A familiar face in San Francisco's leather community has been tapped to be the first executive director of the Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District in the city's South of Market neighborhood.
Robert Goldfarb, 60, has started as the inaugural executive director of the leather cultural district, he told the Bay Area Reporter Monday, October 11.
While the leather cultural district was established in 2018 — there are also queer cultural districts in the Castro and Tenderloin neighborhoods — there had not been an executive director per se until now because Goldfarb had been doing much of that work on a volunteer basis as president of the district's board, he said. "They felt, in fairness, we should move it to a paid position," Goldfarb said.