Let’s be Folsom Street Fair

This is why they hate us..

The harness is as ubiquitous as straight men wearing baseball caps at the Super Bowl.

Feels like a throw back to 20 years ago. I just don't see that subculture being relevant anymore. It was once meant to shock and titillate. Now it does neither. We've all seen everything and done everything and now Folsom is boring.

[quote]I just don't see that subculture being relevant anymore.

Suck our leather-trussed cocks!

The people who are part of that community with their entire existence being about shocking others, the question then is now that everyone is so calloused to everything and not giving them attention: What’s the next step for them, how will they move the goalposts to push the limits further? That’s a scary thing to think about. I think ScatPride is around the corner. The Q is racing to the lowest common denominator.

I’m the ugliness of people who should not be undressed in public.

[quote] It was once meant to shock and titillate

Perhaps for exhibitionists, but for true leather folks they are doing it for themselves. The Folsom Street Fair, unlike Pride, is a private event specifically for the leather community. Streets are blocked off in several directions. There are designated entry areas. There’s no way unsuspecting bystanders could wander into the fair and be shocked. All adults are welcome, but if you aren’t comfortable, you can leave. It’s an event by the leather community for the leather community. It’s not a pride parade.

R7 it’s on social media, they all know it’s going on social media. Sorry, but almost nothing is actually private anymore.

R7 there’s saggy bare ass all over the City…all the attendees who choose “to walk” instead of drive. And they’re on Muni, too!

R8 That is a specious argument. The Folsom Fair has been an established event since the ‘80s. There’s a bit of shaming in your comment. The fair is what it is. Technology has changed, now there’s social media. So what? People have always taken pictures at Folsom. I’ve taken pictures there. Pics online are irrelevant. Don’t attend if you find it distasteful. Leave if you don’t like what you see. Pictures of a private event don’t render the event public. That makes no sense. Nothing inappropriate happens outside of the boundaries of the event, no alcohol, sex. SF has varying public nudity policies.

R9 I lived in SF for 23 years. No one died from seeing flappy ass cheeks. Unclutch those pearls.

In all of those years, did you ever appreciate a bit of sarcasm?

R12 I’ve been on DL too long. I’ve lost the ability.

I'm the sluts

I am the straight couple pushing a stroller

I’m the sidewalk fistee

Generally speaking, fetish and drag scenes have become too mainstream.

I want everyone to have the right to participate, but it's entirely too mainstream in a way that I think can only end in tears.

Most of you seem to have no concept of how to post to a "Let's be" thread.

With the return of gay hate for political gain I’m all for leather boys , drags, trans. Fuck them. Parade your ass-less chaps off

R16 I didn't try the link because the public fisting was too much for me to see. I can watch a lot but not that.

I’m the Asian granny wearing a trucker hat and a scowl on my face, busy stomping plastic bottles so my family won’t drown me.

I’m the self-hate compelling participants to crave pain and humiliation.

I'm the animal masks worn by people who don't have any animals at home... which is probably for the best.

I’m Drag Queen Story Time.

Where multiple blowjobs al fresco!

Im the travel size bottle of Purell everyone wishes they hadn't left at home.

We’re multiple blowjobs al fresco!

We're the cases of skin cancer that result from the exposure.

I’m the prolapse.

I’m the clueless urchins who think a bit of costuming magically renders my disgusting body attractive or desirable.

I’m the fragrance of fetid rot wafting through the sea of revolting flesh. I expend zero effort to be active or fit and think the matching olfactory experience will fool someone into having any physical contact with me.

I’m the two gay pride parades that collided and sent the women and children home.

I am carlosinsf circa 2007, before dating and hook-up apps. I go to the fair as an observer, and arrive approximately at 1:00pm. It's just enough time to immerse myself in the erotic energy, all the while running into a few friends. After a few hours, I head to EROS-sex club on Market Street, where I wonder who I'll have chemistry with, and all I'll the while observe, but not neccesarily partake in an orgy.

I'm the strictly dickly heterosexual female sex worker who jumps on the "queer" bandwagon once a year for likes and follows.

I’m heavy into kink, s/m, bdsm, some leather…but OP’s link is enough to turn me puritanical and straight. I’d rather hook up with a healthy looking chick than any of those gargoyles.

Why do people think “I like perversion and I’m in a place which celebrates perversion…so men should be attracted to me even though I don’t take care of myself, look disgusting, and clearly have a poor lifestyle”?

It’s like the slobs who go to gyms because they like gym-fit dudes. But they obviously don’t work out or take care of themselves while leering at guys who do. Then some act incredulous that fit people treat them like lepers. Baffling logic.

It's not even gay anymore at least 1/2 of those pics were Breeders. Way too many woman for my taste. they really should rename it at this point, Breeder Street Fair.

Have you ever noticed the fatter and more gross people look, the more they want to take their cloths off and show you? Meanwhile the hot guys are covered up. It's like that at nudist resorts and beaches too. Like a universal truth.

What’s with the two hulking ogres in the check patterned clown costumes in OPs vid still?

Please, please tell me there is absolutely no sexual fetish which involves a getup like that. I wouldn’t be able to get hard ever again knowing that that is somehow involved in being sexual. It’s like Tim Burton porn in a drug induced nightmare.

