Tag Archives: Folsom Street Fair

Folsom Street Fair’s 2010 Poster

Folsom Street Fair has released this year’s poster. From their press release: This year, the official Folsom Street Fair poster was inspired by both the film The Usual Suspects and the 2009 police raids on gay bars like the Atlanta Eagle and The Rainbow Lounge in Ft. Worth, Texas. In light of these recent events, the organization felt it was …

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Real Bad Does Real Good

Grass Roots Gay Rights West, the non-profit group that produces Folsom Street Fair’s Real Bad party, has presented $150,000 to the beneficiaries of this year’s event. That’s openly gay SF Supervisor (and mayoral candidate) Bevan Dufty on the right, wearing a suit. Behind Dufty is my dear friend Leif Wauters, last year’s party honcho. Four selected LGBT health and community …

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Freepers On Folsom

Since Porno Pete LaBarbara just loves to repost JMG comments as proof of how gays are big horrible meanies, let’s take a quick stroll through the God-fearing, church going, hands-to-Jeebus crowd at Free Republic as they react to a San Francisco Chronicle photo essay about yesterday’s Folsom Street Fair. – “I’d rather die in Scranton than live in San Fagcisco.”– …

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REAL BAD Announces Beneficiaries & DJ

The organizers of Real Bad, the all-volunteer charity dance event that closes Folsom Street Fair every year, have announced this year’s beneficiaries and DJ. Grass Roots Gay Rights West (GRGR/West), producers of the annual REAL BAD fundraising party which follows San Francisco’s world-renowned Folsom Street Fair, today announced the beneficiaries and DJ for REAL BAD XXI. Four LGBT health and …

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SF Police To Crackdown On Dore Alley Fair

San Francisco police have met with the organizers of the Up Your Alley Fair (better known to some as Dore Alley) to warn they will will not tolerate public sex at this year’s July event. The fair is considered the smaller, more local version of the famed Folsom Street Fair. Via Bay Area Reporter: The stepped up enforcement against lewd …

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Real Bad Donates $160K

The staff of the 20th anniversary Real Bad party held their check presentation ceremony last night where they donated a record-setting $160,000 to five LGBT charities: AIDS Legal Referral Panel, GLBT Historical Society, Dimensions Clinic, openhouse, and The Positive Care Center at UCSF. Real Bad is the fantastic closing night party of the Folsom Street Fair put on by Grass …

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You Will Obey

Lots of you sent in photos of the Leather Obama image seen all around Folsom Street Fair on Sunday, with some calling it disrespectful and others just finding it amusing. Go here for a totally NSFW gallery of Folsom goings-on. And of course, mansex-obsessed Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality has begun his annual posting of the nekkid …

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Anti-Gay Freak Peter LaBarbera Will Be Stalking The Folsom Street Fair

Porno Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality will again be trolling the grounds of the Folsom Street Fair this Sunday, camera in hand, looking for the most sordid examples of gay sex he can find to post on his website and use to fight marriage equality in California. LaBarbera will join with other wingnuts to hold a press …

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The 2nd Annual Miller Beer Boycott Has Begun (It Must Be Folsom Time!)

I must confess that I got a chuckle over this graphic I found in an OUTRAGED Freeper post about Miller beer again sponsoring Folsom Street Fair. You may recall that the Christers got in a major snit last year over the official Folsom poster, which was a leather take on the Last Supper. The poster brouhaha turned into a boycott …

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Real Bad Announces Beneficiaries & DJ

The 20th annual Real Bad party, the “unofficial” closing party of Folsom Street Fair and one of the best gay dance events on the planet, has announced the beneficiaries and DJ for this year’s event. Real Bad is completely volunteer-run and 100% of its proceeds go to the LGBT community. Grass Roots Gay Rights West (GRGR/West), producers of the annual …

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LaBarbera On Hannity & Colmes

Last night Porno Pete LaBarbera of the Americans For Truth About Homosexuality was on Hannity & Colmes to parade his Folsom Street Fair video and to call for Nancy Pelosi to do something to end the fair. Naturally, in addition decrying the “shocking depravities” that took place in “broad daylight”, LaBarbera focuses on the idiots who brought their children to …

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Real Bad = Real Dough

Organizers of the 19th annual Real Bad party, which took place after the conclusion of this year’s Folsom Street Fair, had their check presentation ceremony last night, awarding $150,000 to two worthy Bay Area institutions. San Francisco, CA – (November 8, 2007) – Grassroots Gay Rights West (GRGR/West) announces the donation of record proceeds from REAL BAD XIX. Ticket sales …

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Erratum

The story about the dog-collared twins at Folsom that so outraged Michelle Malkin is actually over two years old. It was first published in the Golden Gate [X]Press on September 29th, 2005. I should have done some due diligence when it comes to anything spewing from Malkin’s vile mouth, since she’s well known for twisting events to suit her wingnuttery. …

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Folsom Is For Grown-Ups

Michelle Malkin ranted yesterday about a gay couple in San Francisco who dressed their two year-old twins in lace and leather collars and took them to Folsom Street Fair. From the SF paper [X]Press: Two-year-olds Zola and Veronica Kruschel waddled through Folsom Street Fair amidst strangers in fishnets and leather crotch pouches, semi and fully nude men. The twin girls …

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Catholic League Backs Off Miller Brewing

Miller Brewing has announced a “full-scale review” of their promotional activities. In response, the Catholic League’s Bill Donahue says that for now, they are tabling a “serious course of action” they had planned against Miller Brewing. “Today’s San Francisco Chronicle reports that at yesterday’s Folsom Street Fair, ‘couples led each other up and down the street with dog collars and …

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair commits a provocation. Utterly unnecessary, I’d say, and counter-productive to ensuring that events like Folsom can continue to thrive. And not even ballsy. Next year, guys: do a similar parody on a sacred Muslim scene, if you have the balls. Easy, cheap blasphemy impresses no one.” – Andrew Sullivan. I’m trying to think of a …

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Xtian Right Begin Miller Boycott

From the Catholic League: Catholic League president Bill Donohue announced a national boycott of Miller Beer on this morning’s “Fox and Friends.” He explains why today: “Never have we experienced greater corporate arrogance than in this dispute with the Miller Brewing Company. Miller is sponsoring an incredibly outrageous and palpably anti-Christian event in San Francisco: the Folsom Street Fair (see …

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Miller Brewing Folds Over Folsom Poster

Bowing to pressure from Christian activists, Miller Brewing, the primary sponsor of Folsom Street Fair, has asked fair organizers to remove its logo from their Last Supper poster. Right-wing news outlets and forums like Free Republic (“Miller Supports Gay Sadomasochistic Orgies On San Francisco Streets!”) have been humming with “outraged” calls for a boycott of Miller and demands that readers …

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Xtians On Warpath Over Folsom Poster

Last month I mentioned Folsom Street Fair’s fabulous “Last Supper” poster for this year’s event. Now Matt Barber, alpha male for the mousy Xtian hausfraus advocacy group, the Concerned Women For America (CWA), is up in arms, petitioning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-SF), California Senators Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, and Gov. Schwarzengger to “publicly condemn this unprovoked attack against …

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Let Me Borrow That Top

YouTube gay favorite Kelly has finally done a video for Let Me Borrow That Top. The song’s title phrase will no doubt be heard many times at September 30th’s Folsom Street Fair where Kelly will be performing for the leathered masses alongside Imperial Teen, Ladytron, The Start, and many others. The musical lineup at Folsom has been just stellar for …

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