LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District

LCD: Erotic Storytelling Hour - Cats
2024-05-23 20:00 - 21:00, 2024-04-25 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District
San Francisco’s LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District
presents a special, 18+ only, online event:
The Erotic Storytelling Hour
Come hear some provocative, graphic, sexy, titillating, and funny stories (and more) from selected writers of our community!
Be 18+
Hosted by Sumiko Saulson, David Hyman, and Cal Callahan
Featuring:
Oak
Dominique Leslie
Michelle Renee Lane
Cornelius Belmont
Sam Schreiber
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86868208302?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 868 6820 8302
Password: [REDACTED]
Or call 1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose) and enter meeting ID: 856 5465 2578 and password: [REDACTED]
(Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcdjuCNy9C )
Want to be a reader for a future event? contact: manager@sflcd.org
The event is free; want to thank us? Donate at /donate/
Or become a member: https://join.sflcd.org/
Check out our Website: https://sfleatherdistrict.org

LCD: Arts and Culture Committee Meeting
2024-05-23 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-04-25 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-03-28 18:00 - 19:00
The LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District’s Arts and Culture Committee is dedicated to reactivating Folsom Street and environs as a cultural and community hub.
We are actively recruiting artists, both for murals, exhibits and other projects, and in leadership roles in our organization.
The meeting is free, and open to all.
Join with Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89554242702 or call 1 408 638 0968 and use Meeting ID: 895 5424 2702.
We hope you will join us!

LCD: Board of Directors Meeting
2024-05-22 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-04-17 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-03-20 18:00 - 19:00
Board of Directors Meeting
The meeting is free and all community members are welcome to attend.
Please join us remotely via Zoom:
http://us02web.zoom.us/j/84789060820?pwd=[REDACTED]
You can also call 1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) and use Meeting ID: 844 9193 7145 and Password: [REDACTED] (Or find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kl0fPTq3u)
Board meeting minutes will be available when they are approved at the following meeting.
For more info, visit http://www.sflcd.org.

Narcan Training & Overdose Prevention Workshop
2024-05-22 18:00 | SF Oasis
Overdose Prevention Training
Wednesday, May 22, 6-8pm
Oasis, 298 Eleventh Street
PLEASE REGISTER for this free event so we can prepare a test kit.
We invite you to join us for an Overdose Prevention Training by Kochina Rude sponsored by the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District. The training will include how to recognize the signs of a fentanyl overdose and how to properly use Naloxone (Narcan). There will be also be training on how to use fentanyl test strips. Each participant will receive a kit with two doses of Narcan and a supply of test strips.The evening will include food and a special performance by Ryan Patrick Welsh, star of “Sex, Camp, Rock ‘n’ Roll”. Admission is free but seating is limited. Please register to join us.Fentanyl overdoses have been at critical levels in San Francisco in the last few years. You can be prepared to save a life.
Oasis is 21+
This training is made possible by a generous grant from the Success Centers.

LCD: Board of Directors Meeting
2024-05-15 18:00 - 20:00 | 584 Castro St #140, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94114
Board of Directors Meeting
The meeting is free and all community members are welcome to attend.
Please join us remotely via Zoom:
http://us02web.zoom.us/j/84789060820…
You can also call 1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) and use Meeting ID: 844 9193 7145 and Password: [REDACTED] (Or find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kl0fPTq3u)
Board meeting minutes will be available after they are approved at the following meeting.
For more info, visit http://www.sflcd.org.

LCD: Land Use Committee Meeting
2024-05-13 18:30 - 19:30 | 584 Castro St #140, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94114
The Land Use Committee tracks changes to real estate in the District in order to mitigate the effects of development and gentrification.
Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85688294123
Meeting ID: 856 8829 4123
One tap mobile
+16694449171,,85688294123# US
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The Land Use Committee for the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District is interacting with city agencies, developers, and a range of governmental and non-governmental stakeholders, regarding a wide range of land use issues within the Cultural District in the South of Market neighborhood.
There are a wide range of opportunities for involvement, from being on call to show up at a meeting in City Hall, to critical negotiations with planners and developers.
While special skills in real estate or civic planning are great, anyone with an interest in the Cultural District is welcome to join.
For more information, please visit http://SFLCD.org, or contact land-use-chair@SFLCD.org.

