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Membership
Membership Levels Alpha (full) membership is open to masculine gender outlaws who are not full members of any other batch patch L/LC, MC or bear club. If you are interested in pledgeing into the club, and becoming an Alpha member, you must attend two national meetings within eighteen months. One meeting is to establish a relationship with the club, and for us to get to know each other. The second is hopefully when you will get patched into the club. The club reserves the right to shorten, extend and/or terminate pledgeships if it so chooses. Beta (associate) membership is open to anyone trans or non-trans who wishes to show support for masculine gender outlaws in the leather community.
Dues & Fees Dues for Alpha members are $50 a year payable at the annual meeting. Dues for Beta members are a one time payment of $25, payable when tendering their application. An application fee of $15 is payable by all prospective Cubs when tendering theitr application. Dues for Cubs are $25 a year payable at the annual meeting.
Interested in becoming a Cub? Please read the following: La Garou is always interested in talking to people about possible membership. It is true that we restrict full membership to masculine gender outlaws. Anyone born female or born intersexed and raised female, but identifies as either a man or has a masculine gender identity and whose daily life is lived that way, is welcome to talk to us about becoming a cub. We would like to ask people who have just begun their gender journey that you refrain from adding the pressure of being a Cub into that mix. We believe that anyone who has just started that journey needs time to settle into that identity and not have our process get in the way of any emotional upheavals that come from the newness of your journey. For those of you who feel comfortable, and have been on your gender journey long enough to be confident in it, we ask that you do some very specific things to become a Cub. The first thing to consider is that becoming a Cub means that you have a desire to be in service to the La Garou, have a desire to be an active member in the leather community, and that volunteering and social interaction are highly interesting to you. If you have established that what was in the above paragraph fits your interests and desires, then you can consider taking the next steps. Joining our Yahoo! group and joining our Fetlife group will help you get connected to the club. You can then read past discussions, ask questions, and find out more about the La Garou and the people who support the club. The next thing you can do is email us at LaGarou@hotmail.com, and let us know that you would like to become a Cub. If we receive an letter of intent from you, you should be prepared to have phone conversations as well as receive emails from anyone who is a full member of the club. As is stated above, you must attend a national meeting for the club to be put under consideration to become a Cub. Then you have to attend a subsequent meeting to finish the pledge process and receive your backpatch. We are a live, real time group. You should see this as a process of becoming a more active member of the leather community. If you get accepted as a Cub your pledge process will be similar to other pledges, but it is highly unlikely likely that any two pledge processes will be exactly the same. We treat people as individuals and know that not everyone has the same opportunities in every area. If there is no leather bar in your town or if there is not much of a leather community, your process would be different from someone in an area with a leather bar and several healthy clubs. We want everyone to understand that pledge processes are not like getting a job or a degree; there is no set process, and what it again boils down to is your interest to be an active member in the leather community.
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If you are interested in joining La Garou, you can find the application here.
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