When I first saw I was assigned to go to the Folsom Street Fair, I let out a deep sigh — but not for the reason you would think. As a sheltered child from the suburbs of Santa Clara, I assumed it meant making the trek up to Sacramento for what I thought would be […]
Why Is Our Sex Taboo? A Thought About What We Want
San Francisco. Why are you still so squeamish about sexual taboos? Even if we have days, events, and open fondness about it? To your credit, you’re the only city that allows sexual freedoms such as nudity in certain spaces, women can be topless where men can be topless, you have Folsom Street Fair—where connoisseurs of […]
Get Your Kink-Freak On: A Beginner’s Guide to this Year’s Folsom Street Fair
Whips, chaps, chains, oh my! (Oh, and also a hella ton of queer eye-candy.) Three weeks after I first moved to San Francisco in 2011, my roommate asked me if I wanted to go with her to a “leather fair.” “I think it’s like an artisan fair,” she said. “Like leather boots and purses and […]