LCD: Land Use Committee Meeting
2024-05-13 18:30 - 19:30, 2024-05-13 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-04-08 18:30 - 19:30, 2024-04-08 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-03-11 18:30 - 19:30 | LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District

Play on the Plaza - May: IMPACT Play & Flagging!
2024-05-11 12:00 - 17:00 | Eagle Plaza, 398 12th, San Francisco, CA
Join us at Play on the Plaza, coming in May! It’s a monthly, kink/leather/fetish, outdoor, play event hitting our streets in SOMA designed to ignite sparks in your life! Each month features a different BDSM, Kink, Leather or LGBTQ group on Eagle Plaza!
May Play: IMPACT Play & Flagging
IMPACT, May host: Ms SF Eagle Nunca Sola will be breaking in our public play space with puppy training.
Spanking benches and crosses available for signup.
Flagging led by Liam Ocean, from Flagging in the Park.
Music provided by our special guest DJ Paul Goodyear!
Kink/Leather Gear Swap: shop, consign or donate items.
And our Fetish Vendors for the Day:
ByrdBeaks
Cumply
Downtown Armor
GlamPunk Art
Gooch Photography
Leather Legends
Physique & Fantasy
Rose Glow
The Spooky Haus
Trans Art by Arien Reed
Wicked Grounds
Chair Yoga with Mukunda Studio
Legacy Tarot by Alexandria
Bootblack with boy zander
Live Portraits with Pup Jake
Learn all about the Ms SF Eagle Contest that’s happening on May 18th from current titleholder, Nunca Sola.
Vote for the Pride Leather Contingent Marshals at our Community Table in Eagle Plaza until 4 pm.
Flagging: Liam will enthrall us with spinning colorful flags! Bring your flags and join the fun. Loaner flags available to learn or improve your skills in this mastercraft! Take to the streets to create lively, colorful visuals releasing the energy of life, creativity, and unabashed joy!
Kink/Fetish Gear & Art: Find new gear or art from our vendors or gear swap. Be sure to wander further down our fair to visit our vendors and wellness corner!
This is a free kink/fetish community event produced by the world’s first and only LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District!
Our Mission
The LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District’s vision is to rejoice, commemorate, and protect the
contributions of our predecessors, contemporaries, and successors rooted in the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District and its diverse and marginalized peoples. United, we preserve, enhance, and advocate for the continuity and vitality of the Kinky and Queer communities of San Francisco’s Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District.
What do we do?
Keeping SOMA Kinky and Queer by lobbying city hall to allow bathhouses, installing public art like murals, activating community artists and performers, continuing economic development through the Entrepreneur Program, and producing walking tours.

Leather District: Communications Committee Meeting
2024-05-09 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-04-11 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-03-14 18:00 - 19:00 | LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District
The Communications Committee plans and guides the messaging and branding decisions for the District.
Join via Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84039453815
Join by phone:
1 669 900 6833
Meeting ID: 840 3945 3815
Please contact the committee chairperson, Bob Brown with any questions: bob.brown@sflcd.org

LCD: Diversity & Membership Committee Meeting
2024-05-02 18:00 - 19:00, 2024-04-04 18:00 - 19:00 | LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District
The Diversity & Membership Committee Meeting guides efforts to increase District membership with an emphasis on representing all members of our community.
First Thursdays at 6 pm PST
Join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87865884248
3 Functions of this Committee:
1. Membership drive and process
2. Diversity part I- outreach to groups and gain attendance from all clubs and groups within our community
3. Diversity part II- ensure our committees are functioning from a viewpoint of diversity in their structure and event planning.
Hope you can join us!

