LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District

The Golden Dildeaux Award candidates were exposed at our Nominations Reveal Party on March 16: twenty-five delightful categories, with up to 5 nominees in each.

See the nominees, and vote for your faves, all here.

Please enjoy these images from the party, by Fire Dragon Photography

Our warmest thanks to the San Francisco Eagle, the Service Pups Of San Francisco, our special guest performer Mary Vice, and all the volunteers and nominees!

Name the New Park After Rachele Sullivan

• A new park is being built at 11th and Natoma Streets, half a block from the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District.
• The Rec and Parks Department is soliciting community input into naming the park.
• We proposed the park be named after Rachele Sullivan, one of the founders of our Cultural District and a prominent figure in SOMA’s Filipino community.
• Other LEATHER & LGBTQ-related proposals are naming the park after:
  • Heklina, a founder of Oasis, and
  • Jim Meko, a community activist (nominated by LCD Board Member Emeritus and District Historian Gayle Rubin).
• A community meeting was held on March 7, and the survey results were reviewed and discussed.  A run-off survey will be conducted soon.
• Please watch this page for information about that survey.
• Once the new survey goes live, we encourage you to vote for Rachele Sullivan, a woman who proudly embodied the intersection of the queer, leather, Filipino, Indigenous, and disabled communities.
• We will need you to take this survey even if you took the earlier one.
• Thanks!

Beer Bust Kicks Off Golden Dildeaux Season!

The LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District’s first beer bust of the year, on March 3rd, was a great success.

Despite the rain, plenty of folks joined the fun, eating tasty chicken or vegie nachos prepared by chef (and LCD Arts and Culture Committee chair) Stephen Roberts.  Others toasted the occasion with “golden” jello shots.  Raffle prizes included major gift certificates and items from Mr. S Leather, Leather Etc., ByrdBeaks, and Azúcar Lounge.

Many in attendance took the opportunity to submit nominations for their favorite kinksters, in some of the 25 fun categories of the Golden Dildeaux Awards!

For more info and updates on the Awards, visit sflcd.org/gda-updates/.