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The next Community Meetings to discuss the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District are set for Wednesdays, August 15, September 19, October 17, November 14, and December 19, 2018, at 6:30 pm, at SF Catalyst, 1060 Folsom Street.

Click the button below to add the August 15 event to your Google Calendar:

The minutes of the meeting of July 18 will be available soon.  The video livestream of the meeting can be viewed here.

 

The district-wide party to celebrate our victory and the creation of the Leather Cultural District will happen on Tuesday evening, June 12, 2018.

• The festivities will begin with a “meet and greet” at Mr. S. Leather at 6:00 pm.  Expect some nice nibbles!
• At 7:00 pm we gather at The Stud for formal welcomes and a symbolic ribbon-cutting ceremony.
• From 8:00 to 9:00 pm, celebrants will disperse to all their favorite Leathertown venues, including the Lone Star Saloon, Powerhouse Bar, the Hole in the Wall Saloon, the Oasis, and several others. Some folks may try to “crawl’ to all locations, but each venue will be offering us their own style of welcome and refreshment, so hit as many as you can, and then
• At 9:00 pm, we all reconvene at the SF Eagle for a Champagne Toast, cake-cutting, and further festivities.

Wear your leather or gear if you can.

Please check out the Facebook Event here.  Let us know you plan to attend.  Share it in your timeline or Group page; invite your FB Friends, talk about it with your RL Friends, etc….

Volunteers will be needed, both to help with preparations and on the evening.  Please contact Steve if you want to help, or have any questions.  Donations to help defray party costs can be made c/o the San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance.

Note that we have two versions of our event poster, shown below.  Feel free to share whichever and wherever you like!

 

(A high-resolution PDF version is available for printing here.)

As you may have heard, our District has been granted a free G-Suite account. (Thanks again go to our friends at the Leather Alliance for helping make this happen.)

Our G-Suite includes a full gmail services (with up to 500 email accounts for your.name@sflcd.org), a secure site for our documents (Google Drive), and many other collaboration and productivity apps.

We urge you to get started with our new GSuite as soon as possible.  Yes, having yet another separate email account to check can be a nuisance, but we will do our best to make it easy and painless for you. Note that folks will still be able to see meeting announcements and view linked documents on this Web site, but only GSuite users will be able to easily create new documents, or find older shared documents in their own Goggle Drive. So, how to proceed?  First, send an email to outreach-chair@sflcd.org, requesting a GSuite account and telling us the name you would like to use.  By default, email addresses will be set up as firstname.lastname@sflcd.org, but if you have a preferred handle (something that you are actually known by), we are happy to set you up as preferredname@sflcd.org instead. We will reply to your email request with an email from “The G Suite Team” with a “reset password” link — click on the link to set your password and you’re in! You will want to set up the new account on your computer and/or your phone.  Most folks will want to simply browse to “mail.google.com“, but any email program should allow you to add a “gmail” type of account.  If you already use Gmail, click on the image in the upper right and then on “Add account”.  All you should need is your sflcd.org address and your new password. Adding us on your phone can sometimes be trickier.  We recommend that you add the new account as an account on the phone — not just as another account within your email app.  (This may make it easier for you to add the Google Drive and other apps as needed.)  Just add it as a “Google” type of account.  You should not be required to make any security changes to your phone or create a “workspace” for it. If the idea of actually having an extra email account to check bothers you, just log into it once, and choose Settings | All Settings | “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” and “Add a forwarding address” to send all future incoming email to your primary email account. Documents! Next, if you don’t already have Google Drive working on both your computer and smartphone, we would strongly encourage installing it.  If you already have it, you will need to launch it and then click on the icon in the upper right and change to (or add) the new GSuite account.  We will be sharing new documents with you through your sflcd.org identity, so look for these files in the “Shared with me” folder, and if you don’t see them, double-check that you are logged into the GSuite account. That should get you started.  Please do let us know if you have problems using any of this stuff.  We aren’t exactly the Tech Squad, but we would happy to help.  You can reach us at help@sflcd.org, or david.hyman@sflcd.org.

Just to get things started, here are a couple of articles regarding the proposed district:

http://www.sfweekly.com/culture/feature-culture/folsom-and-jetsam/

http://hoodline.com/2017/09/lgbqt-leather-cultural-district-proposed-for-soma

As I understand it, the original resolution is #171019, introduced 9/19/2017, sponsored by Jane Kim and Jeff Sheehy, titled “Resolution establishing the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Leather Cultural District with the intent of commemorating historical sites, preserving existing spaces, and planning for thriving and vibrant communities that are LGBTQ and Leather affirming.”  You can read the original text of it here.

Our Committees have been making recommendations for changes to the resolution; the latest text reflecting those changes can be found here.

On 9/26/17 it was “referred to the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, Historic Preservation Commission, and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development for informational purposes.” and is currently “Pending Committee Action”.  You can read about that here:

You can follow the progress of this resolution (I believe) here.