Golden Dildeaux Awards Ceremony
2024-04-27 18:00 - 20:00 | SF Eagle
First, you cast your favored individuals to be nominated for a coveted golden dildeaux. Then, you put your money where your mouths are by casting your votes at $1 each to support your nominees. Now, we’re ready to name the 25 lucky individuals who will be walking away with the golden “woodies” claiming their space in history. Featuring a special performance by Coco Buttah.
Who will it be? Who have YOU named as your big winners for the 2024 Golden Dildeaux Awards? Join us for an evening of laughter and hot performances as we cheer on all the nominees!
Favored Categories to watch: The TOP of Them All, Best Looking Ass in the Bay Area, Queerest of the Queers, Best Leather Fashionista, Horse Hung Stud, and so many more! It’s a night you’re not going to want to miss!
Website to Vote: https://sflcd.org/gda/
Performances: TBA
Proceeds of the Golden Dildeaux Award benefit events and programs of the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District.

LCD: Erotic Storytelling Hour - Golden Dildeaux Awards Edition
2024-04-24 20:00 - 21:00 | 584 Castro St #140, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94114
San Francisco’s LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District
presents a special, 18+ only, online event:
The Erotic Storytelling Hour
Tonight’s edition features nominees for the Golden Dildeaux Awards! You will be able to vote for them until 5 pm on Thursday, April 25, at https://sflcd.org/gda/votingballot.php
Be 18+
Hosted by Sumiko Saulson, David Hyman, and Cal Callahan
Featuring:
Ivy Limieux
Staci Everhart
David Hyman
Jessamy Barker
Sumiko Saulson
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86868208302…
Meeting ID: 868 6820 8302
Password: [REDACTED]
Or call 1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose) and enter meeting ID: 856 5465 2578 and password: [REDACTED]
(Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcdjuCNy9C )
Want to be a reader for a future event? contact: manager@sflcd.org
The event is free; want to thank us? Donate at /donate/
Or become a member: https://join.sflcd.org/
Check out our Website: https://sfleatherdistrict.org

Queer Third Spaces: Resurgence and Resilience
2024-04-21 17:00 | The STUD, 1123 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, US
The strength and solidarity of queer community deepens in the midst of local and global anxieties related to political and social destabilization, rapid technological reformulations, and post-pandemic economy. This is evident in the preponderance of third spaces surviving – and even new ones being established – for and by LGBTQ+ people. These spaces range from cafes and community centers, art galleries and performance venues, bars and clubs, parks and plazas. These places are the venues for community organizing, mutual aid, performing queer culture, socializing and building political capital. In conversation with a 2017 SFUFF Program on the demise of queer bars in the Mission District, this program will celebrate how LGBTQ+ communities work tirelessly in spite of structural forces to keep them and their allies oppressed.
Doors open at 5pm, and the program begins at 5:30pm.

Play on the Plaza - April
2024-04-13 12:00 - 17:00 | Eagle Plaza, 398 12th, San Francisco, CA
Join us for Play on the Plaza every second Saturday of the month! A community event that’s designed to ignite some spark in your life! Each month we feature a different local bay area BDSM, Kink, Leather or LGBTQ group right on Eagle Plaza!
Flagging is our April play theme! Special Guest Liam Ocean from Flagging in the Park will host and enthrall us with their art of spinning colorful flags! Bring your flags and join the fun, some flags will be available for anyone learning. Liam will be answering questions and helping those who want to learn or improve their skills of this mastercraft! Join us as we take to the streets to create lively, colorful visuals and help us create the energy of life, creativity and unabashed joy in who we are by flagging and dancing to the beats of our amazing DJ Paul Goodyear.
Kink / Fetish Vendor Mart:
boy zander bootblacking
ByrdBeaks
Cumply
Downtown Armor
Garaje Gooch
GlamPunk Art
Leather Legends
Legacy Tarot by Alexandria
Rhea Adri Art
Skin on Skins
Trans Art by Arien Reed
Chair Yoga with Mukunda Studio
Free Spinal Screening with Hernandez Chiropractic
This is a free event produced by the world’s first LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District!
Special thanks to:
SF New Deal, SF Planning Department/Shared Spaces, and the SF Office of Economic and Workforce Development whose grant funding makes these events possible.
Our Community Partner: Service Pups of San Francisco.
With gratitude to Folsom Street Events and SOMA West CBD for their support.

