Guy Baldwin

Guy Baldwin (born 1946) is an American psychotherapist, author, and activist. He specializes in issues of particular relevance to the BDSM and leather communities, and is based in Los Angeles. Together with his then-partner, Race Bannon, he started the successful effort to de-classify kink as a psychiatric disorder in the 1980s in Los Angeles, California.

In 1982 Baldwin created a database of professionals who knew about and were not prejudiced against kink and BDSM, called the Kink Aware Professionals list (KAP list). It has been expanded and is now managed by the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom as the Kink And Polyamory Aware Professionals Directory.

Recognition In 1989, Baldwin held two leather titles: Mr. National Leather Association and International Mr. Leather. He is the first Mr. National Leather Association titleholder to also be International Mr. Leather at the same time.

In 2009, he was awarded the first Guy Baldwin Master/slave Heritage Award from the Master/slave Conference, an award which since then has been given by them almost every year.

In 2012, he was inducted into the Leather Hall of Fame.