Okay, so it’s totally true that here in the Castro every day is ‘assless chaps day’ on some level — like, I do see guys flagging and in full-on black leather biker daddy cap-and-chaps regalia at 2 in the afternoon shopping in Walgreens on a weekday. But that’s just our flora and fauna here.

But now that’s about to happen all over the city (except, as always, in our deliciously LA-esque suburb, the Marina). It’s the weekend of Folsom Street Fair, meaning that over 400,000 kinky tourists are about to show up and have a party in SOMA. Besides sunday, where we get to see swingers from Orinda dressed as human ponies getting horrible sunburns, BDSM n00bs from Brisbane barfing $8 beers down their $2000 rubber dresses, and the *amazing opportunity* to buy overpriced buttplugs the size of fire hydrants, there’s a lot of cool stuff going on. Check out events, and my saturday volunteer gig with San Francisco Sex Information pals after the jump. Image: the leather pride flag in the Castro, yesterday.
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