SOMA Origins: Bars, Bathhouses, & Beyond
2024-04-06 14:00 - 15:45 | Ringold St, San Francisco, CA 94103, United States
A walking tour of historic kinky/queer sites in SOMA that date from the first Folsom leather bar to today’s venues.
Leather bars began opening in SoMa (South of Market) in the 60’s. Find out why, and learn about the raucous exploits of the 70’s when motorcycles lined the streets outside popular bars.
Today SOMA is a world-wide destination for kinky, queer, and leather people. Hear about today’s bar and clubs and what they used to be – including one that used to have a swimming pool.
This in-person walking tour begins at 9th and Ringold at the Ringold Leather History Walk and lasts about 1 hour 45 minutes, no hills.
When
April 6th, 2024 from 2:00 PM to 3:45 PM
Location
Ringold Alley at 9th St
A block south of Folsom Street
Contact
Email: info@sflcd.org
Register at https://bit.ly/SOMATour

LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District Easter Sunday Beer Bust
2024-03-31 15:00 - 19:00 | SF Eagle
Join us on Easter Sunday as the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District partners with Mr. SF Eagle Leather 2024 Alex W. Seidel for a special holiday beer bust! After enjoying all the fun in the sun at Dolores Park, hop on down to the SF Eagle to continue the festivities with bottomless house beer and soda! We’ll have some tasty treats themed for Easter Sunday, and you might even find a hidden egg or two in one of those dark corners. You know you want to keep showing off your Easter Sunday attire and here’s your opportunity to do so!
$20 gets you bottomless beer/soda and a plate of food! Interested in only food? It’s only 5 bucks!
Volunteer Sign-Up: volunteersignup.org/THEXD
Our Mission
The LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District’s vision is to rejoice, commemorate, and protect the contributions of our predecessors, contemporaries, and successors rooted in the Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District and its diverse and marginalized peoples. United, we preserve, enhance, and advocate for the continuity and vitality of the Kinky and Queer communities of San Francisco’s Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District.
What do we do?
Keeping SOMA Kinky and Queer by lobbying city hall to allow bathhouses, installing public art like murals, activating community artists and performers, continue economic development through the Entrepreneur Program, and producing walking tours.

LCD: Erotic Storytelling Hour
2024-03-28 20:00 - 21:00 | LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District
San Francisco’s LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District
presents a special, 18+ only, online event:
The Erotic Storytelling Hour
Come hear some provocative, graphic, sexy, titillating, and funny stories (and more) from selected writers of our community!
Be 18+
Hosted by Sumiko Saulson, David Hyman, and Cal Callahan
Featuring:
Eager Oak
Dominique Leslie
Michelle Renee Lane
With a Special Reading
Zin Rocklin
Sam Schreiber
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86868208302?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 868 6820 8302
Password: [REDACTED]
Or call 1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose) and enter meeting ID: 856 5465 2578 and password: [REDACTED]
(Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcdjuCNy9C )
Want to be a reader for a future event? contact: manager@sflcd.org
The event is free; want to thank us? Donate at /donate/
Or become a member: https://join.sflcd.org/
Check out our Website: https://sfleatherdistrict.org

Golden Dildeaux Awards: Nominations Reveal Party
2024-03-16 18:00 - 20:00 | SF Eagle
Nominations Close on March 13th at 5 PM! www.sflcd.org/gda/info.php
Be the first to learn who’s made the cut for the Golden Dildeaux Award ballot! For weeks the community has been submitting names to be nominated for a coveted Golden Dildeaux and we’re finally announcing the nominees! Are you curious if you are one of the people who will be running the race to take a “woodie” home?
Join us for the Nomination Reveal Party taking place on March 16th from 6-8 at the SF Eagle! The reveal happens at 7 pm and then the voting OPENS! If you have been a past winner, bring your Golden Dildeaux with you to toot your own horn at the amazing rockstar that you are! (or have been!)
You can show your support by casting as many votes as you want for your chosen nominee! Votes are $1 per vote. How far are you willing to dig into your wallet for your candidates? Only the polls will tell!
Proceeds of the Golden Dildeaux Award benefit events and programs of the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District.
JUST ANNOUNCED! The Party will feature a special performance by Mary Vice!
