Arts & Entertainment Sunday’s Folsom Street Fair Ropes In Brontez Purnell, More Bars Selling To-Go Alcohol, and a New Truck Stage You’re bound to have a ball at Sunday’s Folsom Street Fair, with more leather bars than ever selling to-go cocktails, Brontez Purnell headlining the main stage, and the former bar and now pop-up Truck rocking its own new disco/play space.
Arts & Entertainment Semi-NSFW Photos: Folsom Street Fair 2023 Bulges Back to Pre-Pandemic Volumes of Kinky Crowds Gorgeous weather welcomed the 40th Folsom Street Fair to South of Market Sunday, and the leather, furry, and fetish party whipped up a crowd of hundreds of thousands.
Arts & Entertainment Bearrison Street Fair Barrels Back on Saturday In SoMa Things are going to get hairy Saturday, as Harrison Street turns into a real bear trap for the second annual Bearrison Street Fair, with plenty of live wrestling and weightlifting, but perhaps not so much shirt-wearing.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Folsom Street Fair 2022 Draws Familiar Large Crowds and Uninhibited Displays For Folsom Street Fair's 39th year celebrating sex positivity and all things leather, tens of thousands of festival attendees crowd SF’s Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District Sunday for what felt like the first typical Folsom celebration since the pandemic began.
Arts & Entertainment Gigantic Weekend of Events Is Upon Us, With Street Closures Galore It’s the first ‘Everything’s happening this weekend’ weekend, with Folsom Street Fair, the Portola festival, a Cat Extravaganza, and that's just scratching the surface.
SF News SF Now Averaging 10 Monkeypox Cases Per Week; Vaccines Available at Folsom Street Fair We are now in the fourth month of the local monkeypox outbreak — now officially being referred to as MPX or "em-pox" — and the case numbers have leveled off considerably.
SF News Photos: Dore Alley 2022 Returns to Its Kinky Roots 37 years after the first Up Your Alley Fair — now more commonly known simply as “Dore Alley” — was held in SoMa, thousands of people again descended on the intersection of Folsom and Dore streets this past Sunday for the event’s famously sex-positive and kink-friendly atmosphere.
Arts & Entertainment NSFW Photos: 'Megahood2021' Was a Return to True Folsom Form and IRL Kink Thousands descended on SoMa Sunday for an in-person Folsom Street Fair — a.k.a. "Megahood2021" for this year — to celebrate leather, kink, and all things you probably don't want your mother to see about SF. The looks, as well, spanned all manner of excellence.
SF News Nonprofit Behind Folsom Street Fair To Open Sex-Positive Community Center in SoMa Folsom Street Events (FSE), the nonprofit behind the Folsom Street Fair, is expected to open a sex-positive community center at 145 9th Street in SoMa that will have a queer-focused library and archive, host shame-free, kink-friendly sex education classes, and much more.
Arts & Entertainment Your Folsom Street Fair Schedule and Lineup for Live Music, DJs, Performers, and Parties Folsom is all online this year, but if you ‘like to watch,’ here’s Sunday's full, detailed, all-day schedule of live performers, DJs, scenes, and after-parties that you just can’t beat.
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho Announced as Host of Virtual Folsom Street Fair Amid a year of postponements and cancellations, it was relieving news when organizers of the 2020 Folsom Street Fair announced in April that this year’s happening would morph into an entirely digital event — one which will now be hosted by author-actor-comedian-extraordinaire Margaret Cho.
Arts & Entertainment Folsom Street Fair and Up Your Alley Will Be Held Virtually for 2020 It's official: Up Your Alley and Folsom Street Fair will continue on as digital events this year, with plans underway to champion each happening's celebrated sex-positivity and sense of community — from behind a screen.
Arts & Entertainment Folsom In Photos: A Mostly SFW Look At 2019's Big Kink and Leather Fair An estimated 300,000 kink enthusiasts inundated 13 city blocks of SOMA yesterday afternoon and evening, participating in the largest leather celebration of its kind anywhere in the world — the 36th annual Folsom Street Fair.
Arts & Entertainment Your Quick and Dirty Guide To The 2019 Folsom Street Fair The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence dispute has been resolved, the heat wave is expected to break, and we’ve got a package of tips to help you master Sunday’s Folsom Street Fair.
Arts & Entertainment Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Dispute With Folsom Street Fair Could Untie Their Historic Bond The Sisters’ longtime habit of collecting donations at the Folsom Street Fair gates may be coming to an end, amid a disagreement over the allocation of charity funds and how volunteer shifts are managed.
Arts & Entertainment How The Gay Street Fair Known As Dore Alley Became The Warm-Up For Folsom In addition to this weekend being the famous Gilroy Garlic Festival down south, in SoMa this is the weekend for the Up Your Alley street fair more commonly referred to as "Dore Alley."
Arts & Entertainment [NSFW] Photos: Fetishy Fashions From The 2017 Folsom Street Fair Folsom Street Fair revelers were greeted with a warm and sunny day Sunday all the better for showing more skin and trotting out their leather and fetish finery in the daylight. What began
Arts & Entertainment #TBT: The First Folsom Street Fair, Way Back In 1984 The world’s most gigantic kinky leather event, Folsom Street Fair, is set to draw some 400,000 leather revelers and gawkers again this Sunday, and is now established as California’s third-largest
Arts & Entertainment A (Mostly) Gay Guide To Folsom Street Fair Weekend Parties It's time again for the city to fill up with tourists, not of the conventioneer and Alcatraz sweatshirt-buying kind, but of the latex bodysuit and leather chaps-wearing kind and it's the annual time
Arts & Entertainment Facebook Censors Reject Completely Tame Folsom Street Fair Ad, Then Reverse Themselves Some more anti-Facebook LGBTQ outrage erupted late last week when the GLBT Historical Society had a totally safe-for-work, entirely tame ad they wanted to post seeking volunteers for their booth at this weekend's
SF News Folsom Street Fair 'Ask First' Campaign Rankles Some Photographers On the Saturday morning before this year’s Folsom Street Fair, while most of us were still blacking our boots or rigging our pony carts, a social media skirmish broke out regarding the
Arts & Entertainment The Naked And Unafraid: NSFW Scenes From Folsom Street Fair 2016 Sunday's 33rd annual Folsom Street Fair was at least 300,000 people strong according to organizers, and locals and fetish tourists alike flocked to SoMa to take in the sunny spectacle and brave
Arts & Entertainment SFist's Annual First-Timer's Guide To Folsom Street Fair Weekend, With Event Suggestions The gay community's and the local fetish community's high holidays are upon us this weekend with 33rd annual Folsom Street Fair. Though it was originally a very gay male event and continues to
Arts & Entertainment Photos: NSFW Scenes From Folsom Street Fair 2015 Folsom Street Fair weekend just wrapped up a few hours ago for those who attended the big unofficial afterparty known Real Bad at 1015 Folsom, or for those who went to after-afterparties and
Arts & Entertainment SFist's First-Timer's Guide To Folsom Street Fair Weekend 2015 As some in the local gay community call it, Folsom Street Fair weekend is the "high holidays," whereas Pride weekend is just "the holidays." And the high holidays are upon us once more.
