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Folsom Street Fair (FSF) is an annual BDSM and leather subculture street fair, held in September that concludes San Francisco's "Leather Pride Week". The Folsom Street Fair, sometimes referred to simply as "Folsom", takes place on the last Sunday in September, on Folsom Street between 8th and 13th Streets, in San Francisco's South of Market district.
The San Francisco LGBT community first fully formed in the 1920s and 1930s. [8] The most prominent LGBT area then was North Beach. [8] Mona's, San Francisco's first lesbian bar, opened on Union Street in 1934, and featured cross-dressing waitresses as well as entertainer Gladys Bentley. [9] Nightclubs with drag shows drew both gay and straight ...
When San Francisco's Fox Theater went out of business, hippies bought up its costume stock, reveling in the freedom to dress up for weekly musical performances at their favorite ballrooms. As San Francisco Chronicle music columnist Ralph J. Gleason put it, "They danced all night long, orgiastic, spontaneous and completely free form." [19]
Gunne Sax. A Gunne Sax dress. Gunne Sax is a retired clothing label owned by Jessica McClintock, Inc., which specialized in formal and semi-formal wear for young women. [ 1] Eleanor Bailey and Carol Miller co-founded the label in San Francisco in 1967, [ 2] before partnering with Jessica McClintock in 1969 for a $5,000 investment. [ 3][ 4]
Trannyshack was a San Francisco drag club started by drag queen Heklina in 1996 [ 1] as an offshoot of Klubstitute, and was a weekly fixture at The Stud bar in San Francisco for 12 years, drawing large crowds on a regular basis. The Tuesday night performances at The Stud ended on 12 August 2008, with Trannyshack resuming as a monthly event at ...
San Francisco Chronicle, August 24, 2006; Hilliard, Russell E. "The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus A Historical Perspective on the Role of a Chorus as a Social Service." Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services: Issues in Practice, Policy, and Research. The official journal of the Caucus of the LGBT Faculty & Students in Social Work.
Chase Center is an indoor arena in the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco, California.The building is the home venue for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Golden State Valkyries of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and occasionally for the University of San Francisco men's and women's basketball teams in the National Collegiate ...
Derek Guy. Derek Guy, also known as "the menswear guy" on Twitter, is a Canadian men's fashion industry writer and commentator. [ 1][ 2][ 3] He gained fame following the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk when the site's algorithmically curated "For You" tab promoted his account @dieworkwear to a large audience. [ 4][ 5][ 6] Guy has ...