Her findings were a rollicking ride through the kinky, politically charged and deeply perverted 30-year history of our beloved annual blow-jobs-and-assfucking street fair.
Rubin presented The History of the Folsom Street Fair Wednesday night of Leather Week at a session presented by the SF Leathermen’s Discussion Group. Gayle Rubin, UM professor and one of the world’s leading authorities on contemporary gender politics and sexual subcultures. “The Folsom Fair did not start out as a leather event,” explains Dr. The origins and backstory of what is now “the world’s largest leather event” deserve to be acknowledged for this year’s 34th annual Folsom Street Fair, expected to draw almost half a million leather and BDSM fetishists to San Francisco’s SoMA District on Sunday. The Folsom Street Fair didn’t used to be called the Folsom Street Fair, it used to be an outlaw, anti-gentrification event and it was definitely not sanctioned by SF City Hall. 1880 Shares Share on Facebook Share on Twitterįolsom Street Fair was not always welcomed in SF with city-sponsored banners all over Market St.
