Kinky Holiday Market 2025!

December 13, 5pm-9pm, at SOMArts 934 Brannan St.

We’re back! Bringing our usual Kinky Holiday Market energy (featuring local kinky and queer vendors) into a District Night Market.

Followed by FESTIVE AS F*CK – a year-end revelry, in partnership with the SF Street Fair Coalition.

Vendors!  Entertainment!  Gear Swap!
Indoors!
 

      • Twisted WindowsAdmire Bondage performances. Plus DJs, and more
      • Naughty Santa – photo booth with Kinky Elves!
      • Gear Swap n ShopBrowse for gifts (maybe even for yourself) that you can’t get anywhere else.
      • Donate – used fetish gear/leather/toys to raise money for the District,
        • If you’ve got fetish gear/wear you’re not feeling it anymore, bring it!
      • Support the work of the Leather Cultural District with a donation
        • Suggested donation, $5-$10 (optional – market only)
        • Benefits the Leather District and SFSFC
      • The market is an adult, leather/kink community event produced by the world’s first and only LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District!
      • If you are interested in vending, please apply here.

Following our Kinky Holiday Market is FESTIVE AS F*CK – a year-end revelry, in partnership with the SF Street Fair Coalition (Folsom / Dore / Castro / Pride / Turnout).

    • Admire performances with Twisted Windows, local drag royalty, epic DJs, and so much more
    • Get a taste of each iconic street fair that makes up the Coalition while getting your gift shopping done
    • Some kinky market vendors (but not all) will stay until midnight
    • Parcel Check Available
    • Party Tickets  (available here) for the WHOLE party are sliding scale $75-150 and include an experience that’s like several of SF’s biggest and best street parties rolled into one!
    • Heads up – this is a non-smoking event for folks ages 18+(Market) / 21+(Party).
      • If you want to drink, please bring your valid ID.
      • While there’s no dress code, the bar will be serving and so should you!

Photos From LeatherWalk 2025

 

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.

Cemented in History

Sidewalk Plaque Unveiling

Tuesday, September 23, 6-7 pm
Hole in the Wall (1369 Folsom Street)
Powerhouse (1347 Folsom Street)
Driftwood (1225 Folsom Street)

The first five sidewalk plaques of our long-anticipated Leather Legacy Landmarks initiative commemorating historic sites in the Leather District were placed last month as part of the Folsom Streetscape Project.

Community members are invited to celebrate the unveiling at Cemented in History, a special event on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, at 6 PM. The event will start with remarks by Supervisor Matt Dorsey at the Hole in the Wall (1369 Folsom Street) for the first plaque unveiling. Unveilings at Powerhouse (1347 Folsom Street) and Driftwood (1225 Folsom Street) will follow.

Driftwood and Hole in the Wall will be open for socializing afterwards and Powerhouse will be celebrating their anniversary with a party beginning at 7 pm.

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