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FOLSOM EUROPE

Folsom Europe is happening from August 27th–31st! For the first time, we’re shifting to August — just for one year. will return to September as usual. There are a few good reasons for the change, but let’s just state timing is everything. Hotel deals are already heating up, so grab yours now!

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As every year, we dropped our new pocket guide at Easter, kicking things off with a thrilling launch in Berlin. Packed with pages of essential info, it’s your ultimate companion to the Folsom Europe experience—events, parties, tips, and everything in between. Thousands of copies are already making their way around the globe.

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FOLSOM EUROPE would not exist without the awesome sustain of volunteers we have received since So who are these volunteers? You might be surprised…

This year at Folsom Europe, we raised an astonishing €70, (before taxes and fees) for various non-profit organizations. Your generosity helps us make a real impact in our community. Together, we’re changing lives—one don

The importance of Folsom Street Fair

I was wondering what you verb about the Folsom Street Equitable, the annual gay leather/fetish/BDSM street fair in San Francisco. Perform you think it is still a socially relevant display? Or do you think that in this time when we are fighting for civil rights and equality that it does more harm than good?

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I’m pretty sure that the Folsom Street Fair remains socially relevant—and highly so—to folks in the leather/fetish/BDSM scene in San Francisco. It’s also relevant to anyone who believes in freedom of sexual expression. (For an idea of what Folsom looks like, and to notice the scale of the thing, search for “Folsom Street Fair” on YouTube.)

And it’s important to emphasize that the Folsom Street Fair, which took place last weekend, isn’t exclusively gay. Thousands of straight kinksters attend every year. About the only difference between the straight attendees and the queer ones is that no one claims that the kinky straight people at Folsom make all heterosexuals everywhere see like sex-crazed sadomasochists.

Undercover Folsom Street

Description

On Folsom Street’s “Miracle Mile”, leather is always in. When the leather bar Tool Box opened in South of Market in , it attracted the attention of the entire nation, inspiring breathless media coverage of this wild new phenomenon. Folsom was a fertile ground for the secretive gay and leather bar community: as a vast warehouse district, it provided large spaces that were often deserted at night. It would become the site of countless successful and significant clubs, including the Caldron, Fe-Be’s and Slot.

Survey a collection of San Francisco’s longest-running LGBT establishments and identify what remains of one of the city’s most dynamic subcultures.

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Tour Length: Approximately /2 to 2 hours

On Sunday, LGBT folk — though primarily gay men in the leather community — will get over the two blocks of Folsom Street on either side of Dore Street, as adequately as the alley itself, for an afternoon of drinking, dancing, and open-air sexual deviance. Folsom Street Events bills the just as &#;Folsom Street Fair&#;s messy little brother,&#; and indeed in recent years it has tended to be a bit more sexually explicit and less tourist-friendly than the much larger Folsom Street Fair in September. &#;Up Your Alley® is only for real players – and not for the faint of heart – where leather daddies command the streets of San Francisco’s South of Market district,&#; the website reads.

Drawing about 15, people — compared to the , or more who attend Folsom — Dore Alley tends to feel like more of a community affair, and a (mostly) gay-male block party for both fetishists and local gawkers alike.

But the two fairs that occur eight weeks apart used to be two unaffiliated events, though Up Your Alley has always been the smaller and arguably dirtier of the two.