Arts & Entertainment SoMa Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District Bars Get Their Zoning Restraints Loosened Leather bars on Folsom and 11th streets have been tied up by zoning rules that deny their entertainment permits because of an old “200-foot buffer” rule, but the SF Board of Supervisors removed those handcuffs Tuesday.
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 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 SoMa's Leather-Themed Eagle Plaza Breaks Ground on 12th Street The historically leather-bar-filled neighborhood of SoMa is finally getting its long-promised public park outside the Eagle Tavern. But it won't be done in time for Folsom Street Fair.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queen Wins Mr. SF Leather Title In a definite first, and a sign of the ongoing changing nature of the leather scene both here and elsewhere, the 2015 title of Mr. SF Leather was awarded on Saturday to Trevor
Arts & Entertainment SoMa To Get Leather-Themed Public Park? Apparently a plan has been taking shape for several months to install a parklet/plaza on the block of 12th Street outside the Eagle Tavern in SoMa that would recognize the neighborhood's history
