The Kinky “Up Your Alley” Fair | SoMa

This isn’t an indie fair with hand-knit scarves or a baked goods; the 2013 Up Your Alley Fair is full of vendors to satisfy your needs–so long as it’s bondage, animal roleplay, kink, leather straps, whips, paddles, latex outfits or suspension.

>> Want something a little less hard core? Try the Folsom Street Fair on September 23, 2012.

Up Your Alley Fair
Sunday, July 28, 2013 (11a-6p)
- Dore Alley (btwn Howard & Folsom)
- Folsom Street (9th to Juniper)
- Free, but $7 donation requested (with donation you get $2 off drinks)

Who goes to the Up Your Alley Fair? Usually, around 12,000 leatherfolk attend, making it a smaller but more local event (read: fewer tourists) than the Folsom Street Fair, Attendees of Up Your Alley is almost exclusively male, mostly gays into hardcore and BDSM while Folsom is the more pansexual, gender-diverse fair.

Links: Event details

Cost: FREE*

*$7 suggested donation is heavily encouraged, although the festival is technically free

Tags: Free, Kinky, LGBT, Odd & Weird, SOMA, Street Fair
Categories: **Annual Event**, *Top Pick*, Event, Fairs & Festivals, Location, Recurring – Annual - July, San Francisco Submitted by Rena Ragimova