More Kicks Than Pricks: A Dore Alley Preview

Attention all gays and super-fetishy others: It's Up Your Alley (a.k.a. Dore Alley) fair weekend, and despite threats of a police crackdown on nudity, we're pretty sure it's going to be as sleazy as ever. Fair organizers have promised a three-tiered disciplinary system when it comes to exposed genitalia and the like: First, a warning; second, an escort out of the fair grounds and a discount pass to Blow Buddies; third, you're handed over to the SFPD. Because of the threat of losing their license for next year's event, organizers are likely to be pretty strict with this, but if things get crowded one can imagine the rules will be difficult to enforce.

Demetri Moshoyanis of Folsom Street Events told the Bay Area Reporter that he's expecting attendance to be up this year, to 12,000, due to the prevalence of Californians vacationing closer to home in a bad economy. He may be right, since online ticket sales for the big parties of the weekend have already stopped, and sales are reportedly up 25%.