The Weekend Catch-Up: San Francisco’s 2023 Folsom Street Fair Descends on the City
Hundreds of thousands of sex-positive bipeds walked San Francisco's SoMa district in leather regalia (or, basically, nothing at all) this past Sunday during SF's 40th Folsom Street Fair festival.
Now in its 40th iteration, San Francisco’s foremost sex-positive festival — which is also the largest leather, kink, and fetish event in the entire world — defined the weekend. An estimated 250,000 kinksters flocked to the SoMa, where all sorts of shenanigans, debauchery, and queerness intersected for the annual festival.
Folsom Street Fair has never been an event for the narrow-minded or unexplored. As one wades through a sea of warm bodies, the unmistakable smell of sun-warmed leather and musk permeates the air, bumps into leashed pups, and angle feathers made from cowhide occur. Permitt...