Posted in Leather Community South of Market Street Fairs

History of the Folsom Street Fair

The Folsom Street Fair has grown into the largest annual BDSM, leather, and fetish event in the world, and the third largest annual outdoor event…

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Posted in Drag Community LGBT Activitists LGBT Entertainers North Beach

José Sarria (1922/1923 – 2013)

José Julio Sarria was born on December 12 in either 1922 or 1923 in San Francisco, raised primarily by a single mother. Following his service in…

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Posted in Leather Community Sexual Liberation

Origins of the hanky code

In the early 1970s, some gay men — particularly in the leather scene — began to wear colorful handkerchiefs to signal their sexual interests (e.g.,…

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