a-z index - QUEERGURU

Folsom East Street Festival is all for fulfilling SLUTS fantasies

Folsom Street East which is NY’s version of one of San Francisco’s oldest and best queer street festivals is getting bigger, and even bolder this summer. With this year’s theme of S.L.U.T.S. Fantasies Fulfilled (!) they are spreading out to including a second block in Chelsea. With the celebrations for STONEWALL 50 going on … Continue reading

Folsom Forever

Mike Skiff’s illuminating new documentary on the Folsom Street Fair, one of San Francisco’s iconic gay events, starts off by dispelling a few of the myths that surround its 30 year history. Initially the Fair was created in 1984 as part of a growing protest movement that objected to the enforced gentrification of what previously … Continue reading

Folsom Street Fair is Back : MEGAHOOD2021

San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair has always been committed to cultivating a safe, open, and inclusive environment for the kink, leather, and alternative sexuality communities while centering equity for BIPOC and LGBTQA2I+ people in our work. Now they want to take you back to basics. Bring you into the future. Give you a vision of … Continue reading

FOLSOM STREET FAIR the daddy of the leather/kink/alt-sex community is BACK

The famously infamous street fair that draws in leather/kink/alt-sex community from around the world is BACK. 39 years this year, so they are well into their daddy phase. Go in all your gear or none at all and take to the streets of the deliciously weird and wonderful fair in San Francisco …… here … Continue reading

Foodie JImmy Oseland recounts the joy of being a queer punk rock teenager in the late 1970’s

Notable foodie James Oseland, one time Editor of SAVEUR Magazine and Judge on Bravo TV Top Chef Masters, was not always that ‘respectable’ when he was growing up as he recounts in his excellent new coming of age memoir Jimmy Neurosis. It’s the story of his teenage years in the late 1970’s when he was a rambunctious … Continue reading