[2][3] Slater's activism for women to be accepted within the gay leather scene in San Francisco during the late 1970s brought her to more mainstream attention.

[2] Slater hosted Society of Janus safety demonstrations during the late 1970s, cultivating a space for women within the 'plurality of gay men' already present within the leather/kink/fetish Venn-diagramatic culture.

[6] According to the Leather Hall of Fame biography of Slater, she said of the Society of Janus, According to first-hand accounts, she coined the term "SM 101", referring to the safety demonstrations and classes she presented.

[7] As well, in 1981 Slater and David Lourea "presented safer-sex education workshops in bathhouses and BDSM clubs in San Francisco.

[12] In 1989, she received the National Leather Association International’s Jan Lyon Award for Regional or Local Work.