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Men wearing leather clothing at the Fair, 2007. The first proto-leather bar in San Francisco was the Sailor Boy Tavern, which opened in 1938 near the Embarcadero YMCA and catered to U.S. Navy Sailors looking for same-sex sexual encounters. [8] Folsom Street has been the center of San Francisco's men's leather community since the mid-1960s.
This is a list of festivals and fairs in the San Francisco Bay Area, both ongoing and defunct. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Since 1984, the street has been home to the Folsom Street Fair, an annual BDSM and leather subculture street fair held in September in the South of Market portion of Folsom Street, which, from approximately 1975–84, was the center of San Francisco's gay and lesbian BDSM community. [1]
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The Flower Market Fair for 2011 was held in late January; this view, south along Grant from the intersection with Jackson, shows typical crowds. The weekend before Chinese New Year Day, a Lunar New Year Fair takes place in San Francisco's Chinatown. Vendors line the streets and sell goods including traditional flowers, plants, fruits and ...
The Tool Box was a leather bar for gay men in San Francisco that operated from 1962 to 1971 on the east corner of 4th Street and Harrison Street. [1] It was the first leather bar in the South of Market, [2] and a meeting spot where influential personalities of the early San Francisco leather scene gathered.
A bondage demonstration involving a clothespin zipper at Up Your Alley Fair. The Up Your Alley Fair, most commonly referred to by locals as Dore Alley Fair or simply Dore Alley / ˈ d ɔːr i /, is a leather and fetish event held in San Francisco, California, on the last Sunday of July on Folsom Street between 9th and 10th Streets and on Dore Street from Howard Street to half a block southeast ...
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