-cultural problem in the Middle East than any number of other issues.

Recognition

In 1998 and 2000 McGeorge received the Mid-Atlantic Regional Award as part of the

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; in 2000 he tied for that award with Jonathan Krall. Th
Pantheon of Leather
named McGeorge their Man of the Year in 2004. In 2009 McGeorge posthumously received the first Master Jack McGeorge Excellence in Education Award from the Master/slave Conference. In 2021 McGeorge was inducted into the Leather Hall of Fame. The

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gave him their Centurion Award. Black Rose established The Jack McGeorge Excellence in Education Award, to recognize "an individual who has consistently provided exemplary educational service to, and for, the betterment of Black Rose, its members, and the greater national community over a number of years." The Leather Leadership Conference established the Jack McGeorge Scholarship.

References

External links

''A taste of the whip for Saddam.''
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''No Apologies: The Story Of Jack McGeorge.''

''Pleasure, Pain, and Saddam Hussein. A meditation on recreational violence.''

ther Leadership Conference Seven Presentation by Jack McGeorge. (via Archive.org)
''Public Safety Group.''
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