Blog – Page 4 – LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District

August 18, 2025August 23, 2025

Board Elections Now in Progress

We are a membership organization; our members elect our Board of Directors and our President. Three Board seats (each for a three-year term) and the Board President (for a one-year term) are elected each year.

Nominations opened on July 9, 2025, and closed at 5:00 pm Pacific Time on Friday, August 8, 2025.

The election opened on Monday, August 11, 2025, and closed at 5:00 pm on Monday, August 18. Results will be formally announced at the Board meeting on Wednesday, August 20.

Being a Director of the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District means having a voice in the future of our South of Market neighborhood: helping it to thrive during current challenges and remain the vibrant, safe, and uniquely kinky space we all love and enjoy.

For more information, please review the full details on our Board Elections 2025 Information Page.

Nomination Form

August 16, 2025September 21, 2025

LeatherWalk is coming September 21!

LeatherWalk 2025
September 21 | City Hall to Eagle Plaza

Bring Your Kink. Step Out. Give Back.
OUR STREETS. OUR STORY. OUR STRENGTH

Mark your calendars! LeatherWalk 2025 is happening on September 21. Join us at 10:30 AM at City Hall as we step out for our community — from City Hall to Eagle Plaza.

This historic walk is a march for visibility and a District fundraiser, support your LEATHER District today!

August 13, 2025August 15, 2025

Sidewalk Plaques Start Arriving

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.

Ruby Yu and Carol Huang unveiling the plaque in front of Driftwood. Click for video.

David Hyman unveiling the plaque in front of Mark I. Chester’s studio. Click for video.

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.

Installing the plaque at Powerhouse. Click for video.

View additional images and video on Facebook.

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August 10, 2025November 19, 2025

Kink & Draw: Rope Bondage Edition

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