Welcome Gerry Ebert!

KNOTbound is enormously pleased to announce that Gerry Ebert has joined the organisation as a General Director on the Board of Directors. Gerry approached KNOTbound in November and after much discussion and an intense grilling by current members of the Board, Gerry was voted in unanimously and with much enthusiasm. He brings a wealth of skill and experience to the organisation, both in kink, from his experience running his own businesses and from managing others.

Gerry has proven himself a powerhouse in his previous work in our communities. As a founding member of Adelaide Leather & Fetish, in 2015 he helped create an organisation which single handedly revitalised the Leather and fetish community in South Australia. He was recognised as a dedicated Leatherman by the Adelaide community in 2016 when he won the first Mr Adelaide Leather title and by the wider Australian Leather community when he won the inaugural Australian Leatherman title in 2017. His platform was focused on putting South Australia back on the fetish map and bringing all of the Leather communities of Australia together. After completing his obligations as Mr Adelaide Leather 2016, he was nominated to be the president of Adelaide Leather & Fetish, and, with other pillars of the Australian Leather Community, helped create the first national Leather float for Mardi Gras 40.

In 2017 Gerry also competed at International Mr Leather 39, and created GEAR’D, Adelaide’s first dedicated leather and fetish weekend which is still running annually. Not wanting to rest on his accomplishments, he also helped create and run Dorothy’s Dungeon, a monthly camp fetish night for the Adelaide community. As a finishing touch to 2017u, Gerry was awarded the Most Popular Male in South Australia award. In March 2019 he was also nominated for the Hero Award at the Australian LGBTI Awards in Sydney. We are not surprised!

Gerry can be seen regularly at interstate fetish events where he continues to make his presence known. From judging at Corium in Brisbane, to helping out at APHC in Melbourne, to raising funds for charities like Beyond Blue, focussing on mental health issues in the LGBTI community, and using his own experiences to mentor, Gerry shows his commitment to helping our Leather and kink communities and people be the best that they can be.

As the KNOTbound Board welcomes Gerry to the organisation, we are confident that we will grow and thrive in new and exciting ways as he brings his skills, drive, ideas and commitment to our programs.

Keep watching this space. Exciting things are happening.