Folsom Street
Folsom Street in Downtown San Francisco. | |
Location | San Francisco, California |
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South end | Alemany Boulevard in Bernal Heights |
North end | The Embarcadero |
Folsom Street is a street in San Francisco which begins perpendicular to Alemany Boulevard in San Francisco's Bernal Heights district and ends perpendicular to the Embarcadero on the San Francisco Bay. For its southern half, Folsom Street runs north–south, but it turns northeasterly at 13th street. It runs through San Francisco's Bernal Heights district, Mission District, SoMa District, Yerba Buena District, and South Beach district.
When the Stud, along with Febe's, opened up on Folsom Street in 1966, other gay leather bars and establishments catering to this subculture followed, creating a foundation for the growing gay leather community.[citation needed]
Since 1984, the street is 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]
In 2008 and 2012, Folsom Street Events received the Large Nonprofit Organization of the Year award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards, although in 2012 it tied with Cleveland Leather Awareness Weekend. Then in 2015, Folsom Street Events received the Nonprofit Organization of the Year award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards.[2]
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") who were an important part of the leather communities of San Francisco.[4][3]
References
- ^ "Folsom Street Fair - Folsom Street Events - Leather events for good causes". Folsomstreetfair.com. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- ^ 🖉"Pantheon of Leather Awards All Time Recipients - The Leather Journal". www.theleatherjournal.com. Archived from the original on 2020-12-28. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
- ^ a b "Ringold Alley's Leather Memoir – Public Art and Architecture from Around the World". Archived from the original on 2018-06-23. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
- ^ a b Paull, Laura (21 June 2018). "Honoring gay leather culture with art installation in SoMa alleyway – J". Jweekly.com. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
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