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Over the last two days, the first five sidewalk plaques in our Leather Legacy Landmarks project have been installed  on Folsom Street, between 7th and 9th Streets!

Our historians have identified 77 historic locations in SOMA where we plan to install sidewalk plaques.

 We need your help to fund these plaques, donations of any size can be made at: https://sflcd.org/plaques/

Plaque sponsorship is also available, which allows your name to be permanently on a plaque. 

A huge thank you goes to Bryan Dahl, aide to Supervisor Matt Dorsey, for his tireless efforts in seeing us through a three-year permitting process.

Thank you also to DPW’s Logan Hehn for finalizing our permits. We would like to thank DPW, and Ruby Yu and Carol Huang for all their work and for installing the plaques. DPW will be installing the first 16 plaques.

Here are the currently-installed locations:

• • 1225 Folsom Street, currently Driftwood, formerly the Ramrod, My Place, and Chaps II;
  • 1229 Folsom Street, site of Mark I. Chester’s Studio; 
  • 1250 Folsom Street, currently Mukunda Studio, formerly the headquarters of the National Leather Association.;
  • 1347 Folsom Street, currently Powerhouse, formerly the In-Between, the No Name, the Bolt, the Brig, and Powerhouse;
  • 1369 Folsom Street, currently the Hole in the Wall, formerly Folsom Street Club, Corn Holes, and Night Gallery.

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Kink & Draw: A quarterly event

Wednesday, December 3, 6-8 pm
Rope Bondage Edition

 

• Bringing together life drawing and queer subcultures.
• We’ll learn from special guests Ivy Limieux, Rumble, and Squeeks before embarking on a drawing session. 
• Unravel the rope bondage world & sketch from a bound model.
• This is knot your average drawing class!
• Bring your own supplies or use ours!
• 18+ only
• Wednesday, December 3 @6:00pm – 2 hours
• SOMArts: 934 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94103
• Register here
• $5 Registration fee

The annual Up Your Alley Street Fair was a great success, despite less-than-balmy temperatures. The LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District booth was nicely positioned, and got a great many visitors.

Our booth volunteers answered questions about the Cultural District, signed up folks for our mailing list, handed out 500 LeatherWalk postcards, and sold our classic pins and bandanas in lots of popular colors.  Our new t-shirt was on display, so folks could check it out our before ordering their own online.

Safety Blows distributed 443 whistles using our booth.  [For more info on the whistles and safety in SOMA, visit our Safety Resources page, or SafetyBlows.org.]

Thanks to all the volunteers who helped make it possible.  Happily, we had enough volunteers to allow them to take short shifts, so they could fully enjoy the Fair as well.  You can sign up to volunteer with us here.

 

Join the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District this Sunday at the Up Your Alley Fair! We have great stuff at our Gear Swap, early info about LeatherWalk 2025, and custom bandanas and pins.

You can also order our 2025 t-shirts.

We’re on Folsom Street, right across the street from the Hole in the Wall. See you then!