Author: David Hyman

LeatherWalk returns on Sunday, September 19, as the traditional launch to San Francisco’s Leather Week.

Proudly produced by the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District, our queer and kinky communities will gather at 11 am on the Polk Street steps of City Hall, and parade through SOMA, visiting favorite neighborhood spots and watering holes, pausing for a moment of memory on Ringold Alley, and arriving at Eagle Plaza around 3 pm for a joyous Leather Pride Fest presented by the SF Eagle, to include a beer/soda bust benefitting Tenderloin Tessie, and the raising of our community’s grand new Leather Pride Flag. 

Volunteers are needed to help make LeatherWalk 2021 go smoothly.  For information, click here.

LeatherWalk has always been a major community fundraiser; this year it will benefit the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District, working to keep SOMA queer and kinky.  But LeatherWalk is 100% free,  and all are welcome! 

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The next meeting of the  Ad Hoc Gateway Committee, being chaired by the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District Vice-President, Bob Brown, will be scheduled soon.

The Cultural District has contracted with the respected Landscape Architect firm of Bionic to design something that could be erected on Folsom Street to visually represent the District, welcome visitors, and serve as a “placemaking” focal point for the neighborhood.  The Board has looked at their various proposed designs, and feels that additional information about the design features, and additional discussion and opinion sharing, is needed. This Committee will review and revise the specifications, arrange to meet with the landscape architects, and make recommendations to the Board. 

The public is welcome to attend the Committee’s meetings; people of who have expressed interest in the LCD Arts and Culture Committee in the past are particularly invited.

For more info, or to be notified when the next meeting is scheduled, please contact Committee Chair Bob Brown.

An entertaining and informative conversation called “B.A.R. Talks 5: Living in Leather” with Race Bannon, Scott Brogan, Gayle Rubin, Rich Stadtmiller, and Graylin Thornton, held online on September 2, 2021, can be viewed on the Bay Area Reporter’s Facebook page, or below.:

Representatives of the new owner of 729 Bush Street, the site of the now-closed Nob Hill Theater, will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, August 17th, from 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. to present draft plans for a proposed renovation of the building to create a surgical center with dwellings above, reaching a height of 50 feet. The façade of the existing building will be retained.

The public meeting is being held to showcase the history of the theater and solicit feedback from members of the public. 729 Bush Street housed the Nob Hill Theater, a prominent gay adult theater and gathering place from circa 1968 to 2018.

You can attend the meeting via Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86153240322 (or call +16699009128,,86153240322#), or view a copy of the presentation and submit comments at 729bush.com. All comments will be shared with the SF Planning Department, and considered as plans for the site are finalized.  Questions may also be sent to nobhilltheaterhistory@gmail.com.

A full press release about this can be viewed here.