LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District

Diamond Wave presents the second-annual THEYFRIEND, a festival highlighting nonbinary performers during Transgender Awareness Week, Wednesday through Saturday, November 16-19, 2022, at various locations throughout San Francisco.

 

Now in its second year, THEYFRIEND is the world’s first performance festival uplifting, centering, and celebrating nonbinary identity! This year the festival will expand to five events over four days (November 16 – 19) in partnership with San Francisco arts presenters and queer nightlife venues.  For example:

THEYFRIEND Nonbinary Happy Hour
Friday, November 18, 5-7 p.m.
OASIS (298 11th St, San Francisco)
In partnership with Oasis, the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District and Realest Exposure

Curated by Edgar Fabián Frías, KB Boyce and Kevin Seaman, the 2022 THEYFRIEND festival will feature newly commissioned work from writer-performer Rawiyah Tariq, multimedia artist Sharmi Basu and musician Tyler Holmes, with live performances from local nonbinary performers and video from national and international contributors.

THEYFRIEND is supported by the California Arts Council, KQED Live, the Hormel LGBTQIA Center at San Francisco Public Library and Brava! for Women in the Arts, and is presented in partnership with Intersection for the Arts as part of the Intersect SF Series (supported with funds from Grants for the Arts) and the LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District.

For the full schedule of events and more info, visit https://www.diamond-wave.org/events.

MPX Vaccine
LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District Pop-Up

in partnership with SF Department of Public Health and BayPLS.
in Eagle Plaza, Harrison and 12th Street
on Saturday, October 8, 2022

Use the QR Code or go to https://bit.ly/3SSZ0wm to make an appointment.

JYNNEOS vaccine; supply is limited

Come for the vaccine and stay for the art at SOMA Second Saturdays! this weekend.

Go to https://bit.ly/3SSZ0wm to make an appointment. If you received your first shot at our popups on September 10 or 11, you are eligible for your second dose this week.

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We are pleased to have been part of the MPX Vaccination Clinic at Eagle Plaza on September 10 and 11, 2022.  A total of 233 individuals received vaccinations.  An additional pop-up was held on September 18.  Thanks to everyone who attended, volunteered, or helped make this possible.

LeatherWalk 2022 had to be postponed due to the weather.  It has now been rescheduled for SATURDAY, October 15, 2022.

Full details are here..

The LEATHER & LGBTQ Cultural District was pleased and proud to be part of the 2022 Folsom Street Fair.

We send our thanks to the tireless volunteers who staffed the booth, including Bob Brown, Tessa Antonia Delsener, Richard Dupler, Norm Lynde, JConr B. Ortega, Sumiko Saulson, and Stan Wong.

Our booth also hosted folks from the Bearrison Street Fair, the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District, ELSE, and BABKA (the Bay Area Bi/Pan Kinky Alliance).

At the booth, we spoke to hundreds of guests about the Cultural District, signed up more than 50 folks for our mailing list, showed off items from our new Merchandise Store, gave out stacks and stacks of informational materials, (including our popular postcards), and, of course, extended our invitation to everyone to join us for LeatherWalk 2022 on October 15.

Our warmest thanks and heartiest congratulations go out to Folsom Street, who produced a magnificent event.  The return of the full-strength Folsom Street Fair experience had been long awaited and keenly anticipated by our entire community, and the reality did NOT disappoint.

[If you were unable to attend, or want to refresh you memory, may I recommend the uncensored photos of BIRON, here. — NSFW.]

Special mention to everyone involved in the vaccination efforts, both leading up to and actually at the Street Fair; this all-out effort is helping assure that we can enjoy our kinkiness as safely and responsibly as possible.

And kudos also to all the attendees, both locals and visitors, who showed respect, positivity, and common sense, assuring that the event went not just smoothly and safely, but joyfully.  We are exhausted, but proud, happy, and inspired!

See you at LeatherWalk next month!