Author: David Hyman

Kink Is My Superpower, a multi-media project from Divine Deviance, highlights the honesty, freedom, and strength of kinksters who have found our way out of the shadows and live proudly and openly.

They exist to help others tell their stories, share their experiences, and celebrate the superpowers they have discovered in kink, through films, books, calendars, and social media.

They are now developing an exciting book and documentary project about kink called Kink Is My Superpower.

These folks are inviting kinksters, whether of the 24/7 or occasional bedroom antics variety, to complete a very brief survey to help inform their project.

Click on “Take Survey” on their site, or go directly to the survey.

The San Francisco Leathermen’s Discussion Group has now finished accepting applications for its Mentoring Program.

Pups, kinksters, leather folks, gearheads, fetishists and others have explored and deepened their spicy side in a safe and trusted way with the Leathermen’s Discussion Group since 1996.

The mentoring program is for male-identified people to explore kink/fetish sexuality, community, and relationships, at any stage of their journey.

The mentoring program began with an orientation meeting in late January, will complete the matching process by mid-February, and will continue through September.

Learn more here.  You can also contact the Mentoring Program Director, Richard Sprott, if you have any particular questions.

Folsom Street – the organization that produces the Folsom Street Fair and the Up Your Alley Street Fair – is in the process of relocating its operations into a new facility.

The new Folsom Street Community Center will be located at 1286 Folsom Street, adjacent to the Azúcar Lounge, near 9th Street, right in the heart of the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District.

The new space is about 2500 square feet, slightly larger than their old digs on 9th Street.  The ground floor features a spacious central area with a handsome new floor, high ceilings, ADA facility, and a roll-up garage entry that can open directly onto the footprint of the Fairs.

Additional upstairs office space will be used by the Austin Law Group and TASHRA (The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance), providing for both the legal and mental health needs of our community.

The new space will be available for meetings, munches, parties, classes, and other events as soon as January, with a grand opening anticipated in mid-February.  Several organizations have already booked events there, including the Young Leathermen’s Discussion Group, the Society of Janus, Boba Munch,  the Yellow and Black Group, and the SF Canine Unit.

Our entire community welcomes this exciting addition to the Cultural District footprint.

The LetSync Study of the UC San Francisco Center for Aids Preventions Studies (CAPS) is a project being done to evaluate a mobile health intervention for couples living with HIV. They are looking for 110 couples throughout the U.S. where:

• At least one person is HIV+ and identifies as a racial/ethnic minority
• Both persons are 18+ y/o, assigned male at birth*,
• Both persons have a smartphone and valid phone #, and a valid U.S. mailing address.

* They are looking for cis men, trans women, and/or non-binary folks

The study goes for 8 months, and study visits are every 2 months over Zoom. Each member of the couple can earn up to $430 in incentives for completing online surveys, doing take-home dried blood spot (DBS) tests and urine dipstick test to measure ARV or PrEP adherence. There is also an Exit Interview when the study is complete.

If you are interested, please click here or scan the QR code above to take 2-min. screener!