I'm the PrEP vending machines strategically placed at the beginning, middle, and end of the parade route.

I'm the bleach in my eyes after seeing this

I’m DSM-5 being updated to include all of the disordered pathologies on display

I’m the unshakable stereotype that many many gay men are simply mentally ill

If events like Folsom soldier on and draw crowds, the nI guess SF isn't quite the hellscape Fox News says it is.

👆🏼rather, it’s proof SF is exactly that

I'm Rafael Alencar, pushing 50 and pushing my arm up yet another middle-aged fistee's ass as I robotically chant "Fuck yeah! Just like that! Fuck yeah! Just like that!"

The fact that my entire forearm, up to the elbow, is in his ass barely registers with either the fistee or the circle of leather-clad and leather-skinned observers.

Wow, I just looked up what it was like 10 years ago. Totally different. Lots of men who are actually in shape and good looking. Compared to OP's vid, which looks like a Jabba the Hut in bondage street fair.

I'm Ginny from accounting. Oh my.

I'm the medical insurance nightmare

I am the lost key to someone's chasity device.

I’m the weird gleam in the eyes of guys whose floppy pink dicks are exposed. Whatever the thought processes may be that lie behind the glittering semi-manic expressions of which I am a part, they can only be guessed at by observers, whose experience with unhinged urbanites clues them that it’ll be wise to leave me well alone and to assume an air of nonchalance as they navigate a route away from me.

Is this so different from Burning Man, at its core?

Yes, Will. It’s different.

I’m pick-pockets.

Last year I made almost 5k!

I'm the raccoon tail butt plug.

[quote]I’m the sidewalk fistee

I'm assuming that since he brought a towel, he came pre-douched and lubed for the sidewalk fisting.

At its core…not its self-indulgent PR

San Francisco is the perfect place for this, since they’re used to feces all over the streets.

People who fist, are into scat or blood, and other extreme fetishes are severely mentally ill, and about a step away from being a serial killer.

I am latter days DiFi, slightly demented, and muttering “I miss good fags like Harvey”

I'm Cher rummaging through the canned goods. (sorry it seemed appropriate for both the nuclear war thread and this one.)

I'm the Santorum smeared on a park bench after spontaneous anal sex.

I'm state senator Scott Wiener's bare chest which has conservatives clutching their pearls and screaming, not in front of the children!

I'm the reminder that while whipping, fisting, marathon bareback fucking, and piss play are allowed, smoking is not.

I'm the new bug. We'll find a way to blame it on Reagan again.

R62 should have also posted this:

👆🏼 does he have the AIDS?

Doesn’t look well. At. All.

I think it may just be the slimmer's disease

Where do you losers come from? Let people enjoy themselves, you sound so dry. It’s obviously not everybody’s idea of a good time, but it’s clearly a lot of peoples idea of a good time. Let them have fun. I don’t think many of you are actually gay men tbh, I’ve never met gays irl that are as boring, sour, unimaginative and bitter as you lot.

R66 go back to kiwifarms or Reddit or twitter.

R65 I cannot come up with a good reason for a middle aged man to be shirtless and wearing a leather bar vest during the day at a street festival, fair, convention, event, parade, clambake. shindig. hootenanny or conclave for it to make sense to me.

R64 you type like a fucking moron

I'm the 12 year old boy who wonders if he is gay but, after seeing this crap covered on CNN, realizes he isn't like them and decides he must be straight. It will take 20 years to figure out my error and that these folks are freaks.

I know people take leather as a serious “identity” but it just makes me chuckle. To each their own.

Do you have to be overweight and/or female to participate?

R66 What the FUCK is going on in your head? Why would you post that?

I'm gross.

i'm surprised that the DL hasn't found the scat pig discourse that is going crazy on gay twitter

I’m the prolapsed asshole that looks suspiciously just like a raspberry and cheese danish.

R76 so disgusting. I’ve been saying for awhile that Scat Pride would be next in the race to the lowest common denominator. Every little niche fetish will have to be worshipped and accepted.

Good God! There's a lot of nasty looking people there. Did most of the hot people flee San Francisco?

And I would shit on the street and wipe my ass with my hand before I'd use one of those porta potties

R79 maybe that’s what SCATPIG did…

It's never the people you want to see.

I'm the more "serious" fetish events that go on behind the publicly visible fair for those who are into such things.

I'm making content.

Buck would never attend Folsom.

What a bunch of butt-uglies.

Ugly butts too

Everything about them is ugly.

r61, the senator is spelled with a capital S. the substance is spelled with a small s.

I’m the acrid smell of weeks of gathered sweat, pits, sour clothing and unwashed balls that hits you like a brick wall.

I’m the “believe the science” cries during the pandemic that the virtue signalers made about COVID. We don’t believe in this when it comes to biofilm, amoebas, fungus, bacteria, viruses, or anything else sexually transmitted.

JHC you sound ridiculous.^

R91 go stick your tongue in someone’s asshole

Class act.

Honestly, every time I see your posts, I feel a little bit dumber for what you write.

I'm the passerby small child, who asked his momma for a pony costume just like the one that man is wearing!

I'm the scars from gender-arrirming surgery, proudly displayed!