Folsom Street Fair is an annual BDSM and leather subculture street fair that caps San Francisco's "Leather Pride Week". This is part of the Mucho calendar series: ‘Religious, outrageous, secular & peculiar’, were we celebrate the different holidays that happen around the world that you might not know about. #wearemucho #calendar #FolsomStreetFair | Mucho

In 1984, two San Francisco activists helped save the queer bar scene from gentrification by throwing a street festival called “Megahood.” Now, the Folsom Street Fair is the largest leather event in the world, with over 400,000 people attending each year. . For more on the history of the Folsom Street Fair, see: . Gayle S. Rubin, “Elegy for the Valley of Kings: AIDS and the Leather Community in San Francisco,” Sexualities: Difference and the Diversity of Sexualities, Taylor & Francis, 2002. . Kat

On this day, September 23, 1984: San Francisco hosted the very first Folsom Street Fair | PinkNews