Author: Cal Callahan

Join us for our first Town Hall of 2026 on Sunday, March 15, from 12 to 2 pm at the Folsom Street Community Center, 1286 Folsom St.. We’ll review our accomplishments in 2025, listen to your feedback and get your input on the coming year. Let’s shape our kinky queer future together!

We exist to ensure there is a lively and vibrant home for our community of events, businesses, bars and organizations in SOMA.

Twice a year, we hold “Town Halls”, to share information with our community and get feedback.

• Learn what the Cultural District has been doing!
• Hear our plans for the year to come!
• Share your experiences and aspirations for the Cultural District!
• Discuss proposed San Francisco legislation to ban smoking in bar patios.
• Give us feedback.  Your opinions matter to us!
• Become a member and receive our new Cultural District Pin!
• Everyone welcome!
• Free!

Our communities need and deserve safe spaces to gather, shop and play, now more than ever, we intend to keep that alive in San Francisco!

• Our sixth commemorative sidewalk plaque was installed on Thursday, at 1015 Folsom Street.
• This site is home to the eponymous 1015 Folsom and formerly, was the site of Big Town, Sutro Bath House, and Colossus.

• This plaque joins five installed last August and officially unveiled by Supervisor Matt Dorsey during Leather Week.

(l-r) Former District Board Member David Hyman, DPW Project Manager Carol Huang, and SFMTA Public Relations Officer Bobby Lee.

• Many thanks to Carol Huang, Ruby Yu, and the DPW team for making this possible and for their work installing the plaque as part of the ongoing Folsom Streetscape project.

The last event of the season is Bearrison Street Fair on Saturday, October 18th and we are looking for more volunteers. The shifts are fairly short so that you can help out the District and still enjoy the fair before and/or after your shift. You can sign up using the Volunteer Form.

LeatherWalk 2025 took place on Sunday, September 21. Starting at City Hall, we made our way through SOMA with stops at Oasis, Powerhouse, Azucar Lounge, Hole in the Wall, Leather Etc, The Nosh Box, Decant Bottle and Wine Shop, The Stud, Mr S Leather (with a Blessing of the Leathers at the Ringold monument), and the Lone Star Saloon. We ended the Walk at SF Eagle’s Leather Pride Fest with the ceremonial Raising of the Leather Pride Flag.