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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.
The Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco; Russell City Blues Festival; San Francisco Blues Festival; San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade; San Francisco Jazz Festival; San Francisco LovEvolution; San Francisco Juneteenth Festival [2] San Francisco Marathon; San Francisco Pop Festival; San Francisco Pride; San Jose Holiday Parade ...
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 San Francisco South of Market Leather History Alley consists of four works of art along Ringold Alley honoring leather culture; it opened in 2017. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] One of the works of art is metal bootprints along the curb which honor 28 people (including Alan Selby , founder of the store Mr. S Leather and known as the "Mayor of Folsom Street ...
The LGBTQ and Leather Cultural District was created in South of Market, San Francisco in 2018. [67] It includes the San Francisco South of Market Leather History Alley, with four works of art, which opened in 2017. [68] [69] In 2024, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission voted to name a park at Natoma and 11th streets Rachele ...
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors established the district with legislation signed into law by the mayor on May 9, 2018. [1] [2] A ribbon cutting was held on June 12 that year [3] [4] [5] outside the Stud on 9th St. [6] [7] The area is bounded approximately by Howard St. on the northwest, 7th St. on the northeast, I-80 on the east and US ...
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 ...
Since 1969, China Books has sold over a million copies of the Little Red Book or Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong. At its peak before the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, China Books thrived with stores in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York and employed over 50 people. China Books was instrumental in providing books, newspapers ...