Jack McGeorge


Harvey John "Jack" McGeorge II was a Marine, a Secret Service Specialist, and a munitions analyst for the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, as well as being a frequently recognized regional leader for BDSM 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 Moscow, for which he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree.
He was a founder of Black Rose, an officer of the , a Director of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, and a Chairman of the .
McGeorge died in August 2009 as a complication of open heart surgery.

Controversy

Over Thanksgiving weekend, 2002, an article in the Washington Post publicly highlighted McGeorge's leadership in the Washington, DC BDSM and leather 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 Hans Blix, hoping to preserve the credibility of his organization before the weapons inspections in Iraq. Blix refused to accept McGeorge's resignation.
Later, Hua Jiang, spokeswoman for U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, 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

The 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.
The Leather Archives and Museum 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.