How The Gay Street Fair Known As Dore Alley Beme The Warm-Up For Folsom

Contents:

• THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
• HOW THE GAY STREET FAIR KNOWN AS DORE ALLEY BEME THE WARM-UP FOR FOLSOM

THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

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HOW THE GAY STREET FAIR KNOWN AS DORE ALLEY BEME THE WARM-UP FOR FOLSOM

"On Sunday, LGBT folk — though primarily gay men the leather muny — will take over the two blocks of Folsom Street on eher si of Dore Street, as well as the alley self, for an afternoon of drkg, dancg, and open-air sexual viance. Drawg about 15, 000 people — pared to the 250, 000 or more who attend Folsom — Dore Alley tends to feel like more of a muny affair, and a (mostly) gay-male block party for both fetishists and lol gawkers the two fairs that occur eight weeks apart ed to be two unaffiliated events, though Up Your Alley has always been the smaller and arguably dirtier of the SFist's Joe Kura explaed this brief history a uple years back, the first Up Your Alley Fair wasn't held on Dore Alley at all, and happened on Augt 25, 1985. Leather 1985 Patrick Toner and Jerry Vallaire, who lnched as a fundraiser specifilly for gay anizatns and those addrsg the growg AIDS crisis — the first beneficiari were SF AIDS Fund, the Gay Gam, and Communy Uned Agast Vlence.