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Folsom Street Fair
San Francisco, CA · Festival
- When
- September 26, 2027
- 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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