Category: Communities & Subcultures
History of the Folsom Street Fair
Author: Icarus Published Date: September 18, 2014 Leave a Comment on History of the Folsom Street Fair
The Folsom Street Fair has grown into the largest annual BDSM, leather, and fetish event in the world, and the third largest annual outdoor event…
José Sarria (1922/1923 – 2013)
José Julio Sarria was born on December 12 in either 1922 or 1923 in San Francisco, raised primarily by a single mother. Following his service in…
Origins of the hanky code
In the early 1970s, some gay men — particularly in the leather scene — began to wear colorful handkerchiefs to signal their sexual interests (e.g.,…
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