As the Bay Area and the state open up after more than a year of COVID-19 pandemic-related lockdowns and restrictions, LGBTQ street fairs are among those events that are back on.
The Up Your Alley and Folsom Street leather- and kink-focused fairs in the city's South of Market neighborhood will be proceeding with in-person gatherings, but in rebranded formats intended to help the neighborhood's LGBTQ businesses recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic. "Our July event is going to be rebranded to Folsom Street Market, and will be vendor focused, but in the same footprint [as the Up Your Alley street fair]," Angel Adeyoha, the queer and nonbinary executive director of Folsom Street Events told the Bay Area Reporter. "We plan to bring