V. M. Johnson, also known as Viola Johnson, born in 1950, is a
leatherwoman, leather activist and author.[1][2][3][4]
Life
Johnson claims that when she was seventeen years old a vampire gave her some of his own blood to drink and thus she became a vampire.[3]
In the early 1970s, she joined the
BDSM and
leather scenes.[1] In 1988, she became an honorary member of Tulsa Uniform Leather Seekers Association (T.U.L.S.A).[5] In 2005, she started The Carter/Johnson Library & Collection, a "collection of thousands of books, magazines, posters, art, club and event pins, newspapers, event programs and ephemera showing leather,
fetish,
S/M erotic history".[6]
She was a judge for many leather-related contests, including Ms. World Leather.[1][7]
She is on the board of governors for the Leather Hall of Fame.[8]
1995: Pantheon of Leather Lifetime Achievement Award[11] (Johnson was the first person to receive the
National Leather Association Lifetime Achievement Award and the Pantheon of Leather Lifetime Achievement Award in the same year.)[12]
1998: Pantheon of Leather Couple of the Year award (shared with Jill Carter and Queen Cougar)[13]
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