Folsom Street Fair

San Francisco, CA · Festival

When: September 27, 2026
Where: Folsom Street, SoMa · San Francisco · CA
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Thirteen blocks of Folsom Street close on the last Sunday of September for the world's largest leather and fetish street fair, which began in 1984 as a neighbourhood protest against the redevelopment pushing working people out of SoMa. It draws a few hundred thousand people and gives its gate money away to Bay Area charities.

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